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Moreno Luis - is a business and economics reporter based in Barcelona. Prior to joining the BNE24 he was economics editor of the BBC Spaine and worked as an economics and political reporter for Murcia Tuday.

Emma Coronel, wife of 'Chapo' Guzmán, is released on parole after almost 3 years detained in the United States

Emma Coronel, best known for being the third wife of drug lord Joaquín 'El Chapo' Guzmán, was released on parole this Wednesday after being arrested in the United States almost 3 years ago on various charges related to drug trafficking.

The US Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) confirmed in a statement to the US network NBC News that Coronel had been released this Wednesday. The BOP had only made public a file with the information of the former prisoner and a date established for her release, but they did not agree to provide more information in this regard.

His lawyers, led by Puerto Rican Mariel Colón, who have also defended other well-known faces such as 'Chapo' himself or the financial magnate and sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein, did not want to offer details about his situation.

The mother of two of 'El Chapo's' daughters had been in community confinement since May 30 in the city of Long Beach (southern California, USA) inside a “transition house”, a facility managed by the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to expedite their reintegration process.

During this time, he was eligible for a limited number of outings during the day as long as they had the specific purpose of adjusting to society, but his movements were monitored by BOP staff.

Coronel will now be on probation for the next 48 months, during which he must remain within his assigned judicial district, notify government agents of any change of address, and seek employment.

Money laundering and drug trafficking

The “influencer” was also arrested in February 2021 when she landed at Washington-Dulles International Airport (Virginia, USA), accused of helping her husband manage his multimillion-dollar Sinaloa Cartel criminal empire, as well as conspiring. for his escape from the El Altiplano prison (Mexico) in 2015.

“She played a crucial role in logistically planning the escape and, while she was free, as a messenger from “El Chapo” to other leaders of the cartel,” Nathan P. explained to EFE.. Jones, expert on Mexican criminal organizations for the Baker Institute (Rice University, Texas).

Just a few months later, in November 2021, the woman, a Mexican-American national, was sentenced to three years in prison after pleading guilty to having participated in money laundering operations and trafficking five kilos of cocaine, one kilo of heroin and means of methamphetamines to the US

Likewise, he delivered 1.5 million dollars to the United States government as compensation for obtaining funds from drug trafficking.

Her first year and a half of her sentence was spent in the minimum security prison for women at FMC Carswell (Texas, USA), located approximately 1,120 kilometers -700 miles- from the ADX Florence prison (Colorado, USA). , where 'El Chapo' is currently serving his life sentence.

It is unknown whether Coronel will now be allowed to have telephone or letter contact with the co-founder of the Sinaloa Cartel, who, aware of his wife's release, made a formal request two weeks ago to the judge in charge of his case, Brian Cogan, to to let him receive visits from his daughters and her.

“It is also not ruled out that at some point Emma Coronel will once again want to capitalize on her husband's fame through publications on social networks or gossip programs that continue turning her case into a spectacle and enlarging her figure,” Jones said.

With a difference of 32 years in age between them, Coronel and 'El Chapo' Guzmán met in 2006 during the celebration of some local festivals in her hometown, Canelas (Durango, Mexico), which crowned her as queen of the beauty that course.

Daughter of Nacho Coronel, one of 'Chapo's' main partners until his death in 2010, she captivated the drug trafficker to the point that just a year later, when she turned 18, they decided to get married and five years later they became parents of twins.

He also did it at the moment the surfer jumped off his board, just after riding a wave on this beach in Volusia County.. This is considered “the shark bite capital of the world”, with 343 recorded since 1882, according to the International Shark Attack File (ISAF).

Brevar County is next on the record for shark attacks in Florida, with 156 incidents counted. Since 2012, according to ISAF, Volusia County has recorded 94 shark attacks, but none were fatal.

This county is where the most non-man-made shark attacks were recorded in 2022 in Florida, which is also the state with the highest number (16) in the US.

The scientific organization has warned, however, that the 57 unprovoked shark attacks on humans recorded in 2022 are, in fact, the lowest number of the decade and this may serve to “reflect the documented global decline” in shark populations. sharks in the world.

