With historically high temperatures and horrible drought, California is now experiencing the second largest wildfire in the state’s history. The Dixie Fire, burning in Northern California, is now approximately 724 square miles. The fire has generated a burned area that is now bigger than the area occupied by the city of Houston, Texas. In addition, as of Sunday morning, only 21% of the fire is contained.
The US has conducted a number of air strikes in Somalia over the past two weeks in order to target al-Qaeda connected groups in the region. No US troops are currently deployed in Somalia and US officials indicated that the airstrikes are in conjunction with local “combatant commander designated partner forces” and were for the purpose of “collective self-defense.” The most recent strike took place near Galmudug, Somalia.
This man has been credited with leading the Roman Empire to the height of its glory.
[elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] Six-time Ballon d’Or winner Lionel Messi will leave Barcelona despite both parties having reached an agreement over a new contract, the La Liga club said on Thursday, citing economic and structural obstacles to the renewal of the deal. Messi, who joined Barca’s youth set-up aged 13, is the club’s all-time top scorer and appearance maker with […]
Apple announced on Thursday that they will be testing and releasing technology that will scan picture uploads on Apple devices to individual’s personal iCloud storage account. They will do so in order to scan and see if the pictures match those of known child pornography or abuse. Apple said that if the system discovers child pornography or abuse then the user will be reported to law enforcement.
The situation in Afghanistan is rapidly deteriorating as the US and other international nations withdraw the last of their troops from the country. The Taliban seems determined to continue to fight the Afghani government and take over the country. The group is a radical Islamic organization that seeks to implement a strict Islamic society in Afghanistan. Now that the US and other international countries have mostly left Afghanistan the Taliban are seizing on this chance of apparent weakness and in many cases are winning.
The families of the victims of the September 11, 2001 attacks are asking President Biden to declassify government documents associated with the attacks that they say will demonstrate that Saudi Arabia gave its approval of the attacks. The families back up their request by telling President Biden not to come to the 20th Anniversary Memorial event if he fails to declassify the requested documents. The families communicated their request by way of letter and approximately 1700 people signed it.
