An Afghan woman in Kabul: ‘Now I have to burn everything I achieved’
Read More Afghanistan An Afghan woman in Kabul: ‘Now I have to burn everything I achieved’ A university student tells of seeing all around her the ‘fearful faces of women and ugly faces of men who hate women’ A Kabul resident Sun 15 Aug 2021 15.22 EDT Last modified on Sun 15 Aug 2021 16.29 […]
Death toll from Haiti quake hits 724 as tropical storm looms
Post Content The death toll from a devastating earthquake in Haiti rose to 724 on Sunday as rescue workers scrambled to find survivors buried under buildings a day after the 7.2 magnitude quake and as a tropical storm bore down on the Caribbean nation. The quake flattened hundreds of homes and buildings in a Caribbean […]
Molinari: “La umiliante fuga di Ghani consegna il paese al più medioevale dei regimi jihadisti”
Read More 15 agosto 2021 <iframe class=”rep-video-embed” src=”https://video.repubblica.it/embed/dossier/tv/molinari-la-umiliante-fuga-di-ghani-consegna-il-paese-al-piu-medioevale-dei-regimi-jihadisti/393984/394695&width=640&height=360″ width=”640″ height=”360″ frameborder=”0″ scrolling=”no”></iframe> “Con l’umiliante figa di Ghani l’Afghanistan è caduta nelle mani dei più medioevale dei regimi oscurantisti”, dice il direttore di Repubblica, Maurizio Molinari, al Tg2. “È la fine di vent’anni di tentativi – continua Molinari – […]
Afghanistan, i talebani nel palazzo del signore della guerra: il banchetto tra lo sfarzo
Read More 15 agosto 2021 <iframe class=”rep-video-embed” src=”https://video.repubblica.it/embed/mondo/afghanistan-i-talebani-occupano-il-palazzo-del-signore-della-guerra-il-banchetto-tra-lo-sfarzo/393967/394678&width=640&height=360″ width=”640″ height=”360″ frameborder=”0″ scrolling=”no”></iframe> Decine di combattenti talebani sono entrati nel sontuoso palazzo di Abdul Rashid Dostum, signore della guerra e acerrimo nemico degli insorti che avrebbe dovuto difendere la città di Mazar-i-Sharif e invece è fuggito. Nel video gli […]
Polish PM says family of envoy to Israel threatened as diplomatic spat deepens
Read More Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said Sunday that he had decided to “safely bring back home the children of Poland’s ambassador to Israel,” citing concerns of “growing hatred towards Poland and Polish citizens in Israel” in light of the developing diplomatic crisis between both countries. Morawiecki even implied that the ambassador’s family is […]
What America’s Middle Eastern allies can learn from the collapse of Afghanistan
Read More The comparisons being made between the fall of Kabul to Taliban fighters and the fall of Saigon, with its iconic photographs of U.S. helicopters evacuating American personnel from city rooftops, are unfair to the South Vietnamese. They persevered for over two years after the U.S. military departed in early 1973, until Saigon fell […]
Will we weather the extreme weather?
Read More While our country smouldered after an unprecedented looting and killing spree, the rest of the world was focused on another kind of burning: the global blaze that puts our planet on a collision course with extinction. Here at home, you’d have thought we were on a cli-fi post-apocalyptic Mad Max set, with stampedes […]
Cuomo successor Kathy Hochul vows to ‘fully cooperate’ with COVID nursing home probe
Post Content Incoming New York governor Kathy Hochul on Sunday vowed to “fully cooperate” with requests for data on the nursing home scandal facing Andrew Cuomo’s administration – though she stressed other priorities included getting COVID relief money out to landlords and illegal immigrants. “I’m not going to raise expectations that I have those documents […]
Pentagon blames Afghan army in closed House briefing: ‘You can’t buy willpower’
Post Content Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin lamented “you can’t buy willpower” during a call with members of Congress Sunday, as the Taliban neared a total takeover of Afghanistan, according to a source. Austin, along with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Army Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, […]
Climate crisis: ‘Day Zero’ drought risk for Gauteng
Read More Gauteng faces the possibility of Day Zero in the next 10 to 20 years as long droughts caused by the climate crisis batter the country, a lead author on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has warned. Francois Engelbrecht, a professor of climatology at the Global Change Institute at the University of […]
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