The term “unprovoked attack” means that these types of attacks by sharks on people “take place in the natural habitat” of these animals and without “human provocation.”

The Police capture the Brazilian fugitive who escaped from a prison at the end of August and who has kept the US in suspense

The Brazilian prisoner who escaped from a Pennsylvania (USA) prison at the end of August, Danelo Cavalcante, who had Chester County in suspense, was captured this Wednesday in an operation in which the use of firearms was not necessary , according to the Local Police.

Lieutenant Colonel George Bivens, of the Pennsylvania State Police, detailed in a press conference that the fugitive was apprehended this Wednesday morning, around 8:00 a.m. (2:00 p.m. Spanish time), after being surrounded by police officers.

The final capture operation began on Tuesday night, after the burglar alarm at a house near Priser Road allowed agents to narrow the search perimeter. A helicopter detected the presence of a heat source, but due to a storm it could not continue operating.

This Wednesday, in daylight, the fugitive was detected again, who presumably spent several hours hiding in the undergrowth and tried to escape by crawling, until a police dog caught him. “He continued to resist, but was forcibly detained. “No one was hurt, he just suffered a minor injury in a fight, but we had medical personnel on scene and they examined him,” Bivens explained.

Cavalcante will be transferred this Wednesday to a prison where he will have to serve the life sentence to which he was sentenced for killing his girlfriend, Deborah Brandao, in April 2021 in the house they shared.. In the images offered by the media he could be seen handcuffed, with his hands behind his back before being placed in a police van.

His case has raised great expectations among the media and has kept Chester County in suspense for a few days in which he has been seen on several occasions.. On Sunday he stole a gun from a citizen who tried to confront him. “We were deeply concerned after the suspect stole the gun, but he was detained this morning without shots being fired,” Pennsylvania Governor Josh Saphiro, a Democrat, said at the press conference.

“I want to thank the professionals in charge of enforcing the law who leave their homes every day and leave their families to keep us safe,” he noted about the operation in which more than half a thousand troops from different police forces have participated. .

A shocking pileup caused by a dust storm leaves two dead and many injured

A land storm caused a series of chain crashes involving different vehicles that were traveling on the Rosario-Córdoba highway, between the Argentine towns of Villa del Rosario and Luque.

As a result of the accidents that occurred, two people died and many were injured to various degrees, in addition to a long list of material damages.

The deceased, a 65-year-old man and a 45-year-old woman, were involved in a massive accident along with approximately 30 other vehicles.

Apparently, the woman was traveling with her 38-year-old partner and was taken to the hospital for chest trauma, according to Infobae.

For his part, the man was a few kilometers away on the same highway when, unexpectedly, he was involved in a pileup along with 17 other people who were injured.

Finland orders to cull 115,000 foxes and raccoon dogs from farms infected with bird flu to prevent contagion to humans

The Finnish Food Agency this Wednesday ordered the slaughter of all foxes and raccoon dogs on fur farms in the country where cases of bird flu have been confirmed, with the aim of preventing the virus from mutating and infecting humans.

The measure, which will affect 109,000 foxes and 6,000 raccoon dogs, is in addition to the sacrifice of another 135,000 animals with valuable furs that was decreed by the Finnish authorities during this summer, mainly foxes and minks.

To date, cases of bird flu have been detected in 26 of the country's nearly 400 fur farms, most of them located in the Ostrobothnia region of western Finland.. Due to this, the Food Agency has indicated that it has found indications that infections have already occurred among mammals on farms and not only between infected birds and mammals, a worrying sign that the virus is mutating.

“We do not know with certainty how widespread the disease is and there are indications that it can be transmitted from one animal to another. Furthermore, worrying mutations have been found in some farms that increase the adaptation of the virus to mammals,” Tuija Gadd, a researcher at the agency, told public television YLE.

Higher risk of variants

According to the entity, the longer the virus is allowed to circulate among mammals, the greater the risk of variants appearing that can also infect humans.. “The human seasonal flu season is approaching and if the viruses combined, a malignant mutation would occur,” Gadd said.

