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Un hondureño aparece en la lista de los 10 más buscados por Estados Unidos y ofrecen una recompensa de 100 mil dólares, esa noticia, así como la de un hombre que justificó su golpiza a mujer porque según él “la encontró con otro”, destaca en el resumen de este martes.

En este resumen de noticias te presentamos las que mayor impacto tuvieron en Honduras y el planeta entero:


Hondureño entre los 10 más buscados de Estados Unidos

El hondureño Alexis Flores figura en la lista de los 10 más buscados por Estados Unidos.
Flores es buscado por delitos de secuestro y asesinato y ofrecen una recompensa de $100,000.

Según información que manejan los estadounidenses, Flores ha utilizado diversos nombres falsos: Mario Flores, Mario Roberto Flores, Mario F. Roberto, Alex Contreras y Alesis Contreras.


Fallecen dos hermanos en accidente de tránsito

Dos hermanos perdieron la vida este martes en un accidente de tránsito registrado en el municipio de Santa Cruz de Yojoa, Cortés, zona norte de Honduras.
Los fallecidos fueron identificados como Frank Sánchez y Nolberto Sánchez, mejor conocido como Betío.
Información de medios locales indica que estas personas venían desde Tegucigalpa e iban para San Pedro Sula.

José Alberto Hernández explicó que le disparó en defensa propia porque supuestamente el trabajador sexual lo quería asaltar. “Le disparé porque me salió de repente pidiéndome dinero. Se me tiró a la lucha, me gana, pero todavía no sabe que yo ando armado. Me da un chance, me retiro, saco la pistola y le disparé”, dijo.


Hombre dice que encontró a su mujer con otro y por eso la golpeó salvajemente

Edgar Euceda Díaz, el hombre acusado de agredir físicamente a su pareja y enviarla al hospital, llegó este martes a la audiencia de conciliación en los Juzgados de Comayagua, en la zona central de Honduras.
Antes de ingresar ante el juez, el imputado manifestó que se arrepiente de todo lo sucedido, pero explicó que la agresión se dio por que encontró a su compañera de hogar con otro hombre en su habitación y eso lo enfureció.

Agregó que “cualquier hombre reaccionaría de la misma manera, aunque fue un error de mi parte”.

Fiesta de intercambio sexual termina en tragedia

Niña de 13 años no fue raptada, se fue con novio que conoció en Facebook
Después de pasar varios días de angustia por la desaparición de su hija Jeny Nohemí Hernández (13), la señora Elda Iris Ponce aseguró que la menor se encuentra bien de salud y que no fue raptada.
“Ya retiré la denuncia y todo se aclaró, a ella se le había arruinado el celular y por eso no se podía comunicar conmigo, el muchacho ya está con ella y no es lo que se dijo de él, ya que se está haciendo cargo de ella”, manifestó la madre.
La progenitora de la menor relató que el pasado domingo viajó hasta la ciudad de San Pedro Sula, donde pudo constatar que su hija estaba bien y que definitivamente se quedará con su novio Denis Inestroza (20), a quien conoció por Facebook. “De todos modos cuando una cipota se enamora, uno haga lo que haga siempre van hacer lo que ellas quieran, a mí no me gusta mucho lo que sucedió, pero ella me dice a mí que lo quiere a él y que si la meto a una correccional cuando salga lo buscará”, expresó la señora.

La menor de edad dijo que conoció a su novio por medio de Facebook, y que nunca en la vida lo había visto en persona hasta que él la llegó a recoger a la terminal de buses de Comayagua.

Otorgan sobreseimiento a 25 estudiantes de la Unah

Un grupo de 25 estudiantes de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras (Unah) fueron sobreseídos este martes por el Juzgado de lo Penal de Francisco Morazán luego de estar acusados del usurpación de bienes en perjuicio de la máxima casa de estudio.
Moisés David Cáceres, Isaac Matamoros y Félix Cesario Padilla fueron los primeros en recibir el sobreseimiento, y posteriormente se otorgó a otros 22 alumnos.
En el segundo grupo fueron sobreseidos Alexandra Raquel Flores Sosa, Saúl Antonio Marroquín Díaz, Carlos Antonio Castro Del Cid, Kelline Johana Reyes Carranza, Jennifer Vannesa Flores Sánchez, Kevin Antonio Montoya Pérez, Wagner Eduardo Guillén Fúnez, Emmy Nohemy Jiménez Zelaya, Reynaldo Josué Madrid Rubio, Hezron Jacos Mairena Cárcamo, Daniel Abraham Vásquez Díaz y José Misael Flores Paredes.

También Jorge Elías Velásquez Contreras, Alejandra Michell Ávila García, Elvin Alberto Flores Alvarado, Ariel Alejandro Salinas Fúnez, Cristóbal Javier Vázquez Díaz, Saire Mayel Banegas Ramos, Allan David Ordoñez Aguilar, Carlos Emilio Flores Sosa, Roy Arístides Martínez Montes y Roberto Isaac Barrientos Díaz.

Según información que manejan los estadounidenses, Flores ha utilizado diversos nombres falsos: Mario Flores, Mario Roberto Flores, Mario F. Roberto, Alex Contreras y Alesis Contreras.

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“No is not the only thing expressed tonight. I want to focus on what we said yes to as a state,” Newsom said late Tuesday in Sacramento, thanking his supporters. “We said yes to science, we said yes to vaccines, we said yes to ending this pandemic.” 

The analysis also reveals that people in many smaller California counties were less likely to support Newsom and get vaccinated. 

Of the 23 counties with fewer than 100,000 residents, 17, or about three-quarters, voted “yes” on the recall. Meanwhile, only 10 of the 35 counties with more than 100,000 residents voted in favor of the recall. 

Those small counties were also more likely to have lower vaccination rates. Eighteen of the 23 reported less than 50% of residents were fully vaccinated as of Election Day, Sept. 14, according to a CNBC analysis of California Department of Public Health data.

Lassen County, for example, has an estimated population of about 30,600 as of 2019 and current a vaccination rate of nearly 22%. Roughly 84% of its voters voted “yes” on the recall.

Similarly, Modoc County has an estimated population of 8,800 as of 2019 and a current vaccination rate of 36.3%. Seventy-eight percent of its voters also favored the recall.

On the other end of the spectrum, Los Angeles County has an estimated population of over 10 million as of 2019 and a vaccination rate of 59.5%. Its voters strongly supported Newsom, with 70.8% voting “no” on the recall. 

