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Editorial: On Barack Obama and the aliens
We got a kick out of an old chestnut among conspiracy theorists — whether intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe and whether any of those aliens have visited Earth — that rose to the surface earlier this week thanks to the musings of none other than former President Barack Obama.
Obama’s off-the-cuff remarks to a podcast host had those of us of a certain age revisiting memories of FBI agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully fending off vaguely sinister government officials in their attempts to pierce the veil of secrecy surrounding alien visitations in “The X Files.”
Here was the 44th president of the United States participating in a “speed round” of questions put to him by podcast host Brian Tyler Cohen just out and out saying this about aliens: “They’re real. But I haven’t seen them.”
If only a president had said as much back in the day, Mulder and Scully would have been spared a lot of trouble.
During the podcast, Obama hastened to add that Area 51, the part of New Mexico that the conspiracists for years have claimed is home to an underground bunker with alien remains and such, isn’t a thing — “unless there is an enormous conspiracy and they hid it from the president of the United States.”
All in good fun, right? Alas, even former presidents of the United States can’t just josh about such things.
The next day, after Obama’s ET commentary went viral, the ex-president felt the need to clarify matters. “I saw no evidence during my presidency that extraterrestrials have made contact with us,” he said on Instagram. “Really!”
His belief that intelligent life is out there, he said, is based on the vastness of the universe and the statistical unlikelihood that humans are the only such form of life.
So what happened? Did the Men in Black show up with one of those memory-eraser gizmos to take care of Obama’s inappropriate revelation?
Sigh. Cue the conspiracy theorists again. And, Mulder and Scully, sorry about that — get back to work.
Oh, well. For our part, as it pertains to extraterrestrial life, we’re going to acknowledge we just don’t know and leave it at that.
But we also will say that it was nice — for a nanosecond or two — to have the public’s focus on a topic that doesn’t involve the future of democracy as we know it or whether the rule of law will survive, etc.
For that little bit of relief, we say, “Thanks, Obama!”
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https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/19/editorial-aliens-barack-obama-podcast-mulder-scully/
Waste Piles Up In Cuba, Blackouts Worsen, As Lavrov Pleads To US For ‘Brotherly Nation’
Waste Piles Up In Cuba, Blackouts Worsen, As Lavrov Pleads To US For ‘Brotherly Nation’
Speaking to reporters early this week, President Trump touted his tightened embargo on Cuba, pointing to moves to choke off Venezuelan oil flows and pressure Mexico to halt crude exports to the island – steps that have triggered acute fuel shortages and near total airline stoppages at Havana’s main international airport.
“Cuba is right now a failed nation, and they don’t even have jet fuel for airplanes to take off, clogging up their runway,“ Trump said aboard Air Force One. Trash is also piling up across cities in neighborhoods, as there’s literally not enough gas to power the trucks.
Trump added that his administration is engaged in discussions with Cuban officials, who are feeling the pressure. However, a recent report in Drop Site News has alleged that Secretary of State Marco Rubio is blocking those contacts while telling the president they are underway.
Below is the heart of what was reported last week in Drop Site:
When it comes to Trump’s claims of those talks, it turns out he isn’t lying. Instead, sources tell Drop Site, he’s being lied to. “He’s saying that because that’s what Marco is telling him,” said a senior Trump official, referring to an internal effort by Secretary of State Marco Rubio to make Trump believe that the U.S. and Cuba are engaged in serious negotiations without ever doing so. The idea, the source said, is that in a few weeks or months, Rubio will be able to claim that the talks were futile because of Cuban intransigence. With diplomatic off-ramps being blocked, this would make Rubio’s vision of regime change the only path forward for an administration loath to reverse course on anything.
Asked about the fact that Rubio is misleading Trump about talks that aren’t going on, the State Department’s press office stood by the claim that such negotiations are indeed happening, forwarding along comment from an administration official: “As the President stated, we are talking to Cuba, whose leaders should make a deal. Cuba is a failing nation whose rulers have had a major setback with the loss of support from Venezuela and with Mexico ceasing to send them oil.” The statement offered no evidence the talks are taking place, named no officials participating, no dates of any meetings, nor did it identify a location where the supposed talks are happening.
