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特朗普制裁国际刑事法院 四人权组织起诉他违宪

2026年8月11日 23:18 / 联合早报

美国总统特朗普去年签署一项行政命令，授权对与国际刑事法院合作的检察官、法官和其他人员实施制裁，原因是他们起诉了来自美国及盟友以色列的官员。 （路透社档案照片）

美国总统特朗普去年签行政令对国际刑事法院人员实施制裁，四家美国主要人权组织如今对特朗普提起诉讼，指控他违宪。

路透社报道，人权观察、开放社会研究所、美国朋友服务委员会和宪法权利中心星期二（8月11日）在纽约提起诉讼，指特朗普下令的制裁措施阻碍他们与国际刑事法院合作，为世界各地涉及种族灭绝、战争罪和反人类罪的案件寻求正义。

特朗普去年签署行政令，授权制裁与国际刑事法院合作的检察官、法官和其他人员，原因是他们起诉了来自美国及美国盟友以色列的官员。美国和以色列都不是国际刑事法院成员国。

代表上述人权组织的首席律师洛温斯坦发表声明说，他们希望终止这套制裁制度，认为行政令超越总统权限，并违反国际法和美国法律，包括言论自由和宗教自由。

此前，一些致力于巴勒斯坦人权的倡导团体上个月也提起类似的诉讼。

美国国务院回应说，这些团体试图“助长国际刑事法院的权力滥用”，并称国际刑事法院威胁美国主权。

三名国际刑事法院法官已就制裁问题分别起诉特朗普政府。

特朗普反对国际刑事法院的立场可追溯至他的第一任期。2020年，特朗普曾签署类似行政令，但被一名法官驳回。法官认为，这项行政令可能违反美国宪法第一修正案。前总统拜登政府随后于2021年撤销这项行政令。

国务卿鲁比奥上个月说，美国政府将加大力度削弱位于海牙的国际刑事法院，包括发起一场旨在说服其他国家退出法院的外交行动。

鲁比奥辩称，法院对执行特朗普强硬移民政策，或打击被控运载毒品船只的美国人员和其他美国军人构成威胁。

7月31日，特朗普在内阁会议上回应鲁比奥的最新情况时说，这场运动旨在捍卫以色列总理内坦亚胡和其他人，而不是捍卫特朗普本人。

Security concerns prompted Trump to secretly change planes in Turkey, official says

Published 11:27 AM EDT, Tue August 11, 2026 / CNN Politics

Security concerns prompted Trump to secretly change planes in Turkey, official says

While in Turkey for the NATO Summit in July, President Donald Trump flew out of the country on an alternate military plane which he boarded by hiding in a catering truck

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US human rights groups sue Trump over anti-ICC push

2026-08-11 14:33:35 UTC / Reuters

By Simon Lewis

August 11, 2026 2:33 PM UTC Updated 1 hour ago

An exterior of The International Criminal Court (ICC) is seen as the United States is considering imposing sanctions as soon as this week against the entire International Criminal Court, in The Hague, Netherlands, September 22, 2025. REUTERS/Piroschka van de Wouw

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• Lawsuit seeks to end sanctions regime plaintiffs say blocks work with ICC on genocide and war crimes
• Rubio last month said US would intensify diplomatic campaign urging other countries to quit ICC
• Judge blocked ​similar 2020 Trump order before Biden administration rescinded it in 2021

WASHINGTON, Aug 11 (Reuters) – Four leading U.S. human rights groups on Tuesday sued the Trump administration over its campaign aimed at dismantling the International Criminal Court, calling the effort unconstitutional.

President Donald Trump last year issued an executive order authorizing sanctions on prosecutors, judges ​and others working with the court for pursuing cases against officials from the U.S. and ​its ally Israel, neither of which are members of the ICC.

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Human Rights Watch, ⁠the Open Society Institute, the American Friends Service Committee and the Center for Constitutional Rights said ​in their lawsuit filed in New York that those sanctions prevent them from working with the court ​to seek justice for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity around the world.

“The plaintiffs are seeking an end to this sanctions regime, which transgresses the president’s authority and violates international and U.S. law, including the rights to ​freedom of expression and religion,” lead counsel Andrew Loewenstein of Foley Hoag LLP, which is representing ​the human rights groups, said in a statement.

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The lawsuit comes after a similar lawsuit filed last month by advocacy groups ‌who work ⁠on human rights for Palestinians. In response to that lawsuit, the State Department said the groups were seeking to “enable ICC overreach” and said the court posed a threat to U.S. sovereignty.

Three ICC judges have separately sued the Trump administration over the sanctions.

Trump’s opposition toward the ICC goes back to his first ​term. A similar executive ​order Trump issued in ⁠2020 was blocked by a judge, who said it likely violated the First Amendment, before being rescinded by President Joe Biden’s administration in 2021.

Secretary of State Marco ​Rubio last month said the administration would step up efforts to undermine the ​court in The ⁠Hague, including with a diplomatic campaign aimed at persuading other countries to quit it. Rubio argued that the court posed a threat to U.S. personnel carrying out Trump’s hardline immigration policies or strikes on ⁠boats accused ​of carrying drugs, as well as other U.S. service members.

