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Three dead and ten injured in a shooting in a store in Arkansas (USA)

Three people died and ten were injured, including the alleged aggressor and two police officers, in a shooting this Friday in a grocery store at a gas station in the southern state of Arkansas (USA), authorities reported.
The mass shooting occurred around 11:30 local time (15:30 GMT) at the Mad Butcher store, in Fordyce, a city in Dallas County, where the alleged aggressor was seriously injured after being shot by law enforcement officers, the Arkansas State Police said on social media.
Among the injured civilians, some are hospitalized in critical condition, while two police officers were also injured, but their lives are not in danger.
According to witnesses, the shooting took place outside the aforementioned store, although the authorities have not yet confirmed this extreme, and the aggressor was arrested.
The governor of Arkansas, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, said in her X account that she was aware of the “tragic shooting” in Fordyce and that she maintains continuous communication with the State Police.
“I thank the security forces and the rescuers for their quick and heroic action to save lives. My prayers are with the victims and all those affected in this horrible incident,” Huckabee said.
The Federal Office of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) said that special agents from this institution in New Orleans are at the scene of the events and provide assistance in response to the shooting.
Images of the media at the scene showed a series of bullet holes in the window of the grocery store and local and state law enforcement officers deployed at the scene of the shooting, in addition to at least one medical helicopter landing in the vicinity.
At least 234 mass shootings have taken place in the United States in 2024, according to data from the Gun Violence Archive, which defines a mass shooting as one in which four or more people are shot, excluding the shooter.
Fordyce is a small town in the southeast of Dallas County that registered a population of just 3,200 inhabitants in 2022.
International
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.
International
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.”
International
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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