🇪🇨 Former #Ecuadorian VP Attempts Suicide in Police Custody:
Former Ecuadorian vice president Jorge Glas has reportedly attempted suicide through an overdose on medication while being held in a prison in Guayaquil.
Following the attempted suicide, Glas was reportedly transported to a nearby military hospital in a comatose state. The condition of Glas is currently unclear.
The attempted suicide comes after Ecuadorian authorities raided the Mexican embassy, which was in the process of granting Glas asylum, after an arrest warrant was issued against the former Vice President following his conviction on two separate charges of corruption.
Ecuadorian authorities stated this sought-after asylum was “not lawful” as the former VP had already been convicted on the charges established. The arrest follows an increase in tensions between the two Latin American nations, with the Ecuadorian government declaring the Mexican ambassador a “persona non grata,” requesting that the ambassador leave Ecuador “soon.”
https://theatlasnews.co/brief/2024/04/08/former-ecuadorian-vp-attempts-suicide-in-police-custody/
Former Ecuadorian vice president Jorge Glas has reportedly attempted suicide through an overdose on medication while being held in a prison in Guayaquil.
Following the attempted suicide, Glas was reportedly transported to a nearby military hospital in a comatose state. The condition of Glas is currently unclear.
The attempted suicide comes after Ecuadorian authorities raided the Mexican embassy, which was in the process of granting Glas asylum, after an arrest warrant was issued against the former Vice President following his conviction on two separate charges of corruption.
Ecuadorian authorities stated this sought-after asylum was “not lawful” as the former VP had already been convicted on the charges established. The arrest follows an increase in tensions between the two Latin American nations, with the Ecuadorian government declaring the Mexican ambassador a “persona non grata,” requesting that the ambassador leave Ecuador “soon.”
https://theatlasnews.co/brief/2024/04/08/former-ecuadorian-vp-attempts-suicide-in-police-custody/
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🇰🇷🇺🇸 #SouthKorea Launched 2nd Spy Satellite From #UnitedStates:
South Korea launched their second domestically built military spy satellite from a SpaceX 9 rocket taking off from the JFK Space Center in Florida on April 7th.
The rocket took off at 7:17 p.m. local time, with the first and second sections separating around 2 minutes and 18 seconds after launch.
This is the second satellite launched this year as South Korea plans to build five total by 2025, to monitor North Korea.
The satellite is equipped with a Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) which can capture images regardless of weather. All five will be equipped with SAR.
Additional electro-optical and infrared sensors can take detailed images of the Earth.
When all five satellites are launched and active, they will be able to provide continuous coverage at two-hour intervals. https://theatlasnews.co/brief/2024/04/08/south-korea-launched-2nd-spy-satellite-from-u-s/
South Korea launched their second domestically built military spy satellite from a SpaceX 9 rocket taking off from the JFK Space Center in Florida on April 7th.
The rocket took off at 7:17 p.m. local time, with the first and second sections separating around 2 minutes and 18 seconds after launch.
This is the second satellite launched this year as South Korea plans to build five total by 2025, to monitor North Korea.
The satellite is equipped with a Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) which can capture images regardless of weather. All five will be equipped with SAR.
Additional electro-optical and infrared sensors can take detailed images of the Earth.
When all five satellites are launched and active, they will be able to provide continuous coverage at two-hour intervals. https://theatlasnews.co/brief/2024/04/08/south-korea-launched-2nd-spy-satellite-from-u-s/
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🇲🇲🇹🇭 #Thailand Airlifts #Myanmar Military Members and Families from Rebel Conquered Territory:
Yesterday, the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) achieved a significant military victory in Myawaddy on April 7th, 2024. Up to 500 members of the 356th and 357th Light Infantry Battalions and the 275th Light Infantry Battalions have surrendered in the last 24 hours to the KNLA.
However, a number of junta forces have reportedly been able to evacuate the region by Thai military aircraft after Naypyidaw requested supported from Bangkok. Local media began reporting these developments for the first time at 0400 EST on April 7th, 2023. By 1000 EST on April 7th, Myanmar National Airlines and a military ATR72-600 aircraft were coordinated to land at Mae Sot Airport in Tak, Thailand to fly the survivors to Yangon, Myanmar. This is the first bi-lateral coordination of this kind since the 2021 coup in which a foreign partner has directly intervened in the ongoing civil war.
https://theatlasnews.co/latest/2024/04/08/thailand-airlifts-myanmar-military-members-and-families-from-rebel-conquered-terriroty/
Yesterday, the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) achieved a significant military victory in Myawaddy on April 7th, 2024. Up to 500 members of the 356th and 357th Light Infantry Battalions and the 275th Light Infantry Battalions have surrendered in the last 24 hours to the KNLA.
