A powerful winter storm has hit parts of the US Midwest with strong winds and heavy snow.
In Iowa, blizzard conditions left vehicles stranded on Wednesday.
Video shows a snowplough used to move cars stuck in snow and lorries that had careened off roads.
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President Jair Bolsonaro launched the sale of shares of Eletrobras, the largest company in the electricity sector in Brazil, which will be privatized through its capitalization. The State will remain as a minority partner, in a privatization process approved by Congress, conditional on the construction of gas thermoelectric power plants…
Afghan women carry stories of sorrow and resilience. Credit: Learning Together Monday, November 06, 2023 Inter Press Service Nov 06 (IPS) – The author is an Afghanistan-based female journalist, trained with Finnish support before the Taliban take-over. Her identity is withheld for security reasons“When the sun rises in the morning,…
Who owns the narrative? If United States lawmakers are to be believed, it is currently at risk of being hijacked by China, disseminated on de-facto spyware by impressionable youth swiping short-form videos in their bedrooms. Official tutting at TikTok, owned by China’s ByteDance, is nothing new. The prospect of a…
Comment on this story Comment PRAGUE — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz called Monday for a growing European Union to agree on a series of changes that would help it overcome internal divisions and stand up to external rivals such as Russia and China. In a wide-ranging speech at Charles University…
EXPLAINER After machines broke down, rat miners successfully rescued 41 workers trapped in India’s Uttarakhand tunnel. Forty-one construction workers. Seventeen days. A nation’s hopes. On Tuesday, rescue workers managed to bring India a dose of good news, saving 41 men who had been trapped under a collapsed tunnel in India’s…
“Despite the 2030 Agenda’s promising rhetoric, it largely fails to fulfil its pledge to ‘leave no one behind’ when it comes to the principles of racial equality and non-discrimination,” said E. Tendayi Achiume, Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance. Limiting progress Presenting the…
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