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The coffins came one by one, some heavy and others much lighter.

As bulldozers cleared more space in a vacant lot near St. Sebastian’s Church in Negombo, Sri Lanka, barefoot men dripping with sweat scooped dirt with shovels in punishing heat.

One family stood in the shade. They were here for the burial of an 11-year-old boy.

“I don’t even know what to say,” said Lasanthi Anusha, a woman who came for the burial of her son’s classmate. “There were even smaller ones.”

Tuesday was the beginning of the first mass burials of the victims of Sunday’s suicide attacks in Sri Lanka, which killed more than 300 people, including many children. Soldiers and even an armored personnel carrier lined the roads as the burials took place amid widespread grief and intense security.

Of the half-dozen sites simultaneously attacked on Sunday, the church in Negombo was the hardest hit. As many as 100 people were killed in the suicide bombing there.

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President Trump’s threat to impose tariffs on $200 billion of Chinese goods has further inflamed the relationship between him and Senate Republicans over trade, as the GOP lawmakers fight an increasingly losing battle to push Trump away from his protectionist instincts.

Pro-free-trade senators have tried private meetings with Trump, op-eds in prominent newspapers and other tactics to warn Trump away from a new round of tariffs on foreign cars and auto parts, as well as lifting existing levies on steel and aluminum products made abroad.

But the latest threat, which the Trump administration justified Monday by saying China had reneged on commitments it had made as part of a broader trade negotiation, only deepened concerns from GOP senators who have made little headway with Trump on trade. 

Senate Majority Whip John Thune (R-S.D.), who met with Trump last week on the issue, said Monday evening he was worried about the potential impact of Trump’s latest threat against China and that other Republicans were trying to make their case to the White House. 

“I don’t think anybody is getting through on that issue at the moment,” said Thune, the No. 2 Senate Republican. “We’re going to keep trying.” 

Few policies have driven as big of a rift between the White House and congressional Republicans as trade, with two years of pushback from the GOP having barely influenced a president who campaigned on ripping up trade deals such as the North American Free Trade Agreement. 

That much was clear in a private White House meeting late last week, when a half-dozen Republican senators on the powerful Finance Committee had assembled to argue against Trump’s tariffs, both on foreign steel and aluminum and the threatened levies on autos. 

But Trump had tapped Peter Navarro, a White House trade adviser who carries little influence among Senate Republicans, to make a presentation to the senators on how tariffs were actually helping, according to an official briefed on the meeting.

“None of the members there cared for it or found it compelling,” said the official, speaking anonymously to disclose details of a closed-door discussion. 

Asked how successful the Thursday meeting in the Roosevelt Room was, Finance Committee Chairman Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa) responded Monday: “Not very successful.”

“He says, ‘I like tariffs,’” said Grassley, who insists that the steel and aluminum tariffs must be lifted before the administration’s new trade agreement with Mexico and Canada can be ratified by Congress. “I say, ‘I don’t like tariffs.’” 

Sen. John Cornyn (R-Tex.) similarly said nothing was resolved at the meeting with Trump. 

“I think the president knew the meeting was stacked with senators who thought that the tariff issue needed to be resolved or we wouldn’t be able to pass the USMCA,” said Cornyn, referring to the updated version of NAFTA. “He made clear that he liked tariffs as an instrument to bring people to the negotiating table.” 

Cornyn added: “It wasn’t necessarily a welcome message.”

The China threat also stunned senators who were convinced that the trade negotiations between two of the world’s largest economies were on track, particularly as Vice Premier Liu He was slated to lead a 100-person delegation to Washington this week to finalize a deal.

Instead, Trump sent the markets into a brief tailspin with his vow to increase tariffs on $200 billion worth of Chinese goods from 10 percent to 25 percent on Friday, while implementing a new 25 percent fee on a separate $325 billion of Chinese “untaxed” imports. 

The Dow Jones industrial average on Monday plummeted more than 471 points, but recouped most of those losses by the end of the day — although the administration laid out its accusation against the Chinese of “reneging” on the trade commitments after the markets had closed. 

“Any time you have a situation where we’re talking about additional tariffs or increasing tariffs, it is immediately reflected not only in the stock market but in pretty much every commodity we have,” Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) said. “That’s part of the risk.”

The administration has looked at quotas as a potential way to defuse the tariff standoff, an option that U.S. Trade Representative Robert E. Lighthizer referenced on Thursday with senators, Grassley said. That would place limits on the amount of steel and aluminum shipped to the United States rather than imposing a financial penalty through tariffs, although the idea is also likely to run into similar concerns from Republicans. 

Other Republicans on Monday tried to rationalize Trump’s threatened tariffs as primarily a negotiating tactic to put pressure on China to wrap up the trade deal.

“Well, of course I don’t like it,” said Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), who has protested Trump’s tariffs because of the retaliatory impact on farm country. “I hope it’s just the president’s way of negotiating . . . we’ve seen him do this in the past, and it brings people to the table.” 

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NEW YORK, Jun 04, 2015 (BUSINESS WIRE) —
Today, Time Warner Cable News NY1 Noticias, New York City’s only 24-hour
Spanish language local news network, announced it will commemorate the
10-year anniversary of Pura Política, with a special documentary
with highlights from the past decade of the longest-running local
Spanish language political talk show in New York City, on Friday, June 5th
at 6 p.m. and 11p.m.

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The documentary special will feature guests including, Congresswoman,
Nydia Velazquez, State Senator, Adriano Espaillat, and City Council
Speaker, Melissa Mark-Viverito,
who will explore the highs and lows
for Latinos during the past decade. The commemorative program will also
include an exclusive sit-down interview with New York City Mayor Bill
de Blasio
where he is asked to name one Latino politician he
believes would be a strong candidate for New York City Mayor in the near
future.

