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“Soy el nieto de Estela de Carlotto”, le dijo ayer a uno de sus amigos más íntimos el pianista, arreglador y compositor de Olavarría Ignacio Hurban. “Él estaba sereno. Lo que le preocupaba a Pacho’ -tal su apodo- es cómo les iba a afectar la noticia a sus padres, los que lo criaron, porque se iban a enterar por televisión”, contó el amigo a LA NACION.

No fue un dato preciso, tangible, lo que llevó a Pacho, de 36 años, a albergar dudas sobre su identidad. Sólo lo sintió y decidió hacerse los estudios de ADN. Fue hace alrededor de dos semanas cuando finalmente resolvió hacerse los análisis, contó el amigo. “Le dijeron que iban a tardar tres meses -añadió-, pero le dieron los resultados a los diez días. Lo tomaron por sorpresa.” Tanto que casi no tuvo tiempo de avisarle a nadie.

Casi todos sus amigos se enteraron por televisión. “Nos estamos llamando entre todos. Fue una sorpresa total. Ni siquiera sabíamos que era adoptado”, dijo otro de sus amigos íntimos a LA NACION.

El nieto de Estela de Carlotto, hijo de Laura Carlotto, pensaba que había nacido en 1978, en Olavarría. Fue criado en un paraje rural cercano, llamado Colonia San Miguel. Lo criaron Juana y Clemente Hurban.

“No es parecido a Juana y a Clemente. Tiene la cara larga, puede ser parecido a la foto de Laura que mostraron por televisión”, dijo Oscar, un vecino de Loma Negra, la localidad donde hasta ahora vivió Ignacio.

El joven pasó su infancia en un campo propiedad de Francisco Aguilar -donde Clemente trabajaba como peón-. No tenía hermanos. Estaba mucho tiempo solo, leía: en su casa había una nutrida biblioteca.

“Es el intelectual de la barra. Nos recomienda libros, escribe muy bien. Es muy solidario, muy querido, y nos ayuda cuando hay que escribir”, contó otro de sus más queridos amigos.

Además, dijo, es un hincha fanático de River Plate -cuentan que “realmente estuvo muy mal cuando se fueron a la B”- y es dueño de un sentido del humor muy afilado. Está en pareja con Celeste, una diseñadora con la que planea casarse.

Los que lo conocen contaron que cursó el secundario en el colegio industrial, donde obtuvo el título de maestro mayor de obra; luego estudió música en el Instituto Municipal de Música de Avellaneda (IMMA) y en el conservatorio Ernesto Mogávero, de Olavarría, donde ahora es profesor de la materia Piano armónico.

Además, es director de la Escuela Municipal de Música de esa ciudad y pianista de la Orquesta Errante, un grupo de 15 músicos de distintos lugares del país dirigidos por Valentín Reiners, que abordan un repertorio jazzístico.

Pero el universo de este músico admirado por sus pares excede el jazz: aborda, además, la música popular, el folklore, la fusión. Durante su carrera, tocó con Liliana Herrero, Emilio Romero, Raly Barrionuevo, Carlos Aguirre, Carto Brandán, Jerónimo Carmona, Sergio Verdinelli, Francesca Ancarola, Adrián Abonizio, el saxofonista barítono inglés George Haslam y el bandoneonista italiano Paolo Rossi, entre otros profesionales.

Verdinelli, Aguirre y Barrionuevo participaron en su proyecto “Mujeres argentinas x hombres argentinos”. Herrero y Romero, en otra de sus iniciativas más conocidas: la banda Musa Rea, que tomó su nombre de un poema lunfardo de Julián Centeya.

En 2010, el grupo presentó el disco. Una de las canciones de ese disco, compuesta por el nieto de Carlotto, se llama “Para la memoria” y dice: “Si lapidando al poeta / se cree matar la memoria / qué más le queda a esta tierra / que va perdiendo su historia”.

¿Fue obra del azar esa coincidencia? Él no lo sabe. Lo cierto es que, según sus amigos, no sospechaba nada cuando la escribió. Sólo la escribió porque le interesaba el tema. El mismo motivo, y la oportunidad musical, lo llevó a participar del ciclo “Música por la Identidad”, que justamente organiza Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo.

“Él no tenía idea de esta realidad cuando participamos de ese ciclo. Sentía afinidad por el ciclo de música por la identidad, como todos nosotros”, dijo un músico y amigo.

Además, en prezi.com, Hurban subió una melodía para un proyecto de composición grupal y de improvisación.

Además, en su página web subía escritos como ensayos sobre el jazz, la música en general y en los últimos años sobre la memoria y los horrores causados por la última dictadura.

Había ganado respeto de la comunidad musical y la Municipalidad de Olavarría lo incluyó como pianista y programador musical en los actos del 9 de Julio que se realizaron en el principal teatro de esa ciudad.

También actuó con su grupo junto a la Sinfónica Municipal, varias veces, en marzo de 2000 presentó el espectáculo de música latinoamericana Fusión latina.

En el marco de este espectáculo se estrenó la obra “Americana Sinfonía”, obra de estructura sinfónica para un ensamble de músicos que constaba de 2 trompetas, 2 saxos, 1 trombón, 2 guitarras, bajo, flauta, 4 percusionistas y piano.

En junio de 2001 estrenó en el teatro municipal de Olavarría la obra de su autoría Entre gallos y medianoche, para quinteto de saxo, bajo, guitarra, batería y piano.

Junto con el cantante Gustavo Angelini forma el dúo de tango 2xtango destinado a interpretaciones de tangos clásicos, con este dúo graban dos discos 2xtango (1999) y Lamentablemente (2000); además realizaron conciertos en el circuito tanguero de Buenos Aires.

Tocó algunos años con el ensamble de música popular Meridiano 58, donde se desempeñó como pianista arreglador y compositor y grabó su disco “Tiempo y forma”.

Actualmente, junto con Facundo Barreyra, es uno de los encargados de Jazz del Sur, una asociación para la difusión y producción de eventos de Jazz en Argentina.

En ese marco, participa como pianista y compositor de 3+1, cuarteto de jazz con el cual supieron ser anfitriones de Jazz+Jamm, además de una nutrida agenda de conciertos en Capital.

