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October 23, 2018

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Latin American Herald Tribune: Macron Steps Up Emergency Aid in Flood-Affected Areas with $91.7 Million

Latin American Herald Tribune: Saudi Arabia: World’s 3rd Largest Weapons Buyer with US as Its Top Supplier

Latin American Herald Tribune: US General Wounded in Attack in Southern Afghanistan, NATO Confirms

Latin American Herald Tribune: Former Croatian PM Sentenced to 2 Years Prison for Corruption Charges

Latin American Herald Tribune: Rights Group Decries Situation of Indigenous People in Peru

Latin American Herald Tribune: Gonzalez Gets Hat Trick as Pumas Tie Tigres 3-3 in Liga MX

Latin American Herald Tribune: Mourinho Says He Is Happy at Man U, Dismisses Rumors of Return to Madrid

Latin American Herald Tribune: Scorsese Recalls His Italian Idols in Rome

Latin American Herald Tribune: Linde-Praxair Merger Approved by US Federal Trade Commission

Latin American Herald Tribune: Severe German Drought Forces Steel Plant to Cut Back Production

Latin American Herald Tribune: Three Climbers Die on Mexico’s Pico de Orizaba Volcano

Latin American Herald Tribune: Arsenal Comes from Behind to Beat Leicester City 3-1

Latin American Herald Tribune: Koepka Grabs Top Spot in World Golf Ranking

Latin American Herald Tribune: EU Allots $8.3 Million to Fight Ebola Outbreak in DR of Congo

Latin American Herald Tribune: Real Madrid Holds Practice Ahead of Champions League Clash vs. Viktoria Plzen

Latin American Herald Tribune: Women Have Arrived in Film Industry, Mexican Director Villarreal Says

Latin American Herald Tribune: Trump: I’m Not Satisfied with Riyadh’s Explanation of Khashoggi’s Death

Latin American Herald Tribune: Bodies of Colombian Troops Killed in Chopper Crash Returned to Families

Latin American Herald Tribune: Man United Prepares for Champions League Clash with Juventus

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GLORIETA PASS, N.M. — A makeshift memorial to Hispanic Civil War Union soldiers in an isolated part northern New Mexico is a typical representation of sites linked to U.S.

Latin American Herald Tribune: Macron Steps Up Emergency Aid in Flood-Affected Areas with $91.7 Million

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Macron Steps Up Emergency Aid in Flood-Affected Areas with $91.7 Million PARIS – French President Emmanuel Macron announced on Monday that his government would allocate 80 million euros ($91.7 million) for the municipalities affected by the deadly floods that recently devastated the country’s southwest.Macron visited the Department of Aude – which was heavily affected by flash floods and heavy rainfall that started on the night of Oct.

Latin American Herald Tribune: Saudi Arabia: World’s 3rd Largest Weapons Buyer with US as Its Top Supplier

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Saudi Arabia: World’s 3rd Largest Weapons Buyer with US as Its Top Supplier COPENHAGEN – Saudi Arabia is the world’s third-biggest purchaser of weapons, two-thirds of which are supplied by the United States according to an annual arms trade report published on Monday by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.The institute is an independent international entity established in 1966 that is devoted to the research of global conflicts, armaments, arms control and disarmament, whose conclusions are published in its “Yearbook 2018: Armaments, Disarmament and International Security.”According to SIPRI’s report on the global weapons trade covering the last five-year period, 61 percent of Saudi weapon imports were shipped from the US, 23 percent came from the United Kingdom and 3.6 percent originated from France, with Spain in fourth place and a 2.4 percent share.Other countries that also sold weapons to Saudi Arabia (on a smaller scale) during this five year period included: Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Canada, Turkey or Sweden, with a trading volume of around one percent.Between 2013-2017, Saudi Arabia became the world’s second largest arms importer, right behind India, representing a 10 percent share of the international arms sales during that period.Saudi Arabia purchased 78 combat aircraft, 72 helicopters, 328 tanks and around 4,000 sundry armed vehicles.According to the SIPRI 2018 report, Saudi Arabia with a population of 33 million, had the world’s third highest defense budget, only surpassed by the US that, with 316 million inhabitants, spent nine times more and China with 1,380 million citizens, spent three times more.In 2017, Saudi Arabia earmarked $69.4 billion (60.25 billion euros) equivalent to 4 percent of the world’s defense expenditure and 10 percent of the kingdom’s Gross National Product.This figure includes wages, weapons and equipment purchases, pensions, maintenance and administrative expenses.

