Samuel Metz

Il n'est pas exclu qu'un jour le pape Léon XIV fasse un pèlerinage à Souk Ahras, cette ville d'Algérie qui a vu naître Saint Augustin, et qu'il qualifie de "source d'éternité" et de "matrice spirituelle " Mon article dans @LePoint lepoint.fr/monde/la-renco…

“From our side as a victim, this is a huge mistake. This will support another dictatorship to keep doing this kind of crime—they know they'll enjoy immunity,” said @mazenadarwish3, @SyrianCenter, which collected evidence of war crimes of #Assad in #Syria. apnews.com/article/france…

Today, @chicagotribune laid off five guild staff members in a roughly 10% cut to our newsroom. These layoffs underscore a sad but unsurprising failure of leadership by Alden Global Capital, our hedge fund owner, and local management.

scoop: Gannett is offering buyouts to its staff, per email just now from CEO Mike Reed. "...We need to adjust our organization to efficiently meet the needs of our business today...as we continue to use A.I. and leverage automation to realize efficiencies."

New: An Indian company shipped $1.4 million of explosives with military uses to Russia, according to customs data seen by Reuters, despite US sanctions threats @BalmforthTom @ShivpatelDel and I take a look at the New Delhi-Moscow materiel trade reuters.com/business/aeros…

Stellantis makes its Moroccan site its largest factory in the world @LeilaMarchand reports lesechos.fr/industrie-serv…

Face au stress hydrique, les hausses de températures - 48°C le 21 juillet à Kairouan - et le manque d'accès à l'eau potable dans certaines régions, le groupe de jeunes du mouvement Youth for Climate tente de sensibiliser à l'urgence écologique #Tunisie rfi.fr/fr/afrique/202…

A Alger, les librairies sont devenues les symboles d’un monde en déclin : vitrines ternies, rayons figés, clients clairsemés.Les lecteurs se font rares, les livres de plus en plus chers, et les nouveautés–surtout étrangères– quasi introuvables. Reportage. twala.info/fr/societe/a-a…

Sea cucumbers are a costly delicacy popular in Asia. But the night divers searching for them off Sierra Leone’s Banana Islands see few rewards. aljazeera.com/features/longf…

Once a beacon of hope, Tunisia's civil society struggles to survive reuters.com/world/africa/o… #Tunisia #Tunisie #تونس

This raises the question of what will it take for #Morocco to seriously address the incalculable risk to public safety posed by a huge deficit in care facilities/specialized staff for people with mental illnesses? Zero points for 2030 FIFA World Cup nichan.ma/306310/

A few days ago, the last surviving Moroccan who fought alongside the Vietnamese resistance in the Indochina War passed away. Here is his story:

Au Maroc, un nouveau code de procédure pénale controversé lemonde.fr/afrique/articl…

[#Actualités] Aït Bouguemaz: une marche pour la dignité depuis les hauteurs de l’Atlas ▪️ Le 9 juillet 2025, les habitant·es d’Aït Bouguemaz (à 70 km d’Azilal, au cœur de l’Atlas) ont quitté leur silence et leur isolement.

Morocco plans to build a 500 megawatt state-owned data centre powered by renewable energy to strengthen security of data storage, its digital transition minister said. reuters.com/sustainability…

Letter from President Donald J. Trump to Abdulhamid Dabaiba Prime Minister of Libya

A Bloomberg News analysis shows Chinese firms aim to install more than 115,000 Nvidia Corp. AI chips in some three dozen data centers across the country’s western deserts.bloomberg.com/graphics/2025-… via @bbgvisualdata

1. The UAE in Africa: Power, Influence and Conflict. The Gulf nation has built a logistical network to project power in countries surrounding Sudan that includes field hospitals and airstrips. bloomberg.com/news/features/…

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Governmental authorities ban Latter-day Saint congregations in Beijing and elsewhere in China. sltrib.com/religion/2025/…