Síntesis informativa - 12 de septiembre 2019
THE NEW YORK TIMES
Trump Leaves Open Possibility of Easing Iranian Sanctions to Spur Nuclear Talks
WASHINGTON — President Trump appeared to take a step back from his administration’s “maximum pressure” campaign against Iran on Wednesday, leaving open the possibility of easing economic sanctions before starting new nuclear negotiations with Tehran.
Although he also warned Iran against restarting production of the material necessary to make a nuclear bomb — as the clerical government in Tehran has threatened — Mr. Trump made clear he was ready for diplomatic talks.
“I do believe they’d like to make a deal,” Mr. Trump told reporters at the White House. “If they do, that’s great; and if they don’t, that’s great too. But they have tremendous financial difficulty, and the sanctions are getting tougher and tougher.”
He shrugged when asked if he would consider easing the sanctions to secure a meeting with Iran. “We’ll see what happens,” Mr. Trump said.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/11/world/middleeast/trump-iran-bolton-.html
Russia Raids Offices and Homes of Navalny Allies
MOSCOW — In a nationwide crackdown to prevent discontent in Moscow from spreading to far-flung regions, Russian security forces on Thursday raided and searched hundreds of homes and offices across the country of activists affiliated with the opposition leader Aleksei A. Navalny.
The raids, the biggest operation yet against Mr. Navalny and his supporters, were carried out in more than 40 cities and towns as part of a criminal money-laundering investigation announced in August by the authorities against his Anti-Corruption Foundation. The foundation has been the vanguard of recent street protests in Moscow that led to the arrests of more than 2,000 people.
Mr. Navalny issued a statement denouncing the raids as the biggest police operation, in geographical reach, in Russia’s modern history and a clear attempt to “intimidate” and “demoralize.” He said security officials from the police, the National Guard and the Federal Security Service, or F.S.B., had simultaneously raided more than 200 sites in 41 towns and cities.
Also raided as part of the same investigation were the homes of activists in Golos, an independent organization that monitors elections.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/12/world/europe/russia-raids-aleksei-navalny.html
How Jewish Should the Jewish State Be? The Question Shadows an Israeli Vote
JERUSALEM — For years, the resentment had been building.
In Israel, Jewish men and women are drafted into the military, but the ultra-Orthodox are largely exempt. Unlike other Israelis, many ultra-Orthodox receive state subsidies to study the Torah and raise large families.
And in a country that calls itself home to all Jews, ultra-Orthodox rabbis have a state-sanctioned monopoly on events like marriage, divorce and religious conversions.
A series of political twists has suddenly jolted these issues to the fore, and the country’s long-simmering secular-religious divide has become a central issue in the national election on Tuesday.
In a country buffeted by a festering conflict with the Palestinians, increasingly open warfare with Iran and a prime minister facing indictment on corruption charges, the election has been surprisingly preoccupied with the question of just how Jewish — and whose idea of Jewish — the Jewish state should be.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/12/world/middleeast/israeli-election-religious-secular.html
Three Australians Are Being Held in Iran, Government Says
Three citizens of Australia are being held in Iran, the Australian government said on Wednesday, confirming the detentions as frictions remain high between Tehran and Western nations over the imperiled 2015 accord limiting its nuclear program.
The Australian government said it was providing consular assistance to the families of those detained, and it reminded travelers that they risk arbitrary detention when visiting Iran. The government provided no other details, citing privacy requirements.
The Times of London, which first reported the detentions, said the three people jailed were a British-Australian blogger and her Australian boyfriend, as well as a British-Australian academic.
The newspaper said that the couple was taken into custody about 10 weeks ago, and that the scholar was detained earlier and had since been sentenced to a decade in prison on unknown charges.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/11/world/australia/australians-detained-iran.html?module=inline
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THE GUARDIAN
Israel accused of planting spying devices near White House
Israel is likely to have planted mobile phone spying devices near the White House and other sensitive locations in the US capital over the past two years, according to a report from Politico that cited three former US officials.
The miniature surveillance devices mimic telecommunications towers to gather information, including the contents of phone calls. The US government concluded Israeli operatives were most likely to have put them in place to spy on Donald Trump and his associates, the news website reported.
World losing area of forest the size of the UK each year, report finds
The rate of loss has reached 26m hectares (64m acres) a year, a report has found, having grown rapidly in the past five years despite pledges made by governments in 2014 to reverse deforestation and restore trees.
Russia denounces Netanyahu's West Bank annexation plan
The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, flies into Sochi on Thursday for talks with the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, that come after Moscow added its voice to criticism of his pre-election pledge to annex occupied Palestinian territories.
The Russian foreign ministry said on Wednesday that Netanyahu’s move could “lead to a sharp escalation of tension in the region and undermine hopes for the establishment of a long-awaited peace between Israel and its Arab neighbours”. The Kremlin has not yet commented.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/sep/12/russia-denounces-netanyahu-west-bank-annexation-plan
Supreme court's action to allow Trump to deny asylum reverses years of US policy
The supreme court ruled on Wednesday to allow the Trump administration to enforce nationwide restrictions that would prevent most Central American immigrants from seeking asylum in the US.
The administration announced in July a new policy that would deny asylum to anyone who passes through another country on their way to the US without seeking protection there first, therefore affecting almost all migrants who arrive at the US-Mexico border.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/sep/11/trump-supreme-court-deny-asylum-immigrants
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XINHUA
U.S. Supreme Court backs Trump administration's tough asylum restrictions
WASHINGTON, Sept. 11 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. Supreme Court late Wednesday permitted the Trump administration to enforce its tough asylum restrictions nationwide prohibiting migrants from seeking asylum in the United States.
