Mientras la Policía les pide que se retiren, varios manifestantes intentan reagruparse frente al Consejo Nacional Electoral (CNE) en Quito, luego del desalojo durante esta madrugada.
Manifestantes intentan reagruparse frente al CNE, en Quito. La Policía les pide que se retiren pic.twitter.com/RSlWgqTtzb
La vigilia de los simpatizantes de CREO en las afueras del CNE que había durado nueve días fue levantada durante la madrugada de este martes, cuando los manifestantes fueron desalojados, informaron quienes lograron quedarse en el lugar.
Esta mañana, la avenida 6 de Diciembre, donde se desarrollaban las protestas, ya fue abierta al tráfico vehicular. El transporte público también volvió a circular por el sitio.
La Policía retiró las vallas de seguridad con las que había rodeado al CNE.
Varias personas que estuvieron en la madrugada trataron de reagruparse en sitios aledaños, como el parque La Carolina. (I)
La furia de CFK: la enojan la performance de su delfín Scioli en las encuestas y los papelones de campaña como el de Tucumán y el viaje a Italia en plena inundación. Por qué cree que es un “inútil”. La única buena noticia: Florencia la hizo abuela.
Crimen del country: cinco millones de pesos fueron el principal motivo por el que el empresario Fernando Farré matara a su esposa, Claudia Schaefer. La verdadera trama de esta relación tortuosa. Antecedentes de violencia laboral y familiar de un asesino que fue calificado como de “bajo riesgo”.
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Tendencias a la moda: lugares, actores y actitudes que pisan fuerte y marcarán los estilos en las temporadas por venir.
Eva De Dominici: la actriz teen habla de su ascendente carrera de actriz, sus miedos, sus escenas osadas y sus proyectos.
Niños malcriados: según estudios, la sobreprotección paterna genera adultos sin poder de decisión y con dificultades para adaptarse al mercado de trabajo.
A la carrera: el grupo TMX International Business organiza competencias de trail running o eventos off road acompañando la tendencia deportiva de salir a correr.
Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., launched her presidential campaign in Oakland on Sunday. (Fox News)
Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., formally launched her run for the Democratic presidential nomination Sunday with a full-fledged embrace of big government programs, including “Medicare for All” and universal pre-kindergarten education — and taking multiple shots at President Trump’s policies.
“I’m running to fight for an America where the economy works for working people,” Harris told a cheering crowd outside City Hall in her hometown of Oakland. ” … I am running to declare, once and for all, that health care is a fundamental right, and to deliver that right with ‘Medicare for All.’ To declare education is a fundamental right, and we will guarantee that right with universal pre-K and debt-free college.”
Harris slammed President Trump’s planned border wall as “a medieval vanity project” and criticized the administration for its hardline immigration policy.
“When we have children in cages, crying for their mothers and fathers, don’t you dare call that border security, that’s human rights abuse,” Harris said.
Harris also pledged to reverse the administration’s tax cuts, which she described as a “giveaway to the top big corporations and the top one percent,” to pay for what she promised would be “the largest working and middle-class tax cut in a generation, up to $500 a month to help America’s families make ends meet.”
Harris cast the United States as being at “an inflection point” in its history and claimed, “the American Dream and our American democracy are under attack and on the line like never before.”
“We are here at this moment in time because we must answer a fundamental question,” Harris said. “Who are we? Who are we as Americans? So, let’s answer that question to the world and each other, right here and right now.
“America, we are better than this.”
“People in power are trying to convince us that the villain in our American story is each other,” she added. “But that is not our story. That is not who we are. That’s not our America. You see, our United States of America is not about us versus them. It’s about ‘We the People.'”
Harris, the daughter of immigrants from Jamaica and India, started her political career in 2003 when she was elected San Francisco district attorney. She was voted attorney general of California seven years later and was elected to the Senate in 2016.
“My whole life, I’ve only had one client: the people,” Harris said in an echo of her campaign slogan “For the People.” She also defended her record as a prosecutor, which has come under scrutiny from some progressives.
