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(The Dallas Morning News) Disasters and accidents. 2021 Atlantic hurricane season. Hurricane Ida quickly intensifies overnight into a Category 4 storm and threatens the coasts of Louisiana and Mississippi. Louisiana governor John Bel Edwards says that the possible impact of Ida could be "historical" and a test for the flooding protection systems.
2021 – Ed Asner, American actor (b. 1929) [63] 2021 – Lee "Scratch" Perry, Jamaican reggae producer (b. 1936) [64] 2021 – Jacques Rogge, French orthopedic surgeon, Olympic sailor and the 8th President of the International Olympic Committee (b. 1942) [65] 2023 – Mike Enriquez, Filipino broadcaster (b. 1951) [66]
4 August: In athletics, American Sydney McLaughlin broke the women's 400 metres hurdles world record at the 2020 Summer Olympics with a time of 51.46. [ 34 ] [ 35 ] 29 August: In swimming, American Coleman Stewart broke the short course 100 metre backstroke world record at the 2021 International Swimming League with a time of 48.33.
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AFP has been active in national, state, [3] [28] [29] and local elections. [ 30 ] [ 31 ] AFP registered to lobby in 2014. [ 32 ] According to FactCheck.org , by 2011, AFP had "emerged as one of the most influential conservative issue advocacy groups on the national and state political scene".
Agence France-Presse (French pronunciation: [aʒɑ̃s fʁɑ̃s pʁɛs]; AFP) is a French international news agency headquartered in Paris, France.Founded in 1835 as Havas, it is the world's oldest news agency.
On August 27, the New York Cosmos and Detroit City FC announced that their scheduled game for August 29 would be postponed as both teams took part in protests. [42] The following day, New Amsterdam FC and California United Strikers FC both announced they would not travel for their scheduled August 30 matches against Chattanooga FC and Los ...
Clockwise from top-left: the James Webb Space Telescope is launched; protesters in Yangon, Myanmar, following the coup d'état; a civil demonstration against the October coup in Sudan; supporters of then United States president Donald Trump stormed the country's Capitol in a failed attempt to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election; the container ship Ever Given gets stuck in the ...