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Biden talks to allies as NATO switches forces
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Biden talks to allies as NATO switches forces

WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden will consult with European leaders on Monday afternoon, as pressure mounts between Russia and NATO over Ukraine.NATO said on Monday it would move more military equipment and troops to countries on the alliance's eastern front. Russia has amassed at least 100,000 troops on its border with Ukraine, threatening that the conflict is necessary to preserve its national security."We will always respond to any deterioration in our security environment, including by strengthening our collective defense," NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg. said in a statement.Biden said last week that the United States would move more troops and equipment to eastern NATO countries if Russia continues to threaten an invasion.On Sunday, the United States ordered the families ...
Traspinedo’s shared pain for the disappearance of his neighbor Esther |  Spain
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Traspinedo’s shared pain for the disappearance of his neighbor Esther | Spain

The usually quiet Traspinedo (Valladolid, 1,100 inhabitants) has become a town that appears in the news. I wish it weren't like that, lament the neighbors in the streets, where posters showing the disappeared Esther López de la Rosa, 35, have abounded for 12 days. The last ones who saw her were some friends and there is no trace of her or her telephone signal. The Civil Guard has arrested a man for his alleged relationship with events that have devastated the spirits of a population that knows the woman and her family well.A group of reporters waits next to a residential area near the town, next to the N-122 national highway. The single-family homes are nestled among towering pine trees watered by the nearby Douro River. A perfect place to be calm, as defined by a resident, if it w...
Alfa Romeo Sprint: the story of the iconic sports compact of the 70s and 80s
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Alfa Romeo Sprint: the story of the iconic sports compact of the 70s and 80s

Alfa Romeostarted car production in southern Italy in the 1960s and 1970s, breaking out of its traditional Lombard fiefdom for the first time. Furthermore, in 1968, the Pomigliano d'Arco factory, located in the metropolitan area of ​​Naples; the plant that would end up becoming the actual factory Giambattista Vico de Stellantis. It is there that one of the first compact cars in Europe began to be manufactured: the Alfa Romeo Alfasud, a revolutionary model from which emerged in 1971 a sports version called Sprint. The Alfa Romeo Alfasud Sprint It was based on the sedan and presented a sporty design with a sharp silhouette, of great aesthetic beauty, which mixed styles and silhouettes to combine the dynamism o...
The military take power in Burkina Faso through a coup |  International
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The military take power in Burkina Faso through a coup | International

The soldiers who have staged a coup in Burkina Faso this Monday and who arrested President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré have created a military junta to lead the country called the Patriotic Movement for Safeguarding and Restoration (MPSR) led by Lieutenant Colonel Paul -Henri Sandaogo Damiba, leader of the rebels. The reason given is "the deterioration of the security situation that threatens the foundations of our nation and the manifest inability of power to unite the Burkinabe and deal with the situation," as announced on Monday through national television. . They have also ordered the suspension of the Constitution, the dissolution of the Government and Parliament, the indefinite closure of land and air borders and a night curfew.In said message, the military assured that there wer...
AI Research SuperCluster: Meta finalizes supercomputer to propel Mark Zuckerberg’s metaverse |  Technology
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AI Research SuperCluster: Meta finalizes supercomputer to propel Mark Zuckerberg’s metaverse | Technology

Artificial intelligence (AI), the technology that makes possible the most complex computer applications that we handle today, requires the processing of huge amounts of data and a lot of calculation capacity. Meta (the company formerly known as Facebook) announced this Monday that a new supercomputer, the AI ​​Research SuperCluster (RSC), will come into operation in the middle of the year, specially designed to contribute to the development of AI. From the company they emphasize that their mission will be to create more exact models for existing application systems, but also "develop the foundational technologies with which we will feed the metaverse".The metaverse is a kind of virtual world in which, according to the plans of Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, we will spend a good...
Dow falls 1,000 points as markets extend their slide into 2022
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Dow falls 1,000 points as markets extend their slide into 2022

January 24, 2022 12:04 p.m. By DAMIAN J. TROISE - AP Business Writer Aware: January 24, 2022 12:04 p.m. Updated: January 24, 2022 12:17 Lee Jin-man - staff, APA man wearing a face mask walks near a foreign exchange office in downtown Seoul, South Korea, Monday, January 24, 2022. Asian markets mostly fell on Monday after a sell-off gave Wall Street had its worst week since the start of the pandemic. in early 2020. Lee Jin-man - staff, APA woman wearing a face mask pulls a cart near a currency exchange office in downtown Seoul, South Korea, Monday, January 24, 2022. Asian markets mostly fell on Monday after a sell-of...
The US is already considering deploying thousands of soldiers in Eastern Europe
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The US is already considering deploying thousands of soldiers in Eastern Europe

The Europe that is emerging from this crisis in Ukraine is very likely to be a again fortified camp full of military bases with two military alliances, armed up to the teeth and looking sideways, just as it happened during the second half the last century. Leaving aside the restraint shown so far, the Administration of Joe Biden is discussing the possibility of sending thousands of soldiers to Eastern Europe and to the Baltic republics to shore up your security in the event of a Russian invasion of the neighboring former Soviet republic, as reported 'The New York Times'. Among its security demands, Russia demands that NATO troops withdraw from the countries that made up the Warsaw pact and who are now members ...
Hundreds of Children ‘Human Shields’ in ISIS Prison Break |  Syria
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Hundreds of Children ‘Human Shields’ in ISIS Prison Break | Syria

The fate of more than 700 detained children and teenagers has become central in the siege of a Kurdish-run prison in Syria that was overrun on Friday by jihadists accused of using children as human shields.As the siege around Ghwayran prison in the northern Kurdish-run city of Hasakah entered its fifth day, the Islamic State prisoners inside moved into a dormitory housing the children, some of whom they are only 12 years old, in an attempt to avoid an assault by children. Kurdish forces stationed outside.Leaders of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said there were multiple deaths and injuries among the child prisoners. Save the Children, which has provided support to the prisoners for the past three years, urged renewed efforts to repatriate the children, many of whom are...
Carmen Calvo and Duran Lleida coincide in the attacks on Podemos and sovereignty
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Carmen Calvo and Duran Lleida coincide in the attacks on Podemos and sovereignty

Cited in the conservator Equestrian Circle of Barcelona, ​​the former Vice President of the Government Carmen Calvo and the historic leader of Unió, Josep Antoni Duran Lleida, they have shown great political harmony when it comes to critically reviewing both United We Can -which they have compared to the extreme right of Vox-, of proposing the need for PP-PSOE agreements and of offering a vision to their optimistic judgment about the lack of future of independence claims. moderated by Joan Tapia, president of the editorial committee of EL PERIÓDICO, a newspaper that belongs to this group, Prensa Ibérica, both have partially agreed on their prognosis on sovereignty. Calvo has been very clear in contradicting th...
Positive discrimination in universities reaches the Supreme Court of the United States |  Society
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Positive discrimination in universities reaches the Supreme Court of the United States | Society

Edward Blum, founder of Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA), speaks to reporters before trial in a lawsuit charging Harvard University.BRIAN SNYDER (REUTERS)The Supreme Court of the United States has decided this Monday to accept a case that will allow it to dictate jurisprudence on whether universities can consider the ethnicity of potential students in admission programs. The case affects Harvard University and North Carolina University, accused by the organization Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) of discriminating against Asian-Americans to facilitate access to other minorities, such as Blacks or Latinos. The plaintiffs allege that, having better grades, the ethnic trick works against them, something that both educational centers deny. The overwhelming conservative majority of ...