But it’s clear that Cuba is in a very tight spot, after US accomplished Maduro’s overthrow nearby, and as the Pentagon’s military might is now threatening Iran in similar fashion. Cuba has few allies left standing, with one big exception.
Russia is urging that the United States abandon its naval blockade on the communist-run island, stressing that more room must be given for legitimate negotiations.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told his Cuban counterpart Bruno Rodriguez on Wednesday that Cuba is “a brotherly nation” – according to Reuters.
The Cuban FM visited Moscow Wednesday. This as blackouts and severe fuel shortages have only been compounded by the US oil emargo.
“Together with most members of the international community, we call on the United States to show common sense and responsibility and refrain from plans for a naval blockade of the Island of Freedom,” said Lavrov. “We categorically reject the unfounded accusations against Russia and Cuba and our cooperation, which allegedly pose a threat to the interests of the United States or anyone else.”
Washington has indeed been hyping Cuba as a major threat, which going all the way back the Cold War has been brought to its knees after decades of sanctions. US officials have long warned of Russian and Chinese geostrategic and military inroads into America’s backyard via Cuba. Moscow is flatly denying that this is a reality, however.
Meanwhile, the embargo of the island is unleashing another big problem for the population: “The United States-imposed fuel crisis in Cuba is also turning into a waste and health crisis, as many collection trucks have been left with empty fuel tanks, causing refuse to pile up on the streets of the capital, Havana, and other cities and towns,” Al Jazeera reports.
Cuba’s fuel crisis has become a waste crisis as many garbage trucks don’t have enough gas to pick up rubbish which is piling up on Havana’s street corners https://t.co/AQ50L5j9KG pic.twitter.com/3BhugSOcJJ
— Reuters (@Reuters) February 16, 2026
“Only 44 of Havana’s 106 rubbish trucks have been able to keep operating due to the fuel shortages, slowing rubbish collection, as waste piles up on Havana’s street corners, the Reuters news agency reported on Monday, citing state-run news outlet Cubadebate,” the outlet details.
Tyler Durden
Thu, 02/19/2026 – 05:45
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, arrestado por presunta conducta indebida en ejercicio de cargo público
Associated Press
LONDRES (AP) — Una fuerza policial británica arrestó el jueves al expríncipe Andrés de Inglaterra, ahora conocido como Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, por presunta conducta indebida en el ejercicio de un cargo público.
La policía del Valle del Támesis, que cubre las zonas al oeste de Londres, incluyendo la antigua residencia de Mountbatten-Windsor, indicó que estaba “evaluando” reportes según los cuales el expríncipe Andrés envió informes comerciales al delincuente sexual convicto Jeffrey Epstein en 2010. La revisión se produjo tras la publicación de millones de páginas de documentos relacionados con una investigación sobre Epstein en Estados Unidos.
Las autoridades no identificaron a Mountbatten-Windsor, como es habitual según la ley británica. Pero, consultada sobre si había sido arrestado, la policía remitió a un comunicado en el que señalaba que habían detenido a un hombre de unos sesenta años. Mountbatten-Windsor tiene 66 años.
“Tras una evaluación exhaustiva, hemos abierto una investigación sobre esta denuncia de conducta indebida en el ejercicio de un cargo público”, señaló el comunicado. “Entendemos el gran interés público en este caso y proporcionaremos información actualizada en el momento oportuno”.
Mountbatten-Windsor ha negado repetidamente cualquier irregularidad en su relación con Epstein.
Imágenes que circularon en internet parecían mostrar coches policiales sin distintivos en la vivienda de Mountbatten-Windsor, Wood Farm, en la finca de Sandringham, en Norfolk, y a agentes no uniformados que parecían congregarse en el exterior.
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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.
Policía británica dice que detuvo a Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor por presunta mala conducta en ejercicio de cargo público
LONDRES (AP) — Policía británica dice que detuvo a Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor por presunta mala conducta en ejercicio de cargo público.
