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Irán arresta a la ganadora del Nobel de la Paz, Narges Mohammadi, afirman sus seguidores
Por JON GAMBRELL
DUBÁI, Emiratos Árabes Unidos (AP) — Irán ordenó el arresto de Narges Mohammadi, galardonada con el Premio Nobel de la Paz afirmaron sus simpatizantes el viernes.
Una fundación que lleva su nombre indicó que fue detenida en Mashhad, a unos 680 kilómetros (420 millas) al noreste de Teherán, la capital, mientras asistía a una ceremonia en honor de un abogado de derechos humanos que recientemente fue encontrado muerto en circunstancias poco claras.
Hasta el momento, Irán no ha comentado sobre la detención de Mohammadi, de 53 años. No se sabe si las autoridades la devolverían inmediatamente a prisión para cumplir el resto de su condena.
Sin embargo, su detención se produce en medio de una ola de represión contra intelectuales y otras personas por parte de Teherán, mientras el país enfrenta sanciones, una economía debilitada y el temor del reinicio de la guerra con Israel. El arresto de Mohammadi podría aumentar la presión de Occidente en un momento en que Irán ha señalado repetidamente que quiere establecer nuevas negociaciones con Estados Unidos sobre su programa nuclear, algo que aún no ha sucedido.
La activista fue detenida durante una ceremonia
Sus seguidores señalaron el viernes que Mohammadi fue “detenida violentamente hoy por fuerzas de seguridad y la policía”. Afirmaron que otros activistas también fueron arrestados en una ceremonia en honor a Khosrow Alikordi, un abogado iraní de 46 años y defensor de los derechos humanos que radicaba en Mashhad.
“La Fundación Narges pide la liberación inmediata e incondicional de todas las personas detenidas que asistían a una ceremonia para rendir homenaje y demostrar solidaridad”, se indica en un comunicado. “Su arresto constituye una grave violación de las libertades fundamentales”.
Alikordi fue encontrado muerto a principios de este mes en su oficina, y las autoridades de Razavi Khorasan describieron su muerte como un ataque al corazón. Sin embargo, su muerte coincidió con una intensificación en las medidas de seguridad, lo que generó preguntas. Más de 80 abogados firmaron un comunicado en el que exigen más información.
“Alikordi era una figura prominente en la comunidad de defensores de los derechos humanos de Irán”, dijo el jueves el Centro para los Derechos Humanos de Irán, con sede en Nueva York. “En los últimos años, había sido arrestado, acosado y amenazado repetidamente por fuerzas de seguridad y judiciales”.
En imágenes tomadas presuntamente en la ceremonia, Mohammadi aparece con un micrófono, hablando ante la multitud reunida sin llevar la cabeza cubierta con el hijab, o velo islámico. Comenzó a pedir a la multitud que coreara el nombre de Majidreza Rahnavard, un hombre al que las autoridades colgaron de una grúa en una ejecución pública en 2022.
En las imágenes publicadas por su fundación también aparece sin hijab, rodeada de una gran multitud.
Mohammadi había estado de permiso médico durante meses
Los seguidores habían advertido durante meses que Mohammadi corría el riesgo de ser enviada nuevamente a prisión tras recibir un permiso en diciembre de 2024 por preocupaciones médicas.
Aunque el permiso era solo por tres semanas, el tiempo de Mohammadi fuera de prisión se alargó, posiblemente mientras activistas y potencias occidentales presionaban a Irán para mantenerla libre. Permaneció fuera de prisión incluso durante la guerra de 12 días entre Irán e Israel, ocurrida en junio.
Mohammadi continuó con su activismo con protestas públicas y apariciones en medios internacionales, incluso manifestándose en un momento frente a la notoria prisión de Evin en Teherán, donde había estado detenida.
La activista cumplía una condena de 13 años y nueve meses por cargos de colusión contra la seguridad del estado y propaganda contra el gobierno de Irán. También había apoyado las protestas nacionales provocadas por la muerte de Mahsa Amini en 2022, en las que muchas mujeres desafiaron abiertamente al gobierno al no usar el hijab.
Mohammadi sufrió múltiples ataques cardíacos mientras estaba encarcelada antes de someterse a una cirugía de emergencia en 2022, señalan sus seguidores. A finales de 2024, su abogado reveló que los médicos habían hallado una lesión ósea que temían podría ser cancerosa y que luego fue extirpada.