Incluso, con una de sus formaciones se presentó en Además, Hurban compuso la música para el spot “Adultos mayores”, que pudo verse en los canales de TV.

Ahora, según uno de sus amigos, no piensa viajar a Buenos Aires. “Seguramente quiere conocer a Estela, pero necesita acomodar su cabeza”, dijo un hombre que ayer estaba en la humilde casa de Ignacio en la localidad de Loma Negra.

“Ojala que no se mude. Es un una bellísima persona”, dijo otro vecino.

El nieto de Estela de Carlotto nació en cautiverio en 1977 en un centro clandestino de detenciones en La Plata. Es hijo de Laura Carlotto y Oscar Montoya. Pero fue criado como Ignacio Hurban en la localidad de Olavarría.

Source Article from http://www.elpais.com.uy/mundo/nieto-estela-carlotto.html

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Polo Sur: la estructura de la nube polar en Júpiter es muy diferente a la de Saturno.

Nubes gigantescas, poderosos ciclones, y violentas tormentas.

Estos fueron algunos de los rasgos revelados por las primeras observaciones de Júpiter, que dejaron sin aliento a los investigadores de la NASA a cargo de la misión Juno.

“Imagínate varias tormentas, cada una del tamaño de la Tierra, tan juntas que se tocan las unas a las otras”, dijo el investigador de la agencia espacial estadounidense Mike Janssen.

“Incluso en una habitación repleta de investigadores expertos, estas imágenes de remolinos de nubes despertaron suspiros”.

La sonda llegó al quinto planeta del Sistema Solar el 4 de julio del año pasado. Desde entonces, hace un vuelo para acercarse al planeta gaseoso cada 53 días.

Todo lo que sabemos, en entredicho

Los datos recabados hasta ahora -y que fueron publicados por primera vez esta semana en Science y otras revistas especializadas- cuestionan todas las teorías existentes sobre el planeta, dicen los investigadores.

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Los puntos blancos en esta imagen son nubes de hielo de una extensión de más de 50 Km.

“Es la primera vez que nos acercamos tanto a Júpiter y estamos viendo que muchas de nuestras ideas son incorrectas y puede que hasta ingenuas“, aseguró Scott Bolton, investigador principal del Instituto de Investigación del Suroeste en San Antonio, Texas, Estados Unidos.

Los ciclones gigantescos que cubren las latitudes más altas del planeta pudieron ser ahora observados en detalle, ya que las misiones anteriores nunca pudieron ver al planeta desde arriba y desde abajo tal y como lo logró Juno, y tampoco habían tomado imágenes en un resolución tan alta.

  • Júpiter es 11 veces más ancho que la Tierra
  • Demora 12 años terrestres en completar una órbita alrededor del Sol
  • Su composición es similar a la de una estrella: está hecho mayormente de hidrógeno y helio
  • Bajo presión, el hidrógeno entra en estado similar al de un metal

Las estructuras -algunas de cerca de 50 Km- son muy diferentes de las que se observan en los polos de Saturno, por ejemplo, y el equipo ahora tendrá que descubrir por qué.

Tampoco se sabe por cuánto tiempo se mantienen y si se disipan más rápidamente que las tormentas en latitudes más bajas.

Otra de las sorpresas que se llevaron los científicos fue la detección de una ancha banda de amoníaco en el ecuador, que va desde la parte superior de la atmósfera hasta la zona más profunda que pudo observarse, a una profundidad de al menos 350 Km.

Esta banda, dicen, podría ser parte de un sistema de circulación.

Auroras misteriosas

Varias mediciones mostraron además que el campo magnético de Júpiter es más fuerte de lo esperado (10 veces más fuerte que el campo magnético más fuerte encontrado en la Tierra) y su señal es irregular.

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Las luces son las auroras que tiene lugar en el polo sur.

La irregularidad podría indicar que el sistema dinámico -la región conductora de electricidad que genera el campo- está, probablemente, en una zona no tan profunda del planeta.

Entender el campo magnético permitiría explicar las auroras brillantes de Júpiter.

Estas auroras deberían ser el resultado del choque de los electrones que se mueven por el campo magnético con la atmósfera. Pero la corrientes transportada por los electrones debería tener su propia firma magnética y Juno, al menos por ahora, no logró detectarla.

“Debo admitir que esto nos desconcertó”, explicó Jonathan Nichols, de la Universidad de Leicester, en Reino Unido.

“Vemos las auroras, tenemos una idea de cómo se generan, pero cuando llega el momento de corroborarlo, no vemos la corriente que deberíamos ver”.

¿Tiene o no tiene núcleo?

Otra de las fotos tomadas por Juno muestra el anillo de polvo que rodea al planeta.

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El próximo sobrevuelo está previsto para el 11 de julio.

“Esta es la primera imagen del anillo de Júpiter que se ha tomado desde dentro, mirando hacia afuera”, señaló Heidi Becker, investigadora de la misión.

En cuanto a la gravedad de Júpiter, las teorías existentes sostienen que el planeta tiene un núcleo rocoso pequeño o directamente no tiene un núcleo.

Las mediciones de Juno hacen pensar ahora que puede ser algo intermedio: un núcleo difuso.

“Puede que haya un núcleo, pero es muy grande y quizás esté parcialmente disuelto”, explicó Bolton.

Éste y otros misterios de Júpiter serán investigados a lo largo de la misión que concluye en febrero de 2018.

El próximo sobrevuelo está previsto para el 11 de julio, cuando la sonda se concentrará en la descomunal tormenta conocida como la “Gran Mancha Roja“, que tiene el doble del tamaño de la Tierra y es el mayor remolino tormentoso del Sistema Solar, activo desde hace 400 años.

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Source Article from http://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias-40059986

Miami Beach officials on Sunday said the city would extend curfews and closures through April 12 after a SWAT team was called in Saturday night to break up a rowdy crowd of spring breakers that had defied an 8 p.m. curfew. 

City commissioners unanimously voted on the move during an emergency meeting on Sunday. Interim City Manager Raul Aguila, who recommended extending the curfew, needed commission support to extend the curfew beyond Tuesday. 

