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Pouleth Carbajal swam from England to France in a little more than 14 hours over the weekend, becoming the first person from the Mexican state of Colima to complete a solo English Channel crossing. The 24-year-old native of Manzanillo, Colima, left Shakespeare Beach, near Dover, at 2:12 a.m. Sunday and that afternoon reached the dunes at Wissant, France, according to the Channel Swimming & Piloting Federation (CS&PF). For Carbajal, the crossing meant swimming for more than 14 hours. She covered 65.3 kilometers, or about 40.6 miles. The shortest distance from England to France is 21 miles in a straight line…

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channel1la.com Con más de una década de ejercicio profesional, José Miguel Ibarra Ramírez ha construido una trayectoria en la que la abogacía no se entiende únicamente como una profesión, sino como una responsabilidad frente a quienes buscan justicia y requieren que sus derechos sean defendidos. Abogado litigante y titular de Ibarra y Asociados Abogados, ha desarrollado su actividad profesional principalmente en Jalisco, participando en asuntos jurídicos y de representación que le han permitido acompañar a personas, organizaciones y asociaciones en la defensa de sus intereses. Su ejercicio profesional se distingue por una premisa que ha mantenido a lo largo de los años: la defensa…

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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences got down to business on Tuesday, setting its agenda for the next year in an all-hands meeting with its membership. The official purpose, as noted in the annual virtual meeting’s invite, was to educate roughly 11,000 members “about the Academy’s leadership structure, budget, goals and priorities.” The hourlong huddle was led by Academy president Lynette Howell Taylor and CEO Bill Kramer, Variety can report. It addressed the Academy’s $187 million budget for 2027, conversations surrounding AI and plans for the Oscars to hopefully reach “2 billion people” when the show begins airing…

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Published on 18/08/2026 – 22:00 GMT+2 Washington on Tuesday announced sanctions against the president of the International Criminal Court (ICC), as the Trump administration ramps up its efforts to “dismantle” the organisation. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT In a statement, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the US was sanctioning ICC President Tomoko Akane as well as senior trial lawyer Abdoulaye Seye, accusing them of “directly” engaging “in efforts by the ICC to investigate, arrest, detain, or prosecute officials whose government has not consented to ICC jurisdiction.” Rubio, who called the ICC a “corrupt and fatally politicised supranational court,” added that it…

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The Los Angeles Rams are set to dominate on defense due to their strength along the defensive line. When the team added Myles Garrett, that moved the needle for how dominant the Rams could be.While Garrett and company need to prove themselves on the field, Pro Football Focus’ Gordon McGuinness named them as the number one defensive line in the NFL, squeezing by the established units for the Houston Texans, Pittsburgh Steelers, Philadelphia Eagles, and Seattle Seahawks.The Rams fielded the NFL’s second-highest-graded defensive line last season, then added the best player from the only unit that ranked ahead of them…

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Producing a modern-day film adaptation of the novel “Don Quixote” in Guanajuato is something only an idealist would undertake, especially a newcomer to Mexico with limited Spanish. But that’s exactly what Paul Smart, a filmmaker, writer and radio producer from New York’s Hudson Valley, chose to do when he moved to Guanajuato in 2021 with his wife, Fawn Potash — a photographer and encaustic artist — and their son. The “Cervantes Capital of the Americas,” Guanajuato has long been considered Don Quixote’s home outside Spain. Its annual international performing arts festival, Cervantino, is the biggest in Latin America, and the…

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Bill Rasmussen, a sports visionary who founded ESPN in 1979 with his son Scott as the world’s first 24-hour sports television network, died Tuesday at 93 of Parkinson’s disease at his home in Florida. Shrugging off skeptics, the pioneering Rasmussen – after being fired as communications director of the New England Whalers — acquired space on a communications satellite using a personal credit card. He went door to door to all the major sports leagues, cable operators and potential investors, garnering enough support to launch the Entertainment and Sports Programming network on Sept. 7, 1979. He was the network’s first…

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