Today in History: Thomas Edison issued patent for phonograph
Today is Thursday, Feb. 19, the 50th day of 2026. There are 315 days left in the year.
Today in history:
On Feb. 19, 1878, inventor Thomas Edison was issued a patent for the phonograph.
Also on this date:
In 1473, astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus was born in Torun, Poland.
In 1847, the first rescuers reached members of the Donner Party, who had been snowbound in the Sierra Nevada near the California-Nevada border for nearly four months.
In 1942, during World War II, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which paved the way for the internment of 125,000 people of Japanese ancestry, including U.S.-born citizens.
In 1945, Operation Detachment began during World War II as the first wave of U.S. Marines landed at Iwo Jima, where they commenced a successful monthlong battle to seize control of the island from Japanese forces.
In 1976, President Gerald R. Ford, calling the issuing of the 1942 internment order for people of Japanese ancestry “a sad day in American history,” signed a proclamation formally confirming its termination.
In 2003, an Iranian military plane carrying members of the elite Revolutionary Guards crashed in southeastern Iran, killing all 275 people on board.
In 2008, an ailing Fidel Castro resigned the Cuban presidency after nearly a half-century in power; his brother Raúl was later named to succeed him. Fidel Castro died in 2016 at the age of 90.
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Today in Chicago History: Young Bernie Sanders arrest photo emerges
Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Feb. 19, according to the Tribune’s archives.
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Front page flashback: Feb. 19, 1945
American Marines landed on Iwo Jima on Feb. 19, 1945. Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, announced 509 Japanese aircraft were destroyed and a dozen ships sank by U.S. forces. (Chicago Tribune)
1945: U.S. Marines landed at Iwo Jima, an island covered in volcanic ash — about 5 miles long and 2.5 miles wide at its broadest — which sat roughly 600 miles east of Japan’s main islands. “Sulfur Island” had been made into a giant fortress, with deep caves and tunnels to underground bunkers and pillboxes, and more than 22,000 well-entrenched Japanese soldiers ready to defend it. The island was important for its airfields, from which Japanese fighter planes could attack U.S. B-29 Superfortresses heading to Japan.
Commentary: Flags over Iwo Jima: ‘The most beautiful scene in all the blue Pacific …’
That was the start of a monthlong battle that became one of the bloodiest in World War II. By the time it ended, 5,931 Americans had been killed. All but 3,000 of the 21,000 Japanese defenders in the fortified caves were dead. An additional 20,000 men on both sides were maimed, crippled or otherwise wounded.
Weather records (from the National Weather Service, Chicago)
High temperature: 69 degrees (2017)
Low temperature: Minus 8 degrees (2015)
Precipitation: 0.95 inches (1994)
Snowfall: 4.8 inches (1908)
After she took home her fourth gold medal on Feb. 19, 1994, U.S. speedskater Bonnie Blair said her fifth trip to the medal stand — she also has a bronze medal from Calgary — was as fresh as the first. “It’s never routine for me,” she said after smiling through the national anthem with beaming eyes. “Once you think it’s routine is when it’s going to be taken from you as fast as you can imagine.” (Chicago Tribune)
1994: American speedskater Bonnie Blair received the fourth Olympic gold medal of her career after she won the 500-meter race in Lillehammer, Norway.
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The Champaign native and bobsledder Elana Meyers Taylor are the most decorated U.S. women in Winter Olympics history. Blair competed in four Olympics (1984, 1988, 1992, 1994) and won a record five gold medals, plus one bronze.
Blair retired from competition in 1995.
Young University of Chicago student Bernie Sanders was arrested Aug. 12, 1963, and charged with resisting arrest. He was found guilty and fined $25, according to a Tribune story. (Chicago Tribune)
2016: A Chicago Tribune archival photo of a young man being arrested in 1963 at a South Side protest shows U.S. senator from Vermont and then-Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders, his campaign confirmed, bolstering the candidate’s narrative about his civil rights activism.
