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A Guatemalan tribunal certifies election results minutes after another court suspends one party

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:01:32 GMT

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Guatemala’s electoral authorities on Wednesday certified the results of the country’s presidential election, setting conservative Sandra Torres and progressive Bernardo Arévalo up for a runoff vote. The decision came minutes after the Attorney General’s Office said a judge had suspended the legal status of Arévalo’s party.The seemingly contradictory moves fed more than two weeks of rising tensions and suspicions. There were immediate calls for Guatemalans to take to the streets in protest and demonstrators began gathering outside the Supreme Electoral Tribunal.It was not immediately clear how the situation would play out now that yet another court had intervened in Guatemala’s electoral process.Rafael Curruchiche, the special prosecutor against impunity, said in a video statement that in May 2022 a citizen reported having his signature falsely added to the signature gathering effort of Arévalo’s Seed Movement party and that the Attorney Genera...

Presidente del Consejo de Ministros de Perú defiende “integridad” de Boluarte y dice que la presidenta se allanará a investigaciones por presunto plagio

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:01:32 GMT

(CNN Español) — Alberto Otárola, presidente del Consejo de Ministros, se refirió este miércoles a una noticia que ha estado en los titulares de la prensa local durante los últimos días: la denuncia de un supuesto plagio que involucraría a la presidenta Dina Boluarte. “No se trata de un libro de la autoría de la doctora Boluarte, se trata de un texto en el que participan siete profesionales y, en este sentido, lo segundo que quiero afirmar, es la absoluta integridad y absoluta ética de la presidenta de la República “, señaló el funcionario. Otárola también afirmó que “ella se va a allanar a todas las investigaciones, en su momento dirá lo que tenga que decir”.Veinticuatro horas antes, representantes de la Fiscalía de Perú habían llegado a las instalaciones de la Biblioteca Nacional en Lima para llevarse consigo un ejemplar del libro “El reconocimiento de los derechos humanos y el derecho internacional humanitario”, texto publicado en el 2004 por la ahora...

Emergency paving project set for Berthoud Pass

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:01:32 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — High country travelers should prepare for delays starting next month when Colorado begins an emergency repaving project on Berthoud Pass.The project is funded by an extra infusion of $25 million from the state to repair roads after a difficult winter season, according to the Colorado Department of Transportation. That includes stretches of Interstate 70 and other highways around the state. Plan ahead for RTD and rideshares this weekend "The severe freeze-thaw cycle this year has caused significant damage to many of Colorado’s roadways, but in particular US 40 Berthoud Pass," CDOT said in a news release Wednesday.Berthoud Pass construction starts in AugustThe construction project is scheduled for the west side of Berthoud Pass near Winter Park, which suffered "badly deteriorating conditions since mid-winter," according to CDOT's executive director, Shoshana Lew.While the state has been making temporary fixes, "it is important that we invest in more permanent repairs...

Police investigating after car goes into canal in Opa-locka

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:01:32 GMT

Police are investigating after a car went into a canal in Opa-locka.Opa-locka Police and Miami-Dade Fire Rescue units responded to the scene of the crash in the area of Northwest 22nd Court and Burlington Street, just after 10 p.m., Wednesday.7News cameras captured first responders near the canal.According to witnesses, rescue divers have not been able to pull any occupants who were in the vehicle from the water.Police have not provided further details about the incident, as they continue to investigate.Please check back on WSVN.com and 7News for more details on this breaking story.

How to get repairman to do the job

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:01:32 GMT

She hired a man to install new blinds in her house in time for the holidays, last year. Now she can’t get him to install them or return her money. What can you do to get a contractor to do the job? Call Help Me Howard with Patrick Fraser is one option.Gloria knows what hard, hard work is.Gloria Love: “My father was a farmer, and he had a big farm. So we pick the cotton and shake the peanuts.”They say that kind of work makes you strong. It made Gloria want to leave the farm and head to the city.Gloria Love: “I worked for Memorial for 31 years, that’s where I met, Mr. Love.”The loves come from big families, and when special events roll around, the gatherings are wonderful.Gloria Love: “I enjoy them, I love having them come.”To get ready for her family last Thanksgiving, Gloria wanted to spruce up her house.Gloria Love: “One day, I just was in the bedroom and I was just like, ‘Wow, they falling apart,’ it’s time to...

