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Today in History: Aug. 4, Anne Frank and family arrested

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:36:50 GMT

Today in History Today is Friday, Aug. 4, the 216th day of 2023. There are 149 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History On Aug. 4, 1944, 15-year-old diarist Anne Frank was arrested with her sister, parents and four others by the Gestapo after hiding for two years inside a building in Amsterdam. (Anne and her sister, Margot, died at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.) On this date: In 1790, the U.S. Coast Guard had its beginnings as President George Washington signed a measure authorizing a group of revenue cutters to enforce tariff and trade laws and prevent smuggling. In 1830, plans for the city of Chicago were laid out.In 1916, the United States reached agreement with Denmark to purchase the Danish Virgin Islands for $25 million. In 1936, Jesse Owens of the United States won the second of his four gold medals at the Berlin Olympics as he prevailed in the long jump over German Luz Long, who was the first to congratulate him. In 1964, the bodies of missing civil rights...

Grecia ofrece unas vacaciones gratis en Rodas a todos los viajeros afectados por los incendios forestales

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:36:50 GMT

(CNN) — El primer ministro griego ofrece una “segunda oportunidad” a los turistas cuyos viajes a la isla de Rodas se vieron interrumpidos o directamente se cancelaron debido a los incendios de este verano.El 2 de agosto, el primer ministro Kyriakos Mitsotakis apareció en el programa británico Good Morning Britain para hablar de la situación en Rodas. Muchos de los viajeros afectados procedían del Reino Unido.“A todos aquellos cuyas vacaciones se vieron interrumpidas a causa de los incendios forestales, el gobierno griego, en cooperación con las autoridades locales, les ofrecerá una semana de vacaciones gratis en Rodas, la próxima primavera o el próximo otoño, para que nos aseguremos de que vuelven a la isla”, declaró.Mitsotakis no explicó cómo funcionaría el plan ni ofreció más detalles.Más de 19.000 turistas fueron evacuados de Rodas durante los graves incendios forestales y las olas de calor de julio.Los problemas vinculados al clima afectaron también...

Cifra récord: cruce de niños migrantes por la selva del Darién ya supera todo 2022

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:36:50 GMT

CIUDAD DE PANAMÁ, Panamá- Más de 40,000 niños, niñas y adolescentes han atravesado en el primer semestre de 2023 la peligrosa selva de Darién, la frontera natural entre Panamá y Colombia, superando todo 2022, alertó este jueves la oficina regional de Unicef, con sede en la capital panameña.“La mitad de estos niños y niñas en movimiento tienen menos de cinco años y tienen necesidades específicas”, dijo Garry Conille, director regional de Unicef para América Latina y el Caribe, y afirmó que es “alarmante” que solo en la primera mitad de 2023 hayan cruzado más infantes y adolescentes que todo el año pasado.Conille destacó que la mayoría de estas familias migrantes “han perdido todo durante la travesía: sus pertenencias, sus documentos de identidad, su dinero; se quedan sin nada más que la ropa que llevan puesta”.Por ello, el jefe regional del organismo de Naciones Unidas consideró que es “vital adoptar con urgencia políticas migratorias naciona...

5 conclusiones de la comparecencia de Donald Trump en el caso de subversión electoral

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:36:50 GMT

(CNN) — El expresidente Donald Trump se declaró inocente este jueves de los cargos penales federales derivados de sus planes para anular las elecciones de 2020, en un procedimiento de 27 minutos de duración en el que surgieron los primeros destellos de las tácticas de la defensa.Fue la tercera ocasión en la que Trump fue procesado por cargos penales este año, y la audiencia marcó el debut público del equipo de abogados de la oficina del fiscal especial Jack Smith, quien dirigirá la acusación.Estas son las conclusiones de la vista:Posibles conflictos vinculados al cronograma del casoEn el caso de los documentos clasificados que también Smith presentó contra el expresidente (en junio), el equipo de Trump ha tratado de enlentecer el calendario de los procedimientos. Hubo indicios de una estrategia similar en la primera audiencia del caso de subversión electoral.La mayor parte de la vista del jueves fue discreta y se ciñó al guión. Pero el tono se agudizó cuando el juez dijo que l...

Ukrainian drones attack Russian Black Sea naval base, Moscow says

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:36:50 GMT

Ukrainian drones targeted a Russian naval base near the Black Sea port of Novorossiysk on Friday, according to Moscow’s defense ministry.In a statement, the ministry said two uncrewed drones had attacked the base, but were “detected and destroyed” by Russian ships guarding the harbor before they could damage any infrastructure. There were no casualties, according to local authorities.But footage shared widely on Telegram appeared to show a Russian warship damaged and listing in the water after the attack, seeming to undermine Moscow’s insistence that it had repelled the attack.Novorossiysk is one of Russia’s main Black Sea ports. The Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC), which operates an oil terminal near the port, said in a statement that “a temporary ban on the movement of ships in the CPC water area and the port of Novorossiysk” was in place Friday morning. “There is no damage to the Consortium’s infrastructure,”...

