Nearly 100 countries have struck a deal with the Taliban, an extremist group that seized power in Afghanistan this month, for the safe exit of foreigners from the country. Brazil is out of the document released today by the United States government. In a climate of insecurity since the arrival of the extremist group in … Read more
After gaining strength overnight, Hurricane Ida arrived in the state of Louisiana at 11:55 a.m. this Sunday (29) local time (13:55 GMT) as a dangerous Category 4 storm, prompting those who did not left the region to prepare for the most difficult test of billions of dollars invested in improvements after Hurricane Katrina ravaged the … Read more
A ship with more than 500 people on board was found adrift off the coast of Italy on Saturday (28). The blue boat seemed to be “overflowing” with people, in an image that conveys the dimension of the desperation of migrants in search of a new life in Europe. The Italian coast guard counted 539 … Read more
Thousands of people returned to the streets of Berlin on Sunday (29) to protest against vaccination and government restrictions to contain the advance of Covid-19 in Germany, which is facing a fourth wave of infections. Read more (08/29/2021 – 2:23 p.m.)
Researchers at the University of Cambridge, UK, suggest that the search for planets with life should not be limited to worlds similar to ours, and believe that a certain category of these objects is a candidate for the first detection of biosigns: the Hycean planets. Strange name, isn’t it? It took me a while to … Read more
Less than two days before the deadline for the American withdrawal from Afghanistan, the United States carried out a new military attack on Sunday (29) in Kabul. An official, who declined to be identified, said the target was a car bomb preparing to attack the airport on suspicion of being part of the Afghan Islamic … Read more
The latest poll in the German federal elections, to be held on September 26, is worrying Europe. Conservative candidate Armin Laschet, of Angela Merkel’s CDU, rose from 30% to 21% in the space of a month, behind the SPD, which reached 24%, and close to the Greens, who reached 17 %. The unprecedented presence of … Read more
The unexpected and unwanted coronavirus epidemic currently on the rise in the United States has hit the states that have been slow to adopt vaccination hardest. Florida is one example. While that state’s rulers have also refused lockdown and mask-wearing orders, they have made vaccinating vulnerable elderly people a priority. Gov. Ron DeSantis (Republican) opened … Read more
For the third time this week, the U.S. Embassy in Kabul issued a late Saturday warning (28) for U.S. citizens to immediately leave the area of Hamid Karzai International Airport in the capital of Afghanistan, and to avoid going there because of a “specific and credible threat”. All access gates should be avoided, while the … Read more