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“Intense Solar Radiation” Corrupted A320 Flight Systems, Airbus Rushes Emergency Update
“Intense Solar Radiation” Corrupted A320 Flight Systems, Airbus Rushes Emergency Update
Airbus warned Friday that “intense solar radiation” may have corrupted critical flight data in an incident involving an A320 narrow-body aircraft. While the company did not disclose which flight was affected, it was likely last month’s JetBlue Flight 1230, which suddenly dropped in altitude while en route from Newark to Cancun.
Airbus issued an Alert Operators Transmission to all airlines operating A320 Family aircraft, warning that an urgent fix is required.
The company believes this is the first time this specific problem has emerged in its fleet and says it has “proactively worked with aviation authorities… keeping safety as our number one and overriding priority,” according to CNN.
“Airbus acknowledges these recommendations will lead to operational disruptions to passengers and customers,” Airbus wrote in a statement.
Airbus told CNN on Saturday that most of the narrow-body aircraft can be repaired in a matter of hours by simply reverting to the previous software. It said about 900 older aircraft would need more complicated fixes.
Here’s more from the report:
American Airlines has about 209 of the aircraft which need to be updated, less than the 340 it had earlier predicted, according to a statement from the airline.
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Delta Air Lines said fewer than 50 of its A321neo aircraft will be impacted and the work should be complete by Saturday morning.
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JetBlue, which operates a fleet mostly made up of A320 and A321 aircraft, did not say how many of their planes needed to be fixed, but told CNN in a statement it has already started repairs.
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Southwest Airlines does not have any of the impacted aircraft. Meanwhile, in the Asia-Pacific, Jetstar Airways Australia, Air New Zealand, IndiGo and Air India Express have also taken precautionary measures.
At cruising altitude, commercial jets are exposed to 100 to 300 times more solar radiation than at ground level, and a major solar storm can push that even higher.
High-energy particles can disrupt modern avionics processors, including corrupting memory or causing a logic error. While Airbus hasn’t specified which exact flight systems were affected, here are the likely candidates:
Flight Control Primary Computers (FCPCs)
ADIRUs (Air Data & Inertial Reference Units)
FADEC engine control
Autopilot & flight director
Fly-by-wire actuator command modules
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Brady Stovall’s TD run with 5 minutes left is the difference as Andrean wins 2A state championship
INDIANAPOLIS — Brady Stovall finally got the breakthrough for Andrean.
The junior running back’s 2-yard touchdown plunge with 5:00 left in the Class 2A state championship game helped propel the 59ers to a 7-0 victory over Brownstown Central at Lucas Oil Stadium on Saturday.
In a defense-dominated slugfest, the 59ers (13-1) ultimately got on the scoreboard in the waning minutes to secure their fourth state title. They were making their third trip to the state finals in five seasons, having last won in 2021.
Brownstown Central (14-1) was making its first appearance in coach Reed May’s 33rd season.
The 59ers remarkably shut out the wing-T offense that had helped the Braves score no fewer than 31 points in any game this season.
This story will be updated.
Más de 70.000 palestinos han muerto desde el inicio de la guerra entre Israel y Hamás
Por WAFAA SHURAFA y SAMY MAGDY
DEIR AL-BALAH, Franja de Gaza (AP) — El número de muertos palestinos ha superado los 70.000 desde que comenzó la guerra entre Israel y Hamás, informó el sábado el Ministerio de Salud de Gaza, mientras que un hospital dijo que el fuego israelí provocó la muerte de dos niños palestinos en el sur del territorio.
El número de víctimas sigue aumentando tras el inicio del más reciente alto el fuego el 10 de octubre. Israel aún realiza ataques en respuesta a lo que califica como violaciones de la tregua, y de entre los escombros se siguen recuperando cuerpos de personas fallecidas en los primeros días de la guerra.
El Ministerio de Salud dice que el número de palestinos muertos asciende ahora a 70.100. El organismo opera bajo el gobierno dirigido por Hamás. Está compuesto por profesionales médicos y mantiene registros detallados que son considerados generalmente confiables por la comunidad internacional.
La guerra comenzó con el ataque liderado por Hamás en el sur de Israel el 7 de octubre de 2023, en el que murieron alrededor de 1.200 personas y los combatientes tomaron más de 250 rehenes. Casi todos ellos o sus restos han sido devueltos en ceses al fuego u otros acuerdos.
