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Fuerza área de EEUU en Corea confirma accidente de avión de combate cerca de la base de Osan

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:09:45 GMT

BASE AÉREA DE OSAN, Corea del Sur – Un avión Fighting Falcon F-16, asignado a la 8a. Ala de Combate, se estrelló a las 9:45 a.m. hora local de este sábado en un área agrícola cerca de la base aérea de Osan.Durante el incidente, el piloto se expulsó de forma segura y fue trasladado al centro médico más cercano, dijo un vocero de la 51 Ala de Combate. En el momento del accidente, el piloto participaba en una salida de entrenamiento diurno de rutina.Hasta ahora, el nombre del piloto no se dio a conocer. El accidente está bajo investigación. El gobernador de un pueblo cercano a la base confirmó el accidente y negó que hubiera riesgos de una explosión secundaria. “Alrededor de las 9:30 a.m., un avión de combate estadounidense se estrelló en Paengseong-eup, Pyeongtaek. El Cuartel General de Incendios y Desastres de Gyeonggi-do fue enviado de inmediato para extinguir el incendio y rescatar vidas, y no hay riesgo de una explosión secundaria”, escribió el funcionario en su ...

¿Quién es Camila, la reina de Reino Unido? Esta es su historia

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:09:45 GMT

Londres (CNN) — Con el ascenso de su esposo al trono luego de la muerte de la reina Isabel II , Camila se convirtió en reina consorte y asumió un papel nuevo y más destacado junto al rey Carlos III.Coronación del rey Carlos III de Reino Unido en vivo y en directoPoco más de 25 años después de la muerte de la primera esposa de Carlos, Diana, princesa de Gales, Camila sigue siendo una figura divisiva en Gran Bretaña.Desde que ella y Charles se casaron en 2005, Camila ha trabajado arduamente como miembro de la realeza sénior, apoyando a Carlos y defendiendo organizaciones benéficas que ayudan a mujeres y niños. Pero a muchas personas les resulta difícil olvidar o perdonar su larga relación y el dolor que le causó a Diana.El drama de Netflix “The Crown” ha enfocado ese período turbulento en temporadas recientes, presentando a algunos espectadores a Camila y recordando a otros su pasado.El príncipe Carlos y Camila Parker Bowles se ven juntos a fines de 1979 antes de su ...

8 false Trump electors have accepted immunity deals in Georgia probe, lawyer says

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:09:45 GMT

Eight Republican activists who falsely claimed to be legitimate presidential electors for Donald Trump have accepted immunity deals from the Atlanta-area district attorney investigating Trump’s bid to subvert the 2020 election.Kimberly Debrow, a lawyer for the false electors, revealed the arrangement — reached last month — in a court filing Friday, opposing a bid by District Attorney Fani Willis to disqualify her from representing the large group.It’s the latest indication of Willis’ advancing investigation, which she recently revealed could result in charges — possibly against Trump himself and a slew of high-profile allies — as soon as July.Trump and his inner circle orchestrated a plan for GOP electors in seven states he lost to sign documents claiming to be legitimate presidential electors. Those false electors became a component in a desperate last-ditch bid by Trump to overturn the election on Jan. 6, 2021. Citing the certificates signed by the false electors, Trump and a cadr...

Anti-monarchy group says its members were arrested ahead of planned coronation protest

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:09:45 GMT

The anti-monarchy group Republic says several of its members have been arrested as they prepared to protest the coronation of King Charles III.The group plans to hold placards and chant “Not my king” during the monarch’s procession to Westminster Abbey. It says police were informed in advance of its plans.But on Saturday morning several of the group’s members were stopped near Trafalgar Square and led to police vans.Others managed to protest along the route, dressed in yellow and waving placards with slogans including “king parasite” and “abolish the monarchy.”Police have said they will have have a “low tolerance” for people seeking to disrupt the day, sparking criticism that they are clamping down on free speech.More than 1,500 protesters had planned to gather beside it to chant “Not my king” as the royal procession goes by. “We’ll try and keep the atmosphere light, but our aim is to make it impossible to ignore,” said Gra...

