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Una importante universidad china elimina los exámenes de inglés y los nacionalistas celebran la decisión

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:30:53 GMT

(CNN) — Una importante universidad del noroeste de China eliminó las pruebas de inglés como requisito para graduarse, reavivando un acalorado debate sobre el papel de la lengua franca del mundo en el sistema educativo del país después de años de creciente sentimiento nacionalista bajo el mando del líder Xi Jinping.En un comunicado publicado el miércoles, la Universidad Jiaotong de Xi’an, en la capital de la provincia de Shaanxi, informó que los estudiantes ya no necesitarán aprobar un examen de inglés estandarizado a nivel nacional —ni ningún otro examen de inglés— para poder graduarse con una licenciatura.El anuncio causó revuelo en las redes sociales, donde muchos elogiaron la decisión y pidieron que más universidades hicieran lo mismo.“Muy bien. Espero que otras universidades sigan el ejemplo. Es ridículo que los títulos académicos de los chinos tengan que ser validados por un (examen) de lengua extranjera”, decía un comentario con más de 24.000 me gusta e...

Saint Louis City SC takes draw streak into matchup with Minnesota United

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:30:53 GMT

Saint Louis City SC (15-10-5, first in the Western Conference) vs. Minnesota United FC (9-10-10, 11th in the Western Conference)Saint Paul, Minnesota; Saturday, 8:30 p.m. EDTFANDUEL SPORTSBOOK MLS LINE: Minnesota United FC -116, Saint Louis +279, Draw +284; over/under is 2.5 goalsBOTTOM LINE: Saint Louis City SC plays Minnesota United after playing to a draw in three straight games.United is 8-7-7 against Western Conference opponents. United ranks 10th in the MLS with 131 shots on goal, averaging 4.5 per game.Saint Louis is 11-8-5 against Western Conference opponents. Saint Louis has a 4-0-1 record in games it scores a pair of goals.The matchup Saturday is the second meeting this season between the two teams. United won the last game 1-0.TOP PERFORMERS: Bongokuhle Hlongwane has scored eight goals with one assist for United. Teemu Pukki has four goals and one assist over the last 10 games.Nicholas Gioacchini has scored 10 goals with one assist for Saint Louis. Samuel Adeniran has fiv...

Charlotte FC takes draw streak into matchup with Cincinnati

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:30:53 GMT

Charlotte FC (7-9-12, 10th in the Eastern Conference) vs. FC Cincinnati (17-4-8, first in the Eastern Conference)Cincinnati; Saturday, 7:30 p.m. EDTFANDUEL SPORTSBOOK MLS LINE: FC Cincinnati -162, Charlotte FC +393, Draw +315; over/under is 2.5 goalsBOTTOM LINE: Charlotte FC takes on Cincinnati after playing to a draw in four consecutive games.Cincinnati is 11-3-7 against Eastern Conference teams. Cincinnati is 12-1 in one-goal matches.Charlotte is 5-6-9 in conference matchups. Charlotte is 6-3 in matches decided by one goal.The teams play Saturday for the second time this season. The last meeting finished tied 2-2.TOP PERFORMERS: Luciano Acosta has scored 14 goals with 10 assists for Cincinnati. Aaron Boupendza has three goals over the past 10 games.Karol Swiderski has eight goals and five assists for Charlotte. Benjamin Bender has two goals over the past 10 games.LAST 10 GAMES: Cincinnati: 4-2-4, averaging 1.7 goals, 4.6 shots on goal and 5.4 corner kicks per game while allowing 1...

Explosión de un artefacto en Nariño, Colombia, deja cinco policías heridos

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:30:53 GMT

(CNN Español) — Este viernes, el gobernador del departamento de Nariño, Jhon Rojas, informó a través de un comunicado que se reportaron cinco policías heridos por la detonación de un artefacto explosivo en El Ejido, en el Municipio de Policarpa.Gracias a una oportuna acción de la Policía fueron extraídos de la zona y están siendo atendidos.“Rechazamos enérgicamente el cobarde atentado contra una patrulla en #Nariño. Nuestra misión es proteger a los ciudadanos y no toleraremos la violencia contra nuestros policías. Trabajaremos incansablemente para llevar a los responsables ante la justicia y mantener la seguridad”, dijo al respecto en X el general William Salamanca, director de la Policía.Hasta el momento no se reportan muertos por dicha explosión.The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2023 Cable News Network, Inc., a Warner Bros. Discovery Company. All rights reserved.Source

Ukraine’s language commission snubs Russia

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:30:53 GMT

Ukraine’s National Commission for State Language Standards has ruled that writing words such as “Russia” and “Moscow” in lowercase letters in unofficial documents will no longer be considered an error.The commission said it made the decision after considering appeals from Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk and official letters from the Institute of Ukrainian Language and the O. O. Potebnia Institute of Linguistics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.From now on, spelling words such as “Russian Federation,” “Russia,” “Moscow,” “Moscow Kingdom,” “Russian Empire” and “State Duma of the Russian Federation,” in lowercase will not be a “deviation from the norms of the Ukrainian language in texts of an unofficial nature,” the commission said. Many Ukrainians, on social media in particular, had already been using lowercase letters when referring to Russia, ever since the Kremlin’s full-scale...

