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While some world leaders have once again reacted to another assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump, the response from other nation leaders this time around has been slow to nonexistent just a mere nine weeks following the first attempt on the former president’s life. 

Leaders from top U.S. allied nations, like Australia, Canada, Italy, Germany and France, had yet to publicly condemn the second assassination attempt as of Monday morning. 

Few details surrounding the incident, which occurred while the former president golfed at his club in West Palm Beach, Florida, on Sunday, have been released, and the motive of the alleged assailant, 58-year-old Ryan Wesley Routh, also remains unclear.

Sheriff vehicles are pictured near Trump International Golf Club on Sunday. Sept. 15, 2024, in West Palm Beach, Florida, after gunshots were reported in the vicinity of Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump. (Peter Burke/Fox News Digital)

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Despite the muted response from some world leaders, others looked to condemn the political violence. 

In a message to reporters, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who was just in the U.S. meeting with President Biden last week, said he was «deeply troubled» by the news.

«I think it is really important that we’re all very, very clear that violence has no part to play at all in any political process,» he said, according to multiple British news outlets. 

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took to social media to share his reaction and said he and his wife were «shocked» by the second attempt and were «were relieved to hear that it too failed.»

«But we should not rely on luck,» he continued. «We send our best wishes to Donald and Melania along with our hopes that all measures will be taken to ensure that such deadly attacks on a candidate for the US presidency will be foiled in advance.»

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán – who recently found himself a topic of debate in the U.S. between Trump and his Democratic challenger Vice President Kamala Harris – also shared his thoughts on X.

«It is clear that President Trump’s life is in danger, until his victory,» Orbán said. «We are praying for you, Mr. President!»

Trump, like Orbán, has drawn international scrutiny over his opposition of Western aid to Ukraine and has prompted concern over whether the U.S. will continue to arm Ukraine should he win the election this November. 

The former president has repeatedly made claims that he could end the war before even taking up the top job in January 2025 if he secures a second term this fall, though he has refused to detail how he would do this or even clarify if he supports victory for Ukraine over Russia. 

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Alleged would-be Trump assassin, Ryan Routh moments after arrest

Ryan Routh is accused of aiming an AK-47 at former President Donald Trump while he was golfing at his course in West Palm Beach, Florida, on Sunday. It is being investigated as a second assassination attempt on Trump. (Obtained by Fox News Digital)

Though the FBI has not released any details about Routh’s motive, U.S. and international media outlets have pointed to his alleged support for Ukraine, with some reports claiming he helped recruit for Kyiv’s war effort through the International Legion Defense of Ukraine. 

Fox News Digital could not verify whether Routh was directly involved in the war in Ukraine through fighting or recruitment efforts, though Ukrainian officials countered reports claiming he was and said, «Rumors disseminated in certain media are not true.»

«American citizen Ryan Routh has never served in the International Legion of the Man Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, has no relation to the unit,» the International Legion of Territorial Defense of Ukraine, a military unit made up of foreign volunteers fighting in the Ukrainian Ground Forces,» said in a post on Instagram Monday.

Trump and Harris on Philadelphia debate stage

Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump speak during the second presidential debate at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia on Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2024. (Doug Mills/The New York Times/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy made no reference to the assailant but said he was glad to hear Trump was unharmed.

«It’s good that the suspect in the assassination attempt was apprehended quickly,» he said in a post on X. «This is our principle: the rule of law is paramount and political violence has no place anywhere in the world. We sincerely hope that everyone remains safe.»

Russian President Vladimir Putin does not appear to have publicly commented on the assassination attempt, though Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov on Monday looked to link the second attempt on Trump’s life with the assailant’s apparent support for Ukraine. 

«It is not us who should be thinking, it is the U.S. intelligence services who should be thinking. In any case, playing with fire has its consequences,» Peskov said when he was asked about the Sunday events, reported Reuters. 

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Russian President Vladimir Putin seen during the Navy Day Parade on July, 31 2022 in Saint Petersburg, Russia. (Contributor/Getty Images)

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Ukrainian officials said Russia was using the political violence as an attempt to stir up «conspiracy theories.»

Andriy Kovalenko, head of Ukraine’s Center for Countering Disinformation, said the Kremlin was «using another assassination attempt on Trump against Ukraine in the information field.»

«The enemy will launch a number of conspiracy theories about the ‘Ukrainian trace’. Of course, all of this is a lie,» he added, according to Reuters. 


