Giorno: 31 Agosto 2023

Tropical Storm Idalia Descends on North Carolina

Tropical Storm Idalia descended on the Carolinas on its way out to the Atlantic Ocean on Thursday, leaving a trail of flooding and destruction throughout the Southeast that stretched back to its landfall as a hurricane in Florida .Rescue and repair efforts continued in the…[#item_full_content]

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak names Grant Shapps as next defense secretary

Grant Shapps, one of British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s staunchest Cabinet allies, was named U.K. defense secretary on Thursday as Sunak began a Cabinet reshuffle ahead of a general election that is expected to take place next year. The move came after Ben Wallace formally submitted his resignation earlier in the day, honoring a promise […]

Unseen video of Prigozhin appears online days after funeral

A previously unseen video of Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin emerged Thursday following the mercenary warlord’s funeral. The undated video, posted to a Wagner-aligned Telegram channel, shows Prigozhin addressing the camera while riding in a vehicle and speaking about speculation of his death. “To those who talk about my liquidation, private life and earnings or […]

Mexican Navy to conduct net-sinking operation in wider Gulf area to protect endangered vaquita porpoises

Mexico’s Navy said Wednesday it is planning to expand the area where it sinks concrete blocks topped with metal hooks to snag gill nets that are killing vaquita marina porpoises. The Navy began dropping the blocks into the Gulf of California last year, in hopes it may help save the world’s most endangered marine mammal. […]

In Spain, annual ‘Tomatina’ street battle kicks off with 15,000 people hurling tomatoes

Some 15,000 people, including many tourists, pasted each other with tomatoes Wednesday as Spain’s annual “Tomatina” street battle took place in the eastern town of Buñol. Workers on trucks tipped 120 tons of overripe tomatoes into the main street of the town for participants to throw. The street fight leaves both the street, its houses […]

5 dead in Italy after train slams into group of track maintenance workers

A speeding work train slammed into a group of workers doing nighttime track maintenance in northern Italy early Thursday, killing five of them, authorities said. The crash occurred shortly after midnight at the station in Brandizzo, a town in Italy’s Piedmont region. Piedmont Gov. Alberto Cirio provided the death toll and said the crash’s cause […]

Redefining mental health will be one of the greatest health challenges of our age

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Labour costs pass £500,000 in lawsuit over leaked antisemitism report

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Iowa city rolls back ban on ‘conversion therapy’ after legal group complained of First Amendment violation

The Waterloo City Council in Iowa repealed a local ordinance that prohibited “conversion therapy” for minors after it received a demand letter from a legal firm on behalf of upset residents. The local ordinance, implemented in May, prevented therapists from offering any counsel seeking to change or overcome unwanted same-sex attractions, behaviors, or gender confusion […]

Fmr CIA Agent Hid Twitter Job After ‘Spies Who Lie’ Letter

An anti-Trump former CIA agent who signed the notorious “spies who lie” letter falsely claiming the Hunter Biden laptop story was Russia disinformation, not only worked for Twitter as a senior censor, but attempted to cover up that fact as revelations came out.