The mayor of New Orleans has ordered the evacuation of unprotected neighborhoods from flooding as the city braces for a possible direct impact from a storm stronger than Hurricane Katrina, which left a trail of destruction there exactly 16 years ago. “What I’m told is this storm is not going to subside,” Mayor LaToya Cantrell … Read more
The center-right president of Uruguay, Luis Lacalle Pou, 48, received a booster vaccine against the coronavirus this Saturday (28). The officer, who had received two doses of Coronavac on March 29 and April 26, took Pfizer’s immunizing agent today. Read more (08/28/2021 – 7:26 p.m.)
Sunday morning and I explore another part of Barcelona, hitherto unknown to me, in the district of Sants-Montjuïc. And look, I’ve been in this city for years. Without wanting to, at the bend of a bend, I discovered, for example, the Jardin des Droits de l’Homme, an oasis nestled between residential buildings and a house … Read more
Climate disasters and the crisis in Afghanistan will further heat up the already confused elections to succeed Angela Merkel, who led Germany for 16 years. Less than a month before the election, an increase in voting intentions places three parties in a technical equality: the Christian-conservatives of the Union (CDU-CSU), the Social Democrats (SPD) and … Read more
The suicide bomber waited until the last possible moment, US officials said. Crowds entering Hamid Karzai International Airport were concentrated at the abbey gate, a main entrance guarded by marines and other military personnel. The troops knew they could be the target of an attack; the day before, the State Department had warned of a … Read more
Seeing the desperation of men and women to leave Afghanistan, Khalida Popal, 30, cried. When asked, she struggles to find a word to define what she is feeling. Anger, sadness, depression, emptiness. “Sleeping has been very difficult,” she confides, constantly requested by journalists in recent days. After the double bombing at Kabul airport last Thursday … Read more
Joe Biden’s plans for this month included a vacation away from the White House. The rest, however, had to be postponed and made way for more work, in an attempt to reverse the government’s worst moments so far and shake up its image. And August is not over yet. The long-term impact of the current … Read more
A civil war engulfs rival tribal factions and the government engulfs Afghanistan, forcing Westerners living in Kabul to flee the country through an improvised air retreat operation. To the delight of followers, Nietschzéens or religious, of the notion of eternal return, the paragraph above does not necessarily summarize the vertigo of events in the Asian … Read more
The US drone strike, in response to an attack that killed nearly 200 people in Kabul, killed two ISIS operatives who planned the suicide bombing at the airport in Afghanistan. The information was made public this Saturday (28) by the United States Department of Defense. “I can confirm that two high ranking ISIS targets were … Read more
The federal public prosecutor published on Saturday (28) a public note asking the Brazilian government to take an urgent position on the reception of Afghan refugees and recalling that the deadline for the withdrawal of the United States from the country expires on the 31st, which should make it even more difficult plus the already … Read more