Pura Política first premiered as a weekly political talk show on
June 3, 2005, with then Mayor Michael Bloomberg as its first guest.
Bloomberg had just kicked off his re-election campaign with a
Spanish-language commercial.

“Since we aired our first program, Hispanic influence has grown
tremendously and the Spanish language has become ubiquitous in city
politics. Pura Política is a key platform for political leaders looking
to engage Latinos and talk about their issues. We look forward to many
more decades of great interviews and political analysis,” said program
host, Juan Manuel Benitez.

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Much of the Chicago area is under a winter storm warning beginning Saturday morning, kicking off 2022 with steady, heavy snowfall at times and hazardous road conditions that prompted Illinois officials to urge drivers to stay off roads.

Here’s a breakdown of what to expect and when, from NBC 5’s Storm Team.

9 a.m. Saturday: Storm arrives. It may start as rain or a rain/snow mix south of Chicago, but it will likely be all snow in Chicago and to the north and west.

2 p.m.: Heaviest snow arrives, especially in the thin bands of “lake-enhanced” snow due to the flow of air coming off of the non-frozen water of Lake Michigan.

8 p.m.: Snow intensity starts to taper but snow continues.

3 a.m. Sunday: Snow ends for the majority of the Chicago area but lake-effect snow will continue in southern Cook County and northwest Indiana.

Noon Sunday: All snow is finished but wind chills will be in the single digits all afternoon.

The National Weather Service issued a winter storm warning beginning at 9 a.m. Saturday through midnight for much of the Chicago area. A winter storm watch was previously issued for the Chicago area from 6 a.m. Saturday until Sunday morning.

The Illinois Department of Transportation expects the winter storm will “create hazardous conditions across the state,” including extremely slick conditions and poor visibility.

“IDOT crews will be out on the roads but conditions could still be extremely hazardous, so we encourage motorists to ask themselves if they really need to make the trip,” said Illinois Transportation Secretary Omer Osman in a statement. “If you do have to travel, remember that the bitter cold and wind reduces the effectiveness of the materials we use to treat snow and ice. There will be lengthy travel times so make sure to prepare your vehicle in the event you are stranded.”

Forecasters say that steady, blowing snow will be the primary threat from the storm, causing dangerous travel conditions throughout the area.

Snow accumulations will vary widely depending on the track of the storm, but forecasters say that accumulations between four and six inches are possible, along with northeasterly winds gusting in excess of 35 miles per hour.

IDOT said more than 1,800 trucks and equipment will be deployed statewide to treat roads and respond to weather emergencies. Drivers are asked to slow down and increase driving distance if you encounter a plow or maintenance vehicle.

If you must travel, IDOT recommends:

• Take it slow, especially when approaching intersections, ramps, bridges and shaded areas that are prone to icing.
• Make sure your gas tank is full.
• Keep a cell phone, warm clothes, blankets, food, water, a first-aid kit, washer fluid and an ice scraper in your vehicle.
• Check the forecast and make sure someone is aware of your route and schedule.
• Carry a cellphone and dial *999 in the Chicago area for assistance in case of emergency.
• Reminder: Using handheld phones while driving is illegal in Illinois, unless it is an emergency situation.
• If you are involved in a crash or break down, remain inside your vehicle, which is your safest form of shelter. Exiting your vehicle into live traffic can have fatal consequences.
• Always wear a seat belt, whether you’re sitting in the front seat or back seat. It’s the law.

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Timothy Wilsey, his wife Nicole and his 7-year-old son have been without power for 72 hours, and they have been forced to use their cars for warmth and to charge battery packs and phones, “their only lines of communication.”

The Euless, Texas, family said their apartment is currently only heated by candles.

“We are keeping busy by going old school and reading books and playing board games,” he told CNN by text message from Euless, a suburb of Dallas and Fort Worth.

Timothy says they’re only using their phones to quickly look at the news, so they can stay updated on the power outage situation, and to look for restaurants that may be open and serving food.  

“We are mostly laying under covers in bed,” Timothy said. “The only time we leave the bed is to go to the car to warm up or charge the phones and battery packs.”

They put the food they could save from their freezer on their patio so it would stay warmer, but have no other way to cook food. The food they do have is largely limited to beef sticks, beef jerky, chips and some cookies; as for things to drink, they have bottled water and some bottled tea, but that is it.

“Other they [sic] that we are hoping the restaurants are open and serving hot food,” he said. “Sorry, hard to type while your hands are cold.”

CNN wants to hear your story about what you’re experiencing during this extreme winter weather. Share your story with us here.

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Un nuevo bombardeo de la aviación perteneciente a la coalición internacional liderada por Estados Unidos contra el autodenominado Estado Islámico (Daesh, en árabe), dejó unos 100 civiles fallecidos en un campo de refugiados en Deir Ezzor, al este de Siria, informó este viernes un medio local.

Las víctimas, la mayoría mujeres y niños, fallecieron como resultado de un ataque aéreo realizado la noche del jueves contra un campo de refugiados al este de Deir Ezzor, detalló el diario Euphrates Post.

Además, 11 miembros de una familia fallecieron el miércoles por otro ataque aéreo de la coalición, liderada por Estados Unidos (EE.UU.) contra la población de Al-Shahabat, al norte de Deir Ezzor, según la agencia de noticias siria SANA.

>> Coalición de EE.UU. deja 22 civiles muertos en Raqqa, Siria

El reciente bombardeo sucedió en una provincia convertida en el centro de los ataques del Ejército sirio y de sus aliados, que cuenta con grandes recursos petrolíferos y gasíferos.

Las fuerzas sirias lograron romper el asedio del Daesh contra la ciudad de Deir Ezzor a principios de septiembre y, según el Observatorio Sirio de Derechos Humanos (OSDH), ubicado en Reino Unido, el Ejército árabe controla más del 64 por ciento de la provincia. 

