Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al Kadhimi was the target of an attack in Baghdad’s Green Zone, according to an Iraqi military statement released on Sunday (6). “A failed assassination attempt against the prime minister, commander of the Armed Forces, with an explosive-armed drone that tried to attack his home in the Green Zone of Baghdad. […]
Elon Musk asks on Twitter whether to sell 10% of Tesla’s shares
Tesla CEO Elon Musk on Saturday (6) asked his 62.5 million Twitter followers in a poll whether he should sell 10% of his shares in Tesla. “A lot is said that unrealized gains are a means of tax evasion. So I propose to sell 10% of my Tesla shares,” Musk wrote in a tweet referring […]
Tanker truck explosion in Sierra Leone leaves at least 91 dead
At least 91 people died on Friday (5) after a tanker truck exploded outside Sierra Leone’s capital, Freetown, according to officials in the West African country. Mohamed Lamrane Bah, director of communications for Sierra Leone’s National Disaster Management Agency (NDMA), told CNN that several people were also in critical condition after the explosion. Authorities transferred […]
Legal Amazon and international consortium to close agreement
This Saturday (6), there are no official negotiations on the final text of the book of the Paris agreement at COP26, the 26th United Nations Conference on Climate Change in 2021, in Glasgow, Scotland. The day will be dedicated only to multilateral meetings. However, a ceremony is scheduled for the end of the afternoon for […]
At least 8 people were trampled to death during rapper Travis Scott’s concert in the US
At least eight people were trampled to death and others injured when fans took to the stage during the opening night of the Astroworld music festival on Friday (5) in Houston, officials said. According to authorities, the crowd that had gathered for rapper Travis Scott’s performance began moving toward the front of the stage, causing […]
US House Approves Trillion Infrastructure Package
Last Friday night, the US House of Representatives approved a bipartisan $1.2 trillion infrastructure project that forms the center of President Joe Biden’s legislative agenda. However, the US$1.7 trillion package aimed at social protection and environmental actions has not yet been voted on. House Democratic leaders had hoped for a vote on the economic package […]
Sputnik was alert to the US, but Chinese “hypersonic missile” is greater challenge
“Listen now to the sound that forever separates the old from the new.” That’s how the North American radio NBC introduced the signal of the first satellite into space, on October 4, 1957, in the United States. But the novelty wasn’t a triumph of American science: the sound came from the Soviet Union’s Sputnik, a […]
Group of countries defends new global goal for ocean protection
Both in the streets of Glasgow, Scotland, where young activists from around the world held a protest, and inside the official area of COP26, the power of young people marked Friday (5). But beyond the youth, the preservation of the oceans – and the blue economy – were highlights. During the meeting of the Parties […]
Discover the 10 non-island countries that emit the least CO2 in the world
In the area of the COP26 negotiations on the reduction of polluting gas emissions by the major global powers, the contrast between these countries and the nations that are at the bottom of the list of smallest emitters in the world is great. Most of the cleanest nations in the world are islands located in […]
Climate generation at COP26: how the crisis brought young people to the discussion table
Activist Vanessa Nakate was 21 years old when deadly floods flooded vast areas of East Africa in 2018. She didn’t consider herself a climate activist at the time, but soon after the disaster, she and her younger brothers and cousins decorated posters and started protests in his hometown of Kampala, Uganda’s capital. With storms intensifying, […]