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Ecuador: at least 15 dead and 21 injured after a mutiny in a prison

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Eva Deschamps / October 4, 2022

At least 15 inmates were killed Monday following a mutiny in one of Ecuador’s largest prisons, where recurring violence between rival gangs has already left many dead, authorities said.
 
“According to preliminary information, 21 people were injured and 15 died” in the clash between inmates, said a statement from the Ecuadorian Prison Administration (SNAI).
 
Earlier, the SNAI reported that rescue workers treated five wounded inmates and another was taken to a hospital, without specifying the severity of the injuries.
 
SNAI added that “tactical units are continuing operations to regain control” of the penitentiary.
 
According to the same source, “the armed forces are providing support in the outer perimeter” of the prison located.
 
According to television news footage, detainees could be seen climbing onto roofs as detonations rang out.
 
Earlier, SNAI official Jorge Flores told the press that “as far as we know, on a preliminary basis, citizen Leandro Norero is among the victims.
 
Norero, nicknamed “El Patron”, was arrested in May for money laundering in an operation in which $6.4 million, 24 gold bars, firearms and ammunition were seized.
 
Linked to drug trafficking, the man who was also facing a prison sentence in Peru, would have become one of the leaders among the inmates.
 
In a statement to a local television channel, the Ecuadorian president Guillermo Lasso presented Monday “a message of condolences and solidarity with the families of those who died today in” in this prison.
 
Located on the outskirts of the southern city of Latacunga, the prison houses some 4,300 prisoners and is one of the largest in the country. Since February 2021, the prison has experienced seven massacres among prisoners, resulting in more than 400 deaths.
 
The authorities have so far been unable to curb the violence, which is often perpetrated with knives and marked by beheadings and other acts of barbarism. 
 
According to official estimates, the country’s overcrowded prisons house some 35,000 prisoners, many of them gang members linked to drug trafficking.
 
In 2021, Ecuador seized a record 210 tons of drugs, mostly cocaine.
 
Bordered by Colombia and Peru, the world’s largest cocaine producers, Ecuador serves as a departure port for drug shipments, primarily to the United States and Europe. Last year, the country of 17.7 million people had a murder rate of 14 per 100,000, nearly double that of 2020.
 
In August, the government of President Guillermo Lasso launched a census of inmates in an effort to improve living conditions in the face of prison overcrowding.
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China sends its first civilian astronaut into space

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Eva Deschamps / June 1, 2023

The three astronauts’ stay is scheduled to last six months, and marks a new stage in the progress of Beijing’s space program.
 
On Tuesday May 30, China sent three new astronauts to its Tiangong space station, including for the first time a civilian. This is a valuable experience for the Asian giant, which has reaffirmed its desire to send a Chinese astronaut to the Moon by 2030, a major objective of a space program that has been progressing steadily for several decades.
 
The trio on the Shenzhou-16 mission lifted off aboard a Long March 2F rocket at 9:31 a.m. local time from the Jiuquan launch center in the Gobi Desert, according to AFP reporters on site. The launch was a “total success” and the “astronauts are in good shape”, said Zou Lipeng, director of the launch center.
 
Mission commander, veteran engineer Jing Haipeng, on his fourth space flight, is accompanied by engineer Zhu Yangzhu and Gui Haichao, a professor and the first Chinese civilian in space. A specialist in space science and engineering, Haichao will be in charge of experiments on the station. He does not come from the armed forces, as has always been the case until now. Their stay in Tiangong (“Heavenly Palace” in Chinese) is scheduled to last six months.
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The big announcement tonight: North Korea confirms launch of military spy satellite in June

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The big announcement tonight: North Korea confirms launch of military spy satellite in June, Magnate Daily
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Sylvie Claire /  June 1, 2023

North Korea confirmed on Tuesday that it will launch a military spy satellite in June, in order to “confront dangerous US military actions”, according to the official KCNA agency.
The “military reconnaissance satellite number 1” will be “launched in June”, in order to “confront the dangerous military actions of the United States and its vassals”, according to Ri Pyong Chol, vice-chairman of the ruling party’s Central Military Commission, quoted by KCNA.
On Monday, Japan announced that it had been informed by North Korea of a forthcoming satellite launch, a project which the Japanese government believed to conceal a ballistic missile launch.
According to Tokyo, Pyongyang has told the Japanese coastguard that a rocket will be launched between May 31 and June 11, and is expected to land in an area near the Yellow Sea, the East China Sea and east of Luzon Island in the Philippines.
North Korea has already tested ballistic missiles in 2012 and 2016, which it described as satellite launches and which flew over the island department of Okinawa in southern Japan.
The development of a reconnaissance satellite was one of Pyongyang’s key defense projects unveiled last year by Kim Jong Un.
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China to send its first civilian into space on Tuesday

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Steph Deschamps / June 1, 2023

On Tuesday, China will send a civilian astronaut into space for the first time in its history on a manned mission to the Tiangong space station, the China Human Spaceflight Agency announced.

 

This astronaut, Gui Haichao, a “payload specialist”, is “a professor at the Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics”, Lin Xiqiang, spokesman for the space agency, told a press conference on Monday.

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Until now, all Chinese astronauts who have launched into space have been members of the People’s Liberation Army.

 

Mr. Gui will be “mainly responsible for in-orbit management of payloads” dedicated to space science experiments, the spokesman said.

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The civilian astronaut will orbit alongside Shenzhou-16 mission commander Jing Haipeng and astronaut Zhu Yangzhu.

 

The crew is due to take off from the Jiuquan launch base in northwest China at 09:31 local time, according to the space agency.

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Projects linked to China’s “space dream” are multiplying under the presidency of Xi Jinping.

 

The Asian giant has been investing billions of euros in its military-led space program for several decades, enabling it to make up most of the ground lost to the Americans and Russians.

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China sent its first astronaut into space in 2003, and its Tiangong (“Celestial Palace”) space station has been fully operational since late 2022. In 2019, a Chinese spacecraft landed on the far side of the Moon. Then, in 2021, China landed a small robot on the surface of Mars. China plans to send its first crew to the Moon by 2029.

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