In September, all members of the Pacific Islands Forum were connected for the first time to the global network of submarine telecommunications cables. Among them is Tuvalu, a small state made up of nine islands where the first international cable entered service last year. The Vaka connects the capital, Funafuti, with the Bulikula cable system and is funded by contributions from the United States, Australia, New Zealand, and Taiwan, with the participation of Japan and Google.

US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick was booed Tuesday at a dinner at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, the British newspaper reported Wednesday. Financial TimesDuring the event, Lutnick reportedly gave a speech in which he attacked Europe and defended the use of coal and other hydrocarbons as the main sources of energy over renewables, which provoked outrage among some of the attendees, and some, such as the president of the European Central Bank (ECB), Christine Lagarde, left the event.

The day before Donald Trump announced the deployment of the National Guard in WashingtonThe city looked like any other Sunday in August. It wasn't the stifling, humid heat of the capital's summer, and the breeze was breezy, which was welcome. Many terraces on 14th Street, one of its main thoroughfares, which runs north to south, were packed.

Donald Trump was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, but it's much more appropriate to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. This Monday he demonstrated this in Washington, D.C. He gave a speech—a recitation, in fact—to explain Why is the National Guard deployed in the city?. The poem, rape or recitation he has uttered is the following, which I try to translate without betraying. It is a vibrant text, full of metaphorical vivacity, a monologue that leaves Shakespeare on the level of EL James. For a greater enjoyment of this lofty creation, I allow myself to transcribe it in verse:

Police cordoned off the area surrounding the Jewish Museum in Washington this afternoon, where two Israeli embassy workers in the United States were shot dead early Thursday morning. Some people were approaching the crime scene to leave bouquets of carnations and candles. "It's a result of all the hate that's circulating," Mark Rosenberg, a Florida rabbi who traveled specifically to the scene to offer his condolences, told ARA. The "never again" the rabbi refers to is the motto coined by the Jewish community after the Holocaust.

They have clear ideas and do not hide. On the contrary: the shameless display of their ideology is an essential part. The message has also become the essence. It is about proudly reducing the administration, slimming it down considerably. And doing so without too much consideration for those who may be harmed, thousands of citizens who may even have voted for them. The contradictory chaos is fabulous.