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Un reportaje exclusivo de la agencia AP muestra que bajo la localidad iraquí de Sinjar, el grupo extremista Estado Islámico construyó una red de túneles con espacio para dormir, dotados de electricidad y fortificados con sacos de arena. Allí tenían además cajas de munición fabricada en Estados Unidos, medicinas y copias del Corán. Los túneles fueron descubiertos por fuerzas curdas que tomaron la ciudad del noroeste de Irak antes este año después de más de un año en manos de la milicia radical. «Era como una red dentro de la ciudad», asegura un comandante curdo peshmerga.

El joven McDonald, de 17 años, murió el 20 de octubre de 2014 tras un encuentro con el agente Van Dyke, de la Policía de Chicago y que aseguró que en el momento de su fallecimiento iba armado con un cuchillo. En el vídeo se ve a McDonald tendido en el suelo y como un agente le dispara reiteradas veces cuando la víctima ya no suponía una amenaza. El policía, de 37 años, se entregó por la mañana a las autoridades. Las autoridades llamaron a la calma a los ciudadanos.

Although the president of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, says he has no intention of increasing tension with Russia, the Kremlin said that relations between both countries have suffered «damage difficult to repair.» Russian Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev added that Turkey has shown that it defends ISIS terrorists and threatened to cancel contracts with Turkish companies in the Russian market. Both countries have a high interdependence with respect to energy. Turkey imports over 90% of its oil and natural gas and depends on imports from Russia, especially for the latter. On Tuesday, oil prices rose over 3%.

«The operation was successfully completed. The pilot was taken to our base, safe and sound,» Shoigu stated as quoted by local media. At first it had been said Syrian rebels had captured the pilot who survived the attack of the Turkish forces. According to Russia, the deceased pilot parachuted when the Su-24 was hit by a missile, but was shot dead on the ground during the descent. Moscow has at all times denied that the bomber Su-24 had violated Turkish airspace, although that argument would justify Turkey’s action.

La estrella KIC se ha hecho famosa por su extraño e inexplicable comportamiento. La misión Kepler observó en dos ocasiones, en 2011 y 2013, que la luz de la estrella se atenuaba de forma drástica porque algo enorme pasaba por delante y bloqueaba su luz. Un nuevo estudio realizado a partir de datos del Telescopio Espacial Spitzer de la NASA ha venido a apoyar la influencia de una colisión de planetas o asteroides, que haya oscurecido el brillo de la estrella en nuestra dirección.

After the attack, which claimed the lives of 13 people, Tunisian president Beji Caid Essebsi declared a state of emergency throughout the country for 30 days and an indefinite curfew in the capital between 21:00 and 5:00. The attack has forced the authorities to strengthen security measures in the country. In addition to the increased military presence in the streets, only the entry of tourists is allowed.

Gazprom’s chairman has told the Russian press, » supplies will be stopped until the Ukrainian company makes further payments.» In this sense, the CEO of Gazprom warned that the waiver to continue buying Russian gas poses a serious threat to a safe transit of supplies to Europe, since about 15% of the gas used in Europe travels through Ukraine. Cutting gas is added to the power outage suffered by the citizens of Crimea, the Ukrainian region that was annexed by Russia, after two transmission towers in southern Ukraine were damaged by explosions.

El servicio de control de huracanes en el Pacífico asegura en un comunicado que Honolulu está «teniendo mucha suerte año» y recuerda que a menudo la pregunta no es si las islas sufrirán huracanes «sino cuándo». El fenómeno meteorológico de El Niño es el responsable de la temporada récord de huracanes, que aún se prolongará hasta comienzos de 2016.

When the idea of this particular beauty pageant was born in 2012 it received both praise and criticism. Three years later, and 70 years after that execrable stage of history, 13 survivors of the tragedy have come forward to participate in the contest in the northern Israeli city of Haifa. Rita Berkowitz, 83, was the winner of this edition. According to a study by the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, between 15 and 20 million people died or were admitted to the more than 42,000 concentration camps, ghettos, factories and other detention sites extended over much of Europe.

