Síntesis informativa - 12 de abril 2019

THE NEW YORK TIMES

Sudan’s Military Says It Won’t Extradite Ousted President

One day after announcing the ouster of President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, the Sudanese military officials who have taken power said they had no intention of extraditing the deposed president, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court on charges including genocide and crimes against humanity, connected to atrocities in the Sudanese region of Darfur.

But he will be tried in Sudan, an army official said on Friday at a news conference in Khartoum, the capital, according to The Associated Press.

Thousands of Sudanese protesters camped outside the country’s military headquarters on Friday, defying an overnight curfew that followed the dramatic ouster of Mr. al-Bashir by his top military lieutenants on Thursday.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/12/world/africa/sudan-omar-al-bashir-extradition.html

Assange: A Self-Proclaimed Foe of Secrecy Who Inspires Both Admiration and Fury

The shaky video clips of Julian Assange’s arrest flashed around the world on Thursday, the white-bearded prophet of the age of leaks being hauled by unsmiling security officers to a gray van marked Police.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/11/us/politics/wikileaks-assange.html

Pakistan Market Bomb Blast Kills at Least 16 People in Quetta

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — At least 16 people were killed when a bomb ripped through a vegetable market in Quetta in southwestern Pakistan early Friday, officials said. Eight of the dead were Hazaras, a Shiite Muslim minority group that has repeatedly been the target of Sunni extremists.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, which also injured at least 30 people. But Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, a banned militant Sunni group, has often carried out attacks against Hazaras in Quetta, the capital of Baluchistan Province.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/12/world/asia/pakistan-bombing-market.html

Taliban Announce Spring Offensive, Even as Peace Talks Gain Momentum

KABUL, Afghanistan — The Taliban announced the beginning of their spring offensive on Friday, even as the insurgents said the United Nations had lifted travel bans on 15 of their senior leaders to facilitate peace talks with the United States.

The announcements were a sign that though the peace talks are gaining momentum, with an Afghan delegation expected to meet with insurgents soon, fighting is likely to intensify all over the country.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/12/world/asia/taliban-spring-offensive-afghanistan.html

Military Drills in Arctic Aim to Counter Russia, but the First Mission Is to Battle the Cold

RESOLUTE BAY, Canada — After finishing a training drill on surviving the bitter cold, the soldiers gathered around Ranger Debbie Iqaluk to hear about an inescapable fact of life in the high Arctic: The ice is melting despite the frigid temperatures.

And that means the Russians are coming.

Her retelling of how she watched as an enormous iceberg fractured, just a few feet from the military base here, was riveting. It is one thing to be told constantly that the melting polar ice cap has opened up the Arctic, disappearing what used to be an impenetrable barrier between North America and Russia. It is quite another to see it firsthand.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/12/world/europe/global-warming-russia-arctic-usa.html


THE GUARDIAN

Diane Abbott urges PM to block Julian Assange extradition

The shadow home secretary, Diane Abbott, has urged Theresa May to block the extradition of Julian Assange to the US in the same way she intervened in the case of the computer hacker Gary McKinnon.

In 2012, as home secretary, May halted McKinnon’s extradition on human rights grounds after doctors warned he was at risk of suicide if sent to face trial in the US. Abbott said similar grounds should be used to block Assange’s extradition.

Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour leader, has also urged the government not to extradite Assange, saying he had exposed evidence of atrocities in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Almost 12 hours after Assange was arrested, Corbyn tweeted: “The extradition of Julian Assange to the US for exposing evidence of atrocities in Iraq and Afghanistan should be opposed by the British government.”

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/apr/12/diane-abbott-urges-pm-to-block-julian-assange-extradition

Donald Trump floats idea of third North Korea summit despite failed Hanoi talks

“We will be discussing that and potential meetings, further meetings with North Korea and Kim Jong-un,” Trump said in the Oval Office at the start of talks with South Korean President Moon Jae-in.

A third summit would follow on Trump’s historic breakthrough last year, when he met Kim in Singapore, and a follow-up this February in Hanoi that ended without progress in getting North Korea to give up nuclear weapons.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/apr/12/donald-trump-floats-idea-of-third-north-korea-summit-despite-failed-hanoi-talks

Chinese imports from US slump 28% amid trade standoff

Imports fell by 7.6% in March compared with a year earlier, worse than City economists’ forecasts for the volume of goods bought from abroad to grow by 0.2%.

It also comes after Chinese imports slid by 5.2% in February, suggesting that there has been a sustained decline in domestic demand.

Analysts said the trade standoff between the US and China was a likely factor behind the slowdown. Washington and Beijing have imposed higher tariffs on imports, which have served as a drag on global trade.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/apr/12/chinese-imports-slump-amid-trade-standoff-with-united-states

'We are hostages': indigenous Mapuche accuse Chile and Argentina of genocide

Representatives of South America’s indigenous Mapuche people have petitioned the international criminal court (ICC) to take action against the governments of Chile and Argentina for acts of genocide and crimes against humanity.

Lonko Juana Calfunao, who led the delegation to The Hague on Thursday said that since their formations, both countries had committed crimes including genocide and torture against their Indigenous populations.

The legal battle has a curious origin and backer: the Kingdom of Araucania and Patagonia, the surviving government in exile of an ephemeral 19th state.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/apr/12/indigenous-mapuche-accuse-chile-brazil-genocide

 

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