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LONDON — Squatters have occupied a London mansion thought to belong to one of the Russian oligarchs sanctioned by the British government.

The property in Belgrave Square — one of London’s most exclusive neighborhoods, located just moments from Buckingham Palace — is said to be owned by billionaire energy mogul Oleg Deripaska, who was sanctioned by authorities last week over his ties with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Protesters took occupation of the luxury property early Monday, draping it with Ukrainian flags and a sign saying “this property has been liberated.”

According to the BBC, the group claimed to “do the job” of authorities, who have come under criticism for their apparent delay in clamping down on members of Putin’s inner circle.

Police in riot gear reportedly entered the property midday Monday after reports that the squatters were on the property. It is not clear how the protesters gained access to the building.

In a statement seen by Sky News, the Metropolitan police said they had completed a search of the property and were “satisfied” no protestors were inside. They added that they “continue to engage” with those on the balcony.

Ownership details of the multimillion-pound, historic property at Five Belgrave Square are murky. However, High Court documents named Deripaska as the beneficial owner over a decade ago, according to Sky.

Public records show the mansion was originally purchased and is currently held by Ravellot Limited, an offshore company incorporated in the British Virgin Islands, the BBC has reported.

At the request of the National Crime Agency, five bank accounts belonging to Graham Bonham-Carter, the named contact for Ravellot Limited, are now subject to asset freezing orders over his alleged links to Deripaska.

“We can confirm that the NCA has secured two Account Freezing Orders in respect of five bank accounts held by Mr Graham Bonham-Carter,” the NCA said in a statement shared with CNBC.

“The orders were obtained on the basis that there are reasonable grounds to suspect that the money in the accounts was derived from the laundering of funds of an individual subject to sanctions in the United States, namely Oleg Deripaska.”

The British government on Thursday put Deripaska, founder of metals and hydropower company EN+ and six other businesses, on a growing list of Putin allies sanctioned by authorities. The sanctions state that his assets will be seized and travel restricted.

The tycoon, whose wealth derives from the privatization of Russian state assets, has been under U.S. sanctions since 2018.

The protesters reportedly called for the seven-bedroom mansion, which houses a Turkish bath and home cinema, to be made available to Ukrainian refugees.

It comes after U.K. Housing Minister Michael Gove on Sunday touted a similar idea, telling the BBC that he was exploring the possibility of housing migrants in properties seized by the government.

“I want to explore an option which would allow us to use the homes and properties of sanctioned individuals for as long as they are sanctioned for humanitarian and other purposes,” he told the BBC.

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Alloush en una conferencia de prensa en Guta. Fotografía tomada en junio de 2015.

El comandante de Jaysh al-Islam (Ejército del Islam), Zahran Alloush, uno de los rebeldes más conocidos de Siria, murió hoy en un bombardeo en la región de Guta Oriental, el principal centro opositor en las afueras de Damasco.

La noticia fue divulgada el viernes en la tarde por el Observatorio Sirio de Derechos Humanos y después fue confirmada por la televisión estatal siria.

Alloush falleció junto a otros cinco líderes del grupo, uno de ellos su responsable de seguridad, durante una reunión que mantenían en Guta Oriental.

Jaysh al-Islam es uno de los grupos rebeldes más fuertes de Siria.

Bombardeo

Activistas sirios denunciaron que el ataque fue realizado por fuerzas rusas, sin embargo la información no fue confirmada.

Zahran Alloush fue sorprendido con algunos de los miembros de su ejército rebelde en una casa de seguridad en la que realizaban una reunión.

La televisión estatal informó que el cuerpo del comandante y el de sus acompañantes terminó enterrado balo los escombros.

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En total, se calcula que hasta mediados de diciembre 1.006.000 personas ingresaron a Europa por mar o tierra. La mitad de los refugiados que cruzaron el Mediterráneo lo hicieron desde Siria, 20% desde Afganistán y 3% desde Irak.

10 cohetes impactaron en el inmueble donde estaban escondidos los rebeldes.

Cuatro oficiales de alto rango corrieron la misma suerte de Alloush, según el comunicado del Observatorio Sirio para los Derechos Humanos.

La agencia estatal de noticias alabó la muerte del hombre de 44 años diciendo “el terrorista Alloush fue abatido durante ataques aéreos”.

Zahran Alloush

El jefe militar fue un activista salafista que estuvo en prisión y que tras ser liberado en 2011 estableció un batallón rebelde para derrocar al gobierno de Bashar al Asad.

El grupo ganó reconocimiento cuando en 2012 se atribuyeron un bombardeo a la Sede de Seguridad Nacional en Damasco que mató a varios miembros de alto rango del gobierno.

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Rusia comenzó sus acciones aéreas en Siria el 30 de septiembre. Amnistía Internacional denuncia que ha matado a 200 civiles desde entonces.

Jaysh al-Islam es uno de los grupos rebeldes más fuertes, tanto por el número de combatientes, que se cuentan por miles, como por su organización, gracias a la cual ha conseguido crear una auténtica administración en Guta

Antes de fundar Jaysh al-Islam, Alloush creó Liwa al-Islam (Brigada del Islam) junto a su padre Abdalá, un salafista sirio radicado en Arabia Saudí que se desmarcó la ideología extremista de Estado Islámico y Al Qaeda, optando por una línea moderada.

Más muertes

El Ejército sirio afirmó el viernes que ha matado a veintiséis “terroristas” en operaciones en la frontera entre las provincias de Hama e Idleb, en el norte del país árabe, según la agencia de noticias oficial siria, Sana.

La agencia, que citó a fuentes castrenses, señaló que los fallecidos pertenecían al Ejército de Al Fatah (conquista), una agrupación armada que incluye a varias facciones como el Frente al-Nusra -filial siria de Al Qaeda-, y al grupo Tayamo al Aza (honor).

