At Britain’s Glastonbury Festival, several major artists this weekend expressed their disgust with the US Supreme Court’s ruling. The highest justices on Friday overturned the constitutional right to abortion, after which several states outright barred abortion. Billie Eilish described Friday as a “black day” for women in the United States. “I’m going to leave it […]
Saves and Changes the Rainforest by Buying It: “Too Crazy for Words”
Buying and giving away rainforests? It seems strange, but it is possible. He’d buy it and change it from a restaurant owner in Brazil who heard him talk about his plan. Coincidence? “I don’t believe in that,” he says. “It has to be this way.” The woman needed money and wanted to get off the […]
Severodonetsk is the last major city located in the Luhansk region of eastern Ukraine | Currently
Weeks after the Russians encircled it, the eastern Ukrainian city of Severodonetsk fell to the Russians. It is the last city in the Luhansk region to resist the Russian advance in the east of the country. Other great places have already given up. Mayor Oleksandr Stryuk said on Saturday that Severodonetsk was “entirely in the […]
Russia gets a broom from the top of the army, according to Britain, also replacing the “Butcher of Syria” | Currently
Russia is making changes to the military leadership, according to British intelligence services. At least seven generals are said to have been relieved of their duties in the past month. Among them is Alexander Dvornikov, who is known for committing atrocities against the civilian population of Syria, among other places. Dvornikov has served in the […]
This is why thunderstorms are more frequent when it gets warmer| Currently
Summer days are back with temperatures above 25 degrees again. You may have noticed that there are more thunderstorms. NU.nl has investigated why there are more thunderstorms when it gets warmer. Thunderstorms are caused by friction between warm rising air and cold, descending air. Cold air does not rise, so high temperatures on Earth are […]
US Senate passes new firearms law Abroad
The law was passed on the same day the Supreme Court ruled that a New York state law prohibiting the carrying of a firearm in public without a specific cause is unconstitutional. A new firearms law allows states to obtain funding to set up crisis centers to help people with mental health issues. States that […]
Boris Johnson’s party loses two seats in Parliament Abroad
The seat in Wakefield was held by Labor for 87 years, but the party lost the district to the Conservatives in 2019. Now Labor has reclaimed the seat. Tiverton-Honeyton is known to be conservative, with the Conservative Party winning 24,000 votes in 2019. The midterm elections were seen as an important test for Prime Minister […]
President Biden is less popular than Trump – how can that be?
Since the 189th day of his term, he has been steadily declining: the popularity rating of the “How popular is Joe Biden?” chart. That was on July 28, 2021. Did anything special happen after that? Not right. President Biden received at the White House Svyatlana Tsikhnoskaya, a Belarusian political activist who participated in her country’s […]
Rot about Ukraine as a candidate for EU membership: ‘I must say: I was wrong’
Prime Minister Rutte will also agree on behalf of the Netherlands. For weeks, the Netherlands raised all kinds of objections to the granting of candidate status to Ukraine. Root: “I was wrong.” “I was somewhat concerned that the European Commission would speed up its assessment of Ukraine and its advice on the status of the […]
Desire to join the European Union, not to be allowed to join the European Union: the unfulfilled desire of many Georgians
Somewhat surprisingly, the country applied for EU membership in early March. Previously, that moment was scheduled to be in 2024, but the Russian invasion of Ukraine changed everything. On March 2, Ukraine officially announced its intention to join the European Union, and Moldova and Georgia followed suit the next day. Fear of Russia “Georgia has […]