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Varios edificios en diferentes ciudades de Ecuador fueron evacuados después del nuevo sismo ocurrido a mediodía de este miércoles.

Un segundo sismo de magnitud 6,8 en la escala de Richter sacudió Ecuador cerca del mediodía de este miércoles, horas después de que otro similar se registrara también en la costa del país.

Los dos movimientos, ocurridos a las 02:57 am hora local (07:57GMT) y a las 11:46 am (16:46 GMT), se produjeron en la misma zona devastada por un fuerte terremoto hace justo un mes.

El presidente de Ecuador, Rafael Correa, informó en una conferencia de prensa que una persona murió y otras 85 sufrieron heridas leves como consecuencia del segundo sismo.

Según el reporte del Instituto Geofísico de la Politécnica Nacional de ese país (IG), el primer movimiento ocurrió a una profundidad de 17 kilómetros y su epicentro fue cerca de Mompiche, en la costa ecuatoriana.

Reportes preliminares señalan que el segundo movimiento llegó a sentirse hasta la frontera de Colombia.

Su profundidad fue de 15 kilómetros.

El Centro de Alerta de Tsunamis del Pacífico informó de que no se espera ningún maremoto a causa del sismo.

El presidente Correa señaló que el primer temblor sólo causó “pequeños daños materiales”, mientras el segundo provocó algunos cortes de luz en la costa.

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A causa del terremoto del 16 de abril murieron 661 personas y ayer las recordaron con una misa en Pedernales.

Después del sismo de mediodía, Correa anunció la suspensión de las clases en todo el país durante lo que queda miércoles y hasta el lunes en las provincias de Manabí y Esmeraldas.

“Réplica más fuerte”

Mario Ruiz, jefe del Instituto Geofísico ecuatoriano, explicó que los movimientos son réplicas.

Por su magnitud, se trata de los movimientos más fuertes del terremoto de 7,8 del 16 de abril por el que murieron más de 600 personas.

“Fue el sismo más fuerte (el primero), pero han habido varias réplicas de más baja intensidad”, relató Carlos Lopez en la página de Facebook de BBC Mundo.

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Aún está fresco en la memoria de los ecuatorianos el potente terremoto que sacudió al país hace apenas un mes.

Los medios locales informaron que, además de la costa, el temblor también se sintió con fuerza en el norte de Quito, en Guayaquil y otras ciudades.

Tanto en el sismo de la madrugada como en el del medio día, centenares de personas abandonaron sus casas y edificios por temor a nuevos derrumbes.

En ese sentido, Karla Morales, una activista de derechos humanos que ayuda a las víctimas del terremoto de hace un mes, escribió en su cuenta de Twitter que se encuentra en la ciudad de San Vicente, donde se vivió “un susto tremendo”, con el sismo de esta madrugada.

Después de mediodía, el IG reporto cinco nuevas réplicas de más baja intensidad.

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White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders admitted she lied to the media about President Donald Trump’s highly controversial decision to fire FBI Director James Comey in 2017, according to special counsel Robert Mueller’s report.

“Sanders told this Office [of the special counsel] that her reference to hearing from ‘countless members of the FBI’ was a ‘slip of the tongue,’” investigators wrote in the document, which was released with significant redactions by Attorney General William Barr on Thursday.

“She also recalled that her statement in a separate press interview that rank-and-file FBI agents had lost confidence in Comey was a comment she made ‘in the heat of the moment’ that was not founded on anything,” it continued.

White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders calls on reporters during a news conference in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House, on August 15, 2018. Sanders admitted she lied about President Donald Trump’s decision to fire FBI Director James Comey in 2017, according to special counsel Robert Mueller’s report. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

Sanders told the press following Comey’s firing in May 2017 that “countless” FBI agents had lost confidence in his leadership. Critics quickly raised concerns that Trump’s decision to fire Comey was an attempt to obstruct justice and hinder the investigation into his campaign’s alleged collusion with Russia during the 2016 campaign.

Comey “was not doing a good job,” Trump said at the time. “Very simply, he was not doing a good job.”

Later, in an interview with NBC News, the president specifically said the ongoing investigation into his campaign led to his decision to fire Comey. “And, in fact, when I decided to just do it, I said to myself, I said: ‘You know, this Russia thing with Trump and Russia is a made-up story, it’s an excuse by the Democrats for having lost an election that they should’ve won,” the president said.

Trump’s decision to fire Comey was one of ten events Mueller’s team investigated and considered when looking into the possibility that the president had obstructed justice by interfering in the investigation. Ultimately, Mueller’s report opted not to draw a conclusion on these obstruction allegations. However, Attorney General William Barr and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein subsequently determined that they believed the president’s actions did not amount to a crime.

“After carefully reviewing the facts and legal theories outlined in the report, and in consultation with the Office of Legal Counsel and other Department lawyers, the Deputy Attorney General and I concluded that the evidence developed by the Special Counsel is not sufficient to establish that the President committed an obstruction-of-justice offense,” Barr reiterated in a press conference Thursday ahead of the redacted report’s public release.

Attorney General William Barr takes questions about the release of the redacted version of the Mueller report at the Department of Justice, in Washington, D.C., on April 18. Win McNamee/Getty Images

Many Democrats have criticized Barr’s decision to rule out the possibility that the president obstructed justice. Following Thursday’s press conference and the Mueller report’s release, Democratic lawmakers quickly called out the attorney general for acting in a manner they viewed as partisan.

“We cannot take Attorney General Barr’s word for it. We must read the full Mueller report, and the underlying evidence,” House Judiciary Chair Jerrold Nadler of New York wrote on Twitter.

Senator Kamala Harris of California, who is also seeking her party’s nomination to take on Trump in 2020, accused Barr of “acting more like Trump’s defense attorney than the nation’s Attorney General. His press conference was a stunt, filled with political spin and propaganda,” she wrote in a tweet.

Even some at traditionally conservative media outlets questioned Barr’s actions. Fox News host Chris Wallace voiced a sentiment similar to Harris’ on Thursday morning when he stated the “attorney general seemed to be almost acting as the counselor for the defense, or the counselor for the president, rather than the attorney general; talking about his motives, talking about his anger, his feeling that this was unfair and he was being—there were leaks.” 

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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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Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in 2018. He was interviewed by NPR on Tuesday.

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Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif talks to All Things Considered’s Mary Louise Kelly in Iran about heightened tensions between Tehran and Washington after the U.S. killing of Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani. Here’s the full transcript of their conversation.

Mary Louise Kelly: Foreign Minister, thank you. Our time is short, so I will be direct. Does Iran consider the U.S. killing of Qassem Soleimani an act of war?

Mohammad Javad Zarif: It’s an act of terrorism and an act of war.

It is both —

Both.

Terrorism and war, you believe, on behalf of the U.S.?

Yes. But it has three basically characteristics. One against Iraq. It violated territorial integrity and sovereignty of Iraq. And it also violated the agreement that they had with the Iraqis. And that is why the Iraqis decided to kick them out.

It hurt the feeling of many people across Iran and the rest of the world. And the reaction to that would be to make it almost impossible for the U.S. to continue to stay in this region. That is why I say the days of the United States in our region are numbered.

Third is they attacked a citizen and a senior official of Iran. We’re responsible under international law for protection of our citizens. This was an act of aggression, an armed attack, albeit a cowardly armed attack, against an Iranian official in foreign territory. It amounts to war, and we will respond according to our own timing and choice.

But we were on the streets in Tehran yesterday, we saw flags, banners with the words deep revenge written across them.