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Trump ​during a July 31 cabinet meeting said in response to an update from Rubio that the campaign was aimed at defending ​Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and others, rather than Trump himself.

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Reporting by Simon Lewis; Editing by Stephen Coates

New midterm battleground takes shape as parties build election armies

2026-08-11 10:19 EDT / Fox News

RNC hails record-setting grassroots recruitment on Tuesday’s National Poll Worker Recruitment Day

By Eric Mack Fox News

Published August 11, 2026 10:19am EDT

Republican National Committee Chair Joe Gruters touts having surpassed its 2024 poll-worker sign-ups for the 2026 midterms, deploying staff across 25 states.

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President Donald Trump has long argued that who is counting the votes can matter nearly as much as who is on the ballot — a view that has helped turn the mechanics of elections into their own political battleground.

That fight is becoming more organized, more expensive and more sophisticated ahead of the 2026 midterms.

Tuesday marks National Poll Worker Recruitment Day, a once-obscure observance created in 2020 that has become a significant organizing marker for both parties. Republicans and Democrats are recruiting poll workers, observers, lawyers and voter-protection staff as they prepare for one of the most consequential midterm elections in history.

“We have more poll workers in the 2026 cycle than we did in the 2024 cycle,” Republican National Committee Chair Joe Gruters told Fox News Digital in a recent interview. “We’re better prepared. We have staffers in 25 states. We are on the ground, ready to do battle.”

TRUMP WILL ‘DELIVER’: RNC CHAIR SIGNALS MIDTERMS CONFIDENCE DESPITE ‘DOOM AND GLOOM’

President Donald Trump famously says the people counting the votes has been an overlooked aspect of the U.S. elections process, pushing the Republican Party to pour more money, time, energy and financial resources into recruiting lawyers, experts and poll workers.(Getty Images)

The RNC, in data shared exclusively with Fox News Digital, is 42% ahead of its 2024 pace, with 16,971 volunteer signups nationwide compared with 11,917 at the same point in the past presidential cycle.

“The RNC has shattered our 2024 poll worker recruitment benchmarks, built the largest election integrity operation in Republican Party history, and mobilized thousands of volunteers to help secure the ballot box,” Gruters added in a statement. “With less than 90 days until the midterms, we’re seeing record-breaking grassroots engagement, expanding our operation into new states, and building the infrastructure needed to defy history in 2026.”

That effort came from the top from Trump, post-2020, and has led to the RNC’s election integrity unit buildout with its multimillion-dollar campaign.

REPUBLICAN SAYS TRUMP’S TOP ELECTION PRIORITY ‘DEAD’ IN SENATE AS GOP FRACTURES AHEAD OF MIDTERMS

And “parity” election laws regulating poll workers from both the national party apparatuses have the Democratic National Committee, facing widely reported fundraising hiccups, playing catch-up with the RNC and its $128.5 million midterm war chest.

“We’re going to have to be a lot sharper the next time when it comes to counting the vote,” Trump told Pennsylvania Republicans in 2022, starting one of his oft-repeated, campaign-rally mantras. “There’s a famous statement: ‘Sometimes the vote counter is more important than the candidate.’ And we can’t let that ever, ever happen again. They have to get a lot tougher and smarter.”

The midterm elections heat up as voters return to the polls in 2026.(Aaron Schwartz/Bloomberg via Getty Images; Melissa Sue Gerrits/Getty Images)

Trump also says every next election tends to be more important than the past one, but grassroots voter enthusiasm and donor fundraising tend to be bigger in presidential elections than in the midterms. But, while Trump might not be on the ballot, his “Save America” grassroots enthusiasm will be, even as the Senate sits on passing his landmark Save America Act to set nationwide voter ID standards.

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“We’ve been continuing to build on the election integrity efforts of the last cycle where Lara Trump and Michael Whatley [former RNC co-chairs] did such a great job,” Gruters said in Friday’s interview. Lara Trump now hosts “My View with Lara Trump” on Fox News Channel.

That statement pointed back to the nexus of the RNC’s multimillion-dollar election integrity unit at ProtecttheVote.com that has Democrats, its famed election lawyer Marc Elias and Democracy Docket founder and the DNC forced to play catch-up, to match the RNC’s poll worker masses. Parity laws in some states nationwide legally require it.

“The Democratic National Committee continues to invest in our voter protection infrastructure to defend Americans’ sacred right to vote,” a DNC spokesman told Fox News Digital, when reached for comment on recent data before National Poll Worker Recruitment Day. “The Democratic Party currently has voter protection staff in more than 30 states, and we will recruit, train, and deploy tens of thousands of observers across the country this November.

“We have seen a surge of citizens who have joined our training programs and stepped up to defend our democracy. We will continue our work to ensure all eligible voters have their voices heard.”

