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  • Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife were sentenced on Wednesday to 14 years in prison for corruption, a day after he received a 10-year prison sentence for leaking state secrets.
  • The San Diego Diplomacy Council is excited and proud to honor our 45th anniversary this year! From our small beginnings as a volunteer run organization in 1979, to becoming a nationally-recognized organization focused on connecting San Diego to the world, we are proud of our past and excited about our future. None of our growth or impact could have been realized without the support of you, our San Diego community. Please join us to celebrate the impact of 45 years, learn about our aspirations, and support our next 45 years! Suggested attire is business casual or cocktail. About The San Diego Diplomacy Council | The San Diego Diplomacy Council creates inclusive professional, cultural, and educational experiences that connect local and global changemakers, fostering convergence in a divergent world. Through these programs, each year we bring hundreds of international leaders to San Diego from over 130 countries. We also connect the world to San Diego by arranging public community events, promoting dialogue, and organizing programs for next generation youth leaders from our region. Your ticket supports our work and includes: Panamanian inspire food, an open bar, live music, auction, dancing, and much more! This event will take place at the brand new UCSD Park & Market community hub in the heart of Gaslamp.
  • For many years Jim Moreno has been inspired by the 4 Latino poets from Mexico, Central, & South America who were Nobel Laureates in Literature. Miguel Angel Asturias (Guatemala – 1967), Gabriela Mistral (Chile –1945), Pablo Neruda (Chile – 1971), Octavio Paz (Mexico – 1990), excelled in poetry & other writing disciplines such as education, diplomacy, fiction, playwrights, politics, and journalism. Magic Realist Miguel Angel Asturias was both a writer and a social champion. He spent his life fighting for the rights of Indians, for the freedom of Latin American countries from both dictatorships and outside influences—especially the United States—and for a more even distribution of wealth (All Poetry). He is the first poet in this 3-hour class for beginning and seasoned poets. Magic Realism blends a style of literary fiction and art. It paints a realistic view of the world while also adding magical elements, often blurring the lines between fantasy and reality. Magic realism often refers to literature in particular, with magical or supernatural phenomena presented in an otherwise real-world or mundane setting, commonly found in novels and dramatic performances (Wikipedia). When Asturias writes, “We were made that way/ Made to scatter/ Seeds in the furrow/ And stars in the ocean/ we are riding the sometimes thundering, sometimes whispering, waves of magic realism.” This three-hour class for beginning or seasoned poets will be divided into two ninety-minute segments. The first segment includes poetry prompts and film clips from Asturias and Chile’s Gabriela Mistral, who was Pablo Neruda’s elementary school teacher. Mistral moved away from the Catholic and Symbolist influences of her early poems and developed a uniquely song like, limpid (clear, free of anything that darkens) style, a voice of almost maternal lullaby that murmurs through simple traditional forms (Twentieth Century Latin American Poetry). In her poem, “Close to Me,” Mistral writes, “Little fleece of my flesh/ that I wove in my womb/ little shivering fleece/ sleep close to me/ we hear the maternal murmur and we feel nurtured and at peace.” The second class segment features poetry, film clips and poetry prompts from Chile’s Pablo Neruda, and Mexico’s Octavio Paz. By Neruda’s third book of poetry we hear an inventive verbal lushness…that enact the poems’ emotions of disintegration, despair, claustral ennui and sexual tumult (Twentieth Century Latin American Poetry). In his poem, “Tonight I Write,” Neruda’s music calls to us: “Tonight I can write the saddest lines/ I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.” Mexico’s great Octavio Paz has a history which is a track of restless formalism, ranging from tight imagistic perpetual moments…to the broader inclusiveness of poems based on Aztec models to even more universal techniques and themes. In his poem, “Mystery,” Paz writes, “Glittering of air, it glitters/ noon glitters here/ but I see no sun,/ we enter a figurative form of mystery for which the author shares few peers.”
  • The elections come as China, the U.S. and others wrangle for influence in the South Pacific region. Tuvalu is one of 12 countries that have official diplomatic relations with Taiwan.
  • More than three months into Israel's war in Gaza, the economy of the West Bank is reeling. Many fear the economic pain may lead to even more violence in the territory.
  • Time correspondent Simon Shuster says Zelenskyy is "almost unrecognizable" from the happy-go-lucky, optimistic comedian he first met in 2019. Shuster's new book is The Showman.
  • Microsoft says hackers broke into its corporate email system and accessed the accounts of members of its leadership team, as well as those of employees on its cybersecurity and legal teams.
  • President Biden takes the long view on Middle East peace. But in an election year where Democrats are divided on the issue — and as Gaza casualties mount — his support for Israel could cost him.
  • Civil rights lawyers pushed back against a crackdown on protests, securing permission to hold a rally to stop the war in Gaza.
  • Pakistan launched retaliatory airstrikes early Thursday on Iran allegedly targeting militant positions, a deadly attack that further raised tensions between the neighboring nations.
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