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☆ Nearly a sixth of Ecuador's prisoners held without sentence - census
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-10 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

QUITO, July 10 (Reuters) - Nearly a sixth of the inmates in Ecuador's prisons have not been sentenced, a national census showed on Monday, as President Guillermo Lasso urged the judicial system to be speedier to help ease the burden on overcrowded jails. That figure is above the 30,134 prisoner capacity that prisons agency SNAI said the 36-prison system had in December 2022. Ecuador's prison system has faced structural problems for decades, amid overcrowding and precarious living conditions for inmates, but riots have become increasingly common, killing more than 400 prisoners since late 2020. The government has attributed prison violence to fighting between criminal groups for control of prisons and drug trafficking routes. Prisoners have complained about the quality of the basic services and supply of food, the census also showed.

Persons: Guillermo Lasso, Lasso, SNAI, Alexandra Valencia, Carolina Pulice, Jamie Freed Organizations: Inter, American, Human Rights, Thomson Locations: QUITO

☆ Vinícius Jr.: Rio government names anti-racism law after Real Madrid star
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-06 | by ( Story Reuters | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

Reuters —The Rio de Janeiro government named an anti-racism law after Real Madrid forward Vinícius Jr. on Wednesday which will see sporting events stopped or suspended in the event of racist conduct. Brazil forward Vinícius was racially abused by fans when Madrid played Valencia in May, the 10th such incident involving the 22-year-old that LaLiga has reported to prosecutors that season. The ‘Vini Jr law,’ unanimously approved by the Rio government in June, includes protocol on how to process complaints of racism and mandatory educational campaigns. “Today is a very special day and I hope my family is very proud,” said Vinícius during a ceremony at the Maracanã Stadium, where he made his senior debut for Flamengo in 2017. “Sometimes, I wonder if I deserve so much,” he said.

Persons: Vinícius, LaLiga, Vini, ’, ”, “, ” Vinícius, Garrincha, Ronaldo Nazário, Sports Rafael Picciani Organizations: Reuters, Real Madrid, Madrid, Valencia, “, Flamengo, de Janeiro’s, Sports Locations: Rio, Janeiro, Brazil, Rio de Janeiro

☆ Someone has found what could be the first Magic: The Gathering card worth 7 figures
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-05 | by ( Filip De Mott | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

An incredibly rare Magic: The Gathering card from a new expansion was found on Friday. Instead, it's all to do with Hasbro's trading card game, Magic: The Gathering, which released an expansion this month that crosses over with JRR Tolkien's beloved fantasy series. —Magic: The Gathering (@wizards_magic) June 30, 2023While the search is over, the card's ownership may not be settled. The breakneck pace and high costs of new releases has also been an issue for local game shops that sell Magic: The Gathering cards. In April though, the bank upgraded the stock to "neutral" after earnings showed revenue from the card game surged in the first quarter.

Persons: —, JRR, Francisco Rubio, Adam Martin, Dave, Eric LaGaccia Organizations: Service, Wall Street, Gremio de Dragones, Hasbro, City Comics, Bank of America Locations: Valencia, Spain, Buffalo , New York, Brooklyn

☆ Climate activists block golf course holes with seedlings and cement to protest water use
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-04 | by ( Laura Paddison | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —Climate activists have targeted 10 golf courses around Spain, plugging up holes to protest the amount of water used to maintain these courses as the country is gripped by a severe drought. Members of Extinction Rebellion (XR) Spain, along with activists from other climate groups, accessed golf courses in locations in six provinces, including Madrid, Valencia, Ibiza and Navarra. Golf closed for climate justice” and “water is a common good.”Golf in Spain uses more water than the cities of Barcelona and Madrid combined, XR said in a video posted on Twitter on Sunday. Only 0.6% of the population plays golf, XR said. Between June 1 and 10, 60% of Spain was under “drought alert” conditions, according to the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service.

