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ÚN.- El alcalde de Chacao, Ramón Muchacho, reconoció este lunes que dentro de la oposición hace falta “claridad estratégica” en la oposición, aunque resaltó que es optimista en que la situación del país pueda mejorar en el mediano y largo plazo.

Muchacho agregó que Venezuela vive un momento difícil y la oposición también.

“Estamos complicados en la oposición, en este momento hace falta claridad estratégica, cuando el Gobierno nos robó el referendo constitucional, hemos quedado en una situación difícil, como oposición hemos quedado aturdidos y sin un rumbo claro de por cuál camino estratégico hay que meterse”, dijo en el programa La Noticia Viva de Unión Radio.

Muchacho recalcó que “en el corto plazo tengo las preocupaciones de todos compartimos, es como vamos a destrancar este juego político, como superar la crisis política, no hay hoy medidas y anuncios que nos permita pensar o esperar que vamos a estar mejor en 30, 60 días o seis meses”.

El alcalde de Chacao criticó el anuncio presidencial de decretar día no laborable de este miércoles, y comentó que un país no puede prosperar si se paraliza la actividad productiva.



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April 7 at 7:01 PM

British regulators on Sunday unveiled a landmark proposal to penalize Facebook, Google and other tech giants that fail to stop the spread of harmful content online, marking a major new regulatory threat for an industry that’s long dodged responsibility for what its users say or share.

The aggressive, new plan — drafted by the United Kingdom’s leading consumer-protection authorities and blessed by Prime Minister Theresa May — targets a wide array of web content, including child exploitation, false news, terrorist activity and extreme violence. If approved by Parliament, U.K. watchdogs would gain unprecedented powers to issue fines and other punishments if social-media sites don’t swiftly remove the most egregious posts, photos and videos from public view.

Top British officials said their blueprint would amount to “world leading laws to make the U.K. the safest place in the world to be online.” The document raises the possibility that the top executives of major tech companies could be held directly liable for failing to police their platforms. It even asks lawmakers to consider if regulators should have the ability to order internet service providers and others to limit access to some of the most harmful content on the web.

Experts said the idea potentially could limit the reach of sites including 8chan, an anonymous message board where graphic, violent content often thrives and that played an important role in spreading images of last month’s mosque attack in New Zealand.

“The Internet can be brilliant at connecting people across the world — but for too long these companies have not done enough to protect users, especially children and young people, from harmful content,” May said in a statement.

For Silicon Valley, the U.K.’s rules could amount to the most severe regulatory repercussion the tech industry has faced globally for failing to clean up a host of troubling content online. The sector’s continued struggles came into sharp relief last month, after videos of the deadly shooting in Christchurch, New Zealand, proliferated online, despite heightened investments by Facebook, Google and Twitter on more human reviewers — and more powerful tech tools — to stop such posts from going viral.

The March shooting prompted Australia to adopt a content-takedown law of its own, and it has emboldened others throughout Europe to consider similar new rules targeting the tech industry. The wave of global activity stands in stark contrast to the United States, where a decades-old federal law shields social-media companies from being held liable for the content posted by their users. U.S. lawmakers also have been reticent to regulate online speech out of concern that doing so would violate the First Amendment.

“The era of self-regulation for online companies is over,” U.K. Digital Secretary Jeremy Wright said in a statement Sunday.

In response, Facebook highlighted its recent investments to better spot and remove harmful content, adding the U.K.’s proposal “should protect society from harm while also supporting innovation, the digital economy and freedom of speech.” Twitter said it would work with government to “strike an appropriate balance between keeping users safe and preserving the internet’s open, free nature.” Google declined to comment.

The U.K.’s fresh call for regulation reflects a deepening skepticism of Silicon Valley in response to a range of recent controversies, including Facebook’s role in the country’s 2016 referendum to leave the European Union. British lawmakers learned after the vote that an organization created by Brexit supporters appeared to have links to Cambridge Analytica, a political consultancy that improperly accessed Facebook data on 87 million users in order to help clients better hone their political messages.

The revelation sparked a broad inquiry in Parliament, where lawmakers unsuccessfully demanded testimony from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. In the aftermath, many there have called for strict new regulation of the social-networking giant and its peers.

“There is an urgent need for this new regulatory body to be established as soon as possible,” said Damian Collins, the chairman of the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee in the House of Commons. He said the panel would hold hearings on the government’s proposal in the coming weeks.

For now, the U.K.’s plan comes in the form of a white paper that eventually will yield new legislation. Early details shared Sunday proposed that lawmakers set up a new, independent regulator tasked to ensure companies “take responsibility for the safety of their users.” That oversight — either through a new agency or part of an existing one — would be funded by tech companies, potentially through a new tax.

The agency’s mandate would be vast, from policing large social-media platforms such as Facebook to smaller web sites’ forums or comment sections. Much of its work would focus on content that could be harmful to children or pose a risk to national security. But regulators ultimately could play a role in scrutinizing a broader array of online harms, the U.K. said, including content “that may not be illegal but are nonetheless highly damaging to individuals or threaten our way of life in the U.K.” The document offers a litany of potential areas of concern, including hate speech, coercive behavior and underage exposure to illegal content such as dating apps that are meant for people over age 18.

Many details, such as how it defines harmful content, and how long companies have to take it down, have yet to be hammered out. U.K. regulators also said they would prod tech companies to be more transparent with users about the content they take down, and why.

