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Some colleges in the United States have distributed clear backpacks and implemented other security measures as school shootings become a national scourge. “It’s for our safety.” Middle school students from North Drchester in Cambridge, Maryland, have gotten used to it: since the start of the school year, the establishment has …

The body of a woman in her sixties was found in the mouth of an alligator near Horsepen Bayou lake in the city of Houston in Texas (United States), said the department’s police in a press release. At the time of this macabre discovery, Houston police were investigating the disappearance …

A US appeals court in September will consider challenges to a recent law requiring Bytedance (the Chinese company that owns TikTok) to sell the app’s US assets by January 2025, failing which it will be banned in the United States. Very recently, content creators joined Bytedance and the Chinese social …

Less than a year after the implosion on June 18, 2023 of the Titan, this submersible from the OceanGate company which transported five people to the wreck of the Titanic in the North Atlantic, Larry Connor, an American billionaire, announced that he intented to resume explorations towards the remains of …

The death toll from tornadoes and other violent storms in the southern United States rose further to at least 19 deaths according to authorities on Monday, while these bad weather moves towards the east of the country. Since Saturday, tornadoes have swept across the Great Plains of the south of …

A Brazilian teenager killed his parents and sister at the family home, using his father’s service weapon, after feeling “very frustrated” at being deprived of his phone, according to details from the survey delivered this Wednesday, May 22. This triple homicide which shocked Brazil took place on Friday May 17, …

The US and Niger authorities have agreed that US troops will leave the country no later than 15 September, they announced in a joint statement on Sunday. The two countries had “reached a disengagement agreement to effect the withdrawal of U.S. forces, which has already begun”. The statement commended the …

A 14-year-old man died after participating in a very controversial challenge consisting of eating an extremely spicy potato chip, according to an autopsy report consulted this Thursday, May 16. A resident of Massachusetts, in the northeast of the country, Harris Wolobah suffered a “cardioventilatory arrest due to the ingestion of …

The number of deaths from drug overdoses fell in 2023 in the United States, for the first time since 2018, American health authorities announced this Wednesday 15th. The main cause of the overdose crisis currently affecting the country is fentanyl, an extremely powerful and addictive synthetic opioid. The number of …

The US Embassy in Tanzania has closed its doors for two days due to an internet outage affecting several East African countries. “Due to degraded network service nationwide, the embassy will remain closed to the public,” the embassy said in a post on X (formerly Twitter) on Monday. It cancelled …