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Man found dead after being swept away by river current in Zambales
SAN ANTONIO, Zambales — A man who was swept away by a strong river current while crossing a river in Sta. Cruz, Zambales, was found dead, the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) said Saturday, Aug. 15. The victim was identified as Clark Aaron Domelon dela Cruz, who reportedly experienced severe cramps while crossing the river between
Millions of people in Iceland and Spain set for 'event of the century' eclipse
Millions of people gathered in Iceland and northern Spain to witness Europe’s first total solar eclipse in 27 years on Wednesday, with Spanish officials warning people to avoid areas where a heatwave has raised the risk of wildfires. Authorities were expecting up to 6 million visitors in mostly rural areas within the eclipse’s path across the north of Spain and the Balearic Islands, said Juan Cruz, Spain’s Secretary of State for Science. “I hope that tonight will see the emergence of a wonderful generation of astrophysicists,” he said. “It’s such a special moment.” The eclipse will be quickly followed by the sunset in Spain, making the event particularly alluring. Police, planes, and helicopters are on standby The uncanny sensation when day briefly turns into twilight and some animals fall quiet as the moon passes directly between Earth and the Sun was often treated as an omen in the past, a cosmic struggle or a sign of divine power. Frenchman Leyssalle Anthony, 39, prepares a telescope to view the total solar eclipse from the beach, in Arija, Spain, August 12, 2026. — Reuters Now, Spain sees it as a chance to showcase seldom-visited regions and draw tourists away from its overcrowded beach resorts, while also rolling out a massive police operation and public safety campaign to prevent them from causing wildfires. Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska told reporters 25,000 police officers had been assigned to guarantee security around the eclipse observation while nearly 100 planes and helicopters were also being deployed. He called on citizens to follow the eclipse from the hundreds of observation points set up by authorities and abide by the restrictions set up around some parks. “Let’s not forget that the wildfire risk is very high; it’s extreme due to high temperatures,” he said. Lola Guerreiro spent the night in the mountains near Arco de las Salinas in eastern Spain, home to Galactica Europe’s largest educational astronomy centre as well as the Javalambre observatory, after making the long drive from Extremadura to view the eclipse. People walk out of a portable planetarium during an eclipse watch party on the day of a total solar eclipse in Buitrago del Lozoya, Spain, August 12, 2026. — Reuters “Watching a total solar eclipse has been a dream of mine for many, many years, and I didn’t want to miss the chance to experience it, even though it meant a seven-hour journey,” she said. Sergio, a 60-year-old Italian, had made the trek in a camping van with his family to Arija in northern Spain. “I do feel a little emotional. Yes, because I know I won’t have another chance in my life to see an eclipse, a phenomenon like this,” he said. The Iberian Peninsula last saw a total solar eclipse in 1912. It is set to experience another one on August 2, 2027, and an annular eclipse in January 2028, completing the so-called “Iberian Eclipse Trio.” Eclipse fever in the land of sagas In Iceland’s capital Reykjavik, glasses to allow people to look at the phenomenon without damaging their eyes have been sold out for days as the Nordic country of roughly 400,000 people expects to welcome up to 80,000 visitors. A narrow path of totality will reach Iceland’s westernmost coast at about 5:44pm (1744 GMT), before the moon’s shadow races east. People lie down inside a portable planetarium during an eclipse watch party on the day of a total solar eclipse in Buitrago del Lozoya, Spain, August 12, 2026. — Reuters Totality will last up to 2 minutes and 13 seconds in the far west, though most cities will see shorter periods of darkness. Authorities have warned of heavy traffic and urged viewers to arrive early. Singer Bjork was due to perform a DJ set at an eclipse-themed event south of Reykjavik. US space agency Nasa plans to fly a high-altitude WB-57 aircraft from Iceland to follow the moon’s shadow, and Nasa-funded teams will launch balloons to study how the sudden darkness and cooling affect the lower atmosphere. “This is a once-in-a-lifetime experience,” said Karen Williams, 51, who was visiting from Britain. “I love the outdoors, and so I wanted to come and see the eclipse and just experience it.” Angela Cordoba reacts as she wears virtual reality goggles next to her grandchildren, Gadea, 3, and Giulia, 6, as they attend an eclipse watch party on the day of a total solar eclipse in Buitrago del Lozoya, Spain, August 12, 2026. “Although I do hear, probably in the UK where I’ve come from… they’re going to get a better view of it than us here tonight.” Skies over Iceland were overcast on Wednesday with the Icelandic Met office predicting clouds and rain for much of the path of the eclipse, adding that the best chances of breaks in the solid cover were expected in the northwest of the country. Aside from casual observers, the event also draws “eclipse chasers”, enthusiasts who crisscross the globe to be in the path of totality whenever an eclipse occurs. Gordon Telepun, a retired plastic surgeon and amateur astronomer from the US who has photographed six total eclipses, said he would watch from the island of Mallorca because Spain checked all the boxes for eclipse chasers.
