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Beryl causes damage, but without injuries or deaths, after making landfall in Mexico

Hurricane Beryl made landfall in the early morning of this Friday north of the municipality of Tulum, Quintana Roo, in the Mexican Caribbean, but so far no injuries or deaths have been reported, reported the Civil Protection Coordinator, Laura Velázquez.

“We have no reports so far of injured or deceased, I repeat they are preliminary data, we are in the aid phase,” the official said during a call made within the framework of the morning press conference of the president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

Velázquez specified that the hurricane hit Quintana Roo at 05:05 local time (11:05 GMT) with maximum sustained winds of 175 kilometers per hour and gusts of 220 kilometers per hour.

Now Beryl, who made landfall as a category 2 hurricane, degraded in the last hours to a tropical storm on the ground as it passed through the Mexican state of Yucatan (southeast), according to the National Meteorological Service (SMN) of Mexico.

“At this moment we are already in the aid phase, we are already making tours mainly in Tulum throughout the length and breadth of the municipality,” said the head of Civil Protection.

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He pointed out that tours are being carried out to quantify the damage, although the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) has reported that in Tulum approximately 40% of the area is without electricity, while in Cozumel seven colonies have electrical energy effects.

In addition, in Isla Mujeres, 50% of homes are without electricity.

The SMN, said in its most recent report, that “Beryl is now a tropical storm. It is located on land over Yucatan and its cloudy bands maintain the probability of intense to torrential rains, intense winds, storm tide and high waves in the Yucatan Peninsula.

For his part, Velázquez specified that so far 58 temporary shelters have been enabled in which 2,193 people are housed who have hot food and “are being very well taken care of.”

He also reported that the airports of Tulum, Cozumel and Cancun did not suffer any affect.

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The governor of Quintana Roo, Mara Lezama, reported the fall of trees and affectations in the municipalities of Solidaridad and Benito Juárez, which are the most inhabited areas, in addition to some fall of fences (walls).

The authorities noted that in the area there are 25,611 elements deployed to collaborate in the rescue work, of which 4,150 are elements of the Ministry of National Defense, 1,128 of the Secretariat of the Navy, 4,451 of the National Guard and 2,189 of the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE).

Meanwhile, López Obrador recommended that people do not go out because there are still fallen trees, which may pose a risk to the population.

Beryl is the first hurricane of the season and sets an “alarming precedent” because a cyclone of maximum intensity had never been formed at this point in the year, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) warned on Tuesday.

Of the three cyclones that have occurred in this Atlantic season, Beryl would be the third to impact Mexico, where on Sunday tropical storm Chris entered, which left floods in the center and east of the country.

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While storm Alberto, which made landfall on June 20, left six dead in Nuevo León, a state on the northern border of Mexico, and destruction and floods in Monterrey, the second most populous city in the country.

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85% of Haiti’s capital has fallen into the power of gangs, according to UN reports

The power of criminal gangs in Haiti continues to grow and at the moment they control about 85% of the capital, Port-au-Prince, according to “certain estimates” that this Monday were cited in the UN Security Council by Miroslav Jenca, Undersecretary General for Europe, Asia and the Americas in the UN Political Affairs Department.

The gangs have begun to attack the places of “relative security” that remained in the capital, such as the Petionville neighborhood, where UN offices, embassies and foreign personnel are located. There, an attack recorded last Tuesday left “dozens dead,” he said.

In response, spontaneous groups of neighbors have begun to organize armed patrols, to set up unofficial road controls “and to take justice into their hands,” Jenca lamented.

The number of displaced people reaches 700,000

In the vast areas where gangs have control, the security and human rights of their inhabitants are in danger, and especially those of women, since gang members resort to all forms of violence, often sexual violence, to subjugate neighbors.

This situation has caused 700,000 Haitians to flee their homes and are now in a situation of “internally displaced people.”

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Despite this, neighboring countries continue to deport Haitians (170,000 so far), mainly from the Dominican Republic, although Jenca did not cite this country.

What is the situation of the Multinational Mission to contain gangs in Haiti?

The Multinational Security Mission that was supposed to train the Haitian police has so far received only 400 agents of the 2,500 that it must gather, mainly due to lack of funds, and the prospects are so pessimistic that the Government of Haiti has already asked that the MMS be transformed into a classic mission of “blue helmets”.

However, this will not be easy because so far Russia and China oppose the deployment of a peace mission in Haiti arguing that the last mission of this type left the country among very serious accusations of sexual abuse and having caused and spread in 2010 a cholera epidemic that was fatal for the country, leaving thousands dead.

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One-week preventive detention for Princess Mette-Marit’s son of Norway for rape

An Oslo court issued this Wednesday preventive detention of one week with a ban on visits for Marius Borg Høiby, son of Princess Mette-Marit of Norway, for two cases of rape of two different women.