Persons: XR Organizations: CNN —, Twitter Locations: Spain, Madrid, Valencia, Ibiza, Navarra, Barcelona, Spanish, Europe, Córdoba

CNN —A Nicaraguan national who died last week in federal immigration custody had spent more than one year in detention. Despite having been recommended for release more than seven months ago, he continued to be held in immigration custody, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center. In November 2022, an ICE panel recommended Rocha-Cuadra be released from custody, but officials at the facility declined to release him, a statement from the SPLC said. In a written statement to the press, Rocha-Cuadra’s brother joined a chorus of immigration rights advocates calling for the ICE facility to be investigated. Rocha-Cuadra had been in immigration custody after crossing the border illegally near Andrade, California, on April 17, 2022, according to a statement from ICE earlier this week.

Persons: Ernesto Rocha, Rocha, Cuadra, Ernesto, “ NOLA, Cuadra’s, Frank Rocha, noncitizen, “, ” Organizations: CNN —, Nicaraguan, Southern Poverty Law Center, Immigration, Customs, New Orleans ICE Field Office, “, “ NOLA ICE ”, ICE, CNN, GEO, Inc, GEO Group, . Immigration, Healthcare, Central Louisiana ICE Processing, ICE Health Services Corps Locations: Cuadra, ICE’s, Jena , Louisiana, Andrade , California, ICE’s Central Louisiana

☆ First debt swap Galapagos projects could be approved next year, minister says
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-30 | by ( Alexandra Valencia | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

QUITO, June 30 (Reuters) - Conservation projects in the Galapagos Islands funded by so-called blue bonds will be approved from next year by an independent body, Ecuador's Environment Minister Jose Davalos said. The independent non-profit Galapagos Life Fund (GLF) will manage the funds, Davalos told Reuters on Thursday. "Next year the GLF could begin to receive projects, rate them and assign the first funds to finance them," Davalos said. "This is a private fund that will administer money that is given or donated for the conservation of the Galapagos." The fund could finance projects in fishing, tourism, environmental education and the management of the Galapagos ocean reserve, which was expanded last year.

Persons: Jose Davalos, Davalos, Charles Darwin's, Guillermo Lasso, Alexandra Valencia, Julia Symmes Cobb, Elaine Hardcastle Organizations: Life, Reuters, Resources, Thomson Locations: QUITO

☆ Spanish archaeologists plan rescue of 2,500-year-old Phoenician shipwreck
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-30 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/3] A diver from Valencia University maps and assesses the state of a 2,500-year-old Phoenician vessel that is submerged 60 meters from the beach of Mazarron, Spain, June 20, 2023. Jose A Moya/Regional Government of Murcia/Handout via REUTERSMADRID, June 30 (Reuters) - A group of Spanish archaeologists have made detailed diagrams of a 2,500-year-old Phoenician shipwreck to help work out how best to recover it from the sea before a storm destroys it forever. Later this year, the experts will recommend how to protect and retrieve the wreck, possibly as early as next summer. It now lies under about 1.7 metres (5.6 ft) of crystal-clear Mediterranean water, surrounded by sandbags and a metal structure built for protection. Reporting by Emma Pinedo, editing by Inti Landauro and Philippa FletcherOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Jose A Moya, Carlos de Juan, Emma Pinedo, Inti Landauro, Philippa Fletcher Organizations: Valencia University, Regional Government of, REUTERS, University of Valencia, University of Valencia - Institute of Nautical Archaeology, Reuters, Thomson Locations: Mazarron, Spain, Regional Government of Murcia, Handout, REUTERS MADRID, Spanish, Murcia, la, Lebanon, Syria

☆ Bournemouth sign Kluivert from Roma
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-23 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

June 23 (Reuters) - Bournemouth have signed Dutch winger Justin Kluivert from Serie A side AS Roma on a long-term contract for an undisclosed fee, the Premier League club said on Friday. Kluivert, son of ex-Netherlands striker Patrick Kluivert, has joined for a reported 9.6 million pounds ($12.21 million). "We are delighted to have made Justin our first signing ahead of the new season," Bournemouth chief executive Neill Blake said in a statement. Kluivert, who has two caps, also had loan spells with Bundesliga side RB Leipzig and Ligue 1 team Nice. Bournemouth face Maccabi Tel Aviv in Marbella on July 16 before hosting Atalanta two weeks later and Lorient on Aug. 5.

