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2026-04-28 02:01:00 (17 hours ago)

Coreia do Norte aproveita a guerra no Oriente Médio para reforçar arsenal nuclear

Coreia do Norte testa motor para míssil capaz de atingir território continental dos EUA A Coreia do Norte tem aproveitado a guerra no Oriente Médio para acelerar o desenvolvimento de armas e reforçar o status nuclear do país, em um cenário de enfraquecimento das normas internacionais, avaliam analistas. ✅ Siga o canal de notícias internacionais do g1 no WhatsApp Desde o início dos ataques dos Estados Unidos e de Israel contra o Irã, no fim de fevereiro, Pyongyang realizou cinco lançamentos de mísseis, segundo levantamento da AFP. Os testes ocorrem após o líder norte-coreano, Kim Jong-un, prometer ampliar as capacidades nucleares do país. O movimento acontece em meio à aproximação com a Rússia e ao aumento da retórica contra a Coreia do Sul. Para Lim Eul-chul, especialista em Coreia do Norte da Universidade Kyungnam, na Coreia do Sul, os lançamentos parecem fazer parte de uma estratégia para adaptar o avanço militar às mudanças na relação entre Estados Unidos, Rússia e China. "O atual panorama da segurança global se transformou em uma 'terra sem lei', onde as normas internacionais existentes já não funcionam. E a Coreia do Norte aproveita esse vazio para completar o seu arsenal nuclear", diz. A Coreia do Norte condenou os ataques dos Estados Unidos contra o Irã, mas evitou críticas diretas ao presidente americano, Donald Trump. Não há indicação de envio de armas norte-coreanas a Teerã. Trump deve viajar à China para uma cúpula em maio, e há especulações sobre um possível encontro com Kim. De acordo com Hong Min, pesquisador do Instituto Coreano para a Unificação Nacional, Pyongyang pode ter aproveitado o momento para reforçar a mensagem de que é um Estado nuclear irreversível. LEIA TAMBÉM Turista morre após cobra entrar em calça e picá-lo em show de encantador de serpentes no Egito 'Comprem agora': ministro espanhol alerta que guerra pode disparar preço de passagens aéreas Como atirador conseguiu chegar tão perto de Trump e outras perguntas sobre ataque em Washington ‘Irreversível e permanente’ O líder da Coreia do Norte, Kim Jong-un, supervisiona teste militar em 29 de março de 2026 KCNA via Reuters A atual onda de lançamentos de mísseis começou pouco depois do congresso do Partido dos Trabalhadores da Coreia do Norte, realizado em fevereiro. O encontro, que ocorre a cada cinco anos, define as prioridades do país. Durante o congresso, Kim Jong Un afirmou que a posição da Coreia do Norte como Estado com armas nucleares foi consolidada como “irreversível e permanente”. Segundo Hong Min, o momento escolhido indica que Pyongyang busca “acumular conquistas visíveis” em suas capacidades militares. Os testes incluíram mísseis balísticos, mísseis de cruzeiro antinavio e munições de fragmentação. Analistas ouvidos pela AFP afirmam que as manobras demonstram avanços técnicos e maior domínio de armas de uso dual, capazes de operar tanto em funções nucleares quanto convencionais. Há indícios, segundo Lim Eul-chul, de progresso na miniaturização de ogivas nucleares e na capacidade de realizar “ataques de saturação”, estratégia baseada no lançamento simultâneo de grande quantidade de projéteis para sobrecarregar sistemas inimigos de interceptação. O especialista avalia que Pyongyang deve manter os testes de mísseis balísticos. "O regime considera que, enquanto os Estados Unidos estiverem envolvidos no Oriente Médio, este é o momento ideal para acelerar sua dissuasão ofensiva e o desenvolvimento paralelo de forças nucleares e convencionais", afirma o especialista. Respaldo da Rússia O líder da Coreia do Norte, Kim Jong Un, durante uma cerimônia de despedida do presidente da Rússia, Vladimir Putin, no aeroporto de Pyongyang, Coreia do Norte, em 19 de junho de 2024 Sputnik/Gavriil Grigorov/Pool via REUTERS A Coreia do Norte também busca demonstrar o apoio recebido da Rússia, que teria fornecido assistência econômica e técnica em troca do envio de milhares de soldados para apoiar a invasão da Ucrânia. Pyongyang e Moscou inauguraram recentemente a primeira ponte rodoviária entre os dois países, além da construção de um “hospital da amizade” e de um complexo militar norte-coreano em homenagem à guerra. Os ministros da Defesa, do Interior, dos Recursos Naturais e da Saúde da Rússia, assim como o presidente da Câmara e outras autoridades visitaram a Coreia do Norte recentemente, que permanece diplomaticamente isolada do resto do mundo. Segundo relatos, o embaixador norte-coreano em Moscou chegou a discutir cooperação agrícola com o dirigente instalado pela Rússia na região ucraniana de Kherson, sob ocupação russa. "A Coreia do Norte é um dos poucos países que não teria medo de operar na Ucrânia ocupada, e ambos os lados estão se aproveitando disso", observa Fyodor Tertitskiy, acadêmico nascido na Rússia e professor na Universidade da Coreia, em Seul, especialista no Norte. Os laços culturais também se intensificaram. A Rússia recebeu recentemente uma exposição de arte norte-coreana que exalta a guerra na Ucrânia. "Não há um 'boom' nem um aumento brusco, mas sempre há clientes interessados nesse país", relata Olga, administradora de uma agência de viagens russa que oferece excursões à Coreia do Norte. Um pacote custa cerca de R$ 7,5 mil. Tertitskiy, no entanto, avalia que a aproximação pode não durar além do conflito. Segundo ele, o presidente russo, Vladimir Putin, precisa principalmente de munição, enquanto outros aspectos da relação permanecem secundários. VÍDEOS: mais assistidos do g1