SENATE FACES ‘COME-TO-JESUS’ MOMENT ON TRUMP’S ELECTION PRIORITY UNDER GOP’S NEW PLAN

The DNC did not share its 2026 numbers with Fox News Digital, but did share 2021 to 2024 data showing Democrats mobilized more than 120,000 voter protection volunteers, including over 65,000 trained poll observers, and recorded more than 465,000 confirmed hours of poll observation across over 63,000 polling locations.

An election official stands among voting booths at a polling location inside Great Falls United Methodist Church during a primary election in Great Falls, Virginia, on Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2026.(Bloomberg via Getty Images)

The Save America Act is stalled in the Senate, but Trump and Republicans efforts are playing out on the ground and running up expenses for lawyers, legal election experts and staff.

“We got to do everything we can to make sure we have these safe and secure elections,” Gruters said Friday, pointing to the “most litigation we’ve ever done as a party.” “We have, I think, almost 200 lawsuits now this cycle. I think 177 active lawsuits right now.”

“We’re not being reactive. We’re being as proactive as we can.”

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“We’re bringing the absolute hammer wherever we can in defending freedom and these safe and secure election policies everywhere we have to, anywhere we can go, we will go from coast to coast,” he said.

The numbers underscore how election administration itself has become a major front in modern campaigns.

Election Day itself has also become election season, Trump has long lamented. With early voting stretching for days or weeks in many states, the staffing burden no longer falls on a single Tuesday or even a weekend. Parties and local officials need poll workers, observers and legal support across an extended voting window — a costly undertaking for national organizations and a significant time commitment for the Americans on the ground who sign up to serve.

The RNC says it has expanded recruitment into Maryland, Colorado, New Mexico, Kentucky, Alaska and Ohio, producing 2,076 additional submissions in those states. The committee says the effort is part of a multimillion-dollar election integrity program with directors deployed in 22 states and a year-round voter-protection operation nationwide.

At the center of the Republican push are the state “parity” laws that require or encourage bipartisan representation among poll workers.

Election rules vary significantly by state and locality, but a number of states have provisions intended to give both major parties representation in election administration. The RNC says its job is to build a large enough pool of Republican applicants that local election officials have GOP workers available to fill those slots.

“Recruitment is what turns parity laws from words on paper into reality,” the committee said in written responses to questions about the program.

More Republican signups do not necessarily mean more Republicans will ultimately be stationed inside polling places. Poll workers are generally selected or appointed by state and local election authorities, and the number of positions available varies by jurisdiction.

But party officials argue that a deep recruiting bench gives Republicans more opportunities to fill vacancies, meet bipartisan staffing requirements and keep trained volunteers available for future elections.

FOX NEWS POLL: GOP DIVISIONS SHAPE TEXAS SENATE RACE

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The RNC identified Michigan, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio, New Jersey, Maryland, West Virginia, Delaware, Connecticut, New York and Indiana among states with some form of bipartisan or balanced poll worker representation.

Michigan, with the high-profile Senate race of Democrat Abdul El-Sayed against Republican Mike Rogers, is one state where the RNC told Fox News Digital it has a sizable poll worker recruitment edge. Texas’ Senate race between Democrat James Talarico and Republican State Attorney General Ken Paxton is another big battleground, while the North Carolina Senate race between former RNC Chair Whatley, Gruters’ former boss, and former Gov. Roy Cooper, a Democrat, will be the biggest dollar race in the nation these midterms, if not Senate history, according to Gruters.

The RNC and Elias are battling in messaging and courtrooms, and RNC officials have told Fox News Digital privately its case-winning is deeply frustrating its opponents.

“It’s an on the ground effort, and it’s an effort overall with litigation, and we are winning a lot of these cases,” Gruters said. “I expect us to continue to move forward to try to make sure these elections are fair.”

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Vote counting, one of the trained poll workers’ most important roles in the process, can vary in returns from state to state. Gruters points to the size and success of Florida results on election night.

“I always say, go look at Florida, my home state, a state of 23 million people, a state where, literally within 90 minutes, we can give you results: Everybody has full faith and confidence,” Gruters said. “That’s with Democrat and Republican supervisor of elections across the state.

“We could do this nationwide, it’s not rocket science, but when you have a party that does everything they possibly can to cheat, lie, and steal to win elections – when it’s all about control and power, rather than trying to make sure we protect democracy – we got to do everything we can to put the ship in the right direction.”

“We’re going to continue to do anything we can to make sure these elections are safe and secure.”

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The two parties describe their missions differently.

Republicans frame the buildup as an election-integrity effort designed to increase transparency, enforce election rules and give GOP voters confidence that members of their party are represented inside the process.

Democrats describe their operation as voter protection, focused on ballot access, monitoring polling places and ensuring eligible voters can cast ballots.

That has turned the period before Election Day into a contest not only over candidates, advertising and turnout, but also over the people staffing polling sites, watching election officials and challenging the rules in court.

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National Poll Worker Recruitment Day was established by the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC)in 2020 to highlight the vital role of election workers and encourage more Americans to serve their local communities.

Eric Mack is a breaking news reporter and writer Sunday through Thursday, 6 a.m. ET to 2 p.m. ET, with a particular interest in stories that lead the news cycle on politics, elections, foreign affairs and government.