Persons: Justin Kluivert, Kluivert, Patrick Kluivert, Justin our, Neill Blake, Justin, pacey, Janina Nuno Rios, Ken Ferris Organizations: Bournemouth, Serie, AS Roma, Premier League, Bundesliga, RB Leipzig, Ligue, Nice, Maccabi Tel Aviv, Atalanta, Thomson Locations: Dutch, Netherlands, Valencia, Europe, Marbella, Lorient, Mexico City

☆ These 'A.I. humans' are letting gamers modify their voices in real time
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-21 | by ( Ryan Browne | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Voicemod has created 20 "AI humans," digital personas that allow gamers to speak in voices other than their own. An artificial intelligence firm in Spain has unveiled a number of "AI humans" that allow people to modify their voices in video games — in real time. The voices are trained on voices from professional human voice actors. While many of today's AI algorithms allow people to submit text and receive something AI generated back, the feat of ensuring this is done in real time is much harder. The company is close to finishing a "watermarking" solution that can identify whether voices have been generated using modification systems.

Persons: Voicemod, Jaime Bosch, Bosch Organizations: CNBC, Apple, Bitkraft Ventures, Bosch, Cannes Lions Locations: Spain, Valencia, Barcelona, Europe

☆ The world’s 50 best restaurants revealed
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-20 | by ( Marnie Hunter | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

Peru’s capital city – and undoubtedly its gastronomic capital – had a tremendous showing Tuesday at The World’s 50 Best Restaurants awards, taking the No. Four Lima restaurants made the 50 Best list: Central at No. Central is the first South American restaurant to earn the “World’s Best” title. This year’s top 50 includes restaurants from 24 territories on five continents, with 12 restaurants entering the list for the first time. Ken Motohasi/CentralThe world’s 50 best restaurants 20231.

Persons: –, Maido, Kjolle, Virgilio Martinez, Pía, Santiago Calatrava, Asador, Le Du, Gaggan Anand, Atomix, Le Bernardin, Éric Ripert, they’re, Osteria Francescana, Ken Motohasi, Bruno Verjus, São, Julien Royer, Le, Don Julio, Quique, Schloss, Hiša Franko, El, Jane, Tim Raue, Le Calandre, Leo, Bogotá, Orfali Organizations: City of Arts and Sciences, Diverxo, Longtime, Peru's, Trèsind, Orfali Bros, Mexico City Locations: –, Lima, Central, American, Spanish, Valencia, Spain, Barcelona, Madrid, Atxondo, Basque, Italy, France, Europe, England, London, Asia, Bangkok, United States, New York, North America, Noma, Copenhagen, Modena, Mirazur, Menton, Peru, South America, Disfrutar, Denmark, New York City, Quintonil, Mexico City, Mexico, Paris, Dubai, UAE, East, Africa, São Paulo, Brazil, Odette, Singapore, Le Du, Thailand, Sangro, Steirereck, Vienna, Austria, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Tokyo, Japan, Belcanto, Lisbon, Portugal, Switzerland, Santiago, Chile, Frantzén, Stockholm, Sweden, San Sebastian, Kobarid, Slovenia, Bogotá, Colombia, Ikoyi, Antwerp, Belgium, Berlin, Germany, Piazza, Alba, United Arab Emirates, Montreuil, Rosetta, Hong Kong

☆ Once Scorned, Far Right Secures Foothold in Spanish Cities
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-19 | by ( Constant Méheut | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Spain’s far right took office in a string of Spanish cities and in a powerful region over the weekend by forging coalition agreements with the moderate right, in a move that may foreshadow a broader alliance to govern the country after next month’s general elections. The agreements came about three weeks after the center-right Popular Party crushed Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s left-wing coalition in regional and local elections. To secure control of dozens of cities, the Popular Party struck coalition deals with the far-right Vox, which also performed well, embracing part of the party’s nationalist, anti-migrant agenda. Both parties will now govern together in some 25 cities of more than 30,000 residents, including five regional capitals, giving Vox, a party once considered anathema by most voters, crucial political leverage. They have also teamed up to run the wealthy Valencia region, which accounts for 10 percent of Spain’s population.

