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Deported from the United States, Pierre Charles landed a week ago in Port-au-Prince, a capital more dangerous and dystopian than the one he'd left four years before. Charles was unsure how to make his way to the Carrefour neighborhood through a city shrouded in smoke and dust, often tolling with gunfire from gangs and police. This story is part of a series, Haiti: Business, politics and gangs, produced with support from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.
Police in Norway on Sunday reported dozens of disturbances and violent clashes including mass brawls in the Nordic country’s big cities after streets, bars, restaurants and nightclubs were filled with people celebrating the end of COVID-19 restrictions. The unexpected announcement by Prime Minister Erna Solberg late Friday afternoon to drop coronavirus restrictions the next day took many Norwegians by surprise and led to chaotic scenes in the capital, Oslo, and elsewhere in the country on Saturday. Rowdy celebrations across Norway by hundreds of citizens started Saturday afternoon and lasted until the early hours of Sunday.
The Taliban urged international airlines Sunday to resume flights to Kabul, saying all technical issues at the country's main airport have been resolved.
Toward the end of The Specials’ Saturday night set at a busy Troxy, in East London, co-vocalist Lynval Golding, 70, introduced front man Terry Hall with the words, “He’s my little brother – and the youngest member of the band”. Smiling, or at least grinning, the 62-year-old Hall told the audience that he was, in fact, 27. “The secret,” he said, “is to moisturise”.
Myanmar's junta has denied suspending the internet in conflict-wracked regions, blaming a recent spate of data blackouts on anti-coup protesters who had destroyed military-owned communications towers.
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What will it cost to enact President Joe Biden’s massive expansion of social programs? Congress has authorized spending up to $3.5 trillion over a decade, but Biden is prodding Democrats to fully cover the cost of the legislation — by raising taxes on corporations and the wealthy, negotiating the price of prescription drugs and dialing up other sources of federal revenue such as increased IRS funding. Defending a bill not yet fully drafted, Democrats are determined to avoid a deficit financed spending spree.
Critics say Biden’s national security adviser should have considered the worst case scenario Jake Sullivan listens to Biden speak after meeting with Vladimir Putin in Geneva, 16 June 2021. Photograph: Patrick Semansky/AP On the afternoon of 30 August, a White House aide brought a note into the Oval Office confirming that the last US military plane had left Afghan airspace, marking the moment America’s longest war had come to an end. Joe Biden was with a team of advisers and on receiving the news
Chinese President Xi Jinping warned that relations between Beijing and Taipei were "grim" on Sunday, urging the island's main opposition party to help seek "unification of the country."
Financial insecurity is influencing young investors to take on risk with cryptocurrencies. They're learning how to on TikTok and Instagram.
Merkel promised to uphold liberalism, democracy, and European cooperation. She left them weaker in almost everything she touched.
Anti-choice groups are embarrassed that their draconian law is being enforced the way it was designedDemocrats present last line of defense for abortion rights Women protest against the six-week abortion ban at the Texas capitol. Photograph: Jay Janner/AP Dr Alan Braid, an OBGYN based in San Antonio, broke the law on purpose. In an essay published in the Washington Post last Saturday, the doctor announced that he performed an abortion on a woman who was past six weeks of gestation, the limit imp
The airport on the Spanish island of La Palma reopened Sunday and authorities allowed some evacuated residents to collect belongings from their homes, as an erupting volcano continued to roar but lava flows remained slow. Spanish airport authority Aena tweeted that La Palma airport was operational again after closing Saturday because of a heavy fall of volcanic ash. The volcano on La Palma, which is part of the volcanic Canary Islands off northwest Africa and is home to about 85,000 people, erupted on Sept. 19.
Iceland’s coalition government appeared likely to continue after voters rallied around the political center in a volatile parliamentary election. If the number holds, Iceland’s Althing parliament will have a female majority for the first time. Instead, the center-right Independence Party took the largest share of votes, and there were big gains for the centrist Progressive Party.
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Hangar 1 collaborated with Crimson Wine group to salvage Napa-grown fruit for a specialty vodka with charitable intentions Eric Lee, helps run the craft spirits distillery at Hangar 1 in Alameda, California. Photograph: Gabrielle Canon/The Guardian When the haze from last year’s Glass fire settled over Napa Valley, all seemed lost for the region’s grapes. Most were tinged with ash and smoke before they could be pulled from the vines, rendering them useless for winemaking. But it gave a spirit di
What happens to all the damaged cars seen in photos after a flood or a hurricane? The severely damaged vehicles may be scrapped, but not all that should be declared totaled are actually retired. Roughly 378,000 flood-damaged cars were on the road in 2021, according to CARFAX data, and the company warned in a mid-September press release that more may surface for sale on used car lots after Hurricane Ida. "Our data suggests that unsuspecting buyers everywhere are at risk of winding up with a previ
If you see a googly-eyed boat cruising through Baltimore's Inner Harbor, you aren't imagining things. First deployed in 2008, Mr. Trash Wheel has collected over 1,600 tons, or well over 3 million pounds, of trash. "When it rains, trash gets washed into our storm drains, which don't get filtered, they go directly into our streams and our harbor," Adam Lindquist, the director of the Healthy Harbor Initiative, told AccuWeather National Reporter Sarah Gisriel. "After a big rainstorm, we've picked up
Some people are calling the "mark of the beast" in the New Testament's Book of Revelation the COVID-19 vaccine. Here's what the Bible says.
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