Alexander Avalos Jorge, an official with Cuba's fire brigade, told reporters that "the four tanks" of 50 million liters each located in a storage base "have been compromised". "It was a chain reaction," he said.The disaster began Friday evening when...

Few women in the country have not lost any male relatives in successive wars. And many husbands, fathers, sons and brothers have lost their jobs or seen their incomes plummet due to a deepening economic crisis.AFP has produced a series of portraits of women...

The actress, who also had British nationality, "passed away peacefully on her ranch in Southern California this morning, surrounded by her family and friends," said John Easterling in the press release. She had been battling breast cancer for 30 years.Lacquered...

The new drama series 'Mike,” which premieres Aug. 25 on Hulu, traces the boxer's life from childhood to his in-ring stunts to his 1992 rape conviction."They stole my life story and didn't pay me," Mike Tyson blasted on Instagram on Saturday.'Hulu...

The 22.1 million voters will vote six times to determine the political future of this country considered a democratic island in an unstable region, but which was also the scene of serious violence fifteen years ago.The duel promises to be tight between the...

An AFP reporter on the spot saw the start of operations in Pingtung County (south) shortly after 00:40 GMT, with flares and artillery fire.The drill ended around 01:30 GMT, said Lou Woei-jye, spokesman for Taiwan's Eighth Corps.The drills, with a second...

"Our nation is living in dark times, my beautiful home, Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, is under siege and has been raided and occupied by numerous FBI agents," he said in a statement, claiming to be the victim of "political persecution"."After working...

To access the video game treasures of the National Library of the French Republic, you have to go to one of the four towers, 79 meters high and 22 floors each, of the François-Mitterrand library (named after the former president of the Republic, 1981-1995),...

Monday evening, "the fires are fixed except in the Brasparts sector", said the prefecture in a press release, specifying that 160 firefighters were on site."Farmers, integrated into the system, provide 5 tanks (tonnes of water) for the water supply and the...

Bombings last week near a nuclear reactor in Zaporizhia (south) prompted the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to warn of the "very real risk of nuclear disaster", while kyiv accused Moscow of "nuclear terrorism".Fears of an accident have revived...

The track of euthanasia ruled out, three options were still on the table this weekend: an opening of the lock, letting him end his life "like someone very sick" or extraction, had indicated the state representative.It is therefore the hypothesis of an extraction,...

"Since Monday, we have had five trucks a day which come to inject water into the water treatment plant of the community of communes", explains Pierre Ignace, the mayor of Mur-de-Barrez, a picturesque village of 800 inhabitants. , where holidaymakers flock...

On July 20, these graves where the investigators considered it possible that the body of the Tarn nurse had been placed were opened and examined, without result.Justice had decided on July 4 the continued detention of Cédric Jubillar, suspected of having...

"Mr. Officer, we have nothing to eat at home," said Miguel, 11, to the policeman who answered the emergency number last Tuesday.It had been three days since the seven members of the family who live in an attic in Santa Luzia, near Belo Horizonte (south-east),...

Diesel was thus worth 1.8393 euros per liter on average, down 3.89 cents compared to the previous week, according to data closed on Friday and published by the government.The super unleaded 95 was sold for 1.8362 euros (-0.86 cents) and the super unleaded...

"Gerhard Schröder is not guilty of a violation of party regulations, because no violation could be proven against him," explained the SPD section of Hanover (north), the stronghold of the former Chancellor, in a press release."The arbitration committee considers...

The last pallets of ballot papers and other plastic crates loaded with electoral material were unloaded Monday in the 46,229 polling stations open Tuesday from 06:00 to 17:00 (03:00 to 14:00 GMT) during a ballot with high stakes for the economic engine of...

Dadia National Park, which narrowly escaped destruction by fire in late July, is in theory one of the best protected areas in Greece, as it is home to one of the most important breeding grounds for vultures and other raptors in Europe.More than 4,500 hectares...

It is a decision that raises questions among some specialists and in the associative world. The time between the two doses of vaccination against monkeypox, previously 28 days, has been extended for non-immunocompromised people, the Ministry of Health said...

From Saturday night until late Sunday, the queue stretched for several blocks to the San Cayetano church in Liniers, north of Buenos Aires. Nearly a thousand people at midday, a bouquet of ears of wheat in their hands, adorned with an image of the saint.One...

It is a precarious truce after three days of hostilities, which entered into force on Sunday August 7 at 11:30 p.m., and negotiated by Egypt, the historic intermediary between Israel and the Palestinians. It concerns the Palestinian armed group Islamic Jihad...

A 10-year-old girl and an 11-year-old boy were seriously injured while playing "tag" on the esplanade of their neighborhood after being knocked down Friday evening by a motorcycle during an urban rodeo in Pontoise (Val -d'Oise)."I want to say that the...

On Sunday, the US Senate passed the largest climate investment plan in US history. Some 370 billion dollars to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 40% by 2030, and a "victory" for Joe Biden, after 18 months of tough negotiations with his camp. Faithful to...

The day after the departure from Taipei of Mrs Pelosi, number three American and speaker of the House of Representatives, the Chinese army had launched Thursday vast maneuvers "real fire" in six large areas all around Taiwan.These exercises, at least in this...