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The Chicago police department is using a unique algorithm in its battle against armed violence, to figure out who is most likely to be involved in a shooting, either as a victim or perpetrator. The computer program takes into account various factors such as criminal records, gang affiliations, gunshot wounds already suffered, or the number […]

The little blue flowers that have grown for a century now in France near the graves of the war dead at Douaumont can easily be mistaken for local forget-me-nots. In fact they are a foreign import, an American flower brought as seeds on the hooves of the US army horses used at Verdun during World […]

Engaged in a fierce tug of war with unions and some of his own party over labour reforms, France’s embattled Prime Minister Manuel Valls has staked his political career on staring down the crisis. Valls finds himself in a devilish position, says Frederic Dabi of polling firm IFOP. “If he withdraws the law, he will […]

French estate agent Benjamin Pastor finally found a filling station that had not run out of petrol on Thursday after four others turned him away. Like many other Parisians, his sympathy is in short supply for a three-month-long campaign by unions against the government’s hotly contested labour reform. “Absolutely not,” Pastor told AFP when asked […]

US forces in Okinawa are to be put under night-time curfew for a month following the suspected rape and murder of a woman by a former US marine, officials said Saturday. The announcement, part of a one-month “period of unity and mourning” comes after US President Barack Obama expressed his “deepest regrets” over the killing. […]