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☆ A water war is looming between Mexico and the US. Neither side will win
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-17 | by ( Laura Paddison | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

Under an 80-year-old treaty, the United States and Mexico share waters from the Colorado River and the Rio Grande, respectively. They say the lack of water from Mexico is propelling them into crisis, leaving the future of farming in the balance. Pain in both countriesThe water from Mexico goes to the Falcon and Amistad Reservoirs which straddle the border and provide water to homes as well and farms. To rely only on storms to reduce water scarcity would make Mexico “totally exposed to what nature decides about our water future,” UNAM’s Magnaña Rueda said. Ultimately, there needs to be a recognition that water sharing agreements must adapt to a changing climate, Rueda said.

Persons: Biden, Maria Elena Giner, “, ”, Alfonso Cortez Lara, Giner, “ There’ll, Paul Ratje, Vianey Rueda, Rueda, , ” Rueda, Pain, Amistad, Falcon, Brian Jones, Carlos Kosienski, Jones, Monica De La, ” De, ” De La Cruz, Ted Cruz, John Cornyn —, —, Victor Magaña Rueda, Salvador Alcántar, ” Alcántar, Jose Luis Gonzalez, Sarah Porter, Claudia Sheinbaum, “ We’ve, ” UNAM’s Magnaña Rueda, ” Giner, we’re, Nobody’s, ” CNN’s Brandon Miller, Jack Guy Organizations: CNN, Texas, Water Commission, College of, Rio, Reuters, University of Michigan, American Free Trade, Falcon, “ Farmers, Texas Farm Bureau, Growers, Republican, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Farmers, National Guard, Mexican National Guard, Kyl, for Water Policy, Arizona State University, “ Locations: United States, Mexico, Colorado, Rio, South Texas, Rio Grande, Rocky, Gulf of Mexico, Fort Quitmen, Presidio , Texas, ”, Mexican, Chihuahua, Las Cruces , New Mexico, Reuters Mexico, Amistad, Rio Grande Valley, Texas, Hidalgo County , Texas, Rio Grande Valley . Texas, Starr County , Texas, Monica De La Cruz, ” De La, La, Camargo , Chihuahua

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Volunteers in central Chile tried to remove charred metal, broken glass and other debris Monday from neighborhoods devastated by wildfires over the past several days, as officials raised the death toll to 122. The fires appeared to have diminished by Monday morning after burning intensely since Friday on the eastern edge of the city of Viña del Mar. An additional 10 victims were added to the death toll on Monday afternoon, bringing it to 122, said Marisol Prado, the director of Chile’s Forensic Medical Service. Viña del Mar's Mayor Macarena Ripamonti said that at least 370 people have been reported missing in the city of about 300,000 residents. Hundreds of people affected by the fires returned to their homes on Monday to search through the debris.

Persons: Villa Alemana, Gabriel Boric, Marisol Prado, Prado, Viña, Macarena Ripamonti, — —, Rueda Organizations: — Volunteers, Forensic Medical Service, Viña del Locations: SANTIAGO, Chile, Viña del Mar, Valparaiso, Viña del, Santiago, del Mar, Villa, Bogota, Colombia

☆ European Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2023: Caring stink bugs and tangled octopuses
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-03 | by ( Callum Sutherland | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

Rolex’s Perpetual Planet initiative has partnered with CNN to drive awareness and education around key sustainability issues and to inspire positive action. That’s exactly what was captured by the overall winner of the 2023 European Wildlife Photographer of the Year award. The photo taken by biologist Javier Aznar González De Rueda shows with incredible detail a female stink bug shielding her eggs and newly hatched larvae. Two octopuses tangle their tentacles around one another, unusual behavior, according to photographer Francisco Javier Murcia Requena. “They stimulate interest in species, habitats and the interconnectedness of nature as well as increasing awareness for nature conservation.”

Persons: CNN —, Javier Aznar González De Rueda, Aznar, ”, tripterus, Francisco Javier Murcia Requena, Mark Littlejohn, Petr Bambousek, Petr Bambousek Sabine Riewenherm Organizations: CNN, Central America, German Society for Nature, German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation Locations: Ecuador’s, Spanish, South, Central, Brazil

☆ Exclusive: At least 40% of Colombia's ELN rebels seen rejecting peace deal, security sources say
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-22 | by ( Luis Jaime Acosta | Thomson Reuters | Luis Jaime Has Worked At Reuters For More Than Years. While He Chiefly Covers Colombia'S Armed Conflict | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

Pablo Beltran, head of leftist guerrilla group National Liberation Army (ELN), speaks with members of the media in Caracas, Venezuela January 21, 2023. It would also appear to undermine repeated reassurances by ELN leaders that the group is united behind talks. The three security sources said some 2,300 of the ELN's total 5,850 members were seen as likely to reject the deal. The ELN talks, which restarted in November 2022, are the most advanced of Petro's peace efforts, which also include conversations with crime gangs like the Clan del Golfo. "We don't deny the risks that could come from a dialogue that doesn't acknowledge that reality," Rueda said, but added that orders from national ELN leaders are respected by fighters.