So far, these “variants of concern” have been identified in the genomes of six viruses isolated from animals from these fur farms, both in foxes and mink and raccoon dogs.. For the moment, the Finnish Agency has indicated that it is working in close collaboration with the European Union reference laboratory in the analysis of strains of this virus.

The World Health Organization (WHO) already warned in July that mammals such as minks offer the avian flu virus an ideal environment to mutate, so there is a possibility that a strain capable of infecting humans may end up emerging.

The risk associated with minks is that they have certain receptors in their respiratory tract to which avian and human flu viruses can adhere at the same time.

Kim Jong-un promises to support Putin in his "holy war" against the West in exchange for help with his satellite program

The president of Russia, Vladimir Putin, and his North Korean counterpart, Kim Jong-un, held a bilateral meeting this Wednesday at the Vostochny cosmodrome, in the Siberian Amur region, where for an hour they discussed issues such as the supply of weapons and military technology. North Korean to Russia for the war in Ukraine or Russian support for the Asian leader's satellite program. The agenda of the meeting included bilateral relations and cooperation, commercial and economic ties, as well as cultural exchanges, international and regional affairs, among other topics described as “sensitive” by the Kremlin.

The face to face was framed in a summit that lasted a total of four hours and in which there was also a banquet based on duck salad and white wine and in which Putin acted as 'seller' of the Russian limousines. Aurus, in which he and other senior officials usually travel.

Russian television showed images of the two leaders saying goodbye. In the video, broadcast by the Rossiya 1 channel, Putin was seen waving goodbye to Kim, who was in his official car, about to leave the cosmodrome facilities.

Previously, the North Korean leader was convinced of Russia's victory in the “special military operation” in Ukraine and the “building of a strong state”. “I am convinced that the heroic Russian Army and people, who brilliantly inherited the traditions of victory, will demonstrate dignity and honor on two fronts: in the special military operation and in the building of a strong state,” Kim said when speaking during lunch a toast to the “new victories of great Russia.”

For its part, Russia assured that there is room for military and space cooperation with North Korea. Putin stressed on public television that “there are perspectives” in the military-technical field, although Russia complies with its international obligations, alluding to the sanctions that restrict arms exchanges with Pyongyang. In turn, Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov stressed that Moscow has raised with North Korea “the possibility of cooperating in the space sector.”

Regarding the content of his conversations with Putin, Kim said that both discussed in a “deep” manner the “political and military situation on the Korean Peninsula and in Europe.”

“Russia has now risen up in a sacred war for the defense of its sovereignty and security. “We have always supported and continue to support all of President Putin's decisions,” Kim told Putin at the beginning of the negotiations.. “I hope we will always be together in the fight against imperialism,” stressed the North Korean president, adding that relations with Moscow are Pyongyang's “highest priority.”

“We will stimulate the construction of strong states in our countries and maintain true international stability,” added the North Korean.. “Our current visit comes at a time of fierce confrontation in the international arena between the progressive and the reactionary, between justice and injustice, as well as the construction of a multipolar world,” Kim said.

Putin, for his part, assured that Moscow and Pyongyang will continue to strengthen their friendship for the sake of “peace, stability and well-being” in the region.

The Russian president showed the Vostochny cosmodrome to his North Korean counterpart, of whom the Russian president praised his “great interest in rockets”. “They are trying to develop a space industry,” stressed the host president, hinting that Moscow could help Pyongyang in the development of North Korean satellites, after two failed launches this year.. “One old friend is better than two new ones,” was the Russian proverb that Putin cited.

The banquet minutes

At the beginning of his meeting with the head of the Kremlin, the North Korean leader had already declared his support for Russia's “holy struggle” for its sovereignty and security. “We have always supported and we support all of President Putin's decisions,” he assured, and trusted that his current visit, his second to Russia in four years, will raise bilateral relations to a new level.

The summit included a lunch in which Putin entertained Kim Jong-un with a menu based on duck salad, sturgeon with mushrooms and other delicacies, accompanied by blended white wine and a cabernet sauvignon, both from the Russian house Divnomórskyoe.

As starters, the Kremlin's gastronomic proposal included duck salad with figs and nectarine, and Kamchatka crab dumplings.