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Estados Unidos: Las ratas en Nueva York, un problema que merece una cumbre internacional para afrontar el tema

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Obsesionadas por acabar o al menos reducir la población de ratas de la ciudad, las autoridades de Nueva York celebran a partir de este miércoles una cumbre nacional con investigadores, académicos y funcionarios para dar una solución integrada a este problema de salud pública.

En una ciudad donde los roedores están presentes en parques, el metro (a veces, incluso en los vagones con los pasajeros), terrazas de restaurantes y sobre todo en las aceras donde se acumulan las famosas bolsas negras de desechos orgánicos, su combate se ha convertido en una prioridad para la municipalidad.

«Las ratas impiden una calidad de vida mayor de lo que creemos», dijo el alcalde Eric Adams en la inauguración de este encuentro de dos días, organizado junto con el Programa de gestión integrada de plagas del estado de Nueva York en la Universidad Cornell, en el que se sientan decenas de especialistas de todo el país que lidian con esta población indeseada.

El alcalde no esconde que los Rattus norvegicus son sus «más notorios enemigos». «Me dan asco», confesó, haciendo sonreír a la audiencia.

Además de nombrar hace año y medio a una encargada para luchar contra la invasión de roedores que se hizo más visible durante y después de la pandemia de covid, su equipo libra una «revolución de la basura» para instalar contenedores y retirar los desechos de las aceras.

Desde principios de marzo, más de 200.000 negocios de comida están obligados a depositar en contenedores las más de 3.000 millones de toneladas de desechos que producen anualmente.


Los residentes tienen hasta 2026 para depositar los suyos también en contenedores, como se hace en la mayoría de las ciudades del mundo. No obstante, para finales de este otoño se espera que en torno al 70% de toda la basura de la ciudad se almacene en recipientes cerrados inaccesibles a los roedores.

«Bufet libre»

La mejor manera de acabar con las ratas es acabar «con el bufet libre» de la basura en las aceras, recuerda la Comisaria del Departamento de Saneamiento, Jessica Tisch, que lidera dicha revolución.

La ciudad de 8,5 millones de personas y los miles de turistas que la visitan, produce unos 20 millones de toneladas de basura al día, según datos de la municipalidad.

Puestos en línea recta, los desechos se extenderían a lo largo de 43 kilómetros.

Jason Rivera, de 'The Ryder's Alley Trencher-fed Society (R.A.T.S.)', y su perro intentan atrapar una rata en el bajo Manhattan en 2021 en la ciudad de Nueva York. Foto AFPJason Rivera, de ‘The Ryder’s Alley Trencher-fed Society (R.A.T.S.)’, y su perro intentan atrapar una rata en el bajo Manhattan en 2021 en la ciudad de Nueva York. Foto AFP

Aunque el comisario de Salud e Higiene Mental de la ciudad, Ashwin Vasan, advierte que no se podrán exterminar completamente los roedores en una ciudad con una infraestructura tan envejecida y densamente poblada como Nueva York, «podemos mantenerlos fuera de nuestras vidas cotidianas».

Se trata de «liberarse del estrés, del miedo y de la sensación de que el lugar en el que vives está en un estado de deterioro o descuido», lo que no solo beneficia a la salud de la población, sino que disipa la «sensación de malestar» con las autoridades electas para solucionarlo.

Sobre todo en un mundo donde el 70% de la población ya vive en ciudades y que podría llegar al 90%.

Además de retirar la comida, parte de la estrategia para luchar con las ratas en la capital financiera y meca del turismo nacional y mundial, la ciudad ha creado mapas de rastreo de sus movimientos, una manera de implicar a la participación ciudadana en el combate.

Más de 6.000 personas han participado en sesiones de formación para luchar contra los roedores y un equipo de 45 exterminadores opera en los espacios públicos, junto con equipos especializados que introducen pesticidas directamente en las madrigueras, así como la destrucción de las mismas.

A ello se suman métodos sin pesticidas, como tanques de dióxido de carbono, máquinas Burrow Rx a base de monóxido de carbono y trampas.

Según cifras del Departamento de Vivienda, las medidas adoptadas parecen estar funcionando, aunque no tan rápidamente como muchos desearían.

Además de verse menos roedores en las aceras, el censo de ratas, que se mide por las llamadas de los ciudadanos a un teléfono de servicio público para señalar su presencia, ha caído en el último año un 6,3% y un 14% en las zonas designadas para mitigar esta población.

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