“Los médicos de Mohammadi prescribieron recientemente una extensión de su permiso médico por al menos seis meses más para realizar exámenes médicos exhaustivos y periódicos, incluyendo el monitoreo de la lesión ósea que fue extirpada de su pierna en noviembre, sesiones de fisioterapia para recuperarse de la cirugía y atención cardíaca especializada”, declaró la Coalición Libertad para Narges a finales de febrero de 2025.
“El equipo médico que supervisa la salud de Mohammadi ha advertido que su regreso a prisión, especialmente en condiciones de detención estresantes y sin instalaciones médicas adecuadas, podría empeorar gravemente su bienestar físico”.
Ingeniera de formación, Mohammadi ha sido encarcelada 13 veces y condenada en cinco ocasiones. En total, ha sido sentenciada a más de 30 años de prisión. Su último encarcelamiento comenzó cuando fue detenida en 2021 tras asistir a una ceremonia en honor de una persona asesinada en protestas nacionales.
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Esta historia fue traducida del inglés por un editor de AP con la ayuda de una herramienta de inteligencia artificial generativa.
Charlie Kirk Murder Suspect Makes First Courtroom Appearance
Charlie Kirk Murder Suspect Makes First Courtroom Appearance
Tyler Robinson, the Utah man accused of killing conservative commentator Charlie Kirk on Sept. 10, made his first courtroom appearance on Thursday in Provo, Utah.
With no orange jumpsuit, his three public defenders convinced the judge in the case pushed back Robinson’s preliminary hearing to May 18.
Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for the 22-year-old over the shooting of Kirk during an event at the Utah Valley University campus in Orem – just miles away from the courthouse where Robinson appeared on Thursday. Both sides have also asked Judge Tony Graf not to allow cameras in the courtroom, though Kirk’s widow, Erika, wants cameras throughout the proceedings.
“We deserve to have cameras in there,” she said previously.
A group of local and national news outlets including the Associated Press have pressed Graf to retain media access throughout the case, while Robinson’s defense team have argued that the high-profile media attention could impede his right to a fair trial, arguing that even President Trump could have biased a potential jury when he said “I hope he gets the death penalty,” referring to Robinson.
Early into the proceeding, Graf briefly stopped a media livestream of the hearing and ordered the camera to be moved after Robinson’s attorneys said it showed the defendant’s shackles in violation of a courtroom order. The judge also warned he would terminate future broadcasts if there were further violations of an October order banning media from showing images of Robinson in restraints or anywhere in the courtroom except sitting at the defense table.
“This court takes this very seriously,” said Graf. “While the court believes in openness and transparency, it needs to be balanced with the constitutional rights of all parties in this case.”
Judge Tony Graf Jr.: “I find that excluding the cameras from the courtroom would be disproportionate for this hearing … As such we will take a brief recess to allow the relocation of the camera…” pic.twitter.com/3H48dw2CdM
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) December 11, 2025
As AP notes:
Graf held a closed hearing on Oct. 24 in which attorneys discussed Robinson’s courtroom attire and security protocols. Under a subsequent ruling by the judge, Robinson is allowed to wear street clothes during pretrial hearings but must be physically restrained due to security concerns. Graf also prohibited filming or photographing Robinson’s restraints after his attorneys argued widespread images of him shackled and in jail clothing could prejudice potential jurors.
Media attorney David Reymann urged Graf on Thursday to let the news organizations weigh in on any future requests for closed hearings or other limitations. He said media organizations want “limited party status” in the case.
Staci Visser, one of Robinson’s lawyers, pushed back: “We don’t want the chaos that is out in the media in this courtroom.”
After appearing in the courtroom, Robinson briefly smiled at his father (who turned him in), brother, and mother, who were sitting in the front row.
Tyler Durden
Fri, 12/12/2025 – 10:25
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/charlie-kirk-murder-suspect-makes-first-courtroom-appearance
The Way We Were: Photo of Naperville HS student orchestra from 1942 a blast from the past
Naperville High School boasted a 21-member student orchestra in 1942 as seen in this black-and-white print from the Naperville Heritage Society, which would appear to have been shot for a yearbook. It’s hard not to look at the faces and wonder how many of the boys might have ended up fighting in World War II. It’s also impossible not to be struck by how young the students look in their knee-length skirts and bobby socks and button-down shirts compared to teens today.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/12/way-were-naperville-student-orchestra/
MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell To Run For Governor Of Minnesota
MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell To Run For Governor Of Minnesota
Authored by Arjun Singh via The Epoch Times,
Mike Lindell, the CEO of MyPillow, Inc. and a widely known political supporter of President Donald Trump, announced via social media on Dec. 11 that he is running for governor of Minnesota in the 2026 general election.
