NEWS REVIEW 1

Weekly News

News items about last week

Aliénor CHERON, Pauline BONNEFOI, Manel BADREDDINE

October 9th, 2023

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Jailed Iranian activist wins Nobel peace prize

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Kevin McCarthy ousted as House Speaker by Democrats and rebel Republicans

Biden approves new section of border wall as Mexico crossings rise

U.S leaders support Israel after Hamas attacks

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England mourns felling of its 'favourite tree'

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Earthquake in Afghanistan : thousands of deaths and injured

Taiwan records world’s third most powerful wind gust ever as Typhoon Koinu hits

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Simone Biles leads US to team gold during World Gymnastics Championships

World Cup 2030: Tournament to be held across three continents for the first time

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Australian man rowing across Pacific Ocean rescued after capsizing

Prada designing NASA spacesuits

104-year-old Chicago woman beats the world record for oldest skydiver

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Australian man rowing across Pacific Ocean rescued after capsizing

- A trip of 8.000 miles to be the youngest man to cross the ocean by rowing - From Peru to Australia - Capsized on Thursday night and recued on Friday morning

A category four cyclone has produced one of the strongest wind gusts ever recorded worldwide, and injured almost 200 people as it crossed the southern tip of Taiwan early on Thursday.

Typhoon Koinu

... Makes landfall in Taiwan

• Record-breaking gusts of wind at more than 340 km/h
• Waves of up to 7 meters
• 330.000 homes experienced power outrages

- activist for women's rights, abolition of death penalty, improvement of prison conditions - sentence of 10 years and 9 months for "propaganda against the state" - award belongs to every Iranian woman who has been a victim of injustice in Iran.

Jailed Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi wins Nobel peace prize

Simone Biles leads US to team gold during World Gymnastics Championships

- One of the best athletes of all time - First time in international competition after her two year old break - Seventh consecutive team title for the US

U.S leaders support Israel after Hamas attacks

- 50 years after the Yom Kippur War - The deadliest attack against Israel for decades - President Joe Biden, Political people from Congress show their support and stand with Israel

Earthquake in Afghanistan : thousands of deaths and injured

- 2000 deaths, 10000 injured- In Herat, 6.3 magnitude - Inadequate medical facilities :hospitals are struggling to treat the injured - Frequent eathquakes in Afghanistan : June 2022, March 2023 and now October 2023

"In a divided world, FIFA and football are uniting" Gianni Infantino

• Across six countries and three continents for the first time in the history of the football tournament
• Uruguay (Montevideo) : 1st World Cup match in 1930 => centenary
• In Portugal that has never hosted the tournament

• + Spain, Morroco, Argentina and Paraguay

- Dorothy Hoffner, 104 years old- "Age is just a number" - First skydived at 100 years old - wants to take a ride in a hot-air balloon next

104-year-old Chicago woman beats the world record for oldest skydiver

Biden approves the construction of a new section of the wall between Mexico and the USA - 20 miles (32 km) being rebuilt - contrast to Biden's 2020 declaration saying he "would not build another foot of wall" - more than 245,000 crossings this year in Rio Grande Valley area

- Kevin Mccarthy : the US voice speaker, from the Republican party - voted out by 216 electors (8 Republicans) - Re-election on Wednesday

Kevin McCarthy ousted as House Speaker by Democrats and rebel Republicans

• The Italian fashion house will work to design the suits alongside another private company, Axiom Space.
• Artemis III in 2025
• "innovative technologies and design" to allow "greater exploration of the lunar surface than ever before".

Prada and Axiom

• A sycamore maple over 200 years
• Hacked down !!
• The investigation for this ecocide is ongoing
• The attack on a renowned sycamore in Northumberland national park by a suspected vandal
• This beautiful tree became famous after featuring in the 1991 film Robin Hood

Sycamore Gap tree