Spain’s Popular Party leader Pablo Casado, once tipped as a rejuvenating force in Spanish conservatism, confirmed Tuesday that he was stepping down in the wake of an internal clash with the regional leader of Madrid, one of the party’s new rising stars.
Married, 41, announced he would not run in a leadership vote expected at a snap party congress called in the wake of the crisis at the heart of the PP, a bastion of Spanish conservatism currently leading the national opposition.
“I have a clear conscience, full of thanks and without anger or frustration. You have allowed me to be a part of Spanish history,” he said.
“The Popular Party belongs to its members but also to all Spanish citizens. That is why I am sorry for everything I did
He had gone through more than three criminal organizations as head of hitmen.
Within the framework of Police Operation Condor, the National Police of all Colombians, through the Directorate of Criminal Investigation and INTERPOL (DIJIN), in coordination with the Attorney General’s Office, captured in recent hours in the city of Santa Marta – Magdalena, to the individual known in the criminal sphere as ‘Mello Bolaños’, main leader of the North Caribbean Commission, of the organized armed group ‘Clan del Golfo’.
The ‘Mello Bolaños’, had a criminal record of 13 years, had started his criminal career since 2009 as head of hitmen of the criminal organization ‘Los Paisas’ and later of ‘Los Nevados’, with criminal interference in the department of Magdalene; In 2017, he offered his services as a hitman to the organized common crime group ‘La Silla’, dedicating himself to charging for the protection of drug shipments to large drug traffickers in the ports of Santa Marta, under the name of alias ‘La Silla’ or ‘ Elkin’, in order to preserve the security of shipments.
Due to his extensive criminal record alias ‘Mello Bolaños’, he was subcontracted at the beginning of 2021, by the top leader of the ‘Clan del Golfo’, to take command of more than 97 members of the North Caribbean Commission in the departments of Magdalena. and La Guajira, in order to continue with the monopoly of the cocaine hydrochloride shipping routes to Central America and Europe, was also in charge of ordering and coordinating selective homicides in this jurisdiction, being considered by the Colombian authorities as a high-level target. value.
The criminal organization had instructed this leader to seize drug trafficking routes, bringing together criminal groups in the region to jointly traffic and meet the international demand for the drug, for which they also used nearby collection centers. to the main port and other clandestine shipping sites on different beaches in the sector, where he controlled the output of cocaine hydrochloride, charging up to one million pesos for each kilogram.
Alias ’Mello Bolaños’, was left at the disposal of the competent authority for the crime of conspiracy to commit a crime.
The price of Brent crude on Wednesday exceeded $110, its highest price since 2014 as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine raged on and international sanctions against Moscow began to bite.
Fears of a global oil supply crisis following Russia’s military assault on Ukraine prompted Ryanair director Michael O’Leary to urge western nations to ramp up the production of oil at tame soaring prices.
Brent crude on Wednesday was trading at $111.59 on the London futures market, a 6.3% increase on Tuesday figures.
On January 19, a car bomb exploded a few meters from a building in the city of Saravena, in the Colombian municipality of Arauca, where some 60 community leaders had gathered.
The activists survived the bombing because hours before the attack, they had erected makeshift barricades with plastic barrels they filled with stones as FARC dissidents, with Antonio Medina at the helm, were attempting on assassinating them.
The attack claimed one life, Simeón Delgado, who was a security guard at the Colombian Agricultural Institute headquarters where the van exploded causing extensive damage to several buildings, including the Héctor Alirio Martínez building which is used by community-led organizations and was the target of the attack.
Countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, especially the Sahel, recorded 48 percent of all extremist deaths globally in 2021, attributed to groups affiliated with the Islamic State (IS) terror group, while attacks declined by 68 percent in Western countries, where they were motivated more by political views than religious reasons.
The ninth edition of the Global Terrorism Index, released on Wednesday, indicates that deaths from terrorism fell 1.2 percent last year, to 7,142, while attacks increased 17 percent to 5,226, which shows that “attacks became less deadly in 2021.”
According to the report prepared by the Australian Institute for Economics and Peace, extremism is increasingly concentrated in conflict zones – where 97.6 percent of deaths from terrorism occurred -, with Afghanistan as the country with the highest impact from extremism, followed by Iraq, Somalia, Burkina Faso, Syria, Nigeria, Mali, Niger, Myanmar and Pakistan, out of the 163 countries included in the analysis.
