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Wildfires push Canada into top four CO2 emitters

France24.com (en) 

Last year saw a catastrophic number of wildfires across the country, with 15 million hectares -- or about four percent of Canada's total forest area -- burned and more than 200,000 people displaced. Looking at satellite data of carbon monoxide in smoke plumes from fires that burned from May to September of last year, researchers determined that 2,371 megatonnes of CO2 was released, pushing Canada's ranking up from eleventh to fourth among the world's top CO2 emitters. It put the country behind only China... Читать дальше...

Zverev, Dimitrov survive heat to reach R3 at US Open

ATPWorldTour.com (Tennis) 

pIn hot and humid conditions, a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/alexander-zverev/z355/overview'Alexander Zverev/a poured cold water on a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/alexandre-muller/mp20/overview'Alexandre Muller/a’s upset hopes on Wednesday at the a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/tournaments/us-open/560/overview'US Open/a, where the German prevailed 6-4, 7-6(5), 6-1 to reach the third round./p pZverev looked drained by the heat at times and changed his shirt after winning a tight second set. Читать дальше...

New York City's Chaos Mayor

Real Clear Politics 

Eric Adams sounded certain-his city was in crisis. It was September 6, 2023. The mayor of New York was standing in a public-school gym on the West Side of Manhattan, in his shirtsleeves, mic in one hand. "The city we knew, we're about to lose," he warned. More than 100,000 migrants had made their way to New York over the past year. Caring for them would be an all-but-impossible task. "This issue will destroy New York City. Destroy New York City."

2 men from Europe charged with 'swatting' plot targeting members of Congress, senior US officials

Voice of America 

WASHINGTON — Two men from Europe are charged in a plot to call in bogus reports of police emergencies to harass and threaten members of Congress, senior U.S. government officials and dozens of other people, according to an indictment unsealed on Wednesday.  Thomasz Szabo, 26, of Romania and Nemanja Radovanovic, 21, of Serbia targeted at least 100 people with "swatting" calls to instigate an aggressive response by police officers at the victims' homes, the federal indictment alleges.  The calls... Читать дальше...

Humanitarian operations in Gaza on the brink of collapse from displacement, restrictions, and genocide

Common Dreams 

International organizations are expressing severe concern over the imminent collapse of the humanitarian response in Gaza, citing ongoing operational constraints and continued forced relocation imposed by Israel. Ninety percent of Palestinian civilians in Gaza have now been displaced multiple times into a dwindling and overcrowded unilaterally-declared “humanitarian zone.” The erosion of humanitarian space is documented in a new Gaza Humanitarian Access Snapshot Report, compiled by thirty INGOs active in Gaza. Читать дальше...

Rugby à VII / EdF – Romain Huet succède à David Courteix (Off.)

WomenSports.fr 

La FFR vient d’annoncer la nomination au poste de sélectionneur de Romain Huet, qui succède à David Courteix. A la tête des Bleues depuis 14 ans, David Courteix quitte son poste de sélectionneur de l’équipe de France féminine de rugby à sept avec notamment une médaille d’argent olympique à Tokyo. Romain Huet le remplace à ce […]