Medicare’s paying less for cataract surgery. Eye doctors are turning to moneymaking lasers.

2026-08-11T08:40:28-0400 / KFF Health News

Tammy Chalala, a retired dietitian in New York, was thrilled with the results of her cataract surgeries, which left her with close to 20/20 vision.

She said she paid nearly $4,000 out-of-pocket for her two surgeries last year because she opted to have her doctor use a laser to assist with the procedure.

Chalala, 69, chose that method over the traditional scalpel after doing research online and consulting with her doctors, believing it would give her the best outcome. “It seemed like the better option,” she said.

Cataract surgery — one of the most common operations paid for by Medicare — typically leaves enrollees owing a few hundred dollars. Some patients pay more to have their vision corrected during the procedure.

But, like Chalala, a growing number of those patients are paying even more out-of-pocket simply because they agree to have their doctor use a laser rather than the scalpel method.

Both methods are safe and can significantly reduce or eliminate the need for patients to wear glasses.

However, many doctors say the laser helps make more precise cuts than the scalpel. The laser method gives patients more options, they say, and recoups more revenue as Medicare has gradually cut what it pays doctors for cataract surgery.

Others, such as Oliver Schein, an ophthalmologist at Johns Hopkins Medicine, point out the strong financial incentive to use the laser, as the equipment can cost a practice up to $500,000.

Schein said his colleagues used the laser a few years after it came out but did not see any benefit over traditional cataract surgery. Still, the laser doesn’t cause harm and provides patients with good results.

“That’s a powerful combination for a surgeon,” Schein said. But in the end, he added, most patients believe paying more will yield a better result.

Medicare pays doctors about $520 for a standard cataract procedure, down about 20% in the past decade. The fee includes pre- and postoperative visits.

While Medicare generally prohibits doctors from billing patients above what the government program pays, doctors are allowed to bill patients extra when using the laser only when it is used to improve vision, because most vision correction is not covered by traditional Medicare.

Specifically, doctors may bill patients when using the laser to insert premium lenses or fix astigmatism. Doctors typically charge $1,000 to $3,000 per eye for use of the laser.

Medicare enrollees also pay out-of-pocket for the premium lenses that can eliminate their need for reading or distance glasses, with charges ranging from $1,000 to $4,000.

Private insurers, including those operating Medicare Advantage plans, typically follow Medicare benefit rules.

Research shows the laser does not provide better outcomes than the scalpel for a standard cataract procedure.

The American Academy of Ophthalmology, the world’s largest organization of eye physicians and surgeons, says on its website: “Studies do not show that laser surgery results in fewer complications. Also, studies haven’t found that laser surgery provides better outcomes.”

Nearly 12% of the 5 million annual cataract surgeries performed nationally are laser-assisted, and that number has been growing, according to the St. Louis-based ophthalmic market data company Market Scope.

“It’s a win-win for patient and doctor,” said Kevin Miller, a UCLA ophthalmology professor. “Doctor makes a little more money on top of the Medicare reimbursement; the industry gets money to develop new technology; and society benefits because these patients are not going for eyeglasses anymore.”

By age 80, more than half of Americans have had cataracts, a condition that causes blurred vision and poor night vision. Most cataracts develop slowly as part of the aging process when proteins and fibers in the eye’s lens break down and clump together.

Doctors for decades have used scalpels to perform cataract surgery, which involves removing the cataract and replacing the cloudy natural lens with a clear artificial one.

Barbara Cobuzzi, 71, a medical billing consultant with traditional Medicare coverage, needed cataract surgery last year. When her eye doctor in New Jersey recommended she get the surgery using a laser at a cost to her of $1,500 per eye, she went looking for a second opinion. “I felt like he was trying to pull a fast one.”

Cobuzzi said the second doctor performed her procedure without a laser, and she was happy with the results, including no longer needing glasses for distance vision.

“Doctors are using the laser as a moneymaker,” she said.

Vance Thompson, an ophthalmologist who is a past president of the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery, said some patients want the laser because it provides a more precise way of doing the surger,y while others choose it to avoid the need for glasses.

He said he talks to patients about the advantages of the laser and lets them decide which method is right for them. “They deserve to be educated on all their options,” Thompson said.

He said about half his patients at his Sioux Falls, South Dakota, practice choose the laser, up from about 10% a decade ago.

The laser is not suitable for all patients, though, including those who have corneal scarring or a small pupil, Thompson said.

It’s challenging to illustrate the benefit of the laser because traditional cataract surgery is already safe and effective, with low infection rates, said Barrett Eubanks, a U.S.-trained ophthalmologist in Toronto.

He said he’s found that, compared with the older method, using the laser makes it easier to implant premium lenses or remove certain types of cataracts. That’s because the laser can make the exact cut it’s programmed to make, unlike the human hand.

Miller, the UCLA ophthalmologist, said the laser helps bring money to his practice as Medicare reimbursement continues to decline. “One of the problems with ophthalmology is everybody is scrambling to keep the lights on,” he said.

Miller said his practice has offered laser cataract surgery for several years. He compares the choice to buying a Toyota Camry or buying a Lexus. “Both will get you where you want to go, but one will get you there with a premium feel and leather seats,” he said.