Aguila told The Miami Herald that the measure aims to “contain the overwhelming crowd of visitors and the potential for violence, disruption and damage to property.” 

The vote comes after law enforcement officers in bulletproof vests dispersed pepper spray balls Saturday to break up groups that descended on sunny South Beach by the thousands, trashing restaurants and flooding the streets without masks or social distancing despite COVID restrictions.

City of Miami Beach Police officers are ready to enforce strict rules part of the zero tolerance campaign Miami Beach Vacation Responsibly as spring break has officially begun Saturday, Feb. 20, 2021 in Miami Beach, Fla. 
(Miami Herald via AP)

After days of partying – including several confrontations between police and large crowds – Miami Beach officials ordered an emergency curfew from 8 p.m. until 6 a.m., forcing restaurants to stop outdoor seating entirely during the three-day emergency period, and encouraging local businesses to voluntarily shut down.

On Saturday, a military-style vehicle was seen rolling down the palm-tree-lined Ocean Drive on social media as outnumbered Miami Beach police officers struggled to disperse the raucous crowds. Tourists were urged to stay inside their hotels and pedestrians or vehicles were not allowed to enter the restricted area after 8 p.m.

SPRING BREAKERS IN MIAMI BEACH FORCE POPULAR RESTAURANT TO CLOSE OVER SAFETY CONCERNS

Despite the curfew, Ocean Avenue, the city’s main strip, remained jam-packed with revelers well past the 8 p.m. deadline. A SWAT team was on the perimeter by they reportedly left the area around 8:45 p.m.

Paul Acosta, assistant chief of police at the Miami Beach Police Department, said the main part of Ocean Avenue was clear of crowds shortly after 9 p.m.

City of Miami Beach Police officers arrest several males on Ocean Drive and 10th Street as spring break has officially begun Saturday, Feb. 20, 2021 in Miami Beach, Fla. 
(Miami Herald via AP)

Miami Beach police enforced the curfew by blockading Ocean Drive, Washington Avenue, and Collins Avenue from to 16th streets, Miami’s WSVN 7 reported.

Eastbound traffic on the city’s three main causeways – the MacArthur, Julia Tuttle, and Venetian – were shut down at 10 p.m. and stayed closed until 5 a.m. to people who were not residents, hotel guests, or people going to work, according to the station.

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Miami Beach police said Sunday afternoon they have made more than 50 arrests and confiscated at least eight firarms since Friday. 

Fox News has reached out to Miami Beach Mayor Dan Gelber and City Commissioner Michael Gongora with a request for comment but did not hear back before publication. 

Fox News’ Paul Best and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Source Article from https://www.foxnews.com/us/miami-beach-police-blocking-entry-into-city-after-swat-break-spring-breaker-crowds-up

On Wednesday, the BBC reported on an interview between one of its most senior correspondents, John Simpson, and Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan. But it was Simpson’s analysis that stood out. Receiving Khan’s claim that Pakistan’s positive relationship with India is only obstructed by Kashmir, Simpson inexplicably took Khan’s words at face value. “He was offering the hand of friendship: Let’s work together to solve our common problems,” Simpson said.

Simpson then added this gem: “The fact is, Imran Khan needs to lighten the atmosphere.”

Yes, well, maybe that’s because terrorists supported by the Pakistani state recently massacred 40 Indian security officers.

Simpson then jumped off the intellectual cliff: throwing doubt on the undeniable fact that Pakistan allows terrorists safe haven on its soil. This reality, Simpson said, represents “claims” that Khan “strongly denied.” Considering the BBC gives Simpson unusual latitude to offer his own opinion, there is no excuse for his failure to challenge Khan’s kindly words. This is a very important issue, and Simpson misses the heart of it with his defective report.

Pakistan, not India, is the overwhelming problem in the India-Pakistan relationship. It is Pakistan that continues supporting terrorists in attacks on Indian soil. It is Pakistan that then denies it has any responsibility for atrocities for which any objective observer knows it is culpable.

That the Indian government might have a slight problem with Khan is not terribly surprising. Khan situates his power in a perverse alliance of populism and Islamic fanaticism. And when figures like Simpson sell Khan’s BS as hopeful rhetoric from some kind of cool former cricket star, they mislead readers to a rather important nuclear-tinged reality. Much as I like the BBC, this report from Simpson was a big fail.

Source Article from https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/why-is-the-bbc-peddling-pakistans-lies

A series of texts interrupted Tam Nguyen just before he sat down for dinner Thursday. The messages shared urgent news: Did he hear California Gov. Gavin Newsom make a startling new assertion about how the first person in the state contracted the coronavirus?

“This whole thing started in the state of California, the first community spread, in a nail salon,” Newsom said in his daily media briefing on COVID-19 in Sacramento, after being asked why personal services, such as nail salons, should stay closed even as the state starts to slowly open businesses.

“I just want to remind everybody of that and that I’m very worried about that,” the governor added.

Soon, the beauty school owner was connecting with Christie Nguyen, his friend and fellow nail salon operator. She, too, was taken aback by the governor’s words.

Now, both Nguyens are deeply worried for the future of their industry, forcing them to speak up, they said.

On Friday, they joined the Pro Nails Assn. representing nail salon owners, nail techs, distributors, manufacturers, students and schools across the nation, teaming up with officials from the “Nailing It For America,” an all-volunteer initiative, to respond to Newsom’s remarks at a news conference in Orange County.

“If we don’t take action now to protect our investment and livelihoods, people could misunderstand,” said Christie Nguyen, who opened Studio 18 Nail Bar in Tustin with her parents in 2017.

“It’s just baffling to know why he would come out and say that,” she added. “It could be misleading to the public when we are allowed to open again since everyone’s afraid of COVID.”

In his Thursday remarks, the governor did not identify the nail salon in question or offer evidence to support his assertion.

Tam Nguyen, owner of Advance Beauty College in Garden Grove and Laguna Hills, said the “surprise remarks created a reaction that was more negative than needed.”

“People are asking: ‘Where’s the evidence?’ We realize he’s concerned, but salons are a place where people wear masks and gloves generally.”

Science has shown there are many ways that the virus can be contracted, he said, adding that “from a cultural lens, speaking out of context leads to an atmosphere where we can’t trust each other.”