Latin American Herald Tribune: US General Wounded in Attack in Southern Afghanistan, NATO Confirms

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US General Wounded in Attack in Southern Afghanistan, NATO Confirms KABUL – A United States general was wounded in a recent Taliban attack against a provincial governor’s complex in southern Afghanistan in which several senior Afghan officials were killed, NATO’s Resolute Support Mission confirmed on Monday.US forces in Afghanistan had said on Oct.

Latin American Herald Tribune: Former Croatian PM Sentenced to 2 Years Prison for Corruption Charges

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Former Croatian PM Sentenced to 2 Years Prison for Corruption Charges ZAGREB – A former Croatian prime minister was on Monday sentenced to two and half years in prison on account of receiving illegal income from an Austrian bank in 1994.Ivo Sanader, who was prime minister of Croatia between 2003-2009, received an illegal payment of 3.6 million kunas ($560,000) from an Austrian bank, Hypo Alpe Adria Bank, which was dismantled in 2014.The judges of the Zagreb Court said on Monday that Sanader would have to return the funds to the Croatian treasury.The illegal payment came from a loan the bank awarded the government to put towards purchasing buildings for international diplomatic activities, of which Sanader got 5 percent.The former PM’s defense said they would appeal, stating Sanader had already served half the sentence.The prosecutors said they would also appeal due to what they considered to be a lax ruling.Sanader, 65, has been embroiled in several corruption scandals, including the embezzlement of around 11 million euros involving the Croatian and Hungarian petrol companies (Ina and Mol respectively), but the trial was suspended.In 2014, Sanader was sentenced to 9 years prison for the appropriation of 10 million euros, however, the sentence was annulled based on procedural errors and his retrial started in 2016.In 2017, Sanader was sentenced to four and half years prison in relation to the embezzlement of funds in 2009 for the purchase of a state building for the Agricultural Ministry, a sentence yet to be confirmed by the upper courts.

Latin American Herald Tribune: Rights Group Decries Situation of Indigenous People in Peru

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Rights Group Decries Situation of Indigenous People in Peru LIMA – River pollution in the Amazon rainforest and education gaps affecting the some 55 indigenous communities in Peru are a few of the problems denounced in a report presented on Monday by the National Human Rights Coordination (CNDDHH).The document is to be submitted to the International Labor Organization (ILO), a UN agency that monitors compliance of signatory governments with Convention 169, a document codifying the rights of indigenous peoples.“We want to submit this alternative report on Peru’s compliance with Convention 169 to the ILO’s Committee of Experts in Geneva ,” Luis Hallazi, head of the CNDDHH bureau for indigenous people, told EFE, adding that he hopes to get the organization to demand that the country meet the criteria in a hearing in November.The report analyzes an assertion made by the third indigenous community census – which the organization believes to have been incorrectly carried out last year – that as many as 25 percent of Peruvians identify as members of an indigenous people.The report also denounces several cases of pollution of rivers and various other water sources in the Peruvian Amazonia, including an oil spill in 2016 in the Chiriaco region, which greatly affected the health of dozens of Awajun communities.The CNDDHH also decried the government’s poor job at reducing education and health gaps, especially in the case of indigenous women, of whom the organization said only 31 percent reach secondary school.Hallazi said that the implementation of Convention 169, which took effect more than 20 years ago in Peru, is “very deficient.”

Latin American Herald Tribune: Gonzalez Gets Hat Trick as Pumas Tie Tigres 3-3 in Liga MX

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Gonzalez Gets Hat Trick as Pumas Tie Tigres 3-3 in Liga MX MEXICO CITY – Paraguayan Carlos Gonzalez had a hat trick for the Pumas UNAM, who played to a 3-3 draw with the Tigres UANL over the weekend in the Mexican league’s 2018 Apertura tournament.Gonzalez scored goals in the 7th, 45th and 62nd minutes of Sunday’s match for the Pumas.The Tigres responded with goals from Chilean Eduardo Vargas in the 23rd minute, Mexican Rafael Duran in the 32nd minute and French striker Andre Pierre Gignac in the 47th minute.The Pumas are in fourth place in the tournament, with 23 points, while the Tigres are sitting in seventh place, with 19 points.America is in the top spot in the Apertura tournament standings, with 27 points, just one point ahead of second-place Cruz Azul.Santos Laguna is in third place, only two points back of the leader.

Latin American Herald Tribune: Mourinho Says He Is Happy at Man U, Dismisses Rumors of Return to Madrid

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Mourinho Says He Is Happy at Man U, Dismisses Rumors of Return to Madrid LONDON – Manchester United coach Jose Mourinho said on Monday that he was delighted working for the Premier League side, dismissing reports of a possible move to Spain to replace embattled Real Madrid coach Julen Lopetegui.Mourinho led Real Madrid from 2010-13, when the Portuguese coach won a La Liga, a Copa del Rey and a Spanish Super Cup.Asked about a possible return to Spain, the coach said: “No, I’m happy here.

