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Newly Elected Mexican Congresswoman Kidnapped

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08/15/2018

08/15/2018

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Newly Elected Mexican Congresswoman Kidnapped

Top News: Norma Azucena Rodríguez Zamora—a former mayor of Tihuatlán, a town in Veracruz, who was elected to represent eastern Veracruz in the lower house of Mexico’s Congress last month—was kidnapped at gunpoint while traveling on a highway. She is set to assume office on Sept. 1.

Genaro Negrete Urbano, the mayor of Naupan (a town in Hidalgo, the same state where Rodríguez was taken) was kidnapped last month and later found dead.

Abductions, many connected to organized crime, are a widespread problem in Mexico.

Italy: The Morandi bridge in Genoa collapsed Tuesday. Nearly 40 vehicles fell some 150 feet, leaving at least 39 people dead. In recent years, multiple experts raised strident concerns about the bridge’s safety.

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AFRICA

•  Incumbent Malian President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita claimed victory in the country’s presidential election and dismissed fraud accusations.

•  Nigerian police are holding reporter Samuel Ogundipe in detention over his refusal to reveal a source.

•  The Democratic Republic of the Congo is deploying an experimental treatment against a new Ebola outbreak.

AMERICAS

•  Venezuelan authorities arrested 14 people, including military officers and opposition politicians, in connection to an alleged attempt to assassinate President Nicolás Maduro with a drone.

•  Colombian opposition lawmakers intervened on Tuesday to keep the FARC from being kicked out of Congress after President Iván Duque’s government sought to revise the terms of last year’s peace deal.

•  Christine Hallquist won the Democratic Party primary for governor of Vermont, becoming the first transgender candidate in the United States to be nominated for a governorship by one of the two major parties.

ASIA

•  Taliban militants killed up to 44 Afghan soldiers and police in an attack on a military post in Afghanistan’s northern province of Baghlan.

•  Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a speech on Wednesday laid out a plan to insure 100 million families.

•  An Indian postal worker was suspended for dumping rather than delivering 6,000 letters.

EUROPE

•  Russian officials are set to meet in Switzerland next week with John Bolton, U.S. President Donald Trump’s national security advisor.

•  London Mayor Sadiq Khan wants to ban cars in some areas after an attack on Parliament earlier this week.

•  British expatriates living in the EU launched a legal challenge to Brexit.

MIDDLE EAST

•  Israel reopened the main cargo crossing into the Gaza Strip, after weeks of tight restrictions.

•  In a one-time agreement, Israel agreed to release some 10 tons of undelivered mail and goods bound of the occupied West Bank, which had held in Jordan over the past eight years.

•  Turkey raised tariffs on alcohol, cars, and tobacco from the United States—the latest chapter in an ongoing trade dispute.

- By Benjamin Soloway

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