Síntesis informativa - 11 de octubre 2019
THE NEW YORK TIMES
Trump Impeachment Inquiry Updates: Sondland to Testify After Initial Refusal
Gordon D. Sondland, the American ambassador to the European Union, has agreed to comply with a House subpoena and testify next week, despite the State Department’s instruction to him not to appear before lawmakers, Mr. Sondland’s lawyer said Friday. He was prepared to testify on Tuesday, but the Trump administration directed him not in the 11th hour.
After Sparring, NASA and SpaceX Declare a Shared Mission
A visit by the NASA administrator to a rocket factory is usually a predictable show-and-tell of the latest gadgets destined for outer space. But there may have been some tension below the surface on Thursday when the current administrator, Jim Bridenstine, stopped by the headquarters of SpaceX, the private rocket company of the billionaire Elon Musk, in Hawthorne, Calif. SpaceX is a major contractor for NASA.
Taking questions from reporters, both men were complimentary toward each other and said they shared the same goals: to launch NASA astronauts to the International Space Station on SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule as soon as possible, but not before the spacecraft had passed all of the needed tests.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/10/science/nasa-spacex-elon-musk.html
Turmoil Spreads in Kurdish-Held Syria as Turkish Invasion Enters 3rd Day
AKCAKALE, Turkey — A mounting sense of turmoil spread across Kurdish-held territory in northern Syria as a Turkish-led incursion of the region entered its third day on Friday, with tens of thousands of civilians fleeing the bombardment, the abandonment of a major hospital on the front line and warnings of an imminent revival of the Islamic State militant group amid the chaos.
President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, which is backing the Syrian government, said on Friday that he doubted whether Turkey or Syria had the resources to secure prison camps holding thousands of Islamic State prisoners. Kurdish forces allied with the United States had been running the prisons, but they are diverting soldiers to fight the invasion.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/11/world/middleeast/turkey-syria-kurds.html
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XINHUA
Iran signs marine cooperation agreement with Caspian Sea littoral states
TEHRAN, Oct. 11 (Xinhua) -- Iran and Caspian Sea littoral states signed a marine cooperation agreement in security, training, technical work, search and rescue operations on Friday, Press TV reported. Iranian Navy Commander Hossein Khanzadi signed the agreement in the Russian city of Saint Petersburg along with his Russian, Azeri, Kazakh, Turkmen counterparts on Friday.
On the sidelines of the meeting, Khanzadi held multilateral meetings with the navy commanders of Russia, Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan. The Iranian navy chief also announced that Russia and Iran have planned to hold a joint navy exercise in the Indian Ocean in the near future.
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-10/11/c_138464497.htm
Xi arrives in India for informal meeting with Modi
CHENNAI, India, Oct. 11 (Xinhua) -- At the invitation of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in the southern Indian city of Chennai on Friday afternoon for the second informal meeting with Modi. Xi's flight arrived at Chennai International Airport at around 2:10 p.m. local time (0840 GMT). Banwarilal Purohit, governor of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, and the state's Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami waited beside the gangway and presented flowers to Xi. The first informal meeting between the two leaders took place in China's central city of Wuhan in April last year.
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-10/11/c_138464373.htm
China, U.S. start new round of trade talks in Washington
WASHINGTON, Oct. 10 (Xinhua) -- China and the United States kicked off here on Thursday a new round of high-level consultations to address their differences on outstanding economic and trade issues. This round of high-level economic and trade consultations is scheduled for Thursday and Friday. The two teams had previously started working-level negotiations.
The Chinese delegation is led by Chinese Vice Premier Liu He, also a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chief of the Chinese side of the China-U.S. comprehensive economic dialogue, and the U.S. team is headed by U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin.
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-10/11/c_138461845.htm
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AL JAZEERA
Turkey's military operation in Syria: All the latest updates
Thousands of civilians flee from border areas as Turkey presses assault against Kurdish forces for third straight day.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says the offensive is aimed at removing Kurdish-led forces from the border area and creating a "safe zone" so millions of Syrian refugees can be returned.
The autonomous Kurdish administration in northeast Syria it started evacuating a camp housing 7,000 displaced people to protect them from Turkish shelling.
The Mabroka camp, which lies 12 kilometres (seven miles) south of the border, was hit by shelling "which posed a direct threat to the lives of more than 7,000 displaced people," a statement said.
Explosions on Iranian oil tanker off Jeddah's coast cause spill
Suspected rocket attack damages Iranian vessel causing an oil leak off Saudi Arabia's port city of Jeddah.
The National Iranian Tanker Company (NITC) said in a statement the hull of the ship sustained two separate explosions about 100km (60 miles) off the Saudi port city of Jeddah.
"Experts believe it was a terrorist attack," Iran's Students News Agency (ISNA) reported. It did not say whom Iranian officials suspect of launching the missiles.
Leaking oil had been stopped but it restarted once the vessel began moving again.
China denounces Thai politicians for backing Hong Kong protests
Hong Kong pro-democracy leader Joshua Wong had posted a photo with Thai opposition leader Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit.
The Chinese embassy in Bangkok has condemned Thai politicians for showing support to Hong Kong activists amid mass anti-Beijing protests, saying that such a move could harm the relationship between the two countries.
The Thai Foreign Ministry declined to comment on the Chinese embassy's statement but referred to a statement in September stating that Thailand regards the situation in Hong Kong as China's internal affairs.
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AL MAYADEEN
Putin alerta del riesgo de retorno de Daesh tras la agresión turca a Siria
En declaraciones ofrecidas el viernes en una cumbre de la Commonwealth de Estados Independientes (CIS, por sus siglas en inglés), celebrada en Ashjabat, capital de Turkmenistán, Putin explicó que las fuerzas kurdas han detenido a miles de terroristas de Daesh en las zonas que controlan, y que la agresión turca aleja a los kurdos de los campos de detención de los extremistas takfiríes y podría facilitar la huida de estos.
La política del Kremlin, desde el principio, consistía en que todas las fuerzas militares extranjeras presentes en Siria que carecen de la autorización del Gobierno del presidente sirio, Bashar al-Assad, deben respetar la soberanía y la integridad territorial de Siria y abandonarla.
Miguel Díaz-Canel electo como presidente de la República de Cuba (+Fotos)
El diputado Miguel-Díaz-Canel resultó elegido hoy como presidente de la República de Cuba por mayoría absoluta en votación libre, directa y secreta, durante la IV Sesión Extraordinaria de la Asamblea Nacional del Poder Popular (Parlamento), mandato que desempeñará hasta 2023.
Hasta la actualidad ocupaba la presidencia de los Consejos de Estado y de Ministros, nomenclatura que ahora desaparece según estipula la nueva Constitución, aprobada en abril de 2019.
Después de 43 años, Cuba retoma la figura del Presidente de la República como jefe de Estado, electo de su seno por la Asamblea y acompañado de un vicepresidente, con una centralidad fuerte dentro de la estructura del poder estatal.
Premier etíope recibe el Nobel de la Paz 2019
El primer ministro etíope, Abiy Ahmed, fue galardonado este viernes con el Premio Nobel de la Paz "por sus esfuerzos para lograr la paz y la cooperación internacional, y en particular por su decisiva iniciativa para resolver el conflicto fronterizo con la vecina Eritrea", dijo el jurado.
