Tag: France
Music Event: Around the World in 80 Keys
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Join us on a magical musical flight to Japan, Taiwan, India, France, Spain, London, New York, and back Down Under as they go...
‘I don’t think, I know’ – what makes Macron’s comments about Morrison so extraordinary and so worrying
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French President Emmanuel Macron has called Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison a liar on the world stage.
In an extraordinary doorstop interview...
Why the Australia-France submarine deal collapse was predictable
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Australia’s unilateral cancellation of its contract to purchase French submarines and sign up for the AUKUS security pact constitutes a slap in the face for...
A Belgian farmer moved a rock and accidentally annexed France: the weird and wonderful history of man-made borders
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This week, a farmer in the Belgian town of Erquelinnes caused an international ruckus when he moved a stone standing in his tractor’s path.
This...
Europe’s second wave is worse than the first. What went so wrong, and what can it learn from countries like Vietnam?
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Europe is again in the grip of a COVID-19 resurgence, with outbreak hot-spots in the United Kingdom, Spain and France each...
Sunday essay: who was Jeanne Barret, the first woman to circumnavigate the globe?
A modern portrait of Jeanne Barret disguised as a man,
based on the author’s interpretation. Timothy Ide, Author provided
In 1765, a young, peasant woman...