“‘For the People’ meant fighting for a more fair criminal justice system. At a time when prevention and redemption were not in the vocabulary or mindset of most district attorneys, we created an initiative to give skills and job training stead of jail time for young people arrested for drugs,” said Harris, who added that American’s criminal justice system “needs massive reform.”
“It’s fitting that Harris chose the most liberal district in deep-blue California to launch her campaign,” Republican National Committee spokesman Michael Ahrens said in response to her remarks. “Government-run health care, weaker borders and higher taxes might be popular there, but her liberal policies are totally out-of-step with most Americans. President Trump has led this country to record economic highs and strengthened our national security, and it’s why he’s going to be re-elected in 2020.”
Harris is among the first major Democrats to jump into what is expected to be a crowded 2020 presidential contest. Sens. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Kirsten Gillibrand of New York have announced exploratory committees. Former Maryland Rep. John Delaney and Julian Castro, federal housing chief under President Barack Obama and a former San Antonio mayor, already are in the race.
Sens. Cory Booker of New Jersey, Sherrod Brown of Ohio, Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota and Bernie Sanders of Vermont have signaled they may also run.
Harris was scheduled to make her first trip to Iowa as a presidential candidate following the rally. She traveled to the leadoff caucus state in the weeks before this past November’s midterm elections to campaign on behalf of Democrats. She has also visited other early-voting states, including South Carolina this past Friday.
Fox News’ Patrick Ward and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Saudi Arabia‘s king has accused the kingdom’s key rival, Iran, of developing nuclear and ballistic missiles which threaten regional and global stability, telling regional leaders that action is needed to stop Iranian “escalations” following a series of attacks on oil assets in the Gulf.
The comments by King Salman Abdul Aziz came as Saudi Arabia on Thursday hosted in Mecca emergency meetings of the Gulf Cooperation Council, the Organization of the Islamic Conference and the Arab League to counter what it said was Iran’s growing influence.
A Gulf-Arab statement and a separate communique issued after the wider summit both supported the right of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates to defend their interests after the attacks on oil pumping stations in the kingdom and tankers off the UAE.
But in a sign of regional tensions, Iraq, which has good ties with neighbouring Iran and the United States, said it objected to the Arab communique, which stated that any cooperation with Tehran should be based on “non-interference in other countries”.
‘Naked aggression’
Addressing Arab and Muslim leaders earlier, King Salman pressed the international community to “use all means to stop Iran from interfering in other countries’ affairs”.
He said Tehran’s actions threatened international maritime trade and global oil supplies in a “glaring violation of UN treaties”.
“This is naked aggression against our stability and international security,” the Saudi ruler told the gathered officials.
Iran’s “recent criminal acts … require that all of us work seriously to preserve the security… of GCC [Gulf Cooperation Council] countries,” the king added.
In his opening remarks, Saudi Foreign Minister Ibrahim al-Assaf said the alleged sabotage of oil tankers off the coast of the United Arab Emirates and drone attacks on a Saudi oil pipeline by Yemen’s Houthi rebels in recent weeks threaten the global economy and endanger regional and international security.
“We should confront it with all means of force and firmness,” he said.
An Iranian official was at the meeting where Assaf spoke.Tehran has denied any involvement in the attacks.
John Bolton, a top US security official, alleged on Wednesday Iranian mines were “almost certainly” used in the tanker operation. He provided no proof, however.
An Iranian official dismissed Bolton’s remarks as “a ludicrous claim”.
Qatar’s blockade
King Salman invited Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, whose country is home to the largest US military base in the region, to the Mecca summit.
Qatar’s Prime Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser Al Thani attended the meeting instead, the highest Qatari official to visit the kingdom since Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt imposed a land, sea, and air blockade on the gas-rich nation in June 2017.
Video images of Thursday’s gathering showed Sheikh Abdullah shaking King Salman’s hand.
Thomas Pickering, a former US ambassador the UN, told Al Jazeera the Qatari prime minister’s presence at the summit was an important step.
“The invitation has opened the door more than just a little bit. His [Sheikh Abdullah’s] presence there and the handshake is a sign that Saudi Arabia wants unity in the Gulf Cooperation Council and that unity is spreading,” said Pickering.
