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A federal judge allowed the United States House to access hundreds of pages of documents from Donald Trump’s presidency about the January 6 attack on the US Capitol, in a forceful rejection of Trump’s recent attempts to control information. The ruling by Judge Tanya Chutkan of the US District Court in DC on Tuesday is […]

A federal judge will allow the United States House to access hundreds of pages of documents from Donald Trump’s presidency before and about the Jan. 6 attack on the US Capitol, in a forceful rejection of Trump’s recent attempts to control information. The ruling by Judge Tanya Chutkan of the US District Court in DC […]

Japan has detected its first bird flu outbreak for the 2021 winter season, with the confirmation of a “highly pathogenic bird flu” in a farm in the northeast of the country, the country’s Ministry of Agriculture reported on Wednesday (10) . About 143,000 chickens will be exterminated on the farm, the ministry said, adding that […]

It was the day of innovation in gender and science at COP26 this Tuesday (9), but most of the focus was on countries that disputed the language around the limits of global warming and who will pay for the impacts of the climate crisis. A picture of countries whose emissions pledges fall short of their […]

The Chamber of Deputies of Chile approved, on Tuesday (9), the opening of a constitutional indictment — equivalent to a request for impeachment — against President Sebastián Piñera. The constitutional indictment against Piñera still needs to be analyzed by the Senate, which should take place in the next few days. If approved, the president will […]

Environmental disasters cause three times more displacement than conflicts and violence. In the last year alone, there were 30.7 million leakages from the place of origin due to disasters, almost all (98%) caused by climate-related risks such as floods and storms. The climate crisis is making life more difficult for those who have already been […]

The president of the Senate, Rodrigo Pacheco (PSD-MG), and the minister of the Environment, Joaquim Leite, participated in a panel at COP26, in Glasgow, this Tuesday (9). Officials spoke of the country’s progress in combating climate change. In the Brazilian pavilion at the conference, Leite, the head of the Brazilian delegation, said that the country […]

A new Chinese aircraft carrier with technology almost equal to its American counterparts could be launched in February of next year, according to an analysis of satellite images carried out by a think-tank headquartered in Washington. In images provided by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), the aircraft carrier — known only as […]

Malala Yousafzai, advocate for girls’ education and winner of the Nobel Prize of Peace of 2014, got married. The information was disclosed by herself on social networks this Tuesday (9). The 24-year-old lives in Great Britain and says her husband is called Asser. They were married in the city of Birmingham, England, and celebrated at […]

The updates of the countries’ Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) to the COP26 were intended to demonstrate the countries’ greater commitment to the climate emergency, but the goals are still far from what is necessary, said the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) this Tuesday (9). This is because, even with the update of […]