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Last month, as Pope Francis marched in defense of the marginalized in Uganda, Kenya and the Central African Republic, local and international pro-LGBT organizations expressed a simple but urgent request: not the blessing of their sexual orientation but a message of tolerance aimed as much at courtrooms as civil and religious communities. Their appeal was met with a loud silence and remains completely disregarded. Built in 1992 to house the thousands of Lost Boys who fled what was then southern... Читать дальше...

L’impasse sui tre giudici della Consulta è sempre più umiliante e imbarazzante. Mi sia lecito fare qualche appunto a margine. Primo: si spiega perfettamente l’ulteriore discredito — come se ve ne fosse bisogno — gettato sul parlamento dalla sua ingiustificabile inadempienza. Essa investe l’istituzione, ma anche tutti e singoli i parlamentari. Si deve tuttavia sapere che essi (intendo i singoli parlamentari) sono totalmente esclusi da tali decisioni, gestite nella forma più verticistica dai capi partito. Читать дальше...

There was suspense until the last minute. Then, at 7:28 p.m. Saturday, Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius and the U.N.’s Christiana Figueres dropped the gavel. The Eiffel Tower unleashed a flash of light: The Paris Agreement of COP21 was approved. But is it a “historic turning point,” or a “just, lasting, dynamic, balanced, legally binding” document, as Fabius, president of the conference, called it? Is it really “a message of life,” as President François Hollande said, after a reference to his …... Читать дальше...

Guo Guangchang, one of the richest men in China, has disappeared. Guo, the founder and owner of the conglomerate Fosun International, was approached by police at the Shanghai airport on Dec. 10 and then vanished, according to a reconstruction published in Caixin, an influential Chinese business magazine. His cell phone was turned off, and no one has heard from him since that day. The first rumors in the international press suggested his disappearance was an “extraordinary detention” motivated by the … Continua

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Ciao Mario. Un grande fotografo (con la Leica), un grande uomo, un amico raffinato, che ha attraversato la storia mantenendo sempre una lucidità invidiabile. Mario Dondero, classe 1928, si è spento dopo una lunga malattia che aveva debilitato il suo corpo (e il suo sguardo) da leone. Partigiano nella Val d’Ossola da giovane, poi cronista, infine super testimone con la fotografia (“mi ero stufato di chiedere sempre in giro a qualche reporter di venire con me”), ha documentato il mondo a … Continua