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A homeless beggar on the streets of Dublin, Ireland.Image NurPhoto via Getty Images About 95 million European citizens live in poverty or on the verge of poverty, ie 20% of the population of the European Union. This situation is only getting worse as energy and food prices soar. The European Commission calls on Member States to modernize their social systems …

International•Sep 27, 22 2:14 PMAuthor: Marc van Harreveld A US Coast Guard ship on routine patrols in the Bering Sea near Alaska reported an encounter with a Chinese guided missile cruiser. It later turned out that the Chinese navy ship was accompanied by two other Chinese ships and four Russian navy ships. On September 19, the US Coast Guard Cutter …

AFP/NOAA ONS News•yesterday, 6:38 p.m. You fall asleep expecting a big storm to approach the coast, but you’re not really worried. The next morning you wake up surrounded by debris from a destructive Category 5 hurricane. That’s what the people of the Philippines did last Sunday. past by Hurricane Noru. As they repair the damage from the natural disaster there, …

A woman in the Australian city of Melbourne is in critical condition after colliding with a roller coaster trolley. “His injuries are terrible. There is almost no part of his body that is not broken,” his father Alan Rodden told the newspaper. Daily Mail Australia. Police say Shylah Rodden, 26, wanted to retrieve her dropped phone and rode the roller …

AFP ONS News•yesterday, 22:58 After a seven-year shutdown, cargo traffic between Colombia and Venezuela resumed today. The festive reopening of an important border crossing is part of the rapprochement between the two South American countries. For years, relations between neighboring countries have been strained. But since leftist Gustavo Petro took power in Colombia, diplomatic ties have grown stronger with Venezuelan …

Typhoon Noru killed at least five people in the Philippines. The storm also left about 2.5 million residents without power. President Ferdinand Marcos has ordered emergency relief and rescue materials to be delivered by air to the worst affected areas. Noru, a category three tropical storm, lost some strength over land on Sunday. Despite this, wind speeds of 185 kilometers …

daisy mohr ONS News•today, 14:39 During a trip to Iran in June, NOS correspondent Daisy Mohr had already noticed this: every day she saw dozens of women who wore their headscarves very loosely or not at all. In the more than 15 years she has been in Iran, she has never seen anything like it. The women had had enough, …

Reuters ONS News•today, 05:44•Amended today, 09:37 At least five people have been killed in the Philippines after Hurricane Noru made landfall yesterday. The dead are rescue workers who died in Bulacan province, where the hurricane caused flooding. The five drowned when hit by a collapsing wall during a rescue operation. President Marcos has requested that emergency relief and cleanup materials …

AFP ONS News•yesterday, 23:21•Amended yesterday, 11:46 p.m. In the Italian legislative elections, the right-wing bloc, made up of Fratelli d’Italia, Lega and Forza Italia, won between 41 and 45 percent of the vote, reports the exit poll of Italian public broadcaster Rai. According to the Italian electoral system, this would mean that they have enough votes to secure a majority. …

The scale of damage caused by Storm Fiona in Canada is unprecedented, Canadian Emergencies Minister Bill Blair said on Sunday. He suspects it will take months to restore critical infrastructure. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has already pledged to help the military in the cleanup operations. According to Blair, many schools and community centers need to be repaired. The roofs …