More than sixty years after the excavations in the so-called Garden of the Fugitives in Pompeii, the city devastated by the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD, the profession of one of the victims has been identified: he was probably a doctor who died while trying to escape carrying some of the tools of his trade.
The different factions in the battle for the succession to Keir Starmer’s throne have adopted a one-month truce, awaiting whether the Mayor of Manchester, Andy Burnham, defeats or not Farage’s far-right in the contest for the vacant Makerfield seat in the House of Commons. That small town of one hundred thousand inhabitants is going to decide the fate of the entire United Kingdom.
Emmanuel Macron emerged in 2017 as a political anomaly in France. And he is on track to end up the same way. The French president managed to be elected by making his way against all odds between the two major political forces at the time: the Socialist Party (PS), whose government he had been part of as Minister of Economy under the presidency of François Hollande, and The Republicans (LR), the latest brand of the Gaullist movement, whose last two presidents had been Jacques Chirac and Nicolas Sarkozy. It was a radical shift in axis.
Donald Trump and Xi Jinping, the two most powerful men in the world, do not think about us. During the two days they have spent together in Beijing, they have smiled a lot and been showered with praise, but they have not said anything in favor of a better, less violent, and more sensible world. Not a word…
The future of the Cuban revolution, accustomed to overcoming all crises since it ousted dictator Fulgencio Batista in 1959, has been darkened by the Trump administration as much as the darkness of the streets of Havana, affected by continuous blackouts, which in some neighborhoods last more than twenty hours a day.
Representatives of Israel and Lebanon agreed this Friday in Washington to extend the ceasefire declared on April 16 by 45 days, announced the United States Department of State, which acts as mediator.
The future of the Cuban revolution, accustomed to overcoming all crises since it ousted dictator Fulgencio Batista from power in 1959, has been darkened by the Trump administration as much as the darkness of the streets of Havana, affected by continuous blackouts, which in some neighborhoods last more than twenty hours a day.
After a two-day summit with Xi Jinping, Donald Trump has not yet decided whether to approve the sale of US weapons to Taipei worth 14 billion dollars. The Chinese leader warned him that Taiwan was a red line. That a mismanagement of the island issue could put both countries in “an extremely dangerous situation.”
With the aim of reducing the strategic importance of the Strait of Hormuz for its national economy, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have announced the construction of a new pipeline that will connect the country from west to east. This project will allow avoiding transit through the enclave through which one fifth of global trade passes and is expected to be operational by 2027. The Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, Khaled bin Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, was informed about the details during the meeting of the Executive Committee of the state oil company ADNOC. The “West-East” project will double the company’s export capacity through Fujairah, on the eastern coast, facing the Gulf of Oman.
Are you in agreement that the province of Alberta should stop being part of Canada to become an independent state? This is the question that many voters in this region, bordering the United States, will have to answer after the separatist group “Stay Free Alberta” collected the necessary signatures to call a referendum. 178,000 were needed; they got 300,000. This fact marks a before and after for the province, which sees its secessionist aspirations approaching under the watchful eyes of Washington and Moscow.