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Myanmar supera a Afganistán y se convierte en el principal productor de opio del mundo, dice la ONU

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:14:06 GMT

(CNN) —   Myanmar se convirtió en el mayor productor de opio del mundo, superando a Afganistán después de que los talibanes en el poder impusieran una prohibición al cultivo de amapola, según un nuevo informe de las Naciones Unidas .La nación del sudeste asiático produjo aproximadamente 1.080 toneladas métricas de opio en 2023, la mayor cantidad desde 2001, dijo en su informe la Oficina de las Naciones Unidas contra la Droga y el Delito (ONUDD).La estricta prohibición talibán del cultivo de amapola , introducida el pasado mes de abril en Afganistán, redujo la producción de opio en el país en un 95%.Dado el papel históricamente dominante de Afganistán en la producción ilegal de opio, la ONU dijo que si la prohibición del comercio continúa podría resultar en una escasez global de opiáceos, incluida la heroína, lo que probablemente alentaría una mayor producción en el Sudeste Asiático.El Triángulo Dorado, una zona remota donde se unen las fronteras de Tailandia, Laos y Myanmar, h...

Bedard scores early but McDavid gets 2 assists to lead Oilers past Blackhawks 4-1 for 8th straight

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:14:06 GMT

EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) — Connor McDavid had two assists and the streaking Edmonton Oilers overcame an early goal by rookie Connor Bedard to beat the Chicago Blackhawks 4-1 on Tuesday night in the first NHL matchup between the young stars.Sam Gagner had a goal and an assist in the highly anticipated Clash of the Connors, helping the Oilers (13-12-1) win their eighth game in a row. Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, Leon Draisaitl and Zach Hyman also scored for Edmonton, and defenseman Evan Bouchard added a pair of assists. Bedard gave the banged-up Blackhawks (9-18-1) a 1-0 lead with his 12th goal 3:21 into the first period, but Chicago lost its seventh consecutive road game.McDavid was the No. 1 overall draft pick in 2015, and Bedard was selected first this past summer.Bedard struck first Tuesday on the second shot of the game. He took a long pass from Alex Vlasic for a partial breakaway and unleashed a deceptive shot that beat Oilers goalie Stuart Skinner glove-side to the top corner.Another top...

Raymond and Fabbri lift Red Wings to 6-4 win over Blues; Berube fired by St. Louis after game

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:14:06 GMT

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Lucas Raymond and Robby Fabbri scored in the third period to lift the Detroit Red Wings over the scuffling St. Louis Blues 6-4 on Tuesday night.Soon after their season-worst fourth straight loss, the Blues (13-14-1) fired coach Craig Berube, who guided them to their only Stanley Cup championship in 2019.The 57-year-old Berube, in his sixth season with St. Louis, had a record of 206-131-44. Drew Bannister, coach of the Springfield Thunderbirds of the American Hockey League, takes over as interim coach.Moritz Seider, Jake Walman, Jonatan Berggren and Michael Rasmussen also had goals for the Red Wings, who were 0-2-1 in their previous three games. “For us to play on the road back-to-back and trailing in the third, it’s a huge win for us,” Detroit coach Derek Lalonde said. “I like how we played down the stretch. We found a way to win.”Kevin Hayes scored twice for the Blues, who also got goals from Marco Scandella and Brandon Saad. St. Louis has lost five of six overall....

Argentina devalúa 50% su moneda y anuncia un paquete de urgencia

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:14:06 GMT

BUENOS AIRES – El gobierno argentino anunció el martes una devaluación oficial del 50% en la moneda del país y un paquete de “urgencia” con eje en el recorte del gasto público cuyo objetivo es estabilizar la macroeconomía y evitar una hiperinflación.En un mensaje grabado, el nuevo ministro de Economía, Luis Caputo, presentó la decena de medidas del plan tras hacer un diagnóstico de la severa situación que atraviesa Argentina y que debe afrontar el nuevo Ejecutivo de Javier Milei.“Si seguimos como estamos, vamos inevitablemente a una hiperinflación”, advirtió Caputo, quien apuntó a la posibilidad de llegar a una tasa de inflación del 15,000% anual, una “catástrofe” que, aseguró, es “misión” del nuevo gobierno evitarla.Para el Ejecutivo de Milei, quien asumió la Presidencia el 10 de diciembre, la “génesis” del problema de Argentina es fiscal, con un déficit financiado con emisión monetaria que produce inflación y que de...

Eklund scores tiebreaking goal in third to send Sharks past Jets 2-1

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:14:06 GMT

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — William Eklund scored a tiebreaking power-play goal with 4:51 remaining in the third period and the San Jose Sharks beat the Winnipeg Jets 2-1 on Tuesday night.Justin Bailey added a goal for San Jose, his first since March 10, 2018, as a member of the Buffalo Sabres. Mikael Granlund had an assist to extend his point streak to six games.Brenden Dillon scored for Winnipeg, which had its four-game winning streak snapped. Dillon spent six seasons with San Jose from 2014-20.Bailey gave the Sharks a 1-0 lead midway through the first period, beating Jets goalie Laurent Brossoit from the top of the circles. Dillon tied it later in the first.Brossoit made 30 saves. Mackenzie Blackwood stopped 36 shots for his fourth win of the season.The Sharks extended their point streak to four games (3-0-1) and improved to 6-2-1 in their last nine after starting 3-15-2.Jets leading scorer Kyle Connor missed the game after sustaining a lower-body injury in Sunday’s win against Anahe...