However, a number of junta forces have reportedly been able to evacuate the region by Thai military aircraft after Naypyidaw requested supported from Bangkok. Local media began reporting these developments for the first time at 0400 EST on April 7th, 2023. By 1000 EST on April 7th, Myanmar National Airlines and a military ATR72-600 aircraft were coordinated to land at Mae Sot Airport in Tak, Thailand to fly the survivors to Yangon, Myanmar. This is the first bi-lateral coordination of this kind since the 2021 coup in which a foreign partner has directly intervened in the ongoing civil war.
https://theatlasnews.co/latest/2024/04/08/thailand-airlifts-myanmar-military-members-and-families-from-rebel-conquered-terriroty/
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Thailand Airlifts Myanmar Military Members and Families from Rebel Conquered Territory
As this publication reported on yesterday, the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) achieved a significant military victory in Myawaddy on April 7th, 2024. Up
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🇮🇱🇵🇸 #Israel Admits Strike Killed 7 WCK Aid Workers, Dismisses Two Officers and Reprimands Others:
Israel’s military said they dismissed two officers from their positions on April 5th, Friday, and reprimanded others after an IDF strike in #Gaza, #Palestine, killed seven World Central Kitchen aid workers after previously striking two other vehicles they were fleeing in. After the aid workers disembarked from the first car, they reportedly even called military contacts at the WCK, but seconds later another missile hit their car, according to Haaretz, before finally a third drone missile hit their third car in the aid convoy, killing those inside who had just fled inside the vehicle. Over 220 humanitarian workers have been killed so far since October 7th, with 30 killed in the line of duty, according to the UN.
“At some point, when the convoy was driving along the approved route, the war room of the unit responsible for security of the route ordered the drone operators to attack one of the cars with a missile. Some of the passengers were seen leaving the car after it was hit and switching to one of the other two cars. They continued to drive and even notified the people responsible that they were attacked, but, seconds later, another missile hit their car. The third car in the convoy approached, and the passengers began to transfer to it the wounded who had survived the second strike – in order to get them out of danger. But then a third missile struck them. All seven World Central Kitchen volunteers were killed in the strike.”
According to the IDF, a truck, among other aid vehicles, had joined the convoy half an hour earlier, and on top of that truck's roof there had been an armed Hamas suspect who climbed on. Later, at a warehouse, the WCK convoy split from the aid trucks and left without the truck on which the targeted man was located. Despite this, as well as the clear markings on the vehicles on the sides and top, the security detail for the convoy ordered the drone operators to attack. Israel's military had full awareness of the affiliation of the NGO and the plans for the route on which the three aid cars were taking, a route that was preapproved and coordinated with the IDF. An Elbit Hermes 450 drone was used to carry out the strikes.
In a Washington Post article written on the same day, it is reported that aid groups in Gaza "warned that the system used to coordinate their deliveries with Israel’s military was broken, putting the lives of relief workers at risk... Over the past six months, humanitarian organizations, including Doctors Without Borders and the U.N. relief agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), have publicized at least nine accounts of aid convoys or buildings coming under attack, despite their routes or coordinates being shared with Israeli authorities in advance. Nearly 200 Palestinian aid workers have been killed, according to Humanitarian Outcomes, an organization that tracks aid-worker deaths."
These recent strikes have led to a massive decrease in aid to Gaza, where in the north people have been surviving on an average of 245 calories a day since January, according to humanitarian group Oxfam.
https://theatlasnews.co/brief/2024/04/08/israel-admits-strike-killed-7-wck-aid-workers-dismisses-two-officers-and-reprimands-others/
Israel’s military said they dismissed two officers from their positions on April 5th, Friday, and reprimanded others after an IDF strike in #Gaza, #Palestine, killed seven World Central Kitchen aid workers after previously striking two other vehicles they were fleeing in. After the aid workers disembarked from the first car, they reportedly even called military contacts at the WCK, but seconds later another missile hit their car, according to Haaretz, before finally a third drone missile hit their third car in the aid convoy, killing those inside who had just fled inside the vehicle. Over 220 humanitarian workers have been killed so far since October 7th, with 30 killed in the line of duty, according to the UN.