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10 cohetes impactaron en el edificio donde estaban escondidos los rebeldes.

Sana detalló que los soldados desarrollaron varias operaciones en las localidades de Al Zaka, Al Latamane y Kafr Zeita, en el norte de la provincia de Hama, donde al menos doce miembros de organizaciones armadas perdieron la vida.

Siria sufre desde hace más de cuatro años un conflicto que ha causado más de 250.000 muertos.

Desde finales de septiembre, el ejército nacional sirio, con la cooperación de la aviación rusa, desarrolla una ofensiva a gran escala en distintas partes del territorio sirio para recuperar el dominio de varias áreas y ciudades.

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São Paulo – From this Saturday (11th) to the next 25th, the city of São Paulo will host the presentations of the multimedia show Card Games, by the Canadian director Robert Lepage. The show consists of two different plays which address issues such as history, politics, magic and the universe of card games with the Arab world running as an underlying theme. The presentations will take place at Sesc Santo Amaro.

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Cards symbolism is the motif in the plays

“This project was born from a simple idea, with actors and technicians playing cards. Then, Lepage researched the origin of the games and found out they came from the East, from the Arab world. From there, he started to turn to this universe,” explains Emerson Pirola, assistant in charge of the theatre area at the management of Sesc’s Cultural Action Program.

The shows were designed according to the card suits. The first two parts, which will be staged in São Paulo, are Card Games: Spades and Card Games: Hearts.

Card Games: Spades explores the theme of war. The six-actor play juxtaposes two desert cities at the moment the United States invade Iraq.

On one side is the American city of Las Vegas, which the director portrays as a caricature of the Western World, and on the other the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, bombed by the then American president George W. Bush in the name of democracy. The characters, like the city that keeps on having fun in the midst of war, face their personal battles in hopes of solving their own contradictions.

In the second part, Card Games: Hearts, the plot links Algeria, France and Canada. The character Chaffik is a young Maghrebi taxi driver in Québec, in 2011, who delves into his genealogical past to untangle questionable events linked to the disappearance of his grandfather and the origins of his family.

Another character in the plot is Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin, a renowned French magician, who is sent to Algeria by the French government, in 1856, to challenge the spiritual and magical powers of the marabouts (hermits considered to be saints by the inhabitants of the Northwestern region of Africa). Chaffik and Robert-Houdin are connected by a familial, political and artistic network.

Pirola explains that each suit represents a symbolism which is portrayed by the director in the plays. “Spades are linked to the military universe; Hearts represents the sacred, the magic; Clubs represents labour, the workers; and Diamonds the economic realm and trade.” The plays themed around Clubs and Diamonds are still in planning phases.

Lepage is known for producing shows which mix performing arts, such as theatre, dance and music, with digital arts, such as cinema, video art and multimedia. The lines in the shows are in French, English and Arabic and subtitled in Portuguese, and will be displayed in four screens scattered around the presentation space.

The plays staff, combined, is composed of 12 actors from several countries such as Germany, Spain, England, Switzerland, Australia and Canada. The performances take place in a 360-degree circular stage which is broken into multiple spaces.

Never seen before in Latin America, the two plays were staged in Germany, Spain, England, Switzerland, Australia and Canada.

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Card Games: Spades
On October 11th, 12nd, 14th and 15th (Saturday at 9pm, Sunday at 6pm, Tuesday and Wednesday, at 9pm).

Card Games: Hearts
On October 22nd, 23rd, 24th and 25th (from Wednesday to Saturday, at 8pm).

Tickets range from R$ 18 to R$ 60 (roughly US$ 7.54 to US$ 25.15) and can be purchased in the ticket offices at Sesc or online at www.sescsp.org.br. Sesc Santo Amaro is located at 505 Amador Bueno Street.

*Translated by Rodrigo Mendonça

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(CNN)The FBI is asking for the public’s help in finding Gabby Petito’s fiancé Brian Laundrie after a coroner made an initial determination that Petito died by homicide.

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    BEIJING—China’s President Xi Jinping will travel to North Korea on Thursday for a two-day state visit, state media said, in what would be the first such visit by a Chinese leader in more than a decade.

    Mr. Xi will meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to discuss bilateral relations, as well as efforts to resolve tensions on the Korean Peninsula, state broadcaster China Central Television said in its Monday evening newscast.

    The…

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    Alguna de las causas que vinculan a Uruguay con el pago de coimas por parte de la constructora brasileña Odebrecht dieron un giro en las últimas horas con la detención de Andrés Sanguinetti, denunciado en Brasil por facilitar el traspaso de sobornos a través de la representación local del banco de Andorra. A su vez se supo en Buenos Aires que el lobbista Jorge “Corcho” Rodríguez —exnovio de la diva argentina Susana Giménez— recibió a través de una empresa off-shore en Uruguay fondos para el pago de coimas provenientes de la empresa brasileña.

    A las 20 horas del domingo, el juez Marcelo Malvar, quien suplanta a la doctora Graciela Eustachio en el juzgado penal de 8° turno, recibió un comunicado de Interpol sobre la detención en Uruguay de Andrés “Betingo” Sanguinetti.

    Menos de 20 horas después, en la tarde de ayer, Sanguinetti compareció ante el magistrado, aceptó su extradición “cuanto antes posible” a Andorra, y pidió esperar en libertad la solicitud formal del principado, según informó su abogado, Jorge Barrera.

    El dirigente de Peñarol y medio hermano del expresidente Julio María Sanguinetti fue detenido luego de ser involucrado en casos de coimas pagadas por Odebrecht a través de la Banca Privada dAndorra (BPA).