Persons: Spain’s, Pedro Sánchez’s, Vox, Sandra León, ” Organizations: Popular Party, Carlos III University Locations: Valencia, Madrid

☆ Two sea turtles nest on Spain's Mediterranean coast as waters warm
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-19 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

One turtle laid 80 eggs in the town of Denia on Saturday, and another laid 62 in Gandia on Monday, which are both in the eastern Valencia region, the Oceanographic Foundation said. Loggerheads turtles used to nest mainly in the eastern Mediterranean, in countries such as Turkey, Cyprus and Greece, but for some years the coasts of Spain, France and Italy have been recording an increased presence of loggerhead turtle egg clutches. Warmer waters have attracted the turtles, biologist Ana Liria, head of ADS Biodiversidad, a charity based in Gran Canaria, told Reuters in April. When those turtles grow up, they will form part of program to help their survival. The remainder of the eggs were taken to a protected beach in the Albufera Natural Park to avoid contact with passers-by.

Persons: Read, Ana Liria, Emma Pinedo, Joan Faus, Sharon Singleton Organizations: University of Valencia, Oceanographic Foundation, Gran Canaria, Reuters, Thomson Locations: Gandia, Valencia Spain, MADRID, Denia, Valencia, Turkey, Cyprus, Greece, Spain, France, Italy, Gran, Tunisia

CNN —When four young indigenous children were found last week after 40 days in the Colombian Amazon jungle, their rescuers noticed that the oldest, 13-year-old Lesly Jacobombaire Mucutuy, had something hidden between her teeth. Muñoz told CNN the seeds were from a native Amazon palm tree called Oenocarpus Bataua, colloquially known as “milpesos” in Colombia. The accomplishment feels like a moment of pride for the indigenous community of the Colombian Amazon. One of the traditional tasks of indigenous women is to look after one’s siblings as if they were your own children. Traditional elders like Guerrero attempted to bridge a spiritual link with the children using traditional plants like tobacco, coca, and yagé, the sacred, hallucinogen plant also known as ayahuasca.

Persons: ”, Eliecer Muñoz, Muñoz, Eliecer Munoz, Daniel Munoz, ” Muñoz, “, –, Henry Guerrero, Lesly, Fidencio Valencia, milpesos, ” Guerrero, Ranoque Mucutuy, Nelly Kuiru, Kuiru, Manuel Ranoque, San Jose del Guaviare, Guerrero, Magdalena Mucutuy, Leslie, There’s, ” Kuiru, Ranoque, Magdalena Organizations: CNN, AFP, Getty, Army, Cessna, Colombian Military Forces, Reuters, Colombian Amazon, Colombian, Blackhawk, Colombian Amazon Institute of Scientific Research Locations: Colombian, ”, Colombia, Bogota, Caqueta, La, San Jose, Araracuara, Amazonas

☆ Brazil wears all-black kit for the first time in its history as part of team’s anti-racism campaign
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-18 | by ( Duarte Mendonca | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —The Brazilian men’s national team wore an all-black kit for the first time in its 109-year history during a friendly match against Guinea in Spain on Saturday as part of the team’s anti-racism campaign. Pau Berrena/AFP/Getty ImagesFIFA President Gianni Infantino visited the Brazilian delegation Thursday, announcing his full support for the anti-racism campaign. As for the match, Brazil won 4-1 with goals scored by Joelinton, Rodrygo, Eder Militão and Vinícius. Vinícius was invited by Infantino to participate in a FIFA anti-racism committee with players who will help suggest a course of action to deal with discriminatory behavior in football, the FIFA president said on Thursday. Brazil is set to play its next friendly match on Tuesday against Senegal in Lisbon, Portugal.