He said his patients know they can choose the surgery without a laser. “We do not pressure anybody to do anything,” Miller said.

At his practice in an affluent part of Los Angeles, he said, 80% of patients opt for laser cataract surgery. “What you buy with a laser is precision and reproducibility, as every laser cut looks exactly the same,” he said. “It does not make vision better.”

KFF Health News is a national newsroom that produces in-depth journalism about health issues and is one of the core operating programs at KFF — the independent source for health policy research, polling, and journalism.

特朗普制裁国际刑事法院 四人权组织起诉他违宪

2026年8月11日 23:18 / 联合早报

美国总统特朗普去年签署一项行政命令，授权对与国际刑事法院合作的检察官、法官和其他人员实施制裁，原因是他们起诉了来自美国及盟友以色列的官员。 （路透社档案照片）

美国总统特朗普去年签行政令对国际刑事法院人员实施制裁，四家美国主要人权组织如今对特朗普提起诉讼，指控他违宪。

路透社报道，人权观察、开放社会研究所、美国朋友服务委员会和宪法权利中心星期二（8月11日）在纽约提起诉讼，指特朗普下令的制裁措施阻碍他们与国际刑事法院合作，为世界各地涉及种族灭绝、战争罪和反人类罪的案件寻求正义。

特朗普去年签署行政令，授权制裁与国际刑事法院合作的检察官、法官和其他人员，原因是他们起诉了来自美国及美国盟友以色列的官员。美国和以色列都不是国际刑事法院成员国。

代表上述人权组织的首席律师洛温斯坦发表声明说，他们希望终止这套制裁制度，认为行政令超越总统权限，并违反国际法和美国法律，包括言论自由和宗教自由。

此前，一些致力于巴勒斯坦人权的倡导团体上个月也提起类似的诉讼。

美国国务院回应说，这些团体试图“助长国际刑事法院的权力滥用”，并称国际刑事法院威胁美国主权。

三名国际刑事法院法官已就制裁问题分别起诉特朗普政府。

特朗普反对国际刑事法院的立场可追溯至他的第一任期。2020年，特朗普曾签署类似行政令，但被一名法官驳回。法官认为，这项行政令可能违反美国宪法第一修正案。前总统拜登政府随后于2021年撤销这项行政令。

国务卿鲁比奥上个月说，美国政府将加大力度削弱位于海牙的国际刑事法院，包括发起一场旨在说服其他国家退出法院的外交行动。

鲁比奥辩称，法院对执行特朗普强硬移民政策，或打击被控运载毒品船只的美国人员和其他美国军人构成威胁。

7月31日，特朗普在内阁会议上回应鲁比奥的最新情况时说，这场运动旨在捍卫以色列总理内坦亚胡和其他人，而不是捍卫特朗普本人。

哥伦比亚7.4级强震死亡人数升至224 全国进入紧急状态

2026年8月11日 23:24 / 联合早报

哥伦比亚星期一（8月10日）发生7.4级地震，导致165栋建筑倒塌，救援人员在重灾区佩雷拉市寻找生还者。 （法新社）

（波哥大综合电）哥伦比亚西部地区发生多年来最强烈的7.4级地震，上百栋建筑倒塌，至少224人死、668人受伤。新任总统德拉埃斯普列亚宣布全国进入紧急状态。

地震星期一（8月10日）早上7时34分（本地时间晚间8时34分）发生，震中位于哥伦比亚乔科省（Choco）圣何塞德尔帕尔马镇附近，震源深度约110公里。这次地震可能由纳斯卡板块内部深层断层活动引发。

强烈震感传至数百公里外的首都波哥大，邻国厄瓜多尔和巴拿马部分地区也有震感。

灾情最严重的地区包括西南部城市卡利（Cali）、咖啡产区城市佩雷拉（Pereira）和马尼萨莱斯（Manizales），以及乔科省首府基布多（Quibdo）。

哥伦比亚当局星期二（11日）说，地震已造成至少224人死亡。首都城市协会最新统计显示受伤人数也已升至668人。然而同天较迟时候，几个重灾城市的市长发布联合声明，指已有1300多人受伤。

据估计，超过5000栋房屋受损，165栋建筑倒塌，仍有人受困废墟，死伤人数恐会进一步上升。

哥伦比亚时间2026年8月11日凌晨，在重灾区卡利市，搜救人员从废墟中救出一名35岁男子。（路透社第三方视频截图）

地震发生当天下午约1时左右，上周才刚宣誓就职的哥伦比亚总统德拉埃斯普列亚（Abelardo de la Espriella）向全国人民发表讲话，强调“政府必动员一切能力资源，保护生命、援助受影响社区，为任何有需要的地方提供支援。”他也宣布全国进入紧急状态，并将倾注全力展开救援。