    Como medida cautelar, el magistrado le impuso el pago de una fianza de US$ 30.000 que hará efectiva hoy, el uso de una tobillera electrónica y el cierre de fronteras. Sanguinetti ahora debe esperar a que Andorra formalice el pedido de extradición, para el que rige un plazo de 40 días.

    Sanguinetti trabajó hasta 2015 para la BPA y fue señalado por Rodrigo Tacla Durán, abogado de Odebrecht, como uno de los trabajadores involucrados “de manera directa o indirecta” en el esquema de coimas.

    El 31 de marzo de 2011, el Banco Central (BCU) retiró la licencia a BPA Saife para operar en Uruguay, después de que la entidad comunicara su liquidación. Siguió operando bajo otra denominación, Noswey SA Asesores de Inversión, en la misma dirección del BPA en el World Trade Center. El presidente de BPA en Uruguay era el contador Eduardo Ache, expresidente Nacional, quien renunció meses antes de que la institución se retirara del país.

    El BCU canceló la inscripción de esta sociedad anónima en el Registro del Mercado de Valores en octubre de 2014.

    La presunta participación de Sanguinetti se produjo a través de la creación de cuentas para sociedades anónimas, según informó Catalunya Press el pasado 27 de junio.

    Dado que el delito que se le acusa a Sanguinetti es económico, y en principio “no habría riesgo de vida de nadie”, tanto la Fiscalía como el juez entendieron que podía esperar el pedido de extradición en libertad.

    Como la historia de corrupción de la constructora Odebrecht es parte de la mayor trama de lavado de activos de la historia de Brasil, superior a US$ 8.000 millones, la justicia penal enviará el expediente para su estudio al juzgado de Crimen Organizado, dijeron operadores judiciales.

    La conexión porteña.

    El diario argentino La Nación informó ayer que la sociedad uruguaya del lobbista Jorge “Corcho” Rodríguez, Sabrimol Trading, recibió más de US$ 10,8 millones entre 2012 y 2014 destinados a pagar coimas a funcionarios del Ministerio de Planificación Federal, que encabezaba Julio De Vido, según surge de nuevos documentos que obtuvo y verificó el matutino porteño en las últimas semanas.

    El dinero llegó a dos cuentas que “Corcho” Rodríguez utilizaba en Uruguay, una en dólares y otra en euros, a nombre de esa sociedad, que controló con acciones al portador desde que la constituyó, en 2007, en Zonamerica.

    A través de esas dos cuentas bancarias, el lobbista que intermediaba entre la empresa Odebrecht y el equipo de De Vido recibió al menos 53 transferen-cias en 29 meses. La más baja fue por US$ 18.000, mientras que las más elevadas ascendieron a US$ 500.000, en dos ocasiones.

    Esas transferencias aportan un nuevo indicio comprometedor para Rodríguez y para De Vido y sus principales colaboradores, así como para Odebrecht y los empresarios locales con los que se asoció la constructora brasileña.

    Rodríguez siempre negó, sin embargo, cualquier ilicitud en su relación con Odebrecht. “Juro por mi hija que nunca le pedí a ningún ejecutivo de Odebrecht dinero para coimear a funcionarios, como también juro que ni De Vido, ni Baratta, ni ningún otro funcionario me pidió jamás una coima”, afirmó la última vez que dialogó con La Nación.

    Cordial ante cada consulta, Rodríguez explicó que Odebrecht le pagó honorarios durante años por su rol como lobbista —y dejó de contestar las llamadas y mensajes de este diario cuando recibió la pregunta concreta: “¿Es el dueño de Sabrimol?”

    Los US$ 10,8 millones girados a Sabrimol Trading, se enviaron en dólares en 50 de las 53 transferencias, que llegaron a la cuenta 1223640 del Banco Itaú de Uruguay, que utilizó al Bank of America como intermediario.

    En las restantes transferencias el dinero llegó en euros y se depositó en la cuenta 8376842 de Sabrimol Trading, también en el Banco Itaú de Uruguay, pero con otra entidad intermediaria: el Deutsche Bank. Con información de LA NACIÓN/GDA.

    Compra de Gaseba está bajo sospecha.

    La compra de las distribuidoras de gas natural uruguayas Gaseba y Conecta por parte de la petrolera estatal brasileña Petrobras está siendo investigada por la Justicia del vecino norteño.

    La gigante brasileña anunció el inicio de un laudo arbitral contra Uruguay debido a las pérdidas que le ocasionó la compra y operación de las empresas mencionadas.

    En una declaración ante la Justicia brasileña, el exgerente del área internacional de Petrobras, ahora preso, Nestor Cerveró, sembró dudas acerca del eventual pago de sobornos en esa transacción, pero no aportó pruebas concretas, informó el portal Sudestada que publicó un facsímil con la declaración del antes poderoso y hoy caído en desgracia ejecutivo brasileño.

    Off-shore local para promotor de impeachment

    El exdiputado de Brasil, Eduardo da Cunha, uno de los promotores del impeachment a la expresidenta Dilma Rousseff, fue condenado a 15 años y cuatro meses de cárcel. El exlegislador cobró una coima superior a US$ 1,5 millones y parte del dinero lo blanqueó en Suiza mediante una sociedad en el extranjero que le abrió el abogado de un estudio uruguayo. Este profesional es uno de los seis que están siendo investigados por la trama Lava Jato en Uruguay. Hay otro abogado, dos corredores de bolsa (todos ellos uruguayos) y dos cambistas brasileños.

    Dos causas que recaen en el mismo abogado.