“Despite our repeated calls to action, harmful and illegal content — including child abuse and terrorism — is still too readily available online,” said Sajid Javid, the U.K.’s home secretary. “That is why we are forcing these firms to clean up their act once and for all.”

Source Article from https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/04/07/uk-unveils-sweeping-plan-penalize-facebook-google-harmful-online-content/

Democratic congressional leaders on Monday said they will try to pass a bill that both prevents a government shutdown and suspends the U.S. debt limit as they try to dodge two possible crises in one swoop.

Congress faces a Sept. 30 deadline to fund the federal government. Separately, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has told lawmakers that the U.S. will likely not be able to pay its bills sometime in October if Congress does not suspend or raise the debt ceiling.

The House plans to vote this week on legislation that addresses both issues. The bill would fund the government through December and suspend the debt ceiling through the end of 2022, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said in a joint statement.

The bill’s fate is uncertain. Republicans have said they will not join Democrats in voting to suspend the debt ceiling, raising the prospect of a default that could devastate the global economy.

Pelosi and Schumer on Monday said the GOP has an obligation to address the debt limit because the party helped to pass sprawling coronavirus aid plans last year.

“Addressing the debt limit is about meeting obligations the government has already made, like the bipartisan emergency COVID relief legislation from December as well as vital payments to Social Security recipients and our veterans,” they said, adding that a default “could plunge the country into a recession.”

Democrats also noted that the funding bill will include relief money for a recent string of natural disasters — which could make it more appealing to GOP lawmakers who represent states hit by storms. Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., told NBC News he is inclined to back a funding bill that includes a debt ceiling suspension because it would include “critical” relief funding for his state, which was recently battered by Hurricane Ida.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., has tried to force Democrats to suspend the debt ceiling as part of their up to $3.5 trillion bill to invest in the social safety net and climate policy. He did not back down from his position on Monday.

“They have every tool to address the debt limit on their own,” he said.

McConnell said his party would vote for a short-term government funding bill that does not include a debt limit suspension.

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(WKOW) — Jayme Closs has officially spent her first full weekend back at home and her family is overjoyed to have her there.

“I was the first one she gave a hug to,” Robert Naiberg, Jayme’s grandfather said.

He describes an emotional reunion between the two after Jayme was finally reunited with her family after 88 days.

“I was standing in my daughter Jennifer’s hallway, she came up to me and gave me a big hug and I gave her a big hug,” he said.

His daughter and Jayme’s aunt, Jennifer Smith, did what she could to make sure Jayme felt comfortable when she got back home.

“Her room was empty, but when she came home, it was all done,” he said.

Jayme went missing October 15th. Her parents were found shot to death in their home in Barron. About three months later, Jayme was found alive near that town of Gordon home, which is about an hour away from her family’s home.

The suspect, 21-year-old Jake Patterson, was taken into custody the same day.

“You can tell she’s not quite the same,” Naiberg said.

Barron County Sheriff Chris Fitzgerald said Patterson may have chosen Jayme Closs at random, adding motive has not been determined at this point.

Prosecutors plan to charge him with kidnapping and two counts of intentional homicide.

Patterson’s first court appearance is Monday. Following that appearance, more information about Patterson’s charges is expected to be released in a criminal complaint.

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NOTICIAS  TELEMUNDO  PRESENTS:

“MURIENDO POR CRUZAR,” AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE INCREASING NUMBER OF IMMIGRANT DEATHS ALONG THE BORDER, THIS SUNDAY, AUGUST 3 AT 6 P.M./5 C

Carmen Dominicci and Neida Sandoval present the Telemundo and The Weather Channel co-production

Miami – July 31, 2014 – Telemundo presents “Muriendo por Cruzar”, a documentary that investigates why increasing numbers of immigrants are dying while trying to cross the US-Mexican border near the city of Falfurrias, Texas, this Sunday, August 3 at 6PM/5 C.  The Telemundo and The Weather Channel co-production, presented by Noticias Telemundo journalists Carmen Dominicci and Neida Sandoval, reveals the obstacles immigrants face once they cross into US territory, including extreme weather conditions, as they try to evade the border patrol.  “Muriendo por Cruzar” is part of Noticias Telemundo’s special coverage of the crisis on the border and immigration reform.

 

“‘Muriendo por Cruzar’” dares to ask questions that reveal the actual conditions undocumented immigrants face as they try to start a new life in the United States,” said Alina Falcón, Telemundo’s Executive Vice President for News and Alternative Programming.  “Our collaboration with The Weather Channel was very productive. They have a unique expertise in covering the impact of weather on people’s lives, as we do in covering immigration reform and the border crisis. The result is a compelling documentary that exposes a harrowing reality.”

“Muriendo por Cruzar” is the first co-production by Telemundo and The Weather Channel.  Both networks are part of NBCUniversal.

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And Cawthorn’s own GOP colleagues spent some of the fundraiser, feet away, quietly joking at his expense, according to people in the room.

The uncomfortable moment illustrates the awkward position Cawthorn now finds himself in. After riding out multiple waves of mini-controversies over past comments and behavior, he now seems doused by a political tsunami after alleging on a podcast that some of his colleagues attend orgies and use cocaine.