Yes.

What does that look like?

Well, that looks like the United States has committed a grave error. A grave error. And it will pay for that grave error.

Can you be specific?

Well, I was very specific. The Parliament of Iraq asked them to leave. The people of the region are asking them to leave. And the people of Iran are asking their government to do what it takes for the United States to pay for its crimes.

But what would Iran’s response look like?

Well, we will decide. We will decide. The United States, you see —

There’s nothing on or off the table?

Well, you see, in exercising our right to self-defense, we are only bound by international law, unlike the United States, which is not bound by international law.

The U.S. would differ. But go on.

U.S. would differ? Well, tell them to explain how they want to attack cultural sites. That’s a war crime. How do they want to — I mean, these are not off the record. These are statements made by the president of the United States. Disproportionate manner.

The defense secretary, as you well know, Mark Esper has said in the United States, the U.S. will not be attacking cultural sites.

Well, I’ve heard that the president in the United States is the commander in chief. And as you say, the buck stops here. So, unless President Trump changes his own threats, I don’t think that. … The defense secretary works on behalf of the president, not as a as an independent entity. But the point is, the United — the secretary of state, of all people, has said if Iran wants its people to eat, it has to listen to the United States. That’s a crime against humanity. Starvation is a crime against humanity, creating individual responsibility before the International Criminal Court. These are the statements that are being made. I’m not making them up. I mean, the Newsweek headlines — they’re, I mean, they’re headlines in the United States.

You were supposed to have —

They can differ with me. But I don’t think they have any grounds to differ with me.

You were supposed to be able to make this case in New York, at the United Nations this week, you were set to address the United Nations Security Council.

Not this case. Actually, the president of the Security Council invited me over 20 days ago. The current president.

Will you be able to go?

No, unfortunately, because Mike Pompeo decided that I was too dangerous for the United States.

How did — has he communicated that directly to you? How did you find out?

Not to us, to the secretary-general of the United States [sic]. He has said we didn’t have enough time to issue a visa. I don’t know how terrible bureaucracy the State Department has that in 25 days, they couldn’t issue a visa for a foreign minister. I’m not an unknown entity.

But you are — this is final, this is definite? Because I know there has been confusion in past about visas.

From his point of view it is. And I’m not that crazy about going to the United States anyway.

You’re just, just happy to skip this trip.

Well, I’m not happy to skip this trip because that was part of my obligation as the foreign minister of Iran to go to that session of the Security Council and talk about the need to respect international law, because that’s the title: the need to respect the principles of the U.N. Charter.

Secretary Pompeo, in past, when this has been an issue with Iranian diplomats such as yourself coming to the United Nations in New York and visa issues have been difficult, has said a nation that has killed U.S. citizens, that has knowingly killed hundreds of Americans — why should they be allowed to come to the U.S.? Why should a nation that knowingly supports international terrorist groups, why should they be allowed to come address the United Nations?

Well, now, I mean, these allegations are easy to make. But when we see who is killing and who is maiming and who has killed a thousand Iraqi scientists —

Iran has sent weapons that have killed hundreds of Americans in Iraq. You know this.

Who killed — who killed 290 Iranians, civilians in a civil airliner?

You’re referring to an airplane bombing.

Yes. The record is clear. The record of the United States in this region is clear. They have killed a lot of Iraqis. They’ve killed a lot of Afghanis. They’ve killed a lot of people elsewhere in this region. They are killing a lot of people in Yemen. The weapons that the United States provides to Saudi Arabia is killing and maiming people.

Many sides are killing a lot of people in Yemen, unfortunately.

Unfortunately, it’s a war that the United States —

Including the Houthis, who Iran backs.

The Houthis have always asked — they didn’t start a war. They’re defending themselves. You cannot equate somebody who’s defending themselves, but with somebody who’s attacking them.

May I turn you to the nuclear deal? We have heard from Iran that Iran will suspend compliance with the remaining limits in the nuclear deal. Is this the end of the deal?

No, we didn’t say we will suspend complying with the remaining limits. We said that we have taken four steps. Our fifth step would be to suspend compliance with the limit on the number of centrifuges. That means effectively that all limits on our centrifuge program are now suspended.

Why do this now?

Huh?

Why?

Because it’s it’s at the two-month period that we have said before that if the Europeans do not comply with their own obligations, we will take measures.

You see, JCPOA was negotiated not in an —

You’re using the formal name for the nuclear deal. Go on.

Yeah. Not in an atmosphere of trust, but in an atmosphere of mistrust. That is why we put in place the mechanisms for dealing with violations. And that mechanism was triggered by Iran after U.S. withdrawal. And in November of 2018, we informed that we have exhausted that mechanism, and we have no other choice but to start reducing our level of compliance. But we made it very clear that we are ready to go back to full compliance the minute they start complying with their own. Doesn’t mean that the United States should comply. Means that Europe should comply.

MLK: Still, it’s not good news for the nuclear deal which you personally negotiated.

Well, it’s not good news. Certainly not. And we’re not happy about this, but it’s a remedy. When you execute somebody or you imprison somebody for committing an offense, you certainly are not happy for depriving somebody of their life or their liberty. But you have to do it because it’s a remedy that the law has provided in order to prevent lawlessness. This is a remedy provided in the deal.

So this is not —

Unpleasant.

— Iran racing to build a nuclear bomb.

No. If we wanted to build a nuclear bomb, we would have to be, would have done it a long time ago. Iran does not want a nuclear bomb, does not believe that nuclear bombs create security for anybody. And we believe it’s time for everybody to disarm rather than to arm.

Last question. There’s something like five U.S. citizens still being detained in Iran, including the aging Baquer Namazi, who is in ill health.

He’s not detained.

He’s here.

He’s here, yet he —

He would probably prefer not to be.

Well, he’s an Iranian citizen.

Is there hope for future exchanges?

Well, I don’t think that this action by the United States helped. We had proposed a universal exchange of all prisoners and we were doing that in good faith. We released an American citizen for an Iranian citizen. That could have continued. But now —

You’re talking about the recent exchange of a Princeton graduate student who is an American held here.

And an Iranian professor —

Yes.

— who had been held without —

And those channels are still open?

I don’t think at this time we can discuss those issues. We have to deal with the present issue at hand, unfortunately.

If I’m hearing you correctly, you’re saying there will not be future exchanges while the situation is so tense between Washington —

Well I think those talks are certainly suspended now.

Foreign Minister Zarif, thank you for your time.

Thank you for being here.

Thank you.

Editor’s note: NPR’s Mary Louise Kelly described a 1988 attack on an Iranian civil airplane as a bombing. The U.S. Navy actually fired missiles at Iran Air Flight 655. Earlier in the conversation, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif mentioned the secretary-general of the United States. He was referring to the United Nations secretary-general.

Source Article from https://www.npr.org/2020/01/07/794175782/transcript-nprs-full-interview-with-iran-s-foreign-minister

Incredible GoPro footage takes you inside the gunfire-heavy raid that ended drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman’s six months on the run.

The video, obtained from Mexican authorities, looks as if it’s from an action movie. The camera follows the armed men as they storm the house, unleash grenades and bullets, and search room to room.

The Friday raid was called “Operation Black Swan,” according to the Mexican show “Primero Noticias.” Authorities decided to launch the raid Thursday after they got a tip about where Guzman was sleeping, the show reported.

Seventeen elite unit Mexican Marines launched their assault on the house in the city of Los Mochis at 4:40 a.m., “Primero Noticias” said.