在重灾区卡利市，至少19栋建筑倒塌，95人遇难。救援人员和志愿者连夜展开搜救，有些人使用简易工具甚至徒手挖掘，尽一切所能寻找可能受困废墟的生还者。

救援人员与志愿者连夜展开搜救，有些人使用简易工具甚至徒手挖掘，尽一切所能寻找可能受困废墟的生还者。（路透社）

救援人员在夜晚的街灯下双手握拳高举半空，示意现场保持绝对寂静，以捕捉废墟底下发出的哪怕再微弱的生命气息。（路透社）

43岁的卡利居民加西亚也自愿参与搜救工作。她说，搜救队从一栋倒塌的建筑中救出七人，另有四人和一只狗仍然受困废墟。“刚才还听见抓挠声，现在却什么都听不见了……但我们相信那只狗还活着，也能把这些人救出……越多人来帮忙越好。”

由于卡利市有关当局接获报案指有人趁地震行窃，星期一晚实施宵禁。总统德拉埃斯普列亚派遣1000名安全部队人员前往当地协助维持秩序。

在里萨拉尔达省首府佩雷拉，至少72人身亡，有的住宅区变成一片废墟，并大范围断电。

地方官员里瓦斯则指，基布多市的公共服务和通信“几乎完全中断”。

基布多居民库埃斯塔说，地震发生时看见有人赤身裸体逃出屋外，也有人从自家二楼跳下避难。

哥伦比亚五座城市的医院星期一进入红色警戒；一切手术及门诊咨询暂停，以为急诊医疗护理调动现有的所有人员和资源。民航局则指全国至少六座机场暂停营运。

哥伦比亚佩雷拉灾区，废墟中的小闹钟外部看似完好无损，指针却从此停留在地震发生的致命时刻：7时34分。（路透社）

美国国务卿鲁比奥星期一说，美国正密切关注灾情，随时准备向哥伦比亚提供援助。美方随后宣布提供1550万美元（约1984万新元）的紧急救援资金。

欧盟委员会主席冯德莱恩则说，欧盟已启动“哥白尼”卫星服务协助当地搜救行动。以色列、墨西哥、厄瓜多尔和法国也表明愿意提供援助。

1999年1月，哥伦比亚咖啡产区曾发生6.2级地震，亚美尼亚和佩雷拉等地受灾严重，共造成1000多人死亡。

哥伦比亚7.4级强震死亡人数升至224 全国进入紧急状态

2026年8月11日 23:24 / 联合早报

哥伦比亚星期一（8月10日）发生7.4级地震，导致165栋建筑倒塌，救援人员在重灾区佩雷拉市寻找生还者。 （法新社）

（波哥大综合电）哥伦比亚西部地区发生多年来最强烈的7.4级地震，上百栋建筑倒塌，至少224人死、668人受伤。新任总统德拉埃斯普列亚宣布全国进入紧急状态。

地震星期一（8月10日）早上7时34分（本地时间晚间8时34分）发生，震中位于哥伦比亚乔科省（Choco）圣何塞德尔帕尔马镇附近，震源深度约110公里。这次地震可能由纳斯卡板块内部深层断层活动引发。

强烈震感传至数百公里外的首都波哥大，邻国厄瓜多尔和巴拿马部分地区也有震感。

灾情最严重的地区包括西南部城市卡利（Cali）、咖啡产区城市佩雷拉（Pereira）和马尼萨莱斯（Manizales），以及乔科省首府基布多（Quibdo）。

哥伦比亚当局星期二（11日）说，地震已造成至少224人死亡。首都城市协会最新统计显示受伤人数也已升至668人。然而同天较迟时候，几个重灾城市的市长发布联合声明，指已有1300多人受伤。

据估计，超过5000栋房屋受损，165栋建筑倒塌，仍有人受困废墟，死伤人数恐会进一步上升。

哥伦比亚时间2026年8月11日凌晨，在重灾区卡利市，搜救人员从废墟中救出一名35岁男子。（路透社第三方视频截图）

地震发生当天下午约1时左右，上周才刚宣誓就职的哥伦比亚总统德拉埃斯普列亚（Abelardo de la Espriella）向全国人民发表讲话，强调“政府必动员一切能力资源，保护生命、援助受影响社区，为任何有需要的地方提供支援。”他也宣布全国进入紧急状态，并将倾注全力展开救援。

在重灾区卡利市，至少19栋建筑倒塌，95人遇难。救援人员和志愿者连夜展开搜救，有些人使用简易工具甚至徒手挖掘，尽一切所能寻找可能受困废墟的生还者。

救援人员与志愿者连夜展开搜救，有些人使用简易工具甚至徒手挖掘，尽一切所能寻找可能受困废墟的生还者。（路透社）

救援人员在夜晚的街灯下双手握拳高举半空，示意现场保持绝对寂静，以捕捉废墟底下发出的哪怕再微弱的生命气息。（路透社）

43岁的卡利居民加西亚也自愿参与搜救工作。她说，搜救队从一栋倒塌的建筑中救出七人，另有四人和一只狗仍然受困废墟。“刚才还听见抓挠声，现在却什么都听不见了……但我们相信那只狗还活着，也能把这些人救出……越多人来帮忙越好。”

