Tag: Americas
War in Ukraine: two Russian air bases attacked by drones
Several Ukrainian cities are subject, this Monday, December 5, to new water and electricity cuts after Russian strikes which also killed at least two people, according to local and regional…
United States: why the defection of Democratic Senator Kyrsten Sinema weakens Joe Biden
“I declare myself independent of the defective partisan system of Washington”: this was announced on Friday, December 9, Kyrsten Sinema in a video. By leaving the Democratic Party, the 46-year-old…
United States: drag queens, new obsession of the far right
Drag queens are the new ultraconservative obsession. In recent weeks, there have been countless demonstrations of hostility towards them. In Lakeland (Florida), a dozen men with Nazi flags gathered at…
Joe Biden pleads for the entry of the African Union into the G20
US President Joe Biden is preparing to defend the integration of the African Union into the G20. This group brings together the nineteen most advanced economies in the world as…
a city helpless in the face of toxic waste from its historic foundry
In Rouyn-Noranda, a mining town in Quebec, the Horne copper smelter releases heavy metals into the air. The concentration of arsenic is 33 times higher than the provincial standard, with…
War in Ukraine: six dead in a bombing in Donetsk, according to pro-Russian authorities
Ukraine suffered a new deadly salvo from Russian missiles on Monday, December 5, leading to new power and water cuts in a country already in energy crisis. The Russian army…
In the United States, the defection of a Democratic senator weakens Joe Biden
Arizona Senator Kyrsten Sinema announces that she will henceforth be registered as an independent and not as a Democrat. This could reduce Democratic room for maneuver in the Senate. ”…
should Mexico grant political asylum to Pedro Castillo?
A thousand demonstrators marched through the streets of downtown Lima Thursday afternoon, to demand the release of Pedro Castillo and the holding of early elections. This question is debated this…
Viktor Bout traded for Brittney Griner: Joe Biden under fire from critics
The President of the United States “will not apologize”, hammered the spokesperson for Joe Biden, Karine Jean-Pierre, during the daily White House briefing, Thursday, December 9. The 80-year-old Democrat is…
Congress passes law to sanctuary same-sex marriage
Congress definitively adopted Thursday, December 8 the law to protect marriage for all in the United States. After the Senate, the House of Representatives voted the text to protect marriage…