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En directo: Pedro Sánchez comparece tras reunión de coordinación en Ceuta
Palacio de la Asamblea, Ceuta, viernes 31 de julio de 2026 El presidente del Gobierno, Pedro Sánchez, realiza una declaración institucional al término de la reunión de coordinación presidida junto al jefe del Ejecutivo ceutí, Juan José Vivas. También han participado el delegado del Gobierno en la Ciudad Autónoma, Miguel Ángel Pérez, y responsables de la Policía Nacional, la Guardia Civil y Cruz Roja.
Will US red tape and other infrastructure delays give China the lead in AI race?
China could win the artificial intelligence race if delays in establishing the United States’ AI infrastructure are not addressed, a congressional hearing heard on Thursday, just days before the deadline for the release of new industry guard rails. “We are in a strategic competition with China to lead the world on AI, and winning that race requires massive capital investment to build the networks that will power tomorrow’s AI applications,” said US Senator Ted Cruz, chairman of the Senate...
ABD altyapı gecikmeleri yapay zeka yarışında Çin'i öne geçirebilirM4.8 deprem — 26 km WSW of Santa Cruz, Chile
ABD Jeolojik Araştırma Kurumu (USGS) verilerine göre 26 km WSW of Santa Cruz, Chile bölgesinde büyüklüğü 4.8 olan bir deprem kaydedildi. Derinlik: 53.496 km. Veri kaynağı: U.S. Geological Survey (kamu malı / public domain).
Venezuela'da deprem müdahalesinde komuta gecikmesi ve kaosIsrael targets X users, right-wing media with $2 million ad push
The Israeli government paid a Republican Party-aligned public affairs company $9.9 million to advertise and promote content in American social media and news sites, according to a new disclosure made to the Department of Justice. The firm, Targeted Communications Global, purchased nearly $2 million in ads on the social media platform X, $40,000 in conservative media outlet Breitbart, and $7,500 in the Daily Caller. Targeted Communications’ work for Israel appears to be among the most lucrative active foreign lobbying contracts in the U.S. Driving it are prominent Republican strategists seeking to book pro-Israel voices on TV programs while overseeing ad campaigns seen by hundreds of millions of people. As part of its work for Israel, Targeted Communications oversaw a now-dormant ad campaign called “Freedom Not Terror.” Starting in October 2025, the campaign began posting clips on TikTok, Instagram, X, YouTube, and Facebook. It appears to have found the most success on YouTube, garnering more than 224 million views across all of its videos. One of the videos, titled “Religious Freedom,” claims that Iran “built sleeper cells in the U.S.” The ad, which has over 23 million views, features an interview with former Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Michael Oren, who says that “young people have been educated to believe that the most sacred thing they can do is stab a Christian in the heart.” The Freedom Not Terror accounts have not been active since December of last year. Freedom Not Terror’s most viewed post on X, a 90-second video with 1.7 million views, positions Israel as a peace-seeking nation. “America, Israel, and Arab nations agreed on a plan to bring peace to the Middle East. Hamas and radicalized Palestinians want to continue their culture of hate and reign of terror,” says the narrator. (At the time the video was posted, human rights group Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor said the Israeli army was engaged in routine violations of the ceasefire, including daily bombardment, gunfire, and destruction of homes in Gaza.) Targeted Communications’ deal with the Israeli government is being subcontracted through Havas Media, a French public relations conglomerate. Havas has hired seven subcontractors in the U.S. that have registered to work for Israel under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) in the past year. Most recently, Havas hired Daniel Rosenberg, the producer of Spike Lee’s “Inside Man,” on a $900,000 contract to produce pro-Israel media content. A spokesperson for the conservative news site The Daily Caller said their publication was not aware they were doing business with the Israeli government when they sold advertising space to representatives of Targeted Communications last October. “We had no direct transaction with either the Government of Israel or Havas Media Group. The ad buyer was listed as LAPAM and our rep was unaware of what that entity was,” The Daily Caller communications manager Conor Coutts told Responsible Statecraft. LAPAM is the Hebrew acronym for the Israeli Government Advertising Agency, which produces the ads featured in The Daily Caller, X, Breitbart, and YouTube. The Daily Caller has published a number of articles in recent weeks that are critical of Israel’s new influence campaigns. Throughout the fall