由于卡利市有关当局接获报案指有人趁地震行窃，星期一晚实施宵禁。总统德拉埃斯普列亚派遣1000名安全部队人员前往当地协助维持秩序。

在里萨拉尔达省首府佩雷拉，至少72人身亡，有的住宅区变成一片废墟，并大范围断电。

地方官员里瓦斯则指，基布多市的公共服务和通信“几乎完全中断”。

基布多居民库埃斯塔说，地震发生时看见有人赤身裸体逃出屋外，也有人从自家二楼跳下避难。

哥伦比亚五座城市的医院星期一进入红色警戒；一切手术及门诊咨询暂停，以为急诊医疗护理调动现有的所有人员和资源。民航局则指全国至少六座机场暂停营运。

哥伦比亚佩雷拉灾区，废墟中的小闹钟外部看似完好无损，指针却从此停留在地震发生的致命时刻：7时34分。（路透社）

美国国务卿鲁比奥星期一说，美国正密切关注灾情，随时准备向哥伦比亚提供援助。美方随后宣布提供1550万美元（约1984万新元）的紧急救援资金。

欧盟委员会主席冯德莱恩则说，欧盟已启动“哥白尼”卫星服务协助当地搜救行动。以色列、墨西哥、厄瓜多尔和法国也表明愿意提供援助。

1999年1月，哥伦比亚咖啡产区曾发生6.2级地震，亚美尼亚和佩雷拉等地受灾严重，共造成1000多人死亡。

Former US Marine Robert Gilman released from detention in Russia

2026-08-11T15:03:30.217Z / CNN

By Jennifer Hansler

Updated 3 min ago

Updated Aug 11, 2026, 11:12 AM ET

PUBLISHED Aug 11, 2026, 11:03 AM ET

Former US Marine Robert Gilman, who serves a prison sentence for assaulting a Russian police officer in 2022, attends a court hearing in Voronezh, Russia, on April 6.

Vladimir Lavrov/File/Reuters

American Robert Gilman was released from Russian detention Tuesday, according to two US officials and an organization advocating on behalf of his family.

His release came amid severe concerns about his health. Gilman, a former Marine, had been detained since 2022.

Global Reach, the organization advocating on behalf of his family, said in a statement that Gilman “is on his way to a US military hospital in Texas, where he will be medically and psychologically assessed and treated.”

“His family has flown to Texas – including his mother, who was in Russia attempting to see him at the hospital,” the organization said.

One of the US officials confirmed that Gilman is receiving medical care and is on his way back to the United States.

This is a developing story and will be updated.

Farm linked to cyclosporiasis outbreak hadn’t been inspected in 7 years as FDA lags on foreign inspection targets

August 11, 2026 / 11:19 AM EDT / CBS News

The Food and Drug Administration conducted just under 1,000 foreign food safety inspections in 2025, and the farm in Mexico believed to be at the center of the ongoing cyclosporiasis outbreak in the U.S. was not one of them.

A federal law enacted to prevent diseased and dirty food from reaching Americans’ plates requires the FDA to carry out nearly 20 times that many foreign inspections each year. But the FDA hasn’t come close to meeting the congressional mandate — or even 10% of it — in the 10 years it has been in place, spanning administrations led by both political parties.

FDA officials have described the requirement as unrealistic, but have never asked Congress to revise it. A lower foreign inspection target the agency deemed necessary to safeguard foreign imports is still nearly five times higher than the number of inspections conducted last year.

Congress, meanwhile, has not increased the agency’s food safety budget to outpace or keep up with inflation, and widespread layoffs during the first year of President Trump’s second term squeezed resources further.

The rate of inspections has gotten markedly worse amid those reductions, with foreign food safety inspections falling by 29% from 2024. Outside of the COVID-19 pandemic, last year’s inspection count was the lowest since 2011. Early numbers for 2026 show that the agency is on track to inspect a similar number this year.

“FDA inspections really are the first line of defense for mitigating outbreaks. If FDA isn’t routinely going out to food facilities, it’s just completely blind,” said Meridith Seife, the lead author on a Health and Human Services Inspector General report on FDA inspections of U.S. facilities. “It’s unable to ensure that those facilities are complying with the laws, with regulations, and that the food that they handle is safe.”

About a third of FDA inspections of foreign firms for foodborne hazards over the last decade found violations, inspection data show. Inspectors have previously found toilet paper and human feces in growing fields in Mexico and observed air conditioning units dripping onto crawfish in China. Around 2% of the time inspectors visited firms over the last 10 years, they found violations significant enough to prompt enforcement action.

Before the cyclosporiasis outbreak, the FDA last inspected its potential source, Taylor Farms de Mexico, seven years ago, records show. The FDA’s last visit before that was six years prior — to respond to another cyclosporiasis outbreak in 2013. The 2019 inspection found no violations, while the 2013 post-outbreak review found the facility was recycling wash water for salad mix, but couldn’t conclusively pinpoint the source of the outbreak.

The FDA is “actively working to expand staffing at foreign posts,” according to Emily Hilliard, senior press secretary for HHS. Public health experts say the inspection count is only one input in the whole system, and that food companies bear primary responsibility for day-to-day safety. But they also said the count still matters as an outside check regulators alone can provide.

