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United States: Colin Powell, former secretary of state, died of coronavirus

The career soldier who became Secretary of State under George W. Bush died at the age of 84 as a result of Covid-19 on Monday, October 18. Colin Powell, former  https://works.bepress.com/pinnaclesciencetestoboostbuy/# Secretary of State under George W. Bush, died at the age of 84 from "complications from Covid-19," his family announced Monday (October 18th). He is notably known  https://www.digi.com/support/forum/user/pinnaclesciencebuy for having defended the American intervention in Iraq in 2003 during a controversial intervention at the UN.  Son of Jamaican immigrants  https://ebusinesspages.com/pinnaclesciencetestoboost.user who grew up in the Bronx in New York, he had a military career , participating in particular in the Vietnam War, before entering politics. Between 1987 and 1989, Colin Powell  https://www.folkd.com/user/pinnaclesciencetestoboostbuy was the National Security Advisor to President Ronald Reagan, before becoming Secretary of State during George W. Bus

California highway closed due to massive fire

The Alisal fire, near Santa Barbara in California, threatens many structures and requires the intervention of nearly 600 firefighters. The Alisal fire continues to  https://sites.google.com/view/teraerio/keto-strong engulf southern California, leading to evacuations and mobilizing hundreds of firefighters. The blaze  began in the afternoon of Monday, Oct. 11 near the Alisal Reservoir and now  https://sites.google.com/view/friazkari/keto-strong-price  covers around 8,000 acres (3,237 hectares), according to fire officials. The flames threaten at least 100 structures, authorities said. "The fire is driven by strong winds and is  https://sites.google.com/view/loriakarli/keto-strong-buy growing at a rapid rate," said a report on InciWeb , a US forest fire clearinghouse , cited by  CNN . The strong gusts prevented the deployment of the planes intended to fight against the flames .  The fire resulted in the closure of part  https://sites.google.com/view/devidson/keto-strong-usa

AS dan Taliban akan mengadakan pembicaraan pertama sejak penarikan Afghanistan

Pejabat senior Taliban dan perwakilan AS akan mengadakan pembicaraan Sabtu dan Minggu tentang menahan kelompok-kelompok ekstremis di Afghanistan dan memudahkan evakuasi warga asing dan warga Afghanistan dari negara itu, kata para pejabat dari kedua belah pihak. Ini adalah pertemuan  https://moz.com/community/q/user/recardiobuy pertama sejak pasukan AS menarik diri dari Afghanistan pada akhir Agustus, mengakhiri kehadiran militer selama 20 tahun di sana, dan kebangkitan Taliban ke tampuk kekuasaan  https://www.thebestof.co.uk/local/abingdon/members/view/profile/?id=616146910a6f6c2a0a0a8019 di negara itu. Pembicaraan akan berlangsung di Doha, ibu kota negara Teluk Persia, Qatar. Juru bicara Taliban Suhail  https://www.hltv.org/profile/1471503/recardiobuy Shaheen, yang berbasis di Doha, mengatakan kepada The Associated Press pada hari Sabtu bahwa pembicaraan juga akan meninjau kembali perjanjian damai yang ditandatangani Taliban  https://player.me/recardiobuy/about dengan Washington p

The COVID-19 pandemic will leave an “indelible mark” on the mental health of children and young people

The impact of the pandemic on the mental health of children and young people is incalculable and could last for many years, warns the UN children's agency, adding that at least one in seven children has been affected by the confinements, while more 1.6 billion of them have suffered some loss of education. The COVID-19 pandemic is taking  a very high toll  on the mental health of children and young people, an affectation that also costs the economies losses estimated at 390,000 million dollars a year, according to a new report released Tuesday by the United Nations Children's Fund ( UNICEF ). Already before the pandemic, more than  one in seven children and adolescents  between 10 and 19 years of the world suffered from a diagnosed mental disorder and 46,000 committed suicide annually, a situation that has been aggravated by the health emergency, the study warns. The confinements and movement restrictions imposed by the pandemic alienated this group from  key components for the

Rui Costa defends term limitation at Benfica

Candidate for president of the Luz club has promised not to allow the emblem of Luz to face any more lawsuits in court. The president of Benfica and candidate for the next elections, Rui Costa, defended this Monday the limitation of terms at the club and assured that, if elected, he will not allow the emblem of Luz to face any further lawsuits. A few days before the scrutiny, scheduled for Saturday, Rui Costa assured, in an interview with BTV, that a review of the club's statutes "will be carried out" to "meet the interests" of the Benfica members. "I agree with the term limitation. That a revision of the bylaws be carried out, to meet the interests of our partners. It will be done. I don't think it is urgent, but soon I want to take this issue and create one commission to review the statutes. I think three terms of four years would be ideal," said Rui Costa, 49 years old. The former vice-president assumed the presidency of Benfica in July, followi

Blackout on Facebook was due to "faulty configuration change"

The company has ensured that there is still no evidence that user data has been compromised. Social network Facebook said that "the main cause of the outage was a faulty configuration change". The company indicated on Monday night that there was still "no evidence that user data was compromised as a result" of the outage, a flaw that prevented users from accessing Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp or Messenger for about seven o'clock. "People and companies around the world depend on us to stay connected. We apologize to those affected," the group said. The personal wealth of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has dropped by more than six billion dollars (about 5.2 billion euros), after several problems were registered in the main platforms of the technology company. According to financial information agency Bloomberg, Mark Zuckerberg has moved down a notch on the list of the world's most at risk due to the global outage that affected Facebook, Messenger,

Marcelo. New cycle can no longer be a "missed opportunity"

President of the Republic spoke at the commemorative ceremony of the 5th of October.  Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa dedicates the first words of his speech at the 5th of October ceremony to the evocation of Jorge Sampaio, later leaving his thanks to Fernando Medina, the outgoing leader of the Lisbon City Council, accompanied by a wish of congratulations to his successor, Carlos Moedas. "If we want the 5th of October to have any meaning, we have to make it a living date", defends the President of the Republic. And that means "a more inclusive Portugal, which enters in time into a new economic, climate, energy, science, technology cycle ". And a country "more attentive to the people, to their sovereignty, to social rights". Marcelo stresses that the country "will never overcome the challenges of entering in time a new economic cycle with two million poor" and many at risk of poverty, and calls for a more inclusive country. For this, Portugal must be able