The majority of counties that are classified as rural or mostly rural were also less likely to support Newsom and get vaccinated, according to the Census Bureau’s latest rural area data from 2010. The Census Bureau defines rural as any population, housing or territory not within an urban area, or areas with 50,000 or more residents.

Ten out of the 11 counties classified as rural or mostly rural in California voted “yes” on the recall. This includes Amador County, Calaveras County, Lassen County, Mariposa County, Modoc County, Plumas County, Sierra County, Siskiyou County, Tehama County and Trinity County, according to data from the California Secretary of State.

As of Election Day, all ten of those counties reported vaccinations rates below 50%, according to CNBC’s analysis.

Source Article from https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/17/california-counties-with-high-covid-vaccination-rates-helped-newsom-win-the-recall-election.html




WASHINGTON — It was a far cry from ‘‘I love WikiLeaks!’’

President Trump declared that ‘‘I know nothing about WikiLeaks’’ after its disheveled founder Julian Assange was hauled out of the Ecuadorian Embassy in London to face charges, a stark contrast to how candidate Trump showered praise on Assange’s hacking organization night after night during the final weeks of the 2016 presidential campaign.

Asked about Thursday’s arrest, Trump said at the White House, ‘‘It’s not my thing. I know there is something having to do with Julian Assange. I’ve been seeing what’s happened with Assange and that will be a determination, I would imagine, mostly by the attorney general, who’s doing an excellent job. So, he’ll be making a determination . I know nothing really about him.’’

‘‘It’s not my deal in life.’’

But WikiLeaks was Trump’s deal in 2016 as he welcomed the political boost his campaign got and cheered on the release of Clinton campaign emails.

On the same October day that the ‘‘Access Hollywood’’ tape emerged, revealing that Trump had bragged in 2005 about groping women, WikiLeaks began releasing damaging emails from Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager, John Podesta. Trump and his allies, facing a tough battle in the campaign’s final month, seized on the illegal dumps and weaponized them.

‘‘WikiLeaks, I love WikiLeaks,’’ Trump said in Pennsylvania.

‘‘This WikiLeaks is like a treasure trove,’’ Trump said in Michigan.

‘‘Boy, I love reading WikiLeaks,’’ Trump said in Ohio.

All told, Trump extolled WikiLeaks more than 100 times, and a poster of Assange hung backstage at the Republican’s debate war room. At no point from a rally stage did Trump express any misgivings about how WikiLeaks obtained the emails from the Clinton campaign or about the accusations of stealing sensitive U.S. government information, which led to the charges against Assange on Thursday.

Assange for years has been under U.S. Justice Department scrutiny for WikiLeaks’ role in publishing thousands of government secrets. He was an important figure in special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe, as investigators examined how WikiLeaks obtained emails that were stolen from Democratic groups.

When asked about Assange in 2017, Trump said he did not ‘‘support or unsupport’’ WikiLeaks’ move to release hacked emails and that he would not be involved in any decision for the U.S. government to arrest Assange.

‘‘I am not involved in that decision,’’ whether or not to arrest Assange, Trump told The Associated Press then, ‘‘but if they want to do it, it’s OK with me.’’

The Justice Department now has charged Assange with taking part in a computer hacking conspiracy, accusing him of scheming with Chelsea Manning, a former Army intelligence analyst, to break a password for a classified government computer.

The single charge of computer intrusion conspiracy carries up to five years in prison, though the Justice Department can add additional charges depending on the evidence it gathers. Manning was ordered jailed last month for refusing to testify before a grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia, suggesting that prosecutors are still at work.

It was unclear why the Assange charge, which was brought under seal last year, was made public at this time and why he was taken into custody now — weeks after Mueller’s investigation had concluded. None of the allegations in the case relate to Russian election interference or WikiLeaks’ role in publishing emails stolen from Democrats by Russian intelligence operatives.

An indictment against 12 Russians last year described WikiLeaks’ role in publishing hacked emails in the run-up to the 2016 presidential election. Though the indictment said WikiLeaks had worked to coordinate the release of information, there was no allegation that the organization solicited the hacking of Democratic email accounts or worked with Russians.

Assange’s arrest provoked passionate responses overseas, and from some who had expressed concern about whistleblower protections, but the initial bipartisan reaction in Washington was relief.

‘‘I’m glad to see the wheels of justice are finally turning when it comes to Julian Assange,’’ tweeted Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., a Trump ally. ‘‘In my book, he has NEVER been a hero. His actions – releasing classified information – put our troops at risk and jeopardized the lives of those who helped us in Iraq and Afghanistan.’’

And Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia, ranking Democrat on the intelligence committee, said he hoped the British courts would quickly transfer Assange to U.S. custody ‘‘so he can finally get the justice he deserves.’’

Assange’s lawyer has previously said he planned to fight any U.S. charges against him. Assange took refuge in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London in 2012 after he was released on bail in Britain while facing extradition to Sweden on sexual assault allegations that have since been dropped. British police said Assange had been arrested Thursday for breaching his bail conditions and in relation to the U.S. arrest request.



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Mayor Eric Garcetti, a fourth-generation Angeleno of Mexican-Italian-Jewish descent, had been edging toward a presidential run, using the midterm elections to launch a tightly choreographed play where he traveled the country. | Jae C. Hong/AP Photo

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LOS ANGELES — Eric Garcetti will not run for president in 2020, he confirmed late Tuesday, saying that being mayor of Los Angeles is “what I am meant to do.”

Garcetti, who traveled extensively for months as he mulled a presidential run, said at a hastily arranged news conference here that in local government he saw a “vision of a brighter future and a better day” that stood in “contrast to what we see coming out of Washington, D.C., every day.”

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“Reflecting on those travels and recognizing the incredible opportunity that I have every single day as mayor of this great town,” Garcetti said, “I realized that this is what I am meant to do, this is where I want to be, and this is a place where we have so much exciting work to finish.”

Garcetti called the recently settled teachers’ strike in Los Angeles “a little bit of a kick in the pants for me that what we have right here in Los Angeles sets the pace for the nation.”

He said he had decided against running for president “a couple of weeks ago in my mind, but not finally until this morning.”

The 47-year-old mayor, whose term does not end until 2022, declined to foreclose on a future campaign. When asked about running for vice president on a potential 2020 ticket, however, he said, “I think I’ve got a better job than that.”

He said, “I kind of believe that whenever possible, you should finish the job that you set out to do.”

