The site has become a popular crossing spot in recent months, with hundreds of people a day making the easy trip over a shallow ditch that connects the two countries.Since the start of the year, the number of asylum seekers entering Canada from the U.S. has risen sharply ... that forces most migrants to apply for asylum in the first country in which they arrive.Recent months have seen the province of Quebec become a major entry point....
He also made tens of thousands of dollars delivering speeches to groups including Ford Motor Company, Citi bank and Banamex, a Mexican bank.Mueller and Aaron Zebley, Mueller's former chief of staff at the FBI, both represented Facebook at WilmerHale before leaving for the special counsel's office ... The documents represented disclosures from five members of Mueller's team and Mueller....
With the window closing fast for the US to stop Kim Jong-un from obtaining a nuclear-tipped intercontinental ballistic missile, North Korea watchers are starting to analyse PresidentDonald Trump’s military options. He warned on Tuesday that North Korea would be met with “fire and fury” if it continues to make threats ... 1 ... It probably wouldn’t work well enough....
The two-year diplomatic relation between Cuba and the United States was sullied on Wednesday in what U.S. officials believe was a strange series of attacks on American diplomats in Havana from a sonic weapon that left the victims with severe hearing loss, according to Time. In the fall of 2016, several U.S ...The U.S. retaliated for the attacks by expelling two Cuban diplomats from their embassy in Washington D.C ... U.S....
After $15 billion spent rebuilding the city of New Orleans' flood protections since 2005, many thought that New Orleans should have been able to withstand a storm that would drop as much as nine inches of rain in a short time but it did not and the last week has revealed several mistakes that have rocked the city government ... The tensions have also been escalated since there is more apprehension of the scheduled meeting where the U.S ... ....
Tens of thousands of people marched through Barcelona on Saturday urging the Spanish government to immediately meet its pledge to take in thousands of refugees ... Twitter ... Senior Barcelona lawmaker Mercè Conesa said on Wednesday that it was “shameful” that Spain had not taken in more refugees, and urged the European commission to begin “severely sanctioning” countries that did not meet their pledges on the issue ... ....
Featured speakers include Brian Stevens, vice president of cloud platforms at Google, discussing how open source is the vehicle for hybrid cloud and is also enabling new use cases such as machine learning; Mercè Crosas of The Institute for Quantitative Social Science (IQSS) at Harvard University, discussing the Cloud Dataverse collaboration with ......
Last Saturday, Chao made his live return to Barcelona, playing a free outdoor gig as part of the festivities around the city’s co-patron saint, La Mercè. He hadn’t played Barcelona in years – the Esperanzah! festival where he performed in 2015 takes place in the suburbs – and the last time he played as part of La Mercè, in 2001, 150,000 people showed up....
Your space to discuss the books you are reading and what you think of them. Contribute with GuardianWitness. Welcome to this week’s blog ... MsCarey has finished A Mixture of Frailties, the fabulous third volume of Robertson Davies’s Salterton Trilogy. ...and the world is therefore a little greyer all of a sudden ... I am currently reading Mercè Rodoreda’s War, So Much War, one of the titles that did make the cut ... Which are yours? ... ....
Catalan novelist Mercè Rodoreda’s profoundly disturbing novel, , presents a world where war has become commonplace, the inescapable reality of everything around us ... “Why, why did you unhang me?” Thereafter, Adrià will not be so quick to get involved with other people ... The electrician said ... Mercè Rodoreda’s War, So Much War is a gripping story, passing as the account of the wanderings of a highly sensitive young man ... Mercè Rodoreda.....
As Barcelona celebrated the La Mercè festival on Thursday, everything was going smoothly until a scuffle broke out on the balcony of the city hall. Thousands of people had squeezed into the square below to mark the festivities and had watched, many of them cheering, as a Catalan estelada, the red-and-yellow striped flag with a star representing independence for the region, was hung from the balcony ... Secession ... Resistance ... ....
Here is a sampling of events in Europe for the waning days of summer. These events were scheduled as of Sept. 11, 2015. It's wise to confirm dates with the organizer or local tourism board before traveling. . AUSTRIA . EISENSTADT. International Haydn Festival, through Sept. 13. FAAKER SEE. EuropeanBike Week, Harley-Davidson rider meet-up, through Sept. 13. VIENNA ... 13. VIENNA ... 13. SCHWAZ ... 27. LINZ ... 7 ... 12 ... 4 ... La MercèFestival, Sept....