They were met by about one dozen well-armed guards inside who were prepared for a fight, the show said.

The Marines moved from room to room, clearing the house. Upstairs they found two men in one room and found two women on the floor of a bathroom. All were captured, “Primero Noticias” said.

After 15 minutes, the Marines controlled the entire house, according to “Primero Noticias.”

In the end, five guards were killed and two men and two women were detained. One of the women was the same cook Guzman had with him when he was detained a couple years ago, according to “Primero Noticias.”

Eventually the marines determined that the only bedroom on the first floor was Guzman’s and they began pounding on the walls and moving furniture, finding hidden doors, the show said.

His room had a king-sized bed, bags from fashionable clothing stores, bread and cookie wrappers, and medicine including injectable testosterone, syringes, antibiotics and cough syrups, the show said. The two-story house had four bedrooms and five bathrooms. There were flat-screen TVs and Internet connection throughout the house, according to “Primero Noticias.”

The Marines eventually found a hidden passageway behind a mirror, with a handle hidden in the light fixture. The handle opened a secret door, leading down into the escape tunnel, the show explained.

The escape tunnel was fully lit and led to an access door for the city sewage system, “Primero Noticias” said, adding that Guzman had at least a 20-minute head start on the Marines.

The address where Guzman was captured had been monitored for a month, Mexican Attorney General Arely Gomez has said. According to Gomez, Guzman and his lieutenant escaped through that drainage system.

“Primero Noticias” said it obtained surveillance footage showing Guzman and his lieutenant emerging from the manhole cover, where they then stole two cars to flee, the show said.

Guzman was finally caught when he and the lieutenant were stopped on a highway by Mexican Federal Police, the show said.

Authorities took them to a motel to wait for reinforcement. The men were then taken to Los Mochis airport and transfered to Mexico City.

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Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman is escorted by soldiers and marines to a waiting helicopter, at a federal hangar in Mexico City, Jan. 8, 2016.

Guzman is now back in prison as his lawyers fight his extradition to the U.S.

The drug kingpin escaped from the Altiplano prison near Mexico City on July 11, launching an active manhunt. When guards realized that he was missing from his cell, they found a ventilated tunnel and exit had been constructed in the bathtub inside Guzman’s cell. The tunnel extended for about a mile underground and featured an adapted motorcycle on rails that officials believe was used to transport the tools used to create the tunnel, Monte Alejandro Rubido, the head of the Mexican national security commission, said in July.

Guzman had been sent there after he was arrested in February 2014. He spent more than 10 years on the run after escaping from a different prison in 2001. It’s unclear exactly how he had escaped, but he did receive help from prison guards who were prosecuted and convicted.

Guzman, the leader of the Sinaloa cartel, was once described by the U.S. Treasury as “the most powerful drug trafficker in the world.” The Sinaloa cartel allegedly uses elaborate tunnels for drug trafficking and has been estimated to be responsible for 25 percent of all illegal drugs that enter the U.S. through Mexico.

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Many UN agencies are working to help Syrians

Kuwait City – The United Nations (UN) hopes to raise more than US$ 1.5 billion at the Second International Humanitarian Pledging Conference for Syria, to be held this Wednesday (15) in Kuwait City. For the second year in a row, government representatives and humanitarian help organizations are meeting in the Arab country with the aim of raising awareness among the international community and pledge resources for those affected by the Syrian civil conflict, which has been going on for almost three years.

In 2013, the sum raised in the first conference, also held in Kuwait, was of US$ 1.5 billion. “How much are we raising? At least that, but we hope for more,” said to ANBA the spokesperson of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), Jens Laerke. “It depends on the generosity of donors,” he added.

The UN has informed that this year it needs US$ 6.5 billion to help 9.3 million Syrians affected by the conflict, among them 2.3 million refugees in neighboring countries and 6.5 million who are homeless inside Syria itself. “We don’t expect to raise all this on Wednesday, but there will be other opportunities,” stated Laerke.

He emphasized, however, that the organizations involved in helping Syrians count on the generosity of donors, mostly governments. “The Gulf countries have been very generous, not only in donations to Syria, but also for other nations, such as Yemen and Palestine, and even places outside the Middle East, such as Haiti,” he declared. Kuwait alone has announced the donation of US$ 300 million in last year’s conference. “We hope they will be generous again,” said the OCHA spokesperson.

The State Minister of Cabinet Affairs of Kuwait, Mohammed Al-Abdullah Al-Sabah, who inaugurated this Monday (13) the conference’s press center at the Jumeirah Messilah Beach hotel, in the Kuwaiti capital city, told journalists that part of the money granted by the country in the 2013 event was used to provide shelter for 70,000 Syrians who have taken refuge in Jordan, US$ 40 million were used to buy food for 1 million refugees during four months and another sum was directed to 83,000 Syrians left without homes inside Syria itself, helped by the International Organization for Migration (IOM), one of the various UN agencies involved in helping those affected by the conflict.

“We are confident that the conference will be a success,” said minister Mohammed. “We are confident that the international community will contribute to provide humanitarian help for Syrians. We shall reach this objective, ‘inchallah’ (God willing),” added the Kuwaiti minister of Information, Salman Al-Humoud Al-Sabah, who also participated at the press center inauguration.

According to Laerke, resources are necessary to meet the basic needs of the affected population, such as food, clean water, medication, vaccination and shelter. “Syria is [currently] going through a harsh winter, and they need adequate homes, with thermal insulation, they need fuel [for heating], blankets and also clothes,” he stated. “There are children who don’t even have shoes,” he alerted.

Last week, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef), another two UN agencies that are helping with the Syrian crisis, launched a campaign with the purpose of raising US$ 1 billion for the children affected by the conflict, named “No lost generation”. The agencies have calculated that there are more than 4 million youngsters at risk, of which one million refugees and more than 3 million inside the country.

Minister Mohammed Al-Sabah has informed that 69 countries shall be represented on Wednesday’s conference, as well as 24 international organizations. The event shall be hosted by the emir of Kuwait, Sabah Al Ahmed Al Jaber Al Sabah, and shall be presided by the United Nations secretary-general, Ban Ki-moon. Brazil shall be represented at the meeting, which also counts on the participation of the secretary of State for the United States, John Kerry.

The Kuwaiti meeting precedes the Second Syria Peace Conference, scheduled for the January 22 in Montreux, in Switzerland. The first edition took place in June 2012, in Geneva, so this one has been named “Geneva 2”, although it shall take place in another city. The 2012 meeting did not have practical effects on the civil war, but the idea this time is to have representatives from both the Syrian president Bashar Al-Assad regime and the opposition, standing face to face.

Since the conflict started in 2011, after popular manifestations which took place in the wake of the Arab Spring were harshly repressed by the Syrian government, more than 100,000 people have died. This figure, the latest confirmed by the UN, dates to July 2013. Last week, the organization announced that it has stopped counting the dead due to the difficulties in obtaining reliable data from the country.

*Translated by Silvia Lindsey

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Un día después de que el Comité de Inteligencia del Senado ratificara que sigue investigando la posibles conexiones entre la campaña
Donald Trump y operarios de Rusia que buscaron influir las elecciones estadounidenses, el presidente plantea al Congreso la posibilidad de que se investigue “por qué tantas de nuestras noticias son simplemente inventadas”.

“Por qué no está el Comité de Inteligencia del Senado analizando las Cadenas de Noticias Falsas en NUESTRO país para ver por qué tantas de nuestras noticias son simplemente inventadas”, escribió el presidente en un mensaje en Twitter la mañana del jueves.