“I’m looking at somebody who is going to best represent [Western North Carolina], and I’ve concluded Mr. Cawthorn is not that person,” Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) said in a brief interview, adding that he’s endorsed an incumbent’s primary challenger for “the first time in my political career … because I feel that strongly about it.”

It’s rare for Republican lawmakers, particularly from the other side of the Capitol, to repudiate a member from their own party. Tillis also issued a vocal endorsement Thursday of state Sen. Chuck Edwards as the best Republican alternative to Cawthorn. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy has already chastised Cawthorn this week, raising real questions about whether the 26-year-old’s own party will try to take him down.

Not everyone in the GOP is prepared to turn on Cawthorn, despite a string of recent missteps that range from charges for driving with a revoked license to describing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as a “thug.” Some Republican colleagues privately express sympathy for a younger man they believe is beginning to crack, citing his recent divorce and personal struggles, including the car accident that left him using a wheelchair.

But none of his colleagues appear willing to defend him publicly, either. The GOP consensus is that Cawthorn’s behavior, no matter his age or position, remains unacceptable.

“The Constitution gives you the age when you can serve in Congress,” McCarthy told reporters on Wednesday. “But when you’re in Congress, you should respect the institution, and you should focus on the work that you should do.”

McCarthy met with Cawthorn in his office on Wednesday morning for roughly 30 minutes, POLITICO first reported, along with House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) and Rep. Mike Johnson (R-La.), who was assigned to be a mentor to Cawthorn at the start of this Congress. The sit-down followed complaints among colleagues that Cawthorn unfairly maligned the entire conference as sexual deviants after making his wild claims of witnessing cocaine use and getting orgy invitations.

Two Republicans familiar with what was discussed at the meeting, speaking candidly on condition of anonymity, said McCarthy didn’t limit his dressing-down of Cawthorn to the podcast interview behind the latest controversy. Among the Cawthorn statements and decisions McCarthy took issue with in private, according to one Republican, were the freshman’s false claim that McCarthy gave Cawthorn the green light to roll out his own “New Contract with America” legislation even as the full conference works on its own policy platform.

That Republican said McCarthy pressed Cawthorn on his allegations — saying that if he had made such statements under oath, he would have treaded into even more dangerous waters.

According to that Republican, Cawthorn clarified that multiple members were not involved in orgies but did maintain that one member of Congress invited him to a sex party with his wife. Despite McCarthy and others in the room pressing him to reveal a name, Cawthorn refused, this Republican said.

A third person familiar with the discussion said Cawthorn tried to claim he didn’t use the word “orgy,” upon which the GOP leaders in the room pointed to the tape where he in fact used the word.

Publicly, McCarthy blasted Cawthorn to a group of reporters, citing some of the same antics that Tillis did and warning that the North Carolinian could lose his committee assignments or face other punishments, like getting moved to less-desirable panels.

If his leaders had hoped Cawthorn would calm the storm by issuing a clarification of his comments, he did the opposite on Thursday. In one email to supporters, he began: “I will never bow down to the mob.”

And he published a new campaign ad on Thursday, claiming: “The radical left, the establishment, and the media want to take me down … I’m not going anywhere.”

In this case, of course, those taking shots at him are members of his own party. But he’s unbowed, with one prominent ally who insisted on anonymity saying that old party hands are seizing on Cawthorn’s remarks to nudge him out.

Realistically, Tillis’ endorsement of his GOP opponent aside, it is unclear if Cawthorn’s notoriety will hurt him back home.

His district, which includes the western tip of the state, changed only marginally in redistricting. Former President Donald Trump still carried it by 10 points in 2020.

He has attracted a host of primary challengers, including Edwards and Michele Woodhouse, yet could prove hard to beat — he has high name ID in the district and enough grassroots support that he was able to overcome a Trump-backed opponent in 2020. Even so, last quarter he also showed a propensity to burn through campaign funds, spending more than he raised and ending with less than $300,000 cash on hand.

One North Carolina Republican, addressing the Cawthorn scandal on condition of anonymity, said it is unclear if his constituents will even see — let alone believe — media reports on the matter, noting that the primary is weeks away and that it will likely take money to inform district voters.

And sometimes efforts by the GOP establishment to rebuke a conservative candidate can hand that Republican a rallying cry for the party base. Though it’s too early to determine if this is the case with Cawthorn, some Republicans say Trump himself is a wild card who may weigh in on the matter.

The former president and Cawthorn are close and have attended fundraisers together, though Trump has yet to offer a statement revealing his position on this latest scandal. A spokesperson for Trump, who’s set for a North Carolina rally on April 9, did not return a request for comment.

Meanwhile, Democrats may be bit players in the Cawthorn drama, but they’re certainly tuning in.

During a House Judiciary subcommittee hearing Thursday on qualified immunity for law enforcement, Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.) sought to undercut GOP attacks that Democrats support defunding the police by subtly invoking Cawthorn. Republicans have long sought to tie Democrats to that line, while most of them — aside from progressives — have kept their distance.

“I cringe … when our members talk about defunding the police,” said Cohen, addressing Republicans on the panel. “And my cringes are no different from your cringes when your members suggest that members of Congress — and particularly on your side, the implied suggestion is [members] are engaged in sex orgies and cocaine doing.”

“So we got [cringes] on both sides,” he concluded.