The Guardian - World News

2026-04-28 02:00:43 (17 hours ago)

MacBook Pro M5 review: serious power, still long battery life

Apple laptop sets new performance bar with more storage, new chips and plenty of options, but now has two-tier specs depending on processor

Apple’s Macs have been on a roll this year with the brand new budget MacBook Neo and a faster MacBook Air M5, but now it’s time for its workhorse MacBook Pro to be upgraded with the fastest, most powerful M-series chips.

The latest MacBook Pro comes in two screen sizes and a large range of chip and configuration options. The 14in version starts with the M5 chip costing £1,699 (€1,899/$1,699/A$2,699) and then jumps to the more powerful M5 Pro from £2,199 (€2,499/$2,199/A$3,499) before climbing further for the 16in version or the top M5 Max chip. A pricey machine for professional workloads.

The Guardian - World News

2026-04-28 02:00:43 (17 hours ago)

This Dark Night by Deborah Lutz review – an illuminating window on Emily Brontë’s world

Vivid, tactile details make Lutz’s biography a beautifully textured and convincing read

Both Emily Brontë and her only novel Wuthering Heights have been called “deranged”, “crazed” or (especially online, in the wake of the recent film) “unhinged”. So it’s a relief to read a biography where she comes across, instead, as more grounded, steady, sane. Deborah Lutz, whose 2015 book The Brontë Cabinet: Three Lives in Nine Objects made such an impression, anchors her narrative in solid things: the too-short bed Emily squeezed herself into; the pockets she stuffed with paper, pencils and moorland treasures; the laundry she looked after, including stockings with “AB5” sewn into them to indicate they were her sister Anne’s fifth pair. Lutz’s Emily is an eminently practical woman who wrote “while baking, in front of a peat fire perched on a little stool, or while walking” and who “used the tactile keeping of order as a prop and prompt to lose herself in the sublimity of art-making and moor-haunting”.