Høiby, 27 years old and the result of a previous relationship with the princess, had been arrested on Monday night for the third time since August for an alleged rape, but the Prosecutor’s Office revealed today at the end of the hearing, held behind closed doors, that another case had been discovered during the investigation.

The young man, who is not part of the Royal House, is also being investigated for injuries and damages against three of his ex-girlfriends and for threats to a man.

Prison for two cases of rape in Norway

The hearing began at 14:00 local time (13:00 GMT) and ended two hours later, but Judge Anne-Lene Åvangen Hødnebø did not issue her opinion until after 22:00.

According to public television NRK, the police used as evidence recordings found on Høiby’s phone.

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In both cases it is sexual intercourse without penetration, reported the Prosecutor’s Office, which had requested two weeks in prison.

“The reason we asked for two weeks is that we discovered another violation last night. It is a case of sexual relationship without intercourse with a woman unable to resist the act. We are investigating two rape cases,” prosecutor Andreas Kruszewski said at the end of the hearing.

HØiby’s lawyer, Øyvind Bratlien, stated that his defendant denies the accusations and described the allegations as a “catastrophic” error of judgment.

Three arrests since August

Høiby was arrested on Monday night when he was driving with his ex-girlfriend, the protagonist of the incident that led to the first arrest and which he is forbidden to contact.

His home in Skaugum, on the same property where Crown Princes Haakon and Mette-Marit reside, was searched by police officers.

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According to Norwegian media, the first alleged rape occurred at the young woman’s home in March of this year; the other, in her residence in Skaugum a few weeks ago.

It is the third arrest of Høiby, who was arrested a few hours ago in early August after an incident in his ex-girlfriend’s apartment and was accused of injuries, damage and threats, in a case that was later expanded and that also includes two of his previous partners and another person.

Høiby admitted a few days after his arrest in August in a statement part of the accusations and admitted to having problems with alcohol and other drugs and suffering from mental problems.

The Royal House is reluctant to talk about the case

The Norwegian Royal House has been reluctant to comment on the case of the young Marius Borg Høiby, which has generated a lot of media attention in this Nordic country, and only Prince Haakon has made statements.

“I think Marius faces serious accusations. The judicial system must do its job,” Haakon said today from Jamaica, where he attended an event organized by the UN.

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The heir to the Norwegian throne said that as “parents” they have tried to get the young man to receive “help.”

Høiby is the result of a previous relationship of Mette-Marit and has no official commitments to the Royal House, although he attends some celebrations such as the birthdays of his stepbrothers and has always maintained the relationship with both Haakon and Kings Harald V and Sonia.

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The next attorney general Matt Gaetz manages to stop the report on his sex scandal

The Ethics Committee of the US House of Representatives did not make public this Wednesday due to lack of agreement the report of its investigation into Matt Gaetz, nominated by President-elect Donald Trump, to be the next attorney general and investigated for inappropriate sexual behavior and drug use.

The president of that commission, Republican Michael Guest, told the press at the end of the nearly two-hour meeting at the Capitol that there was no consensus among the members when making that document public.

That body was going to put its decision to a vote last Friday, but Gaetz’s resignation from his seat two days earlier, after being appointed by Trump, delayed that scrutiny and effectively ended the investigations into him.

Although with the departure of the Florida representative of Congress, the commission was left without jurisdiction to investigate him, the publication of the conclusions of his investigation opened in 2021 for alleged inappropriate sexual conduct, irregular use of campaign funds, acceptance of bribes and drug use was still in the air.

Committee interviews

The committee interviewed two women who testified that Gaetz, nominated for attorney general, paid them for having sex at a party in Florida, where prostitution is illegal.

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According to the women’s lawyer to the NBC News channel, Joel Leppard, one of them also testified that she saw Gaetz having sex with a minor, although he said that he did not think he knew that he was 17 years old at the time.

Gaetz has denied those accusations and Trump’s transition team considers them unfounded and recalls that the Department of Justice closed a parallel investigation without charges.

Review of the report

Several senators, both Republicans and Democrats, had said that they wanted to review that report before the Judicial Committee of the Upper House examines Gaetz’s nomination next year and then the plenary of that hemicycle validates or stops it.

The authorization of the positions of the future cabinet depends on the Senate, but until then Gaetz has the support of Trump, who has stated that he does not question his own decision, and also of the future vice president, JD Vance, who accompanied him to Congress this Wednesday.

Report on Gaetz next attorney general has had leaks

However, although the House Committee on the House of Representatives stopped the dissemination of the report, there have already been leaks in the national press.

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The lawyer of the two women indicated that they provided that committee with numerous photos related to the time they spent with the Republican, who according to that lawyer paid 6,000 dollars to one and 4,000 to another to sleep with them.

The leader of the House of Representatives, Republican Mike Johnson, had wanted to stay out of the committee’s decision, but at the same time he did not consider it appropriate for it to disseminate his investigation: “That would open Pandora’s box and I don’t think it’s something healthy for the institution,” he said.

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