On Wednesday 19th March, President Santos’s decision was announced : Bogota’s mayor, Gustavo Petro, has officially been dismissed and made ineligible for 15 years, despite the intervention from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) to suspend his deposition. Last December, the Journal International had already published an article announcing the mayor’s dismissal by public prosecutor, Alejandro Ordóñez. Since then, Bogota’s mayor has lodged an appeal for his dismissal to be...

Always criticized, sometimes denounced and often blamed, peace is a difficult business for the United Nations. In the 69th year of the United Nations charter, let us look at the creation of a global dream

The disappearance of the Malaysia Airlines flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, vanishing somewhere between the east coast of Malaysia and South Vietnam, remains a mystery. But one thing is certain, the whole affair has dominated the headlines. Throughout the world, it is the signal for battle. Led without great success, the search for the Malaysia Airlines plane continues intensely from the South China Sea up to a 100 mile radius from where air traffic control lost all contact with the...

After months of talks and speculations, a third front is now officially in the contention as an alternative to the two national level parties BJP and Congress. The official declaration was made a few days back at a high level meeting between 11 political parties which included the left leaning ones as well as parties with a regional stronghold. This third front has been christened as ‘secular front’ and promises to be an effective alternative to BJP and Congress are high. Major left parties...

Anja Rubik’s magazine 25 was kicked off Instagram for posting a photo, which featured the Polish model in Anthony Vaccarello’s transparent Fall’14 final look during Paris fashion week. Rubik thinks the whole thing is ridiculous and blame the social media platform for censoring photographs that celebrate a woman’s nude body. Anthony Vaccarello is an Italian-Belgian designer, now considered to be part of the European fashion avant garde. When Anja met Anthony, she fell in love with his clothes,...

Upon André Rieu’s upcoming new tour and Lindsey Stirling’s latest album release, Le Journal International has chosen to spotlight these two virtuosi. Discover the most famous violonist, Dutchman André Rieu, and the youngest of all, Lindsey Stirling.

How did it come to you to immersed yourself in the Yakuza circle ? The reason why I started is – as it always seems to be for me – a very personal one. I live in Belgium, and my brother lives in Japan, and I was looking for a way to do a project together... so I would have an excuse and the possibility to go to Japan more often to visit him and his family. He's a marketing expert and I'm a photographer, so we believed it must be possible. One night in Kabukicho, Tokyo we were having a beer...

Fifty years ago, the President John Fitzgerald Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas. The motive of the crime, the killer's identity, the potential for conspiracy: the circumstances of the murder are still unclear today. There is only one certainty: the Kennedy assassination propelled him into the legend. A lot of books has been published to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of Kennedy's assassination. Among them stands the testimony of one of the only two French journalists present at Dallas...

Place Maidan, the theatre of the anti-government manifestations in Kiev, had known a relative calm these last weeks. On Sunday February 16th, the protesters evacuated the city hall, before the government freed 234 demonstrators as a gesture of appeasement. Two days later, the assault of the anti-riot policemen, the Berkut, caused 25 deaths. Story of an escalation into chaos.

The 15th Lok Sabha came to an end on February 21st. The Lok Sabha, meaning House of the People, is the lower house of the bi-cameral Indian Parliament. With the closure of this Lok Sabha the electoral mood in India has become even more pronounced.