Digis Mak

New problem in Ukraine. If a war were not enough, it now faces flooding caused by the destruction of a dam, the largest in the country, 60 kilometers from the city of Kherson last night. Specifically, it is about the infrastructure that is part of the Kajovka hydroelectric power station, on the Dnieper River. Kiev and Moscow blame each other for its collapse, while 16,000 people residing in the immediate vicinity are ordered to evacuate due to flooding that has already begun and could even reach the capital of the region. Related news Several villages were "completely or partially flooded" after the damage to the Kajovka dam. "Some 16,000 people are in the critical zone on the right bank of the Kherson region," Oleksander Prokudin, head of the l...

Key eventsFT: CBI struggles to secure big public backing for its revampWhile in theory a simple majority would be enough to carry the confidence vote for the CBI, the Finance Times says a larger majority will be needed if the organization is to build momentum towards restoring its credibility.Lord Karan Bilimoria, vice-president of the CBI, told the FT: “It has to be just over 50 per cent to carry but I'm confident it will be much higher than that.” CBI bosses are hoping a victory will convince ministers to end their embargo on engaging with it. That might not be an immediate change, though.As Neil Carberry, chief executive of the Recruitment & Employment Confederation, a trade association that is a CBI member, put it: “Tomorrow is about opening up a path back rather than switching o...

Updated Tuesday, June 6, 2023 - 08:43Considered "the most harmful spy" in the US, he has been serving fifteen consecutive life sentences since 2002 for betraying the countryFormer FBI agent Robert Philip Hanssen, in 2002.FBI | AFPdouble agent The two lives of agent 'Ramn' 15 years Robert Hanssen, former FBI double spy, pleads guilty to avoid death sentence FBI agent Robert Hanssen, who spied for the former Soviet Union and later for Russia, died Monday in prison where he serve fifteen consecutive life sentences for betraying the US.Hansen, of 79 yearswas "found unconscious" around 06:55 local time (12:55 GMT) in the federal prison super max in Florence, Colorado, the Bureau of Prisons reported in a statement.The note does not provide details on the reason for his death, although it d...

The news has been getting lost in the jungle of political scandals and other events that Colombia produces every week. But in the jungles of Caquetá, especially, it is still very much alive for the 40 indigenous people who are looking for them and the 120 soldiers, including two elite groups from the Army Special Forces Command, who do not lose hope of finding the Mucutuy brothers alive. , disappeared in the region after the plane crash on April 30, in the department of Caquetá, a jungle region of the Colombian Amazon. The strategy to find his whereabouts has become more sophisticated over the days. Currently, a bright plastic yellow ribbon stretches through the green and humid jungle, a kind ofe life line that meanders 11 kilometers through the jungle so that, if they find it, the ch...

Updated Monday, June 5, 2023 - 02:26The government statement says that the pilot of the private plane did not respond to the notices of the military aircraftAndrews Air Force Base, near where the plane crashed.Alex BrandonPAfighter planes F-16 of the US Armed Forces intercepted this Sunday the device that crashed in the vicinity of Washington D.C., after the pilot did not respond to attempts to contact him. The plane was carrying four passengers, according to US media.He North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD, in English) reported in a statement that the F-16s used flares to get the pilot's attention, without him responding, until his plane was intercepted around 3:20 p.m. local time (7:20 p.m. GMT)."In coordination with the Federal Aviation Administration, NORAD F-16 fighte...

In Mexico there are five kidnappings a day. Despite this, Alberto de la Fuente never imagined that he could be a victim of one of them. Neither his comfortable position, nor the fact that he lives in Puebla, one of the states in Mexico where this type of crime occurs the most, led him to seek extraordinary security measures. Thus, on November 29, 2016, a group of six armed men, dressed in military uniform, and who were traveling in various vehicles, one of which was an alleged Police van, blocked his way in broad daylight, in a busy street and a few meters from his son's school, whom he has just left. From that day on, the businessman became just a "merchandise", but a "very valuable" merchandise, starring in one of the longest kidnappings in memory in Mexico. "It was the perfect c...

FRANCISCO RODRGUEZ FERNNDEZ Updated Sunday, June 4, 2023 - 08:43With an eye on the july elections one has the feeling that the bipartisanship be dominant again. if it really is Is it a better option for the economy than the multiparty system of recent years that now seems to be languishing? Spanish democracy has never been purely bipartisan and even less bipartisan (understood as prone to agreements of two). However, during a good part of the last decades, the preponderance of the first two parties and their certain alternation in power was assumed as a competition between two. More recently, new political forces have emerged that they came to draw a multi-party map on a national scale and, in fact, the current government is a left-wing coalition.Is not that United Kingdom or Uni...