Síntesis informativa - 23 de agosto 2019
THE NEW YORK TIMES
India’s Move in Kashmir: More Than 2,000 Rounded Up With No Recourse
NEW DELHI — On Aug. 5, at 1:15 a.m., Asifa Mubeen was woken up by the sound of barking dogs as police officers began pouring into her yard.
Her husband, Mubeen Shah, a wealthy Kashmiri merchant, stepped out onto their bedroom balcony in the night air. The officers shouted up that he was under arrest. When he asked to see a warrant, his wife said, the officers told him there wouldn’t be one.
“This is different,” they said. “We have orders.”
It was the start of one of the biggest mass arrests of civilian leaders in decades carried out by India, a close American partner that bills itself as one of the world’s leading democracies.
Local officials say that at least 2,000 Kashmiris — including business leaders, human rights defenders, elected representatives, teachers, and students as young as 14 — were rounded up by the federal security forces in the days right before and right after the Indian government unilaterally stripped away Kashmir's autonomy.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/23/world/asia/kashmir-arrests-india.html
Israeli Airstrike Hits Weapons Depot in Iraq
Israel has carried out an airstrike on a weapons depot in Iraq that officials said was being used by Iran to move weapons to Syria, an attack that could destabilize Iraq and thrust it deeper into the conflict between the United States and Iran.
The attack, believed to be the first Israeli bombing in Iraq in nearly four decades, represents an expansion of the military campaign Israel has carried out against Iranian targets in Syria.
The Israeli attack last month was one of several recent attacks on weapons storage facilities controlled by Iraqi militias with ties to Iran. It was not clear who carried out the other attacks, which have set Iraq on edge as it struggles to recover from nearly 40 years of war and instability.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/22/world/middleeast/israel-iraq-iran-airstrike.html
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THE GUARDIAN
France and Ireland declare opposition to trade deal over Amazon fires
On the eve of a meeting of the G7 nations in Biarritz, an Élysée source said Emmanuel Macron thought Brazil’s president, Jair Bolsonaro, “lied” to him at the G20 meeting in Osaka in June about his climate commitments and therefore France would oppose the Mercosur treaty.
Macron has declared the Amazonian fires an international crisis, adding that the issue would be at the top of the agenda at the G7 summit this weekend in the French seaside town of Biarritz. However, Bolsonaro is likely to be defended by Donald Trump, who regards the far-right Brazilian leader as a close regional ally and has ignored the science underlying the climate crisis.
China puts $75bn of retaliatory tariffs on US goods
China has unveiled retaliatory tariffs against about $75bn (£60bn) worth of US goods, putting up to 10% on top of existing rates in the latest tit-for-tat in the dispute between the world’s top two economies.
The salvo from China on Friday comes after the US unveiled tariffs on an additional $300bn of Chinese goods, including consumer electronics, scheduled to go into effect in two stages on 1 September and 15 December.
China’s commerce ministry said in a statement it would impose additional tariffs of 5% or 10% on a total of 5,078 items from the US, including agricultural products such as soya beans, and crude oil and light aircraft. It also reinstated tariffs on cars and car parts originating in the US.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/aug/23/china-puts-75bn-retaliatory-tariffs-us-goods-trade-war
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XINHUA
Putin orders to prepare "symmetrical response" to U.S. missile test
MOSCOW, Aug. 23 (Xinhua) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday ordered the government to elaborate measures in response to the U.S. test of a missile previously banned by the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty.
"I instruct the Defense Ministry and the Foreign Ministry as well as other relevant departments to analyze the level of threat caused by the U.S. action to our country and take comprehensive measures to prepare a symmetrical response," Putin said at a Russian Security Council meeting.
"At the same time, Russia is still open to equal and constructive dialogue with the United States to restore confidence and strengthen international security," Putin added, according to a Kremlin transcript.
Last Sunday, the United States test-launched a ground-based cruise missile, which hit a target at a distance of over 500 km.
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-08/23/c_138332453.htm
Xi urges Chinese air force to enhance capability to win
LANZHOU, Aug. 23 (Xinhua) -- Chinese President Xi Jinping has called on the air force to enhance its capability to win and greet the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China (PRC) with great achievements.
Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, made the remarks Thursday when inspecting an air force base in northwest China's Gansu Province.
At the combat command center, Xi used a tele-conferencing facility to inspect the troops including personnel at a radar station on a plateau over 3,600 meters above sea level and a transport and rescue regiment.
After listening to the work report of the base, Xi stressed the great significance of carrying out the Party education campaign themed "staying true to our founding mission" as the nation marks the 70th anniversary of the founding of the PRC.
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-08/23/c_138332690.htm
China gifted frigate formally joins Sri Lanka Navy
COLOMBO, Aug. 22 (Xinhua) -- Sri Lanka Navy held commissioning ceremony at the Colombo port on Thursday for China-gifted frigate "P625", renamed "Parakramabahu".
Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena, Commander of the Navy, Vice Admiral Piyal De Silva, Ambassador of China to Sri Lanka Cheng Xueyuan, Defense Attache of the Chinese Embassy Senior Colonel Xu Jianwei and Sri Lanka senior military officers and government officials attended the ceremony.