Alex Isenstadt, Ally Mutnick, Burgess Everett and Marianne LeVine contributed reporting.

Source Article from https://www.politico.com/news/2022/03/31/cloud-of-notoriety-builds-over-cawthorn-builds-as-sex-and-drugs-comment-00022162

Prominent Democrats lined up to hammer Attorney General Bill Barr for testifying Wednesday that federal authorities had spied on the Trump campaign in 2016, with one top House Democrat charging that Barr is not acting “in the best interest of the DOJ or the country.”

“I think spying did occur,” Barr said during the explosive hearing before a Senate Appropriations subcommittee. “The question is whether it was adequately predicated. …Spying on a political campaign is a big deal.”

Barr later clarified in the hearing: “I am not saying that improper surveillance occurred; I’m saying that I am concerned about it and looking into it, that’s all.”

Despite mounting evidence that the FBI pursued an array of efforts to gather intelligence from within the Trump campaign — and the fact that the FBI successfully pursued warrants to surveil a former Trump aide in 2016 — House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., told Fox News that Barr’s loyalties were compromised.

COMEY MEMOS CONTAINED FAR MORE CLASSIFIED INFO THAN PREVIOUSLY KNOWN

“He is acting as an employee of the president,” Hoyer said. “I believe the Attorney General believes he needs to protect the president of the United States.”

Added House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., in an interview with the Associated Press: “I don’t trust Barr, I trust Mueller.” And Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., accused Barr on Twitter of “peddling conspiracy theories.”

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., added in a statement that Barr “should not casually suggest that those under his purview engaged in ‘spying’ on a political campaign.”

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., walks to a Democratic Caucus meeting at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, March 26, 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

“This type of partisan talking point may please Donald Trump, who rails against a ‘deep state coup,'” Schiff said, “but it also strikes another destructive blow to our democratic institutions. The hardworking men and women at the DOJ and FBI deserve better.”

Barr’s comments, and the ensuing semantic hullabaloo, followed a new report that the Justice Department’s internal watchdog is scrutinizing the role of an FBI informant who contacted members of the Trump campaign during the 2016 election, as part of a broader review of the early stages of the Russia investigation.

The New York Times reported that Justice Department Inspector General (IG) Michael Horowitz is looking into informant Stefan Halper’s work during the Russia probe, as well as his work with the FBI prior to the start of that probe.

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Trump, for his part, has vowed to release surveillance warrant applications used to monitor his former aide, Carter Page, beginning in October 2016. The FBI’s partisan sources in those applications have come under scrutiny, and FBI text messages obtained by Fox News show high-level concerns at the DOJ as to the credibility of sources presented to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court.

Page was never charged with any wrongdoing.

A separate DOJ IG investigation into potential FISA abuses by the FBI, which is expected to look at whether the bureau improperly presented misleading sources or withheld exculpatory information in its presentations to the FISA court, is ongoing. Barr said that review is likely to be completed by May or June.

In particular, the FBI assured the FISA court on numerous occasions — in the October 2016 warrant application and in subsequent renewals — that other sources, including a Yahoo News article, independently corroborated Steele’s claims, without evidence to back it up. It later emerged that Steele was also the source of the Yahoo News article, written by reporter Michael Isikoff.

The FBI also quoted directly from a disputed Washington Post opinion piece to argue that Trump’s views on providing lethal arms to Ukraine, and working toward better relations with Russia, was a possible indicator that the campaign had been compromised.

Trump’s policy on Ukraine weapons at the time mirrored then-President Obama’s policy, and the FBI did not present an independent assessment of the accuracy of the Post piece in its warrant application.

FOX NEWS EXCLUSIVE: INTERNAL FBI TEXTS SHOW DOJ WARNED FBI ABOUT BIAS IN KEY FISA SOURCE

Still, Schiff and Hoyer were joined by other Democrats who pushed back against Barr’s comments.

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., for example, told Fox News that Barr’s vow to probe the FBI’s 2016 counterintelligence probe amounted to nothing more than “Republican conspiracy theory nonsense.”

He also characterized Barr’s statements as an “effort to divert attention” from Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s full report, which Barr said will be released within a week. Mueller’s investigation ended last month without securing the indictment of a single American for collusion with Russia or obstruction of justice, “despite multiple offers from Russian-affiliated individuals to assist the Trump campaign.”

In a tweet late Wednesday, Trump personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani condemned Nadler’s “diarrhea of the mouth,” and referenced a report last year that Nadler was overheard on a train discussing his plans to impeach the president.

“His lack of judiciousness was evident when he was overheard on Amtrak prematurely planning impeachment,” Giuliani wrote.

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Jerrold Nadler D-NY, speaks during a House Judiciary Committee debate to subpoena Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 7, 2019. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Halper, an American professor who reportedly is deeply connected with British and American intelligence agencies, has been widely reported as a confidential source for the FBI during the bureau’s original investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election. That official counterintelligence operation was opened by then-senior agent Peter Strzok, who has since been fired from the bureau.

During the 2016 campaign, Halper contacted several members of the Trump campaign, including Page and former foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos.

“It was an illegal investigation. … Everything about it was crooked,” Trump told reporters on Wednesday, describing it as an attempted “coup” and reiterating his interest in digging into the probe’s origins. “There is a hunger for that to happen.”

