FRANKFURTER ALLGEMEINE ZEITUNG: In britischen Hofkreisen gilt es als üble Nachrede, dass man Orden kaufen kann. Enge Berater von Prinz Charles lassen daran nun aber keinen Zweifel mehr.
Großbritannien ist als Land der sogenannten self-deprecation bekannt, also des humorvollen Herunterspielens der eigenen Bedeutung. Das heißt aber nicht, dass Orden nicht äußerst beliebt wären. Das gilt auch und besonders für Ausländer, die schon lange im Königreich leben – erst recht, wenn sie gerne einen britischen Pass hätten. Der saudische Geschäftsmann Mahfouz Marei Mubarak bin Mahfouz etwa sparte nicht mit Bemühungen um einen Orden und steckte in den vergangenen Jahren Hunderttausende Pfund in die Renovierung königlicher Besitztümer und Wohltätigkeitsprojekte.
In Hofkreisen gilt es natürlich als üble Nachrede, dass Orden sich erkaufen lassen, aber nun veröffentlichten zwei Zeitungen eindeutige E-Mails aus den Jahren 2014 bis 2017. Darin ließen enge Berater von Mahfouz und von Prinz Charles keinen Zweifel daran, dass hier Geld gegen Orden getauscht wurden. Am Wochenende ließ sich die langjährige rechte Hand des Kronprinzen, Michael Fawcett, von seiner Funktion entbinden, bis eine interne Untersuchung abgeschlossen sei. Ein früherer Minister kündigte sogar an, Scotland Yard einzuschalten. » | Jochen Buchsteiner, London | Sonntag, 5. September 2021
Des partisans du président Jair Bolsonaro, le 6 septembre dernier à Brasília. ADRIANO MACHADO / REUTERS
LE FIGARO : Le président a appelé ses partisans à se réunir ce mardi à Brasília et à Sao Paulo, où deux millions de personnes sont attendues. Les opposants descendront aussi dans la rue.
Des manifestations de soutien à Jair Bolsonaro sont prévues mardi à l'occasion d'une fête nationale à haut risque dans des centaines de villes du Brésil, mais aussi de l'opposition soucieuse de frustrer le président d'une démonstration de force.
La tournure que prendront les mobilisations est incertaine et a monopolisé le débat public au Brésil, avec notamment des alertes pour éviter un événement similaire à l'invasion du Capitole des États-Unis en janvier dernier par des partisans du président de l'époque, Donald Trump, un modèle pour Jair Bolsonaro. » | Par Le Figaro avec AFP | mardi 7 septembre 2021
Emmanuel Macron avait fait l'acteur grand officier de la Légion d'honneur en novembre 2019. VALERY HACHE / AFP
LE FIGARO : L'acteur est décédé lundi à l'âge de 88 ans. Emmanuel Macron a fait part de ses condoléances «à sa famille et à ses proches, ainsi qu'à tous les Français qu'il a fait rire et qu'il a émus durant plus de 60 ans».
«En lui, nous nous retrouvions tous», a salué sur Twitter Emmanuel Macron en hommage à Jean-Paul Belmondo, décédé ce lundi à l'âge de 88 ans. «Il restera à jamais Le Magnifique. Jean-Paul Belmondo était un trésor national, tout en panache et en éclats de rire, le verbe haut et le corps leste, héros sublime et figure familière, infatigable casse-cou et magicien des mots», a-t-il écrit.
L'Élysée a annoncé mardi matin qu'un hommage national à l'acteur serait rendu jeudi 9 septembre aux Invalides. » | Par Le Figaro | Publié : lundi 6 septembre 2021 ; mis à jour : mardi 7 spetembre 2021
MONACO LIFE: Princess Charlene is in a “reassuring state” after being admitted to hospital in South Africa and later released, the Palace has confirmed.
Just days after saying goodbye to her husband Prince Albert and children Prince Jacques and Princess Gabriella who were in South Africa for a brief visit, Princess Charlene was rushed to hospital on Wednesday night after collapsing.
Following widespread media reports of the late-night dash to the emergency room, the Prince’s Palace issued a statement Friday evening confirming the Princess’ health situation: » | Cassandra Tanti | Saturday, September 4, 2021
THE GUARDIAN: From plummeting trade to drastic shortages of workers, needlessly leaving the single market has been disastrous
‘The sensible path now would be for Boris Johnson to eat humble pie.’ Photograph: Ben Stansall/AFP/Getty Images
It was the big Brexit lie. No, not the £350m a week to spend on the NHS or the “bonfire” of red tape. The lie was that the shambles now enveloping British trade with Europe was an unavoidable price worth paying to leave the EU. That was rubbish.