For Lutz, Emily’s writing is also “tactile”. She counts the sampler Emily made at 10 as one of her “earliest extant writings”, and while other scholars have dismissed it as a collection of copied platitudes, Lutz notices that one line Emily stitched, from Proverbs – “Who hath gathered the wind in his fists?” – suggests that maybe she was already thinking about wuthering. She lovingly describes the little books the Brontë children made as “delightful, tiny objects to match their toys and still-small selves, texts holding secretive and insular qualities”. She calls the one-page diaries Emily made with Anne “a new writing practice, one that feels distinctly modern, even avant garde”, as they crammed in descriptions of their cooking, their chatter, their animals, their made-up heroines; stream of consciousness nearly a century before Virginia Woolf.

The Guardian - World News

2026-04-28 02:00:43 (17 hours ago)

The Return of Arinzo review – families who hate each other clash in noirish Nollywood thriller

Nigerian actor and director Iyabo Ojo’s entertaining but imperfect tale about warring clans unfolds across Nigeria, Ghana and Tanzania

This Nigerian thriller unfolds mostly in the bustling city of Lagos but it makes excursions to Ghana and Tanzania and casts actors from all three countries, making for a diverse, textured tale that is thoroughly entertaining. That said, there are still plenty of imperfections, especially in the editing, and the acting ranges from professional and polished to amateur and awkward, so it’s a bit of a bumpy ride. Still, it is yet more evidence that the increasingly well-financed Nollywood industry can hold its own internationally, and grow audiences beyond Africa.

Even if a male character’s run for president is a major engine of the story, this is very much a female-centric film, encompassing women across several generations in an assortment of configurations, often far from harmonious. That comes across very clearly in an early scene in which we see bossy matriarch Aisha Williams (Mercy Aigbe), wife of aspiring politician Marcus Williams (William Benson), having a screaming match with her sister-in-law as members of the household look on aghast. A complicated character to say the least, Aisha can turn on the charm when she needs to, for example when her son, aspiring actor Mandla (Enioluwa Adeoluwa), brings home his fiancee Simisola (Prisca Lyimo) to meet the family. But as soon as Aisha meets Simisola’s aunt Bridget (Bimbo Akintola), a devout preacher, the hospitality spigot is abruptly turned off. By degrees, we learn that there’s a long history between the two older women who are connected through familiarity with Simisola’s birth mother Arinzo (played by director Iyabo Ojo) who everyone thought had died years ago.

The Guardian - World News

2026-04-28 02:00:42 (17 hours ago)

Lebanon accuses Israel of committing ‘ecocide’ in country since 2023

Claim by environment minister opens new report into profound ecological damage allegedly done by IDF forces

Lebanon’s minister for the environment has accused Israel’s military of committing “an act of ecocide” in the foreword to a report detailing the harm done to the country’s natural resources during the invasion of 2023 to 2024.

Israeli military aggression “reshaped both the physical and ecological landscape” of southern Lebanon, according to the report, which does not consider the impacts of Israel’s latest barrage of attacks this spring.

Damaged 5,000 hectares (12,350 acres) of forest cover, including broadleaf, pine and stone pine stands, destroying habitats, disregulating local climates and causing soil erosion.

Destroyed $118m (£87m) of physical agriculture assets, including crops, livestock facilities, forestry resources, fisheries and aquaculture infrastructure.

Caused further losses of $586m (£433m) in lost agricultural production as a result of disrupted harvests and reduced yields.

Destroyed 2,154 hectares (5,320 acres) of orchards, including 814 hectares of olive groves and 637 hectares of citrus plantations, and caused extensive damage to banana plantations.

Contaminated soils with phosphorus concentrations up to 1,858 parts a million, with particular contamination hotspots in south Lebanon and Bekaa valley in the east.

Caused widespread air pollution episodes extending well beyond immediate strike zones and releasing particulates; sulphur and nitrogen oxides; and toxic compounds such as dioxins and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons.

