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However, after receiving a diploma and medal at the event, Gutierrez hit out at Mayor Raul Pena before leaving the awards on the floor. After the video went viral, Gutierrez received public praise and a crowdfunding campaign was organised to provide support. "It wasn't my intention for the video to go viral, and I don't need that much money," Gutierrez told Reuters on Wednesday. Gutierrez's bronze was Peru's first medal in canoeing at the Pan Am Games. The country won a total of 32 medals in Chile, including 10 gold, six silvers and 16 bronze medals.
Persons: Peru's Eriberto Gutierrez Robles, Ivan Alvarado, Canoeist Eriberto Gutierrez, Gutierrez, Mayor Raul Pena, " Gutierrez, Peru's, Angelica Medina, Peter Rutherford Organizations: Pan Am, Games, Mayor, Facebook, Reuters, Pan Am Games, Thomson Locations: Los Andes, Chile, Peru, Santiago, Abancay, Mexico City
“Namely, long-standing and well recognized fundamental rights of freedom of speech, expression, due process, and parental rights. Two advocacy groups and an attorney who works with sexual assault victims sued the state and Idaho Attorney General Raul Labrador over the law earlier this year. They also argued that the law infringes on the Fourth Amendment right to travel between states, as well as the right to travel within Idaho. “The state can, and Idaho does, criminalize certain conduct occurring within its own borders such as abortion, kidnapping, and human trafficking. The prosecutors did not invoke the so-called “abortion trafficking” law in that case.
Persons: Grasham, Raul Labrador, Lourdes Matsumoto, , wasn't Organizations: Debora, Fund, Indigenous Idaho Alliance, Prosecutors Locations: U.S, Idaho, Nampa, Northwest
CNN —Pablo Escobar’s notorious “cocaine hippos” are facing a cull, according to a statement from Colombia’s minister of environment and sustainable development Thursday. After Escobar’s death in 1993, authorities relocated most of the other animals in the collection, but not the hippos – because they were too difficult to transport. The descendants of drug kingpin Pablo Escobar's hippos present an environmental threat. Raul Arboleda/AFP/Getty ImagesThis new phase to control the hippo population involves three strategies: sterilization, relocation and “ethical euthanasia,” it added. In April, a hippo descended from Escobar’s collection died after being hit by a car.
Persons: CNN — Pablo Escobar’s, Pablo Escobar's, Raul Arboleda, Susana Muhamad, ” Muhamad Organizations: CNN, Locations: AFP, , India, Philippines, Mexico
Some landowners had put up concertina wire and other barriers to keep people from floating or wading in the river. The counts listed in the complaint include depriving the public of access to the Pecos River and public nuisance. In that case, the court said the constitution and pre-statehood law established a right for the public to fish, boat and engage in other forms of recreation in public water. In its 2022 opinion, the court addressed whether the right to recreational access and fishing in public water also allowed the public the right to touch privately owned land below those waters. While finding that walking and wading on the privately owned beds beneath public water was reasonably necessary for fishing or recreational activities, the court also stressed that the public "may neither trespass on privately owned land to access public water, nor trespass on privately owned land from public water.”
Persons: Raúl Torrez, ” Torrez, Erik Briones, John, , Briones, Torrez Organizations: New, Adobe, of New, New Mexico, Coalition, Colorado Supreme Locations: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M, Pecos, New Mexico, Santa Fe, of New Mexico, Chama, Colorado
"The truth is that I work with the car and it's like looking for water in the desert," said 38-year-old Cabify driver Raul Paretto. "It is distressing because you don't know on a day-to-day basis what can happen; we are living one day at a time." EXPORT HALT THREATOil executives cited planned halts at local refineries, which provide 80% of domestic supply, and the country's scarce foreign currency reserves that have held up imports. Argentina's government has fixed a local oil price at $56 per barrel, far below the international price around $86 to try to calm local inflation of nearly 140%. loadingA second industry source, also declining to be named, also said that the issue was not output, but issues in refining the crude oil and the hurdles to bringing in imports.
