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150 empresas israelíes líderes se declaran en huelga mientras el controvertido proyecto de ley se somete a votación

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:58:46 GMT

(CNN) — Un grupo de 150 empresas israelíes líderes se declararon en huelga este lunes para protestar contra los planes del gobierno de aprobar el primer elemento del programa de reforma judicial más tarde este día.El Foro Empresarial de Israel pidió al gobierno que “detenga la controvertida legislación unilateral hasta que se lleven a cabo más negociaciones y se alcance un mayor consenso entre las partes”.El grupo incluye centros comerciales, supermercados, agentes inmobiliarios y firmas de inversión.La huelga se suma a las protestas que ya comenzaron en Jerusalén y en otros lugares de Israel en un día de calor sofocante, con manifestantes sentados y entrelazados cerca de la Knesset, el parlamento de Israel.El Parlamento de Israel inicia una gigantesca sesión de reforma judicial con Netanyahu en el hospitalEl gobierno de Benjamin Netanyahu está en camino de aprobar un proyecto de ley este lunes que despojaría a la Corte Suprema del poder de bloquear las decisiones gubernamenta...

Italy 1, Argentina 0

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:58:46 GMT

Argentina00—0Italy01—1First Half_None.Second Half_1, Italy, Girelli, (Boattin), 87th minute.Goalies_Argentina, Vanina Correa, Lara Esponda, Abigail Chaves; Italy, Francesca Durante, Laura Giuliani, Rachele Baldi.Yellow Cards_Larroquette, Argentina, 12th; Caruso, Italy, 25th; Mayorga, Argentina, 68th; Bonsegundo, Argentina, 76th; Bonansea, Italy, 85th; Stabile, Argentina, 90th+6.Referee_Melissa Paola Borjas Pastrana. Assistant Referees_Shirley Susana Perello Lopez, Sandra Ramirez, Tatiana Guzman. 4th Official_Ivana Martincic.A_30,889.___Source

From Napoléon to Macron: How France learned to love Big Brother

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:58:46 GMT

PARIS — Liberté. Egalité. But mostly: sécurité. It all started with Napoléon Bonaparte. Over two centuries, France cobbled together a surveillance apparatus capable of intercepting private communications; keeping traffic and localization data for up to a year; storing people’s fingerprints; and monitoring most of the territory with cameras.This system, which has faced pushback from digital rights organizations and United Nations experts, will get its spotlight moment at the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics. In July next year, France will deploy large-scale, real-time, algorithm-supported video surveillance cameras — a first in Europe. (Not included in the plan: facial recognition.) Last month, the French parliament approved a controversial government plan to allow investigators to track suspected criminals in real-time via access to their devices’ geolocation, camera and microphone. Paris also lobbied in Brussels to be allowed to spy on reporters in the name of national security...

Police respond to rollover crash in Roslindale

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:58:46 GMT

Boston police responded to a rollover crash in Roslindale that left a vehicle on its roof. The car flipped over near Hyde Park Avenue and Canterbury Street early Monday morning and several vehicles in the area were also damaged.No additional information was immediately available.This is a developing news story; stay with 7NEWS on-air and online for the latest details.

The Heat is On!

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:58:46 GMT

Coming off of a beautiful weekend, our overall quiet pattern will roll on but it’s about to get hot! Let’s start off with the *mostly* quiet pattern… unfortunately I can’t say the next two days will be absolutely dry like yesterday was, but rain chances will remain low for both today (Monday) and Tuesday. We’ll bubble up a few storms each day, but it’s only a 20-30% chance so many of us will stay dry. It’s probably more likely you’ll see a shower or storm on Tuesday than today.The bigger story this week is about the heat! Temperatures were warm over the weekend and we only climb from there. Temperatures will head to the mid to upper 80s today (low 80s on the Cape) but it will be tolerable outside because the humidity will stay relatively low.Humidity will climb the next few days along with the temperatures. I don’t think it’ll get as bad as it was earlier this month and even the end of June with multiple days with dew point...