New Zealand Police on Wednesday evicted anti-vaccine mandate protesters who had occupied the grounds of parliament for 23 days, resulting in riots, fires and dozens of arrests.
Photographs and videos circulating on social media as well as local media livestreams of the operation, which began at 6am and was still going more than 12 hours later, showed protesters setting tents, a playground and various objects on fire, and throwing projectiles, including bricks ripped up from the pavement, at police.
Officers used pepper spray, sponge bullets and fire hoses as clashes and chaos spilled out of parliament grounds onto surrounding city streets.
At least 65 people were arrested for a range of offenses including trespass, willful damage and possession of restricted weapons, police said.
United States President Joe Biden promised Tuesday that he will “save democracy” from the challenges faced inside and outside the country, and that his Russian counterpart will “pay” for his invasion of Ukraine.
The war in Ukraine was the focus of part of Biden’s first State of the Union address, in which he announced his decision to close US airspace to Russian flights, as Canada and the European Union have done.
“[Russian president Vladimir] Putin is now isolated from the world more than he has ever been,” the president said before lawmakers from both houses of US Congress.
“[He] has unleashed violence and chaos. But while he may make gains on the battlefield, he will pay a continuing high price over the long run.”
The Spanish supreme court prosecutor’s office on Wednesday archived a three-pronged probe into the finances of former King Juan Carlos I.
The ex-monarch was under investigation for allegations that he accepted illegal kick-backs worth 65 million euros ($100 million) related to a high-speed rail project in Saudi Arabia, as well as for claims he used credit cards linked to foreign accounts not registered in his name and for his alleged murky links to offshore funds.
The King of Spain International Journalism Prizes on Wednesday recognized the work of Spanish and Portuguese journalists across Latin America and their important coverage of social movements, the environment and humanitarian work.
The report “The broken promise: the collapse of social security in Venezuela” published on the Prodavinci news site won the prize for International Cooperation and Humanitarian Action Journalism.
Photographer César Luis Melgarejo Aponte scooped the International Photography Journalism award for his photograph “Resistir” (“Resist”) published in Colombia’s El Tiempo newspaper.
The report “The Assassination of the president of Haiti” broadcast on Colombian TV program Noticias Caracol won the Narrative Journalism Award “for sharing exclusive information about the assassination of Jovenel Moise in 2021”.
Spanish non-profit organization Civio was awarded with the Ibero-American Media award for its work based on “transparency, data veracity and accountability”.
The report “Daughter of Cotton: A Profile of Cristina Rivera Garza”, published in the Mexican magazine Gatopardo, was awarded with the Cultural Journalism prize “for its ability to reflect on the contribution of Hispanics to the creation of the culture of the United States .”
Finally, the Environmental Journalism award was given to the report “Engolindo Fumaça” (“Swallowing Smoke”) on the health effects of forest fires published in InfoAmazonia of Brazil.
Created by Spain’s news agency EFE and the country’s agency for international cooperation and development (AECID) in 1983, the annual media awards recognize some of the leading work done by Spanish and Portuguese-speaking journalists.
The jury for this 39th edition of the prize ceremony selected media outlets and reporters from 17 Ibero-American countries spanning topics ranging from humanitarian, social, cultural and environmental. EFE
Russian paratroopers have landed in Kharkiv where deadly street battles erupted, while Russian troops made advances in the south on the seventh day of an invasion that Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Wednesday aimed to erase his country’s history.
Russian military attacks on Ukraine’s second-largest city, near the Russian border, killed 21 civilians and injured 112 others overnight, the regional governor Oleh Synyehubov said in a Telegram post, adding that Russian forces had attacked a military hospital.
Renewed Russian shelling on Wednesday morning struck several buildings, including a university, and killed four people, emergency services said.
Kharkiv, a largely Russian-speaking city, has a population of around 1.4 million.
The Association of Bars of Colombia (Asobares) asked the Constitutional court to review how the Prohibition Law will be applied for the next elections.
David Contreras, member of the national board of directors of Asobares, said that they are working in Congress with several groups regarding the beginning of the dry law for the ordinary elections, a measure that is from six in the afternoon on Saturday, until six in the morning on Monday.
“With a view to the March elections, the first presidential round in May and a possible second round in June, it is more important that the Constitutional Court rule quickly on the revision of this Law approved in Congress, where the law is limited dry at the time of the day on election day,” said Contreras.