of 2025, Targeted Communications also pitched news content or guests to CNN, Fox News, Newsnation, BBC, the California Post, and other mainstream news outlets, according to communications documented in the filing. The firm facilitated “TV bookings,” “media pitches,” and “PR management” with these news outlets, contacting Fox News the most (48 times), followed by CNN (22), NewsNation (13), and Newsmax (10). Targeted Communications’ ad payments in conservative media mirror some of the work of former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale, who is overseeing a $46.5 million contract with the Israeli government. Parscale has funneled $500,000 worth of ads into Salem Media Representatives, a subsidiary of Salem Media, a right-wing media conglomerate. Parscale is also running a mass texting campaign, creating websites to manipulate AI chatbot results, and integrating pro-Israel messaging into conservative media, as Responsible Statecraft previously revealed. A majority of the foreign agents on the Targeted Communications contract are listed as staff of an affiliate organized, Targeted Victory, a go-to consultancy for Republican candidates. Its current and past clients include Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Tim Scott (R-S.C.), and Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) as well as Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Both Targeted Communications and Targeted Victory are subsidiaries of Stagwell Group. Neither Targeted Communications nor Targeted Victory responded to requests for comment. A few of the registered foreign agents involved in the Targeted Communications contract are also media figures. Matthew Gorman, Chief Communications Officer at Targeted Victory, is an NBC contributor at the same time as he is working for Israel. NBC’s Meet the Press does not disclose Gorman’s work moonlighting for the Israeli government. Targeted Communications communicated with NBC about TV bookings on at least three occasions. David Sable, vice-chairman of Stagwell, wrote publicly about Israel while working on the contract. Sable penned two pieces in a blog published by the Times of Israel, which did not disclose to readers that he is a registered foreign agent of Israel. The Israeli government also made two separate payments of $500,000 and $250,000 to an unnamed “U.S.-based consulting firm” in 2025. Under FARA, any contractor or subcontractor representing a foreign government is typically identified by name to the DOJ and the public. This is because FARA requires “a degree of specificity necessary to permit meaningful public evaluation” of the actions of lobbyists on behalf of foreign government clients. So long as Targeted Communications withholds the name of this consulting firm, Americans have no way of knowing which companies are operating on behalf of Israel. Ben Freeman, the director of the Quincy Institute’s Democratizing Foreign Policy program, said that if a company is directing $750,000 to an unknown firm on behalf of a foreign government, it has to disclose who that consulting firm is. “FARA is a transparency statute, and that’s the most basic level of transparency. It’s also very odd that all the other receipts of Israeli money are disclosed except this one,” said Freeman. “It really makes you wonder what they’re trying to hide here.” Stagwell, the parent company of Targeted Communications, has engaged in plenty of other pro-Israel work. Last year, Israel hired another subsidiary of Stagwell — a Democratic-aligned firm known as SKDK — on a $600,000 deal. The scope of SKDK’s work included running a “bot-based program” to amplify pro–Israel narratives on Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn, YouTube, and other platforms. A day after the investigative outlet Sludge revealed that part of the firm’s work involved a bot program, SKDK revealed that it was cutting its contract with the Israeli government. A spokesperson from the firm told Politico that its work was “focused solely on media relations and nothing else.” Ultimately, Israel paid SKDK a total of $150,000 for its work. SKDK also runs the 10/7 Project, a public relations initiative to promote bipartisan support for Israel. A Gallup poll earlier this year showed that more Americans sympathize with Palestinians (41%) than Israelis (36%). Mark Penn — CEO of Stagwell, the parent company of Targeted Communications and SKDK — blamed misinformation for the cratering of public support for Israel in a December interview with the Jerusalem Post. “[Young people] don’t know which side is democratic. They don’t know about gay rights in Israel. They don’t know the basics,” said Penn. Penn is still optimistic about delivering for his Israeli government clients, pointing in particular to young people who don’t have set views on the issue. “You can win back a lot of that 15% that’s confused or misinformed,” he said.