Según la organización de periodistas independientes Airwars, desde 2014, la coalición ha lanzado más de 13.000 ataques aéreos en Siria y ha acabado con la vida de miles de civiles.

>> Llega primer convoy de ayuda humanitaria a Deir Ezzor

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UN staff mourn colleagues during a ceremony at the crash site near Addis Ababa

Ethiopian Airlines has offered the relatives of 157 victims of last Sunday’s Boeing 737 Max plane crash bags of scorched earth to bury in place of their loved ones, reports say.

Earth from the crash site is being made available for a planned service in Addis Ababa on Sunday, Reuters reports.

Families have been told it could take up to six months to identify remains.

Countries across the world grounded the 737 Max 8 and 9 aircraft after flight 302 crashed on 10 March.

Ethiopia’s transport minister said on Saturday it may take “considerable time” for investigators to find the cause of the crash involving the new aeroplane.

“An investigation of such magnitude requires a careful analysis and considerable time to come up with something concrete,” Dagmawit Moges told a press conference.

Relatives of the passengers killed in the incident are being encouraged to provide DNA samples either in Addis Ababa or at any overseas offices of Ethiopian Airlines.

Death certificates are expected to be issued in two weeks.

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Candles burn for victims at the scene of the Ethiopian Airlines crash days after the plane came down

Families mourning the victims are being offered a 1kg (2.2lbs) bag of charred soil to bury as part of Sunday’s service in the Ethiopian capital, AP news agency reports.

“The soil came as it became impossible to identify bodies and hand over remains to family members,” one family member reportedly said, adding: “We will not rest until we are given the real body or body parts of our loved ones.”

Passengers from more than 30 countries were on board the Ethiopian Airlines flight from Addis Ababa to Nairobi.

The Ethiopian investigation into the crash is being assisted by teams from around the world, including the US and France.

The aircraft’s flight data recorder (FDR) and cockpit voice recorder (CVR), or black boxes as they are often called, have been recovered and investigators are hoping they will shed light on the tragedy.

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The Senate voted Wednesday to advance a bipartisan infrastructure plan, a critical step toward Democrats passing their sweeping economic agenda.

Senators voted 67-32 to push the bill forward; 17 Republicans and all 50 Democrats voted yes.

The vote opens the process to debate and amend the proposal, which would put $550 billion into transportation, broadband and utilities. While senators who backed the procedural motion could oppose a final package, Wednesday’s vote bodes well for its chances of passage.

The deal came together earlier in the day after Democratic and Republican negotiators resolved disputes over transit and broadband funding, among other issues. The plan was trimmed from the $579 billion in new spending senators and the White House agreed to last month — a sum many Democrats considered paltry.

Supporters of the bill have hailed it as a needed investment that will boost the economy as the U.S. tries to emerge from the coronavirus pandemic. Democrats still face a range of pitfalls as they try to get the bipartisan bill and their separate $3.5 trillion spending package to President Joe Biden‘s desk in the coming months.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., will have to keep all 50 members of his caucus and at least 10 Republicans on board to ensure the infrastructure plan passes. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., will need to win progressive support for the smaller-than-desired bill in a narrowly divided chamber.

A second, separate $3.5 trillion plan to invest in child care, paid leave, education and measures to curb climate change could pose more problems. Every Democrat in the Senate will need to support the package to pass it without Republican votes.

Some Democrats, such as Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, have signaled they want a smaller final budget reconciliation bill. Sinema was the lead Democratic negotiator on the bipartisan bill.

Attempts to appease centrists could alienate liberals who worry the bipartisan infrastructure bill fails to do enough to address climate change or strengthen the social safety net.

Schumer aims to pass both the bipartisan bill and the budget resolution that sets up the reconciliation process before the Senate leaves for its recess next month. The Senate will have to rush to pass both measures on Schumer’s timeline in an institution not known for speed.

Pelosi has insisted she will not bring the infrastructure bill or budget measure to the House floor until the Senate passes both of them.

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LONDON (AP) — Like a separated couple still living together, Britain and the European Union spent 2020 wrangling and wondering whether they can remain friends.

On Thursday, the U.K. is finally moving out. At 11 p.m. London time — midnight at EU headquarters in Brussels — Britain will economically and practically leave the 27-nation bloc, 11 months after its formal political departure.

After more than four years of Brexit political drama, the day itself is something of an anticlimax. U.K. lockdown measures to curb the coronavirus have curtailed mass gatherings to celebrate or mourn the moment, though Parliament’s huge Big Ben bell will sound the hour as it prepares to ring in the New Year.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson — for whom Thursday represents the fulfilment of his promise to “Get Brexit Done” — said the day “marks a new beginning in our country’s history and a new relationship with the EU as their biggest ally.”

“This moment is finally upon us and now is the time to seize it,” he said after Britain’s Parliament approved a U.K.-EU trade deal overnight, the final formal hurdle on the U.K. side before departure.

It has been 4 1/2 years since Britain voted in a referendum to leave the bloc it had joined in 1973. The U.K. left the EU’s political structures on Jan. 31 2020, but the repercussions of that decision have yet to be felt, since the U.K.’s economic relationship with the bloc remained unchanged during an 11-month transition period that ends Thursday.

After that, Britain will leave the EU’s vast single market and customs union — the biggest single economic change the country has experienced since World War II.

A free trade agreement sealed on Christmas Eve after months of tense negotiations will ensure Britain and the 27-nation EU can continue to trade in goods without tariffs or quotas. That should help protect the 660 billion pounds ($894 billion) in annual trade between the two sides, and the hundreds of thousands of jobs that rely on it.

But firms face sheaves of new paperwork and expenses. Traders are struggling to digest the new rules imposed by a 1,200-page deal that was agreed just a week before the changes take place.