Persons: Pablo Beltran, Leonardo Fernandez Viloria, Gustavo Petro, holdouts, they're, Antonio Garcia, Danilo Rueda, Rueda, Ariel Avila, Avila, Luis Jaime Acosta, Julia Symmes Cobb, Daniel Wallis Organizations: National Liberation Army, REUTERS, Rights, Colombia's National Liberation Army, Revolutionary Armed Forces, Northeastern Fronts, Reuters, Green Alliance, Thomson Locations: Caracas, Venezuela, Rights BOGOTA, Colombia, Eastern

☆ Colombia, ELN rebels start six-month ceasefire
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-03 | by ( Luis Jaime Acosta | Thomson Reuters | Luis Jaime Has Worked At Reuters For More Than Years. While He Chiefly Covers Colombia'S Armed Conflict | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

[1/7] An attendee looks on during an event with peace negotiators of Colombia's government and the National Liberation Army (ELN) rebels, in Bogota, Colombia August 3, 2023. "Welcome to peace," Petro told the inauguration of a committee meant to ensure civil society participation in the talks. The government's high peace commissioner, Danilo Rueda, had said on Tuesday the ceasefire would safeguard civilians and protect them from crimes like kidnapping. The United Nations Secretary-General congratulated the two sides on the ceasefire in a statement on Thursday, hailing its potential to reduce civilian suffering. The U.N. Verification Mission in Colombia will monitor the effort under a mandate form the Security Council.

Persons: Vannessa Jimenez, Gustavo Petro's, Petro, Eliecer Herlinto Chamorro, guerre Antonio Garcia, Danilo Rueda, Aureliano Carbonell, Carbonell, del, Rueda, Luis Jaime Acosta, Oliver Griffin, Leslie Adler Organizations: National Liberation Army, REUTERS, United Nations, Security Council, Force, Clan, Reuters, Congress, Estado Mayor Central, Revolutionary Armed Forces, Segunda, Thomson Locations: Bogota, Colombia, Vannessa Jimenez BOGOTA, Petro

☆ Before Carlos Alcaraz Was Great, He Was Good Enough to Be Lucky
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-28 | by ( Matthew Futterman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

So Grandpa Alcaraz (another Carlos) made sure to include those courts with the development. López Rueda is the tennis-mad chief executive of Postres Reina, which is based in Caravaca de la Cruz. But López Rueda doesn’t just like tennis; he likes to play tennis on red clay. One day López Rueda agreed to watch the boy play and it was unlike anything he had ever seen. Alcaraz became the first, wearing the company logo on his shirts.

REUTERS/Leonardo Fernandez ViloriaCARACAS, Jan 21 (Reuters) - Colombia and the National Liberation Army (ELN) rebel group said on Saturday they will resume peace talks in Mexico next month, overcoming a recent impasse after the government recently declared and then called off a bilateral ceasefire. There was a first cycle of talks last year in Caracas to end the guerrillas' part in nearly six decades of war. The about-face on the ceasefire came after ELN said it had not agreed to it. "In said cycle, the issue of society's participation in peace building will be addressed. Colombia and the ELN said they would jointly examine progress in implementing agreements reached during the first cycle of talks and agreed to keep communication channels open even when not at the negotiating table.

☆ Six dead after bus plunges off bridge into river in Spain
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-25 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

MADRID, Dec 25 (Reuters) - Six people died and two were injured after a passenger bus careened off a bridge and plunged into an overflowing river in northwestern Spain, emergency services said on Sunday. Two survivors - the vehicle's 63-year-old driver and a female passenger - were pulled out of the river by firefighters with rope and taken to nearby hospitals with varying degrees of injury. The spokesperson added that the search-and-rescue operation around the bridge had now concluded, while engineers attempted to find a way to safely recover the wreckage from the river Lerez. Shortly afterwards, they received a second call from inside the bus as it was filling up with water. The river remained above its overflow threshold throughout the night, forcing emergency rescue workers to suspend the operation for nearly two hours before resuming in the morning.

