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Des milliers de sympathisants du parti Droit et justice se sont rassemblés ce samedi 11 octobre à Varsovie à l’appel de leur chef de file, Jarosław Kaczyński. Une manifestation contre le gouvernement actuel de Donald Tusk, mais aussi contre le Pacte migratoire européen.

Les élections municipales se tiennent ce dimanche 12 octobre au Portugal. Un vote important notamment pour la mairie de Lisbonne, qui pourrait passer de droite à gauche. Mais les résultats du parti d'extrême droite Chega sont également très attendus.

La production annuelle d'obus d'artillerie en Europe devrait atteindre 2 millions de projectiles d'ici la fin de l'année 2025. Un pari industriel en passe d'être réussi alors que l'Union européenne, dans ce domaine stratégique, était dans une situation critique au début de la guerre en Ukraine. 

On vote dimanche au Kosovo. La Srpska lista revient en force dans le jeu institutionnel, mais les Serbes sont pris entre la pression de Belgrade et celle de Pristina, tandis que dans le Nord l'usure, la peur et la lassitude gagnent du terrain. Reportage.

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Un hommage lui sera rendu ce samedi à Bayeux, lors de la remise des prix des correspondants de guerre. Antoni Lallican a été tué, la semaine dernière, par un drone dans le Donbass, dans l'est de l'Ukraine. Ce photoreporter de 37 ans est le quatrième journaliste français à avoir perdu la vie dans ce conflit. Une nouvelle mort tragique qui met l'accent sur les difficiles conditions des journalistes sur les terrains de guerre.

Cameroon's Paul Biya promises young voters "the best is yet to come" as others hunger for "young blood".

La librairie « Ombres Blanches » de Toulouse nous informe que l'écrivain croate Jurica Pavičić sera à la librairie le vendredi 10 octobre 2025 à 18 heures à la salle de débat, 3 rue Mirepoix à Toulouse dans le cadre du Festival Toulouse Polar Sud.
Il sera présent tout le week-end sur le site du festival à Basso Cambo. Il participera en particulier à une table ronde le samedi 11 octobre à 13h50.
Si vous voulez voir tout le programme du festival, il faut cliquer ici.

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La librairie « Ombres Blanches » de Toulouse nous informe que l'écrivain croate Jurica Pavičić sera à la librairie le vendredi 10 octobre 2025 à 18 heures à la salle de débat, 3 rue Mirepoix à Toulouse dans le cadre du Festival Toulouse Polar Sud.
Il sera présent tout le week-end sur le site du festival à Basso Cambo. Il participera en particulier à une table ronde le samedi 11 octobre à 13h50.
Si vous voulez voir tout le programme du festival, il faut cliquer ici.

- Agenda / Croatie, France - Régions

The MH-139A, slated to replace the older UH-1N Hueys in the nuclear security mission, recently conducted its first search and rescue mission. Boeing announced on Oct. 8, 2025 a new $173 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to produce eight more MH-139A Grey Wolf helicopters, raising the total number of aircraft under contract to […]

Le chef de la diplomatie burkinabè a réagi à la note d’information publiée jeudi par les autorités américaines pour annoncer la suspension de toutes les opérations de visas courantes à l’ambassade des États-Unis à Ouagadougou, à compter du vendredi 10 octobre 2025.

Cette semaine, nous recevons Thierry Breton, ancien commissaire européen au marché intérieur et ancien ministre français de l’Économie. Crise budgétaire française, relations avec les États-Unis et conflits en Ukraine et à Gaza, il commente les dossiers qui divisent les Vingt-Sept.

The 2025–2027 Defense Planning Document confirms Italy’s ambitious modernization, introducing new acquisitions while consolidating major programs. The Italian Ministry of Defense has released the 2025–2027 Documento Programmatico Pluriennale (DPP), the annual multi-year planning document that outlines national defense investments and modernization priorities. The new edition details how Italy intends to enhance readiness, upgrade existing fleets, […]

By Katsuhiro Asagiri
TOKYO, Oct 10 2025 (IPS)

 

Toda Peace Memorial Hall. Credit: Wikimedia Commons

The screening room at the Toda Peace Memorial Hall in Tokyo fell silent as Kazakh filmmaker and human rights advocate Aigerim Seitenova stepped forward in a black T-shirt and green skirt to introduce her 31-minute documentary, “Jara – Radioactive Patriarchy: Women of Qazaqstan.”　The screening event was co-organized by the Kazakh Nuclear Frontline Coalition (ASQAQQNFC), the Soka Gakkai Peace Committee, and Peace Boat, with support from Japan NGO Network for Nuclear Weapons Abolition (JANA).

The hall itself is symbolic in Japan’s peace movement. It is named after Josei Toda, the second president of the Buddhist organisation Soka Gakkai, who in 1957 made his historic Declaration Calling for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons before 50,000 youth members. That appeal has become a moral pillar of Soka Gakkai’s global campaign for peace and disarmament.

Reclaiming Women’s Voices

Semipalatinsk Former Nuclear Weapon Test site. Credit: Katsuhiro Asagiri

“This film was made to make visible the voices of women who have lived in silence. They are not victims—they are storytellers and changemakers,” Seitenova told the audience of diplomats, journalists, students and peace activists.

Her documentary, Jara—meaning “wound” in Kazakh—tells the stories of women from Semey, formerly known as Semipalatinsk, the site of 456 Soviet nuclear tests conducted between 1949 and 1989.

Unlike earlier films that focused on physical devastation and disability caused by nuclear testing, Jara explores the unseen and intergenerational impacts: the stigma, the psychological scars, and the inherited fear of bearing children.