Persons: “, Vinícius, Pau Berrena, Gianni Infantino, Joelinton, Eder Militão, Guirassy, Pele, Infantino Organizations: CNN, men’s national, Guinea, Espanyol, FIFA, Federation, Real, Valencia, Getty, Brazilian, Brazil, Brazilian Federation, Senegal Locations: Spain, Barcelona, Brazil, Real Madrid, AFP, Lisbon, Portugal

☆ Max Homa Takes His Star Turn at the U.S. Open
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-15 | by ( Alan Blinder | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

For a decade now, Max Homa has had regrets. A gettable birdie on the Los Angeles Country Club’s sixth hole had eluded him. In his mind, his scorecard could have read — should have read — 59. If he can ratchet down his internal insistence on flawlessness when he plays golf’s most formidable tests. “I am good enough to win whatever I want — I’ve decided that,” Homa, who finished Thursday with a two-under-par 68, said in a recent interview.

Persons: Max Homa, “, — I’ve, ” Homa, ” Organizations: Los Angeles Country, U.S Locations: Los Angeles County, Valencia, ”

☆ Exclusive: Soccer-Brazil forward Vinicius Jr to lead new anti-racism committee - FIFA
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-15 | by ( Fernando Kallas | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

BARCELONA, June 15 (Reuters) - Real Madrid's Vinicius Jr will lead a special FIFA anti-racism committee made up of players who will suggest stricter punishments for discriminatory behaviour in football, president Gianni Infantino told Reuters on Thursday. Infantino told Reuters that as well as applying disciplinary and competition punishments, FIFA will also pursue legal action against abusers in countries where racism happens in football matches. "I asked Vinicius to lead this group of players that will present stricter punishments against racism that will later be implemented by all football authorities around the world. "We will implement very blunt and strong punishments to end once and for all with the problem of racism in football. "We need to stop the games, apply disciplinary and competitive measures and all of it needs to be coordinated with local authorities and governments.

Persons: Madrid's Vinicius, Gianni Infantino, Vinicius, LaLiga, Infantino, It's, Fernando Kallas, Toby Davis Organizations: FIFA, Reuters, Madrid, Valencia, Brazil national, Guinea, Brazilian FA, CBF, Spanish FA, Infantino, Thomson Locations: BARCELONA, Brazil, Barcelona, Valencia, Spain

☆ Spain's Lopez appointed tournament director for Davis Cup Finals
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-15 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

June 15 (Reuters) - Spanish veteran Feliciano Lopez, who will retire this season after 25 years on the ATP Tour, was appointed tournament director of the Davis Cup Finals on Thursday. Lopez, who has been the Madrid Open's tournament director since 2019, is a four-time Davis Cup champion and reached a career-high ranking of world number 12. "I've been doing this for the last four years with Madrid and in the beginning it was a big challenge for me," Lopez told Reuters. "No more tennis, and I can focus on the Davis Cup." Sixteen teams will compete in the Finals group stage from Sept. 12-17 across Manchester, Bologna, Valencia and Croatia.

Persons: Feliciano Lopez, Lopez, David Ferrer, I've, Lopez's, Rafa Nadal, Nadal, Rafa, Hritika Sharma, Pritha Sarkar Organizations: ATP, Davis, Madrid Open's, Reuters, Queen's, Mallorca, Wimbledon, Thomson Locations: Spanish, Madrid, Stuttgart, Manchester, Bologna, Valencia, Croatia, Malaga, Hyderabad

☆ Candidates enter race for Ecuador's crowded early elections
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-14 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

QUITO, June 14 (Reuters) - Eight candidates have registered to run in Ecuador's presidential elections in August, the electoral court said on Wednesday, kicking off a campaign to fill the spot to be left early by current President Guillermo Lasso. Lasso, in May, dissolved the legislature and cut his term short to avoid impeachment proceedings against him. Those elected in August will hold office until May 2025, when regularly scheduled elections will take place. Indigenous leader Yaku Perez will represent a political coalition in his second run for the presidency. Former Vice President Otto Sonnenholzner, who resigned in 2020 as the coronavirus pandemic ravaged Ecuadorean cities, will also run.

