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Dozens of schoolchildren, teachers and their families have been abducted by gunmen in central Nigeria after an attack on a boarding school, the latest in a growing wave of kidnappings and mass attacks that have ravaged the country.A Niger state government spokesman said 27 students, three teachers and a dozen family members of the school staff were taken away, 42 people in total. Previous reports had indicated that hundreds of people were missing from the school of about 1,000 students.Heavily armed gunmen dressed in military uniforms stormed the Government Science School (GSC) for men in Kagara Town, Niger state, between Tuesday night and Wednesday morning, killing at least one student. The attack is believed to have been carried out by suspected armed groups known as "bandits" who ha...

On the 25th, Alberto, a 39-year-old industrial engineer, appeared at the Navantia facilities in Cartagena (Murcia). Four years and eight months ago he started working in the shipyard's control systems department, but it was the first time that he had been hired by the public company. Ten days before, he had received a letter from Álvaro Tello, director of Labor Relations at Navantia, who informed him that, "in compliance with the ruling issued by the Social Court number 3 of Cartagena" on December 30, he had to join 7:00 on that Monday to his position as "non-permanent permanent worker", with the seniority and salary that he specified.The aforementioned ruling had condemned Navantia to hire him, after concluding that Alberto was the subject of an illegal transfer by Soologic Technolog...

TYears ago, I was diagnosed with stage 4 throat cancer. The prognosis was not 100% positive and there were days when I would lie in bed wondering if I could ever shoot again. I am self-taught and I began to think about the images that had changed my way of thinking about photography: work of Irving penn, Richard Avedon and Diane Arbus, a job that made my knees buckle with excitement.I thought: if I ever get better, I would love to pay tribute to these greats, in a way that no one has done before. I turned to John Malkovich, with whom I had worked for 14 years. Although he looked nothing like the Arbus twins, I thought we could make it interesting with good hair and makeup, prosthetics experts, people with wigs. He loved the idea: for him it was like the theater, he saw these images a...

TThroughout the pandemic, Boris Johnson has tried to reassure both the public and his MPs that if they waited long enough, a scientific breakthrough would come that would transform the landscape. He has spoken of the "distant bugle of scientific cavalry coming over the top of the hill," and in November, after a study suggested that the Pfizer vaccine was 90% effective, declared that "the bugle is louder, but still a bit far ”.Now that the government has reached its vaccination target of 15 million early for the four main priority groups, many Conservative MPs believe the bugle call is deafening and that the cavalry can charge down the hill. Your new concern? The prime minister cannot hear him. The growing fear in the Conservative Party is that the goalposts have moved. As the prim...

Atlantic City is the city where director Louis Malle portrayed Susan Sarandon smearing her arms with lemon juice before an absorbed Burt Lancaster, in a twilight drama that is as content as it is erotic. But Atlantic City is today also, Donald Trump through, the scene of a performance dynamite with the pretense of a symbol: that of turning into rubble, also physically, any trace of the former Republican president.The announced demolition of a hotel-casino that was his property, located in the city of gambling and hotels, the rusty wheels and the diner With neon claims, this Wednesday has become a spectacle that nobody wanted to miss, to the point that many curious people have paid to park in nearby esplanades and some hotels in the area offered rooms with champagne to toast the demolit...

Texas faces frigid temperatures without power 1:45 New York (CNN Business) - Even mighty Texas, America's energy powerhouse, is feeling the wrath of Mother Nature. A deep frost this week in Texas, which relies on electricity to heat many homes, is causing energy demand to skyrocket. At the same time, natural gas, coal, wind and nuclear facilities in Texas have been shut down due to unthinkable low temperatures. This situation could have far-reaching implications as the US energy industry tries to reduce carbon emissions in response to the climate crisis. That nightmare supply and demand situation has made Electricity prices in energy-rich Texas skyrocket more than 10,000% compared to before the unprecedented...

This week Congress is in recess, so there will be no significant progress in the negotiations for the $ 1.9 trillion stimulus package pushed by the president. Joe Biden, although there are important aspects to highlight about the negotiations. The Economist Andrés Vinelli, Vice President of Economic Policies of the CAP and author of the report "7 principles that should guide the negotiations of economic relief", has highlighted the importance and scope of the plan that would be approved in the next two weeks. The House of Representatives and the Senate integrate their plans and must put together the proposals, in order to follow the Budget Reconciliation guidelines that, among other aspects, prevent congressmen from indebting the country more in the long term and imposing chan...

Pedro Sánchez has defended this Wednesday in Congress that Catalonia "needs a left-wing exit" which, according to him, would go through a "progressive government with the PSC and the commons". The President of the Government has argued with the deputy of Junts per Catalunya Míriam Nogueras, during the executive control session, before which he has insisted that what exists in Catalonia is a conflict between the citizens of the community themselves and that what what is needed now is to bet on the “reunion”.Sánchez has taken the opportunity to harshly charge against Junts, whom he has defined as a "conservative" formation, and has been ugly that he has leaders who "spread xenophobia and hatred", whom he has equated to Vox. Nogueras has argued in front of the president that last Sunday ...

Nomadland, Chloé Zhao's exquisite and empathetic Oscar-tipped feature of a sixty-year-old woman who takes life in a traveling van after a mine closure wipes out her livelihood and Nevada City, is unfazed by the vagaries of the human body.Like Fern, a widow who joins the ranks of the older American "recession refugees" who roam the country in search of seasonal work in an increasingly fragmented and tenuous working economy, Frances McDormand shivers and sneezes in the cold. cab of your truck. She watches a presentation by a “wheel farm” -er veteran at the Rubber Tramp Rendezvous, a gathering for these mobile elders in Arizona, about the various buckets available as van toilets; It is useful when a surprise attack of diarrhea forces her to move from bed to the bucket seat. She bathes i...

The hammam on Mateos Gago street, in the southern Spanish city of Seville, is located just a few meters away from the city’s Roman Catholic cathedral, and for a century it has been the most crowded of the city’s Arab baths. The thing is, customers were not going there to immerse themselves in water, but rather to pour liquid down their throats: the baths were concealed under a popular bar named Giralda Brewery.In the early 1900s, the architect Vicente Traver converted the building into a hotel, thus concealing (and preserving) a bathhouse dating back to the 12th century, during the days of the Almohad Caliphate that ruled Al-Andalus.The ancient structure emerged again last summer when the bar underwent some renovation work. The work exposed high-quality murals that are unique to Spain a...