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HOY · JUEVES 8 DE OCTUBRE

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Who is Vaguito, the dog who waits every day in front of the sea for the return of his owner, a deceased fisherman

This is the moving story of an animal that awaits its master every morning on the beaches of Punta Negra; His story went on to the big screen and is known as the “Peruvian Hachiko.”

AYER

Last minute after the death of Maricarmen, live | Feijóo asks that “interested use” not be made of Maricarmen's death

Maricarmen's lawyer: “If the eviction had been suspended, we would not be in this situation today” | The PP vetoes a minute of silence for Maricarmen in the Madrid Assembly | At least a thousand people march to Congress and light candles in his memory shouting “murderers”

Maricarmen Abascal, the 87-year-old woman whose eviction sparked a wave of protests in Spain over the housing crisis, dies

Abascal died at the Gregorio Marañón hospital in the Spanish capital, where she had been admitted after being evicted from her home on September 23.

Maricarmen changed Spain

The legacy of the hopeless woman in Madrid challenges the entire society

Maricarmen, the woman who ignited the fight against evictions in Spain, dies

The 87-year-old woman died this Wednesday at the Gregorio Marañón Hospital in Madrid, as confirmed by the Tenants' Union in a statement.

How the "strategic relationship" that Venezuela and Cuba have maintained for years has deteriorated after the capture of Maduro

Nine months after Maduro's capture, the strategic alliance forged for more than a quarter of a century between both governments shows signs of weakening.

'One in four was kidnapped or killed': How residents of an Israeli kibbutz devastated by the October 7 Hamas attacks rebuild their lives

Three years after the attack on Nir Oz, in which 47 people were killed and 76 taken hostage, some survivors have returned to live there. Memories are difficult and indelible.

Review “immoral” pensions of former officials, Sheinbaum asks the BdeM

After requesting the Bank of Mexico to reconsider the high pensions received by its former senior officials, President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo reported that they are reviewing the pension systems in state public universities because they are “very excessive.” In some cases, he said, people who receive double and others in which the workers did not contribute anything have been detected.

Editorial: France: back to the streets

Around 440 people, most of them minors, were arrested yesterday in the context of the student demonstrations in France, while some 76 have been injured since the beginning of the protests last week. Discontent among secondary and higher education students is fueled by the chronic shortage of affordable housing for students, the excess of students per classroom, cuts to higher education and what they generally denounce as student precariousness. Among the main demands of the student unions and assemblies are a substantial increase in scholarships, the construction of new accommodation, the freezing of prices in university canteens and the end of algorithmic selection systems for university admission, denounced as exclusive and elitist.

Lionel Messi's farewell LIVE vs. Benin: videos, messages and minute by minute of the match

The friendly match against Benin marks the captain's farewell, after 22 years of experience in the national team

Messi's farewell: all the celebrities who attended the Monumental for the captain's last game with the national team

Charly García, Tini Stoessel and Guillermo Coppola, among others, were present at the River stadium to watch the match that will put an end to the history of the Rosario star with the Albiceleste

ESTA SEMANA

Christa Pike is "conscious and speaking" after her botched execution in Tennessee

Christa Pike's lawyers say she regained consciousness after receiving two lethal injections last week.

What is the pneumonic plague and how it spreads, being studied in the Siberian laboratory where a worker died

The death of a worker at a Russian laboratory researching the plague has raised questions about the disease.

Puigdemont maintains the mystery about his return after the Constitutional ruling: “Today nothing is resolved between Catalonia and Spain”

The former president of the Generalitat claims “the political meaning” of his nine years on the run in Belgium and does not clarify when he will return to Spain

How militarized schools are transformed in Mexico, banned after the death of a 13-year-old girl

The death of a student in a militarized school in Mexico led the government to ban this type of institution based on military ethics. We visited one of these campuses, currently in the transition process.

The Constitutional Court orders the Supreme Court to amnesty the misappropriation of the 'procés'

With seven votes in favor and five against, the court protects former counselor Dolors Bassa and establishes the doctrine from which the escaped 'former president' benefits

The Supreme Court lifts the arrest warrant for Puigdemont, but the amnesty has not yet been applied to him

Llarena annuls the arrest warrant against the former president, Puig and Comín, but will not decide on the measure of grace until he analyzes the Constitutional ruling.

