Síntesis informativa - 14 de noviembre 2019

THE NEW YORK TIMES

ISIS Suspect Trapped at Turkish-Greek Border Is to Be Deported to U.S.

ISTANBUL — Turkey announced on Thursday that it would repatriate an American suspected of being a member of the Islamic State, after a commitment from the United States that his entry would not be blocked.



The American, Muhammad Darwish Bassam, 39, had been stranded on a strip of land at the Turkish-Greek border for the past four days after Turkey had tried to deport him to Greece, but Greek officials refused him entry.



The announcement by the Interior Ministry came a day after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey met with President Trump in Washington. Turkey has used Mr. Bassam’s case to highlight its demand that Western countries take back their citizens who joined the Islamic State and have been detained by Turkish forces.



https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/14/world/middleeast/american-isis-turkey-greece.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage

 

Smith & Wesson Maker to Split Into Two Companies

American Outdoor Brands, which owns Smith & Wesson firearms, said Wednesday it would split into two companies. The move would leave an outdoor products business and hive off the firearms business into a separate publicly traded company.



The decision was motivated by “significant changes in the political climate as well as the economic, investing, and insurance markets,” Barry M. Monheit, chairman of American Outdoor Brands, said in the statement on the company’s website.



American Outdoor Brands’ share price has sunk over the past year as retailers and businesses have faced growing pressure from the public and investors to curb gun violence after mass shootings. On Tuesday, the Supreme Court allowed relatives of shooting victims at the Sandy Hook Elementary School to sue the Remington Arms Company, the maker of the rifle used in the massacre.



In October, Dick’s Sporting Goods said it destroyed more than $5 million of military-style, semiautomatic rifles and was considering whether it would continue to sell guns at its stores. In September, Walmart said it would stop selling ammunition that could be used in military-style assault rifles after a shooting at one of its stores in El Paso. Colt, the gun maker, said in September that it would effectively suspend production of sporting rifles for the civilian market. 

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/14/business/smith-wesson-firearms-split.html

 

Compelling Testimony, but No Minds Changed So Far

WASHINGTON — After hours of testimony in the first impeachment hearing in decades, William B. Taylor Jr. on Wednesday afternoon finally got down to the heart of the issue dividing Congress over President Trump’s conduct.



“Holding up of security assistance that would go to a country that is fighting aggression from Russia for no good policy reason, no good substantive reason, no good national security reason is wrong,” Mr. Taylor, the unflappable acting ambassador to Ukraine, said in a commanding voice somehow reminiscent of Walter Cronkite.



Wrong perhaps, but was it sufficiently wrong to justify removing a duly elected president from office? And more to the point, is it enough to persuade Republicans — so far monolithic in their support for Mr. Trump — to break from him over whether he withheld military aid to Ukraine as leverage for investigations into a political rival? For now, the answer appears to be no.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/14/us/impeachment-public-hearings-congress.html

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XINHUA

China ready to achieve common prosperity with Brazil: Xi

BRASILIA, Nov. 13 (Xinhua) -- Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Wednesday China is fully confident in China-Brazil cooperation and stands ready to achieve common prosperity with Brazil.



Xi made the remarks when meeting here with Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro. Noting that Bolsonaro paid a successful state visit to China in October, Xi said the consensus reached by the two sides is being actively implemented.



At the recently concluded second China International Import Expo (CIIE), the transaction volume of Brazilian businesses grew 3.6 times compared with that at the first CIIE last year, Xi said, calling the results gratifying.

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-11/14/c_138552655.htm

 

Turkey, Russia hold 6th joint patrol in northern Syria

ANKARA, Nov. 14 (Xinhua) -- Turkish and Russian troops on Thursday have completed the 6th round of joint ground patrol in northern Syria, as part of a deal over the withdrawal of Syrian Kurdish militia from Turkey's border.



"Turkish and Russian units accompanied by UAVs completed the sixth joint land patrol in the east of the Euphrates as planned," said the Turkish defense ministry in a written statement. "In sixth land patrol carried out in the Darbasiyah region, four vehicles from each side were joined by UAVs. Turkish and Russian units completed the patrol in an area of 45 km in length and 8 to 9 km in depth," read the statement.



The patrols are part of a memorandum between Ankara and Moscow to remove fighters of the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) 30 km from the Turkish border. Ankara sees the YPG as the Syrian offshoot of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party.



On Oct. 9, Turkey launched a military incursion, named Operation Peace Spring, into northern Syria in a bid to drive Kurdish fighters out of the border region, following the pullout of U.S. troops.

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-11/14/c_138555142.htm

 

NASA's rover to hunt for microscopic fossils on Mars

WASHINGTON, Nov. 13 (Xinhua) -- NASA scientists have discovered a potential place for its Mars 2020 rover to look for signs of ancient life in Jezero Crater where the rover will land in February of 2021.



The study published Tuesday in the journal Icarus showed the existence of distinct deposits of minerals called carbonates along the inner rim of the crater, the site of a lake more than 3.5 billion years ago. The hardy structures of carbonates can survive in fossil form for billions of years on Earth. Those fossils include seashells, coral and some stromatolites, which are rocks formed by ancient microbial life along ancient shorelines.