A weekend is everything in our activity. The operation of the establishments has a concentration on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays
The spokesman added that “said decision would greatly help multiple economic activities and their workforce, which would see an infinitely lesser impact than the damage it has caused since the 1980s.”
For her part, Adriana Plata, president of Asobares, said: “A weekend is everything in our activity. The operation of the establishments has a concentration on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays which, with 12 days of work, the costs of the whole month must be paid. Each weekend that advances has a specific destination, where the generality is that one is destined for payroll, the second for rent payments, the third for the payment of suppliers and services and the fourth, the profitability of the company and provision for taxes.”
Due to the foregoing, the representatives of the union asked the Constitutional Court that, given the situation they experienced with the pandemic and that there are several days of elections, “it would be a great boost for the procedure and decision to be carried out in the Court so that the limitation of the dry law adjusts solely and exclusively to the time and day of the electoral appointment”.
General Jorge Eduardo Mora López – Commander of the Eighth Division of the National Army
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BOGOTA COLOMBIA). Tuesday, February 8, 2022 (RPTV NEWS AGENCY). In the village of Bajo Quirinal, a rural area of the municipality of Fortul, Arauca, alias Mica Tropo was located and captured, a subject accused of being the main leader of the urban terrorist network of the ELN’s Eastern War Front. In the same event, the death of alias Pajaro, who would be the head of the militias of the Omaira Montoya Henao commission of the Domingo Laín Sanz Front of the same organized armed group, occurred during military operations.
These individuals, realizing the presence of the soldiers, opened fire on the soldiers, and in that exchange of shots the first of them was captured. The second, alias Bird, was injured. After securing the area, the military rescuers, safeguarding life and adhering to respect for human rights and in compliance with the provisions of international humanitarian law, provided first aid. Later, he was transferred in a National Army helicopter to the Araucanian capital to receive priority medical attention, but he finally died in the care center.
Mica Tropo, according to the authorities, would have a criminal record of more than 12 years in that terrorist structure, with extensive experience and criminal training in the development and orientation of high-impact terrorist actions, through the use of improvised explosive devices in the municipalities of Saravena, Fortul and Tame, department of Arauca; He was the trusted man of aliases Raúl or Nacho, main leader of the Eastern War Front, of the GAO Eln.
For his part, alias Pajaro, who died in the course of that military operation, had a criminal record of more than 14 years within the ELN and carried out criminal tasks as a logistics coordinator for criminal actions, acquiring war material and administration in order to provide for the commissions of the Eln’s Domingo Laín Sanz front. He would also be in charge of carrying out illegal activities in the urban area of the municipalities of Arauquita and Fortul. He, in turn, was the guide of the support networks for the development of terrorist actions against the public force and the critical infrastructure of the State.
Among the terrorist actions in which the participation of these individuals is indicated, the crime of the deputy commander of the Fortul police station on March 25, 2017 stands out. On March 28, he ordered the murder of two Army soldiers after a harassment in the Caranal de Fortul village when they were escorting a public service bus. Likewise, the attack on a platoon of the National Army, on September 11, 2021, an event that left a non-commissioned officer and four professional soldiers killed and six more wounded.
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London’s Metropolitan Police Service on Tuesday said it would investigate “a number of events” that took place in Downing Street and other government buildings during Covid-19 lockdowns in the United Kingdom in 2020 and 2021.
The announcement heaps extra pressure on prime minister Boris Johnson, who has found himself at the heart of the so-called partygate scandal amid allegations in the media that Downing Street and government staff broke Covid-19 rules on several occasions to host parties and social gatherings . EFE
In the Tijuana border, considered one of the most violent cities in Mexico, journalists are silenced by gunshots with two murders occurring in the past week and a long history of crimes against the press.
The case of the Mexican journalist Lourdes Maldonado, murdered Sunday, is even more tragic because the reporter herself traveled to Mexico City in 2019 to tell President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador that she felt threatened and could die at any moment. EFE
A monkey with broad white rings around its eyes, a devil-horned newt and the world’s first succulent bamboo are among the 224 new species of fauna and flora discovered in the Greater Mekong region in 2020, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) said on Wednesday .
In its annual report, which was not released last year due to the coronavirus pandemic, the conservation group highlights the discovery of a new mammal, 35 reptiles, 17 amphibians, 16 fishes and 155 plants and trees in this area of rich biodiversity that includes Myanmar , Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam.