Trump suele clasificar de fake news muchos trabajos de los medios que resulta críticos de su gobierno o su persona. Recientemente ha calificado así la cobertura de CNN y MSNBC sobre la respuesta a la
crisis en Puerto Rico tras el paso del huracán María o las versiones de NBC sobre
la supuesta intención del secretario de Estado Rex Tillerson de renunciar a su cargo por diferencias al presidente.

Y aunque la lista de lo que para Trump son inventos de la prensa para perjudicarlo es larga y nutrida, en este caso, el presidente no se ha referido a ningún medio o historia en particular.

Sin embargo, el tema que investigan los senadores (junto a otros tres comités del Congreso y un fiscal especial nombrado por el Departamento de Justicia), el llamado ‘
Rusiagate‘, la injerencia rusa detectada por las agencias de inteligencia estadounidense en la campaña electoral del 2016 que supuestamente buscaba perjudicar a Hillary Clinton, es para el presidente un “engaño” con el que también buscan desprestigiarlo.

Aunque desde la Casa Blanca y sectores conservadores se suele señalar a medios liberales como supuestos creadores de noticias falsas, una búsqueda en internet permite identificar la propensión a la deformación de eventos y hechos en muchos medios de tendencia radical conservadora.

Entre ellos,
Inforwars, una página web que en el pasado Trump ha alabado y que durante la campaña sirvió para difundir versiones inexactas y hasta falsas sobre el gobierno de Barack Obama o la campaña presidencial demócrata.

En culquier caso, la sola propuesta surgida del Ejecutivo para que el Legislativo estudie la manera cómo trabaja la prensa resulta sorpresiva y hasta peligrosa a muchos estadounidenses.

En EEUU la Primera Enmienda de la Constitución garantiza una amplia libertad de expresión que resulta extraña incluso en otras sociedades demócraticas en la que se imponene ciertas restricciones a lo que se puede publicar en medios, con argumntos de seguridad nacional o respeto público.

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Soy boosted revenue in Mato Grosso

São Paulo – Fertilizer purchases increased, as did agricultural machinery. Rural property infrastructure was expanded, the quality of seeds used in crops improved. These are some of the consequences that the rise in price of the main agricultural commodities produced in Brazil, which started in the middle of the past decade, brought to the Brazilian countryside.  Soy and maize prices started to rise in that time and currently are still at least 100% higher.

“Last year sales of harvesters and tractors grew a lot, as well as pesticides, fertilizers. The technological level grew a lot”, says the head of the Brazilian Agribusiness Association (Abag), Luiz Antonio Pinazza. According to him, Brazilian farmers still own resources, due to the rise of agricultural commodity prices, and the countryside is going through a very favorable moment.

The head of the Economy Department of  the Brazilian Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply (MAPA, in the Portuguese acronym), Wilson Vaz de Araújo, cites, besides the use of technology and fertilizers, the investments in storage systems and field management capacity as consequences of the rise in agricultural product prices. More modern processes, according to him, allowed the increase of productivity, and thus, the increase of production.

Larger investment in fertilizers can be seen in the sector statistics. The delivery of fertilizers on the Brazilian market, which were 20.1 million tonnes in 2005, increased to 31 million last year, according to the Brazilian National Fertilizer Association (Anda).The Brazilian industry of agricultural machinery and implements profited US$ 5.9 billion in 2008 and US$ 13.1 billion in 2013, according to the Brazilian Machinery Manufacturers Association (Abimaq).

Life in the countryside

According to Araujo, from Mapa, in regions where agriculture is strong the new level of prices for agricultural commodities influenced the quality of life, the financial sector,  commerce, input suppliers and even education. In this regard, Afrânio Cesar Migliari, secretary of Agriculture and Environment of the municipality in Mato Grosso, which is considered the national capital of agribusiness, said “quality of life in the countryside improved, in cities devoted to agribusiness”.

According to the secretary, Sorriso and the remaining soy and maize producing municipalities in the region, such as Lucas do Rio Verde, Nova Mutum and Princesa do Leste, have better living conditions today. “There are new vehicles, new trucks, imported vehicles”, says Migliari. Civil construction is thriving in Sorriso, according to him, and there are several new housing complexes, high-value condominiums. “The state changed a lot in the past ten years”, he said about Mato Grosso.

The higher income has consequences not only on the personal life of farmers in Mato Grosso, according to Migliari, but also on agricultural activity itself, on farms’ structures, investment in higher quality seeds and fertilizers, more modern machinery, acquisition of new airplanes, tractors, automatic planters and harvesters. And the acquisition of newer technology helped the state to address one of its main bottlenecks, which is agricultural labour. Sorriso plants 660,000 hectares of soy per year and 440,000 hectares of maize, which was considered secondary in the municipality until it started to profit better and to receive investments.

Rise in soy and maize prices

Asian demand for grains and the decision of the US to produce ethanol from maize are among the factors leading to maize and soy’s new prices. “China imported two million tonnes of grain in 2000, and today it imports between 65 and 70 million tonnes. And Brazil occupies a big part of this market”, says Pinazza. Speculation in the commodity market as a whole, which also includes non-agricultural products such as oil, has also favored the price rise, according to the director.

The head of the Economy Department of the Brazilian Ministry points out the variation of stock prices, especially after 2009. “In general, the prices were quite generous”, he says, citing income increase and urbanization in developing countries, mainly from Asia as possible reasons. Araújo believes the grain market will keep the upward trend. “The level of agricultural commodity prices has changed. There may be some fluctuation, but they will stay in this new level”, he says.

*Translated by Rodrigo Mendonça

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Trump said Kim has a “certain vision, it’s not exactly our vision but it’s a lot closer than it was a year ago.”

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told the news conference that he hopes a deal will be reached “in the weeks ahead.”

He added: “We didn’t get all the way. We asked him to do more, he was unprepared to that. I’m still optimistic.”

The president also touched on Michael Cohen’s scathing congressional testimony Wednesday, saying that his former personal lawyer and fixer hadn’t lied about everything.

Earlier, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders released a statement confirming that no agreement had been reached, but the “respective teams look forward to meeting in the future.”

While Trump has said he was not in a hurry to make a comprehensive pact with Kim, the president touted a “very strong partnership” with the North Korean leader before departing Vietnam for Washington empty-handed.

The president also said that Kim had pledged that “testing will not start” of rockets or missiles “or anything having to do with nuclear.”

The apparent breakdown in talks is sure to come as a relief to many North Korea experts — including some Democratic and Republican lawmakers — who worried Trump was ready to make concessions to Kim without securing a firm and verifiable disarmament commitment from the dictator.

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Roger L. Harris, the Spotsylvania County sheriff, released the 911 call and body-camera footage on Friday and said in a videotaped statement that the deputy who shot Mr. Brown had been placed on administrative leave. He did not give the deputy’s name, and the sheriff’s office did not return calls on Saturday.

The Virginia State Police, the agency that is leading the investigation, plans to turn over its findings to a special prosecutor for review, said Corinne Geller, a State Police spokeswoman.

Sheriff Harris said the State Police had been contacted at his request to ensure “an impartial and transparent investigation.”

La Bravia J. Jenkins, the commonwealth’s attorney for the city of Fredericksburg, Va., confirmed on Saturday that she had been appointed special prosecutor.

“Video of the incident has been released, but the investigation continues,” she said in an email. “I have nothing further to report at this time.”

