Day: December 16, 2024
Hundreds are feared dead after Cyclone Chido battered the French Indian Ocean territory of Mayotte on Sunday, with officials warning it will take days to know the full toll. Rescue workers and supplies are being rushed in by air and sea, but their efforts are likely to be hindered by damage to airports and electricity distribution in a territory where even clean drinking water was already subject to chronic shortages.
When Michelle Woodward, the founder of the local salads-and-bowls restaurant Diced, was thinking of expanding her young business, downtown Raleigh was not on her radar at all. But now hers is one of several restaurants that have opened on Fayetteville Street in the past year, as part of an intense recruitment effort by the region’s largest office landlord Highwoods Properties, which has offered favorable deals to several businesses in the hopes…
Сотни российских солдат были эвакуированы из Дамаска, заявили захватившие в Сирии власть повстанцы. РФ проводила эвакуацию в координации с главной повстанческой группировкой “Хайят Тахрир аш-Шам” (ХТШ), свергнувшей режим Башара Асада. Об этом сообщил представитель ХТШ Камаль… pic.twitter.com/tX0pLrXi8S
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Украинские военные обнародовали фото и видео погибших после субботних штурмов российских солдат на курском направлении, среди них – северокорейцыhttps://t.co/uxaAc83QfQ
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This is the time for the EU to stand up.
Russia is weak – very weak.
Billionaire – presumptive dictator of Georgia – Ivanishvili is relying fully on Putin.
The EU should put down its foot. It can so do in many ways.
Declare full support for Georgia’s democratic opposition! https://t.co/doJenimRny— Anders Åslund (@anders_aslund) December 15, 2024
France was rushing help by ship and military aircraft to its poor overseas territory of Mayotte in the Indian Ocean on Monday after the island was shattered by its worst storm in nearly a century. Authorities in Mayotte fear hundreds and possibly thousands of people have died in Cyclone Chido, although the official death toll on Monday morning stood at 14. Rescue teams and medical personnel have been sent to the island off the east coast of Africa from France and from the nearby French territory of Reunion, as well as tons of supplies.