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Today: Mexico Mayor. US Venezuela. Israel lawyer. Afghanistan earthquake. Nepal avalanche. Tanzania inauguration. Nigeria US islamists. Spain floods resignation. Georgia drug smuggler. Polish AI prompts.
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Today: Mexico Mayor. US Venezuela. Israel lawyer. Afghanistan earthquake. Nepal avalanche. Tanzania inauguration. Nigeria US islamists. Spain floods resignation. Georgia drug smuggler. Polish AI prompts.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning. This is sen seven World News in seven minutes.
I'm Nile More. Today is Tuesday, the fourth of November
twenty twenty five. Today we're starting in the Americas. In Mexico,
(00:22):
the mayor of the city Uruapan was assassinated in public
during celebrations for the Day of the Dead festival. Uruapan
is a city in the western state of Michuacan, one
of Mexico's most violent states due to conflicts between drug
cartels and other criminal groups. The mayor of Uruapan, Carlos
(00:47):
Alberto Manzo Rodriguez, has publicly criticized the criminal groups and
was under police protection. However, he chose to attend the
public celebration on so and was shot while standing in
the crowd. One of his attackers was killed by police
at the scene. Two more have been arrested. In the
(01:11):
United States, President Donald Trump has said he does not
think the US will go to war with Venezuela. In
recent weeks, there has been a build up of the
US military in the Caribbean, including warships and fighter jets,
with the Venezuelan government warning that the US was preparing
(01:34):
to attack them. Trump now says this is not going
to happen, though, the US continues to attack small boats
in the region, which it says are being used to
transport drugs. President Nicolas Maduro of Venezuela and President Gustavo
Petro of Colombia have both called these strikes on the
(01:57):
boats illegal asia In Israel, the most senior lawyer for
the Israeli military has been arrested for leaking video footage
of Palestinian prisoners being abused by Israeli soldiers. In July
twenty twenty four, eleven Israeli soldiers were arrested for torturing
(02:22):
and sexually assaulting Palestinian prisoners. At the time, right wing
Israeli protesters, including elected politicians, said that the soldiers had
done nothing wrong and called them quote heroes. So the
military's most senior lawyer, Ifat Toma Yershalmi, leaked footage of
(02:45):
the attack to quote debunk false propaganda against army law enforcement.
Now after admitting last week that she was the one
who leaked the video, Toma Yereshalmi has been arrested and
charged with several crimes, including abuse of office and obstruction
(03:06):
of justice. In Afghanistan, a powerful earthquake in the north
of the country has killed at least twenty people and
injured more than five hundred and thirty, according to the
Taliban Health Ministry. The six point three magnitude earthquake was
felt throughout the Shalgara district, including the city of maza
(03:30):
Is Sharif, where it damaged the famous Blue Mosque, a
holy site for Shia Muslims. In Nepal, three climbers have
been killed by an avalanche on Mount Yalongri. Four more
climbers are missing and feared dead, but rescuers are continuing
to search for them. Africa, in Tanzania, Samir Suluhu Hassan
(03:58):
has been sworn in for her second term as president.
Hassan was first made president in twenty twenty one when
President John Magofouli died and Hassan replaced him. That inauguration
ceremony took place in a football stadium with cheering crowds.
(04:19):
This time, because of protests last week about the election,
from which opposition parties were banned from participating, President Hassan
was sworn in on an army base and the public
were not allowed to attend. The Nigerian government has said
it would welcome help from the United States to fight
(04:43):
Islamist terrorists as long as the US respects Nigeria's sovereignty.
On Saturday, US President Donald Trump announced that he was
planning military action in Nigeria because of attacks by Islamists,
again against Christians. However, while there have been many attacks
(05:04):
by Islamist groups like Boko Haram and Islamic States West Africa,
according to groups that monitor such attacks in Nigeria, most
of the victims are Muslim. Daniel Bowala, an advisor to
the Nigerian President Bola Tenubu, denied that Christians in Nigeria
(05:25):
were being persecuted.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
The report or notion that there is a Christian persecution
of genocide in Nigeria is false, false bought from the
premise and the conclusion. It is not supported by data.