He said no other candidate’s entry into the race — including that of Sen. Kamala Harris, a fellow Californian — dissuaded him. However, he said that he was confident the Democratic nominee in 2020 could defeat President Donald Trump and that “I feel even more secure in my decision watching the field of candidates who are jumping into the race in 2020.”

Garcetti, a fourth-generation Angeleno of Mexican-Italian-Jewish descent, had been edging toward a presidential run, using the midterm elections to launch a tightly choreographed play in which he traveled the country and built up goodwill by raising more than $1 million for state Democratic parties.

But the demands on his time in working to help settle a recent teachers’ strike in his home city put those plans on hold, Garcetti acknowledged to reporters last week at the U.S. Conference of Mayors in Washington.

Several Democratic activists and officials on the ground in Iowa, South Carolina and New Hampshire told POLITICO that they had heard nothing from the mayor recently about a possible run.

“It’s radio silence,” said one Democrat in an early presidential state.

No mayor has ever jumped directly from City Hall to the White House, and the prospects of such a feat in 2020 appeared long. But Garcetti had been at the front of a handful of Democratic mayors considering presidential campaigns. Earlier this month, Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Ind., entered the race.

In 2017, Garcetti started a nonprofit group of mayors working with labor and business leaders to fund investments in cities around the country, giving him a platform to travel extensively as he mulled a campaign.

During the midterm elections, Garcetti used his expansive Hollywood donor network to raise money for state parties — including some small, typically overlooked states — hosting fundraisers for them in Los Angeles.

Last year, he hosted a Hollywood fundraiser with talk show host Jimmy Kimmel and DJ Khaled that raised more than $1 million, divided among 10 state parties. Garcetti had previously raised $100,000 for the South Carolina Democratic Party at a fundraiser in Los Angeles’ Hancock Park.

Thanking Garcetti at that event, the chairman of the South Carolina Democratic Party, Trav Robertson, said to applause, “After the mess we’ve got in Washington, we all may need somebody who’s got experience managing a large government and an economy.”

As he considered running, Garcetti sought to position himself as an officeholder who is especially grounded in the day-to-day concerns of governing. Contrasting Los Angeles explicitly with Washington in his State of the City address last year, he described the city he oversees as “thriving, strong, stable and decent.”

Still, Garcetti has been dogged by a pervasive homelessness crisis in Los Angeles. Writing in the Los Angeles Times last year, columnist Steve Lopez told readers that with a such a crisis in their city, “this could be the year Garcetti’s presidential pipe dream ruptures under a shantytown in the homeless capital of the United States.”

Garcetti’s exit comes two days after Harris launched her presidential campaign with a massive rally in Oakland. Earlier this month, a third Californian, billionaire environmentalist Tom Steyer, announced that he would not run for president in 2020.

Garcetti said he is a friend of many of the Democratic Party’s top contenders, and he called Buttigieg, a fellow mayor, “a big sleeper who’s going to surprise people.”

He pledged to continue to advocate for cities, saying, “I think it is time for a radical federalism in this country, where people trust innovation coming from the local level and ramp that up.”

Garcetti acknowledged “some sadness about this moment, but not much. I mostly have excitement about it.”

He said that when he told his 7-year-old daughter he did not plan to run for president, she told him” “That’s good. You’ll be home more.”

Garcetti said, “That’s when I knew it was the right decision.”

Source Article from https://www.politico.com/story/2019/01/29/eric-garcetti-will-not-run-for-president-1136400

Florida fugitive Brian Laundrie’s attorney said Wednesday that Christopher Laundrie would begin assisting authorities in the search for his son – who was last seen on Sept. 13, just days after his fiancée Gabby Petito officially became a missing person.

The FBI later uncovered Petito’s remains at a remote Wyoming campsite on Sept. 19.

“Chris Laundrie was asked to assist law enforcement in their search for Brian at the preserve today,” Steve Bertolino, the family’s attorney, told Fox News Wednesday night. “Since the preserve has been closed to the public, Chris has not been able to look for Brian in the only place Chris and Roberta believe Brian may be.”

GABBY PETITO HOMICIDE: TIMELINE OF DISAPPEARANCE WITH BRIAN LAUNDRIE

He added that North Port police “had to postpone” the elder’s Laundrie’s participation and that he did not take part in the search Wednesday, which saw an increased police presence after resources appeared to have been drawn down over the weekend.

“Chris and Roberta are hopeful there will be another opportunity to assist,” he added, referring to both of Brian Laundrie’s parents.

BRIAN LAUNDRIE SHOULD SURRENDER, FORMER FUGITIVE SAYS

Bertolino told Newsday earlier that Chris Laundrie was “excited” to take part in the search – after weeks of remaining completely mum on the subject and barely leaving his home.

He also claimed that the elder Laundrie searched the T. Mabry Carlton Jr. Reserve on his own on Monday. Sept. 13 after his son failed to come home that night – even though the parents told police that Friday that they had last seen their son on Tuesday, according to the paper.

BRIAN LAUNDRIE’S SURVIALIST SKILLS ARE ‘MEDIOCRE,’ SAYS SISTER CASSIE

“The North Port police informed me that they were focusing on certain areas of the preserve today and they were actually hoping that Mr. Laundrie could join them on that search,” Bertolino told the newspaper. “Mr. Laundrie has consented and we are waiting for the call from the North Port Police Department to make that happen.”

Brian Laundrie’s father leaving his house (Fox News)

Brian Laundrie had been named a person of interest in Petito’s disappearance days before authorities found her dead. On Sept. 23, the FBI announced a federal warrant for bank fraud charges after he allegedly used someone else’s debit card without authorization for more than $1,000.

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His whereabouts remained unknown as of Wednesday evening – but a search at the reserve has continued for weeks, even with reports of possible sightings in other parts of Florida and along the Appalachian Trail where it runs down the border of North Carolina and Tennessee.

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The media have noticeably taken Rep. Liz Cheney’s, R-Wyo., side in her current battle with Republican colleagues who are seeking to oust her from her position as House Republican Conference chair following a series of critical comments about former President Donald Trump.

“She’s standing tall,” CNN anchor Poppy Harlow said of Cheney on “CNN Newsroom” on Thursday. 

Harlow, her co-anchor Jim Sciutto, and their CNN panel lavished praise on Cheney, with POLITICO congressional reporter Melanie Zanona marveling that the congresswoman is now “on the verge of becoming a woman in exile in the GOP.” But, Zanona said, Cheney “is doing what she believes is right for the country.”