The black-and-white photo shows a 21-year-old Sanders, then a University of Chicago student, being taken by Chicago police toward a police wagon. An acetate negative of the photo was found in the Tribune’s archives, said Marianne Mather, a Chicago Tribune photo editor.
“Bernie identified it himself,” said Tad Devine, a senior adviser to the campaign, adding that Sanders looked at a digital image of the photo. “He looked at it — he actually has his student ID from the University of Chicago in his wallet — and he said, ‘Yes, that indeed is (me).’” Sanders was traveling near Reno, Nevada, on the eve of the state’s Democratic presidential caucuses.
Chicago Blackhawks’ Connor Bedard is congratulated on his goal by teammates during the third period of an NHL hockey game against the Carolina Hurricanes in Raleigh, North Carolina, on Feb. 19, 2024. (Karl B DeBlaker/AP)
2024: Connor Bedard’s power-play goal in the third period against the Carolina Hurricanes came when Tyler Johnson dished from below the goal line to Philipp Kurashev, who whirled around in the crease on a backhand pass to Bedard. Bedard had a wide-open net and flicked in just the second power-play goal of his career.
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UK Ad Banned For Showing Black Harasser; Multiple Ads With White Harassers Were Just Fine
UK Ad Banned For Showing Black Harasser; Multiple Ads With White Harassers Were Just Fine
Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news,
In a glaring display of selective outrage, Transport for London (TfL) has yanked an advert depicting a black teenager harassing a white girl on a bus – all because of a single complaint crying “racial stereotypes.” Meanwhile, multiple past ads, all featuring white men as the aggressors, were approved, exposing the double standards that shield uncomfortable realities from public view.
The controversial ad was part of TfL’s “Act Like a Friend” campaign, aimed at encouraging bystanders to intervene in cases of sexual harassment or ‘hate crimes’ on public transport.
In the short clip, a black teenage boy verbally harasses a young white girl, with his white friend sitting nearby, effectively boxing her in. But according to the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), this portrayal – when viewed in isolation – “reinforced a negative racial stereotype” associating black males with threatening behavior.
The local government body “Transport for London” has banned an advert showing a black man harrassing a white girl on bus for ‘reinforcing negative racial stereotypes’
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) February 18, 2026
The ASA’s ruling came after just one complaint, deeming the ad “irresponsible” and likely to cause “serious offence.”
They stated: “We understood there was a negative racial stereotype based on the association between black males, including teenagers, and threatening behaviour. […] The ad, when seen in isolation, had the effect of perpetuating a negative racial stereotype about black men as perpetrators of threatening behaviour.”
TfL was ordered to ensure future ads avoid such “harmful stereotypes.”
…the BBC is so terrified of it’s own shadow it shows a bus instead of an image of the ad. So here it is… pic.twitter.com/kddnOYeWUr
— Timor Maslow (@ThePGTipschimp) February 18, 2026
TfL even defended the campaign, noting it featured a diverse range of scenarios to reflect London’s population. Other cut-downs included a white male committing a hate crime against a black woman and another white male targeting a white male victim.
Ah yes, but any instance of a black person being the aggressor must be purged. That is not allowed, because clearly it NEVER happens in London and it’s racist. OK?
In Britain it is now functionally illegal to show anyone but a white man committing harassment. https://t.co/F37aZYtc6V
— Tom Jones (@93vintagejones) February 18, 2026
TFL ADVERT SHOWING BLACK MAN HARASSING A WHITE GIRL ON A BUS HAS BEEN BANNED
Transport for London have pulled the ad for reinforcing ‘negative racial stereotypes’. The Facebook ad was binned after just 1 complaint.
We can’t have any adverts that depict real life can we? pic.twitter.com/NmViMulQbP
— James Goddard (@JamesPGoddard90) February 18, 2026
TfL issued a an apology, with a spokeswoman remarking “Our aim is to ensure that our advertising reflects London’s diverse population and does not perpetuate any stereotypes. […] We’re sorry that this social media advert […] falls below our usual high standards when viewed in isolation.”
