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Biden says that Trump was the victim of an “attemnation of assassination” and they will be extremely safe

US President Joe Biden defined the shooting attack against his Republican rival Donald Trump on Sunday as an “attemnation at assassination” and promised “high” security for the candidate and the Republican convention that begins this Monday.

In statements from the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Biden asked Americans not to speculate about the motivations of the alleged attacker, who was shot down on a roof near the campaign act in which Trump suffered a slight injury from one of the bullets that tore his right ear.

“The investigation is in the initial stages. We don’t have any information about the shooter’s motives. We know who it is. I urge everyone, please, not to speculate about the reasons and affiliations,” said the president, who promised all the necessary resources for the investigation.

“The first thing I want to do is that Trump, as former president and nominee of the Republican Party, already receives a high level of security,” Biden said.

Trump is not yet officially the candidate for the presidency of the Republican Party, which usually causes the Secret Service to increase security, although Trump as former president already had the right to protection from that executive protection body.

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Biden announced that he has asked the director of the Secret Service, Kimberly Cheatle, to review “all the security measures for the Republican National Convention,” which begins tomorrow in Milwaukee (Wisconsin) and will last until Thursday.

As a third measure, the president has requested an independent review of the events that occurred on Saturday at the rally in Butler (Pennsylvania).

Biden said that he will speak to the nation in more detail tonight from the Oval Office. The already tumultuous electoral campaign has just reached an unprecedented level of tension with this assassination attempt.

Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20 years old and from a neighboring town, fired several shots at Trump with an AR-15 rifle from a nearby roof outside the perimeter of Saturday’s event, which was attended by thousands of people.

In addition to insuring Trump, evacuated by a group of Secret Service agents, the attacker killed an assistant, who today Biden recalled that he died protecting his family, and seriously injured two others.

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The attacker was killed by Secret Service snipers, but television analysts criticize that that vulnerable point in a nearby building was not considered to prevent anyone from accessing a point with a clean shot towards the stage

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Football Fan Killed in Clashes After Colombian League Match

Fans of Cúcuta Deportivo and their traditional rivals Atlético Bucaramanga clashed outside the stadium following their local league match on Tuesday, leaving one supporter dead and several others injured.

The deceased fan was stabbed, according to a senior police official in Cúcuta who confirmed the cause of death in a video statement. Local media reported that the victim was a supporter of the visiting team, Atlético Bucaramanga.

The match ended in a 2-2 draw. Authorities had banned the entry of Atlético Bucaramanga’s organized supporters into the stadium in an effort to prevent disturbances.

Despite the restrictions, violence broke out in the surrounding areas after the game. Among the injured were three police officers, an institutional source told AFP.

The incident adds to a series of recent violent episodes linked to Colombian football. The most recent occurred in December, when supporters of Atlético Nacional and Independiente Medellín clashed in the stands and on the pitch, leaving 59 people injured.

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Missing Spanish Sailor Rescued After 11 Days Adrift in Mediterranean

The man had departed from the port of Gandía, on Spain’s eastern coast, with the intention of reaching the southern Spanish town of Guardamar del Segura, a journey of about 150 kilometers, a spokesperson for Spain’s maritime rescue service told AFP.

Search boats and aircraft were deployed on January 17, but the operation was called off on January 22 after efforts proved unsuccessful. Alerts were then issued to vessels navigating the area in case they spotted any signs of the missing sailor.

As hopes were fading, a surveillance aircraft from the European Union’s border agency Frontex spotted the sailboat on Tuesday, along with a person signaling for help, approximately 53 nautical miles northeast of Bejaia, Algeria.

A nearby vessel, the Singapore-flagged bulk carrier Thor Confidence, carried out the rescue and is expected to bring the man to an end to his ordeal when it arrives on Thursday in the southern Spanish port city of Algeciras.

Maritime rescue services shared images on social media showing a small white sailboat drifting at sea and secured alongside the much larger ship.

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It remains unclear how the sailboat ended up hundreds of kilometers off its intended route or how the man managed to survive for so long alone in open waters.

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Rubio Says U.S. Could Participate in Follow-Up Russia-Ukraine Talks

The United States could join a new round of talks this week aimed at ending Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Tuesday.

Teams from Kyiv and Moscow met last Friday and Saturday in Abu Dhabi in their first publicly acknowledged direct negotiations to discuss the peace initiative promoted by former U.S. President Donald Trump.

“They are going to hold follow-up talks again this week,” Rubio told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. “There could be U.S. participation.”

However, Rubio suggested that Washington’s role may be more limited than during last week’s discussions, which included Steve Witkoff, the president’s special envoy, and Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law.

The secretary of state indicated that progress may have already been made on security guarantees for Ukraine, one of Kyiv’s key demands in any agreement with Moscow after nearly four years of Russian invasion.

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“There is one remaining issue that everyone is familiar with, and that is the territorial claim over Donetsk,” Rubio said, referring to the eastern Ukrainian region that Russia wants Ukraine to cede.

“I know that active efforts are underway to see whether the positions of both sides on this issue can be reconciled. It remains a bridge we have not yet crossed,” he added during the hearing.

Rubio acknowledged that the territorial question would be particularly difficult for Ukraine to resolve.