“They’re trying to silence her and tell her to shut up,” Zanona later said of the Republicans, with Harlow nodding along and saying, “that’s a great point.”

Similarly, CNN political pundit Sophia Nelson penned a blunt USA Today piece entitled, “”Rep. Liz Cheney is courageous while Republican men are profiles in cowardice.”

BIDEN, WHEN ASKED ABOUT LIZ CHENEY, SAYS ‘I DON’T UNDERSTAND THE REPUBLICANS’

And perhaps most notably, the Washington Post gave Cheney a platform to speak her mind and double down on her condemnation of Trump, accusing him of stoking the violence that occurred on Capitol Hill on January 6.

“While embracing or ignoring Trump’s statements might seem attractive to some for fundraising and political purposes, that approach will do profound long-term damage to our party and our country,” Cheney wrote in her op-ed. “Trump has never expressed remorse or regret for the attack of Jan. 6 and now suggests that our elections, and our legal and constitutional system, cannot be trusted to do the will of the people.” 

Former White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer, who served in the George W. Bush administration and recalls very well how the media treated them back then, said he never thought he’d live to see the day when the press put a Cheney on a pedestal.

REPUBLICANS INCREASINGLY VOCAL ABOUT HOLDING ANOTHER CHENEY VOTE SOON

Fox News host Howard Kurtz said the media’s sudden admiration for Cheney is making his head spin as well.

Fox News contributor and The Hill’s Joe Concha said he had a theory for the media’s change of heart – one that has been proven a few times over the past few years.

“Liz Cheney is the newest ‘It Girl.’ If you’re a Republican and go against your own party on X, Y, Z, you get the same love John McCain and Mitt Romney and Adam Kinzinger received when they did same as useful ‘It Guys’ at various times.,” Concha told Fox News. “Kinda ironic when you think about the fact that the media patently loathed Dick Cheney when he was George W. Bush’s vice president. But this is just how it works.” 

Rep. Cheney was more than just critical of Trump after the Capitol riot – she was also one of 10 House Republicans to vote to impeach the president for “incitement of insurrection.” Amid the calls for her removal as the No. 3 Republican in the House, Cheney warned the Party that they need to be wary of listening to the “Trump cult of personality.”

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Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio recently told Fox News that the votes are there to remove Cheney from her leadership position next week.

“I can’t imagine that they will continue to support her in that leadership position,” former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows agreed.

Republicans are eyeing Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-NY, as Cheney’s replacement. She has already received Trump’s endorsement.

Of the GOP’s favored candidate, CNN pundits suggested that the Republicans are only choosing Stefanik because they need another female lawmaker to save face for ousting Cheney.

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1- Aprehenden a dos jóvenes cuando los vecinos intentaban hacer justicia por mano propia

El hecho, que ocurrido alrededor de las 19, generó un violento revuelo en la zona de Colombia al 4.300 que terminó con policías heridos y patrulleros dañados. Habrían intentado cometer un arrebato. Sin embargo fueron reducidos y agredidos por algunos vecinos.

2- Qué están eligiendo los tucumanos para veranear

Brasil o El Caribe, la Costa Argentina o la Patagonia. O más lejos, cruzando el océano y embarcando hacia destinos más exóticos. Hasta el momento los tucumanos, en el mapa y en las agencias, pusieron el ojo en esos destinos para las vacaciones de 2017, según confiesan operadores turísticos consultados. 

3- Volverán a exigir al Poder Ejecutivo asistencia para adictos

Partirán a las 17 desde plaza Urquiza hasta plaza Independencia. Solicitan un centro de internación para mujeres y que se reactiven las obras del Cepla de Costanera. “Si siguen sin dar respuestas, cada vez que muera un adicto lo velaremos en la plaza Independencia para que en Casa de Gobierno vean las consecuencias de todo lo que hace falta”, prometió uno de los organizadores.

4- Lo condenan por matar a su ex pareja, que estaba embarazada

Antes de la sentencia, el acusado lloró frente a los jueces y afirmó que es inocente. El tribunal ordenó una restricción de 200 metros para que no se enfrenten las familias de la víctima y del homicida. La joven de 27 años, que estaba embarazada de cuatro meses, murió de un tiro en la cabeza el 17 de mayo de 2014.

5- San Martín tuvo un premio al esfuerzo

El domingo pasado, frente a Argentinos Juniors, los jugadores de San Martín tuvieron la posibilidad de comprobar lo complicada que será la B Nacional. Esta vez los “Santos” rescataron un punto con sabor a victoria casi sobre el final del partido, pero no siempre va a suceder eso. 

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The summons, which has not been served on the former governor, directs Cuomo to appear in City Court on Nov. 17. A law enforcement source said the sheriff’s department did not expect the summons to be issued on Thursday — or to be made public.

The summons was issued without the consent of the alleged victim, Brittany Commisso, or her attorney, Brian D. Premo, according to sources familiar with the matter. However, Commisso has been cooperating with investigators and was planning to move forward with the criminal complaint, according to law enforcement sources.

Read the summons:

Cuomo Criminal Complaint by cseiler8597 on Scribd

A sheriff’s investigator who had been a lead investigator in the case, in which the governor was accused of groping a female aide at the Executive Mansion last year, had met with a City Court official on Thursday to receive “guidance” if the department were to move forward with filing a complaint, which was supposed to happen next week at the earliest, according to a law enforcement source.

It’s unclear what happened after that, but a person briefed on the matter and not authorized to comment publicly said that someone in City Court issued the summons after determining the paperwork submitted by the investigator was sufficient to do so. The investigator had apparently filed the paperwork in anticipation of obtaining a summons next week, if the victim agreed to go forward with any charges, according to sources familiar with the matter. 

The issuance of the summons was leaked almost immediately to a news organization.

The district attorney’s office issued a statement late Thursday afternoon confirming they were not aware the sheriff’s department had filed a complaint with City Court until it was reported publicly.

“Like the rest of the public, we were surprised to learn today that a criminal complaint was filed in Albany City Court by the Albany County Sheriff’s Office against Andrew Cuomo,” the statement says. “The Office of Court Administration has since made that filing public. Our office will not be commenting further on this case.”

The evidence gathered by sheriff’s investigators in the case included text messages, Blackberry “PIN” messages between state troopers who staff the Executive Mansion, cell phone records, and Capitol swipe-card access records that confirmed Commisso returning to her Capitol office after visiting the mansion on Dec. 7, the day of the alleged incident.

