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Biden almost ties with Trump in the presidential elections, according to a survey by The New York Times
The president of the United States. The United States, Joe Biden, and former President Donald Trump (2017-2021) are now practically tied in their race for the presidential elections, when Trump has a 46% advantage against 45% of the president, according to a poll published this Saturday by The New York Times and Siena.
This is an improvement for Biden compared to the end of February, when Trump had a more solid advantage of 48% compared to 43% of the Democrat.
The tight results of this poll are one more sign that the next presidential elections in November could be very close, as happened in the last two elections.
To take this survey, which has a margin of error of about 3.3 percentage points, 1,059 registered U.S. voters were interviewed between April 7 and 11.
The survey did not ask about possible other candidates, but approximately 5% voluntarily offered the names of other candidates for whom they planned to vote, such as Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the Democrat turned independent and nephew of former President John F. Kennedy.
The results of this survey show that Biden’s progress is due to his better position among traditional Democratic voters, since he is gaining a higher proportion of voters who supported him in 2020 than a month ago.
For his part, Trump had already secured the support of many more of his previous voters compared to the president, but that margin has been reduced.
Trump would now win the vote of 94% of his 2020 followers and Biden 89% of his supporters four years ago.
However, the majority of voters think that Biden, 81, is too old and that Trump, 77, has committed serious federal crimes.
The survey comes just before Trump’s historic criminal trial on charges of forgery of commercial documents to help cover up a love affair with a porn actress that will begin on Monday.
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Netanyahu: Israel is ‘changing the face of the Middle East’ amid Iran strikes
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared on Monday that Israel is “changing the face of the Middle East” with its unprecedented attack on Iran, now in the fourth day of escalating military tensions between the two countries.
Netanyahu made these remarks during a televised press conference, just hours after an airstrike targeted the Iranian state television building in Tehran, forcing a brief interruption of its broadcast.
At the time of the attack, cameras captured a state TV presenter, who had been criticizing Israel’s offensive, hastily leaving the studio amid thick dust and falling debris from the ceiling, according to videos circulated by Iranian media.
The channel resumed live programming minutes later, while Tehran condemned the strike as a “war crime.” Netanyahu stated that Iranians are now seeing that “the regime is much weaker” than previously thought, highlighting that since Friday, Israel has systematically eliminated Iran’s military leadership. “We take them out one by one,” he said.
Killing the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, “would end the conflict” between Israel and Iran, Netanyahu told ABC News.
Meanwhile, U.S. President Donald Trump reportedly opposed an Israeli plan to assassinate Khamenei, a senior U.S. official revealed on Sunday.
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Israeli strike targets Iran’s state news agency amid escalating conflict
The fourth day of armed conflict between Israel and Iran has been marked by an Israeli attack on Iran’s official news agency, IRNA, which oversees a pair of television channels controlled by the Shiite theocracy and forms part of the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) media apparatus.
The bombing occurred during a live broadcast of the channels. Iranian local media report that several employees present at the complex have died. In a video released by IRNA itself, presenter Sahar Emami is seen having to leave the studio as the bombing takes place.
Both Iran and Israel have issued warnings for their citizens in Tehran and Tel Aviv to evacuate certain areas. Israel ordered an immediate evacuation of Tehran’s District 3, where most foreign diplomats reside. The National Library of Iran is also located in this neighborhood. Meanwhile, Iran mirrored its systemic rival by advising residents of the ultra-Orthodox Bnei Brak district in Tel Aviv to prepare for further attacks.
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China shows at the UN its “condemnation” of Israel for the “violation of Iran’s sovereignty”
The Chinese ambassador to the United Nations, Fu Cong, showed the “condemnation” of his country against the “violation of the sovereignty, security and territorial integrity of Iran” after the air attack launched by Israel against multiple targets in that country, the official newspaper Diario del Pueblo reports this Saturday.
That media echoes Fu’s speech to the UN Security Council on Friday, in which he demanded that Israel “immediately stop all its military actions.”
“China (…) opposes the expansion of conflicts, and is deeply concerned about the serious consequences that may arise from Israel’s actions. The intensification of regional tensions does not interest any of the parties involved,” said the Chinese emissary.
Beijing called on Tel Aviv and Tehran to “resolve their disputes through political and diplomatic means, and maintain peace and stability at the regional level jointly.”
In Fu’s view, the Israeli attack will have a “negative impact” on the negotiations on Iran’s nuclear program: “China has always been committed to the peaceful resolution of the Iranian nuclear issue through dialogue and consultations, and opposes the use of force, illegal unilateral sanctions and armed attacks on peaceful nuclear facilities.”
This Friday, China had already expressed its willingness to “play a constructive role” to curb the escalation of tensions and facilitate conciliation, in line with its traditional position of active neutrality in the region’s conflicts.
The Israeli attack, which according to Tehran caused dozens of deaths, including senior military commanders and at least six nuclear scientists, targeted key facilities such as the uranium enrichment plant in Natanz. Numerous civilian casualties were also reported.
Israel justified the offensive by claiming that the Iranian regime is secretly developing a program to manufacture nuclear weapons.
For his part, Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, promised a “severe response” and assured that the attack would reveal the “evil nature” of Israel.
UN Secretary-General António Guterres also expressed concern about the bombing, at a time when Iran and the US The United States is holding talks about the Iranian nuclear program.
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