“Most films show Semey as ‘the most nuked place on Earth.’ I wanted to show resilience instead of fear—to reclaim our story in our own voice,” she said.

 

Aigerim Seitenova Credit: Katsuhiro Asagiri

Breaking the Silence

Seitenova’s personal connection to the issue began with humiliation.

As a university student in Almaty, the largest city in Kazakhstan, when she introduced herself as being from Semey, a classmate mockingly asked if she had “a tail.”

“That moment stayed with me,” she recalled. “It made me realise that nuclear harm is not only physical. It lives on in prejudice and silence.”

That experience would later drive her to create a film that breaks that silence.

Patriarchy and Nuclear Power

In Jara, women appear not as passive victims but as active participants in their communities, confronting the legacies of secrecy and discrimination.

“In militarised societies, nuclear weapons are symbols of superiority,” Seitenova said in her speech. “Peace and cooperation are dismissed as weak— as feminine. That’s the mindset we must challenge.”

Her feminist perspective connects nuclear weapons and patriarchy, arguing that both systems thrive on domination and power over others.

From the Steppes to Global Advocacy

Author made a documentary of the 2018 conference which Seitenova participated. Credit:INPS Japan

Born into a third-generation family affected by radiation exposure in Semey, Seitenova said her activism was inspired by “quiet endurance and the absence of open discussion.”

In 2018, she joined the Youth for CTBTO and Group of Eminent Persons (GEM) ‘Youth International Conference’ organised by the Kazakh government. During the five-day programme, young representatives from nuclear-weapon, non-nuclear and nuclear-dependent states travelled along with nuclear disarmament experts overnight by train from Astana to Kurchatov, visiting the former test site. “It was the first time I saw the land that shaped my people’s history,” she said.

Aigerim Seitenova captured in a scene from “Jara”. Credit: Aigerim Seitenova

She cites Togzhan Kassenova’s Atomic Steppe and Ray Acheson’s Banning the Bomb, Smashing the Patriarchy as works that helped her articulate how nuclear policy and gender inequality are intertwined.

Mr. Hiroshi Nose, director of Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum explaining the impact of Atom Bomb. Credit: Katsuhiro Asagiri, President of INPS Japan

Shared Suffering, Shared Hope

In October, Seitenova travelled to Japan to participate in the 24th World Congress of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) in Nagasaki, meeting survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Seitenova(Center) was among a youth representative from communities affected by nuclear testings sharing her experiences at the Nuclear Survivors Forum held at UN Church Center, New York. Credit: ICAN / Haruka Sakaguchi

“Japan and Kazakhstan share the experience of nuclear suffering,” she said. “But we can transform that pain into dialogue—and into peace.”

That spirit carried into the Tokyo screening, where diplomats, journalists and peace activists discussed nuclear justice, gender equality and youth participation.

Turning Pain into Power

Through her organisation, the Kazakh Nuclear Frontline Coalition (ASQAQQNFC), Seitenova works to connect nuclear-affected communities with policymakers implementing the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW).

“The fight for nuclear justice is not about the past—it’s about the future,” she said. “It’s about ensuring that no one else has to live with the consequences of nuclear weapons.”

As the applause filled the Toda Peace Memorial Hall, the resonance was unmistakable—linking a hall named for a man who condemned the bomb to the wind-scarred plains of Semey, where the voices of women are at last being heard.

Credit: SGI

This article is brought to you by INPS Japan in collaboration with Soka Gakkai International, in consultative status with the UN’s Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC).

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Rétablir le contrôle dans les ports européens et restaurer l’autorité fiscale de l’UE : c’est l’ambition de Laura Kövesi, la cheffe du Parquet européen (EPPO). Nommée en 2019, la magistrate de 51 ans est réputée et saluée pour son sérieux et son opiniâtreté. Mais elle se heurte, de son propre aveu, à l’inertie des pays européens.

Counting the cost of deadly Gen Z protests in Madagascar where most young people are unemployed.

A Gen Z leader in Madagascar says he has put his UK university scholarship on hold to help organise the protests.

Onze candidats seront opposés dimanche au chef de l'État sortant Paul Biya, âgé de 92 ans dont 43 passés au pouvoir, lors de la présidentielle au Cameroun. L'opposition divisée, n’a pas réussir à présenter une candidature unique.

Takaichi inherits a precarious LDP minority government. Her relationship with Trump may prove decisive.

Who is the militant said to have been killed by a Pakistani strike? And how would his death impact the TTP?

Written by Enrico D’Ambrogio.

Japan’s culture of national resilience is one of the most advanced in the world. The UN-backed definition of preparedness was adopted in 2017 in Japan, a country highly exposed to natural hazards, under the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR). Through national resilience, the country aims to prevent human loss by any means, avoid fatal damage to important functions for maintaining administration as well as social and economic systems, mitigate damage to private property and public facilities, and achieve swift recovery and reconstruction.

The COVID-19 pandemic made Japan an early mover in the implementation of economic security policies, including reducing the dependence of its supply chains on China. Japan appointed the world’s first minister for economic security and adopted legislation to protect the country from coercion by others through economic dependency. Japan’s initiatives also made it a leader in global green supply chains. The adoption of three main documents in December 2022 helped Japan reshape its approach to national security and defence and become better equipped to face the current complex geopolitical environment.

In March 2025, the European Commission launched the preparedness union strategy. The EU and Japan are increasing cooperation in several aspects related to preparedness and resilience, including in economic security, cybersecurity and foreign information manipulation.

Read the complete briefing on ‘Japan’s preparedness strategies: Lessons for the EU‘ in the Think Tank pages of the European Parliament.