Also on Tuesday, Fox News reported that a source said Barr had assembled a “team” to investigate the origins of the bureau’s counterintelligence investigation into the Trump campaign.

On Wednesday, Barr testified that he hasn’t technically “set up a team” but has colleagues helping him as he reviews the case.

“I think spying did occur.”

— Attorney General Bill Barr

“This is not launching an investigation of the FBI,” he stressed. “Frankly, to the extent there were issues at the FBI, I do not view it as a problem of the FBI. I think it was probably a failure of the group of leaders—the upper echelons of the FBI. I think the FBI is an outstanding organization and I am very pleased Director Chris Wray is there.”

He added, “If it becomes necessary to look over former officials, I expect to rely on Chris and work with him. I have an obligation to make sure government power is not abused and I think that’s one of the principal roles of the attorney general.”

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The FBI’s 2016 counterintelligence investigation, formally opened by Strzok, began with a “paucity” of evidence, according to former FBI counsel Lisa Page, with whom Strzok was romantically involved.

During a closed-door congressional interview, Page admitted that the FBI “knew so little” about whether allegations against the Trump campaign were “true or not true” at the time they opened the probe, adding that they had just “a paucity of evidence because we [were] just starting down the path” of vetting allegations.

Former FBI Director James Comey would testify later that when the agency initiated its counterintelligence probe into possible collusion between Trump campaign officials and the Russian government, investigators “didn’t know whether we had anything” and that “in fact, when I was fired as director [in May 2017], I still didn’t know whether there was anything to it.”

Fox News’ Chad Pergram contributed to this report.

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São Paulo – Sudan has opportunities to develop its agriculture, but needs to promote investment and improve management of its agribusiness. According to the final statement of the Sudanese Mining and Food Security Forum, released this Thursday (11th) in Khartoum, the North African country must also solve the United States’ funding boycott, enforce legal certainty of contracts, seek out international cooperation and develop its infrastructure.

The Forum took place on Wednesday and Thursday this week and was sponsored by the General Union of Arab Chambers of Commerce, Industry and Agriculture. The event was attended by business executives, government officials and delegates from the Arab Chambers of Commerce in Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Egypt, Mauritania, Qatar, Jordan, Lebanon, Germany, Belgium, Australia, Austria and Greece. The Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce was represented by its CEO, Michel Alaby.

Arab Chamber

Social responsibility was on the agenda of Arab chambers forum

According to Alaby, on Thursday, the event featured panels focusing on food security and ways to increase agricultural production in Sudan. The meeting was opened by the Egyptian minister of Supply and Domestic Trade, Khaled Hanify, who said Sudan’s natural resources must be managed wisely. He advised on the creation of cooperative-like condominium systems for production and sale of agricultural products. He also suggested that a futures and commodities exchange be established by Arab countries, in order to provide funding to small and medium farmers.

Alaby also reported that the forum’s final statement outlines suggestions for the public and private sectors to foster the development of agriculture and mining in Sudan. One of the issues is legal uncertainty. “The laws are changed constantly and arbitration is not employed when it comes to contracts. When it comes to government-to-government negotiations, such as between China and Sudan, rules are more stable, but between government and private enterprises, contracts get breached and it takes as long as four years before claims are tried in first instance,” said Alaby.

The Brazilian example

At the summit, Alaby presented Brazilian projects and figures in agriculture and livestock production. Brazil’s grain crop amounted to 200 million tonnes in 2014 and may be as high asd 400 million tonnes by 2020. The country has implemented the Bolsa Família income transfer program to assist the neediest, as well as social projects targeting small farmers. In turn, Brazil requires further financing projects for small farmers, minimum price guarantees for agriculture and livestock products and surplus production purchases by government.

Alaby said that following the meeting, attendees met with the Sudanese vice president, Bakry Ahmad Hassan.

Social responsibility

This Thursday also saw the annual forum of secretary generals and CEOs of Arab and foreign chambers of commerce. At the forum, the secretary general of the General Union of Arab Chambers of Commerce, industry and Agriculture, Emad Shehab, introduced the Union’s new president, Mohamedou Ould Mohamed Mahmoud, who also chairs the Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Agriculture of Mauritania.

The theme of this year’s forum was the social responsibilities of Arab chambers and sponsoring entrepreneurship. At the event, Shehab said the General Union will enter into a partnership with the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (Unido) to support Arab business incubators. Towards the end of this month, the Unido is set to hold an event showcasing incubator success cases.

At the forum, Alaby discussed social and professional development projects carried out by the Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce, such as Programa Jovem Aprendiz (Young Apprentice Program), Programa de Estágio Remunerado (Paid Internship Program) and clothes donations to impoverished people.

*Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum

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 El ciclista colombiano se impuso en la mítica Milán-Turín y después dio una entrevista que se volvió viral.

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“Estoy muy feliz, es una buena victoria para mí y mi equipo. Mi táctica fue todo el equipo junto trabajando para mí. Conocía la subida que era muy difícil, esperé, esperé y traté de atacar una vez y mi condición es muy buena. Era una subida muy y había grandes corredores en esta carrera, viene Lombardía (sábado) pero mi condición es muy buena. Para mí cada día es una buena temporada, gane o no gane para mí es lo mismo, lo más importante es disfrutar cada día entrenando y corriendo”, fueron las palabras de Rigoberto Urán en la entrevista, tras ganar la carrera más antigua del calendario europeo.

