Boko Haram force girls to become suicide bombers
For two days in a row, Boko Haram’s been sending young girls as suicide bombers leaving more than 20 people dead in Nigeria’s lawless northeast. Witnesses in the town of Potiskum, in Yobe state say two girls walked into a market selling cell phones on Sunday and blew themselves up. The girl bomb carriers as […]
Special measures to protect French Jews
Plugging security holes that became evident in France last week, the authorities in Paris have drafted 10 000 troops and 5 000 police to protect sensitive areas across the country. At least 5 000 of these will be used to protect 700 Jewish schools. One of them is believed to have been the original target when a nearby […]
It would be easier to keep quiet
By Jean-Jacques Cornish The pen is mightier than the sword. Unless, as we saw in France last week, you happen to be holding the sword. If this, or anything I write in this piece, offends you, good. It means I am doing my job. Je suis Charlie. And good for you if you are reading […]
It’s difficult and dangerous
By Jean-Jacques Cornish The pen is mightier than the sword. Unless, as we saw in France last week, you happen to be holding the sword. If this, or anything I write in this piece, offends you, good. It means I am doing my job. Je suis Charlie. And good for you if you are reading […]
Bigger crowds than for liberation from Nazi occupation
More than four million people have taken to the streets in France after 17 people died in three days of extremist attacks in Paris. In the capital, 44 world leaders were among the 1,6 million who linking arms to show their rejection of violence and solidarity with the freedom this threatens. The French government says […]