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French President Emmanuel Macron extended his stay in Mayotte on Friday after distraught and angry locals jeered and shouted out their grievances as he toured the storm-ravaged Indian Ocean archipelago. Emergency efforts continue as the death toll from Cyclone Chido reaches 31, with thousands more potentially affected. Macron extends visit to cyclone-ravaged Mayotte amid local anger

  Cyclone Chido has brought widespread devastation to northern Mozambique. It swept from the east coast of Africa to Mozambique and Malawi after hitting the French Indian Ocean island of Mayotte in the Comoros archipelago on December 15. Thousands of people in the Cabo Delgado and Nampula provinces of Mozambique have been displaced. In recent years, major storms  — Cyclone Freddy in 2023, Gombe in 2022 and Idai in 2019 — have battered Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Madagascar during southern hemisphere summer. Chido’s devastation highlights a broader trend of worsening weather patterns fueled by climate change. Southern Africa is experiencing more and more extreme weather patterns as global temperatures…

The Christmas turnaround is coming. Antonio Sanò, founder of the site www.iLMeteo.it, confirms that from the North Sea, passing through the Netherlands, 2 polar storms will change the Italian meteorological scenario in the next few days. Gale winds and cold In summary, the first polar storm has already approached Italy during the night and is causing extensive bad weather phenomena, in particular gale force winds off the coast of Sardinia, Bora gale force winds on the Upper Adriatic and sustained, even dangerous, ventilation everywhere. With this first polar storm, temperatures are expected to drop, more markedly by the weekend; above…

The Yi Peng 3 has been anchored in the Kattegat Sea for a month while diplomats in Stockholm and Beijing discussed access to the vessel. Representatives from Germany, Finland and Denmark have boarded a Chinese cargo ship believed to be connected to the rupture of two data cables on the Baltic Sea bed in November. Swedish police and Chinese officials were also part of the inspection of the Yi Peng 3 vessel which is anchored in international waters between Sweden and Denmark. Denmark’s Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen said the visit was supposed to take place on Wednesday but was…

The ex-wife of actor Ethan Slater has written about navigating the “sudden public downfall of my marriage” in the “shadow of my husband’s new relationship with a celebrity”. Clinical psychologist Lilly Jay reflected on the end of her relationship with her “high-school sweetheart”, who moved on with his Wicked co-star Ariana Grande. In an essay for The Cut magazine, she wrote: “As for me, days with my son are sunny. “Days when I can’t escape the promotion of a movie associated with the saddest days of my life are darker.” The doctor said she moved to England with Slater to…

South Korean investigators have again sought to question impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol over his declaration of martial law. On Friday, they summoned him for questioning on Christmas Day despite his repeated refusal to cooperate. The Corruption Investigation Office for High-Ranking Officials, which is leading a joint investigation with police and military authorities into the ill-conceived power grab on December 3 that lasted only a few hours, said it plans to question Mr Yoon on charges of abuse of authority and orchestrating a rebellion. Mr Yoon, whose presidential powers have been suspended since the opposition-controlled National Assembly impeached him on…

“I’m socialist.” Emmanuel Macron was 36 years old, and had just been appointed as economy minister. In front of an audience of startuppers and business leaders on December 4, 2014, he unfolded a paper on which he had copied a vintage quote from historic socialist figure Jean Jaurès, published in the newspaper The Dispatch in 1887: “All politics of caste and egoism must disappear.” “Me, I’m socialist and I say it,” insisted Macron, despite having been the architect of the corporate tax credits that marked the start of President François Hollande’s liberal. Two years later, in August 2016, Macron was…

Virtually extinct at the beginning of the 20th century, Europe’s largest rodent is now well established along French waterways. Its presence, which can give rise to conflicts of use, also significantly benefits biodiversity and society. The beaver, a sometimes annoying yet very useful neighbor, is back in France

Judge Santiago Pedraz has refused to delve deeper into the investigation into the police espionage of Podemos ordered by the Ministry of the Interior in 2016, the objective of which was to discredit the leaders of that political formation by leaking false information to certain media, according to the numerous evidence that already appears in the summary opened for this case.The investigation opened months ago into these events managed to uncover the existence within the ministry of two secret operations against Podemos leaders, called Venus and Bolívar, which were leaked to media related to the PP Government with attributions of…

“Pedro Sánchez, who is not reminded of the fulfillment of any promise, presents any information that questions it as a hoax. By default, only what he says can be true” Read The wall of Buenos Aires