Algunos aficionados se pronunciaron tras la entrevista en inglés del colombiano. 

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Known to American intelligence as the Taliban emissary to Al Qaeda, Mr. Haqqani showed up in Kabul last week as their new chief of security, brazenly armed with an American-made M4 rifle, with a protection squad dressed in American combat gear.

“Governing a war-ravaged country will be the real test and imposing challenge especially as the Taliban have been a warring force, not one adept at governing,” Maleeha Lohdi, a former Pakistani ambassador to the United Nations, wrote in a column in The Dawn newspaper this week.

During the war the Americans tolerated Pakistan’s duplicitous game because they saw little choice, preferring to fight a chaotic war in Afghanistan to warring with nuclear-armed Pakistan. Moreover, Pakistan’s ports and airfields provided the main entry points and supply lines for American military equipment needed in Afghanistan.

Pakistan did that, even as its spy agency provided planning assistance, training expertise and sometimes on the ground advice to the Taliban all through the war, American officials said.

Though Pakistan was supposed to be an American ally, it always worked toward its own interests, as nations do. Those interests did not include a large American military presence on its border, an autonomous Afghanistan with a democratic government it could not control, or a strong and centralized military.

Rather, Pakistan’s goal in Afghanistan was to create a sphere of influence to block its archnemesis, India. The Pakistanis insist that India uses separatist groups like the Balochistan Liberation Army, operating from havens in Afghanistan, to stir dissent in Pakistan.

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    In this Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2012 file photo shows the University at Buffalo campus in Buffalo, N.Y. Sebastian Serafin-Bazan, a University at Buffalo student, died Wednesday, April 17, 2019, from a suspected hazing incident last week. The 18-year-old freshman from Port Chester, N.Y., was hospitalized early Friday morning after the incident at an off-campus house. (AP Photo/David Duprey, File)

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    Two men died after someone opened fire at a crowded party about midnight Saturday near Greenville as nearby Texas A&M University Commerce celebrated homecoming weekend.

    Sgt. Jeff Haines of the Hunt County Sheriff’s Office said Sunday afternoon that eight people were shot — two of them fatally — and six suffered injuries while they tried to escape. Four of the wounded were reported to be in critical condition, and another victim’s condition was described as good.

    Earlier in the day, Hunt County Sheriff Randy Meeks had indicated 12 people had been shot.

    Authorities said they were looking for a single gunman but hadn’t identified a suspect or received a detailed description of the person from witnesses at The Party Venue facility along U.S. Highway 380 just west of Greenville.

    Meeks said he did not believe the public was in any danger.

    The party, which had been promoted as a homecoming event but wasn’t school-sanctioned, was attended by about 750 people, mostly in their teens and early 20s. The sheriff said more than 20 of them had been questioned by early Sunday about what they saw.

    Texas A&M Commerce confirmed that four of its students had been treated and released from hospitals.

    Initial reports had suggested the gunman was armed with a semiautomatic rifle, but Meeks confirmed the weapon was a handgun. The first person the gunman shot may have been his intended target and the rest of the victims may have been fired upon randomly, the sheriff said.

    “The amount of people that were there, the overcrowdedness of it — it gave the opportunity for this shooter to be able to accomplish whatever he wanted to be able to accomplish,” Meeks said. “When you have this many people in one place, it’s an easy target for somebody.”

    Hunt County Sheriff Randy Meeks addresses members of the media at the sheriff’s department headquarters after a shooting at Party Venue on Highway 380 in Greenville, Texas, on Sunday, October 27, 2019. (Ryan Michalesko / Staff Photographer)

    The shooting took place about 15 miles southwest of the Commerce campus, which is about 65 miles from Dallas.

    A “Twerk or Treat” costume party had been promoted for Saturday night at the venue, which is described as an 8,000-square-foot facility with a capacity of 500 — well below the estimated attendance at the event.

    Hunt County deputies who were investigating complaints about illegal parking at the venue arrived about 20 minutes before the gunman opened fire began.

    They were questioning a person outside the front of the venue who they believed was intoxicated when they heard gunshots coming from the back of the building.

    At first, they could not tell whether the shots were fired inside or outside but found the two men who had been killed when they entered the building, authorities said.

    An off-duty Farmersville ISD police officer also had been at the venue working security at the party.

    The sheriff said the party became “complete chaos” as people tried to flee the gunman, with some breaking through windows and others trying to squeeze through the venue’s front door four abreast.

    Halloween masks litter the ground among signs of chaos at the scene where a mass shooting occurred the night before at The Party Venue.(Ryan Michalesko / Staff Photographer)

    The gunman fled during the commotion, and witnesses had not given authorities a detailed description of him or any suspect vehicle.

    “It appalls me that, as many folks that were there, [they] have not been able to give us a better description of the shooter,” Meeks said.

    The sheriff pleaded with partygoers to provide any information they could about the gunman.

    “We need to get him off the street as soon as possible, and we have very, very little to go on right now,” he said.

    According to Meeks, a sheriff’s sergeant quickly determined that one person who had been shot had life-threatening injuries and rushed that victim to a hospital in his patrol vehicle. Another deputy at the scene performed triage.

    “I believe their actions may have saved lives,” he said.

    Graphic video posted online showed seriously wounded victims, with at least one receiving CPR as many people screamed in the background.