El personal del Hospital Nasser, que recibió los cuerpos de los niños en el sur de Gaza, dijo que los hermanos, de 8 y 11 años, murieron cuando un dron israelí atacó cerca de una escuela que albergaba a personas desplazadas en la ciudad de Beni Suhaila.
El Ejército de Israel dijo que mató a dos personas que cruzaron a un área controlada por Israel, “realizaron actividades sospechosas” y se acercaron a las tropas. En la declaración no se menciona a los niños. El Ejército dijo que también abatió a otra persona en un incidente separado pero similar en el sur.
Al menos 352 palestinos han sido asesinados en todo el territorio desde que el alto el fuego entre Israel y Hamás entró en vigor el 10 de octubre, según el Ministerio de Salud de Gaza, que no diferencia entre civiles y combatientes.
Tel Aviv afirma que sus ataques están dirigidos a milicianos que violan la tregua. Israel y Hamás se han acusado mutuamente de violar el acuerdo. El grupo armado instó nuevamente el sábado a los mediadores a presionar a Israel para que detenga lo que calificó como violaciones del alto el fuego en Gaza.
Un plan de Estados Unidos en el que se describe el futuro del enclave, devastado por más de dos años de guerra, aún está en las primeras etapas. En el plan para asegurar y gobernar el territorio se autoriza la creación de una fuerza internacional de estabilización para proporcionar seguridad, se aprueba una autoridad transicional que será supervisada por el presidente de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, y se prevé un posible camino futuro hacia un estado palestino independiente.
En las últimas semanas, las fuerzas israelíes han avanzado en una serie de frentes en la región.
Autoridades sirias dijeron que las fuerzas israelíes asaltaron una aldea de ese país el viernes y abrieron fuego cuando fueron confrontadas por residentes, matando al menos a 13 personas. Israel dijo que llevó a cabo la operación para detener a sospechosos de un grupo armado que planeaba realizar ataques en Israel, y que los milicianos abrieron fuego contra los soldados, hiriendo a seis.
Israel también ha intensificado sus ataques en Líbano, diciendo que están dirigidos a sitios de Hezbollah y afirmando que el grupo político-militar intenta rearmarse.
Hezbollah llamó al papa León XIV a “rechazar la injusticia y la agresión”, en referencia a los ataques israelíes casi diarios, a pesar de un alto el fuego que puso fin hace un año a la guerra de 14 meses entre las dos partes. El papa visita la región en su primer viaje al extranjero.
En la Cisjordania ocupada por Israel, soldados israelíes fueron acusados por palestinos de ejecutar a dos hombres el jueves después de que imágenes transmitidas por dos estaciones de televisión árabes mostraran a los soldados disparando a los hombres después de que parecían rendirse. El Ejército israelí dijo que ya investiga el caso.
La violencia de los colonos israelíes ha seguido en aumento en Cisjordania. El sábado, la Media Luna Roja Palestina dijo que 10 palestinos resultaron heridos por golpes y munición real en ataques de colonos en la aldea de Khallet al-Louza cerca de Belén.
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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.
President Donald Trump says Venezuela’s airspace should be viewed as closed. It’s not clear what that means.
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — President Donald Trump on Saturday said that the airspace “above and surrounding” Venezuela should be considered as “closed in its entirety,” an assertion that raised more questions about the U.S. pressure on Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro.
The White House did not respond to questions about what Trump posted on his Truth Social platform, and it was unclear whether he was announcing a new policy or simply reinforcing the messaging around his campaign against Maduro, which has involved multiple strikes in the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific Ocean on small boats accused of ferrying drugs as well as a buildup of naval forces in the region. More than 80 people have been killed in such strikes since early September.
The Republican president addressed his call for an aerial blockade to “Airlines, Pilots, Drug Dealers, and Human Traffickers,” rather than to Maduro. International airlines last week began to cancel flights to Venezuela after the Federal Aviation Administration told pilots to be cautious flying around the country because of heightened military activity.
The FAA’s jurisdiction is generally limited to the United States and its territories. The agency does routinely warn pilots about the dangers of flying over areas with ongoing conflicts or military activity around the globe, as it did earlier this month with Venezuela. The FAA works with other countries and the International Civil Aviation Organization on international issues. The FAA and ICAO did not immediately respond to requests for comment Saturday.
Trump’s administration has sought to ratchet up pressure on Maduro. The U.S. government does not view Maduro as the legitimate leader of the oil-rich but increasingly impoverished South American nation and he faces charges of narcoterrorism in the U.S.