Lindell is seeking the Republican nomination to challenge Gov. Tim Walz (D-Minn.), the Democratic Party’s vice-presidential nominee in the 2024 presidential election, who is running for a third term.
“You know that I overcame my addiction to drugs. You know that I founded amazingly successful companies. You know that I have been relentless in making people aware of the fraud in our elections,” wrote Lindell on his campaign website.
“I’ll stand for you against government-sponsored theft of your livelihood via exploding property taxes, excessive fees, and unfair sales taxes,” he added.
Lindell joins a large field of Republican politicians seeking the nomination, including Minnesota House Speaker Lisa DeMuth and Scott Jensen, the former Republican nominee for governor in the 2022 election.
Lindell gained national prominence during Trump’s first presidential term for his vocal and energized advocacy for Trump, especially in the aftermath of the 2020 election.
Lindell’s campaign platform promises a reduction in property taxes, a drop in sales taxes on in-person purchases to 5 percent, and school reform.
He has also drawn attention to an ongoing controversy involving alleged fraud in the state’s social services system during the COVID-19 pandemic, where more than $1 billion in public funds were allegedly embezzled.
Opponents of Walz have alleged that he was aware of the fraud, but did not stop it due to the involvement of members of the Somali community in Minneapolis, a politically influential constituency for Democrats that includes Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.). Walz has denied the allegations.
Tyler Durden
Fri, 12/12/2025 – 10:05
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/mypillow-ceo-mike-lindell-run-governor-minnesota
Decrepit Portage house finally being razed
A decrepit building at the corner of County Line Road and Stone Avenue is finally coming down this month.
The City Council appropriated money at its Tuesday meeting to allow the demolition to occur by Dec. 31.
In September 2024, the council approved shifting control over unsafe buildings from the building commissioner to the planning director in an attempt to speed the process of addressing the house and others like it.
Getting a house condemned so it can be razed “takes forever,” Councilwoman Gina Giese-Hurst said when that ordinance was introduced, so she wanted to speed the process.
Getting rid of an unsafe building requires a lot of steps, including title searches, hearings, chances for the property owner to bring it up to code, and other procedures that must be followed.
But after more than a year of complaints about the property, the decrepit home will finally be razed.
The house “is in dire need of being demolished,” Clerk-treasurer Liz Modesto said Tuesday.
The council also appointed Sonya Lindgren, program manager with the Planning and Community Development Department, to the Economic Development Commission.
That’s separate from the Redevelopment Commission, new City Attorney Dan Bartnicki explained. The EDC offers advice on economic development bonds like the ones for the six new residential TIF districts created this year. Those bonds were introduced Tuesday.
Lindgren’s job for the city made her a good candidate for the job, Bartnicki said.
Mayor Austin Bonta made it clear that she was OK with the appointment. “Have we ever given people jobs or titles without telling them first?”
Doug Ross is a freelance reporter for the Post-Tribune.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/12/decrepit-portage-house-finally-being-razed/
Lindsey Vonn gana el descenso de la Copa del Mundo a los 41 años al iniciar su temporada olímpica
Por GRAHAM DUNBAR
La reina del esquí de descenso ha regresado con fuerza. A los 41 años, sigue siendo más rápida que el resto.
Lindsey Vonn logró el viernes una impresionante victoria en una carrera de descenso de la Copa del Mundo en St. Moritz. su primer triunfo en casi ocho años, y el primero en su regreso con implantes de titanio en su rodilla derecha tras un retiro de cinco años.
La esquiadora estadounidense tomó la delantera con una asombrosa ventaja de 1,16 segundos sobre la austriaca Mirjam Puchner. Aún más sorprendente fue que Vonn iba 0,61 segundos detrás después de los dos primeros puntos de control de tiempo en la estación suiza.
La ventaja de Vonn se redujo luego a 0,98 segundos, aún un margen considerable en descenso, cuando la poco conocida austriaca Magdalena Egger tomó el segundo lugar de Puchner.
