Author: Cole Hanson

Barack Obama on Saturday accused Republicans of threatening democracy ahead of particularly close local elections, which are seen as a national test of Joe Biden’s popularity as he furiously negotiates a massive investment plan with Congress. • Read also: Donald Trump’s futuristic social network is on fire on Wall Street • Read also: Washington announces the killing of al-Qaeda leader in Syria The former president had traveled to Richmond, in the conservative south of the state, to support Democrat Terry McAuliffe, 64, the Virginia gubernatorial nominee who is outpacing Republican supporter-Trump Glenn Yongkin, 54, before November. 2. Survey. In front…

Sorry, your browser does not support videos (Istanbul) Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced, on Saturday, that he had ordered the expulsion of ten ambassadors, including the Canadian representative, for calling for the release of philanthropist Osman Kavala. Posted October 23, 2021 at 3:09pm. Updated at 9:17 PM. The 10 diplomats should be considered persona non grata in Turkey. In addition to the Canadian ambassador, the other countries are the ambassadors of the United States, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway and New Zealand. All of these diplomats issued a joint statement earlier this week calling for a…

Washington | US President Joe Biden announced Friday that the declassification of new classified archives related to the 1963 assassination of former US President John F. Kennedy will be delayed for a year. “After agencies have proposed deferring declassification of all information in the archive, I certify that it will continue until December 15, 2022,” President Joe Biden wrote in a letter, nearly 60 years after the assassination. In 2017, under President Donald Trump, the National Archives of the United States declassified a series of files three times. In its statement, the White House clarified that archivists have been delayed…

San Francisco | Facebook was aware of the extremism of many users and the avalanche of misinformation related to the 2020 US presidential election, but did not react according to whistleblower documents, Francis Hogan, obtained by various American newspapers. • Read also: Facebook is in the process of changing its name and brand image • Read also: Trump’s social network, a new indicator for the “Americas” • Read also: Francis Hogan, the engineer determined to make Facebook less harmful These discoveries are the latest in a long line, since the first wave of investigations they published The Wall Street Journal…

New whistleblowers accuse Facebook of putting profits before moderating problematic content Washington PostAs the social media giant struggles to extricate itself from the scandal caused by the discoveries of its former engineer, Francis Haugen. • Read also: Donald Trump’s futuristic social network is on fire on Wall Street • Read also: Facebook is in the process of changing its name and brand image • Read also: Donald Trump announces the launch of his social network According to an article in a US daily published on Friday, this second whistleblower is also a former Facebook team member responsible for the platform’s…

(Brussels) On Friday, German Chancellor Angela Merkel issued a warning to Europe, which fears its ability to face societal, immigration and economic challenges, after 107 years.NS And the last summit in Brussels after 16 years in power. Posted on Oct 22, 2021 at 8:45am Updated at 13:27 Daniel Aronson France media agency m . statedI Merkel. “We have overcome many crises, through respect and efforts to find common solutions, but we have a series of unresolved problems,” she warned. On the rule of law (independence of the judiciary, freedom of the media, etc.), a topic that Poland is currently in…

Elected US officials spoke Thursday in favor of initiating congressional obstruction proceedings against Steve Bannon, a close ally of former President Donald Trump, who refuses to participate in investigations into the Capitol assault. The 67-year-old former adviser was one of the architects of Donald Trump’s successful presidential campaign in 2016. He was not in an official position on January 6, but he appears to have discussed the protest with the president in the previous days, according to a House special committee investigating the former Republican president’s role in the attack by his supporters on the president. Congress headquarters. Despite being…

The International Monetary Fund’s regional director warned Thursday that the negative effects of the pandemic in Latin American and Caribbean countries in terms of growth, employment and human capital, could “take many years before they are reversed.” • Read also: COVID-19: Moscow prepares to close non-essential services • Read also: Between 80,000 and 180,000 healthcare professionals died of COVID-19 between January 2020 and May 2021 “Growth in much of the region is not returning to the path we envisioned before the pandemic,” said Nigel Chuck, marking the release of the International Monetary Fund’s regional outlook report. He raised the possibility…

Between 80,000 and 180,000 healthcare professionals died of COVID-19 between January 2020 and May this year, according to estimates from the World Health Organization released Thursday. • Read also: direct | Latest developments on COVID-19 • Read also: Third dose of Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine is 95.6% effective • Read also: The health passport creates an avalanche of sick leave Of the 135 million healthcare professionals worldwide, “between 80,000 and 180,000” died between the start of the pandemic and May 2021, the report said. “These estimates stem from the 3.45 million deaths associated with Covid-19 that were announced to the World Health…

(Mexico) Mexico’s richest man, Carlos Slim, reached an agreement with authorities in Mexico City on Wednesday to fund the rebuilding of a metro line that collapsed last May, killing 26 people. Posted October 20, 2021 at 9:10 PM. The telecom and construction magnate announced that his subsidiary Grupo Carso will pay the bill for rebuilding the collapsed section as well as reinforce other vulnerable sections to protect the infrastructure from frequent earthquakes. Grupo Carso made it clear in a statement to stock markets that the initiative does not constitute an admission of responsibility for the disaster. She also said that…