The English Channel port of Dover and the Eurotunnel passenger and freight route are bracing for delays, though the pandemic and the holiday weekend mean there will be less cross-Channel traffic than usual. The vital supply route was snarled for days after France closed its border to U.K. truckers for 48 hours last week in response to a fast-spreading variant of the virus identified in England.

The British government insisted that “the border systems and infrastructure we need are in place, and we are ready for the U.K.’s new start.”

But freight companies are holding their breath. U.K. haulage firm Youngs Transportation is suspending services to the EU from Monday until Jan. 11 “to let things settle.”

“We figure it gives the country a week or so to get used to all of these new systems in and out and we can have a look and hopefully resolve any issues in advance of actually sending our trucks,” said Youngs director Rob Hollyman.

The services sector, which makes up 80% of Britain’s economy, doesn’t even know what the rules will be for business with the EU in 2021 — many of the details have yet to be hammered out. Months and years of further discussion and argument over everything from fair competition to fish quotas lie ahead as Britain a nd the EU settle in to their new relationship as friends, neighbors and rivals.

Hundreds of millions of individuals in Britain and the bloc also face changes to their daily lives. After Thursday, Britons and EU citizens lose the automatic right to live and work in the other’s territory. From now on they will have to follow immigration rules and obtain work visas. Tourists won’t need visas for short trips, but new headaches — from travel insurance to pet paperwork — still loom for Britons visiting the continent.

For some in Britain, including the prime minister, it’s a moment of pride, a reclaiming of national independence from a vast Brussels bureaucracy.

Conservative lawmaker Bill Cash, who has campaigned for Brexit for decades, said it was a “victory for democracy and sovereignty.”

That’s not a view widely shared across the Channel. France’s European affairs minister, Clément Beaune, said it was “a day that will be historic, that will be sad.”

“A number of lessons must be drawn from Brexit, starting with lies, I think, that were told to the British,” Beaune told broadcaster LCI. “And we will see that what was promised — a sort of total freedom, a lack of restrictions, of influence — I think will not happen.”

Many in Britain felt apprehension about a leap into the unknown that is taking place during a pandemic that has upended life around the world.

“I feel very sad that we’re leaving,” said Jen Pearcy-Edwards, a filmmaker in London. “I think that COVID has overshadowed everything that is going on. But I think the other thing that has happened is that people feel a bigger sense of community, and I think that makes it even sadder that we’re breaking up our community a bit, by leaving our neighbors in Europe.

“I’m hopeful that we find other ways to rebuild ties,” she said.

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John Leicester in Le Pecq, France, contributed to this story.

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Outspoken conservative political commentator Candace Owens has slammed Joe Biden‘s handling of the crisis in Afghanistan, accusing the president of hiding “like a little b****”.

Biden’s decision to draw down U.S. military operations in Afghanistan has come under fire since the Taliban entered the nation’s capital of Kabul on Sunday.

The decision to withdraw from Afghanistan was first made under the administration of former President Donald Trump. However, the withdrawal was initiated under Biden.

“Donald Trump is acting like the President Of The United States right now while Joe Biden hides like a little b*** and waits for his Beijing handlers to tell him what to do,” Owens tweeted Sunday night.

The 32-year-old has been a vocal critic of the Biden administration and is an ardent Donald Trump supporter.

Biden doubled down on his decision to withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan, instead blaming the Trump administration for signing a deal with the Taliban that left them “in the strongest position militarily since 2001,” while pulling 2,500 troops before he left office.

“One more year, or five more years, of U.S. military presence would not have made a difference if the Afghan military cannot or will not hold its own country,” Biden said in a White House statement issued on Saturday. “An endless American presence in the middle of another country’s civil conflict was not acceptable to me.”

“When I became President, I faced a choice—follow through on the deal, with a brief extension to get our forces and our allies’ forces out safely, or ramp up our presence and send more American troops to fight once again in another country’s civil conflict.”

Trump promptly responded, criticizing Biden for not following his plan that the former president said “protected our people and our property” and “ensured the Taliban would never dream of taking our Embassy or providing a base for new attacks against American,” without specifying any details of this plan.

“What a disgrace it will be when the Taliban raises their flag over America’s Embassy in Kabul,” he said. “This is complete failure through weakness, incompetence, and total strategic incoherence.”

In April, Trump praised Biden’s decision to withdraw U.S. forces from Afghanistan as “a wonderful positive thing to do,” adding that the U.S. should “get out earlier.” Before he left office, Trump pulled 2,500 troops and imposed a May 1 deadline for withdrawing forces. Biden announced that the withdrawal would commence on May 1, with an aim to complete the process by September 11, 2021.

Over the past week, the Taliban made swift gains across the country, securing the capital city Kabul on Sunday and forcing U.S. Embassy staff to evacuate in a takeover that has left U.S. officials stunned.

Candace Owens hosts “Candace” show on August 9, 2021 in Nashville, Tennessee. The outspoken conservative political commentator has slammed Joe Biden’s handling of the crisis in Afghanistan.
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Nuestro corresponsal describe motocicletas incendiadas a lo largo de la avenida donde ocurrió la explosión.

El centro de la capital de Tailandia, Bangkok, se vio estremecido por la explosión de un bomba que, según las autoridades, cobró la vida de al menos 19 personas, entre ellos un ciudadano chino y otro filipino, y unos 120 heridos.

El ataque, que dejó además unos 120 heridos, sucedió en un sitio cerca del santuario Erawan, en el distrito central capitalino Chidlom, cerca de un hotel de lujo en una zona muy frecuentada por turistas.

La explosión ocurrió a las 19:00 horas locales (12:00 GMT) y la policía sospecha que el artefacto fue colocado en una motocicleta.

