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Sorrow and Pain in a Spanish Town Devastated by Flooding

Par : Emma Bubola
More than 60 people were killed as floodwaters roared through Paiporta. “We are alive,” one woman said. “But we have lost everything.”

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Residents of Paiporta, Spain, a town on the outskirts of Valencia, trying to clean a flood-ravaged street on Thursday.

Can Quake-Prone Japan Ever Embrace Nuclear Energy Again?

The government, its makeup in flux after the ruling party lost seats this week, will soon need to make decisions that will shape Japan’s future nuclear policy.

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In the Japanese seaside town of Shika, the local power provider, Hokuriku Electric, has been fighting for a decade to restart a nuclear power plant in the town’s center.

Protecting Nature, With the U.S. on the Sidelines

As the world gathers this week for U.N. biodiversity negotiations, the U.S. hasn’t ratified a decades-old treaty to protect nature.

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An installation in Cali, Colombia, showing extinct species. The city is hosting U.N.-sponsored biodiversity talks.

Six weeks in Saginaw: the bellwether county in the bellwether state – podcast

The Guardian US writer Chris McGreal reports from his time in Saginaw, Michigan – the county that has backed the winning candidate in every US presidential election since 2008 – to find out which way America might vote on 5 November

Saginaw in Michigan is a bellwether county. It has backed the winning candidate in every US presidential election since 2008, voting for Barack Obama twice, for Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton and, by a sliver, for Joe Biden over Trump last time round.

It was once, like the rest of Michigan, safe Democrat territory – part of a “blue wall” stretching into neighbouring Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. But decades of industrial decline – car factories closing and job losses in their thousands – have worn away some of that support.

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