Persons: Sergio Massa, Javier Milei, Raul Paretto, Leonardo Villa, Jorge Chemes, Massa, Vaca Muerta, Eliana Raszewski, Claudia Martini, Maximilian Heath, Adam Jourdan, Barbara Lewis, Jonathan Oatis Organizations: Argentine Rural Confederations, Reuters, Thomson Locations: BUENOS AIRES, Argentine, Peronist, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Vaca
On Thursday, Vinicius Funes, a 26-year-old migrant from Honduras, went in search of a bed. He had spent two nights waiting in a chair at New York City’s official arrival center for migrants at the Roosevelt Hotel in Midtown Manhattan. But it turned out to be a “reticketing” office, where the city buys migrants a one-way passage out of town. There were no beds there either, though, just a big waiting room. Mr. Funes spent the night on the floor.
Persons: Vinicius Funes, Funes, Roosevelt Organizations: New York, Roosevelt Locations: Honduras, New, Midtown Manhattan
ACAPULCO, Mexico, Oct 27 (Reuters) - Looting ravaged the Mexican city of Acapulco after the iconic beach resort was hammered this week by Hurricane Otis, a record-breaking storm that killed at least 27 people and left thousands of residents struggling to get food and water. [1/5]People walk among rubble in the aftermath of Hurricane Otis, in Acapulco, Mexico, October 27, 2023. 'WE WERE LUCKY'Mexican authorities said Otis was the most powerful storm ever to strike Mexico's Pacific coast. To evacuate tourists, an air bridge between Acapulco and Mexico City was being set up on Friday after authorities got the city's battered airport back up and running. Lopez Obrador urged insurance companies to speed up payouts.
Persons: Hurricane Otis, Otis, everything's, Rodolfo Villagomez, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, Lopez Obrador, Raul Busto Ramirez, Letitia Murphy, Neil Marshall, Murphy, Quetzalli, we're, Enki, Lopez, Pope Francis, Joe Biden, America Movil, Alexandre Meneghini, Jose Cortes, Diego Ore, Kylie Madry, Laura Gottesdiener, Natalia Siniawski, Dave Graham, Chizu Nomiyama, Bill Berkrot, Sandra Maler, Raju Gopalakrishnan Organizations: Reuters, REUTERS, Central America, LUCKY, Otis, America, Thomson Locations: ACAPULCO, Mexico, Acapulco, Guerrero, Acapulco's, Hurricane, British, State, Mexican, Mexico City, Monterrey, Gdansk
The cost to Israel's economy of its war with Hamas militants will be unlike anything it has experienced in decades. "This is not a hit for contractors or industrialists alone," said Raul Sarugo, president of the Israel Builders' Association. Israel was blindsided on Oct. 7 by Hamas gunmen from Gaza who rampaged through border towns in the deadliest attack on civilians in its history. The conflict has also halted the movement of thousands of Palestinian labourers from Gaza to Israel and curtailed the flow from the occupied West Bank. The Economy Ministry created a war room and put out a call for help.
Persons: Raul Sarugo, Israel, Netanel Shraga, Barak Klein, ThetaRay, Erel Margalit, Dror Bin, We've, Bin, Leo Leiderman, Amir Yaron, Yaron, Steven Scheer, Ari Rabinovich, Toby Chopra Organizations: Hamas, Israel Builders ' Association, West Bank, Columbia, HIGH, TECH, Factories, Israel Innovation Authority, Ministry, Bank Hapoalim, Israeli Finance Ministry, Reuters, of Israel, Thomson Locations: Israel, Gaza, Israel's, Iran, Lebanese
They also said Deutsche Bank's (DBKGn.DE) similar $75 million agreement with Epstein's accusers did not contain the offending language. Lawyers for Epstein's accusers did not immediately respond to similar requests. He ordered JPMorgan and Epstein's accusers to address the states' objection by Nov. 6. Epstein died in August 2019 in a Manhattan jail cell while awaiting trial for sex trafficking. The case is Doe 1 v JPMorgan Chase & Co, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, No.
