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This is our new Friday Digest! Every Friday, this weekly news round-up gives us the occasion to share with you news from various topics: politics to arts, entertainment, media, science, sports, fun and less fun news… This digest is a list of news published this week on the Internet (Friday to Friday), selected by the Sama Team, and it is by no means exhaustive. If you want to suggest a news to be added in the next Friday Digest, contact us. ...

In May we mentioned The Hope for Darfur – Justice in Sudan Rally that took place in Washington, D.C.; today’s post is about a walk-a-thon in Chicago organized by Darfur Dream Team. The 3K walk along Lake Michigan, followed by speakers, will take place on Saturday, July 9, 2011 on Diversey Harbor, Chicago, IL. Participants will gather at 11:30AM at the Diversey Harbor Grove (Barry Ave and Lake Shore Drive West), depart for the walk-a-thon at ...

Last week, we did celebrate the return of two French journalists, Stéphane Taponier and Hervé Ghesquière. They were abducted in December 2009 and had been held by the Taliban for more than a year; it was a relief to have them back in France, in good health. But many questions immediately raised about the negotiations and a supposedly paid ransom. The New York Times writes: A spokesman for the Taliban also said Thursday that part of the reason the men ...

Ai Weiwei is a Chinese artist we often mention on the Sama Gazette. He was arrested at Beijing airport on 3 April, and was held for over two months without any official charges being filed. Chinese authorities released Ai Weiwei on bail on 22 June 2011, and said the artist had allegedly evaded taxes and intentionally destroyed accounting documents. You can read on Wikipedia: Analysts and other activists said Ai had been widely thought to be ...

This is our new Friday Digest! Every Friday, this weekly news round-up gives us the occasion to share with you news from various topics: politics to arts, entertainment, media, science, sports, fun and less fun news… This digest is a list of news published this week on the Internet (Friday to Friday), selected by the Sama Team, and it is by no means exhaustive. If you want to suggest a news to be added in the next Friday Digest, contact us. Gay ...

The finance minister of France, Christine Lagarde, was voted yesterday to the post of managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). She will succeed Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who was arrested in May in New York on sexual assault charges. The first female head of the International Monetary Fund will be hard at work on Europe’s debt crisis and balance the demands of fast-growing emerging nations with the needs of a recovering developed ...

Sometimes you click on a link and you make a great discover. That is exactly what happened to us when we followed a link on Juxtapoz website; it brought us to an article dedicated to Japanese artist Yasuhiro Sakurai. We never heard of him before and we wonder why we didn’t earlier. His wood sculptures, carved exclusively in Cypress wood, feature women with a variety of hairstyles: long, short, curly… These wall-mounted sculptures are ...

This is our new Friday Digest! Every Friday, this weekly news round-up gives us the occasion to share with you news from various topics: politics to arts, entertainment, media, science, sports, fun and less fun news… This digest is a list of news published this week on the Internet (Friday to Friday), selected by the Sama Team, and it is by no means exhaustive. If you want to suggest a news to be added in the next Friday Digest, contact us. ...

Last year we posted about the MSF‘s Campaign: Starved for Attention: The time to act is now! Now we can read on the campaign webiste: ‘Over the past year, MSF has met with government officials from the top food aid donor countries and held photographic exhibitions and events in over a dozen countries in an international effort to rewrite the story of malnutrition’. The campaign had been brought to the attention of the world but if you ...

Irreverent sense of humour. Irreverent attitude towards politics (read more on Wikipedia). Michel Colucci died 25 years ago at the age of 42. Colucci, also known as Coluche, was a French comedian and actor. On Sunday, many people across France commemorated together the day he died, on June 19, 1986. A quarter of century after he died in a motorcycle accident, Coluche is still very much alive in all memories and even people who were too young to have ...