Dressed in a blue prison uniform, Lee Chun-jae confessed in court on Monday to be the serial killer who for years sowed terror in Hwaseong, a rural region south of Seoul. But he has not done so in a trial where he was tried, but instead appeared as a witness in a new trial to another man who was convicted of one of those crimes. “I am the real criminal,” Lee assured the judge. He and no one else is guilty of the deaths of 14 people (women and girls) and thirty sexual crimes, reports the Yonhap agency.An investigation based…
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About 100 million Americans have already voted early in a historic election. This means that 73% of all votes registered in 2016 have already been cast before polling stations open across the country. Still, a handful of states are key to the aspirations of Donald Trump and his rival, Democrat Joe Biden. The re-election of the Republican or the victory of his opponent traverse a route of disputed territories. Florida, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Ohio, and Georgia hold the key to success predicted by the 270 votes needed in the Electoral College to become president of the United States. To these has been…
For the Republican Party, this has been a campaign by, for, ancle to that effective “let’s build the wall”2016. Th everything has been Trump. It is difficult to imagine a more personalistic political project. To the point that, at its national convention last August, the party resigned, for the first time in its history, to debate and present a program. The formation, explained the Republican National Committee, “will continue to enthusiastically support the president’s America First agenda.” Nothing else. Trump has not complied with promises, beyond hyperbolic phrases (“we will create the best economy in history”, “I will fight for you more than…
With the presidential elections on Tuesday, the United States submits to a plebiscite the wave of populism that has shaken politics on both sides of the Atlantic in recent years. The opening of the first polling stations on the east coast of the country marks the start of a key day inside and outside the United States. A resounding defeat of Donald Trump would represent a repudiation of the nationalist and divisive turn that the country has experienced, in the same way that his re-election would cause a commotion in half the world. His Democratic rival and favorite in the polls,…
Last February, Iván Escamilla was murdered in Mexico City by his partner Érica Francisca, when she lost her sanity after Escamilla allegedly wanted to “talk” about the problem of substance abuse that she had presented for years. The couple shared a home and had been in a relationship for five years and there is no known altercation prior to the one that led to Ivan’s death. However, the defendant’s ex-partner would have mentioned in the past that the woman was dangerous and “was crazy,” the motive is unknown so far. According to the police report, the killer was found kneeling in…
Four people died on Monday night in an Islamist attackin Vienna, the Austrian capital, perpetrated by at least one terrorist who was killed and described by Austrian Interior Minister Karl Nehammer as a supporter of the Islamic State (ISIS). Another 22 people were injured, seven of them extremely serious, according to the latest official information. The Austrian authorities have launched a major operation with a thousand agents looking for other possible terrorists linked to the attack, although they have so far found no evidence of other perpetrators. During the day, the police made 14 arrests around the terrorist, a young man with…
To the commemoration now in the Congress to Azaña will be added several activities planned in the coming weeks at the Ateneo the Círculo de Bellas Artes the Residencia de Estudiantes and finally from December 17 the exhibition with manuscripts and unpublished videos in the Library National. The Royal House still cannot ratify the attendance of King Felipe VI to that act in which the President of the Government Pedro Sánchez who wanted to be remembered yesterday in Congress and other authorities are already confirmed The curator of this exhibition Ángeles Egido León highlights the relevance of several contributions from…
PRISA has completed the sale process of 64.47% of his Tuesday thus ending its divestment in the Portuguese audiovisual group. This operation has been carried out through independent block transfers of the shares to various investors at a total price of 36.8 million euros, as reported by the company to the National Securities Market Commission (CNMV). This implies an implicit valuation ( enterprise value ) of 150 million euros based on the financial position of Media Capital at the end of the second quarter of this year, and a premium of 63% compared to the price per share offered by the entity Cofina in…
Pablo Berger continues on his path of forming one of the most eclectic filmographies of Spanish cinema And now its time for a new format animation Berger director of Torremolinos 73 2003 Blancanieves 2012 and Abracadabra 2017 is working on the adaptation of Robot Dreams Sara Varons 2007 graphic novel. The story of friendship between a dog and his robot and the memories of that relationship Berger once again has the backing of Arcadia Motion Pictures for a production that the filmmaker calls another triple somersault He has been in the project for months now and last Friday José Luis…