California is home to 11,000 nail salons, with 80% owned by Vietnamese Americans, Tam Nguyen said.

At a Friday briefing, in reply to reporters’ questions about his earlier comments, Newsom that he’d meant no harm with his previous remarks, describing the nail salon industry as “noble” and as an “exit point out of poverty.”

“I have deep reverence for those entrepreneurs and people that put everything on the line. I talk about that often,” he said, adding that grooming businesses such as salons are slated to reopen in Phase 3 of California’s emergence from lockdown. He didn’t specify a timetable for that phase, but said it “may not even be a month away. We need to have protocols in place “

The governor also said on Friday that his remarks were “not a statement to be extrapolated as an indictment, quite the contrary, of an industry I deeply respect.”

“We’re trying to do everything we can to accommodate the needs of every industry, including the nail salon industry, to make sure we do it in a safe and responsible way,” Newsom said.

He also said “health and personal privacy obligations” along with “legal parameters” prevented him from identifying the business behind the first case.

Christie Nguyen said she’s not looking for an apology from Newsom. Instead, she said, “we invite the governor to come to Orange County and work with us to create an environment safe for everyone.”

“What he said is inconsistent with who he is and his record,” she continued. “His administration is filled with immigrants and refugees, and he has proven that he welcomes everyone.”

Nancy Rodriquez Holberg, an aesthetician and instructor who works with Tam Nguyen at Advance Beauty College, said the school is “doing everything we can in the past to be safe and in the future to be even safer.”

“Targeting nail salons is not about discrimination, like some of the posts we’ve seen on social media. Let’s not go there — let’s just focus on the work,” she added. “We’re going to return to a world where having our temperatures taken is common because our job is to deliver what the clients order.”

At Advance, Tam Nguyen said, workers have installed modern ventilation and UV light systems, bought multiple autoclaves to sterilize metal instruments
and operate a single-use method of disposing many manicure and pedicure supplies right after servicing each client. “PPE [protective personal equipment] is a new term to many in society, but we’ve always known it and have plenty of it available for our techs.”

Tam Nguyen said that Vietnamese Americans in the industry have mobilized supporters to launch the “Nailing It for America” project, donating more than 120,000 medical-grade masks, 300,000 gloves and tens of thousands of other protective personal equipment to healthcare workers and front-line workers.

Their efforts garnered mass publicity at the end of April when they delivered products and meals in tribute to Americans for embracing refugees after the fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975, marking the 45th anniversary.

“Nail salons and their supporters are trying to show their compassion for the nation,” Tam Nguyen said. “We take a stance against discrimination and we celebrate everyone’s contributions.”

Windy Olaya, of Orange, a regular customer at Studio 18 Nail Bar, said people “should not feed into any hysteria around this whole issue since every public place is a place where there’s a chance to spread the disease.”

“If you walk into an establishment and workers aren’t wearing masks, it could cause fear, sure,” Olaya said. “But if you see them following guidelines, why wouldn’t you want to support them?”

She said she hasn’t talked to anyone “who can’t wait to get their hair or nails done.”

“Those are just pampering things we’re used to, and we need it,” Olaya said.

Source Article from https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-05-09/did-community-spread-of-coronavirus-start-at-nail-salon

The actions of the school district, Oxford Community Schools, have also been under a microscope. At a news conference last week, the Oakland County prosecutor Karen D. McDonald outlined a chilling sequence of events that led to the shooting.

The day before the shooting, a teacher found Mr. Crumbley searching for ammunition on his phone. The school was aware, Ms. McDonald said, that he had recently visited a shooting range with his mother. And on the morning of the shooting, a teacher discovered an alarming drawing from Mr. Crumbley that included a gun, a person who had been shot and the words, “The thoughts won’t stop. Help me.”

Mr. Crumbley’s parents were called to an immediate meeting at the school with their son. They were told to put him into counseling within 48 hours or risk being reported to Child Protective Services. They refused to take him home when asked to do so, according to the prosecutor.

The school district has said that school officials chose to return Mr. Crumbley to class following that meeting, after observing him behave normally in the guidance office. Mr. Crumbley’s belongings were not searched for a weapon, and later that day, he began shooting after emerging from a bathroom, according to authorities.

The lawsuit filed Thursday by the parents’ lawyer, Geoffrey Fieger, contains several accusations about Mr. Crumbley’s behavior leading up to the attack. It states that the night before the shooting, Mr. Crumbley posted to Twitter, “Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds. See you tomorrow Oxford.”

Source Article from https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/09/us/michigan-school-shooting-lawsuits-oxford.html

(CNN Español) – El conteo tras las elecciones en República Dominicana, el estado de emergencia en Venezuela y un decomiso histórico en Colombia. Estas son las noticias que no te puedes perder para iniciar este lunes.

Elecciones en República Dominicana –  Danilo Medina, quien busca la reelección, obtuvo más del 60% de los votos, según los resultados provisionales. La jornada electoral se extendió debido a los retrasos en algunos colegios electorales por los inconvenientes con el nuevo sistema electrónico implementado.

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Estado de emergencia en Venezuela: las claves – Manifestantes salieron a las calles el fin de semana en Caracas, mientras Venezuela entraba en “estado constitucional de emergencia”. La población en todo el país carece de acceso a alimentos y atención médica básica, y ahora enfrenta también una crisis energética.

Estas son algunas de las claves

El mayor cargamento de cocaína – La policía colombiana incautó unas ocho toneladas de cocaína, el mayor decomiso de la droga según el presidente Juan Manuel Santos.

Estos son los detalles

Avanza el proceso de paz en Colombia – Las FARC y el Gobierno de Colombia llegaron a un acuerdo para liberar a los menores de 15 años de las filas de la guerrilla, que serán beneficiarios a programas sociales y educativos.

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Un dispositivo de entrenamiento hizo temer Old Trafford – El objeto sospechoso hallado en el estadio Old Trafford, que obligó a suspender un juego del Manchester United, era en realidad un dispositivo de entrenamiento olvidado por trabajadores de una empresa de seguridad.

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President Biden announced Friday that the U.S. will suspend normal trade relations with Russia as part of the ongoing effort to punish President Vladimir Putin for his unprovoked war in Ukraine.

