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The Israeli army has allowed travel to the city of Bethlehem, considered the birthplace of Jesus Christ, to residents of other Palestinian cities in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, as well as from Israel. In the vicinity of Bethlehem, the number of police and military posts is increasing, through which tourists arriving in the city to celebrate Christmas have to pass.
“Mad cow disease” has come to the United States; the first case of this disease in the history of the country was detected on a farm in Washington state, and the meat of the sick cow did not have time to be destroyed, it ended up in minced meat and was probably already eaten. This sensational statement was made by representatives of the US agricultural department. Several countries - most notably Japan, South Korea and Singapore - have suspended imports of American beef. “Mad cow disease” is an extremely dangerous infection for livestock that can lead to human infection with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
88-year-old Augusto Pinochet, the ex-dictator of Chile, may be stripped of his immunity and accused of systematically exterminating those who fought against the authoritarian regimes of Latin America in the seventies and eighties. Dozens of opposition leaders from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and Chile were killed in the so-called “Operation Condor”, which is believed to be the result of a conspiracy between the military dictators of these states.
Now Chilean judge Juan Guzman Tapia has sent a request to the Santiago Court of Appeal to remove the legal immunity that Pinochet has as a former president of the country. It should be noted that previous similar initiatives failed.