Analysts said the emergency summit will be watched closely for whether or not the Saudis will endorse Qatar as a mediator in the dispute with Iran the same way the US has.
Earlier this month, Al Jazeera reported that Qatar’s foreign minister had held talks with his Iranian counterpart in Tehran, aiming to defuse the escalating tensions in the Gulf.
“Washington seems to have bet on Doha to de-escalate by opening back channels with Tehran. The question is whether Saudi and especially UAE can agree on Doha as a mediator,” Andreas Krieg from King’s College London told Al Jazeera.
“The fact that the Saudis contacted the emir of Qatar directly suggests that the tension with Iran is taken very seriously in Riyadh. So, the kingdom is ready to build a broader-than-usual consensus on how to deal with Iran,” Krieg said.
Gulf states have a joint defence force under the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), but the 39-year-old alliance has been fractured by the Qatar blockade.
Tensions with Iran
Animosity has risen between the US and Iran after Washington pulled out of a multinational nuclear deal with Tehran, reimposed sanctions and boosted its military presence in the Gulf.
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on a trip to Iraq this month that Tehran wanted balanced ties with their Gulf neighbours and had proposed signing a non-aggression pact with them.
One of the UAE’s main newspapers said in an editorial, which is usually state-approved, the offer was “bizarre”.
“No Mr Zarif. We are not buying your ‘nice neighbour’ routine,” said the front-page editorial in Gulf News daily.
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Under Tuesday’s update to the city’s mask guidance, those who are two weeks after their final vaccination dose can take off the mask except in hospitals, public transportation, jails and schools, public health Commissioner Dr. Allison Arwady said during a news conference. She cited strong evidence of the vaccine’s effectiveness before adding the caveat that many businesses do not have the ability or “desire” to regulate who is vaccinated and who isn’t.
A suspect wanted by police in connection with seven homicides in northern Sumner County on Saturday has been taken into custody, according to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI).
Authorities located six homicide victims at a home in the 1100-block of Charles Brown Road near Westmoreland and one victim at a home in the 1500-block of Luby Brown Road, according to the TBI.
During the course of the investigation, authorities identified 25-year-old Michael Cummins as a suspect in both cases.
A coordinated search by law enforcement agencies from across the region eventually located Cummins in a creek bed approximately one mile from the first crime scene.
When Sumner County SWAT team members arrived, the situation escalated and resulted in at least one officer shooting Cummins in the leg, according to a TBI spokesman. Cummins was transported to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. No one else was injured during the arrest.
Investigators are still working to determine Cummins’ relationships with the victims, according to the TBI.
No additional details about the homicides, including the identities of the victims, have been released.
São Paulo – The Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce has opened registration for companies interested in exhibiting at the Big 5, a construction fair due from November 17th to 20th in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The participation is promoted by the Arab Chamber alongside the Brazilian Export and Investment Promotion Agency (Apex-Brasil) and companies may register until the end of August.
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Alaby (center) gave an overview of the Big 5
This Tuesday (22nd), the Arab Chamber’s CEO, Michel Alaby, presented the fair and its opportunities to housing and building industry delegates attending a meeting the with Apex, in São Paulo, to outline promotional actions for the industry. Attendees were thrilled with the location of the Brazilian stand in this edition of the Big 5, as the stand will be near the main entrance in the area of ornamental stones and rocks.
“It is a privileged location,” Alaby told representatives of organizations such as Anfacer, of ceramics and ceramic tiles, Abimovel, of the real estate sector, Abilux, which is comprised of lighting industry companies, Asbea, of architecture firms, National Plastics Institute and other organizations. Overall, around 20 people attended the meeting.
The Brazilian space can fit ten stands and seven are already sold. There are still three places/slots/openings, each with nine square meters. Prices to occupy a stand are US$ 3,320 (or R$ 7,400) for members of the Arab Chamber and US$ 4,742 (or R$ 10,571) for non-members. The value concerns only the participation in the fair and does not include travel and accommodation expenses.