All the report we have so far seen have all
attested to the fact that they were serious cases of killing,
but that from twenty twenty two, twenty three down to
(05:49):
twenty twenty five there have been market improvement. In fact,
there is a decline in the rate of our killings Europe.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
In Spain, the president of the Valencia Region, Carlos Mazon,
has resigned in October twenty twenty four flash floods in
Valencia killed two hundred and twenty nine people. Many people
blamed Mazon for making the disaster worse by not responding
(06:19):
quickly enough. Instead of attending emergency meetings, Mazon spent four
hours at lunch with a journalist. His government also did
not send emergency alerts to people's phones until eight pm
that day, when the floodwaters were already high and many
people had already died. In a statement announcing his resignation,
(06:44):
Mazon said quote, I know that I have made mistakes.
I acknowledge it, and I will live with them for
the rest of my life. In Georgia, a British teenager
arrested for drug smuggling has been released. Bella May Cully,
who is nineteen years old and pregnant, was arrested at
(07:06):
Tabilisi Airport in May for attempting to smuggle twelve kilograms
of marijuana and two kilograms of hashish into Georgia. Cully
was facing up to fifteen years in prison, but after
she made a plea deal and her family paid a
fine of one hundred thirty seven thousand pounds or one
(07:29):
hundred eighty thousand dollars prosecutors decided to drop her case
and she is now allowed to leave the country. And
Polish has been revealed to be the best language for
prompting AI chatbots. According to a new study, a team
of researchers from the University of Maryland and Microsoft prompted
(07:55):
different AI models with the same message in twenty six
different languages and then measured the accuracy of the answers
they gave. When the prompts were written in Polish, the
answers were on average eighty eight percent accurate, which is
unusual because there is less Polish material to train AI
(08:17):
models on compared with the amount of things written in
English or Chinese. Prompts written in English came in sixth
place for accuracy, whereas prompts written in Chinese came in
twenty second out of twenty six languages. That's your world
news in seven minutes. If you enjoy this podcast, please
(08:40):
tell your friends to find Simple English News Daily in
their podcast app. I'm nil more. Tomorrow you will be
with Stephen Devinchenzi. Have a great day.
Good morning. This is sen seven World News in seven minutes.
I'm Nile More. Today is Tuesday, the fourth of November
twenty twenty five. Today we're starting in the Americas. In Mexico,
(00:22):
the mayor of the city Uruapan was assassinated in public
during celebrations for the Day of the Dead festival. Uruapan
is a city in the western state of Michuacan, one
of Mexico's most violent states due to conflicts between drug
cartels and other criminal groups. The mayor of Uruapan, Carlos
(00:47):
Alberto Manzo Rodriguez, has publicly criticized the criminal groups and
was under police protection. However, he chose to attend the
public celebration on so and was shot while standing in
the crowd. One of his attackers was killed by police
at the scene. Two more have been arrested. In the
(01:11):
United States, President Donald Trump has said he does not
think the US will go to war with Venezuela. In
recent weeks, there has been a build up of the
US military in the Caribbean, including warships and fighter jets,
with the Venezuelan government warning that the US was preparing
(01:34):
to attack them. Trump now says this is not going
to happen, though, the US continues to attack small boats
in the region, which it says are being used to
transport drugs. President Nicolas Maduro of Venezuela and President Gustavo
Petro of Colombia have both called these strikes on the
(01:57):
boats illegal asia In Israel, the most senior lawyer for
the Israeli military has been arrested for leaking video footage
of Palestinian prisoners being abused by Israeli soldiers. In July
twenty twenty four, eleven Israeli soldiers were arrested for torturing
(02:22):
and sexually assaulting Palestinian prisoners. At the time, right wing
Israeli protesters, including elected politicians, said that the soldiers had
done nothing wrong and called them quote heroes. So the
military's most senior lawyer, Ifat Toma Yershalmi, leaked footage of
(02:45):
the attack to quote debunk false propaganda against army law enforcement.