Week 3 preview: Xaverian has hands full with Springfield Central

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:30:53 GMT

Xaverian coach Al Fornaro feels he’s got enough weapons to feel comfortable getting into a track meet with virtually every team he faces.Springfield Central might be the exception to the rule.The teams have met in the postseason in each of the past two seasons and the net results weren’t exactly what Xaverian had in mind. The Hawks were within a score at halftime in both contests only to watch the Eagles erupt in the second half to emerge with lopsided victories.“We most certainly would not want to get into a track meet with them,” said Fornaro, whose team will host Springfield Central Friday night. “(Former Springfield Central quarterback William) Watson really hurt us in those games with his ability to extend plays with his great escape ability. I don’t care how good your defense is, asking young men to cover for more than five seconds is not a good recipe.“That being said, they still have a lot of talented young men there. Their quarterback (Jareth Staine) is a ...

Cyprus calls on the EU to rethink Syrian safe zones for eventually repatriating Syrian migrants

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:30:53 GMT

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Cyprus has formally called on the European Union to re-evaluate which areas of Syria can be declared safe and free from armed conflict so that Syrian migrants can eventually be repatriated there, the Cypriot Interior Ministry said Friday.Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou was the sole official to raise the issue during July’s informal gathering of his EU counterparts in Spain. No other EU nation has taken a formal position on safe zone re-evaluation, the Interior Ministry told The Associated Press.Cyprus is fronting the re-evaluation bid because it says its proximity to the region has now made it a prime destination for Syrian migrants.Ethnically divided Cyprus, with a population of nearly a million in the southern, internationally recognized part where migrants seek asylum, says migrants now comprise 6% of its population – much higher than the average in other EU member countries.War-torn Syria has for the past 12 years has been designated as an unsafe co...

Sudan’s military leader warns the war in his country could spread beyond its borders

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:30:53 GMT

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — The war in Sudan could spread beyond the northeast African country’s borders if it is not stopped, Sudan’s army chief told the United Nations General Assembly, while urging world leaders to designate the rival paramilitary force as a terrorist group.“The nature of this war is now a threat to regional and international peace and security. … This is like the spark of war, a war that will spill over to other countries in the region,” Sudan’s Army Chief Gen. Abdel Fattah Burhan told world leaders late Thursday.Sudan plunged into conflict in April when long-simmering tensions escalated between the military, led by Gen. Burhan, and the rival Rapid Support Forces, commanded by Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo. Both had joined forces in 2021 to seize power in a coup that cast aside Sudan’s pro-democracy forces.The conflict has killed at least 5,000 people and wounded 12,000 others, according to Volker Perthes, the U.N. envoy in the country, who announced his res...

A peace forum in Ethiopia is postponed as deadly clashes continue in the country’s Amhara region

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:30:53 GMT

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A prominent peace forum in Ethiopia has been postponed as clashes between the federal government and fighters from a major ethnic group continue to destabilize the region.The Tana High-Level Forum on Security in Africa said in a statement Thursday that the annual gathering of African leaders, set for October, has been pushed back to April 2024 “due to unforeseen circumstances.”The forum takes place in Ethiopia’s Amhara region, which has experienced months of clashes as the federal government tries to disarm local fighters who had been its allies in a recent two-year conflict in the neighboring Tigray region.The Tana forum describes itself as a platform for “African-led solutions to the continent’s most pressing security challenges.” In recent years, some of those challenges have occurred in the forum’s backyard as the government of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed struggles to contain ethnic groups that defy efforts to centralize power.There are frequent reports from ...

King Charles goes to Bordeaux to visit urban forest and sustainable winery

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:30:53 GMT

BORDEAUX, France (AP) — After pageantry and politics in Paris, Britain’s King Charles III heads south Friday to Bordeaux to focus on a more personal passion: the environment.Charles will meet emergency workers and communities affected by wildfires in the Bordeaux region last year, and visit an experimental forest designed to monitor the impact of climate on urban woodlands.The king and Queen Camilla are also scheduled to visit a vineyard known for its sustainable approach to wine making, in a region where wine exports are a pillar of the economy. Severe drought last year forced Bordeaux’s earliest-ever harvest, and it has long been working to adapt to climate change.Friday’s events mark the third and last day of a state visit aimed at shoring up the alliance between Britain and France. Charles’ warm words toward France have been met with a standing ovation in the Senate and even cheers of “Long Live the King!”After flying in to Bordeaux from Paris, the king and queen wil...