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Four months into US oil blockade, Cubans see island drained as state electric company fights to provide even a few hours of power a day Ruaridh Nicoll in Havana - The doctor called from the darkness, a shadowy figure sitting on the stoop of his apartment building. “I want to tell you we’ve been four days without light,” he said. “And without electricity, water is also a problem. And there are mosquitoes everywhere.”

The process of relocating people from New Orleans should start immediately, as the city has reached a “point of no return” that will see it surrounded by the ocean within decades due to the climate crisis, a stark new study has concluded. Ongoing sea-level rise and the rampant erosion of wetlands in southern Louisiana will swallow up the New Orleans area within a few generations, with the new paper estimating the city “may well be surrounded by the Gulf of Mexico before the end of this century”.

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Tsahal a annoncé ce vendredi 19 septembre l’intensification de son offensive sur la ville et a appelé la population à évacuer.

Dans la nuit de lundi à mardi, Israël a lancé son offensive terrestre dans ­la ville de Gaza, causant la mort de plusieurs dizaines de personnes et forçant la population à fuir à nouveau. Au même moment, le rapport d’une commission de l’ONU dénonçait un «génocide» en cours.

L'armée israélienne a communiqué dimanche de nouveaux ordres d'évacuations via des tracts aux habitants de la ville de Gaza, avant de frapper une nouvelle tour d'habitations, la tour al-Kawthar, où selon elle le Hamas avait installé "des postes d'observation pour surveiller l'emplacement des (...) troupes dans la zone".

L'armée israélienne a affirmé samedi que plus de 250.000 habitants avaient quitté la ville de Gaza vers d'autres secteurs du territoire palestinien, après une intensification des bombardements et raids israéliens ces dernières semaines.