    Cuentan que el expresidente Luiz Inácio “Lula” da Silva habría querido comprar el silencio del exdirector de Petrobras, Nestor Cerveró. Si bien el exmandatario siempre negó tal afirmación y nunca se le comprobó tal vínculo, el exdirectivo de la petrolera brasileña fue condenado a 12 años de prisión por participar en la red de coimas. Una de las propiedades que habría comprado con el dinero ilícito fue un apartamento en Río de Janeiro, el que habría adquirido a través de una sociedad uruguaya, creada por un abogado local. A ese mismo abogado también se lo vincula a otro esquema de lavado de activos, conocido como la ruta de Cabral.

    Source Article from http://www.elpais.com.uy/informacion/uruguay-ruta-odebrecht-ejecutivo-uruguayo.html

    Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., speaks with reporters at the Capitol in February.

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    Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr sold off a large amount of stocks before the coronavirus market crash, and now the Justice Department is looking into his statements around this time period, NPR can report.

    Media outlets including CNN, The Wall Street Journal and The Associated Press have also reported that the FBI has reached out to Burr to assess whether he made stock sales based on nonpublic information.

    NPR first broke news of a secret recording in which Burr, R-N.C., privately warned well-connected constituents in February about how bad the coronavirus crisis would become.

    ProPublica then reported that the senator dumped up to $1.7 million in stocks, while assuring the public that the U.S. was well positioned to withstand a pandemic.

    An insider trading investigation hinges on whether a person made stock transactions based on relevant private information.

    As chairman of the Intelligence Committee and a member of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, Burr may have received private information about the coming pandemic.

    “Was [that information] something that you and I, if we were shareholders of that company, would have reasonably expected it to be considered significant at the time?” said Doug Davison, a former Securities and Exchange Commission enforcement lawyer, laying out a key question that investigators would have. “The investigation needs to be surgical in the sense that you need to really focus like a laser on what information was provided to the Congress folks. Was it material? Was it nonpublic?”

    Burr’s stock transactions — 33 on a single day: Feb. 13 — present a unique challenge for investigators because he is a member of Congress.

    First, as chair of the Intelligence Committee, the senator may have been privy to classified information, which complicates an investigation.

    Second, as a senator, Burr may be able to cite the Speech or Debate Clause of the Constitution, which gives lawmakers protections related to their official duties.

    “It’s a provision in the Constitution that is designed to give members of Congress freedom to debate, deliberate, to speak without fear of intimidation or threats from the executive branch,” said Katie Goldstein, who formerly headed up the investigations into securities fraud in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York. “There could potentially be litigation over … briefing materials that may have been provided to senators or congressmen. If it was provided for the purpose of their committee work or introducing legislation, you could see litigation being raised as a shield [from] having to produce those kinds of materials.”

    Third, insider trading investigations typically center on a single company and specific information. The information Burr received may have been about general economic concerns, and his sell-off involved a broad unloading of stocks across numerous economic sectors.

    “It’s not prohibitive in terms of making a case, but it certainly is harder when it is generalized information like that,” said Joon Kim, the former acting U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York.

    But Kim added that these types of challenges are generally not the main focus of investigators.

    “The DOJ and SEC don’t go into investigations saying, ‘Oh, this is…going to be challenging, so let’s not do it,’ ” Kim told NPR. “You go in saying, ‘Is there something here that deserves investigation?’ … It seems like they have concluded that it does deserve investigation.”

    And Goldstein explained that there are ways investigators could handle issues like classified information or the Speech or Debate Clause: by finding information that showed a subject’s state of mind when that person made stock transactions, such as “an email that someone sends to someone else or a text message or a phone call that…someone has with a third party like their broker or a friend. … With a court order or by finding the right person to interview, the government can get their hands on [that information].”

    Burr has previously said he made all of his trading decisions based on public information he learned from watching CNBC.

    “The law is clear that any American — including a Senator — may participate in the stock market based on public information, as Senator Burr did,” Burr’s lawyer, Alice Fisher, emphasized in a statement. “Senator Burr welcomes a thorough review of the facts in this matter, which will establish that his actions were appropriate.”

    Burr has also asked for the Senate Ethics Committee to investigate his conduct. That secretive committee did not respond to an NPR inquiry.

    Both the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Justice Department declined to comment.

    Source Article from https://www.npr.org/2020/03/31/824958381/justice-department-looking-into-senators-stock-selloff

    “The individuals who are supporting me aren’t supporting me because they know me,” Strahan said. “They are supporting me because they know Rep. Greene.”

    Greene is seeking a second term in the district that consists of 10 counties in northwest Georgia and part of Cobb County. The district is strongly conservative, meaning the winner of the primary will be the heavy favorite in November.

    The other Republican candidates are Eric Cunningham, Charles Lutin, James Haygood and Seth Synstelien.

    ExploreHopefuls line up to challenge Marjorie Taylor Greene, but she’ll be hard to beat

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    There are regular protests against the US – and President Trump – in Iran

    Iran is facing “unprecedented” pressure from international sanctions, President Hassan Rouhani has said.

    Renewed US sanctions had led to worse economic conditions than during the country’s 1980-88 war with neighbouring Iraq, Mr Rouhani said.

    His comments came amid rising tensions with the US, which last week deployed warships and warplanes to the Gulf.

    Mr Rouhani, who has come under domestic political pressure, called for political unity to face down sanctions.

    “During the war we did not have a problem with our banks, oil sales or imports and exports, and there were only sanctions on arms purchases,” Mr Rouhani told political activists in the capital, Tehran.

    “The pressures by enemies is a war unprecedented in the history of our Islamic revolution … but I do not despair and have great hope for the future and believe that we can move past these difficult conditions provided that we are united,” he said.

    The US-Iran escalation has put into question the future of the landmark 2015 nuclear deal that Iran signed with the five permanent members of the UN Security Council and Germany.