Un portavoz de la policía nacional, teniente general Prawut Thavornsiri, expresó a la agencia de noticios AFP: “Puedo confirmar que fue una bomba, no podemos decir de qué tipo, estamos investigando”.

El estallido fue captado por cámaras de seguridad.

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Aunque algunas versiones indican que se produjo a las afueras del santuario, otros medios locales citan fuentes que afirman que los tres kilogramos de explosivos que contenía el artefacto fueron dejados dentro del templo y detonados mediante un sistema remoto.

El ministro de Defensa tailandés Prawit Wongsuwon aseguró que los atacantes, quienes no han sido identificados, “apuntaron a extranjeros para dañar el turismo y la economía”.

El analista de asuntos diplomáticos de la BBC, Jonathan Marcus, aclara que no hay antecedentes de atentados a esta escala en la capital tailandesa.

“Una posibilidad es que sea obra de insurgentes musulmanes malayos del sur del país que están enfrentados con el gobierno tailandés desde hace más de una década”, informa Marcus.

Motocicletas incendiadas


La explosión sucedió frente al santuario Erawan.

Las personas que se encontraban en los alrededores del santuario sintieron todo el impacto de la explosión.

Los primeros reportes hablaban de motocicletas incendiadas en la avenida principal, mientras los paramédicos y la policía intentaban evacuar a los heridos.

Un transeúnte, Alessandro Ursic, dijo a la BBC: “Cuando llegué ya habían evacuado los cuerpos frente a los predios del santuario Erawan pero todavía hay pedazos de cuerpos humanos alrededor de la intersección; es realmente gráfico”.

Entretanto, Richard Srikureja dijo: “Estaba caminando hacia un centro comercial aledaño al santuario y escuché una enorme explosión y la gente corría en todas direcciones. Fue un caos total en todo el centro de Bangkok”.

El santuario le rinde culto al dios hindú Brahma pero es también visitado por miles de budistas todos los días. También se encuentran importantes centros comerciales en el vecindario.

La intersección Ratchaprasong, donde se dio la explosión, ha sido escenario de manifestaciones políticas en años recientes.

Lea: General golpista es el nuevo primer ministro de Tailandia


La policía y los paramédico evacuaron a los heridos

Sin embargo, nuestro corresponsal señala que los ataques con bomba son extremadamente inusuales en Bangkok.

No obstante, Bangkok ha pasado por una década de enfrentamientos, algunas veces violentos, entre grupos políticos rivales.

El ejército tomo el poder en mayo del año pasado, derrocando el gobierno electo tras meses de disturbios.

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O Sporting está pronto para vender ativos na abertura do mercado de transferências, sendo que Rúben Semedo é o primeiro jogador que os leões tencionam transferir.

De acordo com o jornal Record, o clube de Alvalade procura encaixar no mínimo de 20 milhões de euros com o passe do defesa central. A SAD já terá uma proposta oficial pelo jogador, porém os valores estão abaixo do pretendido.

No entanto, o emblema verde e branco espera novas propostas pelo atleta de 23 anos, isto porque Semedo têm cinco clubes interessados nas suas qualidades: Lille, Newcastle, Southampton, Crystal Palace e West Ham.

Caso o clube não consiga vender Rúben Semedo, o defesa deverá manter-se nos planos de Jorge Jesus para a próxima temporada. Recorde-se que o jogar tem contrato com o Sporting até 2022, com uma cláusula de rescisão de 45 milhões de euros.

Source Article from https://www.noticiasaominuto.com/desporto/802702/ruben-semedo-no-mercado-por-20-milhoes-de-euros

House Republican Conference Chairwoman Liz CheneyElizabeth (Liz) Lynn CheneyNostalgia for the GOP of old Democrats, GOP dig in for public phase of impeachment battle Republicans blast Pelosi following vote on impeachment resolution MORE (R-Wyo.) is calling on Speaker Nancy PelosiNancy PelosiTrump at rally says impeachment an ‘attack on democracy itself’ GOP lawmaker says House impeachment rules vote ‘doesn’t change anything for me’ Overnight Health Care: Warren unveils ‘Medicare for All’ funding plan | Warren says plan won’t raise middle class taxes | Rivals question claims | Biden camp says plan will hit ‘American workers’ | Trump taps cancer doctor Stephen Hahn for FDA chief MORE (D-Calif.) to immediately release the transcripts of the hearings and depositions that have taken place behind closed doors as part of the impeachment inquiry.

Cheney argued in a letter sent to Pelosi on Friday that the vote on a resolution laying out the procedures for impeachment does not bring transparency to the process. The measure passed mostly along party lines the previous day.

“Despite the vote in the House on October 31, House Democrats continue to conduct the partisan effort to impeach the President in secret,” Cheney wrote.

“Your duty to the Constitution and the American people, as well as fundamental fairness, requires that you immediately release the full transcripts of all depositions taken since you pronounced the beginning of an impeachment inquiry on September 24, 2019,” she added.

The push from Cheney, the No. 3 House Republican, comes as GOP lawmakers have worked to amplify their defense of President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump singles in on ‘Sleepy Joe Biden’ at campaign rally Trump at rally says impeachment an ‘attack on democracy itself’ GOP lawmaker says House impeachment rules vote ‘doesn’t change anything for me’ MORE amid an accelerating investigation into his dealings with Ukraine and efforts to get a foreign government to investigate a political rival.

House Republicans have repeatedly blasted the way House Democrats have conducted the impeachment investigation, with Republicans bemoaning that access to the hearings is limited to members of the three panels leading the probe: the House Intelligence, Oversight and Reform, and Foreign Affairs committees.

GOP lawmakers have also repeatedly accused Democrats of selectively leaking information in an attempt to spin the narrative, with some going as far as attempting to storm a secure area in the Capitol late last month to gain access to the hearings and transcripts.

