Grandstand. Who can use the expression "gone viral" today without the shadow of a thrill? Who can still look at an object - door handle, cardboard box, shopping bag full of vegetables - without imagining it teeming with these...
Cardinal George Pell, released from Barwon Prison, southwest of Melbourne, April 7, 2020. WILLIAM WEST / AFPAfter four hundred and five days spent behind bars, including several months in an Australian high-security prison, Cardinal George Pell, the...
In a market in Chiang Mai, Thailand, March 14. LILLIAN SUWANRUMPHA / AFPBANGKOK LETTER In this uncertain era, when fear finally lurked in cities and countryside where recklessness...
GILLES SABRIE FOR "LEMONDE" By Posted yesterday at 10:50 am, updated yesterday at 1:49 pm Reserved for our subscribers ReportActivity resumes slowly in the...
Former real estate magnate Ren Zhiqiang, here on December 3, 2012, was placed under disciplinary investigation by the Communist Party for critical remarks against Xi Jinping. APThe news fell, Tuesday, April 7, a few hours before the...
Since early April, the city-state of Singapore has experienced a second wave of Covid-19 contamination. Here, a queue outside the Geylang Serai market on April 8, 2020. ROSLAN RAHMAN / AFPLaunched on March 20 by the government...
In front of Houhu Hospital where Dr. Li Wenliang died, passers-by lay flowers at the April 4 celebration of the dead in Wuhan. GILLES SABRIÉ FOR "THE WORLD"OWhere has Doctor Ai Fen gone? Her presence on Chinese...
In Singapore in a shopping district on April 5. General confinement measures are again applied in the city-state of 6 million inhabitants since April 7, and until May 4. ROSLAN RAHMAN / AFP"World" editorial. Sneaky and unpredictable,...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (left) at a special meeting on the measures taken to counter the coronavirus epidemic on April 6. Franck Robichon / APUnder pressure, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe resolved to declare a state of...
A street in Singapore, April 7, 2020, when the government ordered the closure of all non-essential businesses and schools to curb the spread of the Covid-19 epidemic. ROSLAN RAHMAN / AFPThe specifics of a Singaporean "model" touted...
