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Kamala Harris thanks the support of the Republican figure Dick Cheney and her daughter
The US vice president and Democratic candidate for the White House, Kamala Harris, thanked this Saturday for the support given to her by former US Vice President Dick Cheney, a prominent figure of the Republican Party, and his daughter, Liz, one of the most critical voices of former President Donald Trump from the right.
“I feel honored to have his support (that of Dick and Liz Cheney),” Harris told reporters during a visit he made to a spice shop in Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania), where he is campaigning.
The US vice president added that the Cheneys’ public statement is “a brave step forward” and that it is time to turn the page on the division and unite our country.
The father and daughter duo have become the most critical figures against Trump since the Republican bloc, turning them into a target of criticism by voters and legislators on the rightmost wing of the party.
“People are tired of division and attempts to divide us as Americans,” Harris said on his visit to the Penzeys Spices store in Pittsburgh, before preparations for the presidential debate with the Republican candidate, Donald Trump, which will take place next Tuesday.
Harris focused on the debate with Trump
Harris suggested that his main objective in next week’s debate with Trump will be to communicate to voters that it is “time to turn the page on division.”
Asked if she is ready for the first presidential debate, Harris replied: “Yes, I am. Yes.”
On her visit to the store, the vice president greeted about a dozen customers, with whom she exchanged a few words and took a tour of the facility guided by one of the employees.
For his part, former President Trump (2017-2021) traveled this Saturday to the key state of Wisconsin where he planned to hold a rally focused, largely, on the economy this afternoon.
Dick Cheney confirmed this Friday that he will vote for Harris because her rival, former President Trump, “tried to steal the last elections.”
“He tried to steal the last election using lies and violence to stay in power after the voters rejected him. Power can never be trusted again,” the politician, who was number two in George W.’s Administration, said in a statement. Bush (2001-2009).
Liz Cheney supports Harris for protecting American democracy
Cheney confirms what has been advanced by his daughter, former legislator Liz Cheney, with whom he forms one of the most critical blocs against Trump within the conservative side, and becomes one of the highest-profile Republicans to defend the Democratic candidate.
As for Liz Cheney, the politician, who was a legislator in the Lower House for almost a decade, explained that her decision to support Harris is not “political” but is driven by an obligation to protect US democracy.
“Those of us who believe in democracy and in the defense of the Constitution and the survival of our republic have the duty in these elections to put our differences aside,” said Cheney, a native of the northern state of Wyoming, during a conversation in Austin (Texas).
International
Uribe requests freedom amid appeal of historic bribery conviction
Former Colombian President Álvaro Uribe on Monday requested that the Supreme Court restore his freedom while he appeals the historic 12-year house arrest sentence he received for bribery and procedural fraud.
Uribe, the most prominent figure of Colombia’s right wing, was convicted last week by a lower court for attempting to bribe paramilitary members into denying his ties to the violent anti-guerrilla squads.
Since Friday, the 73-year-old has been under house arrest at his residence in Rionegro, about 30 km from Medellín. The judge justified the measure by citing a risk of flight.
However, Uribe’s defense team rejected that argument and formally petitioned the court to immediately lift the detention order, claiming it lacks legal basis.
Uribe, a dominant force in Colombian politics for decades, is now the first former president in the country’s history to be convicted and placed under arrest, found guilty of witness tampering and obstruction of justice to prevent links to paramilitary groups.
He has repeatedly denounced the trial as politically motivated, blaming pressure from the leftist government currently in power.
His political party, Centro Democrático, has called for nationwide protests on August 7 in support of Uribe, who remains popular for his hardline stance against guerrilla groups.
Uribe has until August 13 to submit his written appeal. The case will then move to the Bogotá High Court, which has until October 16 to uphold, overturn, or dismiss the sentence. If the deadline passes without a decision, the case will be archived.
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U.S. Embassy staff restricted as gunfire erupts near compound in Port-au-Prince
The poorest country in Latin America and the Caribbean is currently engulfed in a deep political crisis and a wave of violence driven by armed groups — a situation that an international security mission led by Kenya is attempting to stabilize.
Due to the worsening security conditions, the U.S. government has suspended all official movements of embassy personnel outside the compound in Port-au-Prince, the U.S. State Department announced Monday in a security alert posted on social media platform X.
“There are intense gunfights in the Tabarre neighborhood, near the U.S. Embassy,” the alert reads, urging the public to avoid the area.
Tabarre is a municipality located near Port-au-Prince International Airport, northeast of the Haitian capital.
According to a July report by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, at least 3,141 people were killed in Haitibetween January 1 and June 30 of this year.
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Israel says 136 food aid boxes airdropped into Gaza by six nations
The Israeli military announced on Sunday that 136 boxes of food aid were airdropped into Gaza by the United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Egypt, Germany, and Belgium.
“In recent hours, six countries conducted air drops of 136 aid packages containing food for residents in the southern and northern Gaza Strip,” read the statement, which added that the operation was coordinated by COGAT, the Israeli defense body overseeing civil affairs in the occupied Palestinian territories.
The Israeli military emphasized that they will “continue working to improve the humanitarian response alongside the international community” and reiterated their stance to “refute false allegations of deliberate famine in Gaza.”
The announcement comes as UN agencies warn Gaza faces an imminent risk of famine. More than one in three residents go days without eating, and other nutrition indicators have dropped to their worst levels since the conflict began.
The agencies also noted the difficulty of “collecting reliable data in current conditions, as Gaza’s health systems —already devastated by nearly three years of conflict— are collapsing.”
Meanwhile, Gaza’s Hamas-run Health Ministry reported on Sunday that hospitals in the enclave recorded six deaths from hunger and malnutrition on Saturday, all of them adults.
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