Of course, similar government anti-harassment ads have repeatedly cast white men as the sole perpetrators, with diverse victims – and that seems to be just fine.
In this government anti-harassment ad, all the perpetrators are White, and all the victims are diverse.
Media regularly portrays White people as the problem.
This is blatant anti-White racism, and it’s completely unacceptable. pic.twitter.com/clYytRW8gn
— Taya (@travelingflying) February 16, 2026
White villains are fair game, but anything else gets labeled a “negative racial stereotype.”
Ah, didn’t they know you’re only allow to show White men in negative roles in adverts? pic.twitter.com/YkjcW61K8A
— Ryan. (@Jimmy_Sprocket) February 18, 2026
They banned the most realistic commercial EVER. https://t.co/lsWMv9QWCV
— Pol Atreides (@Aliathewhite) February 18, 2026
Why are only white British people allowed to be the baddies? https://t.co/cPS29Qec1m
— Neil O’Brien (@NeilDotObrien) February 18, 2026
So you can’t use black people in an ad about harassment but you can use white people, as we’ve seen in multiple adverts by TFL.
This decision is literally racist. pic.twitter.com/0JUEFRVgCl
— Alex Armstrong (@Alexarmstrong) February 18, 2026
This episode underscores the woke stranglehold on media and advertising. In a city where harassment reports surge amid unchecked borders, honest campaigns should be encouraged, not censored. The left’s obsession with “equity” blinds them to actual threats, leaving women – especially native Brits – more vulnerable.
TfL’s quick capitulation to one complaint shows how easily truth is suppressed. If ads with white harassers face no backlash, why the uproar here? It’s a clear case of protecting narratives over people.
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Tyler Durden
Thu, 02/19/2026 – 05:00
Beijing Blasts Trump After US Releases New Details On Alleged 2020 Chinese Nuclear Test
Beijing Blasts Trump After US Releases New Details On Alleged 2020 Chinese Nuclear Test
Update: Despite the Lunar New Year holiday, Beijing has made it known it is not best pleased with Washington digging up Nuke blasts from the past.
Issuing a statement via state mouthpiece (@HuXijin_GT), the CCP suggested an ulterior motive for the timing of this announcement:
“Trump is eager to resume nuclear testing and needs a plausible reason, and accusing China of conducting nuclear tests is the perfect pretext.
Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Yeaw stated on Tuesday that the US is prepared to conduct low-yield nuclear tests in response to alleged secret nuclear tests by China and Russia.
The US is being far too hasty; having just fabricated rumors that China conducted an explosive nuclear test nearly six years ago, they are already announcing their own low-yield nuclear test.
Washington’s motives for spreading these rumors are too clear; they can’t even be bothered to feign it.”
Hard to disagree with the latter point.
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As Kimberley Hayek detailed earlier via The Epoch Times, a senior State Department official released additional evidence Tuesday in support of U.S. allegations that China conducted an underground nuclear test in June 2020, as global arms control frameworks unravel.
Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Yeaw, while speaking to a Hudson Institute meeting, discussed data from a remote seismic station in Kazakhstan that recorded a magnitude 2.75 “explosion” approximately 450 miles from China’s Lop Nur test grounds on June 22, 2020.
“I’ve looked at additional data since then. There is very little possibility I would say that it is anything but an explosion, a singular explosion,” Yeaw said, underscoring that the data were not consistent with blasts from mining.
“It’s also entirely not consistent with an earthquake,” said Yeaw, a former intelligence analyst and defense official who holds a doctorate in nuclear engineering. “It is … what you would expect with a nuclear explosive test.”
Yeaw argued that China tried to hide the event through decoupling, detonating the device in a spacious underground cavity to diminish seismic waves.
Under Secretary of State for Arms Control Thomas DiNanno earlier this month accused China of performing such secretive nuclear arms tests and implementing measures to restrict seismic evidence.
