El Consejo de Seguridad de la ONU ha dejado en el aire este viernes el futuro de la Misión de Naciones Unidas para el Referéndum del Sáhara Occidental (Minurso), que expiraba este sábado, tras el veto cruzado de Rusia y Estados Unidos a dos propuestas presentadas por cada una de las potencias. Si no hay una reunión de urgencia en las próximas horas que lo evite, la misión de la ONU que lleva 35 años en el Sáhara llegará a su fin este mismo sábado.

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El sudoku para encontrar nuevo líder de la ONU se complica, con nuevas variables de luchas geopolíticas y personales. La irrupción en la carrera por la secretaría general de la emiratí Lena Nusseibeh había despertado en los últimos días muchas especulaciones, por sus posibles apoyos y por el controvertido respaldo de su país a los rebeldes de las Fuerzas de Apoyo Rápido en la guerra de Sudán. El bloqueo que mostró la votación del pasado 16 de octubre, en la que los siete candidatos recibieron el veto de al menos dos de las grandes potencias, pareció abrir la puerta a que una figura externa pudiera lograr el consenso. Algunos círculos vendieron que Nusseibeh podía ser esa persona. Pero la votación informal que ha celebrado este viernes el Consejo de Seguridad aleja esa idea: la emiratí ha quedado en cuarta posición en una consulta en la que ha vuelto a ganar la costarricense Rebeca Grynspan.

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Cornell University took another step Wednesday in acknowledging responsibility over its handling of a complaint by a former student — whose identity remains anonymous and who is referred to as Jane Doe — against seven members of a fraternity at the elite New York state school who she accused of raping her in October 2024. The faculty governing body at Cornell, known as the Faculty Senate, will begin voting on a symbolic censure resolution to condemn how the university handled Jane Doe’s case.

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He had done it before, but it has escalated during the campaign for next Tuesday’s midterm elections. The president of the United States, Donald Trump, increasingly unfiltered in public remarks, seems obsessed with the arms, shoulders, hands and faces of his allies. When praising Republican candidates, Trump, rather than highlighting their intelligence or political vision, calls attention to their physical attributes.

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Dan Hanover has planted a sign in the front yard of his home in Tarrytown as if trying to ward off a curse. It bears just three words, “Mike Lawler for Congress,” but that is more than enough for everyone here to understand what it means: the retiree is determined to do whatever he can to help the Republican who represents this charming village north of New York City keep his seat in the House of Representatives after the November 3 election.

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There is still over an hour before the protagonist appears, but the line already wraps around the block. Dozens of people wait patiently for their turn to see the man who has become the great hope of the Democratic left wing. When he begins to speak, pandemonium breaks out: “My name is Abdul El‑Sayed and I am going to be your next senator in Washington.” Over the next hour, the hundreds gathered in this venue will applaud, laugh, and cheer every word from the mouth of the new star of American politics, who has already made a fitted black T‑shirt and jeans his trademark look. We are in Lansing, Michigan’s capital, where one of the most gripping battles of the midterm elections — just over two weeks away — is being fought.

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The Jamaica–179th Street subway stop in Queens is only about a 10-minute walk from Wareham Place. But an abyss separates the two places. From the crowded low-rise blocks of busy shops, where spotting a white resident is difficult, to single-family homes with manicured yards on quiet streets where cars rarely pass. “Different parts of Queens were rough; this was an oasis,” Donald Trump said in a 2015 New York Times interview. This “oasis” is where the man who is now president of the United States lived as a child, in a house an anonymous family has just bought for $1.93 million.

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