Síntesis informativa - 5 de junio 2019

THE NEW YORK TIMES

Trump Says There’s a ‘Chance’ of Military Action Against Iran



LONDON — President Trump said in a British TV interview broadcast on Wednesday that there was “a chance” of military action against Iran, after months of threats and an apparent de-escalation of tensions between Tehran and Washington.



Mr. Trump made the remarks on ITV’s “Good Morning Britain” to Piers Morgan, the show’s co-host who was the winner of “The Celebrity Apprentice” in the United States in 2007-8 and someone Mr. Trump considers a friend. They were aired during the third and last day of his state visit to Britain.



When Mr. Morgan asked Mr. Trump whether he was considering military action against Iran, the president, who almost never rules anything out, said: “There is always a chance. Do I want to? No, I’d rather not. But there’s always a chance.” He added, “I’d much rather talk.”



https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/05/world/europe/trump-piers-morgan-uk.html



Sudan’s Protesters Reject Military Plan a Day After Crackdown Kills 35



A day after security forces violently cleared the main protest camp in Khartoum, the leaders of Sudan’s protest movement rejected a plan by the nation’s military leaders to hold elections within nine months.



The protesters vowed instead to push ahead with an open-ended civil disobedience campaign to force the military from power.



At least 35 people were killed and over 650 were wounded in a firestorm of violence on Monday, protest organizers said, when paramilitary troops swept through central Khartoum, the capital, firing on protesters, burning tents and beating civilians.



https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/04/world/africa/sudan-protest-military.html



Franco’s Exhumation Is Delayed by Spanish Court



MADRID — Just days before the scheduled exhumation of General Francisco Franco, the Supreme Court of Spain ordered the country’s Socialist government on Tuesday to suspend its reburial plan for the former Spanish dictator and give his relatives more time to pursue their appeal.



The ruling is another blow for Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, who promised a year ago to remove Franco from the underground basilica that the dictator built after winning the civil war that then became one of Europe’s largest mass graves.



https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/04/world/europe/franco-exhumation-spain.html



Xi Jinping’s Visit to Russia Accents Ties in Face of Tensions with U.S.



MOSCOW — President Xi Jinping of China arrived in Moscow on Wednesday at the start of a high-profile three-day state visit that will include some panda diplomacy and underscore the strengthening Beijing-Moscow axis at a time when relations for both with Washington continue to fray.



The Kremlin released figures showing that trade between Russia and China grew almost 25 percent last year, reaching $108 billion — finally breaking the $100 billion milestone sought for years, even if partly based on higher oil prices.



https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/05/world/europe/xi-jinping-china-russia.html



U.N. Aid Chief Warns of Looming ‘Horror’ as Somalia Again Faces Famine



The top humanitarian official at the United Nations sounded the alarm on Wednesday about the looming risk of famine in the Horn of Africa because of drought, warning that more than five million people are threatened, mostly Somalis.



The official, Mark Lowcock, under secretary general and emergency relief coordinator at the United Nations, said that he had allocated $45 million from its emergency relief fund to help purchase food and other assistance for people of the region, and that many of them could face a serious food crisis by September. He called the allocation one of the biggest ever made from the fund.



Somalia and parts of neighboring Ethiopia and Kenya have suffered from repeated seasons of failed rains that have shriveled crops, depleted livestock and left people’s food and water supplies increasingly insecure.



https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/05/world/africa/africa-famine-united-nations-somalia.html



New Palestinian Premier Warns of a ‘Very Hot Summer’



RAMALLAH, West Bank — Pressured by the Trump administration, confronted with Israeli talk of annexing the West Bank, increasingly isolated in the Arab world and running out of money, the beleaguered Palestinian Authority is staring at what its new prime minister acknowledges could be its own demise.



“We are in a collapsing situation,” the premier, Muhammad Shtayyeh, said in an interview.



A new Israeli antiterrorism law that withholds some Palestinian revenue has precipitated a financial crisis that could bankrupt the authority by July or August, he said. If that happens, the authority would have to furlough its police officers, he said — a not-so-veiled threat to Israel, which depends on Palestinian security forces to police the West Bank.



https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/05/world/middleeast/palestinian-prime-minister-israel.html



Senate Republicans Warn White House Against Mexico Tariffs



WASHINGTON — Republican senators sent the White House a sharp message on Tuesday, warning that they were almost uniformly opposed to President Trump’s plans to impose tariffs on Mexican imports, just hours after the president said lawmakers would be “foolish” to try to stop him.



Mr. Trump’s latest threat to impose 5 percent tariffs on all goods imported from Mexico, rising to as high as 25 percent until the Mexican government stems the flow of migrants, has prompted some of the most serious defiance in the Republican ranks since the president took office.



https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/04/us/politics/republicans-mexico-tariffs.html



Mexico’s Foreign Minister to Meet With Pence in Effort to Avoid Trump Tariffs



WASHINGTON — Vice President Mike Pence will meet Wednesday with Mexico’s foreign minister as officials on both sides of the border try to avert the potentially crippling economic consequences of President Trump’s threat to impose tariffs on all Mexican imports.



Mr. Trump has vowed to impose a 5 percent tariff on all goods from Mexico beginning Monday and to increase the tax to 25 percent by October if Mexico does not prevent migrants from illegally entering the United States. Mr. Trump, speaking Tuesday in London, said that it was “more likely that the tariffs” would be imposed on Monday as he has threatened.



