It was a fairly typical week with its lot of misfortune: Valparaiso in flames, a ship sinking in Korea, the indispensable international tension in Ukraine, some fun, the man and his bees, a sad little bit of beauty with the “Three Sisters of Yunnan,” but an atypical week thanks to the English press, The Sunday Times Magazine, which published the photo essay of Olivier Jobard and Claire Billet. It’s a magnificent work and a credit to journalism, with photo and text coming together to tell the story of two ex-Taliban Afghans trying to reach Europe. Also in the English press, in The Guardian, this astonishing story of Babal, a man saved at the last moment from death by hanging. These two stories were available to the French press, but they missed them.
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