Now after admitting last week that she was the one
who leaked the video, Toma Yereshalmi has been arrested and
charged with several crimes, including abuse of office and obstruction
(03:06):
of justice. In Afghanistan, a powerful earthquake in the north
of the country has killed at least twenty people and
injured more than five hundred and thirty, according to the
Taliban Health Ministry. The six point three magnitude earthquake was
felt throughout the Shalgara district, including the city of maza
(03:30):
Is Sharif, where it damaged the famous Blue Mosque, a
holy site for Shia Muslims. In Nepal, three climbers have
been killed by an avalanche on Mount Yalongri. Four more
climbers are missing and feared dead, but rescuers are continuing
to search for them. Africa, in Tanzania, Samir Suluhu Hassan
(03:58):
has been sworn in for her second term as president.
Hassan was first made president in twenty twenty one when
President John Magofouli died and Hassan replaced him. That inauguration
ceremony took place in a football stadium with cheering crowds.
(04:19):
This time, because of protests last week about the election,
from which opposition parties were banned from participating, President Hassan
was sworn in on an army base and the public
were not allowed to attend. The Nigerian government has said
it would welcome help from the United States to fight
(04:43):
Islamist terrorists as long as the US respects Nigeria's sovereignty.
On Saturday, US President Donald Trump announced that he was
planning military action in Nigeria because of attacks by Islamists,
again against Christians. However, while there have been many attacks
(05:04):
by Islamist groups like Boko Haram and Islamic States West Africa,
according to groups that monitor such attacks in Nigeria, most
of the victims are Muslim. Daniel Bowala, an advisor to
the Nigerian President Bola Tenubu, denied that Christians in Nigeria
(05:25):
were being persecuted.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
The report or notion that there is a Christian persecution
of genocide in Nigeria is false, false bought from the
premise and the conclusion. It is not supported by data.
All the report we have so far seen have all
attested to the fact that they were serious cases of killing,
but that from twenty twenty two, twenty three down to
(05:49):
twenty twenty five there have been market improvement. In fact,
there is a decline in the rate of our killings Europe.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
In Spain, the president of the Valencia Region, Carlos Mazon,
has resigned in October twenty twenty four flash floods in
Valencia killed two hundred and twenty nine people. Many people
blamed Mazon for making the disaster worse by not responding
(06:19):
quickly enough. Instead of attending emergency meetings, Mazon spent four
hours at lunch with a journalist. His government also did
not send emergency alerts to people's phones until eight pm
that day, when the floodwaters were already high and many
people had already died. In a statement announcing his resignation,
(06:44):
Mazon said quote, I know that I have made mistakes.
I acknowledge it, and I will live with them for
the rest of my life. In Georgia, a British teenager
arrested for drug smuggling has been released. Bella May Cully,
who is nineteen years old and pregnant, was arrested at
(07:06):
Tabilisi Airport in May for attempting to smuggle twelve kilograms
of marijuana and two kilograms of hashish into Georgia. Cully
was facing up to fifteen years in prison, but after
she made a plea deal and her family paid a
fine of one hundred thirty seven thousand pounds or one
(07:29):
hundred eighty thousand dollars prosecutors decided to drop her case
and she is now allowed to leave the country. And
Polish has been revealed to be the best language for
prompting AI chatbots. According to a new study, a team
of researchers from the University of Maryland and Microsoft prompted
(07:55):
different AI models with the same message in twenty six
different languages and then measured the accuracy of the answers
they gave. When the prompts were written in Polish, the
answers were on average eighty eight percent accurate, which is
unusual because there is less Polish material to train AI
(08:17):
models on compared with the amount of things written in
English or Chinese. Prompts written in English came in sixth
place for accuracy, whereas prompts written in Chinese came in
twenty second out of twenty six languages. That's your world
news in seven minutes. If you enjoy this podcast, please
(08:40):
tell your friends to find Simple English News Daily in
their podcast app. I'm nil more. Tomorrow you will be
with Stephen Devinchenzi. Have a great day.
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