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Avec la fermeture de la frontière serbo-hongroise, principal point de passage des réfugiés vers l'Union européenne, de nouvelles routes apparaissent, via la Croatie notamment. Des camps d'accueil sont en train d'être installés autour des points de passage. Les dernières infos sur la pire crise humanitaire des Balkans depuis les guerres des années 1990.
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La Serbie frappe d'interdiction les marchandises croates
24 sept. 01h — Le ministre serbe de l'Intérieur, Nebojša Stefanović, a (...)

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Avec la fermeture de la frontière serbo-hongroise, principal point de passage des réfugiés vers l'Union européenne, de nouvelles routes apparaissent, via la Croatie notamment. Des camps d'accueil sont en train d'être installés autour des points de passage. Les dernières infos sur la pire crise humanitaire des Balkans depuis les guerres des années 1990.
Par la rédaction
La Serbie frappe d'interdiction les marchandises croates
24 sept. 01h — Le ministre serbe de l'Intérieur, Nebojša Stefanović, a (...)

/ Croatie, Slovénie, Grèce, Roumanie, Macédoine, Bulgarie, Courrier des Balkans, Serbie, Turquie, Migrants Balkans, Populations et minorités, #OpenEurope, Gratuit, Albanie

Decades of marginalizing countries we don't see eye to eye with has gotten the United States nowhere. It's time to engage.

Putin wants to secure U.N. approval for his leap into the Middle East by couching it as a broad-front fight against Islamic terrorism. The United States is having none of it.

The world's 1.6 billion Muslims all are trying to make it Mecca at least once in their lifetimes. Who decides who gets to go?

A popular blogger argues that China's president is flaunting his country's strength to a city which once violently rejected Chinese people.

As Syrians died en route to Europe this summer, their dictator Instagrammed like all was well back home.

A migrációs válság kapcsán hangoztatott „elfogadhatatlan” nézetei miatt szalonképtelennek ítélte meg az EP szocialisták és demokraták frakciójának (S&D) elnöke Robert Fico szlovák miniszterelnököt és pártját (a SMER-t) arra, hogy az európai szocialisták pártjához tartozzon.

The Rokot carrier rocket has been successfully launched from the Plesetsk space center in northwestern Russia.

Egypt had agreed to buy two Mistral warships (futur L1010, Gamal Abdel Nasser ; from June 2 2016 and L1020, Anwar el Sadat ; from September 16 2016) and which France built for Russia before scrapping the sale over the Ukraine crisis, the deal is the second big military contract this year between France and Egypt. The two warships, which can each carry 16 helicopters, four landing craft and 13 tanks, were ordered by Russia in 2011 in a €1.2 billion euro deal.
Egypt would pay €950 million (US $1 billion) for the warships, with "significant" financing from Saudi Arabia. France found itself in an awkward situation as the delivery date neared in 2014, with ties between Russia and the West plunging to Cold War lows over Moscow's annexation of Crimea and support for separatists in eastern Ukraine.

Paris faced the wrath of its allies around the world if it were to deliver the technology to Russia, and decided to cancel the delivery. It was an expensive decision for France, which has had to foot the bill of over €1 billion for the upkeep of the ships and the cost of training 400 Russian sailors to crew them. After months of intense negotiations, France and Russia agreed on the reimbursement of the deal in August. Paris returned €949.7 million which had already been paid and also committed not to sell the two warships to a country that could "contravene Russia's interests," such as Poland or the Baltic states, a diplomatic source told AFP.

Several other countries were said to be interested in the warships, including Canada, India and Singapore. The Defense Ministry source who revealed the cost of the ships said they were due to be delivered to Egypt in March 2016.The deal comes after Egypt became the first foreign buyer of France's Rafale fighter jet, agreeing to purchase 24 in February in what Paris hailed as an "historic" accord. The €5.2 billion (US $5.9 billion) sale of the planes and a frigate was a rare triumph for France, which had failed to export its flagship multirole combat jet.