President Sirisena handed over the commissioning warrant to the captain of the frigate and later went around the vessel showing keen interest in its equipment. He thanked the Chinese government for donating a capital ship with advance sensors and weaponry to the Sri Lanka Navy.
Named after a great Sri Lankan King Parakramabahu, the frigate is 112 meters long and 12.4 meters wide, has a full displacement of 2,300 tons and can carry 110 officers and sailors.
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-08/22/c_138329944.htm
S.Korea puts blame on Japan for termination of military intelligence-sharing pact
SEOUL, Aug. 23 (Xinhua) -- South Korea's presidential Blue House put the blame on Japan Friday for the termination of the military intelligence-sharing pact between the two countries amid the ongoing trade spat and the controversy over historical issues.
Kim Hyun-chong, deputy director of the National Security Office (NSO) of the Blue House, told a press briefing that there was "no longer any justification" to maintain the General Security of Military Information Agreement (GSOMIA) as it was an agreement to exchange sensitive military intelligence based on "a high level of trust."
Seoul decided Thursday to end the GSOMIA, which was signed in November 2016 to share military intelligence on nuclear and missile programs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK).
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-08/23/c_138332109.htm
Northern Hama countryside empty of Syria's rebels for 1st time since 2012
DAMASCUS, Aug. 23 (Xinhua) -- The Syrian army on Friday fully secured the entire northern countryside of the central province of Hama for the first time since 2012, the state media reported.
After capturing the strategic town of Khan Shaykhun in the southern countryside of Idlib province in northwestern Syria, the Syrian army succeeded to fully secure several adjacent towns in the northern countryside of Hama, the official SANA news agency reported.
The army captured the towns of Al-Lataminah and Kafr Zita as well as Latmin and Morek and other towns in northern Hama, securing the entire northern countryside of Hama from the rebel groups, according to SANA.
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-08/23/c_138332495.htm
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AL JAZEERA
Ireland, France set to block EU-Mercosur trade deal over Amazon
The deal has taken 20 years to negotiate, but Brazil's lack of environmental protection has sparked worldwide anger.
As wildfires rage through the Amazon, Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar and French President Emmanuel Macron have said they will vote against a trade deal between the European Union and South American trade bloc Mercosur unless Brazil takes action to protect the rainforest.
Macron had tweeted on Thursday that fires burning in the Amazon amounted to an international crisis and should be discussed as a top priority when the G7 countries meet this weekend in France.
Bolsonaro then blasted Macron for having a "colonialist mentality". German Chancellor Angela Merkel joined Macron's call on Friday, and it looks likely to be a topic for discussion.
US officials confirm Israel air raid in Iraq
Attack marks significant escalation in Israel's campaign against what it sees as Iranian military entrenchment in Iraq.
Earlier this week, the deputy head of the Iraqi Shia militias, known collectively as the Popular Mobilization Forces, openly accused Israeli drones of carrying out the attacks, but ultimately blamed Washington and threatened strong retaliation for any future attack.
There have been at least three explosions at Iraqi Shia militia bases in the past month. US officials now confirm Israel was responsible for at least one of them.
It would be the first known Israeli air raid in Iraq since 1981 when Israeli warplanes destroyed a nuclear reactor being built by Saddam Hussein.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/08/officials-confirm-israel-air-raid-iraq-190823094346731.html
Russia launches floating nuclear power plant Akademik Lomonosov
Critics say any problem with the reactor in the remote region would be difficult to properly contain.
A huge vessel, the world's only floating nuclear power plant, has left its dock in the Russian port of Murmansk and is on its way to the arctic town of Pevek despite opposition from environmental groups.
Once docked, the 21,000-tonne barge will replace a coal-burning power plant and an ageing land-based nuclear plant and will supply 50,000 people in the area with electricity, according to Russia's state nuclear corporation Rosatom.
The floating vessel will be the northernmost nuclear plant in the world, and will also power the extraction of natural resources in the region when it starts operations next year.
Rosatom said the Akademik Lomonosov is part of a larger plan to provide energy to remote regions in Russia and around the world.
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AL MAYADEEN
Fuerzas iraquíes derriban dron espía no identificado sobre Bagdad
“La defensa antiaérea de la brigada 12 de las Unidades de Movilización Popular derribaron un avión no tripulado que estaba realizando misiones de reconocimiento en el cielo de Bagdad”, informó la fuerza iraquí en un comunicado citado por la cadena Al Sumaria.
Harakat Hizbullah Al-Nuyaba (un movimiento popular iraquí), en un mensaje publicado en su canal de Telegram, se adjudicó el derribo del aparto espía.
Abdalla Hamdok asume como primer ministro de Sudán
El nombramiento del reconocido economista se produjo cuando el general Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, el jefe saliente del consejo militar, prestó juramento como líder del nuevo Consejo Soberano, que gobernará el país durante tres años hasta que se celebren elecciones, después de décadas de gobierno autocrático.
Estados Unidos, Reino Unido y Noruega celebraron el nombramiento de Hamdok, al que calificaron de un momento histórico para Sudán e instaron a los militares a “comprometerse constructivamente” con el nuevo gobierno.
La composición del Consejo Soberano de 11 miembros que administrará el país durante el período de transición, reemplazando así al consejo militar que se ha disuelto, se completó el martes, y consta de seis figuras civiles y cinco militares.
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