Less than four days after we published an article about the safety of nuclear plants when two incidents happened in France, the French nuclear plant of Tricastin has been in the news again for a new incident. Read the rest of this entry »

So much has been said and written about the travels of Barack Obama that I figure for one day I will leave the “serious” things, such as pronouncements about Iraq, Afghanistan, etc. on the side. After all we all can read about it in the media and probably most of us have. Read the rest of this entry »

Even though we are still in 2008, France has already begun to prepare for the contest of choosing its European Capital of Culture. On June 13, 1985 and conceived as a means of bringing citizens of the European Union – at that time the European Community – together Read the rest of this entry »

Wars, killings, hunger… we are so used to it daily on the news that we seem to have become immune to it or hardened to others suffering. But a picture of the covered bodies of two dead young gypsy girls on a beach in Italy Read the rest of this entry »

Barack Obama’s trip abroad has caused several and quite different “situations”. The one which could be most serious was the widely reported interview that Iraq’s prime minister, Nuri Kamal al-Maliki, gave to Germany’s “Der Spiegel” magazine. Read the rest of this entry »

A ruling to deny citizenship to a Muslim woman has caused a stir in France where President Sarkozy has stressed the importance of integration into French life as part of a tougher immigration policy. Read the rest of this entry »

The price of oil and global warming have been two contributing facts for many countries and politicians – from the American presidential hopeful John McCain to the Italian government- to propose the building of new nuclear reactors. Read the rest of this entry »