Lucas: Targeting Trump makes him stronger

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:58:46 GMT

Donald Trump ought to report his latest pending indictment as an in-kind campaign contribution.An in-kind contribution is when a thing of value is given or loaned to influence a federal election.Giving a storefront for headquarters to a candidate would be an in-kind contribution, for instance. It is a thing of value.Sometimes it is better than cash.The latest thing of “value” granted Trump is the overwhelming amount of media attention he is getting related to the letter he received from the Justice Department last Sunday.Trump is probably better known around the world than Joe Biden.The letter informed Trump that he is a target of the department’s investigation into efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, an election that Trump maintains was “rigged.”Such a letter is an indication that Democrat headhunter Jack Smith, the special counsel, will seek to indict Trump any day now.The charges could include   conspiracy and obstruction of an official proceeding, ...

China urges Japan not to disrupt chip industry after technology curbs take effect

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:58:46 GMT

BEIJING (AP) — China’s government appealed to Japan on Monday not to disrupt the semiconductor industry after curbs on exports of Japanese chip-making technology took effect, adding to technology restrictions Washington and its allies have imposed on China on security grounds.The Japanese restrictions that took effect Sunday limit Chinese access to tools for etching microscopically small circuits on advanced chips for smartphones, artificial intelligence and other applications. The Netherlands also joined the United States in limiting access to chipmaking tools that Washington says could be used to develop weapons.“We are deeply dissatisfied and regret the act,” said a foreign ministry spokesperson, Mao Ning. She urged Japan to “prevent relevant measures from interfering with the normal semiconductor industry cooperation between the two countries.”The ruling Communist Party has invested billions of dollars in building Chinese chip foundries but needs Western and Japanese technology ...

15 people were killed after a boat capsized off Indonesia’s Sulawesi island. 33 others were rescued

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:58:46 GMT

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — An overloaded passenger boat capsized off Indonesia’s Sulawesi island, killing 15 people, rescuers said Monday. Authorities said that the 33 other passengers survived. The vessel was traveling from Lanto village in Buton Central regency in Southeast Sulawesi province to nearby Lagili village when it capsized just after midnight on Monday, local search and rescue agency head Muhammad Arafah said.The wooden boat was designed to carry 20 people.A search and rescue team initially found 15 bodies and rescued six people, and had continued their search for the others. But the operation was later called off when officials determined that all on board had been accounted for.“There were 27 people who survived, but had not previously been reported, because they went straight home,” local search and rescue agency head Muhammad Arafah said in a statement.Three inflatable boats, two fishing boats and six divers were deployed while the search was underway.Thousands of res...

Oui, oui: Jill Biden is in Paris to mark the US return to the UN’s educational and scientific agency

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:58:46 GMT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Jill Biden has represented her country at the Olympics in Tokyo, a king’s coronation in London and a royal wedding in Jordan. She gets another chance to put her ambassadorial skills to work this week when the United States formally rejoins a United Nations agency devoted to education, science and culture around the globe.Biden arrived in Paris early Monday, accompanied by her daughter, Ashley Biden, after flying overnight from Washington to join other VIPs and speak at a ceremony Tuesday at the headquarters of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. The American flag will be raised to mark the U.S. return to UNESCO membership after a five-year absence.UNESCO aims to foster global collaboration in education, science and culture. It also designates World Heritage sites, deeming them worthy of eternal preservation.The agency on Sunday condemned Russia’s attack on a cathedral in Odesa and other heritage sites in Ukraine in recent day...

Stock market today: World shares mixed as investors watch for Fed rate hike

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:58:46 GMT

BANGKOK (AP) — World shares were mixed on Monday as investors cautiously awaited another interest rate hike by the Federal Reserve. Benchmarks rose in London, Tokyo and Frankfurt but fell in Paris and Shanghai. U.S. futures edged higher while oil prices fell.U.S. futures edged lower and oil prices also fell. The Federal Reserve is widely expected to raise its federal funds rate on Wednesday to its highest level since 2001. Investors are hoping that might be the final increase of the tightening cycle because inflation has been cooling since last summer. The federal funds rate started 2022 at virtually zero. Germany’s DAX edged 0.1% higher to 16,188.55. In Paris, the CAC 20 shed 0.2% to 7,418.77. Britain’s FTSE 100 was flat at 7,663.68. The future for the S&P 500 advanced nearly 0.2% while that for the Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 0.1%. On Friday, the S&P 500 eked out a gain of less than 0.1% to cap its eighth winning week in the last 10. The Dow edged up by...