Possible hit-and-run on Palmetto Expressway in SW Miami-Dade leads to NB closures near Bird Road

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:01:32 GMT

Authorities are investigating a possible hit-and-run crash along the Palmetto Expressway that has led to multiple lane closures.Florida Highway Patrol and Miami-Dade Fire Rescue units responded to the scene of the crash along the northbound lanes, just south of Bird Road, just after 9:45 p.m., Wednesday.It’s possible that the SUV involved in the wreck rolled over as a result of the impact. It remains unclear whether or not anyone was injured.Several northbound lanes are currently shut down. Officials urge drivers to avoid the area and seek alternate routes.Please check back on WSVN.com and 7News for more details on this breaking story.

Terrorism victims to Spain’s conservatives: Stop using us to score points

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:01:32 GMT

MADRID — Basque terrorist group ETA ceased operations more than a decade ago but in the lead-up to Spain’s July 23 election the group has made a surprising comeback in the rhetoric of the country’s right-wing parties.Throughout the campaign, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, leader of the center-right Popular Party, has sought to link socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez to the terrorist group by pointing out that his government has sometimes relied on parliamentary support from the Basque political party EH Bildu. Although the Spanish judiciary repeatedly has found EH Bildu is a democratic political group that is allowed to legally exist, Feijóo and other members of his party routinely equate it to ETA, which was responsible for the murder of over 850 people between 1968 and 2010.During Monday’s one-on-one debate with Sánchez, Feijóo accused the prime minister of making deals with “the political arm” of a terrorist organization. He also rejected calls to de...

Inequality — the permanent crisis

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:01:32 GMT

Lamia Kamal-Chaoui is the director of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions and Cities.Crisis has become the new normal. As the world struggles to recover from the pandemic, Russia’s war on Ukraine has plunged us into a cost-of-living crisis. Though inflation has come down from its peak, prices continue to rise and incomes are not keeping up. And while governments are rightly focused on responding to the challenge of taming inflation, there’s another, more pervasive threat that connects these crises: inequality.  Over the past three decades, the gap between the rich and poor has widened in most member countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). During the first two years of the pandemic alone, the wealth of the world’s 10 richest individuals doubled, while over 100 million people globally fell into poverty. And now, the cost-of-living crisis is disproportionately affecting...

Is Turkey now joining the EU? No, but the EU is engaging

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:01:32 GMT

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s latest round of geopolitical brinkmanship came with a new twist this week: Linking his support for Sweden’s NATO bid with Turkey’s own application to join the EU.It was an audacious move. It caught even close observers by surprise. And it has zero chance of happening any time soon.Numerous EU leaders and officials did make a careful public show of treating the Turkish leader’s request seriously, pledging to explore ways to revive the country’s moribund EU accession and to work more closely with the country in the meantime. But as a serious prospect, EU membership was discarded almost instantly. “Pure posture,” quipped one former European Commission official who worked on Turkey’s EU bid.“You cannot link the two processes,” said European Commission spokeswoman Dana Spinant. Even publicly, some of the EU’s most high-profile figures were quick to tamp down any speculation.“That’s a question that is not related to the other issue, and th...

Sorry Russia, the Baltic Sea is now NATO’s lake

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:01:32 GMT

VILNIUS — A resurgent NATO is set to tighten its grip on the Baltic Sea, complicating a vital transit route for Vladimir Putin’s navy in Russia’s backyard. This week’s alliance summit in Vilnius was Finland’s first as a NATO member. On the summit’s eve, Turkey agreed to back Sweden’s bid to join — paving the way for a strategic shift in a region Moscow once dominated. “[Sweden and Finland] make NATO much more geographically coherent. The Baltic Sea becomes a NATO lake, which is generally useful, also because of the Arctic’s increased importance,” said Ulrike Franke, a senior fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations. NATO has steadily increased its control of the Baltic Sea — a crucial maritime gateway for the Russian fleet which has bases near St. Petersburg and in the heavily militarized Kaliningrad exclave. During the Cold War, only Denmark and Germany at the far western edge of the Baltic were in the alliance. Poland joining NATO in 19...