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Adele has released an album “30” British singer Adele has released her first album in six, which includes 12 songs. This was reported by CNN. The new disc was named “30”. The album is the artist's fourth studio album and the first full-length release since 2015. Adele's single Easy on Me, which Adele released on October 15, was a resounding success: the video for the song has now received over 169 million views on YouTube, and the number of streams on Spotify is approaching six million. As noted by Page Six , the album is dedicated to the singer's son Angelo and is Adele's attempt to explain to him the divorce of her parents. Adele began dating businessman Simon Konecki in 2011. A year later, the couple had a son – Angelo. The couple broke up in April 2019. Their representatives said that the couple intends to continue “raising their

Le Petit Robert French Dictionary includes gender-neutral pronoun “iel” Le Petit Robert French Dictionary adds gender-neutral pronoun “iel “. This is reported by The Independеnt. The new pronoun is a combination of “il” (he) and “elle” (she). At the same time, the word was included in the dictionary back in October, but attention was drawn to it in the media after Francois Jolivet, a deputy from President Emmanuel Macron's party, “En March”, criticized this decision. “Le Petit Robert, the dictionary we thought was a reference, just added the word iel, ielle, iels, ielles to its site. Consequently, its authors are activists in a case that has nothing to do with France: #wokisme, “he wrote on Twitter. French Education Minister Jean Michel Blanquet also criticized the decision. The politician stated that “inclusive language is not the future of the French language” and that students should not use this pronoun. In turn,

Over the past year, the Amazon forest area has decreased by 5,100 square miles maximum over the past 15 years. This is reported by The New York Times. According to a report by the Brazilian National Institute for Space Research (INPE), from August 2020 to July 2021, the world's largest rainforest lost 5,100 square miles (13,200 square kilometers). kilometers) of tree cover. In addition, since Jair Bolsonaro became President of Brazil in 2019, the country has lost more forest area than Belgium. Earlier at the UN climate conference COP26 in Glasgow, the Brazilian delegation joined more than 100 countries, pledging end deforestation. The country has said it will reduce deforestation in the Amazon by 15 percent by next year. However, experts now doubt that Brazil will be able to achieve such indicators. Brazilian Environment Minister Joaquim Leite noted that he was not aware of these figures at the time of

Due to wind and wet snow in Moscow and the region, a yellow level of weather hazard was declared Due to wind and wet snow in Moscow and the area Hydrometeorological Center has declared a yellow level of weather hazard. This follows from the data of the forecast map on the website of the institution. “Degree of intensity of hazardous phenomena: yellow – the weather is potentially dangerous,” reports the Hydrometeorological Center. In Moscow, wind gusts of up to 15-20 meters per second are expected from 10:00 Saturday to 4:00 Sunday, in the Moscow region – from 9:00 Saturday to 5:00 Sunday. The hydrometeorological center also warned of wet snow and ice in the capital and the region from Saturday night to Sunday evening. Earlier, a leading employee of the Phobos weather center, Yevgeny Tishkovets, warned Moscow residents about a record sleet and stormy winds. He noted that Muscovites will

Trump congratulates who shot two protesters and acquitted teenager Rittenhouse Former US President Donald Trump congratulated teenager Kyle Rittenhaus, acquitted in the murder of two Rittenhouse during the riots in 2020. This is reported by RIA Novosti. “Congratulations for being found innocent on all charges … If this is not self-defense, then what is self-defense?”, – he said. The Rittenhouse case has become one of the most notorious in recent times in the United States. Society has practically split into two camps – those who consider Rittenhouse to be a mass murderer and vigilante, and those who are confident that he has not exceeded the limits of permissible self-defense. On August 26, 2020, a video was published, filmed by an eyewitness: the crowd The rioters chase 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse, armed with a semi-automatic rifle and shooting a man who was trying to attack him. At some point, Rittenhouse stumbles and

In the Saratov region, a 13-year-old schoolboy got behind the wheel of a car and died in an accident in an accident. This was reported by the press service of the IC department for the region. The accident occurred on November 19 in the Lysogorsky district of the Saratov region. A 13-year-old teenager lost control of a VAZ 2106 car and crashed into a pole. The car overturned, the boy was hospitalized with numerous injuries, but it was not possible to save him. The circumstances under which the teenager ended up behind the wheel are not yet known. According to the IC, there were peers of the deceased in the car, but none of them sought medical help. Now, a check is being carried out on the fact of an accident. Earlier, in Drozhzhino near Moscow, a 16-year-old teenager driving a foreign car Volkswagen Touareg hit a woman with a

Police injured several people during the crackdown on a protest in Rotterdam time of dispersal of protesters in Rotterdam. This was reported by the NL Times. According to the Dutch media, at least two people were injured. “The police were forced to open fire and at least two people were injured. The circumstances and reasons for the shooting are still unknown, “the Netherlands Broadcasting Corporation reports. Protests in Rotterdam were initiated by opponents of the restrictive measures introduced to combat the coronavirus. Dutch Acting Prime Minister Mark Rutte said last week that the country's authorities have decided to introduce a new lockdown due to the worsening situation with the coronavirus. Restrictive measures will be in effect until December 4.

Zakharova called the resolution of the US congressmen on the “non-recognition of Putin” as an “interference” Russian President Vladimir Putin as head of state in case he decides to run for this position in 2024. She announced this on the air of the Russia 24 TV channel, RIA Novosti reports. Zakharova noted that the draft resolution presented by the Americans is not just interference in the affairs of a sovereign state, but such an “autumn intervention”. According to the representative of the Foreign Ministry, she, frankly, thought that Washington would hold out at least until spring with new initiatives of this kind, but for some reason in the United States they failed. “Maybe the autumn is warm, I don’t know,” the diplomat added. In addition, she stressed that the US representatives are clearly out of touch with reality and every year this is becoming more noticeable. Zakharova explained that there

The US Senate asked the candidate Biden for the post in the Ministry of Finance to confirm his withdrawal from the Komsomol which US President Joe Biden nominated for a post in the Office of Foreign Exchange Control of the Ministry of Finance of the country, to explain his ties with the All-Union Leninist Communist Youth Union (Komsomol). This is reported by RBC. Kennedy demanded that Omarova provide confirmation of her withdrawal from the “organization of young communists.” In response to this, the candidate for the post, who hardly understood the essence of the demand, noted that, as she remembers, they leave the Komsomol when they reach a certain age. After that, other parliamentarians stood up for Omarova, noting that she had long since renounced USSR citizenship. It is noted that 55-year-old Omarova is a graduate of Moscow State University. If appointed, a Moscow University graduate will become the first