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The Democratic leader in the US Senate calls for elections in Israel to replace Netanyahu

The leader of the Democrats in the United States Senate, Chuck Schumer, accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday of being an obstacle to achieving peace in Gaza and called for elections to replace him.
These statements are the most critical message of a senior leader of the Democratic Party against the Israeli government since the beginning of the offensive on the Gaza Strip that started after the Hamas attack on October 7.
“Tentanyaho’s coalition no longer adapts to Israel’s needs after October 7. The world has changed radically since then and the Israeli people are being suffocated by a vision of Government stagnant in the past,” Schumer said to the plenary of the Upper House.
The leader of the majority in the Senate, the first Jew to hold that position, opined that Netanyahu is one of “the biggest obstacles to peace” along with Hamas, the Israeli far-right and the president of the Palestinian National Authority, Mahmud Abbas.
For Schumer, the prime minister “has lost his way by putting his political survival as a priority,” having surrounded himself with far-right ministers and having tolerated the high number of victims in Gaza, which has caused “support for Israel worldwide to be at historic lows.”
“Israel cannot survive if it becomes an ous,” the senator warned.
Therefore, he opined that “new elections are the only way to facilitate a healthy and open decision-making process about the future of Israel.”
The president of the United States, Joe Biden, supports the war against Hamas and continues to supply weapons for Israel, but has also pressured Netanyahu to take care of the lives of civilian Palestinians.
There is increasing concern within the Democratic Party about the electoral impact that support for the Gaza War may have in the United States presidential elections next November, in which Biden will seek his re-election.
The leader of the Republicans in the Senate, Mitch McConnell, lashed out against Schumer’s request for elections, a fact he considered “unprecedented.”
“In no way can we treat other democracies like this,” said McConnell, who opined that the Democratic Party is “anti-Israeli.”
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Deportation flight lands in Venezuela; government denies criminal gang links

A flight carrying 175 Venezuelan migrants deported from the United States arrived in Caracas on Sunday. This marks the third group to return since repatriation flights resumed a week ago, and among them is an alleged member of a criminal organization, according to Venezuelan authorities.
Unlike previous flights operated by the Venezuelan state airline Conviasa, this time, an aircraft from the U.S. airline Eastern landed at Maiquetía Airport, on the outskirts of Caracas, shortly after 2:00 p.m. with the deportees.
Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello, who welcomed the returnees at the airport, stated that the 175 repatriated individuals were coming back “after being subjected, like all Venezuelans, to persecution” and dismissed claims that they belonged to the criminal organization El Tren de Aragua.
However, Cabello confirmed that “for the first time in these flights we have been carrying out, someone of significance wanted by Venezuelan justice has arrived, and he is not from El Tren de Aragua.” Instead, he belongs to a gang operating in the state of Trujillo. The minister did not disclose the individual’s identity or provide details on where he would be taken.
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Son of journalist José Rubén Zamora condemns father’s return to prison as “illegal”

The son of renowned journalist José Rubén Zamora Marroquín, José Carlos Zamora, has denounced as “illegal” the court order that sent his father back to a Guatemalan prison on March 3, after already spending 819 days behind barsover a highly irregular money laundering case.
“My father’s return to prison was based on an arbitrary and illegal ruling. It is also alarming that the judge who had granted him house arrest received threats,” José Carlos Zamora told EFE in an interview on Saturday.
The 67-year-old journalist was sent back to prison inside the Mariscal Zavala military barracks on March 3, when Judge Erick García upheld a Court of Appeals ruling that overturned the house arrest granted to him in October. Zamora had already spent 819 days in prison over an alleged money laundering case.
His son condemned the situation as “unacceptable”, stating that the judge handling the case “cannot do his job in accordance with the law due to threats against his life.”
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Miyazaki’s style goes viral with AI but at what cost?

This week, you may have noticed that everything—from historical photos and classic movie scenes to internet memes and recent political moments—has been reimagined on social media as Studio Ghibli-style portraits. The trend quickly went viral thanks to ChatGPT and the latest update of OpenAI’s chatbot, released on Tuesday, March 25.
The newest addition to GPT-4o has allowed users to replicate the distinctive artistic style of the legendary Japanese filmmaker and Studio Ghibli co-founder Hayao Miyazaki (My Neighbor Totoro, Spirited Away). “Today is a great day on the internet,” one user declared while sharing popular memes in Ghibli format.
While the trend has captivated users worldwide, it has also highlighted ethical concerns about AI tools trained on copyrighted creative works—and what this means for the livelihoods of human artists.
Not that this concerns OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, which has actively encouraged the “Ghiblification”experiments. Its CEO, Sam Altman, even changed his profile picture on the social media platform X to a Ghibli-style portrait.
Miyazaki, now 84 years old, is known for his hand-drawn animation approach and whimsical storytelling. He has long expressed skepticism about AI’s role in animation. His past remarks on AI-generated animation have resurfaced and gone viral again, particularly when he once said he was “utterly disgusted” by an AI demonstration.
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