    Halloween masks and blue medical gloves dotted the ground outside the venue. Authorities found fake bullets inside that appeared to be part of a costume.

    Meeks said that in his 44 years of law-enforcement experience, this is the first time he’s encountered “something of this magnitude.”

    “I think anything like this is gonna be something very hard to deal with; it’s not something that we deal with every day,” he said.

    Medical City Plano Hospital spokeswoman Melissa Sauvage told The Associated Press that the hospital had received three victims of the shooting, all of whom were in critical condition.

    Chief Deputy Buddy Oxford of the Hunt County Sheriff’s Department addresses members of the media outside of a crime scene after a shooting at Party Venue on Highway 380 in Greenville, Texas.(Ryan Michalesko / Staff Photographer)

    Sunday afternoon, police tape blocked off the venue, which is just west of Greenville’s city limits. The Hunt County Sheriff’s Office had set up a mobile command post, and several media crews were at the scene with authorities from local, state and federal agencies.

    The FBI and the Texas Rangers are helping with the investigation.

    “This is a pretty big case, and we’re a small law-enforcement agency,” Meeks said.

    Officials work a crime scene after a shooting at Party Venue on Highway 380 in Greenville, Texas.(Ryan Michalesko / Staff Photographer)

    Ethan Derek Preas, director of campus operations and safety at Texas A&M Commerce, said in an email that the event where the shooting was reported was not sponsored by the university.

    The shooting took place just minutes before Houston-based hip-hop artist BeatKing was scheduled to perform at the party.

    The rapper tweeted early Sunday that seeing video of the shooting “makes my heart drop.”

    On Sunday afternoon, Kimberly Wilson stopped by the venue to pick up her 19-year-old daughter’s car, which had been abandoned overnight.

    Wilson’s daughter doesn’t attend Texas A&M Commerce but knows students there, which is how she heard about the party. Her daughter was unharmed, and Wilson picked her up after the teenager’s car got stuck in mud near the venue.

    “I think that youth, young people don’t have a fair chance in starting their lives,” Wilson said when asked about her reaction to the shooting.

    She said she had been to parties growing up where people would shoot into the air to send people running, but this is different.

    “This is ‘I’m coming in, aiming at somebody to take somebody out’ …,” she said. “You’ve got all this mayhem going on. This is ridiculous.”

    Investigators work a crime scene Sunday after a shooting at The Party Venue on Highway 380 in Greenville.(Ryan Michalesko / Staff Photographer)

    Other people were reluctant to speak at the venue Sunday — a problem law-enforcement officials say has impeded the investigation.

    Haines, a spokesman for the sheriff’s office, said he’s not sure whether witnesses are afraid to cooperate but he pleaded for people with information to come forward and help bring the gunman to justice.

    “We need your help,” he said. “We don’t know what the motive of this individual was. We don’t know why this individual did what they did and we don’t know if they plan on doing it again.”

    He urged people to speak up, even if they have an aversion to working with law enforcement.

    “Have some dignity and respect for those that lost their lives just coming to a party last night,” he said.

    Anyone with information about the shooting may call the Hunt County Sheriff’s Office at 903-453-6800 or Crime Stoppers at 903-457-2929.

    Staff writers LaVendrick Smith, Dana Branham, Cassandra Jaramillo and Eva-Marie Ayala contributed to this report.

    Source Article from https://www.dallasnews.com/news/crime/2019/10/27/mass-shooting-at-texas-am-commerce-homecoming-party-in-greenville-according-to-reports/

    São Paulo – The Federal University of São Paulo (Unifesp) and the Institute of Arab Culture (Icarabe) are establishing this week the Edward Said Chair of Post-Colonial Studies of the Unifesp. The launching ceremony will be on Tuesday (22nd) and Wednesday (23rd).

    Press release

    Said was also a musician

     “The chair is a way to gather people from different disciplines to study the topic,” explains Soraya Smaili, dean of Unifesp. According to her, the post-colonialism studies involve many disciplines and the chair, associated to the university, will involve professors, researchers and students from different courses in the post-graduate program of the university.

    According to the dean, the theme of the chair is closely linked to the work done by Edward Said. The Palestinian intellectual, says Smaili, was also known as “king of post-colonialism.” Said died in September 2003. “He described exile and alterity,” points out the professor. She explains that gender issues, such as the ones involving women’s role and its anthropologic context are influenced by post-colonialism, as are the issues related to displacement and refugees.

    The chair will initially involve the delivery of seminars and later on, research projects, courses and a specialization program. From the start, the chair will involve professor from different areas of Unifesp, such as Philosophy, History, Art History, Social Sciences, Political Science, Foreign Affairs, Economy, Social Service and Languages.

    Smaili also highlights that the chair’s studies will include the history of the Arab world. “The Arab world is a product of post-colonialism,” she points out. According to the dean, the participation of the Icarabe will enable the Unifesp’s chair studies to be taken closer to society. The launching event is also part of the 10-year anniversary celebration of Icarabe.

    Launching

    The launching of the Edward Said Chair will start on Tuesday (22nd) with the screening of the movie Knowledge is the Beginning, which tells the story of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, created by Said in a partnership with Argentinian Jewish musician Daniel Baremboim. After the screening, there will be a roundtable with the participation of Mariam Said, the Palestinian intellectual’s widow.

