Síntesis informativa - 30 de septiembre 2019
THE GUARDIAN
'Now it's just ghosts': Yemenis living under the shadow of death by airstrike
The overnight attack on Dhamar on 1 September was the deadliest so far this year by the Saudi-led coalition of 20 Arab nations fighting to restore the deposed president, Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi, according to the Yemen Data Project, a database tracking the war. Even by the standards of a conflict defined by indiscriminate bombing of civilians at markets, weddings and hospitals, the violence was shocking.
At least 100 people died in what eyewitnesses said were seven strikes that pulverised the area. It took five days to remove all the bodies impaled on metalwork ripped from the walls in the blasts.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/sep/30/yemenis-living-under-the-shadow-of-death-by-airstrike
Somali militants attack US drone base and European convoy
The insurgent group al-Shabaab claimed responsibility for the attack. “In the early hours of Monday morning, an elite unit of soldiers from Harakat al-Shabaab al-Mujahideen Martyrdom Brigade launched a daring raid on the US military base,” the group’s press release said. “After breaching the perimeters of the heavily fortified base, the mujahideen (holy warriors) stormed the military complex, engaging the crusaders in an intense firefight.”
The base is in the Lower Shabelle region, about 60 miles (100km) west of Mogadishu. It is a launching site for US drone operations against al-Shaabab, an al-Qaida-linked group that controls large parts of Somalia, as well as Islamic State in Somalia.
Houthis claim to have killed 500 Saudi soldiers in major attack
Houthi rebels in Yemen say they have killed 500 Saudi soldiers, captured a further 2,000 and seized a convoy of Saudi military vehicles.
The extraordinary claims at a press conference on Sunday, involving still photographs and inconclusive videos of captured soldiers, many not in uniform, could not be corroborated, and there was no independent confirmation from Saudi Arabia.
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AL JAZEERA
Saudi Arabia's MBS: War with Iran would collapse global economy
Mohammed bin Salman blames Tehran for attacks on Saudi oil fields but says he prefers peaceful solution to crisis.
Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman told the US-based CBS programme 60 Minutes that crude prices could spike to "unimaginably high numbers" in case of an armed conflict.
"The region represents about 30 percent of the world's energy supplies, about 20 percent of global trade passages, about four percent of the world GDP (gross domestic product)," the crown prince, also known as MBS, said.
Cameroon dialogue starts as Anglophone separatists pull out
National dialogue in trouble as separatists skip talks calling for international mediation to resolve crisis.
Cameroon will start a "national dialogue" on Monday in a bid to end the separatist conflict in the country's Anglophone provinces, but key rebel leaders have already refused to participate.
President Paul Biya, who has been in power for 37 years, hopes the talks will end a crisis that is also hurting the economy of the coffee and cocoa-producing Central African country.
October 1 marks the second anniversary of the spiral towards conflict - the declaration of the self-described "Republic of Ambazonia" for Cameroon's English-speaking minority.
Biya's government has rejected both a return to more federalism and any proposed separation.
Hong Kong on edge for China anniversary after weekend of chaos
Strikes and more protests planned in Hong Kong as Beijing prepares to celebrate 70th anniversary of People's Republic.
In some of the worst and most widespread violence in more than three months of anti-government unrest, demonstrators marked the fifth anniversary on Saturday of the start of the "Umbrella" protests, a series of pro-democracy rallies that ultimately failed to wrestle concessions from Beijing.
The trigger for the protests was planned legislation, now withdrawn, that would have allowed people to be sent to mainland China for trial, despite Hong Kong having its own much-respected independent judiciary.
The protests have since broadened into calls for universal suffrage and an investigation into allegations of police brutality.
Turkey 'downs' unidentified drone on Syria border
Turkish Ministry of National Defence says drone intruded into its airspace 6 times before being shot down on Sunday.
The drone, detected near the border by the military, intruded into Turkish airspace six times before it was finally shot down by F-16 jets on Sunday.
The incident came just a day after Syria's Foreign Minister Walid al-Muallem demanded the immediate withdrawal of all foreign forces from its territories.
Erdogan has repeatedly threatened to launch a cross-border offensive against the YPG if the plans to realise a safe zone with Washington fail by the end of this month despite the joint ground and aerial patrols.
Erdogan planned to meet with US President Donald Trump on the sidelines of the UNGA in New York this week but a bilateral meeting did not take place.
Austria's Sebastian Kurz wins election, projections show
The People's Party leader was expected to come out on top but faces difficulties forming a coalition.
Austrian conservatives won most seats in snap elections on Sunday, putting their leader Sebastian Kurz on track to retake power but forcing him into tough coalition negotiations after a corruption scandal sent his far-right former allies tumbling.
On the left, there has been some shift in support from the Social Democrats to the resurgent Greens.
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AL MAYADEEN
Reabren el cruce de Albukamal en la frontera sirio-iraquí después de cinco años
Badran expresó que el primer ministro Adel Abdul-Mahdi y varios ministros del gobierno iraquí abrieron el cruce en presencia del director de los puntos fronterizos, el embajador sirio en Bagdad y varios funcionarios de los Ministerios de Relaciones Exteriores y Comercio.
En cuanto a las razones del retraso en la apertura del cruce, Badran explicó que tuvo que ver con la preparación de la logística.
Señaló que después del proceso de liberación y la captura de la ciudad de Mosul en el norte de Irak, tomó mucho tiempo rehabilitar el paso fronterizo.
Tribunal israelí renueva la detención administrativa de Hassan Yousef
El tribunal de ocupación israelí renovó la detención administrativa del líder de Hamas, Hassan Yousef, por seis meses.