“Putin is the aggressor and he must pay the price,” Biden said in remarks from the White House, declaring that sanctions already imposed by the West are “crushing” Russia’s economy and warning that Moscow would pay “a severe price” if it deploys chemical or biological weapons in Ukraine, as the White House suggested this week it may be plotting to do.

The latest move, which came in concert with the Group of 7 and European Union, paves the way for the administration to increase tariffs on Russian imports above the levels pledged to all World Trade Organization members.

Thanking lawmakers for holding off on legislation until he could coordinate with allies, Biden announced that “each of our nations is going to take steps to deny most favored nation status to Russia,” which he said will “make it harder for Russia to do business with the United States.”

Biden’s remarks from the White House Roosevelt Room came shortly after a phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who sought to bolster his country’s resolve in a video message on the 16th day of fighting and as Russian forces slowly move closer to the capital city of Kyiv.

Russia intensifies its assault on Ukraine, edging toward Kyiv as more Ukrainians attempt to flee the war and Biden bans Russian imports including vodka.

Zelensky tweeted that it was a “substantive” conversation that focused on the next steps of the West’s response to Russia. A short White House readout said that Biden “highlighted how the United States is continuing to surge security, humanitarian, and economic assistance to Ukraine” and updated Zelensky on the latest moves.

Biden on Friday emphasized the importance of moving in lockstep with Europe against Russia, adding that “doing it in unison with other nations that make up half of the global economy will be another crushing blow to the Russian economy that has already suffered very badly from our sanctions.”

The president fully threw his support behind a bipartisan proposal that has gained steam in Congress in recent days that would revoke Russia’s Permanent Normal Trade Relations status and direct the U.S. trade representative’s office to seek Russia’s ouster from the WTO.

The Times’ Marcus Yam, no stranger to war photography, gives a first-person account from Ukraine.

The top Democrats and Republicans on the House Ways and Means Committee and the Senate Finance Committee first proposed the move in a letter Monday. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco) said that the House will take up legislation to formalize the revocation next week and that she anticipates a bipartisan vote.

Booting Russia from the WTO requires a vote and support from two-thirds of the organization’s 164 member nations. As such, most experts don’t believe it is likely to occur. But nothing prevents individual countries from revoking Russia’s WTO privileges, as Canada and Ukraine have already done.

As the war in Ukraine rages, ordinary Russians face a degree of international isolation not seen in decades. What will Putin do next?

Biden also announced a newly signed executive order banning Russian imports of seafood, vodka and diamonds. And the Department of Treasury imposed additional sanctions Friday afternoon on more than 24 individuals, 10 of whom serve on the board of VTB, Russia’s second-largest bank. A dozen more are members of the Duma and the family of Putin’s spokesman, Dmitri Peskov.

The U.S. is not a major destination for Russian goods, which account for only about 1% of total imports. Thus, the new potential tariffs on Russian products are unlikely to have a major impact on American consumers, who are already bearing the brunt of inflation spiking to a 40-year high.

More than half of what the U.S. buys from Russia are petroleum crude and oil products. Other major imports include iron, frozen crabs and such precious metals as palladium, which is a critical component of catalytic converters.

In a joint statement by all G-7 members, the world’s leading democracies vowed to work toward barring Russia from obtaining financing from major multilateral institutions including the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. “Russia cannot grossly violate international law and expect to benefit from being part of the international economic order,” the statement read.

When the war began more than two weeks ago, the administration focused its initial response by leveling sanctions against Russian oligarchs and the country’s banks. As support has deepened for Ukraine across the West, the U.S. and Europe have taken additional steps, expanding sanctions to Putin himself and members of his inner circle. Earlier this week, they took action to reduce their dependence on Russian energy.

On Tuesday, Biden announced the U.S. would ban imports of Russian oil, gas and coal. Europe, which is far more reliant on Russian energy, has also proposed a plan to cut its use of natural gas from Russia by two-thirds this year.

Analysts believe Washington can still go further in squeezing Russia economically. Brian O’Toole and Daniel Fried of the Atlantic Council, a Washington think tank, suggested that the U.S. could expand sanctions on major Russian state-owned banks such as Gazprombank and Russian Agricultural Bank by locking them out of the international financial system and target Russian stock markets.

Friday’s move to halt trade was largely symbolic, indicating that the U.S. doesn’t see Russia as a trading partner. But coming in coordination with European allies that trade more heavily with Russia, the move will further isolate Russia from the global trading system.

Gary Hufbauer, a trade expert at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, said even if the move is mostly symbolic, doing it legislatively would establish a significant and likely enduring precedent.

Once Permanent Normal Trade Relations “is revoked for Russia, the path will be established for congressional voices to call for revocation against China, and then, as conflicts arise, against other countries,” he said. “And once PNTR is revoked, it will take a new act of Congress to restore PNTR. This will put a burden on future presidents, since side issues will likely be attached to restoration, even when U.S. relations with the partner country are harmonious.”

President Biden announces the U.S. will ban Russian oil imports, the latest sanction against the Kremlin over its unprovoked war in Ukraine.

Source Article from https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2022-03-11/biden-revokes-russias-trade-status-ratcheting-up-economic-consequences-for-putin

El conjunto blanco se ejercitó en la Ciudad Real Madrid en la tercera sesión de trabajo de la semana. El técnico italiano, que ha ido recuperando a lo largo de la semana a los internacionales convocados con sus respectivas selecciones, utilizó a todos los jugadores disponibles del primer equipo, incluido Sergio Ramos que ayer se ejercitó dentro de las instalaciones y hoy saltó al césped con el resto del grupo. Además, contó con  cuatro canteranos del Juvenil A.


El entrenamiento comenzó con estiramientos y diversos ejercicios de calentamiento, donde los porteros Casillas, Keylor Navas y Pacheco trabajaron a parte de forma específica. Posteriormente, se dividieron en dos grupos para  disputar una serie de partidillos con el balón como protagonista y en los que se vio una gran intensidad y concentración. Cristiano Ronaldo trabajó a pleno rendimiento.