The Guardian - World News

2026-04-28 02:00:42 (17 hours ago)

Taking power in Mali might be a stretch but insurgents can force hand of weakened regime

Coordinated attack by JNIM and the Tuareg minority inflicted significant casualties on government forces and Russian auxiliaries

When al-Qaida-affiliated Islamic militants launched a series of attacks on military bases and raids into major towns in Mali and neighbouring Burkina Faso last summer, observers suggested they had been inspired by their counterparts in Syria, who had overthrown the regime of Bashar al-Assad and taken power six months or so earlier.

Despite the tactical successes that earned them the fearful title of the “Ghost Army”, seizing swathes of territory and denying cities and the military of fuel and other essentials, the chances of Jama’at Nusrat ul-Islam wa al-Muslimin (JNIM) definitively defeating Mali’s military regime and the thousand or so Russian mercenaries hired to defend it looked poor.

The Guardian - World News

2026-04-28 02:00:42 (17 hours ago)

A new long-distance walking trail in Wales takes in gorges, ruined abbeys and sweeping sands

From the Cambrian Mountains to Cardigan Bay, the 83-mile Teifi Valley Trail is a grassroots initiative designed to revive a once-thriving area

Up here, the river was a mere gurgle; a babbling babe finding its way into the world. A few sheep roamed, a kite wheeled and a spring-clean wind ruffled the tussocks on the barren hills and rippled the pools. It was a stark yet striking beginning. As we followed a brand new fingerpost, skirted Llyn Teifi – the river’s official source – and picked up the fledgling flow, there was a sense great things lay ahead, for us both.

The Teifi rises in Ceredigion’s Cambrian Mountains – the untramped “green desert of Wales” – and pours into Cardigan Bay 75 miles (120km) south-west. It’s one of the longest rivers wholly within Wales and, historically, one of its most significant: the beating heart of the country’s fishing and wool-weaving industries, 12th-century abbeys at either end, Wales’s oldest university en route.

The Guardian - World News

2026-04-28 02:00:41 (17 hours ago)

‘A constant quiet terror’: Getting lost in Irish folklore – in pictures

Maria Lax’s images are inspired by the phenomenon of ‘stray sod’, in which patches of enchanted land are said to lead astray anyone who steps on them

France 24 - World News

2026-04-28 01:42:26 (17 hours ago)

Champions League: 'Best teams in Europe' face off in semifinal clash

Paris Saint-Germain host Bayern Munich in the first leg of the Champions League semifinal. Bayern are aiming for their first final since 2020.

South China Morning Post - World News

2026-04-28 01:38:47 (17 hours ago)

China’s Politburo steps up policy response as Iran war shakes global economy

China has vowed to take a holistic approach in responding to external shocks and safeguarding the country’s energy security, as the economic fallout from the US-Israel war on Iran continues to spread around the world. At a meeting on Tuesday, the country’s Politburo – a major decision-making body of the ruling Communist Party led by President Xi Jinping – also stressed the need to boost the nation’s tech self-reliance and control over its industrial supply chains. The country will push forward...

The Guardian - World News

2026-04-28 01:29:49 (17 hours ago)

Trump fires independent board overseeing National Science Foundation

Positions ‘terminated, effective immediately’, says email to scientists sent on president’s behalf, in move labelled ‘dangerous attack’ on US innovation

The Trump administration has fired members of an independent board that oversees the National Science Foundation (NSF).

Members of the National Science Board received an email on Friday sent from the Presidential Personnel Office “on behalf of President Donald J Trump” stating that their position was “terminated, effective immediately”.

Times of Israel - World News

2026-04-28 01:23:26 (18 hours ago)

Around 20,000 seafarers stranded in Persian Gulf as Hormuz stays shut despite ceasefire

Mariners, mostly from India, endure fear and insolation amid missile blasts and food shortages as they remain trapped at sea since the Iran war began two months ago

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