Latin American Herald Tribune: Scorsese Recalls His Italian Idols in Rome

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Scorsese Recalls His Italian Idols in Rome ROME – Martin Scorsese paid tribute on Monday to the Italian masters who inspired him to become a filmmaker as he accepted a career achievement award from the Rome Film Festival.The 75-year-old Scorsese received the prize from his friend Paolo Taviani, who described the filmmaker as one of a small number of directors “who, with their films, help us to understand who we are.”Scorsese praised a number of Italian directors who made an impact on his career during his formative years, including the 1950 and ‘60s Italian Neorealism icons.The filmmaker, whose Sicilian grandparents emigrated to New York in 1910, acknowledged that the stories he heard about Italy as a child enriched his ideas about cinema.Scorsese cited Pier Paolo Pasolini’s 1961 film “Accatone,” which portrays life in the modern Roman slums – as one of the films that greatly impressed him, as it was the first time he saw characters resembling the people he grew up with.“I grew up in a tough neighborhood in New York and the first time I saw people I grew up with on film was ‘On the Waterfront’ by Elia Kazanm” Scorsese said.

Latin American Herald Tribune: Linde-Praxair Merger Approved by US Federal Trade Commission

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Linde-Praxair Merger Approved by US Federal Trade Commission NEW YORK – Linde AG said on Monday that the US Federal Trade Commission has conditionally approved its merger with Praxair Inc., removing the last hurdle to the companies’ yearslong pursuit of a tie-up.The FTC found that the deal in its original form would have been detrimental to competition and ruled that both companies must sell-off assets across nine separate markets.Linde said it will divest all of its US bulk supply business as well as certain carbon-monoxide, hydrogen and steam methane-reforming businesses.LyondellBasell Industries NV will buy Linde’s La Porte, Texas plant, while Celanese Corp.

Latin American Herald Tribune: Severe German Drought Forces Steel Plant to Cut Back Production

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Severe German Drought Forces Steel Plant to Cut Back Production BERLIN – The low water levels of the Rhine river in central West Germany have slowed down the production of a major smelter because it no longer receives sufficient raw materials.The German smelter, ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe, had to significantly reduce its production output due to insufficient materials linked to extremely low water levels in the local river it uses for manufacturing.The water level of the Rhine river in Duisburg, western Germany, on Monday recorded a new record-low level of 155 centimeters (61 inches).The lowest recorded level prior to this was 174 centimeters in 2003, the epa-efe photojournalist reported.Germany’s meteorological service DWD warned last week the country could be facing the worst drought since 1884, the year in which it started collecting weather-related data.According to the DWD, roughly 70 percent of Germany was experiencing an extreme drought following a particularly long summer with extraordinarily high temperatures and virtually no rain.The worst droughts registered were in 1921, 1976 and 1991, and according to the DWD, if the lack of rain persists, 2018 is set to be one of the driest years yet.

Latin American Herald Tribune: Three Climbers Die on Mexico’s Pico de Orizaba Volcano

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Three Climbers Die on Mexico’s Pico de Orizaba Volcano PUEBLA, Mexico – Three climbers were killed and a fourth was injured in separate accidents Monday while scaling the Pico de Orizaba Volcano, Mexico’s highest mountain, emergency management officials said.Two of the climbers, all of whom were Mexicans, died on the mountain’s south face and a third fell to his death on the north face, the Puebla state emergency management office said.The rescue and recovery operation was hampered by bad weather on the upper reaches of Pico de Orizaba, which is being buffeted by strong winds and snow showers.The first accident occurred when a climber was killed and another injured while scaling the volcano’s north face.Rescue workers from Ciudad Serdan, including Hilario Aguilar, climbed the mountain in an effort to reach the climbers.The victims were at an altitude of approximately 5,600 meters (18,360 feet) on Pico de Orizaba, also known as Citlaltepetl, and fell about 400 meters (1,311 feet).One of the climbers, identified as 25-year-old Jesus Miranda, was taken to a hospital in Orizaba, a city in Veracruz state, and is being treated for multiple fractures.An unidentified 63-year-old climber was killed and rescue workers have not been able to recover his body due to bad weather.Rescue teams had to stop working because of the strong winds and snow showers on the mountain.Two climbers, part of a group of 15 mountaineers, were killed in the second accident.Officials said later that four members of the group had become lost on the volcano.Emergency management officials in Tlachichuca, a city in Puebla state, and the Mexican Alpine Group organized the rescue and recovery operation.