“Today, I can reveal that the U.S. Government is aware that China has conducted nuclear explosive tests, including preparing for tests with designated yields in the hundreds of tons,” DiNanno said.
These claims back up Yeaw’s assertions of concealment tactics.
The Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization, which monitors global explosions, noted that available data do not allow for firm conclusions.
Executive Secretary Robert Floyd said in a statement that the seismic monitoring station in Kazakhstan captured “two very small seismic events” 12 seconds apart on June 22, 2020.
The organization’s network detects events equivalent to 551 tons (500 metric tons) of TNT or more, according to Floyd.
“These two events were far below that level,” Floyd said. “As a result, with this data alone, it is not possible to assess the cause of these events with confidence.”
China, a signatory to the 1996 Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty but not a ratifier, rejected the initial U.S. accusation at an international conference this month. Beijing’s last acknowledged underground test occurred in 1996.
The United States, which also signed but did not ratify the treaty, is legally bound to its terms under international norms. America’s final underground test was in 1992, with subsequent reliance on sophisticated simulations and supercomputers for warhead maintenance.
President Donald Trump recently called on China to take part in trilateral talks with Russia to support the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START), which ended Feb. 5.
China refused the invitation, arguing that its arsenal is far smaller than those of the United States and Russia. The Pentagon estimates China’s current operational warheads at more than 600. The stockpile is expected to exceed 1,000 by 2030.
The Federation of American Scientists, an organization working to minimize the risks of nuclear threats, tracks Russia as currently having 5,459 warheads, while the United States has 5,177.
The New START accord expiration removes caps on deployed strategic warheads and delivery vehicles, potentially accelerating buildups. Russia and the United States said they would informally observe limits.
Tyler Durden
Thu, 02/19/2026 – 04:15
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-releases-new-details-alleged-2020-chinese-nuclear-test
Accidente de bus en Sudáfrica deja al menos 4 muertos y 31 heridos
Associated Press
JOHANNESBURGO (AP) — Al menos cuatro personas fallecieron y otras 31 resultaron heridas el jueves en un accidente de autobús en la provincia sudafricana de Limpopo, informaron las autoridades.
El bus viajaba desde la provincia de Gauteng, en Sudáfrica, hacia Zimbabue cuando perdió el control y se salió de la carretera, cayendo a una zanja en la autopista N1, cerca de la frontera con Zimbabue, explicó la ministra provincial de Transporte, Violet Mathye.
“Hasta ahora tenemos confirmación de cuatro víctimas mortales, mientras que otras personas han sido trasladadas a hospitales”, dijo Mathye en declaraciones a la cadena pública SABC.
El vehículo continuaba en la zanja y seguía habiendo pasajeros en su interior.
El departamento de Transporte de Limpopo señaló en un comunicado que, por el momento, se desconocía la causa del siniestro.
La tragedia ocurrió aproximadamente en la misma zona donde 42 personas perdieron la vida en otro accidente de bus en octubre.
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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.
Accidente de bus en Sudáfrica deja al menos 4 muertos y 31 heridos
Associated Press
JOHANNESBURGO (AP) — Al menos cuatro personas fallecieron y otras 31 resultaron heridas el jueves en un accidente de autobús en la provincia sudafricana de Limpopo, informaron las autoridades.
El bus viajaba desde la provincia de Gauteng, en Sudáfrica, hacia Zimbabue cuando perdió el control y se salió de la carretera, cayendo a una zanja en la autopista N1, cerca de la frontera con Zimbabue, explicó la ministra provincial de Transporte, Violet Mathye.
“Hasta ahora tenemos confirmación de cuatro víctimas mortales, mientras que otras personas han sido trasladadas a hospitales”, dijo Mathye en declaraciones a la cadena pública SABC.
El vehículo continuaba en la zanja y seguía habiendo pasajeros en su interior.
El departamento de Transporte de Limpopo señaló en un comunicado que, por el momento, se desconocía la causa del siniestro.
La tragedia ocurrió aproximadamente en la misma zona donde 42 personas perdieron la vida en otro accidente de bus en octubre.
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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.