    “She will speak about Said’s life and the steps which were important in the creation of the orchestra. Afterwards, we will sign the decree for the launching of the chair and she will receive homage,” reveals Smaili. The dean also says that Mariam will follow  up on the workings of the chair, and, in the future, there are plans to bring the orchestra to perform in Brazil.

    The second day of the launching will be Wednesday. One of the highlights is the lecture of Argentinian professor Saad Chedid, director of the Palestinian Studies Chair at the University of Buenos Aires.

    Smaili also reveals that she plans to expand the operations of the chair. “The idea is that, in a second phase, we will be able to invite researchers from other universities,” she adds.

    Service
    Launching of the Edward Said Chair of Post-Colonial Studies

    July 22nd
    Edward Said: A contemporary author
    2pm – Screening of the film “Knowledge is the Beginning”
    4pm – Solo of Arab music presentation and homage to Edward Said and his multicultural legacy
    4.45pm – Table 1: Edward Said : legacy of a contemporary author
    Lecturer: Mariam Said – President of the Barenboim-Said Foundation
    Debater : Milton Hatoum
    Mediator: Francisco Miraglia
    Place: Amphitheater – Rectory Building – Rua Sena Madureira, 1500 – Ground floor

    July 23rd
    Edward Said: Post-colonial studies
    4pm – Table 2: Post-colonial studies: a chair for the Brazilian University
    Lecturer: Saad Chedid and José Arbex Jr.
    Mediator: Geraldo Campos
    Place: Amphitheater – Rectory Building – Rua Sena Madureira, 1500 – Ground floor

    *Translated by Rodrigo Mendonça

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    Search and rescue teams in Alabama are using dogs and heat-detecting drones to search for victims of the deadly tornado that tore through the southeastern part of the state, as new drone video and photos show the scale of the devastation.

    Lee County Sheriff Jay Jones said Monday at least 23 people were killed and 90 were injured when the giant EF4 twister with 170 mph winds hit the rural community of Beauregard, and dozens are still missing.

    The tornado impacted what the sheriff described as a rural area that had a lot of mobile homes and manufactured-type housing. The twister created a debris field that spread over hundreds of yards, according to Jones, with some debris being thrown a half-mile away.

    ALABAMA TORNADO SENDS BILLBOARD 20 MILES AWAY INTO GEORGIA YARD

    Authorities were expected to give an update on search and rescue efforts at 11 a.m. ET, but said earlier that crews were  “basically using everything we can get our hands on” to comb through what was left of homes.

    Debris litters a yard the day after a deadly tornado damaged a home in Beauregard, Ala., Monday, March 4, 2019.
    (AP Photo/David Goldman)

    Jones said dogs were being brought in from across the state, in addition to dogs equipped with “infrared capability to detect heat signatures.”

    Debris from a home litters a yard the day after a tornado blew it off its foundation, lower right, in Beauregard, Ala., Monday, March 4, 2019.
    (AP Photo/David Goldman)

    Photos taken in the area on Monday show what was previously mobile homes tucked among tall pine trees now smashed into unrecognizable piles of rubble.

    Friends in eastern Alabama are helping tornado survivors retrieve the scattered pieces of their lives after devastating winds destroyed their homes and killed at least 23 people.
    (Mickey Welsh/Montgomery Advertiser via AP)

    Toys, clothes, insulation, water heaters and pieces of metal were scattered across the hillsides where once towering pines were snapped in half.

    Tornado damage near Beauregard, Ala., on Monday March 4, 2019.
    (Mickey Welsh/Montgomery Advertiser via AP)

    ALABAMA TORNADO DAMAGE LOOKS LIKE ‘SOMEONE TOOK A GIANT KNIFE AND JUST SCRAPED THE GROUND,’ SHERIFF SAYS

    As residents began picking through the debris on Monday, some made gruesome discoveries.

    Beauregard resident Carol Dean told the Associated Press that the body of her husband, 53-year-old David Wayne Dean, was discovered on the side of an embankment in the neighbor’s yard.

    Carol Dean, right, cries while embraced by Megan Anderson and her 18-month-old daughter Madilyn, as Dean sifts through the debris of the home she shared with her husband, David Wayne Dean, who died when a tornado destroyed the house in Beauregard, Ala., Monday, March 4, 2019.
    (AP Photo/David Goldman)

    “Our son found him. He was done and gone before we got to him,” an emotional Dean told the AP. “My life is gone. He was the reason I lived, the reason that I got up.”

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    Lee County Coroner Bill Harris said at an afternoon news conference that three children, ages 6, 9 and 10 were among the dead in Sunday’s tornado.

    Debris from a home litters a yard the day after a tornado blew it off its foundation, at right, in Beauregard, Ala., Monday, March 4, 2019.
    (AP Photo/David Goldman)

    Harris said all but six of the people killed in the storm have been identified, and his office soon will begin contacting families about funeral homes and arrangements. He also warned that the overall death toll could still increase as searches continue.

    Chris Darden, meteorologist-in-charge at the NWS’ Birmingham office said at a news conference it was the deadliest tornado in the United States since the twister that hit Moore, Oklahoma in 2013. The storm had a track of at least 24 miles.

    Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey said the tornado ravaged a “tight-knit” community of people.

    “We lost children, mothers, fathers, neighbors, and friends,” she said.

    The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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