“At some point, when the convoy was driving along the approved route, the war room of the unit responsible for security of the route ordered the drone operators to attack one of the cars with a missile. Some of the passengers were seen leaving the car after it was hit and switching to one of the other two cars. They continued to drive and even notified the people responsible that they were attacked, but, seconds later, another missile hit their car. The third car in the convoy approached, and the passengers began to transfer to it the wounded who had survived the second strike – in order to get them out of danger. But then a third missile struck them. All seven World Central Kitchen volunteers were killed in the strike.”
According to the IDF, a truck, among other aid vehicles, had joined the convoy half an hour earlier, and on top of that truck's roof there had been an armed Hamas suspect who climbed on. Later, at a warehouse, the WCK convoy split from the aid trucks and left without the truck on which the targeted man was located. Despite this, as well as the clear markings on the vehicles on the sides and top, the security detail for the convoy ordered the drone operators to attack. Israel's military had full awareness of the affiliation of the NGO and the plans for the route on which the three aid cars were taking, a route that was preapproved and coordinated with the IDF. An Elbit Hermes 450 drone was used to carry out the strikes.
In a Washington Post article written on the same day, it is reported that aid groups in Gaza "warned that the system used to coordinate their deliveries with Israel’s military was broken, putting the lives of relief workers at risk... Over the past six months, humanitarian organizations, including Doctors Without Borders and the U.N. relief agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), have publicized at least nine accounts of aid convoys or buildings coming under attack, despite their routes or coordinates being shared with Israeli authorities in advance. Nearly 200 Palestinian aid workers have been killed, according to Humanitarian Outcomes, an organization that tracks aid-worker deaths."
These recent strikes have led to a massive decrease in aid to Gaza, where in the north people have been surviving on an average of 245 calories a day since January, according to humanitarian group Oxfam.
https://theatlasnews.co/brief/2024/04/08/israel-admits-strike-killed-7-wck-aid-workers-dismisses-two-officers-and-reprimands-others/
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🇧🇾 #Belarusian Army Colonel Dies in Prison After Insulting President #Lukashenko: https://theatlasnews.co/latest/2024/04/11/belarusian-army-colonel-dies-in-prison-after-insulting-president-lukashenko/
theatlasnews.co
Belarusian Army Colonel Dies in Prison After Insulting President Lukashenko | Atlas News
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🇵🇸 🇮🇱 #Hamas Allegedly Does Not Have 40 Hostages to Fulfill Ceasefire First Round Requirements: https://theatlasnews.co/latest/2024/04/10/hamas-allegedly-does-not-have-40-hostages-to-fulfill-ceasefire-first-round-requirements/
Atlas
Hamas Allegedly Does Not Have 40 Hostages to Fulfill Ceasefire First Round Requirements
According to an Israeli official and sources familiar with the matter, Hamas has indicated that they do not presently have 40 living hostages which fulfill the
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🇭🇺 The Case of The #Budapest Two – #Hungary: https://theatlasnews.co/latest/2024/04/10/the-case-of-the-budapest-two/
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The Case of The Budapest Two
The "Day of Honour" demonstration is a yearly demonstration that takes place in Budapest, Hungary. It commemorates Nazi forces who escaped the Russian
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🇹🇼 🇨🇳 Former #Taiwanese President Meets #Chinese Leader #Xi Jinping In #Beijing: https://theatlasnews.co/latest/2024/04/10/former-taiwanese-president-meets-chinese-leader-xi-jinping-in-beijing/
Atlas
Former Taiwanese President Meets Chinese Leader Xi Jinping In Beijing
On April 10th, former Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou met with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in the East Hall of the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. The meeti
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What do y’all think, is tonight the night that Iran responds?
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Jordanian airspace has been temporarily closed amid reports of large-scale signal jamming in the region, which is likely done by Israel in anticipation of potential missile and drone strikes by Iran and its proxies
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Iran issues NOTAM closing airspace over Tehran, except for military and emergency/medical flights
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Axios, citing US officials, reports that Iran has officially launched a large-scale drone attack against Israel
No confirmation from Israeli sources yet
No confirmation from Israeli sources yet
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Drones will now cross over Iraq and Syria before striking targets in Israel
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It’s gonna be a while for these drones to reach Israel, so impacts won’t happen for a at least another hour or so
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IDF Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari confirms drone launches from Iran.
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Now we just need to wait and see how this all plays out
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Iran state media reporting that drone waves have also been launched from Yemen.
If confirmed, they will fly over the Red Sea towards Elat, Israel.
Potential for US/ Coalition interception.
If confirmed, they will fly over the Red Sea towards Elat, Israel.
Potential for US/ Coalition interception.
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