    US President Donald Trump last year unilaterally abandoned the deal and re-imposed sanctions – and Iran has indicated it may also resume nuclear activities if the other partners go along with American sanctions.

    What pressures is Iran facing?

    President Rouhani has personally come under pressure from hardliners in Iran after the US withdrawal from the nuclear deal his administration negotiated.

    Under the accord, Iran had agreed to limit its sensitive nuclear activities and allow in international inspectors in return for sanctions relief.

    US sanctions – particularly those on the energy, shipping and financial sectors – have hit oil exports and caused foreign investment to dry up.

    The sanctions prevent US companies from trading with Iran directly and also with any foreign firms or countries that are dealing with Iran.

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    President Rouhani has come under pressure in Iran after a 2015 nuclear accord began to fall apart

    The International Monetary Fund has said it expects the Iranian economy to shrink by 6% in 2019.

    However, that projection preceded another move by the US to tighten sanctions: the end to exemptions enjoyed by China, India, Japan, South Korea and Turkey, all five of which have been buying Iranian oil.

    Last month, the US also blacklisted Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guard Corps (RG), designating it as a foreign terrorist group.

    Iran has repeatedly threatened to retaliate to the US measures by blocking the Strait of Hormuz – through which about a fifth of all oil consumed globally pass.

    What is the US doing?

    The Trump administration hopes to compel Iran to negotiate a “new deal” that would cover not only its nuclear activities, but also its ballistic missile programme and what officials call its “malign behaviour” across the Middle East.

    The US is sending a Patriot missile-defence system to the Middle East.

    A US warship, USS Arlington, with amphibious vehicles and aircraft on board, is also joining the USS Abraham Lincoln strike group in the Gulf.

    US B-52 bombers have arrived at a base in Qatar.

    The US said the moves were a response to a possible threat to US forces in the region by Iran, without specifying. Iran dismissed the claim as nonsense.

    A senior RG commander said that, if attacked, Iran could strike US forces.

    “An aircraft carrier that has at least 40 to 50 planes on it and 6,000 forces gathered within it was a serious threat for us in the past but now… the threats have switched to opportunities,” Adm Amir Ali Hajizadeh said, according to Iranian news agency Isna.

    “If [the Americans] make a move we will hit them in the head,” he said.

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    The USS Arlington will join the USS Abraham Lincoln in the Gulf

    There are about 5,200 US troops currently deployed in neighbouring Iraq.

    Earlier this week Iran announced that it had suspended two commitments under the nuclear accord. It also threatened to step up uranium enrichment if it was not shielded from the sanctions’ effects within 60 days.

    European powers said they remained committed to the Iran nuclear deal but that they “reject any ultimatums” from Tehran to prevent its collapse.

    Source Article from https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-48242997

    California’s deepening drought has worsened into a crisis, as a second dry year in a row has diminished the state’s water supply and another difficult fire season looks inevitable. Nearly three-quarters of the state is in extreme to exceptional drought. With the wet season all but over and a hot, dry summer probably ahead, water shortages and fire danger are poised to intensify.

    The past several weeks have shown dramatic change in drought status: Extreme drought has expanded through the northern Sierra’s crucial water region and in the agricultural San Joaquin Valley.

    Exceptional drought, the worst category in the federal government’s U.S. Drought Monitor, has descended upon the Bay Area and the nearly snow-free southern Sierra. Moderate drought conditions or worse cover all of California.

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    Cindy Matthews, senior hydrologist with the National Weather Service’s Sacramento office, said the recent drought progression is a result of the dry winter, which has been followed by a very warm and dry spring. Most of the state has received less than a half-inch of rain since April 1.

    California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) has declared a drought emergency in 41 counties, a move that will help to conserve water in reservoirs, although many sectors will vie for that limited supply downstream, including households, farmers and freshwater ecosystems.

    “There is not enough water available, so reservoir operators have reduced their allocations to those who have rights to that water,” Matthews said in an interview. There are reports of farmers allowing fields to go fallow this spring because there probably will not be enough water to sustain some crops through the season. Freshwater fish species such as salmon are also threatened by low stream levels.

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    May 2021: Reservoir at 42% of capacity

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    In just over a year, a parched and burned

    landscape and lower reservoir levels

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    May 2021: Reservoir at 42% of capacity

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    Area burned by

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    In just over a year, a parched and burned landscape

    and lower reservoir levels

    May 2020:

    Reservoir at 70% of capacity

    May 2021:

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    in August/October

    of 2020

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    In just over a year, a parched and burned landscape and lower reservoir levels

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    in August/October

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    in August/October

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    The drought is hitting especially hard in the wetter northern half of the state, where major reservoirs are fed by mountain snowmelt. The two largest of those, Lake Shasta and Lake Oroville, are at 46 percent and 40 percent, respectively, of their total capacity this week and are lower than they were at this date during the 2012-2016 drought. Because of climate change, the prolonged dry spells of the past 10 years are much warmer and therefore more severe than those that occurred decades ago.

    Disappearing snowpack

    The state’s snowpack, which represents 30 percent of its water supply, stores water high in the mountains and delivers it to surrounding forests, rivers and eventually to reservoirs, in late spring and summer. Most of the streamflow in the Sierra Nevada region comes directly from snowmelt.

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    This year, though, an already paltry snowpack has melted off at breakneck speed. And instead of flowing into rivers, much of the meltwater has seeped into parched soil or simply evaporated.

    “We saw massive, rapid melt-off of the snowpack at the lower and middle elevations,” Chris Orrock of the California Department of Water Resources said in an interview. Statewide snowpack, which peaked March 25 at 64 percent of average, is only 2 percent of average for the date.