The evidence also includes information confirming Cuomo held a news conference in central New York earlier that day — an event that Commisso had told investigators she remembered occurred before she was summoned to the governor’s mansion that afternoon.

The complaint filed in Albany City Court was signed by Albany County sheriff’s Investigator Amy Kowalski, who has been the lead investigator on the case. It states the incident took place between the hours of 3:51 and 4:07 p.m., at the governor’s mansion, and that Cuomo “did knowingly, and intentionally commit the class A misdemeanor of Forcible Touching.” 

The complaint adds that Cuomo “did intentionally, and for no legitimate purpose, forcibly place his hand under the blouse shirt of the victim and onto her intimate body part” for “the purposes of degrading and gratifying his sexual desires.”

The district attorney’s office and sheriff’s department had been scheduled to meet on Friday to discuss whether to move forward with any criminal case against Cuomo. It’s unclear whether that meeting will still take place. Both agencies declined to comment.

The sheriff’s department has been investigating groping allegations against Cuomo since August. That investigation was nearing conclusion but a second source, with law enforcement ties, said that a meeting was scheduled to take place in the coming days to determine whether to move forward with any charges, including obtaining the alleged victim’s consent.

The criminal investigation followed an attorney general’s report that led to Cuomo’s resignation following a four-month investigation that included interviews with the women who accused Cuomo of conduct ranging from making sexually charged remarks to grooming and groping at least one female executive assistant.

Despite the confusion over the filing of the complaint, state Attorney General Letitia James issued a statement Thursday afternoon saying her office had “proceeded without fear or favor.” in its investigation of sexual harassment charges leveled against Cuomo by multiple women.

“The criminal charges brought today against Mr. Cuomo for forcible touching further validate the findings in our report,” James said.

The attorney general’s investigation was headed by Joon H. Kim, a former acting U.S. attorney for New York’s Southern District in Manhattan, and Anne L. Clark, who specializes in labor law and sexual harassment cases.

Cuomo has denied kissing a former aide, Lindsey Boylan, and denied groping Commisso, another female aide, at the Executive Mansion last year. Commisso’s allegation is the most incendiary to be leveled against Cuomo, who has dismissed his workplace behavior as “playful” and an attempt to “make jokes that I think are funny.”


Other women also came forward and recounted similar unsettling encounters with the governor, including a woman who was photographed at the wedding of one of Cuomo’s top aides as the governor held her face and asked to kiss her.

The governor stated earlier this year that he “never inappropriately touched anybody and I never propositioned anybody and I never intended to make anyone feel uncomfortable, but these are allegations that New Yorkers deserve answers to.”

In the wake of the earliest allegations — before the groping allegations were first reported by the Times Union — Cuomo had authorized Attorney General Letitia James’ office to commence a “review” of the complaints. But that directive did not authorize the attorney general to conduct a criminal investigation or to subpoena witnesses before a grand jury. That authority would have needed to be given to James under a separate provision in Executive Law.

The groping allegations subsequently became the subject of ongoing investigations by the Albany County Sheriff’s Office and the Albany County district attorney’s office after Commisso filed a formal complaint with the sheriff’s office in August.

On Oct. 11, the Times Union reported that electronic records gathered by investigators for the state Assembly’s Judiciary Committee, which is expected to issue a report on their investigation that began as an impeachment proceeding, showed Commisso was at the governor’s mansion with Cuomo on Dec. 7.

Source Article from https://www.timesunion.com/state/article/Criminal-summons-Cuomo-16572344.php

In previous administrations, when it was revealed that press secretaries had delivered false statements from the White House podium, there was more of a reaction and often some soul-searching.

“She is in a credibility bind that in most White Houses would be disqualifying, but probably not in this one,” said David Axelrod, a former senior adviser to President Barack Obama. “No matter how honorable you were coming in, when you sign up as the spokesman for someone who habitually lies, you, by necessity, become a habitual liar.”

In 2003, Scott McClellan, President George W. Bush’s press secretary, told reporters that two senior administration officials, Karl Rove and I. Lewis Libby Jr., were “not involved” in a leak about Valerie Plame, the C.I.A. operative.

Later, in his memoir, Mr. McClellan delivered a mea culpa, admitting that he had been given false information to disseminate to the press. “I had unknowingly passed along false information,” Mr. McClellan wrote, adding that five of the highest-ranking White House officials, including the president, had misinformed him.

Others have survived accusations that they lied. In 1983, Larry Speakes, a press aide to President Ronald Reagan, told reporters that the notion that the United States would invade Grenada was “preposterous.” The invasion took place the next day, and Mr. Speakes said he learned of it belatedly.

Jay Carney, Mr. Obama’s press secretary, took heat for helping to propagate the president’s message on the Affordable Care Act that “if you like your health care plan, you can keep it” after it became clear that the administration was unable to deliver on the promise.

But for veteran aides of the Trump White House, the furor over Ms. Sanders’s remark has only added to a bunker mentality shared by aides who feel they are constantly defending themselves, and the president, from unfair attacks.

And on the president’s favorite show, Ms. Sanders had the last word. “James Comey was a disgraced leaker who tried to politicize and undermine the very agency he was supposed to run,” she told Mr. Hannity. “Firing James Comey remains one of the best decisions that the president made.”

Source Article from https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/19/us/politics/sarah-sanders-mueller-report.html

On Monday, the United States imposed sanctions on Venezuelan oil exports in an effort to squeeze authoritarian President Nicolas Maduro. Although U.S. sanctions may well do the trick and pave the way for a stable resolution to the crisis, there are complicating factors : China and Russia.

Even though China may be less willing to subsidize an unstable Maduro than in previous years, it is no less interested in the country’s oil and the $20 billion it’s owed for current investments. Russia too remains heavily invested in Maduro’s government as a result of billions of dollars in arms sales.

If China and Russia become some of the only countries that Venezuela can export oil to, that gives those countries enormous leverage over Caracas.

It also leaves China or Russia free to potentially take control of parts of the country’s oil industry. Indeed, Sinovesa offers a clear model for this arrangement. The firm, jointly owned by a Chinese state-owned company and a subsidiary of Venezuelan national oil monopoly PDVSA, has successfully boosted production and profitability.

There’s no reason to think that in an effort to pay off loans, Maduro wouldn’t allow Beijing or Moscow to take more control of oil production.

Another possibility stems from the reality that the new sanctions will significantly cut into the the oil revenue Venezuela currently depends on to pay off its massive debts owed to Russia and China.