China’s Xi meets with Vietnamese prime minister on second day of visit to shore up ties

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:14:06 GMT

BANGKOK (AP) — Chinese leader Xi Jinping met with Vietnam’s prime minister and the head of the country’s National Assembly on Wednesday, on the second day of his visit to shore up Beijing’s relationship with Hanoi after the Southeast Asian nation recently elevated its ties with Japan and the United States.Xi met with Communist Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong on Tuesday, and they announced that China and Vietnam would work toward a “community with a shared future,” in what was seen as a diplomatic concession by Vietnam to Beijing. Vietnam has resisted using that phrase in the past but wanted to assuage Beijing’s concerns after Vietnam designated both the U.S. and Japan as “comprehensive strategic partners” in recent months, a designation it uses for China. The status is Vietnam’s highest official designation for a diplomatic relationship.Xi referenced the phrase again Wednesday in a meeting with National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue. “In the...

Boeser nets hat trick to tie for NHL goals lead and Canucks beat Lightning 4-1

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:14:06 GMT

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — Brock Boeser scored a hat trick, Quinn Hughes had three assists and the Vancouver Canucks beat the Tampa Bay Lightning 4-1 on Tuesday night.Andrei Kuzmenko also scored for Vancouver, winners of three straight, while J.T. Miller chipped in with two assists.Brayden Point had the Lightning’s goal.Boeser scored his 19th goal of the season at 9:28 of the second period after Miller’s initial shot was blocked by Andrei Vasilevskiy, allowing the winger to bat the puck in mid-air.He added a second goal eight minutes later, firing his shot past Vasilevskiy on the blocker side after Hughes cycled around the net and found the winger open at the point.Boeser’s final goal was an empty-netter with just over a minute to play in the third. With his second hat trick of the season, Boeser is tied with Toronto’s Auston Matthews for the NHL lead with 21 goals.The Lightning opened the scoring less than two minutes into the game. Brandon Hagel found Mikhail Sergach...

COP28 ends with first ever call to move away from fossil fuels

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:14:06 GMT

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Nearly 200 nations sealed an agreement Wednesday urging countries to begin “transitioning away from fossil fuels” — a hard-fought deal that makes this the first-ever climate accord to address the primary driver of warming temperatures.The outcome drew a standing ovation in the packed plenary hall, a sharp turn from two days of tense, round-the-clock negotiations pitting advocates of aggressive climate action against fossil fuel producers such as Saudi Arabia. The talks also featured complaints from developing countries that rich nations such as the United States were not doing enough to help them shift to cleaner energy sources.The deal is the first time any of the nearly three decades of annual U.N. climate summits has agreed to language explicitly curtailing fossil fuels.“We have delivered a paradigm shift that has the potential to redefine our economies,” summit president Sultan al-Jaber, the chief executive of the United Arab Emirates’ state-owned o...

Ambush kills 7 Israeli soldiers in Gaza City, where battles rage weeks into devastating offensive

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:14:06 GMT

RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — At least seven Israeli soldiers were killed in an ambush in Gaza City, Israeli media reported Wednesday, as the army continued to meet heavy resistance in an offensive against Hamas that has drawn international outrage and rare U.S. criticism over the killing of thousands of civilians. President Joe Biden’s administration has repeatedly called on Israel to take greater measures to spare Palestinians civilians, even as it has blocked international calls for a cease-fire and rushed military aid to its close ally. Israel has rejected U.S. suggestions for a postwar plan that would revive the long-dormant peace process with the Palestinians.The air and ground offensive has resulted in the deaths of over 18,400 Palestinians, mostly civilians, since the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas that triggered the war. Nearly 85% of Gaza’s population of 2.3 million have been forced to flee their homes, and much of northern Gaza resembles a moonscape.Israeli ground troops a...

Live updates | Israel forges ahead with its offensive in Gaza despite US criticism

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:14:06 GMT

Israel forged ahead with its air and ground offensive Wednesday in Gaza, drawing international outrage and rare criticism from the United States over the killing of thousands of civilians. The United Nations General Assembly voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to demand a humanitarian cease-fire in a strong demonstration of global support for ending the Israel-Hamas war. General Assembly resolutions are not legally binding, but the assembly’s messages are important barometers of world opinion.Just hours before the vote, U.S. President Joe Biden warned that Israel was losing international support because of its “indiscriminate bombing” of Gaza.The Israel-Hamas war has resulted in the deaths of over 18,400 Palestinians, according to the Health Ministry in the Hamas-controlled territory, which does not differentiate between civilian and combatant deaths. Israel says 113 of its soldiers have died in its ground offensive after Hamas raided southern Israel on Oct. 7, killing about 1,200 people, ...