Persons: Mike Segar, JPMorgan Chase's, Jeffrey Epstein's, Epstein, Raul Torrez, Jed Rakoff, Jonathan Stempel, Lisa Shumaker Organizations: JPMorgan Chase, Co, REUTERS, JPMorgan, D.C, Deutsche, New, of, U.S, U.S ., JPMorgan Chase & Co, Court, Southern District of, Thomson Locations: New York, U.S, Manhattan, Washington, New Mexico, Arizona , California , Connecticut, Delaware, of Columbia, Hawaii , Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota , Mississippi , New York , Oregon , Pennsylvania, Tennessee , Utah, Vermont, U.S . Virgin Islands, York, Southern District, Southern District of New York
CNN —A father and several of his family members were convicted of charges in a terrorism and kidnapping case in which his 3-year-old son was found dead on a New Mexico compound, prosecutors said Friday. A federal jury convicted four members of the family Tuesday after their 2018 arrest following a raid at the rural New Mexico compound, the US Attorney’s Office for the District of New Mexico said in a news release Friday. Officers were searching the compound for 3-year-old Abdul-Ghani Wahhaj, who had been abducted by his father, Siraj Ibn Wahhaj, from his wife in Georgia, authorities said. Morton was also found guilty of conspiracy to commit kidnapping resulting in death and kidnapping resulting in death, according to the jury sheets. The four convicted defendants each face up to life in prison, while Leveille faces up to 17 years in prison, prosecutors said.
Persons: Abdul, Ghani Wahhaj, Siraj Ibn Wahhaj, Lucas Morton, Morton, Wahhaj, Siraj Ibn Wahhaj –, Jany Leveille, , Abdul Ghani, Jesus Christ, Leveille, , Ryan J, Villa, Subhanah Wahhaj, Raul Bujanda Organizations: CNN, US, Office, District, FBI, Prosecutors Locations: New Mexico, Georgia, United States
PLD Space/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsMADRID, Oct 20 (Reuters) - Spanish rocket company PLD Space plans a first orbital launch from French Guiana in the first quarter of 2026, after it carried out the first fully private European rocket launch earlier this month, it said on Friday. PLD will use the data gathered with the 30 million euro ($32 million) suborbital test to develop the larger Miura-5, a full orbital launcher. So far, they have identified 1,000 elements for improvement to develop Miura-5, it said. PLD Space said it expects to sign the first binding agreements with clients next year. Europe's efforts to develop capabilities to send small satellites into space are in focus after a failed orbital rocket launch by Virgin Orbit from Britain in January.
Persons: Miura, Raul Torres, Raul Verdu, Emma Pinedo, Inti Landauro, Hugh Lawson Organizations: El, REUTERS, Rights, Spanish, Miura, Virgin Orbit, Boeing, Thomson Locations: Huelva, Spain, Rights MADRID, French Guiana, Guiana, Madrid, Britain
Category 4 Hurricane Norma churns towards Mexican Pacific coast
  + stars: | 2023-10-19 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +1 min
Companies Estado de Baja California FollowMEXICO CITY, Oct 19 (Reuters) - Hurricane Norma strengthened into a Category 4 hurricane on Thursday as it neared peak strength over the Pacific, though it was forecast to weaken before reaching the coast of popular tourist resorts on Mexico's Baja California peninsula. "The hurricane is likely near its peak intensity, although some small fluctuations cannot be ruled out today," the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) said, with Norma still some 245 miles (394 km) away from the port city Manzanillo. The forecaster said Norma would likely begin weakening from Friday through the weekend, and approach land from late Friday. Baja California is home to the Los Cabos beach resorts. In the Atlantic, the NHC forecast tropical storm conditions across parts of the Lesser Antilles from Friday as Tropical Storm Tammy heads west at 15 mph (24 km), nearing the Leeward Islands "at or near hurricane intensity".