U.S. forces have conducted bomber flights near Venezuela and the USS Gerald R. Ford, America’s most advanced aircraft carrier, was sent to the area. The Ford rounds off the largest buildup of U.S. firepower in the region in generations. With its arrival, the “Operation Southern Spear” mission includes nearly a dozen Navy ships and about 12,000 sailors and Marines.
Trump’s team has weighed both military and nonmilitary options with Venezuela, including covert action by the CIA.
Trump has publicly floated the idea of talking to Maduro. The New York Times reported Friday that Trump and Maduro had spoken. The White House declined to answer questions about the conversation.
Associated Press writer Josh Funk in Omaha, Nebraska, contributed to this report.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/29/trump-venezuelas-airspace-closed/
PSG caer ante Mónaco y deja vía libre a Marsella para liderar la Ligue 1
Por JEROME PUGMIRE
PARÍS (AP) — El líder Paris Saint-Germain perdió el sábado 1-0 en la visita a Mónaco, sufriendo su segunda derrota de la temporada en la liga francesa, tantas como en toda la temporada pasada para el campeón defensor.
El delantero japonés Takumi Minamino le dio la victoria al club del principado con su gol a los 68 minutos.
La derrota del PSG significa que el Olympique Marsella puede avanzar un punto al frente en la Ligue 1, si vence a Tolosa en casa más tarde el sábado. Marsella también tiene una mejor diferencia de goles que el reinante monarca de la Liga de Campeones.
El centrocampista local Lamine Camara tuvo suerte de escapar solo con una tarjeta amarilla al inicio después de una peligrosa entrada sobre el arquero Lucas Chevalier, pegándole fuerte al tobillo derecho de Chevalier después de que éste había pateado el balón.
Chevalier se recuperó e hizo una buena intervención con una mano más tarde en la primera mitad.
El centrocampista portugués Vitinha, quien fue el autor de un brillante hat-trick en la Liga de Campeones a mitad de semana, fue sometido por el mediocampo de Mónaco.
El PSG estuvo expuesto a los contragolpes y Minamino anotó cuando controló hábilmente el pase de Aleksandr Golovin desde la izquierda y batir a Chevalier.
Mónaco acabó con 10 hombres cuando su zagueron Thilo Kehrer fue expulsado a los 80 tras una revisión de video después de empujar a un jugador del PSG por la espalda. El volante Paul Pogba ingresó por Mónaco al al final del encuentro.
Más tarde el sábado, Paris FC se enfrenta al colista Auxerre.
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Naperville Holiday Parade of Lights illuminates the start of the Christmas season
Nothing ushers in the holidays like Naperville’s annual Parade of Lights, the festive celebration of the season held every year on the Friday after Thanksgiving. With the snow not yet arrived, crowds gathered along downtown sidewalks to wave at people riding atop illuminated floats and in decorated vehicles, costumed characters, marching groups, and even horses and dogs as they made their way from Centennial Beach on Jackson Avenue to Naper Elementary School on South Eagle Street. The event is organized by the Rotary Club of Naperville in partnership with the Downtown Naperville Alliance.
Two riders on horseback ride wave to the crowd Friday night during the 2025 Holiday Parade of Lights in downtown Naperville. (Troy Stolt/Naperville Sun)
Parade-goers gather four and five deep Friday night to watch the 2025 Holiday Parade of Lights in Naperville, sponsored by the Rotary Club of Naperville. (Troy Stolt/Naperville Sun)
An old fire engine was decorated for the season to participate in the annual Holiday Parade of Lights, held Friday night in downtown Naperville. (Troy Stolt/Naperville Sun)
Even Beth Carter’s pooch Ellie came attired for the season as they marched with Central Bark Friday night as part of the annual Holiday Parade of Lights in downtown Naperville. (Troy Stolt/Naperville Sun)
Isabella Digrazia performs with other members of the Illinois Conservatory for the Arts on a float that was part of the 2025 Holiday Parade of Lights in Naperville on Friday, Nov. 28, 2025. (Troy Stolt/Naperville Sun)
Michael Codo spread a little bit of holiday cheer Friday night as part of the Friends Uniting in Naperville (FUN) group marching in the 2025 Holiday Parade of Lights in downtown Naperville on Friday, Nov. 28, 2025. (Troy Stolt/Naperville Sun)
Regina Rice waves to parade-goers from the Paris Bistro float during the 2025 Holiday Parade of Lights in Naperville on Friday, Nov. 28, 2025. (Troy Stolt/Naperville Sun)
The Naperville Trolley was one of many entries in this year’s Holiday Parade of Lights, held Friday night in downtown Naperville. (Troy Stolt/Naperville Sun)
Emily Turner from Villa St. Benedict Assisted Living Community in Lisle hands out glow sticks during the 2025 Holiday Parade of Lights in Naperville on Friday, Nov. 28, 2025. (Troy Stolt/Naperville Sun)
The Nortek Yeti marches as part of the 2025 Holiday Parade of Lights, held Friday night in downtown Naperville. (Troy Stolt/Naperville Sun)
Missi Craddock, a Naperville resident and winner of the 2025 Miss Illinois for America pageant, was the grand marshal of Friday’s annual Holiday Parade of Lights in downtown Naperville. (Troy Stolt/Naperville Sun)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/29/naperville-parade-lights-holiday-christmas/
Pope Leo XIV visits Istanbul’s Blue Mosque without praying as he focuses on unifying Christians
ISTANBUL, Turkey — Pope Leo XIV visited Istanbul’s iconic Blue Mosque on Saturday but didn’t stop to pray, as he focused more on bolstering ties with Orthodox patriarchs and promoting courageous steps for Eastern and Western churches to be united.
