The death toll continues to rise, with over 400 dead and 2000 injured. The UN estimates that a quarter of the casualties are civilians. In Gaza, there has been no respite. 2009 has started the way 2008 ended : with the continuation of Israeli raids and bombs raining down. The human death toll rises hourly. On the sixth day of the offensive, the Israeli Air Force bombed the Justice, Education and Transport Ministries and the Palestinian parliament building. According to eyewitness (...)
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20. World
The great British playwright and winner of the 2005 Nobel Prize, is no more. A man of writing and action, he has left a remarkable body of work, performed the world over. His failing health, in the later years, did not prevent him from casting the same critical eye over the world and his fellow man, already characteristic of his early literary work. The son of a Jewish tailor, he was born on the 10th October 1930 in Hackney, a working-class area of East London. Briefly a student of a drama (...)
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60. Culture
The International League against Racism and Anti-Semitism (LICRA) calls for criminal prosecution. The Paris Communists call for City Hall to intervene. Dieudonn? negationist provocation last Friday evening at the Zenith in Paris no longer qualifies him as a humorist and continues to spark outrage among associations of former deportees, former Resistance members and the political Left. The desecration of their memory was perpetrated in front of some five thousand spectators. Getting (...)
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50. Society
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Racism,
Fascism