☆ Colombia ELN leftist guerrilla group declares Christmas ceasefire
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-19 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

REUTERS/Leonardo Fernandez ViloriaBOGOTA, Dec 19 (Reuters) - Colombian leftist guerrilla group the National Liberation Army (ELN) on Monday declared a nine-day unilateral ceasefire over the Christmas period, as part of a bid to support peace talks with the Andean country's government, which urged other illegal armed groups to follow suit. Colombia's government and the ELN last week completed the first cycle of peace talks between the two parties in Venezuela's capital Caracas. The unilateral ceasefire will only apply to Colombia's military and police, the ELN said in a recorded statement, adding it reserves the right to defend itself if attacked. Following the announcement, Colombia's government called on other armed groups also to call a ceasefire. Reporting by Nelson Bocanegra and Oliver Griffin Writing by Oliver Griffin Editing by Alistair BellOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ U.S. Watchdog Sanctions KPMG Firms, Audit Professionals
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-06 | by ( Jennifer Williams-Alvarez | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +7 min

PREVIEWThe U.K. firm was additionally sanctioned for allegedly failing to reasonably supervise an unregistered audit firm, Romanian audit firm KPMG Audit SRL, in four consecutive audits of Endava PLC, a British technology services company. KPMG U.K. was found to have also made several inaccurate PCAOB filings about the involvement of unregistered firms in certain audit work. The PCAOB imposed a $600,000 penalty for the alleged failings around unregistered audit firms, which KPMG U.K. didn’t admit or deny. KPMG U.K. has reviewed the way it works with other firms, enhancing controls and providing additional training, Cath Burnet, U.K. head of audit at KPMG, said. The U.K.’s audit and accounting regulator in a July letter to seven audit firms, including KPMG, said that it is “deeply concerned” about audit professionals cheating on external professional exams and internal assessments.

☆ Las Vegas police catch inmate who escaped prison while serving life for fatal bombing
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-29 | by ( Chantal Da Silva | Claire Cardona | Chantal Da Silva Is A Breaking News Editor For Nbc News Digital Based In London. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

Las Vegas police have apprehended a man who escaped prison earlier this week while serving a life sentence for a deadly 2007 explosion outside a Las Vegas Strip resort. Duarte-Herrera escaped from the Southern Desert Correctional Center in Indian Springs and was discovered missing during the 7 a.m. count Tuesday, according to the Nevada Corrections Department. They had warned anyone who spotted him not to approach the escaped inmate and to call 911 immediately. He said he had ordered the Corrections Department to launch a thorough investigation into what happened. Rueda-Denvers, 47, remains behind bars at a separate state prison, according to Corrections Department records.

☆ Alertă de securitate într-o bază NATO. Președintele Lituaniei și premierul Spaniei au fost evacuați
▼ + stars: | 2021-07-08 | by ( Onixmedia Srl | ) diez.md time to read: +1 min

Premierul Spaniei, Pedro Sanchez, şi preşedintele Lituaniei, Gitanas Nauseda, au fost nevoiţi să întrerupă o conferinţă de presă desfăşurată într-o bază NATO din Lituania din cauza unei alerte de securitate provocate de un avion rusesc. Pedro Sanchez a vizitat trupele spaniole din Baza militară Siauliai, în cadrul vizitei sale în Lituania, transmite Digi24. Ei au fost evacuați în urma alertei de securitate. Două avioane de vânătoare Eurofighter au fost mobilizate pentru interceptarea aeronavei militare suspecte, care părea să se apropie în mod neautorizat survolând Marea Baltică. Conferinţa de presă a premierului Spaniei şi a preşedintelui Lituaniei a fost reluată la circa 30 de minute după incident.

Persons: Spaniei, Pedro Sanchez Organizations: NATO, Eurofighter Locations: Lituaniei, Lituania, rus, Spaniei, preşedintelui Lituaniei

☆ Argentina s-a calificat în semifinalele turneului Copa America
▼ + stars: | 2021-07-04 | by ( Publika.Md - Aici Sunt Știrile | ) www.publika.md time to read: +1 min

Lionel Messi continuă goana după primul lui trofeu cu echipa națională. Argentina s-a calificat în semifinalele turneului Copa America, reușind să învingă Ecuadorul cu 3-0.Selecționata „albiceleste” a deschis scorul în minutul 40, prin Rodrigo De Paul, care a profitat de pasa lui Messi. Scorul s-a păstrat până în ultimele zece minute ale partidei, când argentinienii au mai înscris de două ori. Mai întâi, Messi a profitat de o eroare a defensivei adverse și i-a pasat decisiv lui Lautaro Martinez, iar apoi a marcat și el, cu un șut din lovitură liberă.În semifinale, Argentina o va întâlni pe Columbia. Timpul regulamentar al meciului s-a încheiat fără goluri, iar în seria de departajare, columbienii s-au impus cu 4-2.În cealaltă semifinală, vor juca Peru și gazda turneului Copa America, Brazilia, care este și deținătoarea trofeului.

Persons: Lionel Messi, Rodrigo, Paul, Messi, Lautaro Martinez, Columbia, Reinaldo, columbienii Organizations: națională, America Locations: Argentina, Peru, America, Brazilia

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