Persons: Guillermo Lasso, Ecuadoreans, Lasso, Rafael Correa's, Luisa Gonzalez, Yaku Perez, Perez, Otto Sonnenholzner, Alexandra Valencia, Kylie Madry, Angus MacSwan Organizations: Lasso, Constituent Assembly, Conservative Social Christian Party, PSC, Thomson Locations: QUITO

☆ Brazil to play Spain at Santiago Bernabeu in anti-racism campaign
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-13 | by ( Fernando Kallas | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Rubiales and his Brazilian FA (CBF) counterpart, Ednaldo Rodrigues, met in Madrid to launch their joint movement to combat racism under the slogan "One skin". "It is important to understand that harder punishment needs to be applied in cases of racism by the football authorities," Rodrigues told a news conference. "We need to lead a campaign worldwide to fight against this virus that ashame everyone in football." Last month, the CBF also launched a national campaign against racism in Brazilian league matches with the slogan "There is no game with racism". "There is no place for racist insults in our football," Rubiales said.

Persons: Royal Spanish Football Federation Luis Rubiales, Ednaldo Rodrigues, Spain's Ansu, Read, Vinicius Jr, Luis Rubiales, Rubiales, Vinicius, LaLiga, Rodrigues, Fernando Kallas, Christian Radnedge Organizations: Soccer Football, Sports City, Royal Spanish Football Federation, Brazil soccer, Spain, Bernabeu, Real Madrid, Spanish FA, Brazilian FA, CBF, Valencia, Guinea, The Real Madrid, Thomson Locations: Spain, Brazil, Madrid, MADRID, Barcelona, Senegal, Lisbon, Iberia, Valencia

☆ Amazon plane crash: Oldest sister praised for 'heroic role' in Colombian jungle, grandfather says
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-12 | by ( Stefano Pozzebon Ruba Alhenawi Maria Plaza Heather Chen | Stefano Pozzebon | Ruba Alhenawi | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

In clips shared online by the Colombian Defense Ministry, the children’s grandfather Narciso Mucutuy detailed how 13-year-old Lesly Jacobombaire Mucutuy cared for her younger siblings during the traumatic ordeal. “When she looked and saw that her mother was dead, she saw the foot of her youngest sister and she pulled them out,” he said. “Their learning from indigenous families and their learning of living in the jungle has saved them,” Colombian President Gustavo Petro said. ‘We have a saying ‘We never leave an element behind,’ even less the four children, we would not leave Wilson. “I believe in the jungle, which is our mother … both the jungle and nature have never betrayed me,” he said.

Persons: Wilson, Magdalena Mucutuy Valencia, Narciso Mucutuy, Mucutuy, “, ”, Cristin, Soleiny Jacobombaire, Tien Ranoque Mucutuy, farina, Gustavo Petro, Lesly, Belgian Shepherd, Pedro Arnulfo Sánchez, ‘, Manuel Ranoque, … Organizations: CNN, Colombian Defense Ministry, Forces, Colombian Locations: Belgian, Colombian, Bogota

CNN —Eating cassava flour helped save the lives of four children found alive in the Amazon jungle more than a month after their plane crashed, according to a Colombian military special forces official. The children ate “three kilograms (six pounds) of farina,” a coarse cassava flour commonly used by indigenous tribes in the Amazon region, said spokesperson Pedro Arnulfo Sánchez Suárez. The children’s mother Magdalena Mucutuy Valencia was killed in the plane crash on May 1, leaving them alone and stranded in the Amazon jungle. The children’s disappearance sparked a massive military-led search operation that saw more than one hundred Colombian special forces troops and over 70 indigenous scouts combing the deep forest. They told officials that they had found a dog – a Belgian Shepherd search dog named Wilson that belonged to special forces.

Persons: farina, Pedro Arnulfo Sánchez, ” Suárez, “, ”, Ranoque, Cristin Ranoque, What’s, Ivan Velasquez, Magdalena Mucutuy Valencia, Hernando Murcia Morales, Herman Mendoza Hernández, Belgian Shepherd, Wilson, Suárez, Gustavo Petro, ” Petro Organizations: CNN, Colombian Air Force, Colombian Defense, Colombian Locations: Colombian, Bogota, Belgian, Colombia

☆ Child plane crash survivors in "acceptable" state of health
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-10 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

BOGOTA, June 10 (Reuters) - Four Indigenous children who were missing for more than five weeks in Colombia's southern jungle, after surviving a plane crash which killed their mother, are in an "acceptable" state of health, the government said on Saturday. "In general the boy and the girls are in an acceptable state. The youngest of the children turned one while in the jungle, while her brother had his fifth birthday, he said. Clues as to the siblings' whereabouts have been reported for weeks as the search, dubbed Operation Hope, continued. Three adults, including the pilot and the children's mother, died in the crash and their bodies were found inside the plane.