The Big 5 is held in Dubai, but is a landmark for the entire region, and besides attracting importers from the Gulf Cooperation Council itself, it is attended by buyers from other parts of the world, such as Europe and the United States. Last year, Gulf countries imported US$ 20.4 billion in construction materials. Saudi Arabia alone, one of the main markets in the region, has US$ 1 trillion in ongoing or planned construction projects. The Emirates have US$ 727 billion.
Saudi Arabia is the main target of Brazilian construction material exports to the Gulf, according to Alaby, accounting for 23.3% of the total, followed by the Emirates. Last year, Arab countries imported US$ 3.7 billion worth of ornamental stones alone, and Brazil’s Big 5 stand will be located exactly in the ornamental stone area. The main suppliers to the Arabs in this segment are the Chinese, followed by the Italians and the Turkish.
Arab Chamber marketing analyst Daniela Yuri Tiba and Apex-Brasil project manager Rafael Gratão have also attended the meeting this Tuesday.
Washington (CNN)California Rep. Eric Swalwell — a recently announced Democratic presidential candidate — said Sunday his call for a ban on assault weapons was not a step toward broader gun bans.
A través de una carta que circuló esta tarde, el prestigioso novelista también desmintió haber respondido a ningún tipo de entrevista para la publicación de editorial Perfil que dirige Jorge Fontevecchia.
“El quiosquero a quien le compro los diarios me hizo ver la tapa de la revista Noticias con mi foto en una serie semipolicial. Quiero aclarar que nunca he sido kirchnerista y por lo tanto, tampoco he dejado de serlo”, aseguró Piglia en su mail.
“Pero siempre, (y ahora más que nunca) he mirado con simpatía las medidas adoptadas por Néstor y Cristina Kirchner”, añadió.
El autor de “Plata quemada” y “Respiración artificial” continuó asegurando que si bien ya sabía “que casi todos los periodistas mienten”, recién en esta oportunidad se topó “con una evidencia personal”.
“Un tal Zunino llamó a mi casa y fue atendido por una amiga que cuando escuchó que hablaba de parte de la revista Noticias , le dijo que no teníamos ningún interés en hablar con esa publicación y le colgó”, prosiguió Piglia, en referencia al jefe de redacción de la revista Noticias.
“El tal Zunino volvió a llamar y dijo `Se cortó la comunicación` y mi amiga le contestó: `No, yo le corté`. Quizá por ese gesto, dedujo que yo era antikirchnerista”, añadió Piglia.
Irónico, el novelista finaliza su mail agregando en referencia al título de la portada de la revista que “en cuanto a los panqueques, prefiero los de dulce de leche”.
“Les pido a mis amigos que hagan conocer este mensaje”, concluye Piglia su correo electrónico.
A jury convicted two American friends Wednesday in the 2019 slaying of a police officer in a tragic unraveling of a small time drug deal gone bad, sentencing them to the maximum life in prison.
The jury of two judges and six civilians deliberated more than 12 hours before delivering the verdicts against Finnegan Lee Elder, 21, and Gabriel Natale-Hjorth, 20, handing them Italy’s stiffest sentence.
Elder and Natale-Hjorth were found guilty of all charges: homicide, attempted extortion, assault, resisting a public official and carrying an attack-style knife without just cause. There was a gasp in the Rome courtroom as the presiding judge, Marina Finiti, read the verdict.
Prosecutors alleged that Elder stabbed Vice Brigadier Mario Cerciello Rega 11 times with a knife that he brought with him on his trip to Europe from California and that Natale-Hjorth helped him hide the knife in their hotel room. Under Italian law, an accomplice in an alleged murder can also be charged with murder even without materially doing the slaying.
The July 26, 2019 killing of the officer in the storied Carabinieri paramilitary police corps shocked Italy. Cerciello Rega, 35, was mourned as a national hero.
The slain officer’s widow, who held a photo of her dead husband while waiting for the verdict, broke down in tears and hugged his brother, Paolo.
“His integrity was defended,” Rosa Maria Esilio said outside the courtroom, between sobs. “He was everyone’s son, everyone’s Carabinieri. He was a marvelous husband, he was a marvelous man, a servant of the state who merited respect and honor.”
The defendants were led immediately out of the courtroom after the verdicts were read. As Elder was being walked out, his father, Ethan Elder, called out, “Finnegan, I love you.” Both of his parents looked stunned.
