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Double évasion à Dijon : deux détenus se sont évadés de leur cellule en sciant les barreaux. Les syndicats avaient déjà alerté sur les conditions de sécurité de cette maison d’arrêt.

An excerpt from ‘Who the F**k are You: A Polite Book about Finding Your Unfair Advantage and Making it Impossible to Ignore’, by Harinder Singh Pelia.

At least 56 persons were killed in landslides and incidents related to flooding after heavy rainfall in Sri Lanka, AFP reported on Friday.While 21 were reported missing, 14 had been taken to hospitals.Twenty-six of those dead were found buried in mudslides in Badulla district of the central region.The authorities have deployed the military for relief and rescue operations as several villages in the country were submerged in flood water, the news agency quoted the Disaster Management Centre as saying.The heavy rainfall was caused by Cyclone Ditwah, which was moving across Sri Lanka’s eastern region.Some regions of the island nation had experienced rainfall of 360 mm in the past 24 hours, the centre was quoted as saying. The rain continued on Friday.The cyclone is expected to move northwards towards India. It is expected to affect the coasts of Tamil Nadu, Puducherry and Andhra Pradesh, according to the India Meteorological Department.Nearly 700 homes were damaged in landslides and floods in Sri Lanka, AFP reported. Around 1,800 families have moved to temporary shelters.The disaster management agency asked residents in low-lying areas to move to higher ground.Final-year school exams were suspended nationwide for two days because of the heavy rainfall....Read more

The heavy rainfall was caused by Cyclone Ditwah, which is moving towards India.

United States President Donald Trump on Thursday said he will “permanently pause migration from all third-world countries”, a day after a suspected Afghan citizen shot two members of the National Guard in Washington DC.In a social media post, Trump said that migration from third-world countries will be paused to “allow the US system to fully recover”, “terminate” millions of “illegal admissions” that he alleged his predecessor Joe Biden had allowed and “remove anyone who is not a net asset” to the nation, “or is incapable of loving our country”.It was unclear how Trump would enforce the pause in migration. His previous actions to limit migration have been challenged in the courts.The comments by Trump came hours after one of the two National Guard members, Sarah Beckstrom, succumbed to her injuries on Thursday. The second member is being treated in hospital.The US immigration authorities on Wednesday paused the processing of all immigration requests from Afghan citizens after a man, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, who entered the country from Afghanistan in 2021, was identified as the suspect in the shooting.Lakanwal was granted asylum in April under the Trump administration, Reuters reported.He was among the tens of thousands of Afghans who arrived in the US under a programme named Operation Allies Welcome, which was launched by the...Read more