The world’s oldest male gorilla has died at the age of 61, Zoo Atlanta announced on Tuesday.
The gorilla was found dead by his care team, and the cause is not yet known, the zoo said in a statement, adding that staff were “heartbroken.”
Ozzie began to show signs of lack of appetite last Thursday and this week experienced swelling in the face, weakness and inability to eat or drink. A necropsy will be carried out.
“This is a devastating loss for Zoo Atlanta. While we knew this time would come someday, that inevitability does nothing to stem the deep sadness we feel at losing a legend,” said president and CEO Raymond King.
Ozzie was the third oldest gorilla in the world after two females: Fatou, 64, who lives at Berlin Zoo, and Helen, 64, of Louisville Zoo in Kentucky.
The Afghan LGBT+ community has faced an “increasingly desperate situation” with serious safety threats since the Taliban’s return to power, Human Rights Watch said in a joint report with OutRight Action International on Wednesday.
The 43-page report titled “Even If You Go to the Skies, We’ll Find You” is based on interviews with 60 lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) Afghans, residing in Afghanistan or in nearby countries and who have been Attacked by the Taliban or abused by family members or neighbors who support the fundamentalists.
“We spoke with LGBT Afghans who have survived gang rape, mob attacks, or have been hunted by their own family members who joined the Taliban, and they have no hope that state institutions will protect them,” J. Lester Feder, senior fellow for emergency research at OutRight Action International, said in a statement.
“It is difficult to overstate how devastating – and terrifying – the return of Taliban rule has been for LGBT Afghans.”
Sevilla’s new loan signing, French forward Anthony Martial, said Wednesday that he knew he wanted to join the Spanish team after speaking to the club’s sporting director Ramón Rodríguez ‘Monchi’ and coach Julen Lopetegui.
Martial struggled to find a place in the first team at Manchester United this season following the arrival of Cristiano Ronaldo and the turnover of managers at Old Trafford that saw Ole Gunnar Solskjaer sacked and replaced by interim head coach Ralf Rangnick.
During his presentation to the media, Martial said he was looking forward to helping the team challenge Real Madrid for the league title.
A rare and severe snowstorm has swept across parts of Greece and Turkey, leaving motorists stranded on motorways and forcing the evacuation of thousands of people.
Storm Elpida hit Greece on Monday, covering Athens in snow in a rare event, with overnight temperatures plummeting to -14 degrees Celsius.
Meanwhile, flights in Istanbul were also suspended, while over 4,000 people were left stranded on roads across Turkey after snowfall began late last week and has been picking up in recent days.
The city of Antalya, on Turkey’s Mediterranean coast known for its beach resorts, saw its first snowfall in 29 years.
Daniil Medvedev of Russia reacts after winning his men’s quarter final match against Felix Auger-Aliassime of Canada at the Australian Open Grand Slam tennis tournament at Melbourne Park in Melbourne, Australia, 26 January 2022. EFE-EPA/DEAN LEWINS
Stefanos Tsitsipas of Greece celebrates after winning his Men’s quarterfinal match against Jannik Sinner of Italy at the Australian Open Grand Slam tennis tournament at Melbourne Park, in Melbourne, Australia, 26 January 2022. EFE-EPA/DEAN LEWINS
Felix Auger-Aliassime of Canada reacts during his men’s quarter final match against Daniil Medvedev of Russia at the Australian Open Grand Slam tennis tournament at Melbourne Park in Melbourne, Australia, 26 January 2022. EFE-EPA/DAVE HUNT
Felix Auger-Aliassime of Canada in action against Daniil Medvedev of Russia during their men’s quarter final match of the Australian Open Grand Slam tennis tournament at Melbourne Park in Melbourne, Australia, 26 January 2022. EFE-EPA/DEAN LEWINS
Daniil Medvedev of Russia in action against Felix Auger-Aliassime of Canada during their men’s quarter final match of the Australian Open Grand Slam tennis tournament at Melbourne Park in Melbourne, Australia, 26 January 2022. EFE-EPA/DEAN LEWINS
Jannik Sinner of Italy in action against Stefanos Tsitsipas of Greece in their quarter final match at the Australian Open Grand Slam tennis tournament at Melbourne Park, in Melbourne, Australia, 26 January 2022. EFE-EPA/DEAN LEWINS