    April was exceedingly warm over the Sierra, and the loss of snow and streamflow illustrates how higher temperatures due to climate change can compound the effects of droughts.

    There was also simply much less snow available this year. Both the northern and central Sierra are on track to record their third-driest year on record, while the southern Sierra probably will see its driest.

    Over the past two years combined, some regions have missed an entire season’s worth of precipitation.

    “We’ve lost a whole year of runoff in the water project that supplies water across California,” Orrock said, referring to the State Water Project, a storage and delivery system that serves 27 million Californians and irrigates Central Valley farmland.

    Although major cities such as San Francisco have diverse water supply portfolios and can draw from numerous sources and backup supplies, smaller cities rely on their local reservoirs and therefore depend on rain that falls in their local watersheds.

    Marin County, just north of San Francisco, draws its water from the Russian River watershed, which sits at the epicenter of the current drought. On Tuesday, the county’s board of supervisors declared a drought emergency and further tightened mandatory water restrictions, such as limiting outdoor sprinkler use, to preserve reservoir storage through the long dry season ahead.

    Another challenging fire season underway early

    An active fire season is already underway in California, as drought and warm conditions have led to summerlike flammability in May.

    At an event earlier this month to kick off the state’s Wildfire Preparedness Week, Cal Fire Director Thom Porter said, “We are seeing conditions right now, this year, that are a month or two down the road.”

    The agency has increased staffing in preparation for another challenging season as both the number of fires and the number of acres burned so far this year are well above the five-year average.

    In an ominous sign, some fires are growing large even in the absence of typical fire weather. On Sunday, the Palisades Fire northwest of Santa Monica spread in cool, humid breezes from the ocean — an indication of how flammable the landscape is. Lisa Phillips, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Oxnard, said current low moisture levels in the area’s live chaparral vegetation are not usually seen until July.

    Most of Los Angeles and Ventura counties are in “extreme” drought; Los Angeles International Airport recorded only five inches of rain for the water year — less than half of normal.

    Drought within a ‘megadrought’

    Although California has always had highly variable year-to-year precipitation, in the past two decades, dry years have become more frequent, occurring three times more often than wet years. Scientists have found that the southwestern United States has been mired in a “megadrought,” the second-worst such era in the past 1,200 years. These long-term dry periods, which can last decades, are marked by low precipitation, as well as low soil moisture and snowpack.

    A two-decade trend of more heat

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    Source: PPIC Water Policy Center

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    Source: PPIC Water Policy Center

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    Source: PPIC Water Policy Center

    Increasing temperatures due to climate change have doubled down on the megadrought, meaning more water is being lost to the atmosphere, and more precipitation is falling as rain instead of snow. This warming has also translated into greatly increased wildfire risk.

    “It’s obvious we’re seeing smaller amounts of snow, and it’s melting earlier — that’s the big change,” Jeffrey Mount, a senior fellow in water and climate change policy at the Public Policy Institute of California, said in an interview.

    Mount described 2011 as an example of a “really good cold wet year” with rushing snowmelt in June. Such years are needed to replenish reservoirs and groundwater, but they’ve been few and far between since 1999.

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    compared to current conditions

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    “We have an elaborate system to store and manage water, but it’s all based on 1950s hydrology — not modern hydrology,” he said. In other words, it was built around a past climate, when wet years were more reliable and less water was lost through evaporation.

    “Maybe we’ll get lucky and next year we’ll go into a wet period like we had in the mid-90s, and everything will be great,” he said. “But that’s highly unlikely.”

    About this story

    U.S. Drought Monitor data was used for May 20. Satellite images of Lake Oroville via ESA Sentinel 2 satellite and fire perimeter data via CalFire. ESA Sentinel 3 imagery was used in the two-month comparison graphic, and California Department of Water Resources for the capacity data. Megadrought analysis provided by PPIC Water Policy Center. Snow water equivalent data via NOAA.

    Source Article from https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/2021/05/21/california-drought-emergency-fires/

    Rep. Katie Hill, D-Calif., ripped into her political opponents on Thursday, denouncing what she called a “double standard” in politics that allegedly punished her while letting President Trump and others off the hook.

    “I am leaving now because of a double standard,” she said. “I am leaving because I no longer want to be used as a bargaining chip. I’m leaving because I didn’t want to be pedaled by papers and blogs and websites, used by shameless operatives for the dirtiest gutter politics that I’ve ever seen — and the right-wing media to drive clicks and expand their audience by distributing intimate photos of me — taken without my knowledge, let alone my consent — for the sexual entertainment of millions.”

    Hill claimed that she was leaving as men remained in Congress, the Oval Office, and the Supreme Court after being “credibly accused of acts of sexual violence” — a clear jab at Trump and Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

    Hill announced her resignation on Sunday after a media firestorm was ignited by intimate details about her personal life. Pornographic photos of her surfaced online after a conservative news site — RedState — reported on an extramarital affair that Hill allegedly had with staffers.

    WASHINGTON POST HIT FOR ASKING IF KATIE HILL SAGA WOULD HAVE HAPPENED TO A MAN

    “I’m leaving because of a misogynistic culture that gleefully consumed my naked pictures, capitalized on my sexuality, and enabled my abusive ex to continue that abuse — this time, with the entire country watching,” she added while speaking on the House floor. She went on to cite “thousands” of threatening messages that made her fear for her life.

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    Hill’s speech painted a picture in which misogynistic forces colluded to oust her from office.

    “The forces of revenge by a bitter, jealous man, cyber exploitation, and sexual shaming that target our gender and a large segment of society that fears and hates powerful women have combined to push a young woman out of power and say that she doesn’t belong here,” she said, referring to herself.