“The selective leaking in which the House Intelligence Committee has been engaged must end immediately and the full and complete record must be provided for the American people to see,” Cheney, who leads the House GOP conference’s messaging efforts, wrote to Pelosi on Friday.

“In addition, to the extent that you make any redactions in any of the transcripts, all Members of the House must be supplied copies of the full and unredacted transcripts,” she added.

One senior GOP House source told The Hill that “you can expect a bunch of our members to be sending similar letters in the coming days.”

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam SchiffAdam Bennett SchiffTrump at rally says impeachment an ‘attack on democracy itself’ Pelosi suggests impeachment inquiry could expand beyond Ukraine Schiff: Trump helped House Republicans plan to storm SCIF MORE (D-Calif.) told CNN on Thursday that transcripts of witness testimonies could be released as soon as next week.

Pelosi also told Bloomberg on Friday that she expects the chamber to begin holding public hearings in the inquiry as soon as this month.

Source Article from https://thehill.com/homenews/house/468664-cheney-calls-for-democrats-to-release-impeachment-probe-transcripts

  • Gylfi Sigurdsson marcó el 1-0 desde el punto de penalti en el 40′
  • Un buen pase filtrado de Nagy a Nikolić derivó en el 1-1 final, de Sævarsson en propia
  • Con el empate Hungría sigue invicta y es líder con cuatro puntos, mientras que Islandia lleva dos empates
  • Últimos partidos del Grupo F, 22 de junio: Islandia . Austria, Hungría – Portugal
  • Todo lo relacionado con el partido, aquí

Tras vencer en la primera jornada a Austria (0-2) en una de las ‘sorpresas’ de la UEFA EURO 2016, Hungría dio otro paso más al sumar un punto en el tramo final para mantener el liderato gracias a los cuatro puntos que atesora en el Grupo F. Islandia, que tuvo el triunfo en su haber hasta el minuto 88, lleva dos empates y sigue con opciones para pasar a octavos de final.

Tras dos balones colgados que Jón Dadi Bödvarsson y Ragnar Sigurdsson no calibraron al marco rival, Hungría asumió el peso del partido llevando la posesión de forma clara. Pese a ello, pocas llegadas para el porcentaje de balón que manejaba.






Cada vez que Islandia tenía la iniciativa mostraba mayor voracidad ofensiva, como la acción en la que Johann Gudmundsson aprovechó el error defensivo de Tamás Kádár para disparar en el mano a mano frente, pero Gábor Király desbarató con el pie.

Antes del descanso, Sigurdsson no se puso nervioso y batió desde los once metros al veterano meta magiar para establecer el 1-0. En la segunda parte, mismo guión: pelota para Hungría y menor presencia islandesa en el tercio final de ataque.

No se movía el marcador pese a la insistencia de un combativo y talentoso Balázs Dzsudzsák, que hilvanó las jugadas de los suyos, pero en el minuto 88 Ádám Nagy (una de las revelaciones del torneo) encontró a Nemanja Nikolić, que centró para que Birkir Sævarsson anotase en propia. Hungría manda con cuatro puntos e Islandia lleva dos en un Grupo F tremendamente igualado.

A destacar, el debut de Eidur Gudjohnsen (37 años) en un gran torneo. Tuvo el triunfo en el 90+5′, pero su disparo se fue a un lado del marco de Gábor Király, otro de los mitos de esta fase final.

Jugador del Partido: Kolbeinn Sigthórsson
El delantero islandés trabajó para ser importante en las pocas llegadas de los suyos, aunque finalmente se marchó del partido ningún gol logrado y con el mazazo del empate en el minuto 88.

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Ádám Nagy se ha erigido como uno de esos futbolistas que se ganan el gran salto tras un torneo. Futbolista de Ferencvárosi TC, y celebrando los 21 años que cumplió el 17 de junio, el mediocentro volvió a ser esencial tanto en ataque como en defensa. Robos de balón, distribución y talento, como demostró en la jugada del empate.

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El presidente de EE.UU., Donald Trump, ha sugerido al Comité de Inteligencia del Senado que investigue a los medios de comunicación estadounidenses por difundir noticias falsas. Dicho Comité busca evidencias de la presunta huella rusa en las elecciones estadounidenses del año pasado.

“¿Por qué el Comité de Inteligencia del Senado estadounidense no mira las Redes de Noticias Falsas en nuestro país para saber por qué tantas de nuestras noticias son un bulo [FAKE] inventado”, escribió Trump en su cuentos Twitter.

La reacción de Trump tiene que ver con el último escándalo mediático difundido por la cadena NBC, que esta semana dijo que el secretario de Estado, Rex Tillerson, había llamado a Trump “jodido imbécil” y estaba “a punto” de dimitir, algo que el propio Tillerson ha desmentido.

“Rex Tillerson nunca amenazó con dimitir. Es una Noticia Falsa de NBC”, escribió Trump en otro tuit en el que criticó “la baja calidad” del periodismo de la cadena.

Source Article from https://actualidad.rt.com/actualidad/252092-trump-llama-senado-investigar-prensa-eeuu

A cruise ship with nearly 1,400 passengers and crew members lost engine power in heavy winds and waves near the coast of Norway on Saturday, injuring several people and prompting a painstaking, hourslong evacuation, the authorities said.

The evacuation of the ship, the Viking Sky, began around 2 p.m. local time and stretched into the darkness past midnight, at which point only 180 of the 1,373 people on board had been removed, said Per Fjeld, a spokesman for Joint Rescue Coordination Centre Southern Norway, which was conducting the operation.

When helicopters reached the ship, rescue personnel were lowered to remove passengers by winch one at a time. Filled with 10 to 15 people, the helicopters then returned to land.