“Fue un día increíble, no podría estar más feliz, bastante emotivo”, dijo Vonn a la emisora suiza RTS. “Me sentí bien este verano, pero no estaba segura de qué tan rápida era. Supongo que ahora sé qué tan rápida soy”.
Poco después, Vonn derramó lágrimas en el podio en el área de llegada cuando sonó el himno nacional de Estados Unidos.
Fue un comienzo perfecto para su temporada olímpica al obtener una primera victoria desde un descenso en marzo de 2018 en Are, Suecia.
El excelente debut de Vonn trabajando con su nuevo entrenador Aksel Lund Svindal, leyenda del descenso masculino que ganó el título olímpico de Pyeongchang 2018, sugiere que la alianza está dando frutos.
Su carrera del viernes pareció rutinaria cuando redujo décimas de segundo al tiempo de Puchner en la mitad superior del soleado recorrido de Corviglia, donde la meta está a una altitud superior a los 2.000 metros (6.500 pies).
Vonn fue luego más rápida que cualquiera en los siguientes puntos de control de velocidad, alcanzando los 119 km/h (74 mph), y registró los tiempos parciales más rápidos en la mitad inferior.
Esquió al cruzar la meta y chocó contra la barrera de seguridad inflable, se tumbó en la nieve y levantó los brazos al ver su tiempo.
Vonn se levantó, golpeó el aire con su puño derecho y gritó de alegría antes de llevar sus manos a su mejilla izquierda al estilo del gesto “Buenas noches” de Steph Curry.
La campeona olímpica de 2010 tiene como objetivo otra medalla de oro en los Juegos de Invierno de Milán Cortina en febrero. El esquí alpino femenino se llevará a cabo en el histórico recorrido de Cortina d’Ampezzo en los Dolomitas, que Vonn ha dominado en su carrera con 12 victorias la Copa del Mundo.
“Obviamente mi objetivo es Cortina, pero si así es como empezamos, creo que estoy en un buen lugar”, dijo Vonn, quien será la favorita para otra victoria en descenso el sábado en St. Moritz.
44 victorias a lo largo de 24 años
La carrera del viernes fue la 125ª salida de Vonn en descenso de la Copa del Mundo en su ilustre carrera, 24 años después de la primera en Lake Louise, Canadá.
Ahora ha ganado un récord de 44 de ellas, incluyendo en St. Moritz en 2012, y tiene 83 victorias en carreras en todas las disciplinas de la Copa del Mundo.
Su victoria anterior en Are llegó semanas después de que Vonn obtuviera el bronce en descenso en los Juegos de Invierno de Pyeongchang 2018 en Corea del Sur, ganados por Sofia Goggia, quien quedó en cuarto lugar el viernes. Esa fue la cuarta y última experiencia olímpica de Vonn.
También ganó el oro en descenso en los Juegos Olímpicos de Vancouver en 2010, y en los campeonatos mundiales de 2009 en Val d’Isere, Francia.
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Everyone Except Zelensky ‘Loved’ My Plan, Trump Says, Warning Of WW3
Everyone Except Zelensky ‘Loved’ My Plan, Trump Says, Warning Of WW3
First, on Thursday NATO chief Mark Rutte said from Berlin that Europe and the world should prepare for coming war, ominously warning that it could be “on the scale of war our grandparents and great-grandparents endured.”
Soon following this, President Donald Trump seemed to echo the warning while voicing frustrations of there being no current off-ramp to the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war. “Things like this end up in third world wars. And I told that the other day, I said, ‘You know, everybody keeps playing games like this, you’ll end up in a third world war.’ And we don’t want to see that happen,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Thursday.
“I’d like to see the killing stop: 25,000 people died last month, soldiers—mostly soldiers, but some people also where bombs were dropped,” Trump continued.
While acknowledging that the conflict “doesn’t really affect the United States unless it got out of control,” he spoke on the obvious possibility of runaway escalation.
Trump said the United States is “working very hard” to resolve the conflict, but he also broke with Washington’s typical reluctance to finger-point at President Zelensky. But in this instance he unleased, saying:
“I thought that we were very close with Russia to having a deal. I thought we were very close with Ukraine to having a deal. In fact, other than President Zelensky, his people loved the concept of the deal.”