    “Yet a man, who brags about his sexual predation, who’s had dozens of women come forward to accuse him of sexual assault, who pushes policies that are uniquely harmful to women, and who has filled the court with judges who proudly rule to deprive women of the most fundamental right to control their own bodies — sits in the highest office of the land,” she said.

    REP. KATIE HILL’S CLAIM THAT RIGHT-WING MEDIA FORCED HER RESIGNATION IS A ‘MYTH,’ GREG GUTFELD SAYS

    Thursday, she said, was the first day she left her apartment since the photos surfaced. Hill also apologized for falling “short” of her goal to show “imperfect people” they belonged in Congress and “give a voice to the unheard in the halls of power.” She added apologies for “everyone who has supported and believed in me.” At one point, she said she hoped that one day little girls who looked up to her would be able to forgive her.

    “The mistakes I’ve made and the people I’ve hurt that led to this moment will haunt me for the rest of my life,” she said.

    As her last act in Congress, Hill voted for Trump’s impeachment “on behalf of the women of the United States of America.”

    The House approved an impeachment resolution mostly along partisan lines on Thursday, after weeks of an official inquiry by House Democrats.

    Hill indicated that she was leaving Congress so she wouldn’t distract from the impeachment process.

    “I’m leaving because there is only one investigation that deserves the attention of this country,” she said.

    KATIE HILL IS ‘VICTIM,’ SOME MEDIA CLAIM, FOCUSING ON LEAKED PHOTOS OVER REPORTED INAPPROPRIATE RELATIONSHIPS

    House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., defended Hill during her weekly press briefing on Thursday.

    “Katie Hill’s decision to resign is her decision to resign,” said. “She is an absolutely outstanding young public servant — very smart, strategic, patriotic, loves our country, respected by her colleagues in the Congress for the work that she does,” Pelosi said.

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    Pelosi added that the public humiliation Hill faced was “shameful” and that her rights may have been violated.

    “Regardless of any errors in judgment that anyone may have made, it’s shameful that she’s been exposed to public humiliation by way of cyber exploitation … Countless women across America have been subjected to this type of harassment and abuse which is a profound violation of those women’s rights or any — men too– and human dignity,” she said.

    Source Article from https://www.foxnews.com/media/katie-hill-floor-speech-trump

    El jefe de Gabinete, Marcos Peña, afirmó el jueves que en enero próximo esperan tener “buenas noticias” respecto a la situación de precios, mientras que el presidente de la Cámara Argentina de Comercio (CAC), Carlos De la Vega, estimó que “los únicos precios que van a bajar son los que se han fijado a un precio con un dólar de 14, 15 y 16 (pesos)”. El directivo de la CAC también manifestó su escepticismo sobre el acuerdo económico y social que quiere alcanzar el macrismo.


    El problema de la suba de precios fue analizado durante la segunda reunión de Gabinete Nacional que encabezó el presidente Mauricio Macri desde que asumió su gestión. Peña, quien ofició de vocero tras el encuentro, admitió que  la inflación “no se va a corregir de un día para el otro” porque “viene de arrastre”, y remarcó que se está “trabajando” para ir “logrando que no haya más aumentos”.


    El ministro coordinador dijo que el gobierno tiene “expectativa” de poder alcanzar un acuerdo con empresarios y consideró que es posible ir “logrando políticas razonables y de colaboración para cuidar el bolsillo de los argentinos”. En este sentido, comentó que se está “trabajando con cada uno de los sectores para ir logrando de mínima que no haya más aumentos y de máxima de poder ver que haya retrocesos de aumentos, que en algunos casos fueron un poco excesivos en términos de especulación”. “Somos optimistas en el marco del diálogo social con los  sectores económicos, no se puede hacer de un día para el otro, pero creemos que en enero vamos a seguir teniendo buenas noticias en términos de sector por sector, de ir trabajando para lograr una política más razonable y de cooperación, porque acá todos tienen que colaborar para cuidar el bolsillo de los argentinos y el poder  adquisitivo”, recalcó.


    Por su parte, sobre la meta planteada por el Gobierno de retrotraer los precios a los valores de noviembre, De la Vega estimó que “los únicos precios que van a bajar son los que se han fijado a un precio con un dólar de 14, 15 y 16” pesos, ya que “ni el consumidor ni el mercado le van a convalidar esos precios exagerados”. Al evaluar los primeros días de gestión de Macri, el empresario consideró que “fue impecable la instrumentación de la devaluación” y “todo ha transcurrido con tranquilidad y sin sorpresas”. En declaraciones a radio La Red, De la Vega sostuvo que “es  altamente conveniente que se instrumente un acuerdo tripartito entre empresarios, Estado y trabajadores para que puedan transcurrir los próximos meses sin sobresaltos”. No obstante, manifestó su escepticismo sobre el acuerdo económico y social que quiere alcanzar el macrismo, y confesó: “Para ser franco, esto se ha intentando muchas veces, se ha hablando muchas veces” sin éxito.


    Destacó que los empresarios se han “sentado en los últimos 25, 30 años y a último momento fue el Estado el que ha bajado el objetivo de ponernos de acuerdo”.

    Source Article from http://www.eldia.com/el-pais/precios-desde-el-gobierno-esperan-buenas-noticias-para-enero-105418


    URGENTE | La SIDE amenaza con denunciar a NOTICIAS en la Justicia Federal

    Es por publicar en la edición que sale hoy la lista de nuevos espías K


    Hace instantes, un empleado de la Secretaría de Inteligencia se hizo presente en la planta de Editorial Perfil en Barracas para entregar un documento amenazante: de publicar la lista de nuevos espías K que sale en la edición de hoy de la Revista Noticias, seremos denunciados ante la Justicia Federal por violar el secreto que marca la vieja Ley de Inteligencia.