Mars 2020 is NASA's next-generation mission to study life throughout the universe. It will search for actual signs of past microbial life, taking rock core samples that will be deposited in metal tubes on the Martian surface.

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-11/14/c_138552877.htm

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AL JAZEERA

New testimony against Trump as impeachment inquiry goes public

Trump impeachment hearing with two key witnesses focus on Ukraine pressure campaign in first day.

The top United States diplomat in Ukraine, testifying on Wednesday in the first televised hearing of the impeachment inquiry against Donald Trump, linked the president more directly to a pressure campaign on Kyiv to conduct investigations that would benefit him politically.

Taylor said a member of his staff overheard a July 26 phone call between Trump and Gordon Sondland, a former political donor appointed as the US ambassador to the European Union, in which the Republican president asked about those investigations and Sondland told him that the Ukrainians were ready to proceed.

Republicans argued that Taylor and Kent's testimony did not directly involve the president, but was based on words of others and ultimately gave a false impression of Trump's actual actions and motives.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/11/testimony-trump-impeachment-inquiry-public-191113232337686.html

 

View from Ankara: Trump and Erdogan praise ties despite tensions

Topping agenda of talks was Turkey's military operation in northeast Syria and Ankara's purchase of Russian missiles.

Andrew Wilks

The Turkish president and his wife Emine arrived in Washington facing a list of long-standing disputes with the US political establishment.

Topping that list was the military operation Turkey launched in northeast Syria last month and Ankara's purchase of Russian missiles over the summer.

Both issues have seen the US Congress prepare sanctions against NATO ally Turkey - sanctions that Trump has so far held off on implementing.

There were several other issues the leaders agreed on: the need for Europe to share more of the burden on Syrian refugees and dealing with captured ISIL foreign fighters as well as plans to quadruple bilateral trade between Turkey and the US to $100bn.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/11/view-ankara-trump-erdogan-praise-ties-tensions-191114072146442.html

 

Bolivia's Morales 'ready to return', as US backs his rival Anez

Jeanine Anez, who declared herself interim president, has promised to hold new elections in troubled country.

Bolivia's former President Evo Morales has said he was ready "to return to pacify" his country amid weeks of unrest that led to his resignation, as the United States showed its support for self-declared interim leader Jeanine Anez.

He also called for a "national dialogue" to resolve the crisis in Bolivia and rejected the legitimacy of the leadership of Jeanine Anez, who declared herself interim president late on Tuesday.

Bolivia's top constitutional court issued a statement late on Tuesday laying out the legal justification for Anez taking the presidency - without mentioning her by name.

But some legal experts have challenged the technicalities behind Anez's claim, saying at least some of the steps required Congress to meet - such challenges could affect her ability to govern.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/11/morales-people-ready-return-pacify-bolivia-191113193229019.html

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AL MAYADEEN

Jihad Islámica Palestina e (Israel) acuerdan alto al fuego en Gaza con mediación de Egipto

Una fuente palestina indicó a la agencia AP que el alto al fuego, convenido después de un intercambio de ataques con misiles, es resultado de los esfuerzos diplomáticos de las autoridades egipcias y es respaldado por facciones palestinas.

http://espanol.almayadeen.net/news/politica/1360292/jihad-isl%C3%A1mica-palestina-e--israel--acuerdan-alto-al-fuego-e

 

Bajo la presión de los manifestantes autoridades iraquíes compiten por presentar iniciativas de reformas

Fuentes locales informaron que el miércoles se renovaron los enfrentamientos entre las fuerzas de seguridad y los manifestantes en el puente hacia el Senk que conduce a la Zona Verde en Bagdad.

En un intento por dispersar a los manifestantes, las fuerzas de seguridad lanzaron gases lacrimógenos e hirieron a varios civiles. En las provincias del sur, el Sindicato de Maestros anunció una huelga general para restablecer el impulso de las protestas.

http://espanol.almayadeen.net/news/politica/1360272/bajo-la-presi%C3%B3n-de-las-calles-iraqu%C3%ADes-las-autoridades-compi

 

Declaración de Brasilia pone fin a cumbre de Brics

La víspera, el presidente brasileño, Jair Bolsonaro, fue el último orador en el Fórum Empresarial del Brics, en el primer día de actividades de la reunión cimera.

Propuso incrementar el comercio entre los países miembros, al dirigirse a los otros cuatro líderes del grupo de potencias emergentes (Vladimir Putin (Rusia), Narendra Modi (India), Xi Xinping (China) y Cyril Ramaphosa (Sudáfrica).

Durante el cierre de la cita empresarial, Xi dijo que el 30 por ciento del crecimiento de la economía internacional se debe a China y reforzó su intención de actuar cada vez más en una economía abierta.

http://espanol.almayadeen.net/news/politica/1360287/declaraci%C3%B3n-de-brasilia-pone-fin-a-cumbre-de-brics

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