International
Sheinbaum launches presidential campaign with border tour amidst US-Mexico tension
Claudia Sheinbaum, the presidential candidate for Mexico’s ruling party, will embark on her first campaign tour this Saturday along Mexico’s northern border amidst escalating migratory tensions with the United States.
Sheinbaum has chosen Ciudad Juárez, bordering the US city of El Paso, Texas, as her first stop outside of Mexico City, mirroring current President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s campaign strategy in 2018.
The candidate will hold a rally on Saturday at 4:00 PM local time (23:00 GMT) at the Benito Juárez monument in the border city, the same venue where López Obrador launched his campaign six years ago.
This visit holds significance as just on Thursday, US presidential candidates Donald Trump and Joe Biden, the incumbent, were at the Texas-Mexico border pledging to tighten border security and control migration.
Ciudad Juárez has become the epicenter of Mexico’s current migration crisis.
Moreover, in the past two years, it has emerged as a major employment hub within the phenomenon of nearshoring.
It’s also considered one of the top 10 most violent cities in the country and the city with the highest number of femicides, the killing of women for gender-related reasons.
Brighite Granados, leader of the ruling National Regeneration Movement (Morena) in the state of Chihuahua, told the media that it was Sheinbaum herself who chose Juárez as the location for her first campaign event.
“This is very important because, if you remember, on April 10, 2018, Andrés Manuel also began his campaign in Ciudad Juárez,” she said.
Movement Approval
The candidate already visited the same venue on July 22 during the conclusion of her pre-campaign, where she gathered thousands of supporters.
“Juárez is a bastion of Morena for the country, due to the high approval that our movement has in Ciudad Juárez, we are very happy because Dr. Sheinbaum decided that this would be the first state in her campaign,” Granados said.
Before the rally, at 1:00 PM local time (20:00 GMT), the candidate will meet with a group of entrepreneurs at a local restaurant, as mentioned by some invitees.
Presidential campaigns leading up to the June 2 elections officially commence this Friday, when Morena’s candidate has scheduled an event in the Zócalo of Mexico City, the largest public square in the country.
“For Chihuahua, Dr. Sheinbaum’s visit means a lot, as after leading a massive event in the Zócalo of Mexico City, where she will formally kick off her campaign, she will travel to Ciudad Juárez, where our homeland begins,” stated Carlos Castillo, Morena’s national delegate in Chihuahua.
International
Germany says football bodies alone will decide on possible World Cup boycott
The German Football Association (DFB) and FIFA will decide with full “autonomy” whether to boycott the upcoming World Cup, which will be hosted mainly by the United States in six months, following threats made by former U.S. president Donald Trump, the German government told AFP on Tuesday.
Trump has threatened to seize Greenland and impose higher tariffs on European countries that oppose the plan, raising political tensions between the United States and Europe.
“This assessment therefore lies with the relevant federations, in this case the DFB and FIFA. The federal government will respect that decision,” Sports State Secretary Christiane Schenderlein said in a statement emailed to AFP.
AFP had asked the German government about the possibility of a boycott of the World Cup to be jointly hosted by Canada, the United States and Mexico from June 11 to July 19.
“The federal government respects the autonomy of sport. Decisions regarding participation in major sporting events or possible boycotts fall exclusively within the responsibility of the relevant sports federations, not the political sphere,” said Schenderlein, a member of the conservative CDU, the party of Chancellor Friedrich Merz.
International
Daily Mail publisher insists reports relied on legitimate sources amid privacy trial
Two British tabloids accused of phone hacking and other forms of “unlawful information gathering” against Prince Harry and six other individuals, including singer Elton John, insisted on Tuesday that their reporting relied on legitimate sources.
Associated Newspapers Ltd (ANL), the publisher of the Daily Mail and The Mail on Sunday, sought to rebut allegations of privacy violations through illegal methods on the second day of trial at London’s High Court, following a lawsuit filed by the seven claimants.
Prince Harry, 41, who attended court hearings on both Monday and Tuesday, could be called to testify starting Wednesday in a trial expected to last up to nine weeks.
Lawyers for the claimants said the alleged illegal activities took place between 1993 and 2011, with some incidents reportedly extending as late as 2018. They argue that the tabloids hired private investigators to intercept phone calls and obtain confidential information, including detailed phone records, medical histories, and bank statements.
However, Anthony White, counsel for ANL, told the court that the trial would show the company presents “a compelling account of a pattern of lawful source acquisition” for its articles.
White added that the claims would require the court to believe that journalists and staff at the tabloids had engaged in widespread dishonesty, which the company strongly denies.
International
Death toll from southern Spain train crash rises to 40
The death toll from the train accident that occurred on Sunday in southern Spain has risen to 40, according to investigative sources cited by EFE on Monday afternoon.
Since early Monday, search operations have focused on the damaged carriages of a Renfe train bound for Huelva, which collided with the last derailed cars of an Iryo train traveling from Málaga to Madrid after it left the tracks.
The crash has also left more than 150 people injured. Of these, 41 remain hospitalized, including 12 in intensive care units at hospitals across the Andalusia region.
More than 220 Civil Guard officers are working at the site, searching the railway line and surrounding areas for key evidence to help identify victims and determine the causes of the accident.
The tragedy has revived memories of the deadliest railway disasters in Europe in recent decades. In Spain, the most severe occurred on July 24, 2013, when an Alvia train derailed near Santiago de Compostela, killing 80 people and injuring 130 others.
At the European level, the worst rail disaster took place on June 3, 1998, in Eschede, northern Germany, when a high-speed train struck a bridge pillar at 200 kilometers per hour, resulting in 98 deaths and 120 injuries.
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