Images dénudées: Londres durcit le ton et ouvre une enquête contre Grok

Londres a durci le ton lundi contre le réseau social X d’Elon Musk, avec l’ouverture d’une enquête sur les images à caractère sexuel générées par son intelligence artificielle Grok, à l’origine d’un tollé mondial, qui pourrait déboucher sur un blocage de la plateforme au Royaume-Uni.”Si X ne peut contrôler Grok, nous le ferons – et …

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Plongé dans l’incertitude, le Hamas en quête d’une nouvelle hiérarchie

Le Hamas prépare des élections internes dans les semaines à venir après des mois de direction collégiale, avec notamment pour objectif de s’assurer un rôle à l’avenir dans la bande de Gaza, détruite par la guerre avec Israël.L’attaque du 7 octobre 2023 sur Israël par le mouvement islamiste palestinien a déclenché la guerre. Deux ans et …

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Venezuela: l’attaque américaine secoue la rentrée des classes

La spectaculaire attaque américaine ayant conduit à la capture du président Nicolas Maduro a secoué la capitale mais aussi les esprits des plus jeunes, et était omniprésente à la rentrée des classes lundi au Venezuela, entre peurs et traumatismes. “Je suis vivante, ma famille est vivante, et vous êtes vivantes. Je ne peux pas passer mon temps …

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Iran: la répression s’accentue, des milliers de manifestants en soutien au pouvoir

La répression des manifestations en Iran a fait plus de 600 morts depuis le début de la contestation selon une ONG, les autorités tentant lundi de leur côté de reprendre le contrôle de la rue avec des rassemblements massifs dans le pays.A l’appel du président Massoud Pezeshkian, des milliers d’Iraniens ont envahi selon les images …

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Crise USA-Venezuela: Trump recevra l’opposante Machado, libération de détenus politiques

Le président américain Donald Trump va recevoir jeudi la cheffe de l’opposition vénézuélienne et prix Nobel de la paix Maria Corina Machado alors qu’au Venezuela, les libérations de détenus politiques se poursuivent au compte-gouttes.Le président américain a laissé entendre qu’elle pourrait lui remettre sa distinction, alors qu’il l’a écartée pour le moment des responsabilités au …

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Contre une désinformation en santé “massive”, le gouvernement dévoile de premiers outils de riposte

Consultations citoyennes, infovigilance… le gouvernement a dévoilé lundi les grandes lignes de sa stratégie de riposte face à une désinformation en santé devenue “massive” au point de mettre parfois “en péril” la santé publique.”La désinformation en santé est aujourd’hui l’un des principaux risques pour notre santé publique. Quand les fausses informations circulent plus vite que …

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Images dénudées: Londres durcit le ton et ouvre une enquête contre Grok

Londres a durci le ton lundi contre le réseau social X d’Elon Musk, avec l’ouverture d’une enquête sur les images à caractère sexuel générées par son intelligence artificielle Grok, à l’origine d’un tollé mondial, qui pourrait déboucher sur un blocage de la plateforme au Royaume-Uni.”Si X ne peut contrôler Grok, nous le ferons – et …

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Trump has options on Iran, but first must define goal

