Camilla Soldati
Digital Editor
Fitz Roy is a mountain in Patagonia, on the border between Argentina and Chile. It is part of Los Glaciares National Park in Argentina and Bernardo O’Higging National Park in Chile. Its peak is 3,405 metres above sea level. Cerro Torre is an Argentinian mountain, also found in Patagonia, west of Fitz Roy, and is
An aerial bombing on a hospital and nearby residential building killed at least 20 civilians on 27 April in Aleppo, Syria. French newspaper Le Monde has released the figures quoting news agency AFP, according to which the strike had been carried out by pro-government forces. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights confirmed the bombs were
Venezuela’s public sector staff will work only on Monday and Tuesday as the country faces an energy crisis. The government of Caracas is implementing such measures in order to deal with electricity shortages. Los funcionarios de Venezuela trabajarán sólo dos días a la semana para ahorrar energía. https://t.co/oQmOBXp75M El socialismo del S.XXI. — Cristina
There’s almost no doubt left. The April 26 “Super Tuesday” brought Donald Trump closer to the Republican nomination to run for the US presidential elections. The candidate, which is a climate change denier, proposes “more guns”, wants to build walls at borders and believes torture is useful, has notched 5 other victories up. The voters
What makes environmental crimes even more dreadful is impunity. “Across the world environmental defenders are being shot dead in broad daylight, kidnapped, threatened, or tried as terrorists for standing in the way of so-called ‘development’,” said Billy Kyte, campaigner at Global Witness. “The true authors of these crimes – a powerful nexus of corporate and
Information about and from Africa will boast a new voice: Africanews, 24-hour news channel based in Pointe Noire, Republic of the Congo. It is the first Pan-African, multilingual and independent news media broadcasting its programmes in English and French languages across 33 sub-Saharan countries. The new broadcaster is a subsidiary of Euronews – group owned by
Garamba National Park, Democratic Republic of the Congo, is one of the most important and ancient natural parks in Equatorial Africa. It is home to a huge variety of wildlife including elephants, lions, giraffes, hippos and white rhinos. More precisely, it is home to what’s left of these animals’ ancient populations, after decades of relentless poaching.
For those who already know him, DiCaprio has most probably prepared the speech he delivered on 22 April at United Nations headquarters in New York before the 175 delegates who signed the Paris Agreement reached in December more attentively than his Oscar acceptance speech. DiCaprio addressed the world leaders: “You are the last, best hope of Earth.
In a time characterised by cultural flattening and philosophical and creative aridity, books are the best way to comprehend reality. Literature has a huge power: conventional symbols give life to surprising results, able to generate powerful revolutions similar to those in science. As Franz Kafka once said, “A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us”.
When it comes to migrants, some people build walls while others create playing fields. The latter option has been chosen by #Play4Calais, UK crowdfunding campaign aimed at creating a football pitch on the other side of the Channel. #play4calais Tweets More precisely, in the Calais Jungle, the refugee camp in Northern France that has been many
