Recently in Spain we have learned about the experience of Civil Protection alerts that sound on all mobile phones at the same time. This week, a test took place in the United States.

But beyond its real usefulness, this test has turned out to have a curious consequence: it has brought to light dozens of mobile phones that some prisoners had hidden in prison.

As reported by the TMZ.com portal, the test of the National Emergency Alert System was carried out on Wednesday.

Millions of cell phone users across the United States received an alert from the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the FCC on Wednesday to ensure emergency alerts reach the public nationwide.

But so did the wrong person: A New York State Prison official confirmed to TMZ that at least two phones were confiscated at Sing Sing Correctional Facility during the ordeal.

Also at the Coleman Low prison in Florida, two phones were confiscated during the emergency test. And there are similar testimonies from prison officials in Arizona, California or Illinois.

Phone trafficking in American prisons has become a growing problem, and officials have implemented new tactics to try to track them down, including phone-sniffing dogs called e-dogs.

Russia continues its attacks against Ukrainian civilian infrastructure, using increasingly sophisticated and expensive missiles with limited results, due to Ukraine's efforts to strengthen anti-aircraft defense to protect its civilian facilities.

“The enemy attacked Odessa tonight with supersonic anti-ship missiles of the Onix type, launched from Bastion coastal missile systems located in the (annexed peninsula of) Crimea, temporarily occupied” by Russian forces, the Army's Southern Operational Command denounced today on Telegram. Ukrainian.

According to the military department, the attack, during which no victims were reported, hit a hotel located in a tourist area and a grain warehouse near this port, located on the shores of the Black Sea, in addition to damage to several homes.

Big expenses and few achievements

The head of the press center of the Ukrainian Southern operational command, Natalia Gumeniuk, acknowledged in a Ukrainian television program that this Saturday's attack was carried out with missiles that were difficult to shoot down by the Ukrainian anti-aircraft defense due to the lack of achievements in the battle front.

He estimated that the ballistic and supersonic missiles increasingly used by Russian forces are very expensive, something that “does not correspond to the results they intend to achieve.”

“It is clear that the enemy highly values our ability to stop aerial threats, particularly (Iranian-made) drones. Shahed. “They see that our work is effective even when they launch many and try to use the type of weapon that allows them to achieve their objectives,” he said.

According to Gumeniuk, the priority of Russian attacks “is evident, targeting port infrastructure,” and they have become systematic after Russia's withdrawal from the Black Sea grain export initiative.

Russia shows nuclear muscle

Meanwhile, Moscow is betting on the development of new missiles: the Russian Defense Minister, Sergei Shoigu, visited this Saturday the Krasmash company, which produces the Sarmat intercontinental missiles after the recent announcement by the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, about the beginning of delivery of these systems to the Russian Army.

The Defense Minister inspected several workshops of the company, in charge of the serial production of Sarmat missiles (SS-X-30 Satan-2, according to NATO), and capable of carrying 10-15 individually guided nuclear warheads.

“Supplying the Strategic Missile Forces with this system, which will become the basis of the ground grouping of Russia's strategic nuclear forces, is a priority to ensure the country's defensive capabilities,” Shoigu said.

Putin declared this Thursday that Moscow has “practically” finished the work “with the most modern types of strategic weapons” that it announced in 2018, in particular the Sarmat, which according to him, has a “practically unlimited range” and which makes it “useless “the United States anti-missile shield.

Protect energy infrastructure

In view of the Russian tactic aimed at destroying Ukrainian civilian infrastructure, preparation for the next winter becomes a first-order task for kyiv.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelesnki called for prioritizing “the protection of our energy facilities, the restoration of everything damaged by Russian attacks.”

“Overcoming this winter, overcoming all the difficulties and providing protection to our people is very important,” he indicated, calling on local authorities to work in this regard.

The Ukrainian president warned that “Russian terrorists will try again this winter to destroy our energy system”

“They are incapable of understanding that they will not subdue Ukraine. But they will try to deal more blows and will insist on their attempts to overcome our defenses,” he said, noting that kyiv “is fully aware of this danger.”

Zelensky recalled the agreement reached with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Granada on the delivery of a Patriot anti-missile battery, which he described as “a considerable reinforcement.”

Starting this Saturday, France imposes a minimum rate of three euros for the shipping of books purchased remotely, a measure designed to try to protect bookstores to some extent against competition from Amazon and other online platforms such as Fnac.

The Government decree sets this minimum at the three euros recommended by the Electronic Communication, Postal and Press Distribution Regulatory Authority (Arcep) for orders less than 35 euros.

