Giorno: 17 Ottobre 2021

COP26 touted to resolve long standing issues on climate debt

Read More The upcoming United Nations Climate Conference  (COP26) will hopefully go some way towards resolving contentious issues on climate relating to losses and damage from extreme weather and disasters such as flooding, wildfires, cyclones and heatwaves.  The Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss and Damage, signed at COP19 in the Polish capital, sought to deal […]

Nobel prize for physics is a game-changer

Read More The 2021 Nobel prize in physics, shared by three laureates, means the conversation about climate change should no longer be about debating the science itself or whether climate change is real, but rather on what we should be doing about it.  One half of the prize was jointly awarded to oceanographer Syukuro Manabe […]

Southeastern is latest rail franchise taken over by UK government

Read More Rail industry Southeastern is latest rail franchise taken over by UK government Few immediate benefits likely for commuters as DfT takes over day-to-day running of latest service stripped of franchise Sun 17 Oct 2021 07.31 EDT Last modified on Sun 17 Oct 2021 07.43 EDT Southeastern railway services, one of Britain’s busiest commuter […]

Macron: crackdown on 1961 Algerian protest ‘unforgivable’

Read More France Macron: crackdown on 1961 Algerian protest ‘unforgivable’ French president attends memorial for those killed and lays flowers at bridge over the Seine in Paris Sun 17 Oct 2021 08.49 EDT Last modified on Sun 17 Oct 2021 09.29 EDT Emmanuel Macron has described a bloody police crackdown on Algerian anti-war demonstrators 60 […]

Texas GOP advances new maps that would tighten slipping grip

Post Content Texas Republicans on Saturday night closed in on redrawn U.S. House maps that would shore up their eroding dominance as voters peel away from the GOP in the state’s booming suburbs. In a key late-night vote in the Texas House, Republicans gave early sign-off to new congressional boundaries that would give them more […]

Fauci allegedly misled Trump administration on gain-of-function research in Wuhan: Book

Post Content A new book from an investigative Australian reporter dives into how Dr. Anthony Fauci reportedly misled the Trump administration on gain-of-function research in China. “Fauci’s public persona as a cautious, careful medical professional is contradicted by his central role in kickstarting exceptionally fraught gain-of-function research in the United States after the ban introduced […]

Russia, girato il primo film nello spazio: la troupe ritorna sulla Terra – Leggi l’articolo

Read More 17 ottobre 2021 <iframe class=”rep-video-embed” src=”https://video.repubblica.it/embed/tecnologia/tech/russia-girato-il-primo-film-nello-spazio-la-troupe-ritorna-sulla-terra/398926/399638&width=640&height=360″ width=”640″ height=”360″ frameborder=”0″ scrolling=”no”></iframe> Sono tornati sulla Terra dopo aver girato per la prima volta alcune scene di un film nello spazio. Si tratta degli attori russi Oleg Novitskiy e Yulia Peresild e del regista Klim Shipenko, rimasti in orbita […]

Two settlers arrested on suspicion of attacking Israeli soldiers in West Bank

Read More Police arrested two settlers Sunday on suspicion of attacking an Israeli military officer and a soldier with tear gas near an illegal West Bank outpost last week. According to the military, the incident occurred after the soldier and officer, along with representatives of the Ramallah District Coordination and Liaison Office, arrived at the […]

The only hope for the Palestinian struggle is to rid it of its macho narrative

Read More Hamza Younis’ escape from an Israeli prison in the 1970s (three times!) is just one of many formative moments that preceded the recent jailbreak by Zakariya Zubeidi and five fellow inmates from Gilboa Prison. The Palestinian-Arab press trotted out every possible superlative to describe Zubeidi: freedom fighter, dragon of Palestine, black panther, legend, […]