19 children killed in elementary school shooting
A gunman killed at least 19 children and two adults yesterday At Robb Elementary School, an elementary school in a rural Texas community in Uvalde, west of San Antonio, officials said, in the deadliest school shooting in the US since the state school massacre. learned Sandy Hook a decade ago.
The gunman, who authorities identified as an 18-year-old man who attended a nearby high school, was armed with several weapons, officials said, adding that he was dead, officials said. at the scene. It remains unclear whether the shooting took place within a classroom or several classrooms. Officials did not release the names or ages of the students or adults killed.
The tragedy comes just 10 days after the mass murder of Black shoppers in a Buffalo grocery store, at one of the deadliest racist massacres in recent US history. Together, the shootings deepen a national political debate about gun laws and the widespread prevalence of firearms in the US.
Address: Speaking from the White House last night, President Biden was emotional as he reflected on the massacre and called for action. “Where in the name of God is our spine, the courage to do more and then stand up in the hallway?” he say. “It’s time to turn this pain into action.”
Political response: Within hours, Democrats had cleared the way for votes on legislation to increase background checks on gun buyers, pushing for a revival of the measure with widespread calls Republicans had prevented in the past.
Using global hunger as a weapon
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has hampered the country’s ability to produce and export grain, choke one of the world’s bread supplies and refuel that Russian President Vladimir Putin is Use food as a powerful new weapon in his 3-month war. About 20 million tons of grain are currently trapped in Ukraine. Follow the latest updates from the war.
Russia has taken several ports in Ukraine’s Black Sea and sealed off the rest, trapping cargo ships loaded with vital food stores, as well as taking control of some of Ukraine’s most productive arable land, destroy Ukraine’s vital infrastructure for livestock raising and grain transportation and litter the farm with explosives.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said: “Russia is currently hoarding its food exports as a form of blackmail, constraining supplies to increase global prices or trading wheat in exchange for a political support”. In response, EU countries are increasing their own grain production, she added.
The fight: The military action has been increasingly concentrated in a small area in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine, where ravaged Russian forces are making slow, bloody advances as they try to besiege the city. strategic Sievierodonetsk, the easternmost stronghold in Ukraine.
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Russia’s depleted military has yet to make great strides, and time is on Ukraine’s side. Take a look at ours map showing the progress of the war.
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The British government has opened a program to provide Ukrainian refugees with a quick route to safety. But although tens of thousands of Britons have expressed interest in playing the presenter, implementation was very slow.
The pandemic’s unequal numbers
Poor and developing countries experienced many more deaths relative to the wealthy between 2020 and 2021, according to data released by WHO that aims to measure the true damage of the pandemic. About 13% more people worldwide, or about 15 million, died more than expected in the first two years of the pandemic.
The US has more deaths than usual during the pandemic than most other wealthy countries, with a mortality rate of 15% above normal – a number surpassed only by the other four major countries in the same group. Income: Chile, Czech Republic, Poland and Romania.
Scientists have described these latest WHO estimates as the most reliable measure of the total impact of the pandemic to date. The numbers measure the difference between the number of deaths in 2020 and 2021 and the number of people expected to die during that time if the pandemic had not occurred.
Decreasing mortality: In countries like Australia, China and Japan, the actual number of deaths in 2020 and 2021 according to WHO estimates is actually lower than usual. The WHO says some countries may have reduced mortality from other causes thanks to Covid-19 control measures.
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Andrey Kurkov, Ukraine’s most famous living novelist, has spent his life writing about realities so absurd that they defied irony. Since moving out of his home in Kyiv, he has dedicated himself to compiling the fight for a foreign audience.
“I think everyone should do what is best for the country,” he said. “Snipers should kill the enemy. Singers should sing for soldiers and refugees. All I can do is write and tell everything, and that’s what I’m doing. ”
For more: Read our review of the latest novel by Kurkov“Grey bee.”
What does mullet mean now?
Business in the front, partying in the back: The upside-down hairstyle once again finds the runway and red carpet, writes Megan Bradley for The Times Magazine. But is there anyone left to be shocked?
There is evidence of mullet – characterized by short hair everywhere except at the back of the head, where it was left long – appearing in Assyria, Ancient Egypt and Greece, in descriptions of warriors, heroes and gods.
More recently, it has been worn by David Bowie, as Ziggy Stardust has changed his otherworldly self; punks of the 1970s who wore it explicitly to shock; and, last fall, rapper Lil Nas X, on the red carpet at the MTV Video Music Awards, joined a legion of other outsiders who were mismatched and visionary.
Mullet isn’t anything, midway between long and short, masculine and feminine, elegant and alluring. But if the inability to categorize causes discomfort in some, this juxtaposition is exactly what some people are looking for, especially at a time when both gender and taste are felt. , properly and importantly, very flexible.
Read more about the political potential of the short and the rear.
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