Source Article from http://www.realmadrid.com/noticias/2014/09/tercera-sesion-de-trabajo-de-la-semana

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As the world awaits U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May’s next move after her Brexit deal failed to obtain parliamentary approval, some politicians from the country’s biggest opposition party believe a second referendum is now increasingly likely.

“The critical issue is now that she’s been defeated in the House of Commons, what does Theresa May do and I think, there’s only one way she can really go now — and that’s towards a referendum to give the people a chance to sort out this crisis,” Andrew Adonis, a Labour member of parliament who previously served as U.K. transport minister and education minister, told CNBC on Wednesday.

Labour officially want to push Brexit through despite swathes of the party considering themselves to be pro-EU. It tabled a no confidence vote against May, who is the head of the ruling Conservative Party, on Tuesday after her proposed Withdrawal Agreement lost by 230 votes. The deal details how Britain should exit the European bloc by end-March.

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn is hoping May will lose the leadership vote, which will pave the way for a general election that Labour is likely to win. But many political analysts and some Labour politicians believe May will survive the no-confidence motion, unless Conservative lawmakers vote against their own party leader.

Despite her defeat in the House of Commons, the U.K.’s lower house of parliament, “there is no immediate threat to May’s position,” Mujtaba Rahman, Europe managing director for political consultancy Eurasia Group, wrote in a note. May is expected to remain in power as the Democratic Unionist Party (another opposition group) and the Conservatives who voted against her Brexit deal will support her, Rahman said.

If May survives Corbyn’s no-confidence vote, she will have to put forward an alternative Brexit strategy next week, which will be subject to further debate in Parliament. But because there is no form of Brexit that will be supported by both Conservative and Labour, Corbyn will likely support the idea of a second vote on whether Britain should give up its E.U. membership, according to Adonis.

Another referendum is the “most likely course,” Adonis said. Given how divided parliament is, a referendum is the most realistic option for lawmakers to agree on, as opposed to another Brexit agreement, he continued.

Assuming May wins the no-confidence vote, the big question is whether Corbyn will move forward on a referendum next week or wait until the end of March, Adonis said. He believes the results of a second referendum will overwhelmingly see the U.K. remain in the E.U.

— Correction: This story has been updated to accurately reflect the Labour party’s stance on Brexit.

Source Article from https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/16/brexit-labour-party-wants-general-election-but-2nd-referendum-likely.html

If you’re a journalist stranded in Vietnam, an Amtrak passenger stranded on a train or a former Trump lawyer stranded in a nightmare of your own making, you’ll certainly resonate with today’s Short List. It’s Ashley Shaffer with today’s most talked-about stories.

But first: Remind me to stop liking my own posts on social media because it’s weirding everybody out, according to these new rules of communicating in the digital era.

Four thousand-plus migrant children say they were abused

Thousands of migrant children who crossed the southern border into the U.S. reported they were sexually assaulted while in government custody, according to Department of Health and Human Services documents released Tuesday. In the past four years, 4,556 children said they were sexually assaulted while in the care of Health & Human Services’ Office of Refugee Resettlement, which takes custody of unaccompanied minors who cross the southern border alone and those separated from their families. The data show the majority of the alleged assaults were carried out by other minors in custody, but at least 178 were carried out by staff. The allegations go back to 2015. 

House blocks Trump’s emergency declaration. Now what? 

The House voted to block President Donald Trump’s declaration of a national emergency along the southern border on Tuesday, but Democrats didn’t win enough support from Republicans to overcome Trump’s threatened veto. The measure now goes to Senate. Trump declared an emergency this month after Congress sent the president a bipartisan funding bill that failed to meet his $5.7 billion demand for a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. Democrats have said the declaration is unconstitutional and are using a provision from the National Emergencies Act to try to halt the president. If the resolution passes both houses, Trump could still veto it.

Kim Jong Un gave U.S. journalists the boot

One hotel’s not big enough for American journalists and Kim Jong Un. Kim and his team pulled a fast one on the White House, forcing them to relocate the media’s press filing center from the hotel where the North Korean leader is staying. Television crews that spent weeks setting up equipment and establishing camera positions scrambled in the hours ahead of Trump’s arrival to meet Kim at the nuclear summit meeting in Hanoi, Vietnam. The two world leaders, who’ve threatened each other with nuclear annihilation in the past, are set to convene Wednesday. Few details about their agenda have been released, but it’s a safe bet that much of the discussion will center on their denuclearization agreement.

Real quick

Cohen’s about to tell on Trump

Michael Cohen once said he’d “take a bullet” for Trump. Today, he met behind closed doors with a Senate committee planning to accuse the president of ‘criminal conduct,’ according to a source familiar with the testimony. Cohen, Trump’s former lawyer and confidant, pleaded guilty to several charges including for paying hush money to women who said they slept with Trump and for lying to Congress about negotiations for a Trump Tower in Russia. The question looming over his testimony: Did the president participate in those crimes? Trump, of course, has said he was not involved. Cohen’s also scheduled to testify for the first time publicly on Wednesday (and yes, it will be televised). 

She says Trump kissed without consent. Now she’s suing.

A former staffer on Trump’s 2016 campaign says he kissed her “on the lips” without consent two months before the general election, and now she’s suing. A lawsuit filed Monday says Trump kissed Alva Johnson on his way out of one of the campaign’s RVs at a Florida work event. White House press secretary Sarah Sanders called the allegation “absurd on its face” and said Johnson’s description of events contradicts “multiple highly credible eye witness accounts.” Three Trump supporters who were present, including then-Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, told The Washington Post they did not witness the alleged incident.

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Source Article from https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2019/02/26/cohen-trump-north-korea-chicago-and-vietnam-tuesdays-top-news/2991275002/

En su ofensiva para ganar audiencia, una televisión privada en Albania decidió que los informativos fueran presentados por bellas mujeres con el torso casi desnudo, apenas cubierto por una chaqueta desabrochada que deja entrever un busto generoso.

Frente a una feroz competencia, el propietario de Zjarr TV, Ismet Dristhi, decidió “desnudar” la información con el objetivo, a su juicio, de aproximarla a la verdad.

“En Albania, donde los poderes políticos manipulan las noticias, la audiencia necesitaba un medio que presentar las informaciones tal y como son, al desnudo“, explica Drishti, un exdirector de teatro y periodista.