Persons: Gustavo Petro, Petro, Ivan Velasquez, Fidencio Valencia, Velasquez, General Carlos Rincon, Hope, Wilson, gaunt, Manuel Ranoque, San Jose del Guaviare, Carolina Pulice, Luis Jaime Acosta, Nelson Bocanegra, Oliver Griffin, Jamie Freed, Andrea Ricci Organizations: Twitter, Cessna, Thomson Locations: BOGOTA, Caqueta province, Bogota, Araracuara, Caqueta, San Jose, Guaviare

CNN —Four young children have been found alive after more than a month wandering the Amazon where they survived like “children of the jungle,” according to Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro. Petro said the children were all together when they were found, adding they had demonstrated an example of “total survival that will be remembered in history.”“They are children of the jungle and now they are children of Colombia,” he added. The children, who appear gaunt in the photos, are being evaluated by doctors and will be taken to the town of San Jose del Guaviare. When we found the children we felt joy, we don’t know what to do, but we are grateful to God,” he said. During a press conference Friday evening, Petro said he hoped to speak with the children on Saturday.

Persons: Gustavo Petro, “, ” Petro, Petro, ”, María Fátima Valencia, “ I’m, gaunt, San Jose del Guaviare, Ivan Velasquez, Jacobombaire, Tien Ranoque Mucutuy, Cristin Ranoque, Magdalena Mucutuy Valencia, Hernando Murcia Morales, Herman Mendoza Hernández, they’d, Fidencio Valencia, Narcizo Mucutuy, Villavicencio, Lucho Acosta Organizations: CNN, Twitter, Colombian, Colombian Defense Ministry Locations: Colombia, Villavicencio, San Jose, Bogota, Colombian, ”

☆ Shocked Kipyegon adds 5,000m world record to 1500m mark in Paris
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-09 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

The 29-year-old produced a stunning performance to crush the world 5,000 mark at the Paris Diamond League on Friday, beating world record-holder Letesenbet Gidey of Ethiopia in the process. Posting on Instagram before Friday's meet at Charlety Stadium that she hoped to run a "beautiful race," Kipyegon definitely met that goal and more. "I just wanted to improve on my (personal best), the world record was not my plan. It has been an amazing week for Kipyegon, who is the first Kenyan woman to hold the 5,000 record. At the Florence Diamond League meeting last Friday Kipyegon set a world record when she ran 3:49.11 to break the 1,500 mark of 3:50.07 set by Genzebe Dibaba of Ethiopia in 2015.

Persons: Faith Kipyegon, Letesenbet, Kipyegon, Gidey, Genzebe Dibaba, Lori Ewing, Ken Ferris Organizations: Paris Diamond League, Friday's, Charlety, Kenyan, Florence Diamond League, Thomson Locations: Ethiopia, Valencia

☆ Kipyegon smashes 5,000m world record, Ingebrigtsen breaks two-mile mark
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-09 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

"I did not think about the world record. "... when I saw that it was a world record I was so surprised. I just wanted to improve on my personal best, the world record was not my plan." Earlier on Friday, Norway's Jakob Ingebrigtsen smashed the 26-year-old world mark in the two mile race. The 22-year-old ran seven minutes 54.10 seconds at Charlety Stadium, shattering Daniel Komen's mark of 7:58.61 set in the seldom-run distance in 1997.

Persons: Kipyegon, Norway's Jakob Ingebrigtsen, Daniel Komen's, Lori Ewing, Ken Ferris Organizations: Paris Diamond League, Charlety, Thomson Locations: Kipyegon, Letesenbet, Valencia

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