Tehran – The death toll in Iran has risen to at least 69 following the severe storms of the last three days. This was announced by the Iranian Ministry of the Interior on Sunday, according to the Isna news agency. Across the country, rescue workers continued to search desperately for missing people. So far, more than 40 seriously injured and 37,000 homeless people have been reported, and more than 20,000 houses are said to have been badly damaged.
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July 2022
Cubans have endured more than two years of food and medicine shortages
written by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief
Soaring prices for food, fuel and shipping have exposed import dependency and vulnerabilities such as deteriorating infrastructure.
Cuba’s economy decreased by 10.9% during 2020, registering a slight recovery of 1.3% during the past year (2021).
On the other hand, Cubans they have endured more than two years of food and medicine shortages, as well as long lines to buy scarce goods, facing high prices and transportation problems.
Blackouts have added to the frustration, prompting an exodus of more than 150,000 Cubans from October to the United States and other countries.
Champion Bayern Munich shone for an hour in the German soccer Supercup once morest cup winners RB Leipzig on Saturday. In the final phase, things got even tighter for the star squad around new signing Sadio Mané, but in the end the favorites, who were convincing with Marcel Sabitzer, were able to win 5: 3 away in their first competitive game without Robert Lewandowski.
By winning the Supercup once more, Bayern sent the challengers a clear signal a week before the start of the Bundesliga. “It was a perfect night. My first game, my first title with this exciting club. I’m happy,” stressed Mané, who scored a goal straight away. “It was an exclamation point to start the season with a trophy,” said Serge Gnabry, one of Bayern’s other four goalscorers.
Salihamidzic zufrieden
“You might see that we’re extremely dangerous,” stated sporting director Hasan Salihamidzic, visibly satisfied. “We’re a bit harder to calculate,” said Coach Nagelsmann. And Gnabry reiterated the clear goals: “We want to defend the title in the Bundesliga, we want the title in the cup – and in the Champions League we want to get as far as possible.”
Jamal Musiala played brilliantly. The enthusiastic youngster made it 1-0 following less than 15 minutes and assisted in the goals of Mané and Benjamin Pavard before the break. Salihamidzic called the only 19-year-old Musiala “a feast for the eyes”. “He was already world class,” said Nagelsmann: “If he plays like he does today, he’s indispensable.”
The ÖFB team boss Ralf Rangnick, commenting as a TV expert, also awarded the title “world class” to Konrad Laimer from Salzburg, who is being courted by Bayern Munich. A change in the midfielder, who in his opinion is outstanding in the Leipzig collective, would be a real weakening for RB and at the same time a strengthening of the competitor from Munich, Rangnick pointed out.
But even without Laimer, the series champion will be difficult to bend in the new season. You’ve already seen signs that “we can play really good football,” said Salihamidzic, but of course there was still room for improvement. “It will take a few more weeks before we get a real rhythm.”
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The month of July is coming to an end and registering a worrying record, that of being the hottest recorded by the MRI since 1885. Barely 5 mm of rain recorded in Brussels while the average in July is 76.9 mm. The figures are 30 times lower than the exceptional rains of last summer which led to the deadly floods in Wallonia.
The Royal Meteorological Institute specifies that only the month of July 1922 was so dry. The worst was that of 1885, with 2.9 mm of rain. This drought also affects our French neighbors.
For the MRI experts, we are entering into a constant: hot summers will repeat themselves. With the exception of last year, 2018, 2019 and 2020 were extremely dry.
A worrying situation
If we compare the average temperatures over two periods: 1961-1990 / 1991-2020, we see a rise in temperatures in July of 1.6°, which is catastrophic across Belgium, say the experts.
According to Sébastien Doutreloup, climatologist at ULiège, global warming will push temperatures up. The current peaks of 30 to 35° will increase to 35-40°… and even 45° in the not so distant future.
For the head of the weather bureau (Royal Meteorological Institute) and meteorologist David Dehenauw, these extreme weather episodes are signs of global warming. “We can’t say that all summers are going to be dry”, he says on the set of RTL INFO 13H. “But we see that the extremes are multiplying. we can have very dry summers, or very humid, and we will surely still have normal ones. But we must not ignore these signs of global warming which are very present in Belgium.”