İsrail'den ABD'de X ve Sağ Medya İçin 2 Milyon Dolar Reklam YatırımıM5.3 deprem — 132 km ENE of Santa Cruz das Flores, Portugal
ABD Jeolojik Araştırma Kurumu (USGS) verilerine göre 132 km ENE of Santa Cruz das Flores, Portugal bölgesinde büyüklüğü 5.3 olan bir deprem kaydedildi. Derinlik: 6.736 km. PAGER uyarı seviyesi: green. Veri kaynağı: U.S. Geological Survey (kamu malı / public domain).
Venezuela'da deprem müdahalesinde komuta gecikmesi ve kaos- Güvenlik21 Tem
Army soldier killed in Abra clash gets hero’s welcome in Kalinga
CAMP MELCHOR DELA CRUZ, Gamu, Isabela- The remains of Army Private First Class Drexler Gumayat received military honors when his flag-draped casket arrived at the 503rd Infantry Brigade headquarters in Tabuk City on Tuesday. The 34-year-old soldier belonging to the 50th Infantry Battalion was killed in an encounter with 10 armed men in Barangay Apao
State violence in Bolivia is ramping up. The US is helping.
In May and June, Bolivian police violently dispersed massive demonstrations in La Paz, detaining hundreds of protesters and injuring many more. The crackdown, capping over 50 days of protests demanding President Rodrigo Paz’s resignation, marked the sharpest escalation yet in a standoff between the government that took office late last year and the mostly Indigenous social movements that have long shaped Bolivian politics. The crisis convulsing Bolivia did not begin with the 2025 election, or with the 2019 coup to deny Evo Morales, Bolivia’s first Indigenous president, a fourth term after a disputed election. Its roots go back to at least 2016 when Morales, who came to prominence in the 1990s as the leader of the coca-growers’ union and later founder of the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) party, lost a referendum that would have removed presidential term limits. Backed by a friendly constitutional court, however, Morales ran anyway three years later and claimed a razor-thin first-round victory. The opposition, encouraged by a flawed initial report by the Organization of American States, claimed fraud. Weeks of violent unrest ensued, followed by the military’s “suggestion” that Morales resign as president, and his exile to Mexico. A repressive, right-wing interim government under Jeanine Áñez subsequently oversaw extrajudicial killings of unarmed Indigenous protesters at Sacaba and Senkata, massacres that still cast a shadow over Bolivian politics. Morales’s ouster, which was supported by the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump, was the latest turn in a centuries-old struggle between Bolivia’s Indigenous and peasant majority and its predominantly white European elite, which has controlled the country’s resources and government since the Spanish conquest. Morales’s rise in the 1990s and 2000s was the high-water mark of a decades-long push to force that elite to share power. His fall in 2019, and Áñez’s talk of restoring “Christian civilization” to government – a phrase used by U.S.-backed dictator Hugo Banzer during the Cold War – was widely understood as a restoration of the old order. Since then the pendulum has swung again, though unevenly. MAS regained the presidency in 2020 under Luis Arce, but his term ended in economic crisis, fuel shortages, and an open rupture with Morales, splitting the party’s base. Barred from the 2025 election by a court-ordered term-limit ruling, Morales urged his followers to spoil their ballots, and the election became a contest among a badly weakened left, a market-friendly Christian Democrat in Rodrigo Paz, and Jorge “Tuto” Quiroga, Banzer’s former vice-president and a right-wing hardliner. Facing that choice, much of the MAS backed Paz as the least-bad option. Since he took office, however, much of his Indigenous voter base feel, as protesters in La Paz put it, “betrayed” by the government’s inability to solve longstanding economic problems, its right-wing policies inconsistent with Paz’s campaign as a moderate, and his sidelining of his populist vice-president. In early June, Paz called on citizens to confront blockaders themselves, setting off clashes between anti-riot police and protesters. The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) has denounced the police’s excessive use of force, in some cases coordinated with right-wing vigilante groups. After seven weeks of paralyzing protests and road blockades that worsened an already ongoing economic and energy crisis, Paz declared a 90-day state of exception, granting security forces broad new powers, though the blockades had already begun to fade before the declaration. The last time a Bolivian president invoked emergency powers, in 2019, soldiers killed at least 23 people and injured over 230 with impunity, incidents the IACHR called “massacres.” Thomas Becker, the Legal and Policy Director at the University Network for Human Rights who led a successful