Persons: Norma, Tammy, Sarah Morland, Raul Cortes, Bernadette Baum, Alistair Bell Organizations: Estado, U.S, National Hurricane Center, NHC, Saturday, Virgin Islands, Thomson Locations: California, MEXICO, Baja California, Manzanillo, Lesser, Virgin, Puerto Rico, Guadeloupe
REUTERS/Matthew Childs/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsMEXICO CITY, Oct 18 (Reuters) - Two Chinese suppliers for Tesla will invest nearly a billion dollars in the northern Mexican state of Nuevo Leon where the automaker is planning a new factory, Nuevo Leon Governor Samuel Garcia said during a trip to Shanghai on Wednesday. The planned investments include $700 million from Ningbo Tuopu Group (601689.SS) and $260 million from Hesai Technology , a Nuevo Leon representative said. Ningbo Tuopu Group develops shock absorption products and other auto parts, while Hesai Technology makes lidar light sensors for applications like autonomous vehicles and robots. Ningbo is expected to create some 10,000 jobs, and Hesai, up to 4,000, Nuevo Leon officials said. Tesla has not yet begun construction in Nuevo Leon, and its timeline for starting production is unclear.
Persons: Matthew Childs, Samuel Garcia, Tesla, Garcia, Daina Beth Solomon, Raul Cortes, Kylie Madry, Stephen Eisenhammer Organizations: REUTERS, MEXICO CITY, Tesla, Nuevo Leon, Ningbo Tuopu Group, Hesai Technology, Ningbo Tuopu, Hesai, Nuevo, Thomson Locations: London, Britain, MEXICO, Mexican, Nuevo Leon, Nuevo, Shanghai, Ningbo, Austin , Texas, U.S, Mexico, Austin
New York City’s homeless system is sheltering record numbers of people week after week, as an influx of migrants accelerates to its highest rate since the crisis began. The city is moving more and more migrants out of its vast network of emergency shelters by combining pressure tactics with help in finding permanent housing. But the jump in arrivals — to more than 500 people per day in recent weeks — has outpaced those efforts. On Monday, the mayor announced a 60-day limit on how long a family can stay at any one shelter. A similar limit was imposed on single adults over the summer, and later reduced to 30 days.
Persons: Eric Adams Locations: York
REUTERS/Jose... Acquire Licensing Rights Read moreMEXICO CITY, Oct 17 (Reuters) - More migrants crossed into Mexico last month, led by a sharp increase from Venezuela but also significant numbers from Guatemala and Honduras, Mexico's top diplomat told lawmakers on Tuesday. In testimony to Mexican senators, Foreign Minister Alicia Barcena said that in the month of September alone, 60,000 Venezuelan migrants, 35,000 Guatemalan migrants and 27,000 Honduran migrants arrived in Mexico. The September data comes ahead of Sunday's migration summit in the southern Mexican town of Palenque hosted by President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador where regional leaders will discuss rising U.S.-bound migration in Latin America. After U.S. authorities authorized in May more legal pathways to enter the United States, the numbers of migrants crossing Mexican territory fell abruptly. Barcena also noted that some 1.13 million migrants have so far this year reached Mexico's southern border with Guatemala, and that 1.75 million had reached the U.S.-Mexico border.
Persons: Cheila Gonzalez, Alicia Barcena, Andres Manuel Lopez, Gustavo Petro, Venezuela's Nicolas Maduro, Barcena, Raul Cortes, Isabel Woodford, Sandra Maler Organizations: REUTERS, MEXICO CITY, U.S, Thomson Locations: Guatemala, United States, Ciudad Juarez, Villa Ahumada, Chihuahua, Mexico, Jose, MEXICO, Venezuela, Honduras, Mexico's, Palenque, America
The Oscars are enlisting a group of live television veterans to oversee its 96th show in March. Hamilton, meanwhile, has three Academy Award telecasts on his resume already, including the 82nd Oscars hosted by Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin and the 86th Oscars hosted by Ellen DeGeneres, in addition to 14 Super Bowl halftime shows and the London Olympics opening. The 96th Oscars are scheduled for Sunday, March 10, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. “Having worked with Raj, Katy and Hamish on many special and memorable projects over the years, we have full confidence in their vision for the 96th Oscars,” Walt Disney Television executive Rob Mills said. Like many awards shows, the Oscars have suffered decreased ratings in recent years, and not just because of the pandemic editions.