Leo took his shoes off and, in his white socks, toured the 17th-century mosque, looking up at its soaring tiled domes and the Arabic inscriptions on its columns as an imam pointed them out to him.
The Vatican had said Leo would observe a “brief moment of silent prayer” in the mosque, but he didn’t. An imam of the mosque, Asgin Tunca, said he had invited Leo to pray, since the mosque was “Allah’s house,” but the pope declined.
Later, Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni said: “The pope experienced his visit to the mosque in silence, in a spirit of contemplation and listening, with deep respect for the place and the faith of those who gather there in prayer.”
Leo, history’s first American pope, was following in the footsteps of his recent predecessors, who all made high-profile visits to the Sultan Ahmed Mosque, as it is officially known, in a gesture of respect to Turkey’s Muslim majority.
Papal visits to Blue Mosque often raise questions
But the visits have always raised questions about whether the pope would pray in the Muslim house of worship, or at the very least pause to gather thoughts in a meditative silence.
When Pope Benedict XVI visited Turkey in 2006, tensions were high because Benedict had offended many in the Muslim world a few months earlier with a speech in Regensburg, Germany that was widely interpreted as linking Islam and violence.
The Vatican added a visit to the Blue Mosque at the last minute in a bid to reach out to Muslims. He observed a moment of silent prayer, head bowed, as the imam prayed next to him, facing east.
Benedict later thanked him “for this moment of prayer” for what was only the second time a pope had visited a mosque, after St. John Paul II visited one briefly in Syria in 2001.
There were no doubts in 2014 when Pope Francis visited the Blue Mosque: He stood for two minutes of silent prayer facing east, his head bowed, eyes closed and hands clasped in front of him. The Grand Mufti of Istanbul, Rahmi Yaran, told the pope afterwards, “May God accept it.”
With Leo, though, even the Vatican seemed caught off guard by his decision not to pray. The Holy See had to correct the official record of the visit after it originally kept the planned reference to him pausing for prayer.
Speaking to reporters after the visit, the imam Tunca said he had told the pope: “It’s not my house, not your house, (it’s the) house of Allah.” He said he invited Leo to worship “But he said, ‘That’s OK.’”
“He wanted to see the mosque, wanted to feel (the) atmosphere of the mosque, I think. And was very pleased,” he said.
A joint declaration on Easter talks
In the afternoon, Leo prayed with the spiritual leader of the world’s Orthodox Christians, Patriarch Bartholomew, at the patriarchal church of Saint George.
There, they prayed the doxology, a hymn of praise and glory to God, and signed a joint declaration vowing to take courageous steps on the path to unity including to find a common date for Easter.
Eastern and Western churches split in the Great Schism of 1054, a divide precipitated largely by disagreements over the primacy of the pope. While ties have warmed, they remain divided and other schisms have formed.
“It is our shared desire to continue the process of exploring a possible solution for celebrating together the Feast of Feasts every year,” the joint statement said, referring to Easter.
The Vatican said in his remarks to the patriarchs gathered, Leo pointed to the next Holy Year to be celebrated by Christians, in 2033 on the anniversary of Christ’s crucifixion, and invited them to go to Jerusalem on “a journey that leads to full unity.”
Leo’s final event was a Catholic Mass in Istanbul’s Volkswagen Arena for the country’s Catholic community, who number 33,000 in a country of more than 85 million people, most of whom are Sunni Muslim.
