Uploaded August 2021 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI — Martine Moise, the wife of assassinated Haitian President Jovenel Moise, has given her account of last month’s attack in which she was also seriously injured, notably telling CNN she believes presidential guards vacated their posts under orders from an unknown source.
The Haitian first lady says that minutes after hearing automatic weapons being fired outside, the bedroom door burst open and assassins began firing into the room.
Initially only she was hit, and while faced down on the ground bleeding she says around a dozen men ransacked the room, looking for something. ‘I heard them saying “that’s not it ... that’s not it ... there it is!”’ she said.
After the assassins had found what they were looking for, Moise says they turned their attention to the president, with one of them making a phone call where they appeared to check that he was the correct target. Once they had done so, they shot him.
Moise says that after the attack it was a maid who found her, before a team from the National Police eventually arrived to take her away, first to a local hospital and then by plane to a Miami hospital with her children, according to CNN.
However, she says that as she left her home that night she noticed there were no guards stationed on the grounds, where usually there would be dozens, and this led her to conclude that they received an order to leave.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI — Martine Moise, the wife of assassinated Haitian President Jovenel Moise, has given her account of last month’s attack in which she was also seriously injured, notably telling CNN she believes presidential guards vacated their posts under orders from an unknown source.
The Haitian first lady says that minutes after hearing automatic weapons being fired outside, the bedroom door burst open and assassins began firing into the room.
Initially only she was hit, and while faced down on the ground bleeding she says around a dozen men ransacked the room, looking for something. ‘I heard them saying “that’s not it ... that’s not it ... there it is!”’ she said.
After the assassins had found what they were looking for, Moise says they turned their attention to the president, with one of them making a phone call where they appeared to check that he was the correct target. Once they had done so, they shot him.
Moise says that after the attack it was a maid who found her, before a team from the National Police eventually arrived to take her away, first to a local hospital and then by plane to a Miami hospital with her children, according to CNN.
However, she says that as she left her home that night she noticed there were no guards stationed on the grounds, where usually there would be dozens, and this led her to conclude that they received an order to leave.

![Antarctica’s ‘Glue’ Is Coming Unstuck.
ANTARCTICA — The 2017 calving of the A68 iceberg from Antarctica’s Larsen C ice shelf was likely caused by thinning ice melange[d], the mix of windblown snow, iceberg debris and frozen seawater that normally acts to glue rifts together with larger blocks.
That’s according to a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, which found the circulation of ocean water beneath ice shelves and radiative warming from above gradually deteriorates the ice melange.
Counterintuitively, if the ice shelves themselves thin, rifts tend to heal, with average annual widening rates dropping from 79 to 22 meters, or 259 to 72 feet. Additionally, if both the shelves and the melange thinned, this also slowed rift widening.
Only when the melange thinned separately to the ice shelf was rift widening found to increase, from an average annual rate of 76 to 112 meters, or 249 to 367 feet.
The reason for that is that the ice melange starts out much thinner than the ice shelf itself, so when it thins down to 10 or 15 meters thick, it becomes akin to water, allowing the ice shelf rifts to be released and start to crack.
The study’s lead author, Eric Larour, cited by SciTechDaily, says this idea explains why the A68 iceberg was able to break from the Larsen C ice shelf in the dead of the Antarctic winter, because even in winter, warmer ocean water can reach the melange from below.
Previously scientists had thought such large iceberg calving events in the Antarctic Peninsula were caused by hydrofracturing, according to Larour, whereby ‘melt pools on the surface allow water to seep down through cracks in the ice shelf, which expand when the water freezes again,’ but this would not be possible in the dead of winter, with no melt pools present.
The study, then, partially explains how ice shelves can start retreating and becoming unstable decades before hydrofracturing could act on them, and this, according to one of the study’s co-authors, means “we may need to rethink our estimates about the timing and extent of sea level rise from polar ice loss — i.e., it could come sooner and with a bigger bang than expected.” Antarctica’s ‘Glue’ Is Coming Unstuck.](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/rbVDd_H12es/mqdefault.jpg)


![MORE Bloodshed as U.S. Completes Withdrawal: Rockets Fired and U.S. Drone Attack Kills Civilians
KABUL, AFGHANISTAN — The Taliban have taken over Kabul airport following the departure of the final U.S. flight on Tuesday morning, according to the BBC, but only after a rocket attack on the airport on Monday.
As many as five rockets were fired according to U.S. Major General William Taylor at a Pentagon briefing, with three landing off the airfield with no effect, one intercepted by an anti-missile system and another landing inside with no danger to personnel.
In the hours after the attack, footage emerged showing the remains of a four-door sedan that appeared to have been used by the attackers.
IS-K, an Islamic State affiliate in Afghanistan, has claimed responsibility for the attack, saying it fired at least six Katyusha [d]rockets, according to The Associated Press, which added that rockets also struck a neighborhood close to the airport.
The attack followed a suicide bomb last week which killed at least 95 people, according to the BBC, as well a deadly U.S. drone strike which blew up a vehicle carrying IS suicide bombers planning to attack the airport, according to The Associated Press.
However, relatives cited by The Associated Press said it also killed civilians who had nothing to do with the extremist group. MORE Bloodshed as U.S. Completes Withdrawal: Rockets Fired and U.S. Drone Attack Kills Civilians](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/s5sQEaQfLgw/mqdefault.jpg)