Persons: Raj Kapoor, Katy Mullan, Hamish Hamilton, Kapoor, “ Adele, , Mullan, Steve Martin, Alec Baldwin, Ellen DeGeneres, Bill Kramer, Janet Yang, , Raj, Katy, Hamish, Rob Mills, ” Mills, Lisa Love, Raúl Àvila, they’ve, Jimmy Kimmel, Will Smith, Chris Rock Organizations: London, Super, London Olympics, , Academy, Hollywood, Dolby Theatre, ” Walt Disney Television, Union Locations: Hamilton, Los Angeles
Nye, who was appointed by Republican former President Donald Trump, had in August issued a temporary order blocking the law. Idaho Attorney General Raul Labrador called the ruling a "significant win" and said the law was "designed to protect students." Idaho's bathroom bill allows students to sue schools for $5,000 if they encounter a transgender student in a bathroom in violation of the law. The new law says schools must provide a "reasonable accommodation" for transgender students unwilling or unable to use their assigned bathroom. Federal courts have been divided on school policies requiring transgender students to use the restroom corresponding to their birth sex, with the Richmond, Virginia-based 4th U.S.
Persons: Demetrius Freeman, David Nye, Nye, Donald Trump, Peter Renn, Raul Labrador, Rebecca Roe, Brad Little, Brendan Pierson, Alexia Garamfalvi, Matthew Lewis, David Gregorio Our Organizations: REUTERS, District, Republican, Lambda, Circuit, Appeals, Thomson Locations: Washington, New York, U.S, Idaho, Richmond , Virginia, Virginia, Atlanta, Florida
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — An Idaho law restricting which bathrooms transgender students can use in schools will go into effect while a court challenge plays out. It prohibits transgender students from using public school restrooms and locker rooms that align with their gender identity. It also allows other students to sue their school if they encounter a student using a bathroom that doesn’t align with their sex assigned at birth. About a quarter of Idaho schools allow transgender students to use restrooms and locker rooms that align with their gender identity, Nye said in a previous decision. The group also pushed a new Idaho law criminalizing gender-affirming health care for minors.
Persons: David Nye, Nye, ” Nye, , , Thursday's, Peter Renn, Debbie Critchfield, Raúl, Republican Sen, Ben Adams Organizations: Chief U.S, District, The Idaho Statesman, Lambda, Lambda Legal, Idaho State, of Education, Boise School District’s, , Republican, Policy, GOP, U.S, Circuit, Appeals Locations: BOISE, Idaho, An Idaho, Raúl Labrador, Labrador, Nampa
Students nationally are holding people in power accountable, said Jackie Alexander, incoming president of the College Media Association and director of student media at the University of Alabama-Birmingham. With growing reports of student journalists being doxxed, ostracized on campus and otherwise harassed, the College Media Association is looking into ways to help them, Alexander said. “I've never seen a better front page,” veteran editor and Columbia Journalism School professor Bill Grueskin said on social media. “So many people think of student journalists as students first,” Martin said. “But in a lot of ways student journalists are just journalists.
