Back on foot Tuesday morning in his village in southern Lebanon, a border with Israel, Ali Qachmar discovered his completely destroyed house, starting from the Israeli forces that fought in the sector against Hezbollah. “We came to breathe the fresh air from our land and our village” to come across a « destruction totale »deplores … Read more
“Humiliation, bloodshed and suffering”summarizes Mohammed Abu Moursa on Monday, 500 days after the start of the war in Gaza launched by the attack on Hamas in Israel, during which his family was moved more than a dozen times in the Palestinian territory. “There are only destruction around us”said this resident recently returned to the north … Read more
Homes reduced to ashes, businesses in flames, and in the midst of the devastation, haggard residents: the town of Altadena, ravaged Wednesday by a violent fire in the suburbs of Los Angeles, looks like an area that has just been bombed . “This was our home”William Gonzales tells AFP, pointing to a ruin where only … Read more
Evacuations of residents are underway on Saturday in Ethiopia after several earthquakes shook this Horn of Africa country on Friday and Saturday, including a 5.8 magnitude tremor. These earthquakes are concentrated in rural Afar, Oromia and Amhara after several months of intense seismic activity. No casualties have been reported so far. About 80,000 people live … Read more
A race against time is underway in Mayotte to help the victims of this French archipelago in the Indian Ocean devastated by a deadly cyclone, where water and food are lacking, and to try to find survivors in the rubble of the shanty towns . The resigning ministers of the Interior and Overseas Territories, Bruno … Read more
Two residents of a nursing home in Grâne, in Drôme, aged over 85, died after ingesting dishwasher rinsing liquid, the prosecution said. Three men aged over 85, residents at the Maison des Buis nursing home, ingested this product on Saturday in circumstances which remain to be determined, Valence prosecutor Laurent de Caigny told AFP. One … Read more
Eight participants in an illegal rave party south of Rennes were slightly injured and hospitalized during the night from Saturday to Sunday during “clashes” with “residents”particularly travelers living next door, we learned from the firefighters and the prefecture. Arriving Friday evening, around 3,000 people took part in a rave party in an abandoned warehouse in … Read more
Residents of Tehran went about their usual activities on Saturday with a feeling of worry, after Israeli strikes against military sites in Iran which raised fears of an escalation between the two enemy countries. Loud detonations, some accompanied by streaks of light, were heard during the night from Friday to Saturday in the Iranian capital. … Read more