Russia to announce a verdict in Navalny’s case; Kremlin critic expects lengthy prison term

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:36:50 GMT

MOSCOW (AP) — Imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny due to hear the verdict Friday in his latest trial on extremism charges. The prosecution has demanded a 20-year prison sentence, and the politician himself said he expects a lengthy prison term. Navalny is already serving a nine-year sentence for fraud and contempt of court in a penal colony east of Moscow. In 2021, he was also sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison for a parole violation. The latest trial against Navalny has been taking place behind closed doors in the colony where he is imprisoned. If the court finds Navalny guilty, it will be his fifth criminal conviction, all of which have been widely seen as a deliberate strategy by the Kremlin to silence its most ardent opponent. Navalny, 47, is President Vladimir Putin’s fiercest foe who exposed official corruption and organized major anti-Kremlin protests. He was arrested in January 2021 upon returning to Moscow after recuperating in Germany from nerve agent poiso...

Cyprus allows human COVID-19 medications to be used on cats to fight deadly virus mutation

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:36:50 GMT

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Cyprus’ veterinarians association on Friday lauded a government decision to allow its stock of human coronavirus medication to be used on cats to fight a local mutation of a feline virus that has killed thousands of animals on the Mediterranean island.The association said in a statement that it had petitioned the government for access to the medication at “reasonable prices” from the beginning of this year, when the mutation that causes lethal Feline Infectious Peritonitis (FIP) began to noticeably crop up in the island’s cat population.“We want to assure that we will continue to investigate and control the rise in case of FCov-2023,” the association said.Local animal activists had claimed that the mutation had killed as many as 300,000 cats, but Association President Nektaria Ioannou Arsenoglou says that’s an exaggeration. Arsenoglou had told The Associated Press that an association survey of 35 veterinary clinics indicated an island-wide total of about...

Flash floods, landslides hit parts of Slovenia after a month’s amount of rain falls in a day

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:36:50 GMT

LJUBLJANA, Slovenia (AP) — Heavy rains caused flash floods and landslides in parts of Slovenia, blocking roads and bridges, flooding buildings and forcing evacuations on Friday.Slovenia’s environmental agency, ARSO, raised the weather alert after a month’s amount of rain fell within 24 hours in northern, northwestern and central parts of the country.The Alpine nation was hit by several severe storms earlier in the summer that blew off roofs, downed thousands of trees and killed one person in Slovenia and four others elsewhere in the region. Experts say extreme weather conditions are partly fueled by climate change. Parts of Europe saw record heat and battled wildfires during the summer. The floods overnight Thursday to Friday in Slovenia blocked roads around the scenic central town of Kamnik. Authorities there urged people to stay in their homes and closed kindergartens for the day.The official STA news agency reported evacuations in several parts of the country, includi...

Ethiopia’s declaring a state of emergency in its Amhara region as local fighters clash with military

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:36:50 GMT

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Ethiopia’s Council of Ministers is declaring a state of emergency in the country’s Amhara region after authorities pleaded for help as clashes intensify between regional forces and the military.The prime minister’s office announced the decision on Friday after the region’s leader said regular law enforcement was no longer able to contain the violence. The declaration needs approval from Parliament.Ethiopia’s second most populous region has been gripped by instability since April, when federal authorities moved to disarm Amhara’s security forces following the end of the devasting two-year war in the neighboring Tigray region. Authorities last year also tried to dismantle the informal Amhara militia known as Fano.This week, residents have reported fighting across the Amhara region as militia members attacked army units and protesters blocked roads. Flights to two popular tourist towns, Lalibela and Gondar, have been suspended. Internet access has been affected.A ...

India’s top court stays conviction of opposition leader for mocking the prime minister’s surname

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:36:50 GMT

NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s top court on Friday stayed the criminal defamation conviction of opposition leader Rahul Gandhi for mocking Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s surname — a conviction that disqualified him from being a member of parliament. A fierce critic of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his main challenger in 2024 polls, Gandhi was ousted from Parliament after his conviction by a magistrate’s court in March.Congress party spokesman Ajoy Kumar welcomed the Supreme Court order.The defamation case involved comments Gandhi made in a 2019 election speech that were deemed to be insulting to Modi’s surname. He was sentenced to two years in prison by a magistrate’s court but the courts suspended his prison sentence in April.The case was filed by Purnesh Modi, who is a member of Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party in Gujarat state but is not related to the prime minister.Gandhi’s conviction was upheld by the Gujarat state High Court so he filed an appeal in the country’s Supreme Cour...