Renato Marai was among a group of 26 visitors from Florence, Italy, who traveled to Istanbul to see the pope. “It’s wonderful to see him on his first foreign trip, a really important moment for our group,” he said.
Tarcin Unlu, meanwhile, was among many Turkish attendees, a recent convert to Christianity from Islam. “I became Christian because I thought it was the best religion for me but my family is definitely not happy,” Unlu said.
Her friend, Rodrick Nuel, originally from Nigeria’s Biafra region but now living in northern Cyprus, said the papal visit sent a “a powerful message for the global Christian community.”
“Also, as Turkey is 99.9% Muslim and just 0.1% Christian, it shows the pope is reaching out to other religions as well,” he added.
The Airbus software update doesn’t spare pope
While Leo was focusing on bolstering relations with Catholics, Orthodox Christians and Muslims, trip organizers were dealing with more mundane issues.
Leo’s ITA Airways Airbus A320neo charter was among those caught up in the worldwide Airbus software update, ordered by the European Union Aviation Safety Agency. The order came after an analysis found the computer code may have contributed to a sudden drop in the altitude of a JetBlue plane last month.
The Vatican spokesman, Bruni, said the necessary monitor to update the aircraft was on its way to Istanbul from Rome along with the technician who would install it.
Leo is scheduled to fly from Istanbul to Beirut, Lebanon, on Sunday afternoon for the second leg of his inaugural trip as pope.
Fraser contributed from Ankara, Turkey.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/29/pope-visits-istanbuls-blue-mosque/
EEUU suspende decisiones de asilo tras ataque a miembros de la Guardia Nacional
Por COLLIN BINKLEY y BEN FINLEY
WASHINGTON (AP) — El gobierno del presidente Donald Trump suspendió todas las decisiones de asilo y pausó la emisión de visas para personas que viajan con pasaportes afganos a unos días del tiroteo ocurrido cerca de la Casa Blanca en el que un miembro de la Guardia Nacional murió y otro permanece en estado crítico.
Los investigadores seguían buscando el sábado un motivo para el tiroteo, en el que el sospechoso, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, ahora enfrenta cargos que incluyen homicidio premeditado.
Lakanwal es un ciudadano afgano de 29 años que trabajó con la CIA durante la guerra de Afganistán. Solicitó asilo durante el gobierno del expresidente Joe Biden y se le concedió este año en el régimen de Trump, según un grupo que colabora en el reasentamiento de afganos que ayudaron a las fuerzas estadounidenses en su país.
El gobierno de Trump aprovechó el tiroteo para intensificar los esfuerzos para controlar la inmigración legal, y prometió pausar la entrada desde algunos países pobres y reevaluar a los afganos y otros migrantes legales que ya están en el país. Esto se suma a otras medidas, algunas de las cuales ya estaban en marcha.
La especialista Sarah Beckstrom, de 20 años, murió después del tiroteo del miércoles, y el sargento primero Andrew Wolfe, de 24 años, fue hospitalizado en estado crítico. Ambos fueron desplegados con la Guardia Nacional de Virginia Occidental como parte de la misión de lucha contra el crimen de Trump en la ciudad. El presidente también ha desplegado o intentado desplegar a miembros de la Guardia Nacional en otras ciudades para contribuir a sus esfuerzos de deportación masiva, pero ha enfrentado impugnaciones judiciales.
La oficina de la fiscal federal Jeanine Pirro dijo que los cargos contra Lakanwal también incluyen dos acusaciones de agresión con intención de matar estando armado. En una entrevista en Fox News, dijo que había “muchos cargos por venir”.
Se suspenden decisiones de asilo
Trump calificó el tiroteo como un “ataque terrorista” y criticó a la administración de Biden por permitir la entrada de afganos que trabajaron con las fuerzas de Estados Unidos.
El director de Servicios de Ciudadanía e Inmigración de Estados Unidos (USCIS, por sus siglas en inglés), Joseph Edlow, dijo en X que las decisiones de asilo se pausarán “hasta que podamos garantizar que cada extranjero sea investigado y examinado al máximo grado posible”.
Los expertos dicen que Estados Unidos tiene sistemas rigurosos de investigación para los solicitantes de asilo. Las solicitudes de asilo hechas desde dentro del país a través del USCIS han enfrentado retrasos desde hace tiempo. Los críticos dicen que la desaceleración se ha exacerbado durante el gobierno de Trump.
