Throughout March, Reporting Diversity Network monitoring team has detected several incidents related to xenophobia and hate speech based on ethnicity in the Western Balkan media. Hate speech was spread by politicians, influential figures, and other public figures. While there is a consistency in spreading hateful rhetoric targeting migrants and refugees, media representation of the Roma community does not exist, which is known  as “hate silence“. Genocide Denial by Montenegro Minister of Justice The Minister of Justice in Montenegro, Vladimir Leposavic, indirectly denied the genocide in Srebrenica by challenging the legitimacy of the Hague Tribunal, which recognised it as a genocide.…

Announcement is a reversal from earlier plans to deploy weapons on aging missile submarines first. In a shift from earlier plans, the U.S. Navy revealed that it will first deploy advanced hypersonic weapons on advanced surface ships in 2025. Hypersonic weapons travel in excess of five times the speed of sound, allowing targets to be struck from great distances with little notice, and at speeds that make them exceptionally difficult to defend against. The U.S. military views these weapons as key to countering China’s huge arsenal of long-range missiles that can threaten U.S. bases in Japan or Guam, or potentially target its…

The Middle Eastern states, divided not by themselves but by the powers that colonised the region, are reorganising themselves according to their own logic. Of course these new alliances are still fragile, but the West will have to deal with them. What makes the Middle East difficult to understand is that it comprises a multitude of actors with different logics who, depending on the circumstances, make or break alliances. We often think we know the region politically, who our friends and enemies are. But when we return to the same place years later, the landscape has changed dramatically: some of…

Revenant à la stalle de Ebel, elle se mit à éclaircir la paille et fut aidée par un serviteur attaché au service d'hygiène des écuries royales, absorbée dans sa tâche elle oublia ses déboires personnels. Le chef palefrenier avait relevé le coup d'oeil qu'avait lancé le prince Carl à la jeune femme. Depuis que celle-ci avait rejoint l'écurie royale de Windsor, le prince ombrageux avait pris en grippe Enessa. Quelle…

  Novembre 2006   Notre tournée de touriste à Washnigton nous mena au Capitole, la façade ouest à l'architecture néoclassique, l'aile nord abritait le Sénat, l'aile sud la chambre des représentants, là où siègent les représentants du peuple Américain. En mettant pied à terre, je scrutais l'endroit, j'étais fascinée, ravie et à la fois intriguée "Se peut-il que le sort de la planète terre se décide entre les murs de…