Ida made landfall Friday (local time) on the Cuban island of Isla de la Juventud, where meteorologists say rainfall could reach 50cm. Ida, now a Category 1 storm, could already cause deadly floods and mudslides in Cuba. A wind speed of 120 kilometers per hour is also measured. Emergency Tens of thousands of residents were […]
US Veterans Save Hundreds of Afghans in Secret Operation
American veterans of Afghanistan have successfully transported hundreds of Afghan allies and their relatives to the airport after the fall of Kabul. These veterans did so voluntarily, writes the American ABC TV channel. Under a pledge of strict confidentiality, ABC reporters were allowed to view the secure chat room from which the operation was conducted. […]
Three endangered Sumatran tigers found dead on suspicion of poaching
Three Sumatran tigers have been found dead in a nature reserve in Aceh, the northernmost province on the Indonesian island of Sumatra. According to the head of the local animal protection organization, the Sumatran tigers, which are considered an endangered species, have been caught in traps that may have been set by poachers. They died […]
False survey solves 1976 double murder
An 84-year-old American was sentenced to life imprisonment for a double murder in 1976. The police obtained the evidence through a hoax to convict him. For decades, it wasn’t clear who was responsible for the deaths of two Wisconsin fiancés in their twenties. They were robbed and killed during a camping trip, and the woman […]
Brexit negotiator, Barnier wants to become the next president of France
Michel BarnierAP . image Barnier officially announced this Thursday evening on the French channel TF1. He was hinting at his participation in the elections some time ago. Barnier, 70, has enjoyed a long political career and has held various ministerial positions in France since 1993, including during the presidencies of Jacques Chirac and Nicolas Sarkozy. […]
Japan wants to build a tunnel to drain polluted water from a nuclear power plant
The nuclear reactor in Fukushima is being dismantled by TEPCO.AP . image Fukushima was left with more than one million tons of radioactive water, the source of which was the reactor that collapsed after the massive earthquake and subsequent tsunami. Over the years, that water has mixed with rainwater and groundwater into an amount that […]
The lack of a list of local defense personnel makes the evacuation from Kabul more difficult
The British are transporting people from Kabul by a crowded plane. The British, as well as the Germans, for example, had much better records of the locals who worked with their forces in Afghanistan than the Dutch did.Brunopress’s photo Aside from the list of 273 translation permits issued in Uruzgan between 2006 and 2010, the […]
The world’s fastest roller coaster shuts down after broken bones | Abroad
The huge roller coaster, which reaches a speed of 180 kilometers per hour in just two seconds, is said to have left traces on four passengers between December 2020 and August 2021. Upon acceleration, the passengers will have to withstand forces of about 3 grams. Mainly neck and spine fractures have been identified. Thus, the […]
The Third Smiley and Social Democrat Olaf Schulz suddenly gets a chance to be German chancellor again
A month before the German Bundestag elections, none of the three candidates for the chancellor managed to make convincing progress. Political mercury goes in all directions. For example, it is still not expected who will succeed Angela Merkel in sixteen years and who will determine the course of the Federal Republic in the coming years. […]
It’s getting hotter in Germany: Olaf Schulz’s SPD is getting more popular
A little over a month later, the Germans can elect a new parliament. Angela Merkel left politics after sixteen years, so there will be a new chancellor anyway. The campaign is unprecedentedly exciting: While a month ago it seemed like the race between the CDU/CSU Christian Democrats and the Greens was over, Olaf Schulz’s Social […]