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Argentina identifies another child kidnapped during dictatorship
The affirmation is the second to happen in lower than every week, bringing the full variety of recognized kids to 132.
DNA exams have confirmed {that a} man was snatched from his mom as a child throughout Argentina’s final navy dictatorship and was illegally adopted by a household in a northern province, a human rights group mentioned on Wednesday.
The case, the second introduced in lower than every week, has elevated the full variety of profitable identifications to 132.
The activist group Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo didn’t launch the most recent individual’s full title, figuring out him solely as Juan Jose, 46.
Throughout Argentina’s bloody dictatorship, which lasted from 1976 to 1983, navy officers carried out the systematic theft of infants from political prisoners who have been typically executed with out a hint. The kids have been then illegally adopted by different navy officers or allied households.
The Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo estimates roughly 500 kids have been snatched from their dad and mom in the course of the dictatorship. The group is utilizing DNA exams to find and determine them.
Final Thursday, the group introduced its 131st profitable identification, linking one other grownup male to each his dad and mom, who had been detained by the navy and “disappeared”.
Estela de Carlotto, president of the group, mentioned at a information convention on Wednesday that the household who raised Juan Jose owned a farm the place his mom, Mercedes del Valle Morales, had labored.
She mentioned the kid was 9 months previous on Might 20, 1976, the day that navy officers took away his 21-year-old mom. That occurred in Monteros, a city in Tucuman, a province about 1,200 kilometres (750 miles) north of Buenos Aires, which noticed a few of the bloodiest clashes between the navy and armed teams within the Seventies.
The mom’s dad and mom and her three brothers have been additionally taken. All are listed as victims of the dictatorship.
The farm proprietor was not publicly recognized however de Carlotto mentioned he raised Juan Jose as his personal. After the person’s loss of life, different family members instructed Juan Jose he was adopted.
Juan Jose voluntarily submitted to a DNA check that was in contrast with samples taken from his mom’s stays, which have been present in a Tucuman cemetery.
“I at all times had doubts,” mentioned Juan Jose, who participated in Wednesday’s information convention from Tucumán through a video name. “I need to transmit my due to the Grandmothers.”
The id of his organic father shouldn’t be identified.
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Azerbaijan Airlines plane headed to Russia crashes hundreds of miles off course, dozens feared dead
Dozens of passengers are feared dead after an Azerbaijan Airlines flight crashed near the city of Aktau in Kazakhstan on Wednesday, reports say.
The Embraer 190 passenger jet flying from Azerbaijan to Russia had 62 passengers and five crew on board, Kazakh authorities announced, saying 32 survivors had been rescued.
Flight J2-8243 had flown hundreds of miles off its scheduled route to crash on the opposite shore of the Caspian Sea. Officials did not immediately explain why it had crossed the sea, but the crash came shortly after drone strikes hit southern Russia. Drone activity has shut airports in the area in the past and the nearest Russian airport on the plane’s flight path was closed on Wednesday morning.
Russia’s aviation watchdog, meanwhile, said it was an emergency that may have been caused by a bird strike.
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Those aboard the plane included 42 Azerbaijani citizens, 16 Russian nationals, six Kazakhstani and three Kyrgyzstani citizens, according to Kazakhstani officials.
Russian news agency Interfax reported that both pilots died in the crash, citing a preliminary assessment by emergency workers at the scene. The news agency also quoted medical workers who stated that four bodies had been recovered from the crash so far.
A total of 29 survivors, including two children, have been hospitalized, the ministry told Russia’s state news agency, RIA Novosti, the Associated Press reported. Many passengers have yet to be accounted for.
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Video of the crash showed the plane descending rapidly before bursting into flames as it hit the seashore, and thick black smoke then rising, Reuters reported. Bloodied and bruised passengers could be seen stumbling from a piece of the fuselage that had remained intact.
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, who had been traveling to Russia, returned to Azerbaijan upon hearing news of the crash, the president’s press service said. Aliyev was due to attend an informal meeting of leaders of the Commonwealth of Independent States, a bloc of former Soviet countries founded after the collapse of the Soviet Union, in St. Petersburg.
Aliyev expressed his condolences to the families of the victims in a statement on social media.
“It is with deep sadness that I express my condolences to the families of the victims and wish a speedy recovery to those injured,” he wrote.
He also signed a decree declaring Dec. 26 a day of mourning in Azerbaijan.
In a statement, Azerbaijan Airlines said it would keep members of the public updated and changed its social media banners to solid black.
“We ask God for mercy on the passengers and crew members who lost their lives,” a translated statement on X said. “Their pain is our pain. We wish a speedy recovery to those injured.”
Reuters and the Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Who is Europe's top investor in space in 2023?
Luxembourg remains Europe’s top investor in space in a year when defence spending on space exceeded civil space budgets for the first time since the 1990s.
Global public investment in space hit a record high of €106 billion in 2023, an 11% increase compared to 2022.
In Europe, the total funding was €11.9 billion, showing a modest 1% rise in its share of global space investment.
According to the European Space Agency, defence spending on space exceeded civil space budgets last year for the first time since the 1990s. Defence expenditures in space are projected to grow faster than civil spending, making up 53% of the budget in 2024.
The US continues to dominate global space investment, accounting for 64% of the total budget, while China holds a strong second place, growing its share from an estimated 2% in 2000 to 12% in 2023 through long-term programmes in both civil and defence.
Europe ranks third, contributing 11% of the global space budget in 2023.
What share of their GDP do EU countries spend on public space budgets?
Luxembourg remains Europe’s leading investor in space, dedicating 0.135% of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) to the sector.
Globally, the country ranks third behind the US (0.262%) and Russia (0.169%).
In Europe, Luxembourg is followed by France, which invests 0.167% of its GDP, Italy at 0.103%, and Belgium at 0.095%.
On the other hand, private investment in space has continued to decline in 2023, dropping by 32% compared to 2022.
Europe also saw a 14% decrease in 2023 compared to the year before, with private space ventures receiving just below €980 million.
Although the US accounts for most of the global decline in 2023, its space sector continues to attract the largest share of investments at 60%, followed by Europe with 16% and China with 9%.
What was the state of space activity in 2023?
There were 221 orbital launches in 2023, an 18% increase compared to 2022.
Yet, a total of 212 launches were successful.
The US carried out more than half of the launches, with 96 of them conducted by SpaceX.
China accounted for 30% with 67 launches, a 5% increase from 2022, and Russia completed 19 launches.
The European launch service provider conducted three launches in 2023, including Europe’s first mission to Jupiter, which aimed to explore whether the planet’s three moons — Callisto, Europa, and Ganymede — could support life in their oceans.
Video editor • Mert Can Yilmaz
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