US President Donald Trump has options to intervene in protest-hit Iran that range from low to high risk, but choosing his course depends on him deciding his ultimate goal.It has been 10 days since Trump said the United States was “locked and loaded” and ready to “come to the rescue” if Iran’s clerical state kills demonstrators who have taken to the streets in major numbers.Since then, Trump has kept threatening a military option, even as hundreds of people have died, according to rights groups.Iran has been a sworn foe of the United States since the 1979 Islamic revolution toppled the pro-Western shah. The downfall of the Islamic republic in power since then would transform the Middle East.But Trump has previously lashed out against “regime change” as a goal, especially pointing to lessons from US involvement in Iraq, a smaller country.Trump on Monday exercised economic leverage, announcing 25 percent tariffs on Iran’s trading partners, and he has spoken of ways to forcibly restore internet access shut by Tehran.The two governments have also revealed that they have been in communication, coordinated by Trump’s friend and roving envoy Steve Witkoff.- Momentum on streets -In a message likely designed to galvanize Trump, Reza Pahlavi, the US-exiled son of the late shah, has publicly encouraged Trump not to be like Democratic predecessor Barack Obama, who hesitated at supporting 2009 protests for fear of co-opting a homegrown movement.Some experts say that Obama’s fears nearly a generation ago may no longer be as relevant, with demonstrations having spread well beyond educated, urban circles that always opposed the religious state.Ray Takeyh, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations who wrote a book about the fall of the late shah, said that Trump could target forces including the elite Revolutionary Guards that have taken the lead in repressing the protests.Intervention could ease Iranians’ fears and “affect the fence-sitters in thinking about joining the protests or not,” Takeyh said.Sanam Vakil, director of the Middle East and North Africa program at the Chatham House think tank, agreed that intervention by Trump could bring momentum on the streets.But she said: “It could equally play further into the hands of a regime that is paranoid and this would build further unity and propel them to crack down further.”- How much action needed? -Trump in June ordered strikes on Iranian nuclear sites in support of an Israeli campaign.While Trump had previously spoken of a diplomatic resolution, the attack was in line with his inclination, as seen again recently in Venezuela, for one-off military operations he quickly claims as successes.Vali Nasr, a professor at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, noted 130 to 150 Iranian cities have seen protests.”Trying to hit security forces in all of these, or even major cities of Iran, is more than just a few airstrikes,” Nasr said.As Trump likely “doesn’t want to get his hands dirty, a performative strike may be more where he wants to go,” Nasr said.Behnam Ben Taleblu, a research fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, said the risk from intervention was less that Iranians rally around the flag than that they become afraid to go out.”The challenge of the strikes is how to make sure they don’t lead to the disbursement of protesters rather than the amplification of protests, if the strikes go off the rails — if targeting is poor, if intelligence is poor,” he said.He said the impact would also be high if Trump finally decides not to strike.Inaction would “play into the regime’s narrative of painting America as not able to actually come through,” Ben Taleblu said.Pahlavi and a number of Republican hawks have voiced opposition to diplomacy, warning it would only give the Islamic republic a lifeline.  But Mohammad Ali Shabani, editor of the Amwaj.media site that closely follows Iran, believed many Iranians would welcome a deal that eases sanctions and “lifts the shadow of war.””I think this would supersede any kind of short-term survival for the Islamic republic because the way things are structured, I think most Iranians at this point accept that the Islamic republic is not going to be there forever.”

Australia’s ambassador to US leaving post, marked by Trump rift

Australia said Tuesday its ambassador to the United States is leaving after a three-year tenure overshadowed by President Donald Trump’s verdict on him: “I don’t like you either.” Former prime minister Kevin Rudd, who departs his post on March 31 to become president of the Asia Society think tank in New York, had sharply criticised Trump while he was out of office.Trump expressed disdain for Rudd during a televised US-Australia meeting at the White House in October last year, prompting some Australian opposition calls for his posting to be ended.”Rudd has delivered concrete outcomes for Australia — during both Democrat and Republican Administrations — in collaboration with our closest security ally and principal strategic partner,” Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said in a joint statement with his foreign minister.”We thank Dr Rudd for his exceptional service as Ambassador and as a former Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Australia.”Before taking up his post in Washington, Rudd had described Trump as the “most destructive president in history” and a “traitor to the West” who “drags America and democracy through the mud.”Rudd deleted the comments after Trump won back the White House in November 2024.At the White House meeting in October, the US president suggested Rudd might want to apologize for his earlier remarks.Turning to Albanese at his side, Trump said, “Where is he? Is he still working for you?”Albanese smiled awkwardly before gesturing to Rudd, who was sitting directly in front of them.Rudd began to explain, “That was before I took this position, Mr. President.”Trump cut him off, saying, “I don’t like you either. I don’t. And I probably never will.”Rudd, a Mandarin-speaking former career diplomat, had been tapped as ambassador during Joe Biden’s presidency, with Australia hoping his expertise on China would gain him influence in Washington.