In order to further his chances of becoming Tory leader Boris Johnson made two commitments. One was to resign from the EU, the other was to depart Europe’s customs union and single market, aspects of which embrace other non-EU states such as Norway. The second decision was an almost casual gesture to make him look macho to the party’s hardline Brexiters. It was not put to referendum and was beyond stupid.
No news item today is free of the consequences. Earlier this year, the effects of leaving the single market could be seen in plummeting trade with the continent, even accounting for the pandemic. Additional red tape is awesome. HMRC estimates traders will be handling 215m more import/export documents a year, at an estimated bureaucratic cost of £7.5bn a year. Tariffs may not apply but rules of origin and health standards do. Every truck, every cargo requires inspection.
As for migration, the overall shortage of seasonal farm labour, according to BBC Radio 4’s Farming Today, is 20% and often more. Fruit will rot in fields, pigs cannot get to abattoirs and Christmas turkeys will be a “nightmare”. Meanwhile, care homes in England are short of 170,000 staff, and delivery firms short of 100,000 drivers. Hotels have abandoned rooms and restaurant tables. Creative industries – worth £110bn to the UK economy – were forgotten by the Brexit negotiators and are now virtually isolated from Europe. » | Simon Jenkins | Monday, September 6, 2021
Our decision to leave the European Union was as stupid as it is showing to be economically disastrous. The once great and respectable Conservative Party has been hijacked by fools – self-serving fools!
I was raised in a Conservative-voting household; indeed, the very word ‘socialism’ in my family was a dirty word! In fact, I myself have been a Conservative voter. I voted Conservative all my adult life – until Cameron came along! I took one look at him and smelled trouble (my instincts proved to be dead right!); so, I voted for Nick Clegg (LibDem) instead. But that was the very first time in my life that I deviated from the Conservative cause.
After the fiasco of Brexit, however, I shall never vote for the Conservatives again. The 1 percenters in the Conservative Party have manipulated the masses in order to fill their own pockets, fill their own banks accounts. But in so doing, they have taken people’s rights as European citizens away; and many of us resent that. I know I certainly do.
Much of it started with Trump. It was he who stoked the fires of anti-EU politics in this country. The man who neither knew nor understood anything about geopolitics. What Trump knew about geopolitics, or economics, you could write on the back of a cigarette packet!
Boris Johnson is a Trump clone. He is also a Trump-like clown. The only difference between Trump and BoJo is that Johnson has a posh accent and a better education, much of which, incidentally and ironically, was paid for by the EU! (His father worked for the EU for years.) Such hypocrisy!
Margaret Thatcher must be turning in her grave! Although she was against a federal Europe, which I most certainly am not, she was very pro-EU trade and bringing down all barriers to trade. Indeed, ‘Maggie’ was one of the Single Market’s principal architects: she worked tirelessly to bring it about. Now BoJo and his band of über-rich nation-destroyers have undone all her hard work. These people can indeed be thought of as nation-destroyers, because in all my adult life, I have never seen this country so divided. Even friendships and family ties have been destroyed by Brexit. And this is true right across the country. The cracks and fault-lines in British society have been laid bare. One now has cause to doubt whether they will ever heal. This Brexit nonsense could quite possibly lead to the break-up of the once so united, United Kingdom.
May 16, 2021 • Vous rêvez d’apprendre à parler avec le délicieux accent de l’aristocratie anglaise ? Petite leçon de prononciation avec David Castello-Lopes et en guest-star… La reine d’Angleterre !
May 1, 2015 • Brigitte Bardot, Grace Kelly, Sophia Loren, Audrey Hepburn, Kim Novak, Frank Sinatra, Pablo Picasso - die "Hauptdarsteller" des irischen Fotografen Edward Quinn (1920 – 1997) waren vor allem Stars und große Künstler.
Ort der Handlung war die Côte d’Azur der 50er und frühen 60er Jahre, deren Glanz und Grandezza Edward Quinn mit unvergleichlichem Blick auf über 100 000 Negativen verewigt hat. Quinn war Einzelgänger und entschiedener Anti-Paparazzo: hartnäckig zwar, aber immer korrekt; manchmal ironisch, doch nie verletzend. Weltstars schätzten ihn und seine Bilder genauso wie sein Freund Pablo Picasso, der ihm einzigartige Einblicke in seine Arbeitswelt und sein Privatleben gewährte.
Edward Quinns schwarz/weisse-Welt – so farbig und lebendig, als gäbe es kein THE END.
This chicken tagine with olives and preserved lemons is a staple in every Moroccan home.
INGREDIENTS:
1.5 kg chicken cut into pieces, or just thighs
For the marinade:
Saffron water: A large pinch of saffron + 1 cup of warm water. You can store up to 1 month in the fridge. We will use 1 teaspoon of saffron water.