También el viernes, el secretario de Estado Marco Rubio dijo que su departamento pausó “la emisión de visas para TODAS las personas que viajan con pasaportes afganos”.
Shawn VanDiver, presidente del grupo #AfghanEvac, con sede en San Diego, dijo en respuesta: “Están usando a un solo individuo violento como excusa para ejercer una política que han planeado desde hace tiempo, convirtiendo sus propios fracasos de inteligencia en una excusa para castigar a toda una comunidad y a los veteranos que sirvieron junto a ellos”.
El sospechoso
Lakanwal vivía en Bellingham, Washington, a unos 130 kilómetros (80 millas) al norte de Seattle, con su esposa y cinco hijos, dijo su antigua casera Kristina Widman.
Su vecino, Mohammad Sherzad, dijo que Lakanwal era educado y tranquilo y hablaba poco inglés.
También afirmó que asistía a la misma mezquita que él y escuchó de otros miembros que tenía problemas para encontrar trabajo. Señaló que el acusado “desapareció” hace unas dos semanas.
Lakanwal trabajó brevemente este verano como contratista independiente para Amazon Flex, que permite que las personas usen sus propios autos para entregar paquetes, según un portavoz de la compañía.
Los investigadores ejecutan órdenes de registro en el estado de Washington y otras partes del país.
Lakanwal ingresó a Estados Unidos en 2021 a través de la Operación Bienvenidos Aliados, un programa del gobierno de Biden que reasentó a ciudadanos de ese país tras la retirada de Estados Unidos, dijeron las autoridades. Lakanwal solicitó asilo durante esa administración, pero su proceso fue aprobado este año bajo la administración de Trump, dijo #AfghanEvac en un comunicado.
Lakanwal sirvió en una unidad del Ejército afgano respaldada por la CIA, conocida como una de las unidades especiales Zero, en la provincia sureña de Kandahar, según un residente de la provincia oriental de Khost que se identificó como primo de Lakanwal y habló bajo condición de anonimato por temor a represalias.
El hombre dijo que Lakanwal comenzó trabajando para la unidad como guardia de seguridad en 2012 y luego fue ascendido a líder de equipo y especialista en GPS.
Beckstrom “fue un ejemplo de liderazgo, dedicación y profesionalismo”
Beckstrom se enlistó en 2023 tras graduarse de la escuela secundaria y sirvió con distinción como policía militar con la 863ª Compañía de Policía Militar, informó la Guardia Nacional de Virginia Occidental.
“Fue un ejemplo de liderazgo, dedicación y profesionalismo”, dijo la guardia en un comunicado, y agregó que Beckstrom se ofreció como voluntaria para el despliegue en D.C.
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Los periodistas de The Associated Press Sarah Brumfield, Siddiqullah Alizai, Elena Becatoros, Randy Herschaft, Cedar Attanasio y Hallie Golden contribuyeron a este despacho.
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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.
Governments endorse greater protections for sharks amid concerns about overfishing
Governments at a wildlife trade conference have adopted greater protections for over 70 species of sharks and rays amid concerns that overfishing is driving some to the brink of extinction.
The measures, approved Friday at the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora in Uzbekistan, bans the trade in oceanic whitetip sharks, manta and devil rays as well as whale sharks. It would strengthen regulations for gulper sharks, smoothhound sharks and the tope shark, which means they can be traded, but there must be proof the sources are legal, sustainable and traceable.
Governments also agreed to enact zero-annual export quotas for several species of guitarfishes and wedgefishes, meaning the legal international trade will mostly be halted.
“This is a landmark victory, and it belongs to the Parties who championed these protections,” Luke Warwick, director of shark and ray conservation at the Wildlife Conservation Society, said in a statement. “Countries across Latin America, Africa, the Pacific, and Asia came together in a powerful show of leadership and solidarity, passing every shark and ray proposal.”
Conservationists argued the measures were necessary to address overfishing of many species for fins and meat as well as oil and gills. They argue the billion dollar trade is unsustainable, noting that more than 37% of shark and ray species are threatened with extinction.
“For too long, sharks that have roamed our oceans for millions of years have been slaughtered for their fins and meat,” Barbara Slee, senior program manager at the International Fund for Animal Welfare, said in a statement. “People may fear sharks, but the truth is we pose a far greater threat to them—with more than 100 million killed every year. These new protections will help shift that balance and recognise and honour these sharks as more than just fishery commodities.”
Some of the treaty’s greatest successes of late have been around sharks.