Last practice with the Albiceleste

Lionel Messi trained for the last time with the Argentine team, on the eve of his final farewell to the Albiceleste against Benin today at the Monumental stadium in Buenos Aires. The 39-year-old captain took the field with the rest of the squad at the property that bears his name in the city of Ezeiza, on the outskirts of the capital.

Editorial: Querétaro: surrender and interference

Last Saturday, Governor Mauricio Kuri and the United States ambassador to Mexico, Ronald Johnson, led the groundbreaking ceremony for the Querétaro State Interdiction Academy, a center “designed to receive specialized training from United States agencies and make it available to Mexican public security institutions,” in the words of the entity's Secretary of Citizen Security, Iován Pérez. According to an official letter sent by Kuri to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (SRE), "the interaction of local public servants and the diplomatic agent within the framework of said visit will have protocol effects and does not imply in any way the establishment of direct mechanisms of international cooperation in matters of security or the administration of justice, nor the participation or intervention of foreign agents or governments in investigation activities, prosecution of crimes or functions reserved for the Mexican State or that correspond to the Mexican authorities."

MÁS ANTIGUOS

They claim that Christa Pike survived two lethal injections during her execution in Tennessee

Witnesses to the procedure reported that the woman is still alive; The process had been stopped hours before by a court but ratified by the US Supreme Court.

A Buenos Aires highway adheres to barrier-free toll collection: TelePASE will be mandatory

The concessionaire Autopistas de Buenos Aires S.A. (Aubasa) reported that since October 1, a new toll collection system begins to operate: where it is and what to do if the car does not have TelePASE

Christa Pike survives two doses of lethal injections during her execution and is hospitalized in Tennessee, according to her lawyer

According to Pike's attorney, she was in "unnecessary agony." The 50-year-old woman had been on death row for three decades for a brutal murder.

Panic on board flight FZ1073 bound for Tel Aviv: "We have just neutralized the terrorist. We need help"

One pilot stabs the other and the passengers manage to avoid a disaster. Israel wants to intensify controls on pilots flying to the country after the “attempted jihadist attack”

Visual timeline of the attempted hijacking of the FlyDubai flight to Tel Aviv

From the first turbulence to their landing in Israel, this video reconstructs the moments of tension experienced by the passengers

What is known about the stabbing on a flight to Israel that is described as an "attempted terrorist attack"

According to authorities, the captain and first officer were injured, and a pilot was arrested.

A passenger on the flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv: “I tied the terrorist's hands with headphones”

A pilot who was on board prevented the aircraft from crashing: “He entered and straightened the trajectory,” says a passenger on the plane from Dubai.

Former Juárez customs official accused reported $187 thousand and earned 34 thousand

Rafael Buenrostro Martín, accused by the US Treasury of being linked to La Mayiza, remained in the National Customs Agency of Mexico (ANAM) until the beginning of this year. He resigned on January 9 from the Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua office, after almost seven months in office, but left a sample of his finances.

Editorial: Chihuahua: challenge to the Constitution

The Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) ordered the Congress of Chihuahua to legislate to shield state elections from foreign interference, after concluding that it failed to incorporate in its electoral reform of June 30 the grounds for nullity provided for in the federal Constitution when that type of intervention influences the results.

The US completely withdraws from Iraq after 20 years of military presence: how it leaves the country and what will happen now

The US plans to withdraw the troops it still has in Iraq on September 30, ending a military presence that began with the 2003 invasion that overthrew Saddam Hussein.

Matías Soulé was a father for the first time and left the national team concentration to welcome the baby

The footballer from Rome accompanied his wife at the birth of their son Bautista

The Government said that Claudia Cecilia López will replace Juan Carlos Pagotto in the Senate after his death in La Rioja

The libertarian currently holds the role of legislator in the province's Legislature

"They set a trap for me": the American journalist who was detained by masked men and spent 16 months in a Russian prison

Evan Gershkovich says he realized he was "a pawn in a bigger game" when he was not interrogated or tortured by Russian intelligence agents.