The pulp of 1 large preserved lemon, or 2 small ones.
A handful of fresh cilantro and parsley.
2 large garlic cloves
2 teaspoons ground paprika
1 teaspoon ground ginger
1/2 teaspoon ground cumin
1/4 teaspoon of pepper
2 tablespoons of olive oil
For the tagine:
2 onions (grated)
2 tablespoon olive oil
Pinch of salt and ground turmeric
1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
A handful of green olives
The skin of 1 preserved lemon, cut into quarters
METHOD:
Preparing the ingredients:
1. Prepare saffron water: Soak the saffron threads in some warm water for 10 minutes. This method boosts the saffron flavors and is economical as you can store this flavored water and use it when needed.
2. Quarter the preserved lemon. Separate the pulp from the skin. Finely chop the pulp and reserve the skin for later.
3. Finely chop the parsley and cilantro.
4. Grate the garlic cloves
Marinating the chicken:
5. Now we are ready to make the chermoula. In a large bowl combine: the chopped parsley and cilantro, chopped preserved lemon pulp, garlic, ground paprika, ginger, cumin, pepper, saffron water, and olive oil. Mix well.
6. Place the chicken in the chermoula marinade and massage into the flesh. I use only chicken tights, but you can use any other chicken parts.
7. Cover and refrigerate for at least 1 hour or overnight.
Setting the tagine:
8. Peel and grate the onions. Finely chop the leftover onion pieces.
9. Drizzle olive oil in the bottom of the tagine and cover with the onions.
10. Sprinkle a little bit of salt and turmeric over the onions.
11. Add the chicken over the onion bed, and cover with any leftover chermoula.
Cooking the tagine:
12. When cooking in a traditional tagine over the stove, use a heat diffuser to avoid burning and cracking the bottom of the tagine. It’s a must!
13. On low-medium heat, place the diffuser first, then the tagine on top of it. Cover and cook for around 15-20 minutes until the onions and chicken release their juices and the liquids start simmering.
14. Then, reduce the heat to low, cover the tagine, and cook until the chicken is tender. This can take 1 hour or more, depending on the chicken parts and quality of your tagine. Very important! Make sure that the heat is low.
15. Add the lemon juice and green olives to the sauce.
16. Top the chicken with the preserved lemon skins
17. Taste your sauce and add salt if necessary – we wait until the end to add salt, because the preserved lemons in the chermoula are already salty!
18- Do not cover the tagine, and continue cooking for another 15 minutes or so, until the liquids have evaporated and the sauce has thickened. Serve immediately with crusty bread.
Jean-Paul Belmondo, une gueule de boxeur au sourire d'ange, est apparu dans près de 85 films. AFP
LE FIGARO : DISPARITION - Héraut de la Nouvelle Vague puis héros aussi rigolard qu'invincible, l'acteur est décédé le lundi 6 septembre comme l'annonce son avocat.
L'enfant gâté du cinéma français s'est éteint. Acteur, producteur, directeur de théâtre, il avait interprété avec panache, au cinéma comme sur les planches, une foule de personnages au cours d'une carrière longue de plus de cinquante ans. De Pierrot le Fou à L'Homme de Rio ou L'As des as, il incarnait le cinéma français.
Comment devient-on le champion du box-office français pendant des années, attirant dans les salles quelque 130 millions de spectateurs ? En restant soi-même, en faisant de quelques films des classiques (À bout de souffle, Le Doulos, Le Magnifique, L'As des as, Le Cerveau, Peur sur la ville) et en tournant avec les plus grands réalisateurs, Godard, bien sûr, mais aussi Jean-Pierre Melville, Alain Resnais, Gérard Oury, Claude Chabrol, François Truffaut, Philippe de Broca, Louis Malle, Claude Sautet, Georges Lautner. » | Par Jean-Luc Wachthausen | lundi 6 septembre 2021
À Kaboul, samedi, aux abords du palais présidentiel, un milicien armé intervient alors que des femmes manifestent pour réclamer le maintien de leurs droits au travail et à l’éducation. BILAL GULER/Anadolu Agency via AFP
LE FIGARO : REPORTAGE - Les femmes se rassemblent en secret et manifestent face au nouveau pouvoir pour réclamer leurs droits.
Malgré la chaleur étouffante et la présence tout aussi oppressante de combattants talibans, un petit groupe de femmes aux tenues bariolées arpente une rue de Kaboul. Direction: le palais présidentiel, vidé depuis trois semaines de ses occupants et solennellement gardé par des membres du mouvement extrémiste qui s’est emparé du pays trois semaines plus tôt.