The authorities described a fast-moving sequence of events that had begun at about 2:30 a.m. on Wednesday, when the deputy gave Mr. Brown a ride. Ms. Brown said her brother had been dropped off at his mother’s house.

About 45 minutes later, the sheriff’s office received a 911 call for a “domestic incident,” the State Police said.

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(CNN)School bells were replaced by police sirens Tuesday after a mass shooting at Oxford High School in Oxford, Michigan, left three students dead, officials said.

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    Faced with growing worries over a potential winter coronavirus surge, health officials in California and other areas are turbocharging the push for COVID-19 booster shots in hopes of getting more adults the extra dose as soon as possible.

    The move comes amid initial sluggish demand for boosters, which has sparked concern that more people who got their initial vaccinations nearly a year ago will see their immunity wane further into the pivotal holiday season. In California, only 34% of fully vaccinated seniors age 65 and over have received a booster, as have just 14% of fully vaccinated adults.

    Federal guidance says any adult can get a booster if they are at increased risk of COVID-19 exposure because of where they work or live.

    State and local health officials are urging the public as well as pharmacies, medical centers and other vaccine distributors to take a liberal view of this — meaning that any adults are eligible as long as two months have passed since they got a Johnson & Johnson shot, or at least six months have passed since they received a second dose of Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna.

    Traditionally, the “increased risk” criteria outlined by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have been applied to those who work in places such as hospitals, schools, grocery stores or factories — or those who live in congregate settings like prisons or homeless shelters.

    But the wording of the recently issued criteria is broad, and some health officials, including in California, are now increasingly pointing out that it can be interpreted in a much more expansive way.

    Dr. Tomás Aragón, state health officer and director of the California Department of Public Health, sent out a letter Tuesday instructing vaccination providers to “allow patients to self-determine their risk of exposure. Do not turn a patient away who is requesting a booster.”

    California health authorities, fearing another winter coronavirus wave, are urging all eligible adults to get COVID-19 booster shots.

    Booster-eligible adults may include those who “live in geographic areas that have been heavily impacted by COVID,” those who “reside in high transmission areas,” “who work with the public or live with someone who works with the public,” or “live or work with someone at high risk of severe impact of COVID,” Aragón wrote.

    There may also be “other risk conditions as assessed by the individual,” he added.

    On Wednesday, the California Department of Public Health summed up its booster guidance as follows: “In general terms that everyone can understand, we urge Californians to get a booster if someone in their home has a medical condition or if they work around other people.”

    The list of qualifying medical conditions itself is expansive, including being overweight, pregnant, a current or former smoker, or having high blood pressure, diabetes, asthma, depression or an alcohol- or drug-use disorder.

    Based on all of those reasons, “pretty much everybody is eligible,” said Dr. Sara Cody, the health officer and public health director for Santa Clara County, Northern California’s most populous county. “We really encourage everyone to get out and get their booster shot.”

    With only one week since 5- to 11-year-olds were eligible for COVID-19 vaccines, Orange County health officials are reporting ‘a very healthy demand.’

    Officials have been regularly beating the drum for boosters in recent weeks, saying it’s important for eligible people to take advantage of the extra protection ahead of the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays, which last year fueled the worst COVID-19 wave yet.

    Gov. Gavin Newsom this week called the potential winter COVID-19 surge his “biggest anxiety.”

    “While we were spared the worst in the summer, the prospects of a challenging winter are upon us,” he said Wednesday during a press conference to promote booster shots in Los Angeles. “And that’s why we’re doing everything in our power to prepare and to protect ourselves.”

    While California is relying on an interpretation of the CDC booster guidelines to essentially throw the doors open, federal officials, for their part, are already evaluating whether to officially expand eligibility.

    Just this week, Pfizer and BioNTech asked the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to allow boosters of their COVID-19 vaccine for anyone 18 or older. Results from a new study found that a booster dose resulted in a relative vaccine efficacy of 95% when compared with people who did not receive a booster.

    The request comes amid concern about increased spread of the coronavirus with holiday travel and gatherings.

    California’s messaging marks a shift from just a few weeks ago, when officials generally placed greater emphasis on urging elderly individuals and those with weakened immune systems to get the booster.

    That was partly based on the CDC’s official recommendations that — for people vaccinated with Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna — groups who should get the booster shots include seniors 65 and older, adults 50 and over with certain underlying conditions, and adults who live in long-term care settings. The CDC also recommended that all adult J&J recipients get a booster.

    The CDC also made the boosters available to other specified groups, but stopped short of officially recommending they avail themselves of the additional shot. This included younger adults with an underlying condition, as well as those age 18 to 64 who live or work in settings that put them at increased risk.

    As the CDC guidance notes, however, that risk “can vary across settings and be affected by how much COVID-19 is spreading in a community.”

    In Colorado, for example, officials have taken the stance that, given how widespread coronavirus transmission is throughout the state, all adults are eligible for a booster.

    “Because COVID-19 is spreading quickly throughout the state, Colorado is a high-risk place to live and work. Anyone who is 18 or older who would like a booster and is due for one should make a plan to get one,” the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment says on its website.

    California’s message is similar. Without a booster, health officials warn, vaccinated people will be at greater risk for breakthrough infections, which can lead to hospitalizations and death among the most vulnerable.

    “If you think you will benefit from getting a booster shot, I encourage you to go out and get it,” Dr. Mark Ghaly, secretary of the California Health and Human Services Agency, said during a briefing Wednesday.

    He added, “It’s not too late to get it this week. Get that added protection for the Thanksgiving gatherings that you may attend. Certainly, going into the other winter holidays, it is important.”

    Vaccination rates are up, but there’s fear Black and Latino men will continue waiting until they almost die from COVID-19 or watch people they know die before getting vaccinated.

    More than 3.7 million Californians have received a booster so far, according to the state Department of Public Health. By comparison, roughly 25 million people are thought to be fully vaccinated statewide.

    The group of boosted Californians includes Daniel Loyd, 60, who said he received his booster as soon as he could.

    Outside a CVS in Agoura Hills on Thursday, Loyd said he was not only concerned about his own risk factors, he has diabetes, but was also trying to protect those around him — including his wife, who has asthma, and their neighbors at the retirement community where they live.

    Greg Mead of Woodland Hills, on the other hand, said he will not be getting a booster. He said he was fully vaccinated with J&J and felt unwell for three days afterward.

    “I’m done with the shots,” he said.

    It’s not uncommon for people who get a booster to experience a low-grade fever, or perhaps some chills or fatigue; it typically lasts for 24 hours.

    “But all of it goes away. And it’s much more important for people to just put up with that one day of side effects, because they have the benefit of the protection for a long time to come,” said Dr. Marty Fenstersheib, vaccine officer for Santa Clara County.

    Vaccinated parents say they are continuing to give human milk to their young children beyond six months or a year to protect them from COVID-19.

    Unvaccinated Californians are still about seven times more likely to get a coronavirus infection than those who have already been inoculated. But Ghaly said the state is seeing more coronavirus cases among those who got their shots earlier on.

    “We’re concerned about what it means for hospitalizations and pressure on our healthcare delivery system, but ultimately for your safety and protection,” he said. “So now is the best time to consider getting that shot.”

    That’s especially important, health officials say, as California’s emergence from the latest Delta wave appears to have stalled. The number of newly confirmed coronavirus cases has plateaued in recent weeks — and COVID-19 hospitalizations statewide have been relatively flat since mid-October.

    Nationally, new daily coronavirus cases are starting to climb — up 5% over the past week.

