More than 90 percent of countries that have taken part in a pollution survey have hundreds of thousands of plastic particles on their coastlines. This is the conclusion of a study by the Scottish environmental organization Fidra. These are nurdles, pieces of plastic no larger than a pea, which […]
A person with a knife has attacked officers in Cannes, a coastal city in the south of France. At least one officer was injured. The attacker has been “eliminated”, Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin said. He said he was going to town on Monday morning. Authorities have not yet disclosed […]
In Sudan, the chief of the army, General Abdel Fattah al-Burhane, ordered the release of the four ministers arrested on the day of the October 25 coup. The news came hours after the military announced that the formation of a government was “imminent”. The four politicians mentioned are Information […]
The International Criminal Court in The Hague is an official investigation into the crimes against humanity that the authoritarian regime in Venezuela may have committed. Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro announced on Wednesday, along with Criminal Court prosecutor Karim Khan. In 2017, there were months of demonstrations against Maduro’s left-wing […]
On Signal, it is now possible to block numbers and mark them as spam. The service tries to identify spammers without viewing the encrypted messages. Since last summer, it has been possible to message users on messaging app Signal if they are not in your address book. You can […]
NASA has postponed the launch of the Space-X rocket for the second time in a week. One of the astronauts has been diagnosed with a medical problem. The last time a launch was delayed for that reason was in 1990. The four-member crew was initially scheduled to depart for […]
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan did not travel to Glasgow on Monday as planned for the COP26 climate summit. However, state media report that the head of government has returned to Turkey from Rome, where he attended the G20 summit last weekend. State news agency Anadolu and other media […]
Pope Francis believes that political leaders at the COP26 climate summit should give future generations “concrete hope” with their approach to climate change. According to the spiritual leader of the Roman Catholic Church, there must be an “urgent” response. “It is essential that each of us is committed to […]
After the military coup in Sudan, the army command removed six ambassadors, including the country’s envoy, to the European Union. That was announced on Thursday. The Sudanese ambassadors to the European Union, the United States, China, France, Qatar and the head of the Sudanese mission in Geneva have been […]
The parliamentary commission of inquiry into the corona pandemic in Brazil approved a final report late on Tuesday evening. One of the recommendations in that report is to indict President Jair Bolsonaro for a dozen crimes, including crime against humanity. The recommendation does not stand a chance: the far-right […]