The US peace deal hinges on territorial concessions in the Donbas and Crimea, as well as Ukraine limiting the size of its armed forces and agreeing to never join NATO. These are precisely things which the Zelensky government has long rejected, and Europe has largely supported this unbending stance.
On this point, Trump said: “It’s a little bit complicated because you’re cutting up land in a certain way. It’s not the easiest thing. It’s sort of like a complex real estate deal times a thousand.” Zelensky and the Europeans having been forging a ‘counter-plan’ – but on which Russia has already declared its unwillingness to contemplate.
While Trump clearly named Zelensky as thwarting peace efforts, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt tried to perhaps soften the anti-Kiev remarks. “The president is extremely frustrated with both sides of this war, and he is sick of meetings just for the sake of meeting,” she told a press briefing.
Zelensky on Wednesday tried to blunt the pressure coming from the Trump White House by declaring he will look into holding elections.
.@PressSec on peace talks between Ukraine and Russia:
“The President is extremely frustrated with both sides of this war. He’s sick of meetings just for the sake of meeting. He doesn’t want any more talk. He wants action. He wants this war to come to an end.” pic.twitter.com/f1oucZUQb1
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) December 11, 2025
He said: “Since this issue is being raised by the U.S. president and our European partners, I’ll be brief: I am ready. I ask the U.S., together with Europe, to ensure security for the vote. If that is done, Ukraine can hold elections within 60 days.”
However, Zelensky is calling on his international backers to ensure that such an election could be held safely and fairly. Likely this would mean getting Moscow to agree to a temporary pause in the war, to allow a peaceful vote.
Tyler Durden
Fri, 12/12/2025 – 09:45
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/everyone-except-zelensky-loved-my-plan-trump-says-warning-ww3
Rusia mantendrá la policía y la Guardia Nacional en el Donbás aun con un acuerdo de paz, dice Moscú
Por DASHA LITVINOVA e ILLIA NOVIKOV
KIEV, Ucrania (AP) — Un alto funcionario del Kremlin afirmó que la policía y la Guardia Nacional de Rusia permanecerán en el Donbás, en el este de Ucrania, para supervisar la preciada región industrial, aun si un acuerdo de paz pone fin a la guerra de casi cuatro años, una posibilidad que probablemente será rechazada por las autoridades ucranianas, mientras las negociaciones lideradas por Estados Unidos no muestran avances.
Moscú aprobará un alto el fuego solo después de que las fuerzas de Ucrania se hayan retirado de la línea del frente, dijo el asesor del Kremlin Yuri Ushakov en comentarios publicados el viernes en el diario de negocios ruso Kommersant.
El funcionario dijo a Kommersant que “es completamente posible que no haya tropas (en el Donbás), ni rusas ni ucranianas” en un escenario de posguerra.
Pero afirmó que “estará la Guardia Nacional, nuestra policía, todo lo necesario para mantener el orden y organizar la vida”.
Durante meses, los negociadores estadounidenses han intentado atender las demandas de cada lado mientras el presidente de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, presiona para dar un rápido fin a la guerra de Rusia y se muestra cada vez más exasperado por los retrasos. La búsqueda de posibles acuerdos se ha topado con un gran obstáculo sobre quién se quedará con el territorio ucraniano que las fuerzas rusas han ocupado hasta ahora.
Desde la anexión ilegal de Crimea por parte de Moscú en 2014 y la toma de territorio en el este por separatistas respaldados por Rusia en los siguientes meses de ese año, así como el terreno tomado después de que se lanzara la invasión a gran escala el 24 de febrero de 2022, Rusia ha capturado alrededor del 20% de su país vecino.
Ucrania dice que su constitución no le permite ceder territorio. Rusia, que anexó ilegalmente Donetsk y otras tres regiones en 2022, dice lo mismo. Ushakov afirmó que “no importa cuál sea el resultado (de las conversaciones de paz), este territorio (el Donbás) es territorio de la Federación Rusa”.
El jueves, Trump comparó las negociaciones con un acuerdo inmobiliario muy complejo. Dijo que quiere ver más avances en las conversaciones antes de enviar representantes a posibles reuniones con líderes europeos durante el fin de semana.
En octubre, el mandatario estadounidense afirmó que la región del Donbás tendrá que ser “dividida” para poner fin a la guerra.
