Author: Cole Hanson

On Monday, the Biden administration announced the lifting of a series of restrictions on Cuba, including immigration procedures, money transfers and air communications, a decision that promises to spark lively debate because the topic is so politically significant in the United States. • Read also: Cuba: the authorities recognize the great shortage of medicines • Read also: A typical Cuban T-shirt short cut • Read also: Washington invites UN human rights expert to Guantanamo This declaration, immediately hailed as a “small step in the right direction”, “but of limited scope”, by the Cuban government, is the result of the revision…

(Washington) The Biden administration announced on Monday the lifting of a series of restrictions on Cuba, including immigration procedures, money transfers and air communications, a decision that promises to spark lively debate on a politically sensitive topic in the United States. Posted yesterday at 7:36 PM. Aurelia End France media agency This declaration, immediately hailed as a “small step in the right direction”, “but of limited scope”, by the Cuban government, is the result of the revision of US policy toward the communist regime, which had been launched by US President Joe Biden. According to a statement from the State…

On Monday, the Biden administration announced the lifting of a series of restrictions on Cuba, including immigration procedures, money transfers and air communications, a decision that promises to spark lively debate because the topic is so politically significant in the United States. • Read also: The United States reopens its consulate in Cuba, closed since 2017 This announcement comes as a result of the revision of US policy toward the communist regime, which was launched by President Joe Biden. According to a statement from the State Department, the Biden administration will privately restore a suspended program for several years, which…

(Ottawa) Conservative leadership candidate Pierre Boulevard denounces the “Great Replacement” theory, which will be at the heart of the motives of the mass shooting author in Buffalo, New York. Posted at 4:02 p.m Stephanie Taylor Canadian Press According to Mr. Boilivry, this school of thought is “disgusting and incites hatred”. In a written statement sent to the Canadian Press, the front-runner in the Conservative leadership race condemned the attack that left 10 people dead and three injured on Saturday. Police authorities indicate that a white gunman opened fire in a grocery store in a predominantly black neighborhood. US law enforcement…

(Havana) – Cuba adopted, on Sunday, a new penal code aimed at “protecting” the socialist system by punishing demonstrations in particular, ten months after the unprecedented summer 2021 uprisings. Posted yesterday at 2:49 PM. This new law, approved by Parliament during the day, “protects the interests of the state and the people,” declared the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Rubén Remigio Ferro, while introducing the bill. Mr. Ferro stressed that “the most serious violations related to the arbitrary exercise of constitutional rights, participation in subversive activities, as well as attacks through information technology are punishable.” The text specifically penalizes…

One of the Ukrainian fighters still trapped at the Azovstal plant in Mariupol describes the terrible conditions in which the wounded were found. • Read also: direct | The 81st day of fighting in Ukraine • Read also: Relatives of Azovstal fighters seek help from the Chinese president • Read also: Azovstal: Kyiv is discussing with Moscow the evacuation of 38 seriously wounded soldiers Speaking to Ukrainian television from inside the factory, the unknown fighter said there were about 600 wounded in the sprawling compound. “The conditions are horrific,” he said. “Today I was in the hospital. It’s a huge…

(Herat) Men and women are again allowed to dine together in restaurants in the western Afghan city of Herat, where Taliban authorities have tried to enforce gender segregation, A- We learned on Saturday from some establishments. Posted yesterday at 12:04 PM. “Restrictions have been lifted and restaurants can again allow families to eat together,” Jawad Tawangar, a receptionist at a restaurant in Herat, told AFP. An official at the Ministry of Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice in Herat, Riyadullah Sirat, told AFP on Thursday that authorities had ordered “men and women separated in restaurants.” He pointed out that…

They spray everything from streets to apartments to pets: In China, disinfection services are dumping tons of chemicals in the hope of eradicating the coronavirus, despite the dubious effect of fighting the epidemic. • Read also: Goodbye mask (almost) everywhere • Read also: North Korea: 21 new deaths due to “fever” amid the spread of the “Covid” epidemic China, where COVID-19 was initially detected at the end of 2019, has seen a rebound since the start of the year with the Omicron variant, which confined entire cities to it, starting with more populous Shanghai. France Press agency In the Zero…

Saturday May 14, 2022 at 11:51 a.m. – It’s not only in Quebec that we’re seeing heat records these days. South Asia is currently experiencing a rather stifling cycle. The intensity of the heat wave reached such a point that the city of Jacobabad in Pakistan recorded a temperature of 50 degrees Celsius yesterday. This is the first 50°C of the year in the Northern Hemisphere. But already, that mark has been smashed, while Jacobabad recorded 51 degrees Celsius for this Saturday. long loop (very) Since the end of April, Pakistan and India are experiencing a severe heat wave. Record…

(Washington) – US Chief of Diplomacy Anthony Blinken said today, Friday, that the United States is “deeply disturbed” by “Israeli police interference” during the funeral of Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akle. Posted yesterday at 6:19pm. “We were deeply disturbed to see the photos of the Israeli police storming the funeral,” the foreign minister said in a press release. When the coffin was removed from St. Joseph’s Hospital in East Jerusalem, a Palestinian sector of the city occupied and annexed by the Jewish state, Israeli police stormed the institution’s buildings and attempted to disperse a crowd waving Palestinian flags. The coffin…