The rule, put forward by the Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security on July 15, will disallow asylum application by migrants entering the United States through a third country without seeking protection there.
The Trump administration said it was necessary to limit the number of Central American migrants crossing the U.S. southern border via Mexico, citing "an unprecedented surge of" people enter the United States "illegally" and seek asylum when they are caught.
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-09/12/c_138386850.htm
Netanyahu says Israel "probably" start war in Gaza
ERUSALEM, Sept. 12 (Xinhua) -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday that Israel "will probably have no choice" but to launch a war in Gaza to halt rocket fire at its southern part.
Speaking on Kan Bet Israel's national radio four days before the parliamentary elections, Netanyahu said a war "would be the last option." However, he said Israel "will probably have no choice but to set out on a full-scale military campaign, a war, against the terror forces in Gaza."
The recent projectiles, including two rockets launched towards the southern city of Ashdod while Netanyahu was on a campaign rally there, were apparently fired by militants not affiliated with Hamas, an Islamist Palestinian movement that runs Gaza.
However, Netanyahu said he holds Hamas accountable for the fire, vowing to "bring down the Hamas regime in Gaza" in order to remove the threat of more rocket attacks.
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-09/12/c_138386864.htm
Iraqi forces discover IS ammunition cache in western Iraq
BAGHDAD, Sept. 12 (Xinhua) -- The Iraqi military said Thursday that an ammunition cache belonging to Islamic State (IS) militants was discovered in Iraq's western province of Anbar.
A force from Anbar's Operations Command uncovered the ammunition cache during an operation in the area of Wadi al-Qadhif in Anbar desert, the Iraqi Defense Ministry said in a statement.
Nasir al-Ghannam, commander of Anbar's Operations Command, said that the ammunition cache contains 570 newly-made explosive belts, bombs, hand grenades and anti-tank mines.
The place was used by IS militants to store their ammunition before distributing them to carry out attacks in the cities of Anbar province and in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, the statement said.
In a separate operation, another force from Anbar Operations Command, in cooperation with civilians in the province, captured two wanted IS militants, the statement added, without giving further details.
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-09/12/c_138387636.htm
Sudan PM vows to boost ties with South Sudan
JUBA, Sept. 12 (Xinhua) -- Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok arrived in Juba on Thursday for a two-day official visit and pledged to boost ties with South Sudan.
Hamdok reaffirmed Khartoum's commitment to bolstering relations with Juba, saying his visit will focus on trade, border safety, oil, and free movement of people.
"We are here today looking for a very distinguished relationships in our two nations and the sky is the limit," Hamdok said.
Sudan is committed to supporting President Salva Kiir's efforts to bring peace to South Sudan, he said.
"We hope by the end of the two-day meeting we will be able to communicate to you (public) what we have agreed and discussed," Hamdok said.
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-09/12/c_138387656.htm
Kyrgyzstan, Iran to enhance security cooperation
BISHKEK, Sept. 12 (Xinhua) -- Kyrgyz Interior Minister Kashkar Dzhunushaliev and his Iranian counterpart Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli on Thursday signed an agreement on security cooperation.
Under the agreement, the two interior ministries will cooperate in the fields of security and law enforcement, especially in the fight against organized crime, terrorism, extremism, human trafficking and illicit trafficking of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances.
The agreement was signed in the Kyrgyz capital during a bilateral meeting between the ministers, according to the press service of the Ministry of Interior Affairs of Kyrgyzstan.
During the meeting, the two sides discussed prospects for the further development of their cooperation and noted the importance of joint decisions on pressing issues.
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-09/12/c_138387645.htm
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AL JAZEERA
Netanyahu, Putin to meet as Russia condemns annexation plan
Meeting comes as Moscow warns pre-election pledge could lead to a 'sharp escalation of tensions in the region'.
Moscow pointed out that Netanyahu's pre-election pledge drew a "sharp negative reaction" in the Arab world and reiterated its call for direct talks between Israel and Palestinians.
Moscow on Wednesday also reaffirmed its "consistent and unchanging" position to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict on the basis of two-state solution within the 1967 borders.
'Is the Earth unique?' Water detected in atmosphere of exoplanet
K2-18b is the only planet beyond our solar system known to have water vapor and temperatures that could support life.
Astronomers at the Centre for Space Exochemistry Data at the University College London (UCL) detected water vapour in the atmosphere of the K2-18b "exoplanet," a planet outside our solar system, between the mass of Earth and Neptune, that also has the right temperatures that could support life.
The team used data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to find water vapour in the atmosphere of K2-18b, by analysing starlight filtered through the exoplanet's atmosphere. The report was published in the journal Nature Astronomy on Wednesday.
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AL MAYADEEN
Fuerzas de la Movilización Popular iraquí derriban dron que preparaba ataques contra unidades del ejército
Las Fuerzas de Movilización Popular anunció la víspera que su defensa antiaérea abrió fuego contra drones que sobrevolaron la 35ª Brigada y la sede de las operaciones de Salah al-Din y los obligó a huir a un destino desconocido.
Líder de Al-Qaeda llama a atacar objetivos de EE.UU. y Europa
El líder terrorista advirtió a los integrantes de Al-Qaeda de la “corrupción que extienden” los militares estadounidenses asentados en bases en la región.
Además de EE.UU., Al-Zawahiri urgió a sus hombres a lanzar ataques en países europeos, incluido Rusia, así como contra el régimen israelí, el que –según los medios– ha sido bastante activo en brindar apoyo a Al-Qaeda y otros grupos terroristas.
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