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(Shanghai) Several million people were quarantined Wednesday in China, due to the epidemic recovery raising fears of a return to restrictions, particularly in Shanghai, after a month of lifting the long and burdensome confinement. Posted at 6:37 Updated at 9:14 am. Vivian LIN with Beiyi SEOW in Beijing France media agency China’s largest city has been put under a bell for two months in the spring to stem the worst outbreak of COVID-19 in the country since the start of the pandemic. A particularly severe restriction of economic capital has been a test for its 25 million residents, who have…

Hundreds of children in summer camps in several areas of Quebec had to be sent home due to the COVID-19 outbreak in institutions. • Read also: Are outdoor parties and shows responsible for a new wave of COVID? • Read also: Quebec records 20 new deaths and a sharp increase in hospitalizations “Fortunately, at the moment, they are still limited. We are talking about 110 summer camps currently operating in Quebec, and there are three, where we, unfortunately, had to send young people home at the time,” said Thomas Lepage-Join, president of the Quebec Camps Association. Present”. At Camp Waro,…

(Ottawa) Melanie Jolie stressed that Canada “will not succumb to Russian propaganda” during the G20 foreign ministers meeting in Indonesia. Posted at 2:28 pm Melanie Marquez Journalism Canada’s top diplomat is on her way to Bali, where she will meet with her counterparts from the Group of Twenty, this economic gathering. Among his peers, there will be Sergey Lavrov from Russia. “It is not true that I would find myself in the same room with Sergey Lavrov at the G-20,” Minister Jolie had fired last March. Despite her presence, she still chose to make the trip. Because his attendance is…

Lake Med | Millions of liters of water carried by the Colorado River pass through the turbines of the Hoover Dam near Las Vegas every day, producing electricity for hundreds of thousands of American homes. But the chronic drought that has affected the western United States for years has reduced the reservoir’s size to the point that the hydroelectric power plant may not be operating soon. “We’re in the 23rd year of a drought here in the Colorado River Basin, and Lake Mead is down to 28%” of capacity, explains Patti Aaron, of the Bureau of Reclamation, the federal agency…

The Italian Prime Minister confirmed, Monday, that the collapse of part of the Marmolada glacier, which is the largest in the Italian Alps, is closely linked to global warming. • Read also: Avalanche in the Italian Alps: at least 6 dead 14 people were also reported missing by their relatives, but their presence there was not confirmed when the glacier broke. Among the injured are two Germans, a 67-year-old man and a 58-year-old woman, who are still in serious condition. The disaster, which occurred the day after a record temperature of 10 degrees Celsius on top of the glacier, in…

Three Russian cosmonauts raised the flags of the self-declared breakaway Ukraine’s Lugansk and Donetsk regions aboard the International Space Station, according to a post on the Russian space agency’s Telegram channel, Roscosmos. • Read also: Pro-Russian separatists say they have surrounded Lyschansk in Ukraine “We celebrate on Earth and in space,” said a message accompanied by photos of cosmonauts Oleg Artemyev, Denis Matveshev and Sergey Korsakov waving the flags of these two “republics” in eastern Ukraine aboard the International Space Station. They said that “Russian and Luhansk forces have taken complete control of Lysechansk – the last major city of…

If the situation is currently catastrophic at airports in the middle of summer, it is because of a lack of personnel to guarantee flights. • Read also: “It seems the passengers have gone crazy,” says a flight attendant. • Read also: In the United States, hundreds of flights were canceled this weekend for National Day The chaos currently unfolding at the country’s airports is the result of a fundamental problem that is not new: the shortage of manpower. “Before the pandemic, we were already understaffed, and I’m talking about pilots and flight attendants,” Mehran Ebrahimi, director of the Observatory of…

Republican-elected Liz Cheney, who is investigating how Donald Trump is trying to nullify the 2020 election, has not ruled out challenging the former US president in the 2024 presidential election. • Read also: America adrift • Read also: Four films that predicted Trump • Read also: Supreme Court burials challenge Trump’s immigration order “The most important thing to do is protect the country from Donald Trump,” she said in an interview broadcast on ABC Sunday, declaring that she “[prendrait] A decision in 2024 shortly.” The 55-year-old elected heads the parliamentary committee that accuses the billionaire Republican of being at the…

A famous Russian scientist with cancer died two days after he was arrested and pulled from his hospital bed on charges of espionage, his family announced, Sunday. Dmitry Kolker, 54, died at dawn on Saturday in a Moscow hospital where he was transferred from a prison in the capital, referring to a message from the authorities published by his son, Maxim Kolker, on the social network VKontakte. Two days earlier, a court in Novosibirsk, a large city in Siberia, indicated that Dmitriy Kolker had been arrested and detained for two months. According to this source, he was charged with “treason…

(Skopje) Thousands demonstrated in Skopje on Saturday at the call of nationalists against a draft agreement aimed at settling the historic row with Bulgaria that has stymied the opening of negotiations for the accession of North Macedonia to the European Union. Posted yesterday at 5:53 PM. The rally was supported by the main opposition party, VMRO-DPMNE, whose leader Hristian Mikoski said: “We don’t need Europe if it is absorbed!”. “I don’t want to be part of Europe, because I have the right to be Macedonian, I speak Macedonian and I fight for my identity and my culture,” he added. Negotiate…