Ucrania ontraataca
En los últimos meses, el ejército ruso ha hecho un esfuerzo decidido para adquirir el control de todas las partes de Donetsk y la vecina Luhansk, que, en conjunto, conforman la valiosa región del Donbás.
Su lento avance a través del campo ucraniano, utilizando su importante ventaja en el número de tropas en una corrosiva guerra de desgaste, ha tenido un gran costo en términos de bajas y pérdidas de armamento. Aunque superados en número, los defensores ucranianos se han mantenido firmes en muchas áreas y han contraatacado en otras.
Las fuerzas ucranianas dijeron el viernes que habían recuperado varios asentamientos y barrios cerca de la ciudad de Kupiansk en la región nororiental de Járkiv, tras una operación de varios meses destinada a revertir los avances rusos.
En los últimos meses, Kupiansk ha sido uno de los sectores más disputados de la línea del frente, de alrededor de 1.000 kilómetros (600 millas).
Las unidades ucranianas cortaron gradualmente las rutas de suministro rusas hacia Kupiansk a partir del 22 de septiembre y recuperaron el control de las aldeas de Kindrashivka y Radkivka, así como de varios distritos del norte de la ciudad, según un comunicado del Cuerpo Khartia de la Guardia Nacional publicado en Facebook.
Los combates continúan ahora en el centro de Kupiansk, donde más de 200 soldados rusos están rodeados, según el comunicado.
El presidente ucraniano Volodymyr Zelenskyy publicó un video de sí mismo de pie en la carretera hacia Kupiansk el viernes. Se podían escuchar explosiones de fondo mientras hablaba.
“Hoy, es críticamente importante lograr resultados en el campo de batalla para que Ucrania pueda lograr resultados en la diplomacia”, dijo Zelenskyy en el video, elogiando a sus tropas en el Día de las Fuerzas Terrestres de Ucrania.
Hasta el momento, las autoridades rusas no han hecho ningún comentario, y las declaraciones ucranianas no pudieron ser verificadas de manera independiente.
A finales de octubre, el presidente ruso Vladímir Putin dijo que las tropas ucranianas en Kupiansk estaban rodeadas y ofreció negociar su rendición. Afirmó que una visita de los medios al área lo demostraría.
Ucrania también ha desarrollado sus capacidades de ataque de largo alcance utilizando armas de producción nacional para afectar a la maquinaria de guerra de Rusia.
Sus Fuerzas de Operaciones Especiales, o SSO, dijeron el viernes que una operación en el mar Caspio alcanzó dos embarcaciones rusas que transportaban equipo militar y armas.
Los barcos, llamados Kompozitor Rakhmaninov y Askar-Saridzha, enfrentan sanciones de Estados Unidos por transportar armas entre Rusia e Irán, dijo el SSO en un comunicado publicado en las redes sociales. No se especificó qué armas se utilizaron en el ataque.
Ataques transfronterizos con drones
Un ataque con drones ucranianos hirió a siete personas, incluido un niño, en la ciudad rusa de Tver, dijo el viernes el gobernador interino Vitaly Korolev. Los restos de un dron cayeron sobre un edificio de apartamentos en la ciudad, que se encuentra al noroeste de Moscú, dijo Korolev.
Las defensas aéreas de Rusia destruyeron 90 drones ucranianos durante la noche, informó el Ministerio de Defensa de Rusia.
Drones rusos atacaron una zona residencial de Pavlohrad, en la región de Dnipropetrovsk, en el centro de Ucrania, matando a una persona e hiriendo a otras cuatro, escribió el viernes en Telegram el jefe de la administración militar local, Vladyslav Haivanenko.
La región de Odesa, en el sur de Ucrania fue objeto de un ataque masivo con drones durante la noche, según el jefe regional Oleh Kiper. La ofensiva dañó la infraestructura energética, afirmó. Más de 90.000 personas estaban sin electricidad el viernes por la mañana, declaró el viceministro de Energía Roman Andarak.
La fuerza aérea de Ucrania señaló que Rusia lanzó 80 drones en todo el país durante la noche.
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Dasha Litvinova informó desde Tallin, Estonia.
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Esta historia fue traducida del inglés por un editor de AP con la ayuda de una herramienta de inteligencia artificial generativa.
