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Russia protests before the US ambassador for a Ukrainian attack on Crimea with ATACMS missiles

Russia protested on Monday before the U.S. ambassador, Lynn Trace, for the use of ATACMS missiles with cluster bombs in the Ukrainian attack perpetrated on Sunday against the Crimean port of Sevastopol that resulted in four civilians killed.
“The United States (…) bears the same responsibility as the Kiev regime for this evil act,” the Russian Foreign Ministry denounced in a statement.
According to Russian diplomacy, the United States “is waging a hybrid war against Russia and has become part of the conflict by supplying the Ukrainian Army with the most modern weapons, including ATACMS missiles with cluster bombs used against the population of Sevastopol.”
He also denounced that “the choice of objectives and the creation of flight missions (of missiles) is carried out by US military specialists.”
Foreign Affairs declared to the ambassador that “these actions of Washington, which are intended to encourage the pro-Nazi authorities of Ukraine to continue the war actions until the last Ukrainian, by allowing Russian territory to be attacked, will not go unpunished.”
“We will respond without fail,” Russian diplomacy warned.
This Sunday, Ukrainian forces launched five ATACMS missiles against Sevastopol, the base of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, four of which were shot down by Russian air defenses.
The fifth deviated from its course, according to Defense, and exploded on the coast of the peninsula, killing four civilians and injuring more than 150.
According to Telegram channels, a missile exploded on a beach where a large number of people rested on Sunday, taking advantage of the summer heat.
The Russian Ministry of Defense immediately blamed Washington for the attack for supplying Kiev with the ATACMS missiles launched by the Ukrainian Army and authorizing their use against Russian territory.
“The responsibility for this deliberate missile attack against the civilian population of Sevastopol lies above all with Washington, which supplied these weapons to Ukraine, and also the Kiev regime, from whose territory this attack was launched,” he said on Telegram.
The government of US President Joe Biden gave Ukraine permission at the end of May to attack targets in Russian territory using weapons provided by the United States, but only if they were military targets in the Russian border area near the area of the northeastern Kharkov region.
However, this authorization, as confirmed to EFE by a US official, does not extend to long-range missiles such as the Army Tactical Missile System known as ATACMS and used on Sunday in Sevastopol, according to Russian authorities.
The counselor of the Ukrainian presidential office Mikhail Podoliak said today, regarding the death this Sunday of four civilians in a Ukrainian attack on Crimea, that the peninsula is “a foreign territory (for the Russians) occupied by Russia in which there are hostilities and a large-scale war.”
“There are no no ‘beaches’, ‘tourist areas’ and other fictitious signs of ‘peaceful life’ in Crimea. Crimea is definitely a foreign territory occupied by Russia, where there are hostilities and a large-scale war. The same war that Russia unleashed with genocidal and invading purposes,” Podoliak wrote on his social network account X.
The counselor of the Ukrainian presidency added that “Crimea is also a large military camp and warehouse with hundreds of direct military targets that the Russians try to hide and cynically cover with their own civilians.”
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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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