    Studies have shown that all three COVID-19 vaccines have lost some of their protective power, and data out of Israel indicate that booster shots are reducing the risk of severe illness and death.

    A study of 780,000 veterans shows a dramatic decline in effectiveness for all three COVID-19 vaccines in use in the U.S.

    Recently, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the U.S. government’s top infectious diseases expert, cited a study published in the journal Lancet that found that, compared with people in Israel who received two doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, people who got a third dose had a 93% lower risk for COVID-related hospitalization, a 92% lower risk of severe disease, and an 81% lower risk of COVID-related death.

    A report published by the CDC in September showed that vaccine effectiveness against hospitalizations fell from 91% to 77% for the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine four months after getting the second dose. Available data for the J&J vaccine showed that vaccine effectiveness against hospitalization more than 28 days after getting the single-shot dose was 68%.

    But while boosters are an increasingly important component of the fight against the pandemic, health officials say getting more people vaccinated to begin with is even more critical.

    Nearly 70% of Californians have already received at least one dose, and about 63% are fully vaccinated, according to data compiled by The Times. However, those figures remain well below what health officials believe is necessary to bring the pandemic to its knees.

    “We are concerned about the winter. We’re concerned about rising case numbers, pressure on our hospitals from a number of other issues on top of COVID,” Ghaly said. “So do what you can today to get your vaccine. Protect yourself into the winter.”

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    Primeras declaraciones de Donald Trump como presidente

    “Ha llegado el momento de que Estados Unidos cierre las heridas de la división”. “Prometo a todos los ciudadanos que seré el presidente de todos los estadounidenses”, dijo el flamante presidente.

    Trump inició su discurso felicitando a su oponente, Hillary Clinton. “Hillary ha trabajado durante mucho tiempo y todos estamos muy agradecidos con ella por el servicio prestado a este país”, dijo Trump, después de que la candidata demócrata lo llamara para reconocer su derrota.

    Luego de cambiar su perfil de Twitter, el magnate envió su primer tuit como “presidente electo” a primera hora de este miércoles.

    “¡Qué noche tan bella y tan importante! Los hombres y mujeres olvidados nunca volverán a ser olvidados. Todos nos uniremos como nunca antes… Para los que eligieron no apoyarme, y hubo algunos la verdad, me acerco a ustedes para que me orienten y podamos trabajar juntos para unir a nuestro gran país”.

    ¿Cómo quedó el mapa electoral?

    Ricardo Roselló, gobernador electo por Puerto Rico, agradeció el apoyo del pueblo

    El gobernador electo Ricardo Rosselló se expresó esta mañana agradecido por el respaldo electoral del pueblo, dijo que buscará laborar con el presidente electo Donald Trump y que estará trabajando desde hoy en encaminar su programa de gobierno. En entrevista con WKAQ, Rosselló reveló que anoche mismo habló con Alejandro García Padilla.

    “Me siento muy honrado. Es una serie de emociones, cuando ya veía lo que era la tendencia en término de los números, ciertamente felicidad, y responsabilidad de lo que nos toca ahora hacer por Puerto Rico. Ya hoy comenzamos a trabajar. No hay viaje (de vacaciones) a ningún sitio. Viajaré en algún momento a Nueva York y Washington”, indicó Rosselló en la entrevista radial.

    México: caída histórica del peso ante el triunfo de Donald Trump frente a Hillary Clinton en las elecciones de EE.UU.

    Con una caída de más del 13%, el peso sintió con fuerza el golpe de la victoria de Donald Trump en las elecciones de este martes. En las últimas horas, el peso pasó de cotizarse a 18,5 unidades por dólar a 20,74, un mínimo histórico para la moneda mexicana con respecto a la divisa estadounidense.

    En las semanas previas a los comicios, distintos análisis estimaban que una victoria del republicano podría llevar el peso hasta las 24 o 25 unidades por dólar y un triunfo de Hillary Clinton, calculaban, lo dejaría en torno a los 18-19 pesos por dólar.

    Obama felicitó a Donald Trump y lo invitó a la Casa Blanca

    El presidente Barak Obama felicitó hoy al presidente electo Donald Trump por su victoria y lo invitó a reunirse en la Casa Blanca este jueves 10 de noviembre para hablar sobre el plan de transición, informó la Casa Blanca.

    “Asegurar una transición fluida del poder es una de las más altas prioridades que el presidente identificó al inicio de este año y un encuentro con el presidente electo es el próximo paso”, indicó la residencia ejecutiva.

    Obama llamó asimismo a la ex primera dama Hillary Clinton y le expresó “admiración” por la campaña que libró a lo largo del país.

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    La Gran Época le recomienda el siguiente artículo: Seis maneras de detener la sustracción de órganos en China

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    WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump says he won’t fire White House counselor Kellyanne Conway after a federal watchdog agency recommended her removal for repeatedly violating a law that limits political activity by government workers.

    Trump tells Fox & Friends that he was briefed on the Office of Special Counsel investigation Thursday and says “it looks to me like they’re trying to take away her right of free speech and that’s just not fair.”

    RELATED: Kellyanne Conway under federal investigation after ethics complaint




    OSC, which is unrelated to special counsel Robert Mueller’s office, said in a letter to Trump that Conway has been a “repeat offender” of the Hatch Act by disparaging Democratic presidential candidates while speaking in her official capacity during television interviews and on social media.

    Trump says of Conway, “she’s got to have a right of responding to questions.”

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    Unlike members of Congress, who can spend long stretches away from the job without being missed, mayors and governors are on point and get held accountable for all of the many things that can go wrong in their absence, be it natural disaster, a police shooting, municipal strike or other calamity.

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    Israel’s attorney general says he is taking steps to indict Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, shown here earlier this month, on corruption charges.

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    After months of anticipation, Israel’s attorney general has told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that he is preparing to indict him on corruption charges.

    It’s a major blow to the long-serving premier and Trump ally, though not a final decision on an indictment. Netanyahu will still have a chance to hold off any indictment during a court hearing. And in the meantime, he remains in office and seeks reelection in April.

    If Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit decides to press charges, which expert expect he will do, it would be the first time a sitting prime minister in Israel has been indicted.

    The announcement shakes up Israeli politics just six weeks before voters decide whether Netanyahu gets another term. He has been serving as prime minister for a decade.

    Mandelblit has been studying three different corruption cases and has outlined them in a document over 50 pages long sent to Netanyahu’s lawyers, Israeli media reports. The details of the accusations are well-known. Israeli police recommended months ago that Netanyahu be indicted for all three sets of allegations.

    First, he’s facing a possible breach of trust and fraud charges— for accepting cigars and champagne and expensive gifts from wealthy businessmen, including Hollywood producer Arnon Milchan.

    Second, he’s facing more possible breach of trust and fraud charges charge — for trying to strike a deal with a newspaper publisher to advance legislation to help the publisher’s business, in exchange for giving Netanyahu positive media coverage. The deal never went through.

    The final case is the most serious one because the charges the attorney general is considering include bribery. Netanyahu allegedly approved a lucrative company merger for a telecoms businessman, and in exchange the businessman’s news website gave Netanyahu favorable coverage.

    Though Netanyahu will receive a hearing prior to a formal indictment, the authority will remain with the attorney general to decide. A final indictment could take a year or more. The hearing date has not yet been made public.

    Netanyahu has called the bribery charge “absurd.” He’s decried the probe as interference in the upcoming Israeli elections, and described the accusations as a “house of cards.”

    He’s accused Mandelblit of caving to pressure from the left and the left-wing media to rush to announce charges before the elections. The embattled prime minister is expected to address the Israeli public on Thursday evening.

