A recent study done by researchers at Northwestern University shows that the infrastructure of major cities may be at risk of damage due to subsurface heat pockets. These hot spots were found to be causing different ground soils to expand, shrink, and swell, deformations large enough to slightly damage the
In a speech about a month after a coup overthrew the President of Niger, President Emmanuel Macron re-iterated French support for the democratically elected President Mohamed Bazoum by keeping the French ambassador and envoy in the country. In addition, Macron pledged French support to any military actions the Economic Community
Peace still holds weeks after Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko mediated a deal between the rebelling Wagner mercenary group and the Russian state, despite Vladimir Putin’s precedent of imprisoning or killing his opponents. Pavel Felgenhauer, a military analyst from Moscow, told Al Jazeera that the parties, with Lukashenko’s help, agreed to
In the last week of June, after wildfires raging in Canada left New York and other cities in the American Northeast covered in a dense orange haze, the smoke covered much of the Midwest. Alerts were issued even as far south as Alabama, and on June 25th, Chicago, Illinois had
Mali’s interim military government has asked the UN to remove its peacekeeping forces from the country in response to mounting pressure from citizens against UN peacekeepers after a decade of unsuccessful peacekeeping operations. After a 2013 rebellion was hijacked by terrorist organisations linked to Al-Quaeda and ISIL (ISIS) the UN
On Thursday, a small military post in east Burkina Faso was attacked, resulting in 33 deaths, 12 injured soldiers, and 40 dead “terrorists,” according to a Burkina military report. This attack is the latest clash between extremist Islamic groups like Al Quaeda and I.S.I.L. (I.S.I.S.), who have a strong presence