Persons: Stanford, “ I've, , , , Theo Baker, Marc Tessier, Lavigne, George Polk, Polk, Pat Fitzgerald, Jackie Alexander, ” Alexander, ” Charles Whitaker, ” Whitaker, Tessier, Levigne, it's, He's, ” Baker, he's, Peter Baker, Susan Glasser, Alexander, Martin, lowkey, Joe Biden, Bill Grueskin, ” Martin, Raul Reis, ” Reis, ” There's, Whitaker, there's, aren't Organizations: Northwestern University's, Stanford University, Columbia Daily Spectator, Harvard Crimson, Harvard, Foreign, Initiative, College Media Association, University of Alabama, Medill, Daily Northwestern, Stanford, The New York Times, The, University of North, Columbia Journalism, UNC, Trump, The University of Texas, Austin Locations: New York, Birmingham, University of North Carolina, North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Manhattan, Morningside Heights, West Harlem, Texas
[1/9] Men board up the storefront of a business as Hurricane Lidia barrels towards Mexico's Pacific coast, in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico October 10, 2023. REUTERS/Christian Ruano Acquire Licensing RightsMEXICO CITY, Oct 10 (Reuters) - Hurricane Lidia reached Category 4 strength on Tuesday afternoon as it barreled towards Mexico's Pacific coast, where major beach and tourist resorts were bracing for significant downpours, likely flooding as well as imminent hurricane-force winds. The U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) warned that Hurricane Lidia was of "extremely dangerous" strength and could strengthen further before making landfall on Tuesday night. The hurricane was about 110 miles (177 km) southwest of major beach destination Puerto Vallarta, the Miami-based NHC reported in its latest bulletin at 5:30 p.m. The Puerto Vallarta airport announced on social media it was closing from 4 p.m. (2200 GMT) until 8 a.m. on Wednesday.
Persons: Lidia, Christian Ruano, Max, Raul Cortes Fernandez, Brendan O'Boyle, Isabel Woodford, Stephen Eisenhammer, Stephen Coates, Sandra Maler Organizations: REUTERS, Christian, MEXICO CITY, U.S, National Hurricane Center, NHC, Tropical, Thomson Locations: Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, MEXICO, Miami, Puerto, Nayarit, Sinaloa, Jalisco, Guerrero
Medical instruments are sterilized following a surgical abortion at Trust Women clinic in Oklahoma City, U.S., December 6, 2021. Circuit Court of Appeals last month allowed the state to enforce its ban, reversing a lower court order that had partially blocked it. Idaho in 2020 passed a so-called "trigger" law that would go into effect and ban abortion if the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the landmark decision that had established a right to abortion nationwide. The law includes a narrow exception for abortions that are necessary to prevent the mother's deathThe Supreme Court overturned Roe in June 2022. It also said that any conflict had been eliminated since Hendrix's decision because the state legislature and state Supreme Court had since clarified the law.
Persons: Evelyn Hockstein, Biden, Donald Trump, Raul Labrador, Roe, Wade, Joe Biden's, James Wesley Hendrix, Brendan Pierson, Alexia Garamfalvi, Jonathan Oatis Organizations: Trust Women, REUTERS, Circuit, Republican, Democratic, U.S . Department of Justice, U.S, Supreme, Idaho, Labor, District, Thomson Locations: Oklahoma City , U.S, San Francisco, Idaho, U.S, New York
REUTERS/Agustin Marcarian Acquire Licensing RightsBUENOS AIRES, Oct 7 (Reuters) - The hand-written entries in the two dozen notebooks - date, haircut, price - chronicle decades of a Buenos Aires barber's working life. A price of 15 pesos equaled $15 with the currency peg. In her first term the haircut price rose 117%, speeding to 200% in her second term. Haircut prices rose 133% in his four years. The earliest health insurance bill he has was 798 pesos in 2007, since when it has hit 142,636 pesos, outstripping his haircut prices.
Persons: Barber Ruben Galante, Luciano Munoz, Agustin Marcarian, Ruben Galante, Alberto Fernandez, it's, Galante, Javier Milei, he's, Carlos Menem, Raul Alfonsin, Fernando de la Rua, de la Rua, Nestor Kirchner, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, Nestor's, Mauricio Macri, That's, Milei, Patricia Bullrich, Sergio Massa, Luciano Muñoz, Diego Maradona, Lionel Messi, Adam Jourdan, Eliana Raszewski, Prinz, Claudia Parsons Organizations: REUTERS, Reuters, Reuters Graphics Reuters Graphics, Currency, Reuters Graphics, Monetary Fund, Thomson Locations: Buenos Aires, Argentina, BUENOS AIRES, Belgrano, United States
WASHINGTON, Oct 5 (Reuters) - President Joe Biden's administration said on Thursday it will add sections to a border wall to stave off record migrant crossings from Mexico, carrying forward a signature policy of former President Donald Trump. Trump made building border barriers a central tenet of his first campaign for president with the rally chant, "Build That Wall." Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said in a statement that there was "no new Administration policy with respect to border walls. From day one, this Administration has made clear that a border wall is not the answer." In another major enforcement action announced on Thursday, Biden administration officials said they would be resuming deportation flights to Venezuela, which had been suspended because of chilly relations between the two countries.