Source Article from https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/23/world/europe/viking-sky-cruise-ship-evacuation.html

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(CNN)It was a moment the aviation world had been waiting for since a second deadly crash grounded the 737 MAX fleet: Boeing gathered hundreds of pilots, airline executives, and regulators to unveil a fix that would return the jetliner to the sky.

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James Fields was sentenced on Friday to life in prison on federal hate crime charges. Fields rammed his car into a crowd of anti-racism protesters in Charlottesville, Va., in 2017, killing 32-year-old Heather Heyer and injuring dozens of others.

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James Fields was sentenced on Friday to life in prison on federal hate crime charges. Fields rammed his car into a crowd of anti-racism protesters in Charlottesville, Va., in 2017, killing 32-year-old Heather Heyer and injuring dozens of others.

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The man who drove his car into a crowd of anti-racist protesters in Charlottesville, Va., killing one person and injuring 35 has been sentenced to spend the rest of his life in prison.

A federal judge issued the sentence Friday for self-proclaimed neo-Nazi James Alex Fields Jr, 22, of the Toledo, Ohio area.

The judge’s punishment announced in a Charlottesville courtroom came after numerous survivors delivered emotional testimony about the psychological and physical toll the attack caused.

After the hearing, prosecutors described the 2017 attack as heinous.

“It was cold-blooded. It was motivated by deep-seated racial animus,” Thomas Cullen, U.S. attorney for the Western District of Virginia, told reporters. He said Fields’ lethal car plowing was calculated, calling it “a hate-inspired act of domestic terrorism.”

“Charlottesville is never going to be the same,” Cullen said. “It will be with this community, and the Commonwealth of Virginia, and this country, for a long time.”

Survivors who testified included Rosia Parker, a longtime civil rights activist in Charlottesville. She told the court she watched the attack from just feet away.

“You could have done anything else but what you did,” Parker said, according to The Associated Press. “You deserve everything that you get.”

In legal filings presented to the judge on Friday, Fields’ lawyers said while he committed a “terrible crime,” they asked the judge to also consider Fields’ “traumatic childhood and his mental illness, wrote Fields’ federal public defender, Lisa Lorish.

Federal prosecutors had asked the judge for a life sentence for Fields, who is 22. A plea deal brokered in March took away the possibility of the death penalty, and federal prosecutors and Fields’ lawyers agreed that federal sentencing guidelines called for a life sentence. As part of the deal, Fields pleaded guilty to 29 of the 30 federal hate crimes he faced and is not eligible for parole.

Prosecutors had said Fields’ crimes were “so horrendous – and the maiming of innocents so severe – that they outweigh any factors the defendant may argue form a basis for leniency,” according to a sentencing document filed by Assistant U.S. Attorney Christopher Kavanaugh before the Friday hearing.

Last week, Fields’ attorneys asked for something shorter than a life sentence, citing Fields’ age and history of mental illness.

Fields has already been convicted on separate, state charges for murdering 32-year-old Heather Heyer and injuring dozens of other people. The jury in that case recommended a life sentence plus 419 years and $480,000 in fines. Sentencing in that case is set for July 15.

Heyer’s mother, Susan Bro, said in April that she was satisfied with Fields’ federal guilty plea and was not intent on his getting the death penalty. “There’s no point in killing him. It would not bring back Heather,” she told reporters.

Fields was 20 when he drove his Dodge Challenger through the night from Ohio to attend Unite the Right, a white nationalist rally in August 2017. The weekend turned deadly when Fields accelerated his car into the group of protesters. Two Virginia State Police troopers investigating the day’s events also died when the helicopter they were in crashed.

Before he was sentenced on Friday, Fields’ lawyers wrote the court to say that he used Twitter in search of community and “quickly learned that provocative and hateful comments led to more exposure,” leading him to follow accounts white supremacist accounts, including Richard Spencer and Mike Peinovich.

Fields’ lawyers wrote that he found out about the Unite the Right rally through its organizers’ online recruiting campaign.

His attorneys claim he had no intention to commit a violent act, instead describing the attack as a “impulsive, angry and aggressive decision.”

President Trump said afterward that there was “blame on both sides” for the violence in the college town.

Source Article from https://www.npr.org/2019/06/28/736915323/neo-nazi-who-killed-charlottesville-protester-is-sentenced-to-life-in-prison


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En las noticias más leídas del día de hoy, el año pasado, México captó 26,738.6 millones de dólares de Inversión Extranjera Directa, donde el principal participante fue Estados Unidos, con 10,410.2 millones. A casi un mes de que Donald Trump haya sido nombrado presidente oficial de Estados Unidos, ya registra una de las peores aprobaciones en los últimos años por los ciudadanos estadounidenses. Samsung cerrará algunos de sus negocios temporalmente.

1. Estados Unidos concentró 38.9% de IED en México

Después de la complicada relación que se está viviendo en América del Norte y a la incertidumbre económica que podría vivir México por las posibles políticas de Donald Trump, durante el 2016 el país captó 26,738.6 millones de dólares de Inversión Extranjera Directa, donde el principal participante fue Estados Unidos, con 10,410.2 millones (38.9% del total).
De acuerdo con datos de la Secretaría de Economía, le siguieron España (10.7%), Alemania (9.0%), Israel (7.5%), Canadá (6.3%) y Japón (5.7 por ciento).

En comparación con la inversión extranjera del 2015, del top 10 la mitad presentó aumentos; el mayor dinamismo lo registró Israel, al pasar de 0.9 millones de dólares a 2,015.2 millones, cuya apuesta fue en la Ciudad de México (55.7% del total) y Jalisco (31.8 por ciento).