Carp soup was served next, followed by sea buckthorn berry sorbet. The menu included two main course options: sturgeon with mushrooms and potatoes, and marble fillet entrecôte with roasted vegetables. For dessert the choice fell on a selection of cranberries with cedar pine nuts and condensed milk.

Kim was also interested in the Russian Aurus limousines, luxury cars whose cost exceeds $300,000 and in which Putin and other high officials usually travel, and which the Russian president constantly praised, 'selling' the benefits of the Russian automobile sector. , which seeks to stay afloat after Western sanctions and after the vast majority of foreign manufacturers left the country following the invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

Kim traveled to Russia with a delegation that includes the defense and foreign ministers, as well as senior military officials, including the director of the Industrial Department of Munitions and also the secretary for Science and Education of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party. which is linked to the North Korean space program. On the Russian side, the Foreign and Defense Ministers, Sergei Lavrov and Sergei Shoigu, among other senior officials, participated in the meeting.. The previous meeting between Putin and Kim, which also took place in 2019 in Russia, lasted three and a half hours.

Controversy in France over a gynecologist who has refused to examine a trans woman: "Sir, I take care of real women"

“Sir, I am a gynecologist and I take care of real women”. This was the response of a French doctor to a trans woman, who asked him about a gynecological examination. The doctor denies that the interested party is really a woman and his reaction has sparked controversy in the neighboring country: “I have no skills to take care of men, even if they have shaved their beard and come to tell my secretary that they have become women”.

The doctor argued that his examination table was “gynecological” and that it was not “adapted to examine men”. He then told the woman to go to another consultation.. Finally, he instructed the woman to inform “trans people” so that they never go to his office.

He did so publicly, in a response to a Google comment spread by SOS homophobie, which pointed out “the transphobic and discriminatory comments” of the gynecologist from Pau, the French city where the clinic is located.. “Transphobia is a reality and has serious consequences, particularly in access to health,” denounced the association, mentioning the Minister of Equality between Women and Men and Fight against Discrimination, Bérangère Couillard.

For its part, the Stop Homophobie association has declared that it is preparing to file a complaint against the health professional, while the woman involved remains anonymous, according to the French media Le Figaro.

The dead in Libya now total 6,238 and there are at least 9,100 missing: "The situation is disastrous beyond all comprehension"

The death toll from Cyclone Daniel, which crossed northeastern Libya this Sunday, reaches 6,238, while the missing exceed 9,100 and the forcibly displaced number more than 30,000 in the city of Derna alone, the most affected.. It is feared, however, that the death toll may exceed 20,000 people, a situation “disastrous beyond all comprehension,” according to WHO staff on the ground.

The spokesman for the Emergency Service in the area, Osama Ali, described the situation as “tragic” and highlighted the difficulties of the rescue teams in the face of the division of the city into two parts after the collapse of two dams that released more than 33 million of liters of water in the center of the capital, washing away residential areas, bridges and roads.

Common pits

In this town, the fourth largest in the country with 90,000 inhabitants, the lack of resources has forced rescuers to extract hundreds of victims from the rubble with household utensils and bury them in common graves in the Martouba cemetery, about twenty kilometers of distance.

The first international rescue teams have begun to land at Benghazi airport, the closest to the area.

Rami Elshaheibi, national communications officer for the World Health Organization in Libya, said the situation in Derna is “disastrous beyond all comprehension”. On its social networks, the WHO has shared images of corpses lining the sidewalks.

“There are bodies everywhere: in the sea, in the valleys, under buildings,” witnesses from the drowned city told Reuters.. “I'm not exaggerating when I say that 25% of the city has disappeared. “Many, many buildings have collapsed.”. The Libyan government's Civil Aviation Minister added that “the sea constantly throws up dozens of bodies.”

“A large-scale disaster”

For their part, Al Jazeera journalists add that “bodies washed away by the sea in the devastated city can also be seen in the distance, but for now it is too dangerous to recover them.”

To the same medium, a journalist who managed to leave Derna alive stated that the situation this Tuesday in the city was “a large-scale disaster.”