De hecho, estos informativos difundidos por cable y por internet han hecho que la audiencia “no pare de aumentar”, asegura el propietario de la cadena, quien planea ampliar este modelo a ediciones en inglés y en francés.

“No vendemos sexo, reproducimos la actualidad tal cual. Es a la vez simbólico pero también una buena publicidad”, estima Drishti.

Para la presentadora Greta Hoxhaj, de 24 años, trabajar ligera de ropa representa un verdadero atajo hacia la gloria.

“Trabajé duro durante cinco años en una televisión local, donde pasé desapercibida”, explica esta estudiante de Derecho y Psicología que disfruta de la fama recién conseguida.

Tres meses para la fama

Greta Hoxhaj presenta las ediciones informativas en Zjarr TV ligera de ropa y “no lamenta nada”.

En tres meses, me convertí en una estrella“, señala esta joven alegre y desinhibida.

Actualmente, la presentadora estudia una oferta de empleo en Sídney, donde realizaría el mismo trabajo para una cadena australiana.

Cada noche a las 19H30, Greta, seria y aplicada, presenta las noticias como si no ocurriera nada, desnuda bajo una chaqueta preferentemente cikir salmón y con un escote estudiado al milímetro.

En su día a día, la joven se viste como todas las chicas de su generación. El desnudo es “sólo para la televisión, para las noticias”, afirma.

Greta remplazó en este puesto a una estudiante de 21 años, Enki Braçaj, cuyos exuberantes pechos le valieron un gran reconocimiento en los Balcanes, incluso en las regiones donde no se habla albanés.

Oficialmente, Enki se marchó ya que estaba descontenta con su salario pero, según sus compañeras, ella consiguió un puesto de modelo en una revista de moda.

Greta, que sueña con “hacer carrera en el mundo de los medios de comunicación y de la publicidad“, no se preocupa mucho de los comentarios negativos que su actividad generó, principalmente en las redes sociales de Albania.

En Albania, un país de cerca de tres millones de habitantes, de mayoría musulmana, y donde la sociedad es patriarcal y tradicionalista, las críticas fueron mixtas.

“Es lamentable que acepten una cosa de este tipo sólo para estar en televisión”, se quejó un internauta.

Otro televidente lanza comentarios sobre la talla del busto de las presentadoras.

Un tercero calificó el formato como “un acto sexista y repugnante”.

Para Greta, estas críticas poco importan.

“Estas reacciones no me afectan”, dice. “Tuve la valentía de hacer lo que hago y ahora soy una estrella“, afirmó.

En los círculos feministas, el programa no generó críticas y los periodistas fueron más bien benévolos.

“La desnudez no puede resolver la crisis que viven los medios, que para sobrevivir están dándole cualquier cosa al público”, declaró Aleksandër Cipa, presidente de la Asociación de Periodistas de Albania.

El analista especializado en medios Leonard Olli, por su parte, no ataca a nadie.

“Existe una diversidad de opciones y cada uno es libre de cambiar de canal”, sentenció.

Source Article from http://www.elnuevodiario.com.ni/actualidad/386294-tv-albanesa-presenta-noticias-desnudo-ganar-audien/

Not long ago, President Enrique Peña Nieto opened his hangar doors for the most expensive presidential jet in the entire world. This time, the investigative journalists team of Aristegui Noticias has exposed his nearly $7MM mansion, referred to as the ‘White House’. The residence is located in Lomas de Chapultepec, which is one of the most prestigious areas of Mexico City. Coincidentally, the luxurious home is neither under the President or his wife, Angelica Rivera’s name, but under Grupo Higa, a construction company which was on the verge of benefitting from a millionaire contract to build a train from DF to the city of Queretaro. The house is, however, adjacent to one of the actress’s residences in the parallel street.

While such contract recently fell through due to other construction company’s complaints about the little time they’d had to pitch for the projects, Mexico’s First Lady did call the mansion “their home.” In May 2013, Rivera gave her first interview as Peña Nieto’s wife to socialite magazine ‘¡Hola!’ where she said, “In our house, we lead our lives as normal as possible. I’ve let them know that ‘Los Pinos’ has been lent to us for only six years, but our true house, our home, is right here where this interview is taking place.”

The mansion known as “La Palma”, was built by architect Miguel Aragonés and painted in all white with a lighting system that can turn the walls, any color desired. Its luxuries include a huge, underground parking lot, an elevator connecting all floors, an outdoor living room and dining room, multiple bedrooms plus a main one with separate walk in closets, bathrooms and spa areas. The home of the presidential family is being maintained and looked after by the President’s staff (EMP) in the meantime, which are reportedly ensuring everything is adapted to the Peña’s family’s needs.

Grupo Higa, whose name the mansion is under, is affiliated with construction company Constructora Teya, which highly benefited from Peña Nieto’s government of Estado de México, as he granted the company numerous projects and helicopter rents.

Source Article from http://www.latintimes.com/enrique-pena-nietos-white-house-mansion-exposed-see-house-valued-almost-7mm-dollars-274599

A novel interpretation of an arcane parliamentary procedure has presented congressional Democrats with an unexpected – and tantalizing – new opportunity to advance some of their most ambitious legislative goals despite their slim majorities and fierce Republican opposition.

This week, the Senate parliamentarian determined that Democrats can employ a fast-track process known as budget reconciliation more times than previously understood, potentially allowing them to pass multiple legislative packages without any Republican support before next year’s midterm elections – if they can keep their own members in line.

Democrats insist they have yet to make a decision about whether – or how – to use the newly expanded set of procedural keys, unlocking additional opportunities to circumvent Republicans and the Senate filibuster, which requires 60 votes to overcome.

Yet the decision marks a significant victory for Democrats and the new administration as they attempt to push an expansive agenda through an evenly divided Senate chamber.

In an interview on MSNBC this week, Bernie Sanders, chair of the powerful Senate budget committee, said the ruling significantly widens the path to passing Joe Biden’s sprawling infrastructure agenda, which includes a massive public-works plan that he announced last week as well as a forthcoming proposal focused on reducing economic inequality. It also gives Democrats “a little bit more opportunity” to achieve a wide range of other progressive ambitions.