Washington state faces historic floods that have washed away homes and stranded families
MOUNT VERNON, Wash. — Days of torrential rain in Washington state caused historic floods that have stranded families on rooftops, washed over bridges and ripped at least two homes from their foundations, and experts warned that even more flooding expected Friday could be catastrophic.
Washington is under a state of emergency and evacuation orders are in place for tens of thousands of residents. Gov. Bob Ferguson on Thursday urged everyone to follow evacuation instructions as yet another river neared record levels.
“I understand that many in our state have experienced significant floods in the past,” he said on the social platform X. “However, we’re looking at a historic situation.”
About 78,000 residents of a major agricultural region north of Seattle were ordered to evacuate the floodplain of the Skagit River, which was expected to crest Friday morning.
The floods were impacting large parts of the state, with several bridges flooded and some major roads inundated or washed out. Some roads had no alternate routes and no estimated reopening time, including a large part of state Route 410.
A landslide blocked part of Interstate 90 east of Seattle, with photos showing vehicles trapped by tree trunks, branches, mud and standing water.
In the north near the U.S.-Canada border, the cities of Sumas, Nooksack and Everson were evacuated after being inundated. The border crossing at Sumas was closed and Amtrak suspended trains between Seattle and Vancouver, B.C.
Sumas Mayor Bruce Bosch said much of the city has been “devastated” by the high waters just four years after a similar flood.
Flooding rivers break records
The Snohomish River surged nearly a foot (30 centimeters) higher than its record Thursday in the picturesque city that shares its name, while the Skagit River rose just above its record Thursday night in Mount Vernon, according to the National Water Prediction Service.
Earlier Thursday, the Skagit just missed its previous record as flooding surged through the mountain town of Concrete.
The waters stopped just short of getting inside Mariah Brosa’s raised riverfront home in Concrete, but the raging river still slapped debris against her home and totaled her fiancé’s work car, she said.
“I didn’t think it would come this high,” she said.
Flooding from the Skagit has long plagued Mount Vernon, the largest city in Skagit County with some 35,000 residents. Flooding in 2003 displaced hundreds of people.
A floodwall that protects downtown passed a major test in 2021, when the river crested near record levels. Water was at the foot of the floodwall as of late Thursday morning, Mayor Peter Donovan said.
In nearby Burlington, officials hoped dikes and other systems would protect their community from catastrophe, said Michael Lumpkin, with the police department.
Officials respond to flooding
Authorities across Washington state in recent days have rescued people from cars and homes after an atmospheric river soaked the region.
Helicopters rescued two families on Thursday from the roofs of homes in Sumas that had been flooded by about 15 feet of water, while the city’s fire station had 3 feet (91 centimeters) of water, according Frank Cain JR., battalion chief for Whatcom County Fire District 14.
In nearby Welcome, erosion from the floodwaters caused at least two houses to collapse into the Nooksack River, he said. No one was inside at the time.
In a football field in Snoqualmie, a herd of elk swam and waded through neck-high water.
East of Seattle, residents along Issaquah Creek used water pumps as rushing floodwaters filled yards Thursday morning. Yellow tape blocked off a hazardous area along the creek.
Climate change has been linked to some intense rainfall. Scientists say that without specific study they cannot directly link a single weather event to climate change, but in general it’s responsible for more intense and more frequent extreme storms, droughts, floods and wildfires.
Another storm system is expected to bring more rain starting Sunday.
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Federal judge issues order to prohibit immigration officials from detaining Kilmar Abrego Garcia
BALTIMORE — Kilmar Abrego Garcia walked away after a scheduled appointment at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office on Friday to the cheers of a crowd assembled outside. A federal judge had ordered that immigration officials could not detain him.
Abrego Garcia appeared for the appointment at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office, some 14 hours after he was released from detention on a judge’s orders. His lawyers had asked the judge to block authorities from detaining him again and he walked out of the building surrounded by cheering supporters after the appearance, then left without commenting.
Officials cannot re-detain him until the court conducts a hearing on the motion for the temporary restraining order, U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis in Maryland said. She wrote that Abrego Garcia is likely to succeed on the merits of any further request for relief from ICE detention.
“For the public to have any faith in the orderly administration of justice, the Court’s narrowly crafted remedy cannot be so quickly and easily upended without further briefing and consideration,” she wrote.
Abrego Garcia became a flashpoint of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown earlier this year when he was wrongly deported to a notorious prison in El Salvador. He was last taken into custody in August during a similar check-in.
