Giorno: 17 Agosto 2021

Americans, Afghan interpreters turning to Congress for help fleeing Afghanistan and the Taliban

Post Content Americans and Afghan interpreters are turning to Congress for help getting out of Afghanistan and into the U.S. amid the fall of Kabul and the rise of Taliban rule. Some Republican lawmakers are speaking out about the number of people contacting them for help fleeing Afghanistan amid the botched troop withdrawal that led […]

Facebook Oversight Board Member Says Fact-Checking Outside Jurisdiction

A member of Facebook’s independent oversight board said this week that the company’s third-party fact-checking program is outside the panel’s jurisdiction, which “makes a lot of people quite nervous…

Biden, Trump trade accusations on Afghanistan

Post Content Amid the chaotic scramble at Kabul’s airport to evacuate the remaining Americans and U.S. allies out of Afghanistan following the swift collapse of the Afghan government and military at the hands of the repressive Taliban forces, a blame game of sorts has broken out among President Biden and his predecessor in the White […]

Coronavirus Italia, il bollettino di oggi: sono 5.237 i nuovi casi di contagio in Italia, mentre sono 54 i morti

Read More Nelle ultime 24 ore in Italia si sono registrati sono 5.237 i nuovi casi di contagio in Italia, mentre sono 54 i morti, ieri erano stati. Sono stati processati 238.073  tamponi, il tasso di positività scende al 2,2 per cento. Ieri erano stati 74.021. Il tasso di positività è in calo rispetto al […]

Poland’s new law ‘slams the door’ on Holocaust survivors’ hopes for restitution

Read More Poland’s adoption Saturday of a controversial measure curtailing Holocaust-related restitution claims set off a firestorm in Israel and the wider Jewish world, sparking allegations of state-sponsored antisemitism and a rapidly escalating diplomatic crisis between Warsaw and Jerusalem. Although the law says nothing about the Holocaust or World War II, it establishes that any […]

Japan Closes Embassy in Afghanistan

Read More Taliban stand guard at an entrance gate outside the Interior Ministry in Kabul, on Aug. 17, 2021. (Javed Tanveer/AFP via Getty Images) TOKYO—Japan has closed its embassy in Kabul due to the worsening security situation in Afghanistan and the last remaining twelve embassy personnel had left the country, the Foreign Ministry said on […]

Federal Lawsuit Calls California Recall Election Unconstitutional

Two California voters have filed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the state’s recall system less than one month before the recall election of Gov. Gavin Newsom on Sept. 14. A suit filed in…

Cori Bush scores book deal worth up to $100K, financial disclosures show

Post Content EXCLUSIVE: Freshman firebrand Rep. Cori Bush, D-Mo., nabbed a book deal worth up to $100,000 before even finishing her first term in office. The “Squad” member’s recent financial disclosure form shows that the Missouri congresswoman is receiving between $50,001 and $100,000 in a book advance for her tome from Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. […]

Kabul flights resume as Pentagon warns of swift response to any attack

Post Content The Pentagon warned Tuesday of a swift response to any attack carried out by the Taliban against the mission to evacuate U.S. personnel and Afghan allies from Afghanistan as flights out of Kabul’s airport resumed for operations Tuesday. The current U.S. mission in Afghanistan was announced by President Biden on Monday, who said […]

Kabul, riapre l’aeroporto. I talebani invitano le donne al governo “sotto la legge della sharia”. La Nato: “Fallimento dei leader afghani”

Read More I talebani vogliono mostrarsi al mondo con il loro volto più aperto: comincia così la seconda giornata del nuovo regime a Kabul e nelle altre parti dell’Afghanistan. In un’intervista tv un rappresentante del gruppo ha garantito un’amnistia per tutti gli ex funzionari governativi, invitandoli a tornare al lavoro per non bloccare la macchina […]