At least three people died on Friday (28) in Cali, Colombia, during protests that marked the month in which the wave of anti-government protests began, which were severely suppressed by security forces. According to the mayor of Cali, Jorge Iván Ospina, the three deaths occurred in a riot formed around a barricade of demonstrators. The … Read more
The French president continues to resist any categorization in “what a president should not do”. In a thirty-minute taped conversation at the Elysee Palace in the French capital, Emmanuel Macron interacted alongside France’s most popular YouTubers, Mcfly and Carlito, commenting on the jokes being told by either were false or true. The video already has … Read more
The increase in social interactions after the end of Spain’s state of emergency, suspended on May 9, could hold back improving rates linked to the pandemic in the country. In Barcelona, for example, over the past two weeks there has been a slight increase in infections, especially among the population aged 15-29. Young people currently … Read more
After spending the week trying to keep his distance from the international scandal caused by the hijacking of the leak of a blogger opposing the Alexander Lukashenko regime in Belarus, President Vladimir Putin supported his ally on Friday (28). The motivation was clearly expressed by the Russian president himself, speaking to reporters before the start … Read more
The phrase República das Bananas is part of Latin American history and political imagery. After the product became of interest to the American United Fruit Co. at the turn of the 20th century, bananas were at the center of several military interventions and coups in the region. Gabriel García Márquez immortalized in a fictional version … Read more
The coronavirus pandemic has lasted for more than a year, with successive epidemiological waves and the emergence of several changes, imposing new challenges on the international community in the face of the health crisis and the economic recovery. Faced with this complex and critical situation, the Global Health Summit, a high-level multilateral conference on global … Read more
A man on the list of potential terrorist threats attacked a policewoman with a knife on Friday in western France, leaving the officer in serious condition – the assailant was eventually killed by security forces. The case took place in Chapelle-sur-Erdre, a town of 20,000 inhabitants near Nantes. Besides the policeman in serious condition, two … Read more
Despite criticism that the Republican Party is playing down violence during the invasion of Congress in January, party senators have blocked the opening of a bipartisan investigation into the attack on Capitol Hill by supporters of the former President Donald Trump Friday. Democratic parliamentarians and some moderate Republicans had convened a commission to examine the … Read more
Germany officially recognized this Friday (28) that it was responsible for a genocide in Namibia during colonial times. The German government will pay the African nation 1.1 billion euros (about 7 billion reais) to compensate for the damage inflicted. The murder took place between 1904 and 1907, when German soldiers killed between 75,000 and 100,000 … Read more
The famous demolition of the statue of slave trader Edward Colston, which took place in Bristol, amid anti-racism protests that swept the world in June last year, will now be part of an exhibition at the museum English M Shed. The announcement was made by Bristol Mayor Marvin Rees in a statement released this Friday … Read more