At the last conference in Panama in 2022, governments increased protections more than 90 shark species, including 54 species of requiem sharks, the bonnethead shark, three species of hammerhead shark and 37 species of guitarfish. Many had never before had trade protection.
The international wildlife trade treaty, which was adopted in 1975 in Washington, D.C., has been praised for helping stem the illegal and unsustainable trade in ivory and rhino horns as well as in whales and sea turtles. But it has come under fire for its limitations, including its reliance on cash-strapped developing countries to combat illegal trade that’s become a lucrative $10 billion-a-year business.
This year, conservationists said that governments had rejected efforts to weaken trade regulations for elephants and rhinos, though they did agree to relax regulations in the trade of saiga horn from Kazakhstan.
Conservationists had opposed the move over concerns it could lead to increased poaching in neighboring Central Asian countries. But the move to allow the trade comes as the antelope was reclassified from critically endangered to near threatened by the International Union for Conservation of Nature due to increased law enforcement and habitat protection. That has led to dramatic increase in its numbers.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/29/government-greater-protections-sharks/
Zelensky’s Sacked Top Aide ‘Escapes’ To Front-Line To ‘Hide’ From Corruption Investigators
Zelensky’s Sacked Top Aide ‘Escapes’ To Front-Line To ‘Hide’ From Corruption Investigators
Andriy Yermak, the man who until just over 24 hours ago was Zelensky’s right hand man and the president’s top most powerful aid as chief of staff, and Ukraine’s appointed chief negotiator with the US on the peace process, is going to the front lines, apparently to “fight”.
After his home and offices were raided by Ukraine’s anti-corruption investigators Friday related to the ongoing massive energy sector kickback scandal, Yermak announced by text message to The New York Post, “I’m going to the front and am prepared for any reprisals.” He followed with, “I am an honest and decent person.”
The Post added further, “He then apologized if he no longer answers calls. He did not say when or how he intended to go to the frontlines of the war against Russia.”
He appears to still be rejecting allegations he was involved in the graft probe, centered on at least $100 million being siphoned off by corrupt Ukrainian officials amid a series of payoffs and kickbacks.
The narrative in his defense is being spun by the same NY Post report, which suggests this is all merely ‘political’ due largely to jealously and growing rivalries related to the enormous decision-making influence Yermak was coming to wield:
Despite his towering frame, you might not always have spotted him. Yet, wherever President Volodymyr Zelensky was, Yermak was often not far away.
As his chief of staff, Yermak wielded enormous power at the top of government and was even trusted to negotiate on Ukraine’s behalf at peace talks with the US.
But as his influence grew, so did public resentment of the power this unelected official held. His political career came to an abrupt end on Friday, hours after anti-corruption investigators raided his home in Kyiv.
But clearly his dramatic declaration of “going to the front lines” is meant to signal a sense of self-sacrificial patriotism and induce feelings of sympathy.
Oleksandr Dubinskyi, a rare and controversial oppositional lawmaker in Ukraine’s parliament who has long called for Zelensky’s impeachment, has a very different take based on his sources. He detailed in an X post a series of specific claims, the chief of which is that Yermak is ‘hiding’ from anti-corruption investigators:
I have learned where exactly he is going to “serve.”
Fact: Yermak, with his security detail, was brought to the location of commander nicknamed Madjar – one of the most media-prominent Ukrainian fighters, known for harsh Telegram rhetoric and the “Drone Wall” project. Unit commanders refuse to assign Yermak to their ranks.
He is physically present but has no tasks, no role, and no assigned position. Yermak is hiding from NABU anti-corruption investigations in a zone where detectives cannot serve him a notice of suspicion or court summons.
Separate detail: Madjar accepted Yermak only after a personal request from Zelensky. For Yermak, the front is not service. The front is a hideout. And it is interesting how people will meet Yermak – the man who organized the forced rounding-up of people in the streets of Ukraine.
Interestingly, when the teams of NABU and SAP agents searched his office on Friday, this was just meters away from President Zelensky’s own office.
As a reminder, Andrew Korybko recently opined that Yermak’s removal could prompt some progress in peace talks:
He’s Zelensky’s powerbroker so his downfall could undo the already shaky alliance between the armed forces, the oligarchs, the secret police, and parliament that keeps Zelensky in power, thus pressuring him into peace, especially if his warmongering grey cardinal is no longer pushing him to keep fighting.
One geopolitical source, known on X as The Islander, agrees: this is largely the result of the Trump administration finally bringing real pressure to bear on the Zelensky regime at a moment a clear, workable peace plan is on the table – which much to Kiev’s chagrin features territorial concessions in the Donbass and Crimea.