The fallout from that could be quite complicated due to Venezuela’s tangle of collateral and assets.

As Ellen R. Wald points out in Forbes, Citgo, a Venezuelan-owned refinery in the United States, is collateral on Venezuela’s debts to Russian oil company Rosneft. If new sanctions mean that Maduro’s government cannot make good on repaying its loans, Rosneft could try to take partial ownership of Citgo as 49.9 percent of company shares are currently collateral against loans to Russia.

That would likely set up a fight between the U.S. and Russia on the grounds that Russian control of Citgo would constitute a national security crisis potentially provoking conflict.

Finally, as I explained on Friday, should U.S. efforts to oust Maduro prove successful and a new administration move to void agreements made with China and Russia, those countries would likely cast U.S. involvement as part of a broader strategy to undercut their power. That would not only complicate existing negotiations — for example trade war talks with Beijing — but likely escalate tensions.

As the U.S. takes another step into the economic and diplomatic mess in Venezuela, Washington must recognize that it is not the only major player on the world stage with interests in Latin America. China and Russia have multi-billion dollar interests in Venezuela, and they want to make good on their investment — never mind what Washington thinks will lead to stability or be good for the people of Venezuela.

Source Article from https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/two-wrenches-in-washingtons-oil-sanctions-against-venezuela-china-and-russia

Todas las noticias sobre el ébola

Reacciones políticas, datos oficiales, protocolos seguidos, evolución de los contagiados…consulta todas las noticias relevantes y la última hora sobre el virus del ébola.

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BOSTON (CBS) – Henri is on track to make landfall as a powerful tropical storm midday Sunday along the South Coast of Rhode Island.

(WBZ-TV Graphic)

As expected, the storm was downgraded from a category 1 hurricane to a tropical storm this morning as it encountered cooler ocean water and began to slow down its forward speed. As mentioned Saturday, this is NOT a reason to let your guard down or take the storm less seriously, it is simply a drop in 5-10 mph of maximum sustained wind speed.

TRACK OF HENRI

Again, Henri will make landfall midday Sunday along the South Coast of Rhode Island. From there, it will head northwest, inland through Rhode Island, Connecticut and Western Massachusetts. By Sunday night, what is left of Henri will be somewhere near the New York border in western New England.

The remnants will slowly degrade and spin around in that area for a good part of Monday before finally getting picked up and pushed eastward Monday night. Finally, by Tuesday morning, the system will move offshore and out to sea.

RAINFALL

The heaviest rainfall will be to the west of the track, which is typical of a tropical system. This puts portions of Central Massachusetts and more so Western Massachusetts and Connecticut in the crosshairs for a long period of very heavy rain.

Rain totals in those areas are likely to be in the 3-6 inches range with some higher amounts possible. From Worcester County eastward, the rain will be more in bands and waves, stopping and starting through Sunday evening.

Parts of eastern MA could receive an inch or two of rain, not likely enough for any massive flooding issues, but some localized flooding is possible. We get a lull in the rainfall locally Sunday night into early Monday before the downpours return later on Monday as the remnants of Henri swing back through.

This could actually be the time period when central/eastern Massachusetts receive their greatest rainfall.

WINDS

Winds will be strongest and most damaging Sunday morning and afternoon. Expect frequent gusts from 40-65 mph along the South Coast, Cape and Islands and into parts of southeastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island as well. Some isolated locations near the South Coast could get gusts as high as 70-75 mph.  Expect numerous downed trees and power outages in this high wind zone.

(WBZ-TV Graphic)

Further inland, including areas north and west of Boston, the winds won’t be as strong, gusting 30-50 mph at times. This is still enough to produce some tree damage and power outages.

As the storm pulls off to the north and west this evening and also continues to weaken, the winds will gradually ramp down, below damaging levels.

COASTAL ISSUES

The main period of impact along the Coastline is high tide Sunday morning.  East coast beaches have a midday high tide, while most south coastal beaches in the Narragansett/Buzzards Bay area have an earlier high tide, just before 9 a.m. Expect local storm surges as high as 2-3 feet, enough to wash out some coastal roads for a period of time later Sunday morning through early Sunday afternoon.

(WBZ-TV Graphic)

Sunday night’s high tide will likely be less impactful with Henri well inland, although seas will remain rough so some minor flooding/splashover is likely.

As always, we urge that you stay tuned to WBZ-TV, CBSBoston and CBSN Boston for important updates leading up to and during the storm.

Source Article from https://boston.cbslocal.com/2021/08/22/tropical-storm-henri-path-hurricane-watch-storm-boston-weather-forecast-massachusetts-cape-cod-nantucket-new-england/






Eligio Rojas.- Los ministerios de Defensa e Interiores prohibieron el uso de pirotécnicos durante 90 días debido a la escalada de violencia que se desarrolla en el país con motivo de las protestas antigubernamentales convocadas por la oposición desde el pasado 4 de abril, según se lee en la Gaceta Oficial 41.137 difundida ayer.

La resolución señala que es deber del Estado garantizar la vida, derecho que se ve comprometido en los actuales momentos por el uso de artificios pirotécnicos y de los artefactos de elevación por combustible sólido. Argumentan que dichos aparatos constituyen una amenaza y riesgo para la población en general, debido “a las distintas acciones terroristas y hechos vandálicos públicos y notorios”.

En tal sentido, los mencionados ministerios prohíben la comercialización al detal de artificios pirotécnicos y artefactos de elevación por combustible sólido en todo el territorio nacional; la fabricación y comercialización de aquellos artículos que a juicio de la Dirección General de Armas y Explosivos (Daex) representen peligro y alto riesgo para la población; el almacenamiento, traslado en moto, fabricación y venta ambulante de los mencionados aparatos, así como su empleo en cualquier tipo de manifestación pública.

La retención preventiva de cualquier tipo de artificio pirotécnico correrá por cuenta de las policías (nacional, regional y municipal), cuerpos de bomberos y la Guardia Nacional. Los mismos organismos actuarán en el caso del traslado ilícito de esos materiales prohibidos. Y si acaso se produce el hurto o robo de los mismos, los afectados deben denunciar ante el Cicpc, así como notificar a la Daex, alerta la resolución.




Source Article from http://www.ultimasnoticias.com.ve/noticias/sucesos/prohiben-pirotecnicos-escalada-violenta/

Ayron del Valle es el goleador al que el América se aferra para lograr en diciembre su regreso a la A.

