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In the headlines of the press, Thursday February 22: the heated debates, Wednesday, in the British House of Commons during the vote on a motion calling for a ceasefire in Gaza.
The newspaper
The I
refers to the "chaos" in Parliament, where several MPs left their benches altogether to protest against the decision of the Speaker of the House of Commons, Lindsay Hoyle, to authorize Labor to table an amendment on the motion to another opposition party, the Scottish Independence Party – both the Labor amendment and the SNP motion relating to a ceasefire in Gaza.
It's quite technical, but this breach of practice provoked the fury of both Conservatives and Scottish nationalists, forcing the Speaker of the House of Commons to apologize, according to
The Daily Telegraph
, which announced that Lindsay Hoyle finds himself in the hot seat.
The Guardian
explains that this psychodrama goes well beyond a simple debate on respect for customs at Westminster, since it would have been, in reality, for the boss of Labor, Keir Starmer, to use this stratagem to avoid an internal rebellion, while a growing number of Labor members – currently around a hundred, out of 198 MPs in total – criticize him for only calling for “humanitarian pauses” in the Israel-Hamas war and demand that he toughen up his position by calling for an “immediate ceasefire”.
Sir Lindsay Hoyle: House of Commons Speaker under pressure after chaotic Gaza ceasefire vote https://t.co/17GenY91Oj
— BBC News (UK) (@BBCNews) February 22, 2024
The Guardian
also alerts Thursday on the humanitarian situation in the Zamzam refugee camp, in North Darfur.
As a result of the conflict which began last April in Sudan, the massive arrival of refugees in this camp created in the mid-2000s, after the genocide in Darfur, is leading to a catastrophic deterioration of living conditions.
The British daily quotes figures from the NGO Doctors Without Borders, according to which hunger and disease cause the death of a child every two hours.
And this is just one figure for a single camp in a country with hundreds of them, in a Sudan where this worsening humanitarian crisis "has been eclipsed by the war in Ukraine and the Israeli offensive in Gaza.”
Also victims of what the UN has described as “ethnic cleansing” in Burma, nearly a million Rohyngia – a Muslim minority – have found refuge in neighboring Bangladesh.
Liberation
's special envoy
visited the southwest of Bangladesh, on the border with Burma, a region where 34 camps bring together the largest number of refugees in the world - more than half of whom are under 20 years old. .
According to Libé, the future of these young people is "blocked" because the refugees do not have the possibility of higher education nor the right to leave these camps or to work freely.
The newspaper reports that the UN High Commissioner for Refugees has nevertheless launched a vocational training program to allow 8,000 young people to learn trades "in high demand" inside the camps - electricians, plumbers or tailors who obtain, in exchange for their services, small salaries.
These meager incomes allow a few to face an equally growing problem in these camps: the food crisis, again, due to “the multiplication of other crises – notably in Ukraine and the Middle East.
Inside the Darfur camp where a child dies every two hours https://t.co/HyzMzoXyX4
— Global Development (@GdnDevelopment) February 21, 2024
The war in Ukraine, which is about to enter its third year and whose denunciation earned Vladimir Kara-Murza a sentence, in Russia, to 25 years in prison for "high treason".
From his cell in Siberia, the opponent of the war and of Vladimir Putin still managed to pass a text, published by the Italian daily
La Repubblica
.
A letter in which he accuses the Russian president of being “personally responsible” for the death of Alexeï Navalny.
The Russian president is also described as a "vengeful, cowardly and greedy old man" who continues to "hold everyone with an iron fist, destroying everyone in whom he sees a threat to his power."
A look at Le
Monde
too: the daily announces the death of actress Micheline Presle, the doyenne of French cinema who died on Wednesday at the age of 101 "without leaving behind the dazzling filmography of Danielle Darrieux nor the legendary status offered by 'Le Quai des Brumes' to Michèle Morgan".
But several of his films have entered the history of French cinema such as “Falbalas”, “Boule de suif” and “Le Diable au corps” by Claude Autant-Lara, before becoming a figure in French homes in the 1960s with “Saintes Chéries”
,
one of the very first French sitcoms broadcast by the late ORTF.
At that time, women still wore skirts and high heels – a transition to tell you about this Australian biomechanics study mentioned by
The Washington Post
on the benefits of wearing heels.
According to this in-depth study, it appears that women – but also men – wearing heeled shoes become better walkers, more efficient walkers in any case, thanks to their steps that are both shorter and faster.
The important thing is, of course, to find the right shoe for you – or failing that, to be comfortable in your sneakers.
Men and women who wore high heels became better, more efficient walkers afterward, a study found, raising the unexpected possibility that high heels might serve “as a training tool” for people with mobility issues.
https://t.co/KDysAonnFJ
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) February 22, 2024
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