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Le président français a exhorté vendredi les industriels de la défense français d'accélérer le passage à une économie de guerre, lors de ses vœux aux armées qui se tenaient sur la base navale de Cherbourg. Emmanuel Macron a notamment rappelé l'importance de soutenir l'armée ukrainienne dans sa guerre contre la Russie et de gagner des contrats d'armement. 

Ghanapiano is the name they give their fusion sound, linking the best of West and South African styles.

Violence policière ou légitime ? La cour d'assises de Seine-Saint-Denis rendra son verdict vendredi 19 janvier au procès de trois gardiens de la paix jugés pour l'interpellation en 2017 de Théo Luhaka, grièvement blessé par un coup de matraque. Trois ans de prison avec sursis ont été requis à l'encontre de l'auteur du coup de matraque qui a blessé Théo Lukaha. Pour les deux autres fonctionnaires, l'avocat général a requis six et trois mois de prison avec sursis. Les précisions de Karim Hakiki.

"Inciting or publicly provoking acts of serious violence" against Israel "in support of Hamas" to be made illegal in EU, alongside a new blacklist of Hamas money-men in Lebanon and beyond.

On the streets of Johannesburg, security firms are battling with vehicle robberies in broad daylight.

Hungary is ratcheting up its rhetoric against migrants and LGBTi rights amid an on-going standoff with the EU over frozen funds following an acrimonious debate in the European Parliament on stripping Budapest of its EU voting rights.

The agreement for Somaliland to lease some coastline to Ethiopia has triggered a storm of controversy.

A ground-breaking defence research project exploring the application of quantum technologies in defence in the areas of secure communication and navigation has successfully closed. QuantaQuest – Quantum Secure Communication and Navigation for European Defence - a 28-month EU-funded project under the Preparatory Action on Defence Research (PADR) held its final meeting in December 2023, after delivering on a variety of operational scenarios and developments.

Led by THALES SA (France), the p roject brought together nine defence companies and research institutes from three Member States - France, Italy, and the Netherlands - with a budget of approximately € 1.5 million. The project proposed the development of quantum sensors and communication for defence applications in the following fields:

• Fully autonomous positioning and timing for military platforms;
• Secure communication for Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C4ISR);
• Quantum network of sensors for synergic connection.

During the final meeting at the European Defence Agency (EDA), QuantaQuest consortium detailed the scenarios and requirements and presented the main technological developments across the three areas highlighted above.

In the positioning and timing part, the project developed an important building block toward a deployable fully quantum inertial measurement unit for fully autonomous positioning and timing. Using cold atoms trapped in a chip and photonic integrated circuit technologies will take the benefits of ultraprecise quantum measurements while reducing its size. This will allow to integrate the technology into future mobile systems to navigate precisely with reduced drift even in global satellite navigation systems denied environments.

In the field of secure communications for C4ISR, the project implemented a free-space quantum key distribution in an urban environment. With this the photons are sent via free air instead of transferring them via an optical fibre connection. Future systems applying this technology will help in operation to securely transfer the keys for encrypted communication.

Finally, the project developed a quantum interface and evaluated the performances of a quantum synchronisation of two clocks, leading to disruptive improvements concerning the sensors sensitivity.

QuantaQuest also investigated operational scenarios of use of the previously mentioned quantum technologies to build the next step roadmap for the military application of quantum technologies. Building on the progress made over the past 28 months, QuantaQuest also kicked off a follow up project “ADEQUADE - Advanced, Disruptive and Emerging Quantum technologies for Defence” funded under European Defence Fund (EDF) 2021.

QuantaQuest and PADR

QuantaQuest project is funded under the Preparatory Action for Defence Research (PADR) call on the topic “Future Disruptive Defence Technologies – Emerging Game-changers”, subtopic “Quantum Technologies for defence applications”.

PADR was launched by the European Commission in 2017 to assess and demonstrate the added value of EU supported defence research and technology (R&T). It paved the way for a proper European Defence Programme to come as part of the European Defence Fund (EDF), under the EU’s Multiannual Financial Framework (2021-2027). 

The PADR implementation is run by EDA following the mandate via a Delegation Agreement between the European Commission and EDA signed on 31 May 2017. Under this agreement, the Commission entrusts EDA with the management and implementation of the research projects launched within the PADR. 

L'actualité de la semaine est marquée par le passage de la tempête Belal à La Réunion, qui a causé d’importants dégâts. Le cyclone tropical a été meurtrier pour les habitants de l’île. Selon un bilan provisoire, quatre personnes, dont trois étaient sans domicile fixe, ont perdu la vie. La quatrième victime est un homme intoxiqué chez lui par les gaz d'un groupe électrogène. Belal a balayé la Réunion de ses pluies diluviennes et les rafales de vent ont atteint les 217 km/h.

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Holocaust Remembrance Day and committee meetings, Brussels

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A 16-30 év közötti, uniós vonatkozású projekten dolgozó fiatalok pályázhatnak a 2024-es Európai Ifjúsági Nagy Károly-díjra és nyerhetnek további forrásokat a projektjük támogatására.

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Cindy Mothogaathobogwe steers wildlife safari tourists on a Mokoro canoe through the Okavango Delta.

On Wednesday 24 January, the Subcommittee on Human Rights, with the participation of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, will hold an exchange of views on the external dimension of European migration policies. The focus will be on the analysis of recent EU arrangements with third countries on migration, with a fundamental rights protection perspective.
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The ongoing persecution of Falun Gong in China, notably the case of Mr Ding Yuande
The threat of famine following the spread of conflict in Sudan
Tajikistan: state repression against the independent media
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The unknown status of Mikalai Statkevich and the recent attacks on Belarusian politicians’ and activists’ family members
The Maasai Communities in Tanzania
The abduction of Tibetan children and forced assimilation practices through Chinese boarding schools in Tibet
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Selon les données de l’Unicef, entre 800 000 et un million d’enfants sont victimes de harcèlement scolaire en France. Un chiffre vertigineux qu’on retrouve dans le livre-témoignage d'Anne Liz Deba, "La Peur au ventre" (City). Âgée de 22 ans, la fondatrice de la structure Smile, consacrée à la lutte contre le harcèlement scolaire, est l’Invitée du jour de France 24.

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Journalists covering Gaza from afar face limited access, contested facts, lobby pressure and a power imbalance. But when they let these distort their coverage, it ceases to reflect reality and start to shape it, in unintended ways.