Oswaldo Páez- El País

Aunque le quedan por disputar dos partidos en el “todos contra todos” del Torneo Águila, el América de Cali ya se encuentra clasificado para los cuadrangulares de fin de año. 

Sin embargo, los rojos aspiran a ganar los compromisos restantes para luchar por el segundo puesto de la tabla y entrar a esos cuadrangulares como cabeza de grupo. 

Para alimentar esa ilusión los escarlatas tendrán que vencer mañana a Llaneros en el estadio Pascual Guerrero y en la próxima fecha a Real Cartagena, y esperar que el Pereira pierda los dos compromisos que le quedan.

El juego de mañana entre el rojo y Llaneros será a las 7:00 de la noche. Se espera que el técnico Alberto Suárez mantenga la nómina que venció en la jornada pasada 2-0 al Quindío en el estadio Centenario de Armenia. 

Los ocho están casi definidos

La última fecha:

 

 

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Some people who get federal benefits, such as Social Security, Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and veterans benefits, still haven’t received their stimulus payments from the $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief plan.

The IRS has not yet announced a date, but it did update some guidance on how payments may be delivered.

The agency said it is working directly with other federal agencies to get updated 2021 information on people who receive federal benefits “to ensure that as many people as possible are sent fast, automatic payments.”

Social Security Administration Commissioner Andrew Saul said that the agency sent its files to the IRS on Thursday.

The statement came in response to a letter sent earlier this week to the IRS and Social Security by legislators, including Rep. Bill Pascrell, Jr, D-9th Dist., who expressed concern that some beneficiaries were still waiting for their payments.

“We were alarmed to learn recently that most Social Security, SSI, RRB (Railroad Retirement Benefits), and VA beneficiaries who are not required to file a tax return have not yet received their payments and that the IRS is unable to provide an expected timeline for these payments,” the letter said.

If you did not file a tax return and you receive Social Security, SSI, Railroad Retirement Benefits or VA benefits, and you currently get your payments on a Direct Express card, then your third stimulus payment will be deposited on that same card, the IRS said in updated guidance on its website.

“The bank information shown in Get My Payment will be a number associated with your Direct Express card and may be a number you don’t recognize,” it said.

For people who don’t have direct deposit information on file with the IRS, “the IRS will use federal records of recent payments to or from the government, where available, to make the payment as a direct deposit. This helps to expedite payment delivery,” it said.

If you don’t receive a direct deposit, you may receive the payment by paper check or prepaid debit card.

The debit card will come in a white envelope displaying the seal of the U.S. Department of the Treasury, the IRS said. The card has the Visa name on the front and the issuing bank, MetaBank, N.A. on the back.

Paper checks come in a white envelope from the U.S. Department of the Treasury. For those taxpayers who received their tax refund by mail, this paper check will look similar but will be labeled as an “Economic Impact Payment” in the memo field, the IRS said.

You can check the Get My Payment tool to see if your payment has been scheduled.

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Karin Price Mueller may be reached at KPriceMueller@NJAdvanceMedia.com.

Source Article from https://www.nj.com/coronavirus/2021/03/stimulus-check-update-what-should-social-security-ssi-recipients-know-about-their-payments.html

The Biden administration is likely to appeal the panel’s decision to the full court.

Engelhardt was appointed to the bench by former President Donald Trump. The other two members of the panel, Judge Kyle Duncan and Judge Edith Jones, were appointed by Trump and former President Ronald Reagan, respectively.

More than a dozen lawsuits have been filed in various appeals courts by businesses, religious organizations and states arguing that the vaccine-or-test requirement goes beyond OSHA’s authority and runs afoul of the First Amendment, the Constitution’s Commerce clause and laws protecting religious freedom.

Engelhardt agreed that the rules’ opponents had standing to sue in the Fifth Circuit writing that: “The Mandate imposes a financial burden upon them by deputizing their participation in OSHA’s regulatory scheme, exposes them to severe financial risk if they refuse or fail to comply, and threatens to decimate their workforces (and business prospects) by forcing unwilling employees to take their shots, take their tests, or hit the road.”

Engelhardt also agreed with their claims that the requirement exceeds OSHA’s power to police workplaces and the federal government’s authority under the Commerce Clause, among other arguments.

The vaccine-or-test requirement was implemented as an emergency temporary standard. OSHA can issue such standards if it determines “that employees are exposed to grave danger from exposure to substances or agents determined to be toxic or physically harmful or from new hazards,” and that the rule is “necessary” to protect workers from that danger.

The administration told the court earlier this week that OSHA had acted within its authority and that a stay of the requirement “would likely cost dozens or even hundreds of lives per day.”

It remains unclear whether the legality of the rule will ultimately be addressed by the Fifth Circuit or by another circuit. Because multiple lawsuits have been filed in various appeals courts, a lottery has been triggered to determine which circuit will hear the challenge. The lottery is scheduled to take place next week.

Source Article from https://www.politico.com/news/2021/11/12/federal-court-biden-vaccine-or-test-mandate-521233

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(CNN)Police looking for a 5-year-old Illinois boy reported missing from his home say they’re putting special focus on the residence after determining it’s likely he neither was abducted nor walked away.

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    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has managed to hold on to power, winning what will be a record fifth term in office despite a bruising reelection fight.

    The preliminary results from Israel’s Tuesday election have Netanyahu’s right-wing Likud party getting 35 seats out of a total 120 seats in the Knesset (Israel’s parliament). While Likud didn’t win an outright majority of seats, that’s typical in Israeli elections.

    Party leaders generally become prime ministers by cobbling together a parliamentary majority with the help of smaller parties. In this case, a group of smaller right-wing parties expected to back Netanyahu seems to have captured 65 seats, enough to give him a 10-seat majority over the rival center-left bloc (the exact numbers could change as the remaining two percent of votes are tallied).

    Netanyahu is now set to be the longest-serving prime minister in Israeli history — even longer than David Ben-Gurion, the country’s first prime minister, who’s often described as “Israel’s George Washington.” And the ramifications of his fifth term could be enormous, for both the health of Israeli democracy and the fate of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

    The prime minister is facing a pending criminal indictment on bribery and fraud charges by Israel’s attorney general that’s likely to come down later this year. And now that Netanyahu has all but secured a victory, it’s possible his coalition could pass legislation protecting him from prosecution while in office, in essence letting him get away with his alleged crimes for the time being.