    This saga has divided voters. A recent poll from Haifa University shows about half of the public doesn’t have much trust in the attorney general. At the same time, another poll from the Israeli television show Meet the Press said that 64 percent of Israelis wanted Mandelblit to announce his decision prior to the election, Haaretz reported.

    The Justice Ministry said in a statement that “the Attorney General has reached his decision after thoroughly examining the evidence collected during the investigations conducted by the Israel Police and the Israel Securities Authority, and after considering the detailed opinions provided by the State Attorney’s Office. Furthermore, the Attorney General has conducted a series of lengthy discussions with senior members of the State Attorney’s Office and the Office of the Attorney General.”

    Netanyahu has signaled that if indicted, he would remain in office and fight in court.

    The non-partisan Israel Democracy Institute called on Netanyahu to “carefully consider” what’s best for Israel.

    “Is it best for the country to be governed by a leader charged with serious criminal acts of corruption, or is it best for him to resign and focus on proving his innocence in the courts?” the institute said in a statement.

    It warned about the “serious potential damage to the public’s trust in the state’s institutions caused by a situation in which the government is headed by an individual charged with criminal misconduct involving abuse of power.”

    In the upcoming vote, his base will still likely support him — indeed, in a Haifa University survey, 65 percent of his party’s supporters said they believe law enforcement is trying to force Netanyahu out. That party, Likud, said Thursday that this announcement represented a “political witch hunt” aiming at toppling Netanyahu’s government.

    Other voters, though, may question his ability to lead the country amid an uncertain political future as he faces these charges.

    Netanyahu has been the front-runner in the upcoming elections, but if his poll numbers slip — even slightly — it could tip the scales. He would need to build a governing coalition with other parties in order to stay in power, and with likely criminal charges hanging over his head, it’s unclear if other parties will be willing to stay by his side.

    There’s also a new centrist list led by a former army general – who is strong in the polls and who could win instead.

    Source Article from https://www.npr.org/2019/02/28/698914797/israels-attorney-general-moves-to-indict-netanyahu-on-corruption-charges

    The Taliban push on major cities comes as the group continues to squeeze much smaller provincial capitals in areas long contested by militants. In Helmand, a province that has been one of the least stable in Afghanistan for years, fighting intensified last week, heightening fears that the province’s capital, Lashkar Gah, would fall. Taliban fighters have pushed into the city and are steadily closing in on the central government compound.

    Source Article from https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/08/01/taliban-attacks-afghanistan/

    GLASGOW, Scotland — Climate activist Greta Thunberg said Friday that the COP26 climate summit is a failure, lambasting the U.N.-brokered talks for turning into a public relations exercise.

    “It is not a secret that COP26 is a failure. It should be obvious that we cannot solve the crisis with the same methods that got us into it in the first place,” Thunberg said.

    “The COP has turned into a PR event, where leaders are giving beautiful speeches and announcing fancy commitments and targets, while behind the curtains governments of the Global North countries are still refusing to take any drastic climate action.”

    She was speaking on stage shortly after a strike organized by “Fridays For Future” saw thousands march 1.6 miles from Kelvingrove Park to George Park in Glasgow’s city center — less than 2 miles from where the COP26 event is being held.

    The U.K. is presiding over COP26 through to Nov. 12, a major climate event regarded as one of the most important diplomatic meetings in history.

    It has yielded some positive developments, including pledges to end and reverse deforestation, a deal to cut methane emission levels by 30% by 2030 and new commitments to phase out coal power.

    However, experts harbor deep concerns about whether countries and companies can keep the 1.5 degrees Celsius goal alive. This critically important temperature threshold refers to the aspirational target of the landmark 2015 Paris Agreement.

    Thunberg said COP26 had been described as “the most exclusionary COP ever,” saying those at the sharp end of the climate crisis remain unheard. She added that the event could be considered a “two-week-long celebration of business as usual and blah, blah, blah.”

    A COP26 spokesperson said in a statement given to CNBC: “The UK is committed to hosting an inclusive COP.”

    “Ensuring that the voices of those most affected by climate change are heard is a priority for the COP26 Presidency, and if we are to deliver for our planet, we need all countries and civil society to bring their ideas and ambition to Glasgow,” they added.

    Policymakers and business leaders are under immense pressure to meet the demands of the climate emergency at COP26. Yet, even as many publicly acknowledge the necessity of transitioning to a low-carbon society, hopes of limiting global heating to 1.5 degrees Celsius are quickly deteriorating.

    Climate scientists have repeatedly stressed that the best weapon to tackle rising global temperatures is to cut greenhouse gas emissions — fast.

    Thunberg was catapulted to fame for skipping school every Friday to hold a weekly vigil outside the Swedish Parliament in 2018. It sparked an international wave of school strikes, with millions of children taking part in rallies around the world.

    “Once again we are faced with another COP event. How many more of these should they hold until they realize that their inactions are destroying the planet?” Vanessa Nakate, a climate activist from Uganda, said at the same event on Friday.

    “Today we shall continue to fight on, everywhere we can. We cannot give up now. We need to continue holding leaders accountable for their actions. We cannot keep quiet about climate injustice,” she added.

    ‘Change is not going to come from inside there’

    Speaking at a protest outside of the COP26 complex earlier this week, Thunberg once again slammed world leaders for not doing enough to meet the demands of the climate emergency.

    “This COP26 is so far just like the previous COPs — and that has led us nowhere,” Thunberg said on Monday as she addressed climate activists.

    “Inside COP, there are just politicians and people in power pretending to take our future seriously,” she said. “Change is not going to come from inside there, that is not leadership. This is leadership, this is what leadership looks like.”

    She had previously voiced her frustration over climate inaction at the Youth4Climate summit in Milan, Italy in late September.

    “Net zero by 2050. Blah, blah, blah. Net zero. Blah, blah, blah. Climate neutral. Blah, blah, blah. This is all we hear from our so-called leaders. Words that sound great but so far have led to no action. Our hopes and dreams drown in their empty words and promises,” Thunberg said at the time.

    Source Article from https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/05/greta-thunberg-says-cop26-climate-summit-is-a-failure-and-a-pr-event.html

    “You don’t have to wonder what kind of governor Terry will be because you know what a great governor he was,” Biden said. “It wasn’t just because of what he promised. It’s what he delivered.”

    Biden’s speech then turned into a wide-ranging rebuke of the Republican candidate, Glenn Youngkin, and, ultimately, a rebuke of Donald Trump.

    “But how well do you know Terry’s opponent?” Biden said. “Remember this: I ran against Donald Trump. And Terry is running against an acolyte of Donald Trump.”

    Biden dug in, telling the crowd that Youngkin wouldn’t “allow” Trump to campaign for him.

    “What’s he hiding? Is he embarrassed?” the president said, amplifying his voice.

    Biden’s rant hit Trump on everything from his claims of election fraud, the pandemic and the Jan. 6 insurrection, to the former president’s recent attacks on former Secretary of State Colin Powell following his death. He lambasted Youngkin, who has recently tried to distance himself from the former president, for standing by Trump.

    One of Biden’s sharpest attacks against Youngkin came toward the end of his speech, when he said extremism could come in many forms. The president said it could arrive in a mob-driven assault on the U.S. Capitol.

    Then again, Biden added of Youngkin, “it can come in a smile and a fleece vest.”