Laying out a hypothetical strategy, he said the next reconciliation package could include the first piece of Biden’s infrastructure plan, while future attempts might expand health coverage, provide paid family leave and support tuition-free public college.

Now, Sanders said, “we don’t have to push everything into one bill”.

With Republicans vowing to obstruct much of Biden’s emerging infrastructure plan and a lack of support for eliminating the filibuster, the Senate majority leader, Chuck Schumer, asked the Senate parliamentarian, Elizabeth MacDonough, the non-partisan arbiter of the chamber’s rules, whether the reconciliation process could be used more than once in a fiscal year.

They argued that the 47-year-old budget provision allowed Democrats to revise the budget blueprint they used to pass Biden’s $1.9tn Covid relief bill with new instructions that would allow them to pass unrelated legislation, such as the president’s infrastructure plan.

According to Schumer’s office, she agreed.

In a statement, Justin Goodman, a spokesman for Schumer, called her opinion an “important step forward” though he cautioned that “some parameters” still needed to be worked out. “This key pathway is available to Democrats if needed,” he concluded, while stressing that no commitment had been made to use the new tool.

Democrats already had two more chances at reconciliation before the end of this congress in January 2023, by using budget blueprints for the next two fiscal years. But the decision by MacDonough allows them to use the tactic two more times this year, and perhaps as many times next year.

Democrats’ pursuit of this legislative gambit is a reflection of both their fragile majority and the “intensity of political polarization” in America, said Ross Baker, a professor of American politics at Rutgers University and author of Is Bipartisanship Dead?

“It is a situation very much like calling in the referee or line judge in a sports event and having her deliver the penalty kick or run the ball for a touchdown to break a tie,” he said in an email. The Senate parliamentarian is being called up to resolve “issues that elected officials cannot or will not solve”.

Reconciliation, established under the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974, was initially designed to promote deficit reduction by requiring lawmakers to “reconcile” federal spending and revenue legislation with their budgetary goals.

But as a result of the filibuster protection, majorities have used reconciliation to muscle through major pieces of legislation, including to overhaul welfare programs under Bill Clinton, amend the Affordable Care Act (ACA) under Barack Obama and enact tax cuts under Donald Trump. Republicans also twice used reconciliation to repeal the ACA, but Obama vetoed the first attempt and the second endeavor failed to pass the Senate.

While the opinion offers Democrats new legislative avenues, it hardly resolves all of their challenges.

“It’s always great to have options, but nothing here guarantees success,” said Jim Manley, who served as an aide to Harry Reid, the former Democratic Senate majority leader.

Reconciliation is a cumbersome and complex process, fraught with potential obstacles. It is subject to strict rules requiring that all provisions relate directly to the federal budget, which means the party won’t be able to pass all of their policy objectives through this procedure. Democrats were reminded of these constraints earlier this year when a measure that would have raised the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour was stripped from the coronavirus relief bill after it was deemed inadmissible under Senate rules.

Another potential drawback is the so-called “vote-a-rama”, an hours-long voting session typically weaponized by the minority to force a series of politically difficult votes that can be used as grist for future campaign attacks. However, these showdowns have become less of a deterrent, as lawmakers increasingly view the exercise as a cost of enacting consequential legislation.

Perhaps the most daunting task will be holding their fractious 50-member caucus together. With no room for error, a single objection could derail the entire process.

​In a Washington Post op-ed this week, the West Virginia senator Joe Manchin, a conservative Democrat, warned that relying on the maneuver to ram through the majority’s agenda without bipartisan support would set a “new and dangerous precedent​”.

“Instead of fixating on eliminating the filibuster or shortcutting the legislative process through budget reconciliation, it is time we do our jobs,” he wrote.

As with the filibuster, either party can take advantage of a rule change when they wield power.

There is no precedent for using the budget reconciliation process in this way and doing so could have far-reaching consequences, Manley said.

If Democrats attempt this maneuver now, Republicans could utilize the process to ram through new tax cuts the next time they control Congress and the White House, he said. And it may embolden them to try to stretch the rules even further.

“There are no free shots in the Senate,” he said.

Source Article from https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/apr/10/democrats-budget-reconciliation-republican-votes


En NOTICIAS de esta semana:

Intimidad de una pareja polémica: Victoria Vanucci y Matías Garfunkel son excéntricos y provocadores. Los enamoró el culto al sexo y la promesa de cumplir todas las fantasías. Fotos filtradas, guiños mafiosos, guerras familiares y con ex socios, fortuna y autoexilio. El pasado que los condena. Escenas del millonario caprichoso y la modelo sin límites.

Elecciones de Estados Unidos y su impacto en Argentina: cuál es el panorama económico que afrontará Estados Unidos a partir de la asunción de las nuevas autoridades. Clinton vs. Trump y una economía incierta. Dólares en juego.

Además:

Científicos en baja: El grueso de la comunidad científica argentina cerró filas y está en estado de alerta por la reducción en el presupuesto 2017.

Un americano en Buenos Aires: La historia del Ford Mustang sigue agrandándose. Es uno de los automóviles legendarios que llega a la Argentina.

Esther Goris: La actriz representa a la madre de Tita Merello en su próxima película. Anécdotas, proyectos y amores del pasado.




Source Article from http://noticias.perfil.com/2016/10/28/garfunkel-y-vanucci-intimidad-de-una-perversion/

BEIRUT, Lebanon — After grueling years of watching United States forces fight and die in a faraway land, the president appealed to growing war weariness among voters and brought the troops home.

Not long after, an extremist group stormed through areas the Americans had left, killing civilians, seizing power and sweeping away billions of dollars’ worth of American efforts to leave behind a stable nation.

That’s what happened after President Barack Obama withdrew American forces from Iraq in 2011: the jihadists of the Islamic State established an extremist emirate, prompting the United States to dispatch its military, yet again, to flush them out.

It is also now a possible scenario in Afghanistan, where President Biden’s order to shut down America’s longest war has led to swift advances by the Taliban, the same extremist group the United States invaded Afghanistan to topple after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

Source Article from https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/10/world/middleeast/biden-iraq-afghanistan.html