The keys to the housing decrees: stopping evictions and punishing vulture funds

The Government proposes a battery of measures that include bonuses for landlords, aid for tenants and 0% loans for the purchase of the first home

The PP rejects the housing decrees: “They are going to destroy the market even more”

The spokesperson for the popular parties in Congress, Ester Muñoz, calls the negotiation of the Government's partners “vaudeville”

"I fear for my life if they return me": the massive hearings in Miami that accelerate deportations without giving migrants time to defend their cases

Immigration “mega hearings” put asylum seekers under pressure while deportation orders and expulsions increase in the United States.

The Government approves protection against evictions until 2030 and the extension of rental contracts until 2028

The Executive takes the automatic renewal of rents to a second decree law, a request from the left that for now does not have a majority. The texts will be voted on Friday

What is known about the Andes-Atlantic Corridor, the ambitious project with which the US seeks to access strategic resources from Argentina (and compete with China)

According to analysts, the project shows Washington's interest in having a greater presence in Latin American countries and reducing China's space in the region.

MLB playoffs begin with wild card series

It won't be long before Major League Baseball offers some spicy postseason plots. The wild card series begins today, with four best-of-three matchups that include the Boston Red Sox traveling to clash with the New York Yankees, in a duel of eternal rivals. In the American League, the Chicago White Sox visit the Houston Astros, who qualified despite an 81-81 record.

Editorial: Ayotzinapa: progress and pending

12 years after the disappearance of the 43 Ayotzinapa normal students, the Attorney General's Office presented its first public report on the case in the current six-year term. Among the new investigation elements presented are the discovery of bone remains, official documents and a clandestine crematorium oven, among other indications, at the El Ángel funeral home, the Forensic Medical Service (Semefo) and a property in Iguala, Guerrero, which were under the control of the Guerreros Unidos criminal group.

A 48-hour front advances that will cause a sudden change in the forecast, instability, wind and storms with up to 100 mm of accumulated water: the affected areas

The process will begin on Sunday and will last until Tuesday; The heaviest rains could be recorded in sectors of Buenos Aires, Córdoba and the center of the Litoral

Something new, something used. Princesses Charlene and Alexandra of Hanover shined on the Monaco social calendar with their dresses

One, at the Opera Garnier, where the 20th anniversary of the Prince Albert II Foundation was celebrated, and the other in a highly celebrated social media post.

“Until the end, companions”: Sol returns to camp fifteen years after 15-M

The protest over Maricarmen's eviction leads to a camp in Puerta del Sol, where protesters demand that the Government approve a new housing decree

Why a new border pact between Pakistan and China angers India

A border agreement between China and Pakistan challenges India's territorial claims and deepens strategic concerns over the disputed Kashmir region.

The Alonsos do not want to be called vultures

How extraordinary that they feel more urgent to distance themselves from a name than from the fact of throwing a disabled old woman into the darkness.

Maricarmen forces a turnaround by the Government and its partners on housing

The coalition ministers assume that they must close the pact before Tuesday and Sumar even threatens with a plan in the face of growing social pressure

Trump rejects Iran's offer to reopen Strait of Hormuz in 7 days

The end of the conflict between Iran and the United States seems increasingly distant, after the American president described the latest offer presented by Tehran as "unacceptable."

European Leagues, to reform the FIFA government

Paris. The four main European leagues – the English Premier League, the Spanish League, the Italian Serie A and the German Bundesliga – yesterday called for a reform of the governance of FIFA, plunged into a crisis since Gianni Infantino's frustrated project of an opening to private investors was revealed.

Editorial: Meta and the regulation of AI

A jury in New Mexico, United States, determined that Meta misled users in that state about its privacy protections, in a case linked to the Cambridge Analytica scandal. This was a political consultancy that improperly collected personal data from millions of Facebook users for political advertising during the 2016 US elections and the Brexit referendum in the United Kingdom. Facebook knew that the consulting company bought the data in December 2015, but revealed it only in April 2018 and only because a user filed a lawsuit. The ruling establishes that comments made by the CEO of Meta (parent of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp), Mark Zuckerberg, as well as posts on the company's blog, led people to believe that they had control over the personal information they shared on the platform and that it had general policies on how it addressed hate speech or misinformation. In reality, it sold the data to third-party applications, and applied exceptions to its policies for certain users, depending on the state.

"I found out that they killed him through social networks": the double punishment suffered by those convicted in Saudi Arabia, one of the countries that executes the most people in the world

Saudi Arabia is among the three countries with the highest number of executions, which are carried out on foreigners in more than 40% of cases.