Latin American Herald Tribune: Arsenal Comes from Behind to Beat Leicester City 3-1

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Arsenal Comes from Behind to Beat Leicester City 3-1 LONDON – Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang had a brace on Monday as Arsenal recovered from an own goal to beat Leicester City 3-1 and take possession of fourth place in the Premier League.The Gunners have now won 10 straight matches in all competitions for the first time since 2007.Coach Unai Emery’s men last lost on Aug.

Latin American Herald Tribune: Koepka Grabs Top Spot in World Golf Ranking

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Koepka Grabs Top Spot in World Golf Ranking NEW YORK – United States golfer Brooks Koepka claimed the No.

Latin American Herald Tribune: EU Allots $8.3 Million to Fight Ebola Outbreak in DR of Congo

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EU Allots $8.3 Million to Fight Ebola Outbreak in DR of Congo BRUSSELS – The European Union has allocated an additional 7.2 million euros ($8.3 million) to intensify the fight against the Ebola virus which was on the rise in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the European Commission said Monday.The EU had already invested 5.63 million euros in the struggle to control the Ebola outbreak in the DRC, bringing the total EU response package to 12.83 million euros.“We need to win the fight against the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo which has claimed, so far, over 150 lives,” the Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Management, Christos Stylianides, said in a statement.

Latin American Herald Tribune: Real Madrid Holds Practice Ahead of Champions League Clash vs. Viktoria Plzen

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Real Madrid Holds Practice Ahead of Champions League Clash vs. Viktoria Plzen MADRID – Real Madrid held a group training session Monday, a day before their UEFA Champions League away match against Czech club Viktoria Plzen.Madrid has struggled in La Liga this season under new head coach Julen Lopetegui, and media rumors have begun to swirl about his possible firing after Sunday’s 2-1 loss to Levante, which pushed Madrid’s winless skid to five games with three consecutive defeats.Lopetegui started the practice watching from afar and letting his assistants lead the warm-ups, but an unusual group drill got the team in a lighthearted mood and the laughter eventually spread to the coach as well, as observed by an EFE journalist on the sidelines.The Portuguese coach had all his first team players available, with the exception of injured right back Dani Carvajal, who did recovery work in the club’s facilities for the muscle issue he picked up on Oct.

Latin American Herald Tribune: Women Have Arrived in Film Industry, Mexican Director Villarreal Says

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Women Have Arrived in Film Industry, Mexican Director Villarreal Says LOS ANGELES – With the upcoming Oct.

Latin American Herald Tribune: Trump: I’m Not Satisfied with Riyadh’s Explanation of Khashoggi’s Death

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Trump: I’m Not Satisfied with Riyadh’s Explanation of Khashoggi’s Death WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump said on Monday that he is “not satisfied” with the explanations given by the Saudi government regarding the death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in that country’s consulate in Istanbul.“I am not satisfied with what I’ve heard,” Trump told reporters at the White House before departing for Texas, where he was scheduled to participate in a campaign event with Republican Sen.

Latin American Herald Tribune: Bodies of Colombian Troops Killed in Chopper Crash Returned to Families

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Bodies of Colombian Troops Killed in Chopper Crash Returned to Families BOGOTA – Authorities transferred on Monday to their hometowns the bodies of the four Colombian soldiers who died last week in a helicopter crash during a counter-narcotics operation in the southwestern province of Cauca.The coffins were covered with Colombian flags at the Guillermo Leon Valencia airport in Popayan, the capital of Cauca province, before being loaded aboard aircraft.A group of soldiers paid tribute to the dead and the ceremony was presided over by the respective commanders of the Special Counter-Narcotics Brigade, Gen.

Latin American Herald Tribune: Man United Prepares for Champions League Clash with Juventus

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Man United Prepares for Champions League Clash with Juventus MANCHESTER, England – Manchester United held a training session on Monday, a day before hosting Juventus in the Champions League group stage.English defender Luke Shaw, midfielders Paul Pogba of France and Ander Herrera of Spain, as well as Spain goalkeeper David de Gea took part in the practice led by head coach Jose Mourinho.On Tuesday, the Red Devils are to face off against Juve and their new star Cristiano Ronaldo, who scored 118 goals during his six years with United and will be looking to score again at Old Trafford.Since his departure in 2009, Cristiano only returned to Old Trafford on one occasion in March 2013, when he scored the winning goal in Real Madrid’s 2-1 victory that sent them to the Champions League quarterfinals.In a further twist, Cristiano was at the time playing under Mourinho, who coached Madrid from 2010 to 2013.After two matches, Manchester United is currently second in Champions League Group H with four points, two points behind Juventus.

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