From that amount, the cost of these shipping costs will have to be at least one euro cent, which might seem paradoxical at first.

The Executive's will is to encourage readers to buy more in bookstores. Until now, both Amazon and Fnac had not invoiced more than a cent for book shipments.

However, the French Bookstore Union (SLF), which brings together professionals, estimates that the new regulation falls short, taking into account that a shipment costs them an average of 7.5 euros.

For Amazon, this decree will have the effect of increasing prices that could reduce demand for books.

The Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, confirmed this Saturday the state of war in his first public intervention after the surprise attack by land, sea and air by Palestinian militiamen against Israel from the Gaza Strip, which has left at least three dead and hundreds of injuries on both sides of the border.

“Citizens of Israel, we are at war. Not in an operation, they are not rounds of combat, it is a war,” Netanyahu said in a video broadcast on his social networks.

“We are at war and we will win it,” he stressed, hours after the start of the attack by Hamas, considered a terrorist group by Israel, the United States and the European Union.

“I ordered, first of all, that the communities in which terrorists had infiltrated be evacuated. This is currently being carried out. At the same time, I have ordered a broad mobilization of reserves and a return fire of a magnitude the enemy has never known.. “The enemy will pay an unprecedented price,” he added.

Israel bombed several Hamas facilities in the Gaza Strip from the air as the beginning of its operation “Iron Swords”, in response to the surprise attack that the Islamist group launched this morning towards Israeli territory under the name of operation “Al Aqsa Storm” , and which has included the launching of thousands of rockets and the incursion of armed militiamen by land, sea and air into Israeli territory.

At the moment, the death of an Israeli woman and dozens of injuries on the Israeli side have been confirmed; while in Gaza two Palestinians have died and several wounded are reported.

The Gaza militias are still firing rockets at this time and the air raid sirens have not stopped sounding all morning in the cities of southern and central Israel, including Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.

In Jerusalem, the streets are deserted by civilians, many of them sheltered in armored shelters, while numerous police troops patrol and thoroughly inspect the streets, parks and parking lots of shopping centers.

The National Service for Persons Deprived of Liberty (SNAI) of Ecuador has reported that the six Colombian hitmen involved in the murder of the candidate for the Ecuadorian Presidency, Fernando Villavicencio, on August 9, have died in the Litoral prison, in the city of Veracruz.

The inmates have been found dead in pavilion 7 of the Penitentiary, located on the outskirts of Guayaquil, and the exact circumstances of their deaths are now under investigation.. At the moment, prison sources have indicated to the newspaper El Tiempo that the six inmates have died by hanging, without there being official confirmation in this regard.

“All the deceased are Colombian nationals and were involved in the murder of Fernando Villavicencio,” the SNAI confirmed in a statement.

“The national government condemns this fact and ratifies its political will to collaborate with the pertinent investigations in order to identify those intellectually responsible for the former candidate's crime,” the statement added.

Villavicencio was attacked and murdered by several hitmen at the end of a political rally of the Movimiento Construye party and, although the Ecuadorian Police managed to arrest these six Colombian citizens, allegedly members of a Colombian organized crime group, the investigation, supported by the FBI, continues searching identify others involved.

The SNAI had previously reported that “at approximately 4:00 p.m. on this Friday, October 6, an event occurred inside the Guayas Male Deprivation Center No. 1, pavilion 7, registering six deceased people,” as it explained. a statement published on his social network account X, formerly known as Twitter.

In the same letter, it was added that “a Criminalistics team with the support of the Armed Forces and National Police has entered to carry out the legal process corresponding to the removal of bodies and the identification of their identity.”. “At the moment police and military elements are providing protection at the site.”

Reaction of the Ecuadorian president

The president of Ecuador, Guillermo Lasso, also spoke out after hearing the news on his account on the social network of Deprivation of Liberty No. 1, in Guayaquil, I have arranged to meet immediately with the Security Cabinet.”

Lasso added in his post that he would return to the country in the next few hours to attend to this emergency and that “neither complicity nor cover-up, the truth will be known here.”

For its part, the citizen organization SOS Cárceles Ecuador has indicated that the six hitmen had requested a transfer to a more secure prison; request denied by the prison authorities, before indicating, according to reports from prison guards, that the bodies “do not show signs of torture, nor wounds resulting from any combat.”

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko warned the West this Saturday that arming Ukraine with long-range missiles could force Russia to resort to more deadly weapons.