Munies de haut-parleurs et de pancartes sur lesquelles elles ont rédigé des slogans en persan et en anglais, elles interpellent leurs nouveaux dirigeants et la communauté internationale: «Éducation, travail, liberté!», «Nous voulons des droits humains», réclament-elles en chœur.
Lunettes de soleil sur le nez, voiles chatoyants posés sur l’arrière de la tête révélant des chevelures aux teintes blondes ou cuivrées, elles se passent un micro: «Les femmes ont des droits politiques, économiques et sociaux !» Résonnent ces quelques voix, sous l’œil curieux des passants, masculins pour la plupart, dont certains ont pris l’initiative de laisser pousser leur barbe afin de se prémunir contre d’éventuelles représailles. » | Par Margaux Benn, Envoyée spéciale à Kaboul | Publié : dimanche 5 septembre 2021 ; mis à jour : lundi 6 septembre 2021
THE NEW YORK TIMES: Militants posted images apparently taken in Bazarak, the capital of Panjshir Province in Afghanistan, where opposition forces have fought against their rule.
Zabihullah Mujahid, spokesman for the Taliban, during a news conference in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Monday. Jim Huylebroek for The New York Times
The Taliban claimed on Monday to have captured the Panjshir Valley, the last bastion of Afghanistan not firmly under their control, even as representatives of the opposition forces there maintained that they still had control over strategic positions in the region and vowed to fight on.
The conflicting accounts of what was happening on the ground in the area 70 miles north of Kabul, the country’s capital, were hard to verify because internet and telephone service into the region has been cut off.
If the Taliban has gained control over the rugged region and manages to keep it under its rule, it would be both a final strategic victory in its lightning-quick conquest of the country and a deeply resonant moment.
The Taliban never managed to control Panjshir the last time they ruled Afghanistan, from 1996 to 2001, and it was the launching point for the U.S.-led invasion after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on New York and the Pentagon.
Soviet forces, during their occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s, made advances into the territory on at least nine occasions, only to be repelled each time, sometimes after suffering brutal casualties.
The Taliban have always been bitterly opposed to the fighters of the Panjshir and were complicit in the assassination of their storied commander Ahmad Shah Massoud 20 years ago.
While rumors of the Taliban’s having taken over in Panjshir swirled this past weekend, it was not until Monday morning that the group officially claimed control. » | By Sami Sahak, Wali Arian and Jim Huylebroek | Monday, September 6, 2021
THE GUARDIAN: Former world leaders and public figures say nationwide marches are modelled on US Capitol insurrection
Jair Bolsonaro warned on 21 August that the rallies were a ‘necessary counter-coup’ against Congress and the supreme court. Photograph: Adriano Machado/Reuters
THE GUARDIAN: Former world leaders and public figures say nationwide marches are modelled on US Capitol insurrection
The Brazilian president, Jair Bolsonaro, and his allies could be preparing to mount a military coup in Brazil, according to an influential group of former presidents, prime ministers and leading public figures on the left.
They assert the nationwide marches by Bolsonaro supporters against the supreme court and Congress, involving white supremacist groups, military police, and public officials at every level of government, are “stoking fears of a coup in the world’s third largest democracy”. » | Patrick Wintour, Diplomatic editor | Monday, September 6, 2021
THE GUARDIAN: In speech marking 20 years since 9/11 attacks, former British PM warns that non-state actors may turn to bio-terrorism
The west still faces the threat of 9/11-style attacks by radical Islamist groups but this time using bio-terrorism, Tony Blair has warned.
Blair also challenged the US president, Joe Biden, by urging democratic governments not to lose confidence in using military force to defend and export their values.
In a speech to the defence thinktank Rusi marking the 20th anniversary of the 11 September 2001 al-Qaida terrorist attacks on the US, Blair, who was British prime minister at the time , and supported military interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan, insisted the terrorist threat remained a first order issue.
He suggested “the pressure of short-term political imperatives is giving both allies and opponents of liberal open societies the belief that ‘our time is over’”.
He said he found it deeply depressing to hear western opinion claim “that we are foolish in believing that western notions of liberal democracy and freedom are exportable or will ever take root except in the somewhat decadent terrain of western society.”
He insisted that “despite the decline in terrorist attacks, Islamism, both the ideology and the violence, is a first-order security threat; and, unchecked, it will come to us, even if centred far from us, as 9/11 demonstrated. Covid-19 has taught us about deadly pathogens. Bio-terror possibilities may seem like the realm of science fiction; but we would be wise now to prepare for their potential use by non-state actors.” Read all the article and watch the video » | Patrick Wintour, Diplomatic editor | Monday, September 6, 2021
Photo : A screenshot taken from the accompanying video.
