South Korea’s spy agency has told lawmakers it believes the teenage daughter of the North Korean dictator, Kim Jong-un, is close to being designated as the country’s future leader as Kim moves to extend the family dynasty to a fourth generation. Lawmaker Lee Seong-kweun announced on Thursday that the girl's recent appearances and growing role next to her father were thought to be an indicator of the succession. In a closed-door briefing, NIS officials said they were closely monitoring whether Kim’s daughter, believed to be named Kim Ju-ae and about 13 years old, would appear with him before thousands of delegates at the forthcoming Workers’ party congress

View image in fullscreen Farmer’s book Making Sense of Chaos: A Better Economics for a Better World. “Secondly, it’s an area where the failure of economic models is seen most dramatically,” he says. Driven by this, Farmer’s team’s first step towards a complexity model of the entire world economy is tackling the energy sector. ‘A complicated beast’The new complexity models solve two fundamental problems with mainstream economic models. In contrast, the way complexity models are set up means economic cycles emerge without any introduced shocks.

Photograph: Fatima Tuj Johora/ReutersCritics say the resurgence of conservative Islamist politics has already begun to seep into society. While Jamaat e-Islami has put forward a manifesto focusing on reform, women’s safety from harassment and clean politics, the party is not running a single female candidate. Analysts emphasise that many now supporting Jamaat e-Islami are simply disenchanted with the political old guard. The authoritarian nature of Hasina’s regime somewhat discredited secularism and made voters more open to Islamist politics this time around, say analysts. One of the fresh faces of Jamaat e-Islami is Mir Ahmad Bin Quasem Arman, a barrister up for election in Dhaka.

Un débat animé entre les candidats staviacois. A Estavayer, gouvernance, aménagement et infrastructures étaient au menuLe troisième débat organisé par les titres du Groupe Saint-Paul en vue des élections du 8 mars s’est tenu à Estavayer mercredi soir.

The son of Marwan Barghouti, the Palestinian prisoner often described as the Nelson Mandela of the Palestinian movement, has called on the British government to put his father’s release at the heart of Palestinian democratic renewal. “Simply saying ‘we support a two-state solution’ without doing anything about it is deepening the problem, because you are just giving the Palestinian people false hopes,” he said. Successive opinion polls have shown he remains the most popular candidate to become president of the Palestinian Authority in succession to Mahmoud Abbas. I would expect the UK government, as an upholder of international law, to go further and call for his release. Asked if the UK supports Barghouti’s release, the Foreign Office in written answers states it supports the International Committee of the Red Cross having access to Palestinian prisoners.

Canadian police have identified the suspect who carried out a school massacre in remote British Columbia as an 18-year old with a history of mental health problems. According to police, Van Rootselaar, arrived at a Tumbler Ridge secondary school on Tuesday afternoon, armed with a long gun and a modified handgun. According to RCMP deputy commissioner Dwayne McDonald, the deaths at the family home occurred prior to the school shooting, CBC reported. “This doesn’t even feel real.”The district of Tumbler Ridge issued a statement on Tuesday afternoon, calling the shooting a “deeply distressing” incident. After the country’s deadliest mass shooting attack, which left 22 people dead in Nova Scotia in 2020, Canada banned about 1,500 models of assault weapons.

But then the 2008 financial crash came and the salience of climate change in people’s lives dropped off. A growing tideBefore we properly dig into why support for reaching net zero is going down, let’s spell out exactly what the study (pdf) says. The study found that just 29% of the public now say the UK should reach net zero before the government’s 2050 target. At the same time, the proportion who say the UK shouldn’t have a net zero target at all, has jumped from 9% to 26%. A weapon in the culture warThe falling support for net zero targets cannot be separated from a broader political shift taking place in the UK.

Deteriorating health, education and training in many developing countries is dramatically depressing the future earnings of children born today, the World Bank has said. In a report, the World Bank urges policymakers to focus on improving outcomes in three settings: homes, neighbourhoods and workplaces. The report, Building Human Capital Where it Matters, finds that in 86 of 129 low- and middle-income countries health, education, or workplace learning declined between 2010 and 2025. Mamta Murthi, its vice-president for people, said: “The prosperity of low- and middle-income countries depends on their ability to build and protect human capital. And it suggests countries at similar income levels can vary significantly in human capital – highlighting Jamaica, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan and Vietnam as success stories.

Les artistes fribourgeois ont été entendus. Le Grand Conseil fixe la contribution culturelle à 30 francs par habitantLe Grand Conseil a mis sous toit la révision de la loi sur l’encouragement des activités culturelles, avec à la clé davantage de moyens.

On 5 February, 157 Ukrainian prisoners of war were reunited with their families; one of the few tangible outcomes of last week's US-brokered peace talks between Russia and Ukraine. 80,000 Ukrainians have been reported missing since the war began, most of them lost on the frontline or captured. The Guardian filmed the prisoner release in Chernihiv, in the north of the country; each exchange bringing both hope and heartbreak to families still searching for news of their loved ones.

En un peu plus d’un an depuis son retour au pouvoir, le président américain Donald Trump a remodelé, selon ses propres termes, le paysage géopolitique mondial, en déconstruisant les normes internationales au passage. Marie-Laure Salles, directrice de l’Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement, et sociologue ayant largement publié sur l’influence des Etats-Unis dans l’architecture institutionnelle mondiale, souligne toutefois que le déclin a commencé bien avant l’arrivée de Trump. Il ne faut se faire aucune illusion quant à un retour en arrière, confie-t-elle. Des propos du premier ministre canadien Mark Carney, à Davos, sur la rupture de l’ordre mondial, aux tentatives de Donald Trump d’en instaurer un nouveau à son image, comment comprendre ce qui se passe aujourd’hui?

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France voisine – Elle roule 11 km à contresens sur l’A40 et cause deux accidents Mercredi, une automobiliste âgée de 62 ans a circulé en sens inverse entre Contamine-sur-Arve et Saint-Pierre-en-Faucigny. Aymeric Dejardin-VerkinderMercredi 11 février, vers 13 h, une automobiliste de 62 ans a emprunté à contresens l’A40 entre Contamine-sur-Arve et Saint-Pierre-en-Faucigny. S'abonner Se connecter BotTalkMercredi, vers 13 h, une femme de 62 ans a été interpellée après avoir circulé à contresens sur l’autoroute A40, en Haute-Savoie. Selon la gendarmerie, elle a parcouru environ 11 km en sens inverse, entre Contamine-sur-Arve et Saint-Pierre-en-Faucigny. Capture d’écran de l’appel à témoins posté sur Facebook par la gendarmerie de Haute-Savoie.

Avalanche: le Lötschental coupé du trafic, le déblaiement est en coursUne avalanche a coupé l’entrée du Lötschental, peu après le tunnel routier du Lötschberg. Un minage a été effectué, le déblaiement est en cours. La route devrait pouvoir être ouverte dans la soirée.

Les sanctions sont distribuées à la pelle au Tribunal cantonal. La justice tranche plusieurs cas de remblais illicites en VeveyseLa Cour déboute plusieurs propriétaires fonciers et entreprises qui avaient recouru contre des décisions de remise en état, à la suite de remblais illicites en zone agricole.