Mexican officials, along with Republican lawmakers, are trying to prevent that outcome. Marcelo Ebrard, the Mexican foreign minister, is scheduled to meet on Wednesday afternoon at the White House with Mr. Pence, a senior administration official said, in an effort to convince the president that Mexico is doing everything it can to help prevent illegal immigration across the United States border. As of Tuesday night in London, as he was preparing to leave for Washington, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was also expected to attend the meeting.



https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/05/us/politics/ebrard-pence-mexico-tariffs.html



Leader of Mexican Church La Luz Del Mundo Charged With Sex Crimes in Los Angeles



The leader of La Luz del Mundo, a church headquartered in Mexico that claims to have more than one million followers worldwide, was charged Tuesday in Los Angeles with more than a dozen sex crimes, including allegations that he forced children to have sex and made them pose naked for photos, the authorities in California said.



The leader, Naasón Joaquín García, 50, was arrested Monday at the Los Angeles International Airport, according to the California attorney general’s office. Mr. García is considered by La Luz del Mundo, which has locations in the Los Angeles area, to be an apostle of Jesus Christ.



https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/04/us/la-luz-del-mundo-garcia.html


THE GUARDIAN

US-China trade war to cost $455bn in lost output, says IMF

In a paper prepared for the meeting of G20 finance ministers and central bank governors in Japan this weekend, the IMF calculated that the recently announced intensification of protectionism would cut global gross domestic product by 0.3% in 2020.

Lagarde’s intervention followed the latest half-yearly health check on the global economy from the World Bank, which said Trump’s trade wars with China, Mexico and Europe had sent global investment tumbling.

The IMF’s sister organisation predicted that the upshot of increased political uncertainty would push down world growth to 2.6% this year – its weakest since 2016.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/jun/05/us-china-trade-war-to-cost-455bn-in-lost-output-says-imf

Donald Trump says US is not seeking war with Iran

The assurance that Trump is not seeking war with Iran was made by US officials to British counterparts in talks surrounding the president’s three-day state visit to the UK. They also claimed the US policy of sending extra troops and an aircraft carrier to the region had acted as a deterrent.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/05/donald-trump-us-war-iran


AL JAZEERA

Toll in Sudan army attack jumps as China, Russia block UN action

Sixty killed since raid at Khartoum sit-in, doctors say, as Security Council fails to adopt text condemning killings.

The opposition-linked Central Committee of Sudanese Doctors said on Wednesday the death toll since the operation on Monday - the last day of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan - had risen from 35 to at least 60 people, with hundreds of others wounded.

Protesters have previously singled out the Rapid Support Forces, paramilitaries with origins in the 16-year-old war in the western region of Darfur, whose commander is deputy chairman on the ruling military council.

Separately, the Security Council met on Tuesday at the request of Britain and Germany to hear a briefing from UN envoy Nicholas Haysom, who has been working with the African Union (AU) on a solution to the crisis in Sudan.

But China, backed by Russia, blocked a bid to condemn the killing of civilians and issue an urgent call from world powers for an immediate halt to the violence, according to diplomats.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/06/toll-sudan-army-attack-jumps-china-russia-block-action-190605025952953.html

Iran's Khamenei: US Middle East peace plan a 'great betrayal'

Aim of upcoming Bahrain conference is to realise US's 'traitorous and dastardly' plan on Palestine, supreme leader says.

"The 'deal of the century' will, God willing, never take root ... This is a great betrayal of the Islamic world. We hope the leaders of Bahrain and Saudi [Arabia] will realise into what a quagmire they are stepping and how harmful it will be for their future."

The peace plan, fronted by US President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner, has already been rejected by the Palestinians, who say the White House's policies have been blatantly biased in favour of Israel.

Critics say the Bahrain event may be a prelude to a US push to jettison the "two-state" solution - a long-standing, international formula for an independent Palestinian state alongside Israel in the West Bank, occupied East Jerusalem and Gaza.

He repeated Iran's proposal of holding a vote with the participation of "Muslim, Christian and Jewish residents of Palestine as well as Palestinian refugees" on a system of government.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/06/iran-khamenei-middle-east-peace-plan-great-betrayal-190605102235184.html

 

AL MAYADEEN

Consejo de Seguridad de la ONU se reúne por crisis en Sudán

"Necesitamos un retorno urgente a la mesa de negociaciones", dijo el embajador alemán, Christoph Heusgen, antes de la reunión. "La legitimidad no puede venir del cañón de un arma", agregó.

El diplomático alemán descartó un plan del Consejo Militar de Sudán de realizar elecciones en un plazo de nueve meses, con el argumento de que no existían las condiciones necesarias en todo el país.

En la misma postura se mostraron Estados Unidos, Reino Unido y Noruega, instando a una "transición ordenada" hacia un gobierno civil.

http://espanol.almayadeen.net/news/politica/287464/consejo-de-seguridad-de-la-onu-se-re%C3%BAne-por-crisis-en-sud%C3%A1n/

Enviado especial de EE.UU. niega informes acuerdo con Rusia para poner fin a la guerra en Siria

Mientras tanto, Washington y Moscú continúan intercambiando puntos de vista sobre el conflicto en curso en Siria y aunque ambos están de acuerdo en que debe haber un final político para la guerra, aún no se ha llegado a él, apuntó Jeffrey.

El lunes, la edición saudita de Asharq Al-Awsat, citando fuentes diplomáticas occidentales, informó que Estados Unidos e Israel pretenden, en una reunión trilateral en Jerusalén, ofrecer a Rusia el reconocimiento de la legitimidad del presidente Bashar al Assad y el levantamiento de las sanciones de las autoridades sirias si Moscú acepta restringir la presunta influencia iraní en ese país.

http://espanol.almayadeen.net/news/politica/287460/enviado-especial-de-ee-uu--niega-informes-acuerdo-con-rusia/