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Reçu aujourd’hui — 16 septembre 20256.9 📰 Infos English

From Colombo to Kathmandu, the furious youth movements toppling entrenched elites

Talk of revolution in the coffee shops of Nepal increased after protest movements across south Asia

Across Kathmandu, the acrid stench of smoke still lingers. Singha Durbar, the opulent palace that housed Nepal’s parliament, stands charred and empty, its grand white columns turned a sooty black. The home of former prime minister KP Sharma Oli – who just last week seemed to have an unshakable grip on power – is among those reduced to ruins, while Oli remains in hiding, his location still unknown.

They stand as symbolic monuments to the week that Nepal’s political system was brought crashing down at the hands of a leaderless, organic movement led by young people who called themselves the Gen Zs, referring to those aged between 13 and 28.

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© Photograph: Tharaka Basnayaka/NurPhoto/REX/Shutterstock

© Photograph: Tharaka Basnayaka/NurPhoto/REX/Shutterstock

© Photograph: Tharaka Basnayaka/NurPhoto/REX/Shutterstock

‘We dreamed of a better future’: remembering the first moments of Papua New Guinea in 1975

16 septembre 2025 à 01:50

Australia had governed PNG for decades and the transfer of power was an attempt to unify more than 800 language groups under one state

Fifty years ago, on the day Papua New Guinea gained independence from Australia, a young law student lowered the Australian flag and raised Papua New Guinea’s for the first time.

The 22-year-old, Arnold Amet, had spent the preceding years active on his university campus, debating the merits of independence, petitioning future leaders to abandon the British monarchy, and imagining what it might mean for his people to finally govern themselves.

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© Photograph: National Archives of Australia

© Photograph: National Archives of Australia

© Photograph: National Archives of Australia

No handicap: America’s ultracompetitive — and uplifting — blind golfers’ trophy drive is in full swing

16 septembre 2025 à 01:30
Jeremy Poincenot was just 19 when he learned he was going blind thanks to Leber hereditary optic neuropathy, a genetic optic-nerve disease. His father, Lionel, had bought him a new set of golf clubs for Christmas shortly before the diagnosis, but Jeremy had lost his sight by Dec. 25. Undeterred, his dad still handed the...

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