Lukashenko says this policy could provoke a devastating response from Moscow, according to remarks made during a visit to a military training facility in the Brest region, near its NATO border with Poland.

“It gives the impression that the Americans are pressuring the Russians to use the most terrible weapons,” Lukashenko said, in statements reported by the Daily Mail.

“Arming Volodymyr Zelensky and his army, equipping them with long-range missiles, even at a distance of 300 kilometers, can you imagine?” Lukashenko asked.

“Powerful missiles will hit Russian territory at a distance of 300 kilometers. Do you think the president of Russia and the military will look at this calmly?” the Belarusian president, who has been in power for 29 years, continued to ask.

“The revival of tensions and escalation will lead to a situation in which they (Russia) will take the red button and put it on the table,” Lukashenko warned, referring to the Russian nuclear arsenal.

When politicians meet with citizens, they are exposed to their criticism and disagreements.. This is what happened to the Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau, this week.

Images of the disagreement have gone viral. In them, Trudeau is seen greeting and shaking hands with some citizens, including a child in his chair.

But when it is the turn of a man who is recording with his mobile phone, he blurts out to Trudeau: “I'm not going to shake your hand, you're a piece of shit.”

Trudeau, completely stunned, asks: “Why, sir?”. “Can anyone afford a house?” asks the citizen, and then reproaches Trudeau for carbon taxes.

The Canadian premier calmly explains that the government is putting a price on pollution and “giving it back to families like his.” “You're going to send him to Ukraine, right?” the man replies. “You're going to send it to the guy you were with who massacred his own country,” he adds.

Before leaving, Trudeau says: “You've been listening to Putin, right? You know a lot of Russian disinformation,” the Canadian prime minister replied as he left.

Israel declared a state of war this Saturday after a wave of rocket attacks, some long-range, claimed by the militias of the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas from the Gaza Strip.. The attack has been accompanied by the infiltration of Palestinian militiamen into Israeli territory.

Following this attack by the Al Qasam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, Israel has responded with the so-called 'Iron Swords' operation, air bombing several Hamas facilities in the Gaza Strip.

The main advisor to the Presidency of Ukraine, Mijailo Podoliak, warned the international community this Friday that any “alternative” that does not involve Russia's defeat on the battlefield will be “much more costly.”

“It is obvious that any alternative to Russia's strategic loss on the battlefield followed by a hasty withdrawal of troops and the beginning of an internal political transformation will be much more costly for the global community than direct support for Ukraine,” he said. Podoliak said on his Telegram.

“It is about the total dismantling of global rules, growing instability, a costly arms race, multiple regional wars, coups d'état and the construction of a global Authoritarian Alliance, waves of migration, terrorism as a key form of domination and interventions in systems politicians of democracies,” he predicted.

In that sense, the president's advisor Volodimir Zelensky has insisted to Ukraine's international partners that “it is time to make the right decision”, one that involves, he stressed, “the right missiles.”

The Kremlin spokesman, Dimitri Peskov, clarified this Friday that the investigation into the death of the leader of the Wagner Group, Yevgeni Prigozhin, has not yet been completed, despite the fact that the president of Russia, Vladimir Putin, assured the day before that ” there was no external influence” in the plane crash.

“There have still been no final conclusions or a final report from the investigators,” said Peskov, who has advocated waiting for the investigations to be completed, although he has not ventured to name a specific date to know the final report, according to the Russian news agency TASS.

These statements come just a day after Putin assured that the plane in which Prigozhin and nine other prominent members of the Wagner Group were traveling crashed without external influence, and that “fragments” had been found in the mortal remains of the leader of the mercenaries. of hand grenades”.

A report that “is not yet final”

Peskov came forward this Friday to qualify Putin's words by assuring that the investigations into the accident have not yet been concluded, and that the Russian president in any case remarked the day before that said report “was not yet definitive.”

After the accident, Putin acknowledged that “unfortunately” the investigative services had not analyzed possible traces of alcohol or drugs in Prigozhin's body, adding that, during searches of Wagner's headquarters in St. Petersburg, up to five kilos of cocaine and millions of rubles in cash.

In this way, the Russian president left in the air the possibility that the Prigozhin accident occurred after the leader of the mercenaries and his companions mistakenly activated a hand grenade, all under the possible effects of alcohol or drugs.

At the end of August, Russian authorities confirmed the death of Prigozhin and nine other people who were flying aboard a plane that crashed in Tver, north of Moscow, just under two months after he led an attempted rebellion, mobilizing his mercenaries heading towards the capital.