    Biden said next to nothing about the negotiations on his signature social welfare and infrastructure legislation happening just across the Potomac, instead diving into issues that have defined the governor’s race in the closing days. Before he took the stage, McAuliffe aides passed out books by the late Toni Morrison, after Youngkin in an ad this week featured a woman who had tried to have Morrison’s novel “Beloved” — which won a Pulitzer Prize in 1988 — banned in public schools. Later, Biden noted that his wife, first lady Jill Biden, had traveled to Princeton University to interview the author, dismissing Youngkin as a know-nothing.

    McAuliffe didn’t shy away from amplifying this message when he addressed the crowd ahead of Biden.

    “Glenn Youngkin is promoting banning books by one of America’s most prominent Black authors,” McAuliffe said, before adding that it “bothers” him that Youngkin uses education to divide the state.

    Youngkin’s zeroing in on education could in part explain the tightening race, the second-most-important topic to Virginians as they decide whom to vote for on Nov. 2, following jobs and the economy. Just last week, a poll from Monmouth University showed the candidates deadlocked, with both at 46 percent support among registered voters.

    The president’s quick stop in Arlington also comes as he faces alarming poll numbers in Virginia and nationwide, with a recent Monmouth poll putting him at a 43 percent job approval rating. (He still had high support among Democrats, with 84 percent approval and plus-10 favorability in Northern Virginia.)

    Virginia isn’t a loss Democrats want to explain. With the face-off between McAuliffe and Youngkin just days away, the president and the party are leaning into these early elections as a referendum on the presidency and a glimpse into challenging congressional races in 2022.

    Over the weekend, the chair of the Democratic National Committee, Jaime Harrison, and other party officials touted Democratic investments in Virginia, as well as visits from Biden, the first lady and Vice President Kamala Harris.

    “We’re all in,” Harrison said at a Richmond rally for McAuliffe over the weekend. “Virginia is very important; we want to make sure that we turn the vote out.”

    Biden’s out-front approach is a break from Barack Obama, whose team distanced the former president from the Democratic gubernatorial campaigns in 2009 and 2013. Biden’s move could backfire if Youngkin succeeds, giving Republicans more fuel to criticize the White House in upcoming elections.

    Virginia’s off-year elections don’t always predict the future. McAuliffe, for example, won in 2013, defying the state’s tendency of electing a governor from the party that isn’t in the White House. Still, Biden projected a sense of urgency on Tuesday night as he talked about the importance of the gubernatorial election for Virginia, and the rest of the country.

    “Virginia, show up,” the president said. “Show up like you did for Barack and me. Show up like you did for me and Kamala. Show up for a proven leader like Terry McAuliffe. Show up for democracy. For Virginia. For the United States of America.”

    Christopher Cadelago contributed to this report.

    Source Article from https://www.politico.com/news/2021/10/26/biden-trump-campaigning-mcauliffe-virginia-517292

    A group of family members of murder victims in California, along with a number of district attorneys from across the state, gathered in Sacramento on Thursday to denounce Gov. Gavin Newsom’s recent moratorium on the death penalty.

    At a press conference led by Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer, the family members and district attorneys slammed Newsom’s move to put a moratorium on the executions of the 737 inmates currently incarcerated in the Western Hemisphere’s largest death row and called on the California governor to rescind his executive order.

    “Governor Newsom took a knife and stabbed all the victims and all the victims’ families in the heart,” Spitzer said.

    Spitzer also criticized Newsom for travelling to El Salvador this week instead of meeting with murder victims’ families. Newsom is in the Central American nation in an attempt to counter the Trump administration’s harsh immigration stance and recent moves to cut millions of dollars in U.S. aid to the country.

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    “The governor decided to spend the week out of state, out of country, to meet with people he thinks are victims, when he could have met with victims in his own state,” he said.

    Newsom’s office did not immediately return Fox News’ request for comment.

    The press conference comes a day after prosecutors in the state announced they will seek the death penalty if they convict the man suspected of being the notorious “Golden State Killer,” who eluded capture for decades.

    Prosecutors from four counties, including Orange County, announced their decision on Wednesday during a short court hearing for Joseph DeAngelo. He was arrested a year ago based on DNA evidence linking him to at least 13 murders and more than 50 rapes across California in the 1970s and ’80s.

    Ron Harrington, whose brother Keith Harrington’s murder is one of those linked to the alleged Golden State Killer, castigated Newsom’s decision. Keith Harrington, along with his wife, Patti, were found bludgeoned to death in August of 1980 inside their home in a gated community just outside Dana Point, Calif.

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    “The Golden State Killer is the worst of the worst of the worst ever,” Ron Harrington said Thursday during the press conference. “He is the poster child for the death penalty.”

    Harrington added: “Gov. Newsom, please explain to the Golden State Killer’s victims how they should be lenient and compassionate.”

    Steve Herr – whose son, Sam Herr, was murdered and then dismembered by Daniel Wozniak in May 2010 inside an apartment in Costa Mesa, Calif. – also criticized Newsom.

    Wozniak, who was sentenced to capital punishment in 2016, killed Herr and his college friend and tutor, Julie Kibuishi, as part of a plan to steal money Herr had saved from his military service in Afghanistan so that he could pay for his upcoming wedding and honeymoon.

    Wozniak then staged the crime scene to make it appear as though Kibuishi had been sexually assaulted by Herr and that Herr had gone on the run.

    The convicted murderer also dismembered both victims by cutting off the hands of both and removing Herr’s head.

    “Gov. Newsom wasn’t there when I walked into my son’s apartment and found the body of Julie Kibuishi absolutely defiled,” Herr’s father said. “He wasn’t there when I walked into the mortuary and saw my son all sewed up.”

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    Newsom’s moratorium, which he signed last month, is seen as largely a symbolic move as California has not executed an inmate since 2006 amid legal challenges, but it still marked a major victory for opponents of capital punishment given the state’s size and its national political influence.

    “I’ve gotten a sense over many, many years of the disparity in our criminal justice system,” Newsom said during a press conference on Wednesday. “We can make a more enlightened choice.”

    Newsom also ordered in March that the equipment used in executions at San Quentin State Prison – the facility where capital punishment was carried out for men in California – be shut down and removed.

    “We cannot advance the death penalty in an effort to soften the blow of what happens to these victims,” Newsom said. “If someone kills, we do not kill. We’re better than that.”

    Despite recent polling indicating that support for the death penalty is at its lowest level since the early 1970s, Newsom’s order still bucks the will of most California residents. California voters previously rejected an initiative to abolish capital punishment in the state and instead, in 2016, voted in favor of Proposition 66 to help speed up executions.

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    Newsom’s move to halt executions was panned last month by President Trump, who has been a harsh critic of Newsom’s ever since the governor took office earlier this year.

    “Defying voters, the Governor of California will halt all death penalty executions of 737 stone cold killers. Friends and families of the always forgotten VICTIMS are not thrilled, and neither am I!” Trump tweeted.

    California has executed 13 inmates since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976 and the state has the most people on death row in the country. Since the 1970s, 79 death row inmates have died of natural causes in the state and 26 by suicide. The last execution held in California occurred in 2006 when 76-year-old Clarence Ray Allen, who was convicted of killing three people, was executed.

    Since then a series of stays of execution issued by the Federal District Court in San Francisco have held up any executions in the state, but there are now 25 inmates on death row who have exhausted all their appeals. Newsom said that none of the inmates currently on death row will have their sentences commuted, but will possibly be transferred back into the state’s general prison population.

    “I believe I’m doing the right thing,” he said. “I cannot sign off on executing hundreds and hundreds of human beings knowing that among them there will be innocent people.”

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