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Since 2009, the French gendarmerie has been under the control not only of the Ministry of Defence but also of the Ministry of the Interior.

We publish an translated version of an article by the brazilian democratic magazin A Nova Democracia that was sent to us.

Nothing works in Lebanon anymore. In the capital Beirut, there is only electricity for four hours a day at most, and in other parts of the country there is none at all. This is because state funds tend to flow into the pockets of those in political power rather than into the energy infrastructure. But even medicines, bread and bottled water are lacking if people cannot pay the high black market prices. Lebanon's main problem, however, does not lie in the country itself.

In the past 70 years, Catholic priests, religious and church employees as well as other people in Catholic schools or e.g. holiday camps are said to have abused up to330,000 children in France.

In Urfa in south-eastern Turkey, the textile producer "Uğur Textile" has fired 300 workers from a factory in one go, using their unionisation as a pretext. In response, the workers held a picket outside the factory gates this morning to return to work unionised.

We document pictures from Berlin Wedding that were sent to us.

In its "engagement against terrorism" in the Sahel zone (Burkina Faso, Mali, Mauritania, Niger and Chad), French imperialism, among other imperialist countries like Germany, has also stationed thousands of soldiers in Mali since 2013.