One person was killed and several others injured in the collapse, according to Surfside Mayor Charles Burkett. Miami-Dade County Sheriff Freddy Ramirez told the media that about 100 others are missing. About ten wounded people were treated on the spot and one wounded in hospital. Thirty-five people survived the disaster, according to Miami Fire Chief Dade Ray Jadallah. Built in 1981, the building housed 130 apartments. Miami-Dade’s director of emergency operations told Miami Herald More than 70 apartments have been destroyed or damaged. He points out that the rescuers believed they had freed all survivors. All neighborhoods left the building.Quote…
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(London) Contaminated with coronavirus for ten months: Forty positive tests and seven subsequent hospitalizations, told Dave Smith, the 72-year-old Briton, of the ordeal he lived, which is the world’s longest-running COVID-19 infection. Posted on Jun 24, 2021 at 7:57am “I pray (ais) all the time: ‘The next will be negative, the next will be negative, but it wasn’t,'” the driving instructor told the BBC of his PCR tests in Bristol (southwest of England). Dave Smith was infected in March 2020, at the start of the first wave of the pandemic in the UK, and remained a carrier of the active…
(Hong Kong) Long queues formed in front of newsstands in Hong Kong Thursday morning, as many locals hoped they could buy the latest edition of theApple DailyIt is a pro-democracy daily that was forced to stop publication, nearly a year after the National Security Law initiated by Beijing was passed. Posted on Jun 24, 2021 at 12:29am Yan Chao and Jerome Taylor France media agency last picture, fileApple Daily He chose to display a large photo of the journalist who, from the newsroom, greeted the hundreds of people who had gathered on Wednesday in front of the newspaper’s headquarters to…
(Washington) On a rare emotional outing, U.S. Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Milley on Wednesday expressed dismay at “insulting” comments from Republican lawmakers who accused the military of teaching its recruits a controversial theory about racism, defending the need to understand U.S. history. Posted on Jun 23, 2021 at 6:05 PM At the heart of their lively conversations is widely circulated on social networks: “Critical Theory of Race”. The term defines a line of thought that emerged in American law schools in the late 1970s to analyze racism as a system, with its laws and logic of power, rather than…
(MOSCOW) Russia claimed it fired warning shots on Wednesday against a British destroyer in the Black Sea that Moscow said had entered its territorial waters off Crimea, a charge denied by London. Posted on Jun 23, 2021 at 10:15am Maxim Popov France media agency This Russian-British clash, if it occurs, will be first and comes a few days before the Sea Breeze 2021 military exercises, which will take place from June 28 to July 10 in the Black Sea. It includes the United States, other NATO countries and Ukraine, which Moscow views very bleakly. According to the Russian version, the…
(Dallas) More than 150 employees at Houston Methodist Hospital who refused to vaccinate against COVID-19 were fired or resigned after a judge’s ruling. Posted on Jun 22, 2021 at 9:26 PM Jimmy Stingel News agency A spokesman for Houston Methodist Hospital said 153 employees have quit within two weeks or have been laid off. Earlier this month, a federal judge dismissed the lawsuit brought by 117 employees to challenge the vaccination requirement. This story is being followed closely as it highlights the steps healthcare facilities can take to protect patients and staff from the coronavirus. Judge Lynn Hughes, in her…
The infestation of spiders has left swathes of Gippsland in southeastern Australia covered in nets, as animals seek to settle aloft to escape floods. A sea of silk has invaded this area of Victoria, which was hit by floods earlier in June, due to webs woven by spiders that usually live on the ground and seek shelter, according to academic Dieter Hochule. “When we have this kind of heavy rain and flooding, these animals, who mysteriously spend their lives on land, can’t live there anymore and do exactly what we’re trying to do: They move to higher elevations. The Integrative…
(Washington) The US Department of Defense (Pentagon) said today, Monday, that the withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan may slow down in light of the Taliban’s military progress on the ground, stressing that this will not raise questions about the date of September 11. Posted on Jun 21, 2021 at 4:55 pm “The plans can fluctuate and change if the situation changes,” Pentagon spokesman John Kirby noted during a news conference on the Taliban’s advance, which surrounds many large Afghan cities. Photograph by Alex Brandon, archive press Pentagon spokesman John Kirby “If there are any changes that need to be…
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro went out of his way at a press conference on Monday, telling a journalist to “shut it down” and calling “shit” Globo Group, the country’s largest media conglomerate. You are bastards. You are doing rotten journalism, which is pointless. You are destroying the Brazilian family, the Brazilian religion,” he shouted beside him, to a Globo TV journalist who asked him a question about wearing a mask, after a military ceremony in Guaratingueta, in the state of São Paulo (Southeast). ). The journalist mentioned in particular that he has been fined in several Brazilian states for participating…
(Paris) The poor performance of the parties of President Emmanuel Macron and far-right figure Marine Le Pen calls into question the scenario of their confrontation in the second round of the 2022 presidential election, but any extrapolation becomes dangerous due to the overwhelming abstention. Posted Jun 21, 2021 at 11:59 am Fabian Zamora France media agency Since the 2017 presidential election when Emmanuel Macron came to power by wresting the right and left from the center and defeating Marine Le Pen in the second round, observers and pollsters believe a reissue is possible in 2022, as historical parties seem stuck…