“Suggesting that FDA’s ability to protect the food supply can be measured by a single inspection statistic ignores the agency’s comprehensive oversight system, which prioritizes resources based on risk and deploys personnel where they have the greatest public health impact,” Hilliard wrote in a statement to CBS News.

The FDA inspects producers of fruits and vegetables, dairy, processed foods and most seafood, while the U.S. Department of Agriculture is responsible for inspections of meat and poultry producers.

About 47,000 foreign manufacturers accounted for 90% of non-meat food shipments into the U.S. last year, a CBS News analysis of import data found. The FDA has inspected 4.5% of them since 2023.

The FDA employs a risk-based model to determine where to send inspectors, based on how much and how often a company sends food into the U.S. and its prior inspection and import refusal record. In addition to inspections, the FDA also uses an algorithm to assign scores to imports for screening at ports of entry, and can block any imports without examining them if they deem a shipper problematic. Federal law also puts the burden on U.S. companies importing food to ensure their suppliers follow safety standards.

An “unrealistic” target

Since 2011, federal inspectors have visited an average of about 1,300 foreign factories and farms annually (in non-pandemic years) to check for hazards that could lead to foodborne illness, federal data shows.

The FDA, state and local agencies conducted more than 10,000 inspections annually inside the U.S. in recent years, according to the HHS Inspector General.

The Food Safety Modernization Act, or FSMA, set a rising annual target for foreign inspections, capping it at 19,200 in 2016. The FDA told a federal watchdog as early as 2015 that the number was unworkable, so it directed the FDA to propose an adjusted target to Congress. The agency later conducted an internal analysis pegging the needed number of inspections at 4,700, about three to five times what the FDA has managed in recent years. But the agency never brought the number to Congress.

After the Government Accountability Office urged the FDA to revisit the target again last January, the agency created a workgroup to redo the analysis.

“The GAO was right in its January report when it said that the agency is handicapped by underfunding and understaffing. It’s even more so now,” said Sen. Richard Blumenthal, a Democrat of Connecticut, who requested the more recent watchdog inquiry. “There’s clearly a need for more resources, better management, more commitment. Some of it can be legislated, but it also has to come from the administration.”

At an average of $38,700 per foreign inspection, according to the FDA’s estimates, meeting the existing Congressional mandate would cost about $743 million a year — more than 10% of the FDA’s entire budget.

Staffing challenges

The FDA had 432 inspectors in 2024, and its hiring rate has not outpaced losses, according to the GAO report. Congress directed the hiring of 5,000 inspectors under FSMA, but the agency says it has never had the budget to increase staffing that much.

“Retaining inspectors has been a challenge at the FDA for more than a decade due to the difficulty of the job,” wrote Sen. John Hoeven, a Republican of North Dakota, chair of the Senate appropriations subcommittee that drafts funding legislation for the FDA, in a written statement.

Last year’s mass government layoffs spared inspectors but slashed support staff, leaving front-line inspectors to book their own flights and translators.

With just a fraction of its inspectors — 20 in 2024 — dedicated to foreign providers, the agency often pulls from domestic inspector ranks. It sends inspectors overseas for weeks to combine multiple stops in one trip. The FDA has also worked out agreements with Canada, New Zealand and Australia to accept their food systems and inspection results as equivalent to the U.S.

The required 19,200 inspections “was an impossible number for them to meet,” said Stephen Ostroff, former FDA deputy commissioner for foods and veterinary medicine. “They have worked very hard to try to come up with alternatives to doing those foreign inspections.”

Beyond inspections

With inspections happening infrequently, “the day-to-day operations and management of food safety is really on the company rather than on the regulatory agency,” said Dr. Don Schaffner, chair of Rutgers University’s Department of Food Science.

Economic incentives reinforce that self-monitoring: sales of prepackaged lettuce dropped nearly 20% in July amid the cyclosporiasis outbreak, Reuters reported. Taylor Farms says it invests $200 million annually in food safety protocols and independent audits, including regular monitoring of water quality and worker hygiene.

“The food industry is very good in terms of food safety overall if you think of how much food we eat,” said Dr. Kali Kniel, chair of microbial food safety at the University of Delaware.

Still, inspections remain “a critical food safety and consumer protection activity,” said Sandra Eskin, CEO of the nonprofit Stop Foodborne Illness.

“We’re not in the field. We’re not in the processing plant. So, we can’t see what goes on,” she said. “We bring a food item into our house, we can’t tell if it’s contaminated.”

About the data

_CBS News analyzed inspections and import data from_FDA’s Data Dashboard_. The analysis was limited to inspections of firms outside of the U.S. that were inspected under the “Foodborne Biological Hazards” program. To determine how many foreign manufacturers imported 90% of food into the U.S. last year, CBS News counted foreign-based manufacturers who delivered the most shipments of human food into the U.S., grouping together deliveries of multiple products on the same day by the same company as a single shipment. Meat and poultry were excluded, as they are under the purview of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, not the FDA._

John Kelly contributed to this report.