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On 23 July 2026, Sergei Lavrov and Marco Rubio met in Manila, on the sidelines of the ASEAN ministerial meeting. Thirty-five minutes. No more. A short, formal exchange, with no major announcement. And yet, this meeting is a signal. The two men had not met face-to-face since September 2025. The mere fact that they are…
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The Anéfis camp is under siege. Since 22 July 2026, the jihadists of JNIM and the separatists of the Azawad Liberation Front have encircled this Malian army position in the north of the country. An improbable coalition between Islamists and Tuaregs, which says much about the complexity of the conflict. Shells and kamikaze drones have…
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On 21 July 2026, Volodymyr Zelensky dismissed his commander-in-chief. In six days, he changed his two top military officials. It is no longer a reform. It is a signal. A few days earlier, on 15 July, Defence Minister Mykhailo Fedorov had been dismissed. Protests immediately broke out in fourteen Ukrainian cities. The slogans demanded Fedorov’s…
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On 3 January 2026, Nicolás Maduro was arrested. Captured by American forces. Chavism did not disappear. It changed its face. A new power has settled in Caracas. Delcy RodrÃguez, interim president. Her brother Jorge, president of the Assembly. The RodrÃguez brothers run the country under Washington’s benevolent supervision. The “Rodrigato”, as it is now called,…
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The European Union will not disappear. It is too deeply embedded in economies, laws, and habits. But it is condemned to transform. The question is not whether it will survive, but in what form. Two forces are clashing in silence. The first is the federal project. It advances in small steps, without ever declaring itself…
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Space is no longer the sanctuary of international cooperation. It has become a battlefield. Two projects, two visions, and one shared observation: the rules of the game have yet to be written. On one side, Jilin-1. China’s Earth observation constellation now has 152 satellites in orbit, out of 162 launched. Ninety percent of them offer…
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On 17 July 2026, Moonshot AI launched Kimi K3. A model with 2.8 trillion parameters. For the first time, a Chinese artificial intelligence surpassed American models on the benchmarks. Its score of 1,679 points on the Frontend Code Arena relegated Anthropic Fable 5 to 1,631 points and OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol to 1,579 points. The same…
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On 20 July 2026, the United States Strategic Petroleum Reserve fell to 311.4 million barrels. This is the lowest level since March 1983. Forty-three years ago, Ronald Reagan was president, and the Cold War was in full swing. Today, it is the war against Iran that is emptying the tanks. Since February 2026, Washington has…
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The signals are piling up. For several days, Donald Trump’s statements, American troop movements and Iranian preparations have been outlining a prospect no one wanted to contemplate: a ground war in Iran. More than 50,000 American soldiers are already deployed in the Middle East and placed on high alert, according to CENTCOM. Additional F-16s and…
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The French presidential election of April 2027 is approaching. The candidates are not yet officially declared, but names are already circulating. Jordan Bardella, ÉdouarThe French presidential election of April 2027 is approaching. The candidates are not yet officially declared, but names are already circulating. Jordan Bardella, Édouard Philippe, Xavier Bertrand, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, Raphaël Glucksmann. The…