prosecution against a former Bolivian president for human rights abuses, calls the pattern familiar and alarming: rising violent clashes, arbitrary detentions, and abuse by police alongside illegal paramilitaries, compounded by branding demonstrators as “narco-terrorists,” a term echoed by U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and other Trump officials. New U.S. Chief of Mission Erik Martini has also called for more counter-narcotics work, echoing Reagan-era policy by saying “the U.S. is worried, coca comes from cocaine.” For Becker, the atmosphere recalls the volatile months before 2019 and the killings that followed under Áñez. Violeta Tamayo was injured in May while covering the protests for the leftist news site La Izquierda Diario. Tamayo says police, without warning, “fired tear gas point-blank, aiming right at waist-height into the crowd.” She was hit at short range in the arm by what she believes was a tear gas canister, leaving a wound that exposed bone. Underlying the crackdown is the rapid militarization of Bolivia’s drug war. Earlier this month, the U.S. and Bolivia signed a $20 million agreement to train and arm Bolivian security forces, following Paz’s decision to restore cooperation with the DEA, which Morales had expelled two decades ago. “The return of the DEA in Bolivia marks the resurrection of a security paradigm that has led to gross violations of human rights, and filled prisons and cemeteries in Bolivia and across Latin America, while leaving the international drug trade largely intact,” said Guillame Long, a former Ecuadorian foreign minister and senior fellow at the Center for Economic and Policy Research. Long lamented that this approach will replace a less violent strategy “starting to show clear signs of success.” Since Paz took office, the DEA returned officially to Bolivia, with a new La Paz office announced in May. In March, Uruguayan drug kingpin Sebastián Marset was captured in Bolivia and extradited to the U.S. in a DEA-backed operation, and in April Bolivian police took part in U.S.-sponsored training run by Colombian instructors, the region’s most experienced in counterinsurgency. During the blockades, right-wing allies including Argentina’s Javier Milei and Chile’s José Antonio Kast sent what they called “humanitarian aid” to Bolivia, deliveries Bolivian and Argentine lawmakers are now investigating for allegedly including “repressive material” like tear gas. At the height of the protests, which led to 583 arrests, Hegseth described the demonstrators as “narcoterrorists” whose aim was to “overthrow democratically elected leaders.” For Becker, this evokes past U.S. interference in Bolivia that criminalized coca growing and caused the disappearances of political dissidents, the same violence that helped the MAS and Morales rise in the first place. In June, the Trump administration designated Brazil’s largest criminal organizations, which are also active in Bolivia, as narcoterrorist groups, unlocking new legal authority near the Brazilian and Paraguayan borders, where DEA activity is expected to concentrate. Across the region, U.S. operations against “narcoterrorist” cartels have already killed more than 200 civilians, through strikes on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean and Pacific and on what turned out to be an Ecuadorian dairy farm. The Bolivian government’s rhetoric mirrors this broader shift, folding protest movements, criminal organizations, and political opposition into a single, elastic category of threat, one now shaping Bolivia’s use of emergency powers, too. Even with blockades largely lifted, the government says it won’t lift the state of exception until it is “no longer needed.” Bolivia is hardly alone in this pattern of executive overreach, which spans the region’s left and right alike, from Ecuador’s Daniel Noboa to Colombia’s Gustavo Petro. Meanwhile, Morales and Paz now publicly call each other “narcos,” and Paz officials have suggested Morales’s days “are numbered.” Morales remains protected by armed loyalists in his Chapare bunker. Officials in Paz’s government and in Santa Cruz say they already have grounds to prosecute him, and Morales claims a parallel U.S. process is underway for his capture or extradition, feeding speculation he could face a fate resembling Nicolás Maduro’s. Still, he retains far more political backing than Maduro did, and would be much harder to remove without serious bloodshed. It remains to be seen how far this war on drugs, and on political dissidents, will go, and whether Bolivia’s fragile democratic institutions can withstand the pressure. But for Long, one thing is certain: “history has already shown that a return, now under Rodrigo Paz, to a militarized approach of fighting drugs while criminalizing coca-growing communities does not defeat organized crime.”
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