Iran hangs Iranian-Swedish man over 2018 attack killing 25

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:09:45 GMT

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran executed an Iranian-Swedish dual national Saturday accused of masterminding a 2018 attack on a military parade that killed at least 25 people, one of several enemies of Tehran seized abroad in recent years amid tensions with the West.Farajollah Cha’ab, also known as Habib Asyoud, had been a leader of the Arab Struggle Movement for the Liberation of Ahwaz, an Arab separatist movement that has conducted oil pipeline bombings and other attacks in Iran’s oil-rich Khuzestan province. That group had claimed the 2018 attack in its immediate aftermath. Cha’ab’s execution comes as a Swedish court last year sentenced an Iranian to life in prison over his part in the 1988 mass executions in Iran at the end of its war with Iraq. Tehran, which has used prisoners as bargaining chips in negotiations with the West, reacted angrily to that sentence. Meanwhile, tensions also remain high between Iran and the West over its rapidly advancing nucl...

WATCH LIVE: The coronation of King Charles III

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:09:45 GMT

Journalists Lisa LaFlamme Cynthia Mulligan are in London, England for the Coronation of His Majesty King Charles III.Watch the in-depth coverage in the live video above.

Indian troops kill 2 rebels in Kashmir in ongoing operations

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:09:45 GMT

SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Indian soldiers killed two suspected militants in ongoing counterinsurgency operations in Kashmir on Saturday, officials said, a day after rebels fighting against Indian rule killed five soldiers in the disputed Himalayan region. Joint army, paramilitary and police teams “spotted and pinned down” the militants before killing one of them in a forested area in the southern Rajouri sector, an Indian army statement said. It said soldiers recovered an automatic rifle and some ammunition and grenades and noted another militant was “likely to be injured.”There was no independent confirmation of the incident.Separately on Saturday, government forces killed another militant in a gun battle in western Kunzer area, police said.On Friday, rebels triggered an explosive device during an encounter with the Indian army, killing five soldiers, the military said. That fighting erupted after soldiers tracked a group of militants involved in an ambush of an army vehicle on April ...

Israeli army kills 2 Palestinians in West Bank raid

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:09:45 GMT

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Israeli forces shot dead two Palestinians during a military raid in the occupied West Bank on Saturday, the Palestinian Health Ministry said. A local armed group said the pair were militants.The deadly raid in the Nur Shams refugee camp near the city of Tulkarem was the latest in Israeli-Palestinian violence that has surged since last year.The ministry and Tulkarem’s branch of Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, a militant group with connections to President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah party, identified the pair as Samer El Shafei and Hamza Kharyoush, both aged 22 years.The Israeli military said the two gunmen were suspected of carrying out a shooting attack at a nearby Israeli settlement earlier this week. An Israeli civilian was injured and vehicles were damaged during the shooting at the Avnei Hefetz Jewish settlement.Videos circulated on social media purportedly showed the lifeless bodies of the two gunmen lying on a tin roof as two Israeli soldiers searche...

Concert celebrating Gordon Lightfoot set for Orillia, Ont. hometown on Saturday

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:09:45 GMT

Fans of Gordon Lightfoot will gather tonight in his Orillia, Ont. hometown for a concert honouring the late folk singer-songwriter.In what was initially planned months ago as a tribute to a living legend, “Early Morning Rain: The Legend of Gordon Lightfoot” now serves as a celebration of a life well lived, after Lightfoot died Monday at age 84.The two-hour show is being performed at the Orillia Opera House by Leisa Way & the Wayward Wind Band under the direction of Toronto composer Bruce Ley.The program is described as capturing the spirit of Lightfoot’s live performances, with renditions of “Early Morning Rain,” “If You Could Read My Mind,” “Carefree Highway,” and many other Lightfoot favourites. The musicians will carry the show along with facts and anecdotes about the singer.Organizers say the concert is sold out at the 677-seat venue.The band’s leader Way, who was born in Kitchener, Ont. and grew up in Sudbury, told...

Evacuation alerts expanded as floodwaters rise on some B.C. rivers, creeks

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:09:45 GMT

Hundreds of residents in British Columbia’s southern and central Interior have been warned they may have to leave quickly if floodwaters move in. Flood warnings, watches and advisories cover about half of the province, although the areas most under threat are the Boundary and Thompson regions. Heavy rain on Friday and today following a week of record-setting temperatures that melted the snowpack has swollen rivers and creeks and set off mudslides. Evacuation alerts have been issued for almost 900 properties in the village of Salmo and its neighbouring communities of Erie and Ymir, as well as properties in Grand Forks and in the Regional District of Kootenay Boundary.The Okanagan Indian Band has issued an evacuation order for a small number of homes along Whiteman’s Creek, where fast-moving water is undercutting the bank. The province says it has deployed more than 200,000 sandbags to communities including Grand Forks and Cache Creek, which has been hit particularly hard,...