With Libya to the west wracked by instability, and the threat from Islamic State-linked jihadists on its eastern flank, Egypt has become a strategic partner to France despite a rights record sullied by Sisi's brutal crackdown on opponents. Sisi was elected president in May 2014 with almost 97 percent of the vote a year after toppling the country's first freely elected leader, Islamist Mohamed Morsi. A subsequent crackdown on Morsi's supporters left at least 1,400 dead and thousands more in jail. Sisi was also the subject of scathing global criticism over the detention and trial of Al-Jazeera journalists, two of whom he pardoned on Tuesday on the eve of a major Muslim holiday.

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Secretary General of the IRA claims that Russia's tolerance of various religions should be an example for Europe, which is facing a rise in Islamophobic sentiment amid the ongoing migrant crisis.

With Yemeni civilian deaths mounting, the Saudi government is pulling out all the stops to head off an independent human rights inquiry.

"Une des plus anciennes mosquées à Moscou vient d'être reconstruite sur son emplacement historique, c'est désormais la plus grande d'Europe. Avec son style magnifique et moderne, elle est digne de la capitale de notre pays uni, multi-ethnique et multi-religieux. Elle est digne de la Russie, où l'Islam est, je tiens à insister sur ce point, en vertu de la législation russe, l'une des religions traditionnelles de la Russie, et qui compte des millions de citoyens russes parmi ses fidèles. [...]Nous sommes reconnaissants envers les gouvernements turcs et kazakhs pour leur contribution à la reconstruction de la mosquée.

Il est certain que la mosquée deviendra un centre spirituel majeur pour Musulmans de Moscou et de toute la Russie. Elle fournira un enseignement et diffusera les idées humanistes et les valeurs authentiques et véritables de l'Islam.[...]

Aujourd'hui l'Islam fait partie intégrante de la vie spirituelle de la Russie. Les valeurs humanistes de l'Islam, comme celles des autres religions traditionnelles, enseigne la compassion, la justice et l'amour des autres .... bla bla bla bla bla bla bla ....."Extraits du discours de Vladimir Poutine à l'occasion de l'inauguration de la Mosquée Cathédrale.

Is the Federal Reserve’s decision to hold interest rates at zero more about the U.S. or the global economy?

Moldavie : À Chisinau, la contestation s'étend
Moldova : Mass protests erupt in Chișinău
Grand Theft Moldova

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While many supporters of Bashar al-Assad consider Vladimir Putin a possible savior of Syria, the West has a different point of view. Some Germans, however, do not share the Western position on the issue.

(B2) A l’heure du sommet européen, 4 F-16 de la composante Air ont semé un semblant de panique (raisonnable tout de même) au sommet européen.Survolant à assez basse altitude le bâtiment du Justus Lipsius, 4  F-16 ont annoncé la couleur. Ils volaient cependant suffisamment haut et sans excès de vitesse pour ne pas faire trembler les vitres. Puis ont suivi les avions Marchetti SF.260… L’objectif pour la composante Air de l’armée belge était de commémorer la bataille d’Angleterre qui a eu lieu 75 ans plus tôt le 23 septembre 1940. Dans les coulisses du sommet, c’était une autre bataille qui se déroulait, sans doute un peu moins féroce mais tout aussi difficile, sur l’accueil des réfugiés comme le contrôle des frontières. Le Premier ministre hongrois, Viktor Orban, a dénoncé « l’impérialisme moral » de certains Européens. Tandis que son homologue slovaque, Robert Fico, parlait d’un « diktat ». Ce qui a suscité en réplique des commentaires peu amènes du président français notamment. « Ceux qui ne partagent pas les valeurs de l’Europe doivent se poser la question de leur présence au sein de l’UE » a lâché, un peu excédé, François Hollande !

A number of representatives of the financial institution were earlier accused of money laundering activities amounting to $6 billion.

Oh dear. It’s like Fifa all over again.

How was it that the Americans managed to unearth all the rottenness in Volkswagen, Europe’s top carmaker? How come the Europeans were asleep at the wheel again?

That pretty much summed up the shame-faced mood at today’s session of the European Parliament’s environmental committee, where MEPs wanted lots of answers from the European Commission. And didn’t really get any.

Christofer Fjellner, a Swedish centre-right MEP, captured the spirit: “Of course it’s embarrassing that it’s the Americans that show us we have a problem. It could be telling that it is the Americans because in Europe, in member states, we are not up to the task of scrutinising our own heroes the way we should.”

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