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El fallo ha vaciado de contenido una disposición destinada a prevenir la discriminación racial en la votación. Plus, el petróleo supera los $126 el barril para alcanzar su nivel más alto desde 2022. Buenos días. La US supreme court ha vaciado de contenido una sección importante de la Voting Rights Act a través de una decisión histórica sobre el mapa congresional de Louisiana, en un gran cambio en las leyes de derechos civiles de EE. UU. que amenaza con debilitar el poder de voto de las minorías. ¿Cómo han reaccionado los legisladores? Terri Sewell y Shomari Figures, quienes ahora corren el riesgo de perder sus escaños en los Black congressional districts de Alabama, han denunciado que la decisión envía a la nación “hacia atrás”. ¿Cómo se produjo el fallo? Es la culminación de la campaña conjunta de los justices John Roberts y Samuel Alito para revertir la legislación de derechos civiles. ¿Cómo podrían cambiar los midterm maps debido al redistricting? Si bien la decisión de la US supreme court deja poco tiempo para rediseñar los mapas antes de las midterm, aquí se muestra cómo podrían verse los midterm maps si ambos partidos logran todas sus actuales ambiciones de redistricting. Continue reading...

Programa de eventos anunciado en el aniversario del boicot a los autobuses de Bristol con el objetivo de inspirar un manifiesto social para la ciudad Bristol ha sido durante mucho tiempo una ciudad de activistas dispuestos a trabajar por el cambio, desde los seguidores de John Wesley en el siglo XVIII hasta los ciudadanos del siglo XXI que derribaron la estatua del traficante de esclavos Edward Colston. El miércoles se lanzó una nueva campaña —en el aniversario del inicio del innovador boicot a los autobuses de Bristol de 1963— orientada a convertir a la ciudad en la capital de los derechos civiles del Reino Unido. Continuar leyendo...

• Egypt has convened an emergency regional summit with Ethiopia, Sudan, and other Nile Basin nations to address water allocation disputes intensified by Sudan's ongoing civil war and dam infrastructure threats. • The summit, held in Cairo on Friday, focused on protecting the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam and Blue Nile water flows during heightened regional conflict; negotiations remain deadlocked. • US officials are monitoring the summit closely, concerned that water scarcity could fuel refugee crises across the Horn of Africa and destabilize a critical US partner region.

• Filipino coast guard vessels and Chinese maritime militia engaged in a tense standoff Friday near Scarborough Shoal, with both nations claiming territorial waters; no shots were fired, but vessels came within 500 meters of each other, Filipino officials reported. • The incident involved disputed fishing rights and resource access; the Philippines detained three Chinese fishing boats accused of illegal harvesting in Manila-claimed waters, while China demanded their immediate release. • The US State Department reiterated commitment to the 1951 Mutual Defense Treaty with the Philippines and called for peaceful resolution, warning that any military escalation in the strategic waterway threatens global trade and stability.

• Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is urging the state House to approve a revived AI Bill of Rights before a special session, following Senate passage of sweeping AI restrictions. • The legislation would remove from office local officials violating the rules and prohibit companion chatbots from interacting with minors without parental consent. • This move addresses rising concerns over AI safety, governance, and potential misuse in public and private sectors amid generative AI's rapid adoption.

Lawyers for oligarch claim freezing of £5.3bn of assets ‘unfair and abusive’ amid row over use of funds for Ukraine Roman Abramovich has gone to the European court of human rights (ECHR), claiming that a criminal investigation into his financial affairs by the Jersey authorities has breached his human rights, according to reports.The former owner of Chelsea FC, who is sanctioned in the UK over his links to Vladimir Putin, is under investigation in Jersey over allegations of corruption and money laundering. Continue reading...

Not using capital punishment ‘really a requirement’ for Council of Europe’s parliamentary assembly, says presidentIsrael’s observer status at the Council of Europe’s parliamentary assembly could be suspended over the country’s new law mandating the death penalty for Palestinians convicted of some offences, the president of the body has said.Petra Bayr, an Austrian Social Democrat and president of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (Pace), said not using the death penalty was “really a requirement” of having observer status at the pan-European human rights body, which has no connection to the EU. Continue reading...