2. Pemex pagó por activos inservibles

Según la Auditoría Superior de la Federación, determinó que la compra de la planta de Agronitrogenados, por medio de una empresa de Pemex llamada Pro Agroindustria en diciembre del 2013, se hizo a un costo inicial de 275 millones de dólares, pero se elevó a 760 millones de dólares porque más de la mitad de la planta no servía

Dentro de las irregularidades detectadas se encontró que 60% de las instalaciones vendidas por Agronitrogenados eran inservibles y deberían ser cambiadas, no se hizo una evaluación de las condiciones de la planta antes de la venta porque, según los vendedores, se perderían las garantías pese a que llevaba 14 años sin operar.

Para la segunda auditoría, ya no sobre la compra sino sobre la rehabilitación de la planta, se concluye que PMI Comercio Internacional, que es la entidad que tenía el proceso en sus manos, no cumplió con las disposiciones legales y normativas aplicables para el trabajo.

3. ¿Cuándo vale la pena tener una tarjeta que cobra anualidad?

Una tarjeta amerita el pago de una anualidad cuando nos ofrecen beneficios que son relevantes para nosotros, que realmente necesitamos y que van acorde con las prioridades del cliente, de acuerdo con Freddy Domínguez, cofundador de Comparaguru.com.

La primera pregunta que nos hacen cuando queremos una tarjeta de crédito, es ¿qué beneficios son importantes para nuestro futuro? ya que resulta contraproducente pagar por un plástico que ofrece millas si no nos dedicamos mucho a viajar, o si nuestra aerolínea no aplica para los beneficios otorgados.

Otra de las guías para identificar cuándo no deberíamos pagar anualmente por un plástico, radica en qué tanto uso le damos. Si quieres obtener más información con respecto a cuándo vale la pena adquirir una tarjeta, entra a la nota completa.


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4. Trump divide cada vez más a Estados Unidos

El mal que dejó la elección presidencial en Estados no da muestras de una pronta recuperación. A tan sólo semanas de que Donald Trump asumió la presidencia, la percepción de la población estadounidense está cada vez más dividida y se inclina sobre todo hacia la desaprobación del desempeño del nuevo mandatario, de acuerdo con una encuesta realizada por el Pew Research Center.

Los datos ofrecidos por el centro de investigación contradicen la postura de Trump en su conferencia de prensa del pasado 16 de febrero, en la que afirmó que según una encuesta de Rasmussen Reports su administración registra un nivel de aprobación de 55 por ciento.

5. Samsung, en crisis tras arresto de su líder

El principal conglomerado de Corea del Sur, Samsung Electronics suspenderá la mayoría de sus nuevos negocios e inversiones, al menos temporalmente, tras el arresto del heredero del grupo, Lee Jae-yong, indicaron los observadores de la industria.
Lee, el líder del grupo, fue arrestado este viernes por la mañana bajo los cargos de soborno en conexión con el escándalo de tráfico de influencias centrado en la presidenta suspendida, Park Geun-hye, y su amiga íntima, Choi Soon-si.



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In this March 3, 2015, photo, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers escort an arrestee in an apartment building in the Bronx borough of New York during a series of early morning raids.

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A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration’s effort to expand fast-track deportation regulations for undocumented immigrants without the use of immigration courts.

The procedure, known as “expedited removal,” has previously been used to deport undocumented immigrants who cross into the U.S. by land without an immigration hearing or access to an attorney if they are arrested within 100 miles of the border within two weeks of their arrival. In July, the administration expanded the rule to include undocumented immigrants who couldn’t prove they had been in the U.S. continuously for two years or more, no matter where they were in the country.

In a 126-page report issued just before midnight on Friday, U.S. District Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson issued a preliminary injunction on the policy change. She stated that the administration did not follow the correct decision-making procedures, such as the formal notice-and-comment period required for major federal rule changes, and likely violated federal law in failing to do so. She said that “no good cause exists for the agency to have not complied with these mandates in this instance.”

Jackson, who is an Obama-era appointee, also said that the July notice by the Department of Homeland Security seemed “arbitrary and capricious.”

“Put in common parlance, if a policy decision that an agency makes is of sufficient consequence that it qualifies as an agency rule, then arbitrariness in deciding the contours of that rule — e.g., decision making by Ouija board or dart board, rock/paper/scissors, or even the Magic 8 Ball — simply will not do,” Jackson wrote. “There are well-established legal constraints on the manner in which an agency exercises its discretion to make discretionary policy decisions, and there are also legally established consequences if an agency does not adhere to these procedural requirements when it determines the policies that it imposes.”

The Department of Homeland Security had argued that the policy change would relieve overburdened immigration courts and “harmonize” existing regulations to apply equally to undocumented immigrants whether they arrive by land or sea.

“The effect of that change will be to enhance national security and public safety — while reducing government costs — by facilitating prompt immigration determinations,” DHS said in the July notice.

“We are past the breaking point and must take all appropriate action to enforce the law, along the U.S. borders and within the country’s interior,” said acting Secretary of Homeland Security Kevin McAleenan when the new policy was announced. “This designation makes it clear that if you have no legal right to be here, we will remove you.”

The American Civil Liberties Union, American Immigration Council, and Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP sought the preliminary injunction.

“The court rejected the Trump administration’s illegal attempt to remove hundreds of thousands of people from the U.S. without any legal recourse,” ACLU attorney Anand Balakrishnan, who argued the case, said in a statement. “This ruling recognizes the irreparable harm of this policy.”

In a statement Saturday afternoon, a DOJ spokesman said:

“Congress expressly authorized the Secretary of Homeland Security to act with dispatch to remove from the country aliens who have no right to be here. The district court’s decision squarely conflicts with that express grant of authority and vastly exceeds the district court’s own authority. This ruling undermines the laws enacted by Congress and the Trump Administration’s careful efforts to implement those laws.”

The preliminary injunction blocks the expanded expedited removal policy from being applied until the court has finished litigation on the matter.

Source Article from https://www.npr.org/2019/09/28/765357363/federal-judge-blocks-trump-move-to-fast-track-deportations