Persons: Joe Biden's, Donald Trump, Biden, Trump, Alejandro Mayorkas, Mayorkas, Will Joe Biden, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, Brian Snyder, Laiken, Eric Adams, Mica Rosenberg, Nandita Bose, Doina Chiacu, Jason Lange, Jeff Mason, Raúl Cortés, Dave Graham, Kristina Cooke, Heather Timmons, Howard Goller, Grant McCool Organizations: Trump, Republican Party, Democrat, Homeland, U.S, Reuters, Federal, Biden's Department of Homeland Security, Border Patrol, Texas National Guard, REUTERS, Center for Biological Diversity, Biden, U.S . Department of Justice, Democratic, New, New York City, Institute, Thomson Locations: Mexico, America, Starr County , Texas, Rio Grande, United States, Rio, Eagle Pass , Texas, U.S, Starr, Texas, Southwest, Venezuela, Colombia, Panama, Darien, New York, Chicago, Ecuador, Washington, Mexico City, San Francisco
Spain's PLD Space counts down to test rocket launch from Europe
  + stars: | 2023-10-06 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +3 min
PLD Space/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsMADRID, Oct 6 (Reuters) - Spanish startup PLD Space will attempt a test launch of its reusable Miura-1 rocket early on Saturday, spearheading a new generation of 'microlaunchers' after an aborted attempt in June. The rocket is due to lift off on its suborbital test mission at 2 a.m Spanish time on Saturday (0000 GMT) from Huelva in southwest Spain, marking what its designers say will be Europe's first fully private rocket launch. "The day has arrived," Raul Torres, PLD Space chief executive and co-founder of PLD Space, wrote on social media platform X, previously known as Twitter. Europe's efforts to develop capabilities to send small satellites into space are in focus after a failed orbital rocket launch by Virgin Orbit from Britain in January. In July, the last launch of Europe's largest rocket, the premier Ariane 5 space launcher, took place at the European spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.
Persons: Raul Torres, Space's Miura, Italy's Vega, Vega, Emma Pinedo, Tim Hepher, Tim Hepther, Aislinn Laing, Edmund Blair Organizations: REUTERS, Rights, Spanish, Space, Twitter, Virgin Orbit, Boeing, Ariane, European Space Agency, Thomson Locations: El, Huelva, Spain, Rights MADRID, Britain, Europe, Russia, Scotland, Sweden, Germany, Kourou, French Guiana
MADRID (Reuters) - Spanish startup PLD Space will attempt a test launch of its reusable Miura-1 rocket early on Saturday, spearheading a new generation of 'microlaunchers' after an aborted attempt in June. "The day has arrived," Raul Torres, PLD Space chief executive and co-founder of PLD Space, wrote on social media platform X, previously known as Twitter. Europe's efforts to develop capabilities to send small satellites into space are in focus after a failed orbital rocket launch by Virgin Orbit from Britain in January. PLD Space's Miura-1 rocket, named after a breed of fighting bulls, is as tall as a three-storey building and has a 100-kg (220-pound) cargo capacity. Competitors lining up to join the race to launch small payloads include companies in Scotland, Sweden and Germany.
Persons: Raul Torres, Space's Miura, Italy's Vega, Vega, Emma Pinedo, Tim Hepher, Tim Hepther, Aislinn Laing, Edmund Blair Organizations: Spanish, Space, Twitter, Virgin Orbit, Boeing, Ariane, European Space Agency Locations: MADRID, Huelva, Spain, Britain, Europe, Russia, Scotland, Sweden, Germany, Kourou, French Guiana
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