Organizer Of The Yellow Vest Protests In France Discusses Reasons For Protesting
Massive anti-government protests are taking place today in France. NPR’s Scott Simon speaks with Christophe Chalençon, one of the organizers of the Yellow Vest protests.
China Scholars Demand Protection For Threatened New Zealand Academic
Anne-Marie Brady is a professor at the University of Canterbury, and says she has been the victim of a campaign of intimidation in her home country after publishing research critical of China.
Angela Merkel’s Party Elects A Successor As She Begins Her Exit From German Politics
On Friday, the Christian Democratic Union chose its general secretary, Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, a strong Merkel supporter.
People Around France React To The Yellow Vest Protests
A rural protester who can’t make ends meet and a Parisian store owner have different views of the Yellow Vest protests in France.
Russia Joins OPEC In Agreement To Cut Oil Production By 1.2 Million Barrels A Day
Oil prices jumped higher Friday on news of a deal between OPEC and Russia to cut production. Global oil prices have fallen 30 percent in recent months.
Chinese Government And Media React To Arrest Of Top Huawei Executive
China is reacting to last week’s arrest of Meng Wanzhou, a top executive at Huawei, one of the world’s largest telecom companies. She was arrested in Canada at the request of the U.S.
U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer Discusses Trade Issues With China
NPR’s Mary Louise Kelly speaks with U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer about America’s trade relationship with China, and what he hopes the tariffs on Chinese goods will accomplish.
Witty repartee still features in Parliament. But does it persuade anymore?
Night had fallen when Sarah Jones rose from the green-upholstered bench in the House of Commons. Ms. Jones, the member of Parliament for Croydon, noted the late hour and what Oliver Cromwell had said in 1653 on dissolving the so-called Long Parliament…
Look who’s ponying up for climate change
One answer may lie in a dramatic shift in private financial institutions to see gold in going green. In a survey released last month of 500 investment officers in five countries (United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Germany, and Japan), 63 percent r…
Book lovers fill gap left by tainted prize, but will Nobel be back in 2019?
This weekend, Guadeloupean novelist Maryse Conde arrives in Stockholm to collect the New Academy Prize, the so-called “alternative Nobel” conjured up by an ad hoc group of Swedish writers and artists as a replacement for the Nobel Prize in Literature. …
Revival of a high-profile sex-crime case offers hints of a deeper justice
In 2008, multimillionaire Jeffrey Epstein went to jail for 13 months after pleading guilty to state child sex crime charges. Such a case, if proved, could have led to life in prison, the Miami Herald reported last week. The investigative series lays …
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