    Luego de haberse amasado una “mafia” gracias a dicho secreto, denunciada por el propio Gobierno, es un medio de comunicación el que debe abstenerse de tomar la actitud republicana de transparentar de qué modo quedaría estructurado dicho organismo bajo el mandato del próximo presidente constitucional.

    La edición de Noticias ya está impresa y en proceso de distribución.

    Ampliaremos


     




    Source Article from http://noticias.perfil.com/2015-03-13-59539-urgente-la-side-amenaza-con-denunciar-a-noticias-en-la-justicia-federal/

    More than 500 new coronavirus cases were reported in South Korea, where authorities are considering keeping schools closed for a month. The virus has spread from China to 47 countries.
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    The campaigns for the two Democratic candidates have started to heed public health officials’ warnings about the dangers of campaigning during the coronavirus outbreak. President Donald Trump has taken a more muddled approach.

    A week ago, former Vice President Joe Biden’s campaign told Vox it wasn’t planning on canceling rallies or other public events but was monitoring the outbreak. Now his campaign, along with that of Sen. Bernie Sanders have begun canceling events.

    Both candidates canceled rallies in Cleveland, Ohio, last night after being warned off by local public health officials. Sanders was scheduled to hold an event at a Cleveland convention center as primary election results were set to begin coming in from several states Tuesday evening.

    “Out of concern for public health and safety, we are canceling tonight’s rally in Cleveland. We are heeding the public warnings from Ohio state officials, who have communicated concern about holding large, indoor events during the coronavirus outbreak,” Sanders campaign spokesperson Mike Casca said in a statement.

    After initially saying that their own campaign event would go on, the Biden campaign ended up canceling a similar event in Cleveland after local health officials discouraged large gatherings in the area.

    As of March 11, 1,050 people in the US have tested positive for Covid-19, the disease stemming from novel coronavirus, and 29 people have died from it, according to the Johns Hopkins tracker. Public health officials have warned people from attending large gatherings of people where germs could be easily spread among many people quickly, in order to prevent transmission of the virus.

    “Ultimately, we expect we will see community spread in the United States,” Nancy Messonnier, an official at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), told reporters on February 25. “It’s not a question of if this will happen but when this will happen and how many people in this country will have severe illnesses.”

    Many states and localities have ordered cancellation of large gatherings and events, and numerous conferences, including SXSW in Austin, Texas and Emerald City Comic Con in Seattle, Washington, have either canceled or postponed. And concern over spreading Covid-19 finally hit the political world after several elected officials at an annual conservative conference were notified that an attendee they had come into contact with someone who has tested positive for the virus.

    Trump’s reelection campaign, however, doesn’t seem to be taking the situation as seriously.

    Presidential campaign officials have a responsibility to protect rally attendees

    Central to political campaigning is human contact. Canvassers knock on thousands of doors every day; candidates shake hands with voters and donors at a myriad of events; and supporters gather in large (and often raucous) crowds at rallies — all things that public health experts would advise against in the middle of an outbreak.

    For public health officials, it all comes down to whether community spread is affecting an area hosting a campaign event.

    “If you’re talking about a campaign rally tomorrow in a place where there is no community spread, I think the judgment to have it might be a good judgement,” said Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and a member of the White House coronavirus task force, at a press conference Monday. “If you want to talk about large gatherings in a place where you have community spread, I think that’s a judgement call. And if someone decides they want to cancel it, I wouldn’t publicly criticize it.”

    So far, presidential campaign events had mostly gone on as usual — until Tuesday evening. After listening to local health officials, the campaigns for both of the two major remaining Democratic presidential candidates canceled their Cleveland rallies out of an abundance of caution. When campaigns were still hosting events, the Biden campaign had posted staffers at the doors for several events Monday to provide squirts of hand sanitizer to everybody attending.

    Hand sanitizer — for all that it only goes so far, especially if an infected person is in attendance and spreading germs to others — has become a prerequisite for taking photos with Trump during fundraisers.

    The Trump campaign did not return comment for a previous story on how campaign officials were planning contingencies for a coronavirus outbreak, but Trump himself has been adamant that he would continue holding rallies.

    He defended holding a rally last Monday evening in Charlotte on the eve of the Super Tuesday primaries early last week. “These were set up a long time ago,” Trump told reporters during his White House meeting last week with Colombian President Ivan Duque. “And you could ask that to the Democrats, because they’re having a lot of rallies, they’re all having rallies, they’re campaigning. I think it’s safe, I think it’s very safe.”

    Trump campaign communications director Tim Murtaugh told the Washington Post Tuesday, “The campaign is proceeding as normal.”

    The campaign has dialed back on some public events, and currently does not have any big rallies featuring the president currently planned. First lady Melania Trump canceled a fundraiser in Beverly Hills due to a “scheduling conflict,” and the Trump campaign canceled a three-day bus tour through Michigan, Ohio, and Pennsylvania featuring Trump’s daughter-in-law, Lara Trump that was supposed to start Monday.

    However, the campaign maintains that none of the cancelations were related to fears over coronavirus.

    In fact, on Tuesday the campaign announced a new event: one launching “Catholics for Trump” in Milwaukee on March 19. The Wisconsin event doesn’t appear to be a regular campaign rally, which often draws thousands of people in attendance, but it’s unclear how many are expected to attend. His campaign announced the event shortly after the White House coronavirus task force, led by Vice President Mike Pence, encouraged people to “avoid crowding.”

    At this point, with the World Health Organization declaring novel coronavirus a pandemic, campaigns have a duty to protect their supporters, staff, and the candidates themselves. It remains to be seen what modern campaigning during a global pandemic will look like.

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