I coined the phrase “Ukroscam”
Soros and Yermak obliged with the perfect picture. pic.twitter.com/aFyXOBWbEi
— Chay Bowes (@BowesChay) November 28, 2025
According to the lengthy analysis [emphasis ZH]:
The fall of Andriy Yermak – Zelensky’s fixer, enforcer, gatekeeper, and indispensable ally, isn’t a “corruption scandal.” It’s Washington slapping the table. NABU, the U.S.-trained attack dog of Ukrainian politics, didn’t raid the Presidential Office by accident.
It raided to remind Zelensky that the war isn’t his to command, the peace process isn’t his to veto, and the leash around Bankova Street is held in Washington, not Kiev and certainly not European chihuahuas. Because the real story isn’t Yermak’s resignation. The real story is the West turning on itself over how to end a war Russia has already won.
The fall of Andriy Yermak, Zelensky’s most loyal ally and the de facto power manager of Ukraine, is not a scandal. It is a strike from above. NABU, the U.S.-funded, U.S.-trained anti-corruption bureau, didn’t raid the home and office of Ukraine’s most powerful unelected official by coincidence. And in any other country, his resignation after a corruption raid would be a political scandal. In Ukraine, it’s a geopolitical detonation.
Yermak wasn’t just a chief of staff, he was the shadow architect of the regime, the man through whom every appointment, every oligarchic negotiation, every Western request, and every wartime decision had to pass. And the speed of his resignation makes clear this was less about corruption, and more about pressure — engineered, timed, and executed by the one actor that can pull such a lever, Washington.
For months, the U.S. has been split between the neocons clinging to fantasies of a battlefield reversal, and the rising bloc of realists (JD Vance et. al) who have finally accepted what the frontlines have shown for over a year, Russia has already won. Ukraine’s army is shattered, NATO’s ammunition reserves are exhausted, and American voters are done with a war that offers no victory and no strategy.
The realists now want a controlled, face-saving diplomatic exit, that locks in territorial losses quietly while Washington claims it “secured peace.” Zelensky has resisted every inch of this pivot because peace ends his power. And Yermak was the immovable pillar of that resistance, insulating Zelensky from any pressure to negotiate, the filter preventing unwanted messages from reaching the president. By purging him through a NABU raid, the U.S. has isolated Zelensky.
Meanwhile, the EU is panicking. European leaders fear peace more than war because peace forces accountability… why did they destroy their own industries, torch their energy security, plunge their economies into recession, and funnel hundreds of billions into corruption for a war Washington itself is now preparing to fold?
Brussels supported Zelensky unconditionally not out of conviction but out of sheer self-preservation. If the war ends, they must answer for the ruin they inflicted on their own populations. Europe needs perpetual conflict to postpone the political reckoning. Washington, by contrast, wants a face saving offramp. This is the real EU–US divide: Brussels wants to delay the inevitable, Washington wants to manage it, and Kiev wants to deny it. Only one of them has the power to dictate the timeline, and it isn’t Europe.
Moscow sees the Western fracture, senses the desperation, and understands its advantage. Putin’s message has been cold and consistent: either negotiations occur on terms that reflect the battlefield reality and addreses the root cause of the conflict, or Russia will continue grinding down NATO’s proxy forces until nothing remains to negotiate with.
For Russia, both paths lead to victory. Russia has no reason to rush, it is the West running out of time, weapons, unity, and credibility. And when European publics finally realize their leaders sacrificed prosperity, stability, industry, and geopolitical autonomy for a war that ended exactly where Moscow predicted it would, the political reckoning will be seismic. Yermak’s fall is not the end of an era, it marks the beginning of the collapse for the EU.
Already, President Zelensky has on Saturday announced a delegation headed by security council secretary Rustem Umerov was on its way to Washington continue talks on the Trump-proposed deal to end the war.
And how is Mr. McFaul supposed to keep working now without his co-chair Yermak in the International Working Group on Russian Sanctions? 🥺
Their ‘teamwork’ has brought Ukraine so much benefit, after all. pic.twitter.com/ltFLu54qCt
— Marta Havryshko (@HavryshkoMarta) November 28, 2025
Umerov has been put in charge of the Ukrainian delegation at a moment Yermak is on the run toward the front lines. This is all happening very fast, and the White House can now more easily impose its will on an increasingly disunified and somewhat panicked Zelensky government.
Tyler Durden
Sat, 11/29/2025 – 13:25