Abrego Garcia on Friday stopped at a news conference outside the building, escorted by a group of supporters chanting “We are all Kilmar!”
Abrego Garcia says he’ll fight ‘against all of the injustices’
“I stand before you a free man and I want you to remember me this way, with my head held up high,” Abrego Garcia said through a translator. “I come here today with so much hope and I thank God who has been with me since the start with my family.”
He urged people to keep fighting.
“I stand here today with my head held high and I will continue to fight and stand firm against all of the injustices this government has done upon me,” Abrego Garcia said. “Regardless of this administration, I believe this is a country of laws and I believe that this injustice will come to an end.”
After Abrego Garcia spoke, he went through security at the field office, escorted by supporters.
When Abrego Garcia’s attorney, Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg, announced to the crowd assembled outside that his client would walk back out the field office’s doors again, he stressed that the legal fight was not over.
“Yesterday’s order from Judge Xinis and now the temporary restraining order this morning represent a victory of law over power,” Sandoval-Moshenberg said.
The agency freed him just before 5 p.m. on Thursday in response to a ruling from Xinis, who wrote federal authorities detained him after his return to the United States without any legal basis.
Mistakenly deported and then returned
Abrego Garcia is a Salvadoran citizen with an American wife and child who has lived in Maryland for years. He immigrated to the U.S. illegally as a teenager to join his brother, who had become a U.S. citizen. In 2019, an immigration judge granted him protection from being deported back to his home country, where he faces danger from a gang that targeted his family.
While he was allowed to live and work in the U.S. under ICE supervision, he was not given residency status. Earlier this year, he was mistakenly deported and held in a notoriously brutal Salvadoran prison despite having no criminal record.
Facing mounting public pressure and a court order, Trump’s Republican administration brought him back to the U.S. in June, but only after issuing an arrest warrant on human smuggling charges in Tennessee. He has pleaded not guilty to those charges and asked a federal judge there to dismiss them.
A lawsuit to block removal from the US
The 2019 settlement found he had a “well founded fear” of danger in El Salvador if he was deported there. So instead ICE has been seeking to deport him to a series of African countries. Abrego Garcia has sued, claiming the Trump administration is illegally using the removal process to punish him for the public embarrassment caused by his deportation.
In her order releasing Abrego Garcia, Xinis wrote that federal authorities “did not just stonewall” the court, “They affirmatively misled the tribunal.” Xinis also rejected the government’s argument that she lacked jurisdiction to intervene on a final removal order for Abrego Garcia, because she found no final order had been filed.
ICE freed Abrego Garcia from Moshannon Valley Processing Center, about 115 miles (185 kilometers) northeast of Pittsburgh, on Thursday just before the deadline Xinis gave the government to provide an update on Abrego Garcia’s release.
He returned home to Maryland a few hours later.
Immigration check-in
Check-ins are how ICE keeps track of some people who are released by the government to pursue asylum or other immigration cases as they make their way through a backlogged court system. The appointments were once routine but many people have been detained at their check-ins since the start of President Donald Trump’s second term.
The Department of Homeland Security sharply criticized Xinis’ order and vowed to appeal, calling the ruling “naked judicial activism” by a judge appointed during the Obama administration.
“This order lacks any valid legal basis, and we will continue to fight this tooth and nail in the courts,” said Tricia McLaughlin, the department’s assistant secretary.
Sandoval-Moshenberg said the judge made it clear that the government can’t detain someone indefinitely without legal authority and that his client “has endured more than anyone should ever have to.”
Abrego Garcia has also applied for asylum in the U.S. in immigration court.
Charges in Tennessee
Abrego Garcia was hit with human smuggling and conspiracy to commit human smuggling charges when the U.S. government brought him back from El Salvador. Prosecutors alleged he accepted money to transport within the United States people who were in the country illegally.
The charges stem from a 2022 traffic stop in Tennessee for speeding. Body camera footage from a Tennessee Highway Patrol officer shows a calm exchange with Abrego Garcia. There were nine passengers in the car, and the officers discussed among themselves their suspicions of smuggling. However, Abrego Garcia was eventually allowed to continue driving with only a warning.
A Department of Homeland Security agent testified at an earlier hearing that he did not begin investigating the traffic stop until after the U.S. Supreme Court said in April that the Trump administration must work to bring back Abrego Garcia.
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