    What’s more, Netanyahu made a stunning last-minute campaign promise over the weekend to annex Jewish settlements in the West Bank if reelected — extending full Israeli sovereignty over settlements widely considered illegal under international law. If he follows through, it would be the most radical rejection of a negotiated two-state solution by any Israeli prime minister in modern history. It would also generate a massive crisis for Israel and the broader Middle East.

    In sum, this is a very, very big deal.

    Israel’s election results reveal why Netanyahu won

    The story of Netanyahu’s victory is pretty simple: Israel is a center-right country, and Netanyahu rallied enough right-wing voters to defeat the center.

    Since the collapse of the peace process in the early 2000s and the rise of the Hamas government in Gaza after Israel’s withdrawal from the territory, the Israeli public has drifted further and further toward skepticism about peace and the outside world.

    Political scientists have documented strong evidence that rocket attacks and suicide bombings lead to increased vote shares for right-wing parties, suggesting that the unending Palestinian conflict has led to a complete collapse of support for Israel’s left-wing peace camp.

    Labor, the center-left party that dominated Israeli politics for the country’s first 50 years of existence, hasn’t won an election since 1999. The preliminary results have them winning a dismal six seats this time around.

    Netanyahu’s past 10 years in office, and especially the past four, are both a consequence and a cause of this right-wing drift.

    Since 2009, the prime minister has become more and more right-wing in a bid to protect his flank from other right-wing challengers, a strategy that’s both substantively dangerous and politically effective.

    Under the prime minister’s leadership, policies that would not have been considered in the past — like the annexation of part of the West Bank or a law defining Israel as a “Jewish” nation-state in a fashion that excludes the country’s sizable Arab minority — have either been proposed or enacted.

    The leading opposition to Netanyahu this time around wasn’t a leftist party, but rather a new centrist party, Blue and White (named for the colors of the Israeli flag). Led by Benny Gantz, a retired general and former chief of staff of the Israel Defense Forces, the party aimed to dodge the kind of weak-on-security attacks that Netanyahu had long deployed against left-wing rivals.

    Gantz ran a campaign that focused heavily on his security credentials and staffed the top tier of his party with other ex-military men. But his tough-guy positioning evidently wasn’t compelling enough to overcome Netanyahu and his Likud party’s appeal.

    Netanyahu’s campaign focused on his long record of guiding Israel through conflict and security crises, but also on his close relationships with right-wing, nationalist leaders like Brazilian President Jair Bolsanaro and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

    Of these global Netanyahu friends, one was especially important: President Donald Trump. Not only is the US Israel’s closest ally, but under Trump, the US both moved its embassy to Jerusalem and, just before the election, recognized Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights — both unprecedented moves that were big wins for Netanyahu.

    Likud’s strong performance was buoyed by the success of a number of smaller religious and conservative parties, including one party — United Right — that includes one faction so far-right and anti-Arab that observers have characterized it as “fascist.”

    Netanyahu also benefited from what looks like a collapse in turnout among Israel’s Arab minority, who were vital to the hopes of the broader left. It’s hard to say yet why this happened, but it’s worth noting that Likud activists tried to smuggle in cameras to document alleged “election fraud” by Arab voters on the day of the vote. Hadash Ta’al, the leading Arab party, saw it as an attempt to menace their voters and deter them from voting — one that may have been effective, especially coming on the heels of a campaign that relentlessly marginalized Arab voters.

    “The anti-Arab tone has been a constant backdrop to the election campaign and even Netanyahu’s opponents are afraid to challenge it,” writes Anshel Pfeffer, a columnist and reporter at Israel’s left-wing Haaretz newspaper.

    Israel’s election results appear set. So what happens now?

    First, Netanyahu needs to figure out exactly which parties he’s going to include in his coalition.

    He could reach out to Gantz to try to form a more centrist national unity coalition, but his post-election comments suggest he won’t do that. Instead, he seems likely to work with almost exclusively right-wing parties to build a hard-right majority. The exact setup of this government will be decided in the coming month or so.

    After that’s all sorted out, the most immediate issue will be the looming indictment. Netanyahu is expected to try to build support for a proposed law that would immunize him from prosecution while in office. If he fails and the indictment comes down this summer as expected, his coalition could very well fracture under the pressure — leading to a new Likud prime minister or potentially new elections.

    Netanyahu’s electoral victory, in other words, doesn’t mean he’s out of the woods yet.

    “This is one station in a journey Netanyahu is going to go through in the next few months,” says Natan Sachs, director of the Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution think tank in Washington. “The real game is about the indictment: whether he gets immunity from it, whether he can survive indictment and keep the coalition going even while on trial — those are the real questions.”

    The second big question is about Netanyahu’s promise to begin annexing West Bank settlements.

    It’s hard to overstate how significant this move would be if Netanyahu follows through with it. Israel would be asserting permanent control over land that most countries believe belongs to the Palestinians. It would immediately cause a rupture in Israel’s relations with many countries around the world, potentially even Arab dictatorships that have been quietly working with Israel against Iran.

    And for the Palestinians, it would be catastrophic.

    “Such a move would likely signal the death knell of the two-state solution and move Israel closer to a formal apartheid reality on the ground,” says Khaled Elgindy, a senior fellow at Brookings.

    The fate of these two big issues, indictment immunity and West Bank annexation, could also be linked. It’s conceivable that Netanyahu could trade annexation for immunity: offer hard-right parties a guarantee that annexation will happen if they vote to pass an immunity bill.

    If that happens, it would be a double disaster for Israel: Not only would the prime minister be shielding himself from facing justice for the foreseeable future, undermining a basic tenet of democratic accountability, he’d also be moving toward turning what’s supposed to be a temporary occupation of Palestinian land into permanent seizure.

    This would be a move toward authoritarianism and apartheid.

    It’s not yet clear if that dire scenario will come to pass. But Netanyahu’s victory means the threat to both Israeli democracy and Palestinian freedom is higher than ever.

    Alexia Underwood contributed reporting to this piece.

    Source Article from https://www.vox.com/world/2019/4/10/18302233/israel-election-results-benjamin-netanyahu-2019

    A bus carrying German tourists has plunged off a road and overturned on the Portuguese island of Madeira.

    At least 29 people died and another 27 were injured in the accident near the town of Caniço, according to national news agency Lusa.

    Local mayor Filipe Sousa said all the tourists on the bus were German but some local people could also be among the casualties. Eleven of the fatalities were men and 17 women, Mr Sousa added. The bus was reported to be carrying 55 people.

    Source Article from https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-europe-47969452/madeira-bus-crash-at-least-29-killed-on-tourist-bus