An Associated Press exclusive report shows that under the Iraqi town of Sinjar, the militant group Islamic State built a network of tunnels with sleeping space, equipped with electricity and fortified with sandbags. There were also boxes of ammunition manufactured in the United States, medicines and copies of the Koran. The tunnels were discovered by Kurdish forces, which took the city in northwestern Iraq earlier this year after more than a year in the hands of the radical militia. «It was like a network within the city,» said a Kurdish peshmerga commander.

Rich Arab countries have hit the jackpot with Colombian mercenaries willing to fight at a time when demand for army enlistment in such dangerous places like Yemen and Syria, is minimal. The Saudis prefer Colombians because many are former soldiers with extensive experience fighting against FARC.

Al hablar de la actriz, directora y cantante Barbra Streisand el presidente de EEUU resaltó que ha vendido más discos en Estados Unidos «que ninguna otra mujer en la historia», pero también aludió a su «apasionada» defensa de temas como la prevención de las enfermedades del corazón y la igualdad de género. Como es tradición, en una ceremonia celebrada en la Casa Blanca, Obama entregó ese galardón a 17 personas «extraordinarias», según dijo, que han contribuido a la «fortaleza de EEUU como nación».

McDonald,17, died on October 20, 2014 after his encounter with officer Van Dyke, of the Chicago Police, who said that at the time the teen was armed with a knife at the time of his death. In the video you see McDonald lying on the ground as the agent shoots him repeatedly even when the victim no longer posed a threat. The policeman, 37, turned himself in the next morning. Authorities have asked citizens to remain calm.

Our mind is built with patterns of interconnected information. That is, we memorize things by their connection to other elements. Each element is connected to everything else, not by logic but by coincidence of time, place, how we learned the information and what it means. When we meet someone for the first time, their name is an arbitrary element that is not connected to other things that we might know later.

Este anticipo podría tener una precisión de días, meses, e incluso años. Parte de la importancia de este nuevo modelo simulador es que da un acercamiento a cómo se mueve la corteza de la Tierra. Hoy día los sensores sísmicos aún no son capaces de predecir este tipo de fenómenos naturales. De aquí la importancia de Watson, su sistema de inteligencia artificial, ya que sería capaz de elaborar los modelos. Además se podría alimentar de datos e investigaciones recientes, algo que proporcionaría un acercamiento preciso a patrones dentro de una gran cantidad de información.

Los peregrinos han transmitido sus quejas ya que aseguran que algunas mujeres no van vestidas adecuadamente para estar en uno de los sitios más sagrados del hinduismo. Por ello, a las turistas que lleven pantalones cortos y vestidos hasta las rodillas se le hará entrega de un sari. Vishwanath recibe más de 20 millones de personas cada año.

Entre el 25 de noviembre y el 23 de enero se podrá disfrutar de ‘Colour Matters’, una exposición en la que una de las esculturas más esperadas es The Blue Gymnast, del año 2015. Allen Jones ha expuesto en todo el mundo por más de 40 años, ofreciendo una importante retrospectiva de su obra en la Royal Academy de Londres el pasado año.

Two of the skeletons belong to people born outside Britain, a man whose genetic heritage is geared towards Eastern Europe and a blue-eyed teenager from North Africa. The other two skeletons are of people born in the islands, but that have a background from northern Europe or North Africa. Following this finding, researchers plan to analyze more than 20,000 human remains stored in the Museum of London.

The decision to build the center was taken to satisfy China’s increasing demand for “quality beef”. The facility may cause alarm in Europe, where animal cloning for agriculture was banned in September due to animal welfare considerations. The center, which will have a gene storehouse and a museum, required an investment of $31 million.

Pilgrims had complained that some women were not properly dressed to be in one of the most sacred sites of Hinduism. Therefore, tourists with shorts and knee-high dresses will be given a sari. Vishwanath receives more than 20 million people each year.