“There is no water, no electricity, no gasoline,” he told Al Jazeera. “The city is devastated. “Apartment buildings with families inside have been razed,” he said.. “There is a wave of displacement because people are trying to flee Derna, but many are trapped because many roads are blocked or missing,” adding that some families have taken refuge in schools.

NGO sources located in the area have pointed out that those forcibly displaced by the tragedy exceed 30,000 people, a third of the total population of Derna.

Cyclone 'Daniel' has hit eastern Libya (divided into two parallel governments since the beginning of 2022 due to a serious political crisis) after causing havoc last week in Greece, Bulgaria and Turkey.

With the display of two bodies of non-human beings in the Chamber of Deputies of Mexico, ufologist Jaime Maussan and experts in the field asked legislators to recognize extraterrestrial life in the country.

This, as part of the first public hearing in a route for the possible legislation of unidentified anomalous aerial phenomena in Mexico, better known as unidentified flying objects (UFO).

The Mexican ufologist and communicator presumed that the two bodies shown were more than 1,000 years old, according to research carried out by the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).

Institution that determined, through carbon 14 analysis, that they were buried for a millennium inside a diatom, a type of algae that does not allow the growth of bacteria or fungi, which allowed their preservation.

“They were buried”

Maussan emphasized that the supposedly extraterrestrial beings are not bodies recovered from ships that fell on Earth, but rather they were buried.

“These are not mummies, these are bodies that are intact, complete, that have not been manipulated inside and that have a series of elements that make them truly extraordinary,” he said.

“We are being visited by non-human intelligences that come to Earth from the depths of the universe”

For Maussan, there is enough evidence to prove that extraterrestrial life exists and he stated that if we have the courage to accept “that we are being visited by non-human intelligences that come to Earth from the depths of the universe, we could even travel to other universes.”

He added that its acceptance is necessary to generate safety conditions in Mexican airspace, increase research on the subject and make the results transparent.

Military sighting

The ufologist recalled that Mexico has already taken a step forward when it leaked for the first time the video of a Mexican Air Force ship, where 11 unidentified anomalous objects were observed through an infrared camera.

Separately, the American fighter pilot and former director of the US Navy, Ryan Graves, who revealed that the US Government

Putin tries to 'sell' Kim Jong-un on the benefits of the luxurious Russian Aurus limousines, which cost $300,000

The president of Russia, Vladimir Putin, acted this Wednesday as a “seller” of the Russian Aurus limousines, in which he and other senior officials usually travel, to the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, whom he made sit next to him in one of those cars that make up the official Russian caravan.

Russian journalist Pável Zarubin, from the public television channel Rossía-1, who is part of the group of journalists that accompanies Putin on all trips, published a video on his Telegram channel in which he can see how Kim sits in the back of an Aurus and Putin accompanies him.

Surrounded by dozens of bodyguards, upon exiting the limousine, Putin explains the details of this Russian luxury car, whose cost exceeds $300,000.

Aurus Senat, the armored limousine in which Putin usually travels. Matti Blume / WIKIPEDIA

The head of the Kremlin pointed out the day before at the plenary session of the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok that Aurus cars will cost half as much when they fully enter the Russian market, since only a few units are produced for now.

Putin has taken on the mission of promoting exclusively Russian-made cars in the face of Western sanctions, which prevent the export of cars to Russia and the supply of spare parts and essential technology for the sector.

Furthermore, he has insisted that officials must use national cars, even if they are more modest than foreign ones, as he repeated the day before.

In the last year, Russia has promoted its own manufacturing of brands such as the Lada and Moskvich, which had been discontinued in 2002.

After the start of the Russian war in Ukraine in February 2022, the vast majority of foreign car manufacturers that had factories in Russia left the country, prompting the Russian automotive sector to take measures to stay afloat.

Just four days after Russian troops entered Ukraine, Renault suspended the activities of its companies in Russia, followed by Volvo Trucks and Volkswagen – the latter two with plants in Kaluga – and Toyota, with a factory in Saint Petersburg.

Before the war, the Russian automobile sector generated direct or indirect employment for more than 3.5 million Russians.