Elder’s lawyer, Renato Borzone, called the verdict against his client “a disgrace for Italy.” Natale-Hjorth’s lawyer, Fabio Alonzi, said he was speechless.
For the brief final hearing before deliberations Wednesday, the two Californians were allowed out of steel-barred defendant cages inside the courtroom to sit with their lawyers before the case went to the jury.
“I’m stressed,” Elder said to one of his lawyers. Elder fingered a crucifix he wears on a chain around his neck and kissed it before the jury went out. He also turned to his codefendant, Natale-Hjorth, and held the crucifix toward him through a glass partition, motioning heavenward.
Elder and his father crossed their fingers toward each other for good luck after the jury went into chambers.
Natale-Hjorth was greeted by his father and Italian uncle, who were present for the deliberations.
Finnegan Lee Elder listens as the verdict is read, in the trial for the slaying of an Italian plainclothes police officer in summer 2019, in Rome, Wednesday, May 5, 2021.
Gregorio Borgia / AP
Cerciello Rega had recently returned from a honeymoon when he was assigned along with his partner, officer Andrea Varriale, to follow up on a reported extortion attempt. They went in plainclothes, and didn’t carry their service pistols.
Prosecutors contend the young Americans concocted a plot involving a stolen bag and cellphone after their failed attempt to buy cocaine with 80 euros ($96) in Rome’s Trastevere nightlife district. Natale-Hjorth and Elder testified they had paid for the cocaine but didn’t receive it.
Both defendants contended they acted in self-defense.
During the trial, which began on February 26, 2020, the Americans told the court they thought that Cerciello Rega and Varriale were thugs or mobsters out to assault them on a dark, deserted street. The officers wore casual summer clothes and not uniforms, and the defendants insisted the officers never showed police badges.
Varriale, who suffered a back injury in a scuffle with Natale-Hjorth while his partner was grappling with Elder, testified that the officers did identify themselves as Carabinieri.
At the time of the slaying, Elder was 19 and traveling through Europe without his family, while Natale-Hjorth, then 18, was spending the summer vacation with his Italian grandparents, who live near Rome. Former schoolmates from the San Francisco Bay area, the two had met up in Rome for what was supposed to be couple of days of sightseeing and nights out.
Prosecutors alleged that Elder thrust a seven-inch military-style attack knife repeatedly into Cerciello Rega, who bled profusely, like a “fountain,” Varriale had testified, and died shortly after in hospital.
Elder told the court that the heavy-set Cerciello Rega, scuffling with him, was on top of him on the ground, and he feared that he was being strangled. Elder said he pulled out the knife and stabbed him to avoid being killed, and when the officer didn’t immediately let him go, he stabbed again.
After the stabbing, the Americans ran to their hotel room, where, according to Natale-Hjorth, Elder cleaned the knife and then asked him to hide it. Natale-Hjorth testified that he hid the knife behind a ceiling panel in their room, where it was discovered hours later by police.
The defendants had told the court that several hours before the stabbing, they attempted to buy cocaine in the Trastevere nightlife district of Rome. With the intervention of a go-between, they paid a dealer, but instead of cocaine they received an aspirin-like tablet.
Before Natale-Hjorth could confront the dealer, a separate Carabinieri patrol in the neighborhood intervened, and all scattered. The Americans snatched the go-between’s knapsack in reprisal, and used a cellphone that was inside to set up a meeting with the goal of exchanging the bag and the phone for the cash they had lost in the bad drug deal.
From practically its start, the trial largely boiled down to the word of Varriale against that of the young American visitors. The victim’s widow would sit in the front row, often clutching a photo of her husband. Photos of the newlyweds, with Cerciello Rega in his dress uniform, after their wedding, were widely displayed in Italian media after the slaying.
As the trial neared its end, Elder’s lawyer, Borzone, argued that deep-set psychiatric problems, including a constant fear of being attacked, figured in the fatal stabbing. Borzone told the court his client saw a world filled with enemies due to psychiatric problems and that something “short-circuited” when Elder was confronted by the officer.
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