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A heated debate on the foundations of American democracy will begin tomorrow in the United States Senate. With Republicans changing local election laws across the country. And the democrats who see it as an attack on democracy. The objective of the debate is therefore “fair elections”, but the two parties seem to mean something completely different. Democrats have proposed two …

VIDEOScientists have made a very special discovery. They found around 60 million active icefish nests 500 meters below Antarctica. “I’ve never seen anything like it,” said one of the researchers. Foreign publishers Jan 17, 2022 Last update: 08:15 The icefish colony was discovered in the Weddell Sea, a part of the Southern Ocean composed mostly of ice and located between …

Sometimes you may wonder if the World Economic Forum (WEF) takes itself seriously. President of the WEF and nasty leap Klaus Schwab opened the today Calendar and introduced China’s President for Life, Xi Jinping. Soon after, the social media campaign began. Now the WEF wants us to believe that China is investing in nature and should set an example for …

Eric Zemmour puts a campaign poster of himself on a wall in Honnecourt-sur-Escaut, northern France.Statue of Bertrand Guay / AFP This is the third time Zemmour has been convicted of discrimination and hate speech. This time it is about his statements on the far-right commercial channel CNews. There, in September 2020, Zemmour was talking about unaccompanied minor migrants who according …

Volgens de plaatselijke autoriteiten ontstond er brand bij een brandstofopslag in een industriegebied ten zuiden van de stad. Er vielen zeker drie doden en zes gewonden. Toch zou de schade naar omstandigheden meevallen en est de brand reeds onder controle. Uit eerste onderzoek zou blijken dat de schade is veroorzaakt door ‘kleine vliegende objecten’, mogelijk afkomstig van drones. De autoriteiten …

Police were called by the parents on Sunday as they had not been able to reach the man by phone for two days. He is a friend who is close to the parents and who has also regularly looked after the toddler in the past, reports the Belgian newspaper Het Laatste Nieuws. It has always gone smoothly. The police therefore …

The Bedouin’s stumbling block is a tree-planting project in one of their villages near the city of Beersheba. A state-affiliated Jewish organization began preparations for the reforestation this week. Jewish parties see the plantation as a way to develop the area, but the Bedouins fear another attempt to take their land. “Look, all around us, forests have already been planted …

In een synagoge in een voorstad van de Amerikaanse stad Dallas is een gijzeling beëindigd die zo’n tien uur heeft geduurd. Governor Abbott van de staat Texas twitterfrom dat alle gegijzelden gered zijn. De dader is dood. De gewapende man gijzelde een rabbijn en drie anderen. Hij zei dat er op verschillende plekken in het gebedshuis bommen verstopt waren. De …

Security camera footage shows how the man waits for a subway to arrive and then pushes the victim from the back. As the woman falls hard, her head on the rails, he quickly walks away. The alert driver was able to stop the metro just in time by using the emergency brake. According to STIB spokeswoman An Van Hamme, the …

Ecuadorian President Guillermo Lasso on Friday inaugurated the new natural park, called Hermandad (Brotherhood), by cutting a ribbon aboard a research vessel made from waste cleared from the beaches of the Galapagos Islands. Also present at the ceremony were former US President Bill Clinton, Colombian President Iván Duque and delegates from Costa Rica and Panama. The extension of the marine …