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Mexican prosecutors are investigating widely shared surveillance video of the former boss of the murdered woman carrying a suspicious bundle of flights up stairs.

Authorities say Lorena Jacqueline Morales, who lives in Leon, central Guanajuato’s central state and worked at a grocery store, was reported missing by her family on May 23.

Prosecutors said the 28-year-old body was found in a suitcase on Tuesday, June 3rd. Her murders shock the country and highlight violence against Mexican women.

The prosecutor arrested the perpetrator, who was allegedly her former boss that same day.

On Thursday, a spokesman for the Guanajuato Prosecutor’s Office told CNN that the viral video was part of an investigation into Morales’ murder. They did not provide further details.

Surveillance video shows Morales’ former boss entering the apartment building and climbing a staircase with covered objects. After that, the man is seen next to me A car is struggling to load a heavy suitcase into the trunk.

The timestamp in the top left corner of the video suggests it was taken on May 22nd. It is unknown what happened before and after the footage.

CNN is working to determine the legal status of the suspect and his response to the allegations against him.

Guanajuato Gov. Libia Dennise García Muñoz said the incident should be investigated as a murder.

Mexico has long struggled with both high levels of murder and violence against women.

Not all murders involving women are feminized, but many do. According to Amnesty International, a quarter of the murders of women in Mexico were investigated as feminists in 2020, and reported in each of the 32 Mexican states.

Last year, Mexican government figures showed 847 murders were reported in the first three months of the year, with 162 reported in the first three months of the year.

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Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney on Friday invited Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Alberta’s G7 Summit later this month.

Last year, countries expelled each other’s top diplomats over the murder of Sikh Canadian activists in Canada and other crime allegations.

The invitation spurred rage from the Canadian World Sikh organization and asked Kearney not to invite Modi in May. Tensions are high between Canada and India over accusations that Indian government agents were involved in the murder of Canadian activists for Sikh separatism in British Columbia in 2023.

Kearney extended the invitation to Modi on Friday with a call between the two leaders. The summit will be held from June 15th to 17th.

Carney said Canada is in the role of G7 Chairman and there is an important debate that India should take part.

“India is the fifth largest economy in the world, the world’s most populous country and the heart of supplying chains,” Carney told reporters, adding that there has been some progress in law enforcement dialogue between the two countries.

“I extended my invitation to Prime Minister Modi and in that context he accepted,” Carney said.

Kearney said there were ongoing legal proceedings in the murder of a Sikh activist in Canada, and when asked by reporters whether he thought Modi was involved, he said he would not comment on the incident.

After Canada told India, the country’s top diplomat was the person interested in assassinating Hardeep Singh Nijjar in 2023, and the police revealed evidence of an intensifying campaign against Canadian citizens by Indian government agents.

Modi said he was happy to receive a call from Kearney and congratulated him on his recent election victory.

“A vibrant democracy bound by deep people and people-bonds, India and Canada will work with a new vitality led by mutual respect and shared interests. We look forward to meetings at the summit,” Modi said in a statement on social media.

Nijar, 45, was fatally shot in a pickup truck after leaving a Sikh temple that led in Surrey, British Columbia. A Canadian Indian-born citizen, he owns a plumbing business and was once the rest of the strong movement to create an independent Sikh homeland.

Four Indian citizens living in Canada have been charged with the murder of Nijar.

Balpreet Singh, a legal counsel and spokesman for the Canadian World Sikh organization, called Carney’s invitation to Modi “a betrayal of Canadian values.”

“The summit where Modi is invited will fall on the anniversary of the assassination of Hardeep Singh Nijjar two years ago,” he said. “So this is unacceptable, shocking and a complete reversal of the principled position that Prime Minister (Justin) Trudeau took.”

Canada is not the only country that has accused Indian officials of planning assassination in foreign soil.

In 2023, US prosecutors said Indian government officials had directed a failed conspiracy to assassinate another Sikh separatist leader in New York.

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The shocking drone strike against Ukraine’s Russian strategic bomber fleet this week marks concerning the situation as generals and analysts re-seen the threat to high-value US aircraft at their homeland and overseas bases.

“This is the moment to raise your eyebrows,” U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff General David Albin added at a defense conference in Washington on Tuesday that the US is vulnerable to similar attacks.

“There are no sanctuaries in the US either, especially considering that the home base is inherently completely unbearable,” Thomas Sugart, a senior assistant fellow at the New America Security Center (CNAS), told CNN.

“Unbearable” means that Sugart doesn’t have enough shelter to park American fighters, whether it’s a drone or a missile, that’s difficult enough to protect them from airstrikes.

Ukrainian military officials said 41 Russian aircraft were hit by attacks that included strategic bombers and surveillance aircraft in last Sunday’s attack, some of which were destroyed and other aviations were damaged.

Later analysis shows that at least 12 planes have been destroyed or damaged, with satellite image reviews continuing.

Ukrainian businesses used drones smuggled into Russian territory, hidden in wooden mobile houses above trucks and driven near four Russian air bases.

Near the base, the roof of the mobile house was opened remotely and the drones deployed and began the strike.

Russian planes were covered on the base runways, just as American fighters were in their homes and in their facilities overseas.

“We’re pretty vulnerable,” US General Stanley McCrystal told CNN’s Anderson Cooper on Tuesday.

“We have a lot of high value assets that are very expensive,” says McChrystal.

The Ukrainians said the attacks destroyed a Russian aircraft worth $7 billion. In comparison, a single US Air Force B-2 bomber costs $2 billion. And there are only 20 in the US.

Sugart co-authored a report from the Hudson Institute in January, highlighting the threat to US military facilities from China in the event of a superpower conflict.

“People Liberation Army (PLA) aircraft, ground-based missile launchers, surface and underground vessels, and special forces attack forces can attack US aircraft and their support systems at airfields around the world, including on the US continent.”

According to war game simulations and analysis, “the overwhelming majority of US aircraft losses can occur on the ground at airfields (and the losses can be catastrophic),” Sugart and Walton write.

Last year, a report by Air and Space Forces Magazine noted that Pacific Island of Guam’s Anderson Air Force Base (probably the most important aviation facility in the Pacific Ocean) hosts rotations of B-1 and B-52 bombers.

USAF Chief of Staff Allvin confirmed the issue Tuesday.

“Now, I don’t think that’s where we need to be,” Allvin told the CNA meeting.

McChrystal said the US must consider ways to protect its bases and aircraft.

“It expands the spectrum of threats you have to deal with,” McChrystal said.

But that costs money and Allvin said it would present the US a budget dilemma.

Spend defense dollars on hardened shelters and use more resources on ways to stop drones and missiles from attacking US bases, or offensive weapons that fight enemies?

“If all we’re doing is defense and we can’t shoot, then that’s not a good use of our money,” Allvin told the CNAS conference.

“We’ve always known that strengthening the base was something we needed to do,” Allvin said, but other items are given budget priorities.

The cured aircraft shelter is not flashy and it is unlikely to generate headlines for other defense projects, including planes such as the new B-21 bomber.

And US President Donald Trump recently said the Air Force will build a new stealth fighter F-47 at an initial cost of $300 million per aircraft.

“The F-47 is a great aircraft, but if you don’t protect it, you’ll die on the ground,” says Allvin.

Meanwhile, Shugart and Walton say the hardened shelter costs around $30 million.

Last month, Trump revealed another form of air defense of the Golden Dome missile shield, which is the mainland of the US.

Despite its huge price tags, it is designed to counter long-range threats, like intercontinental ballistic missiles fired from different hemispheres.

In Russia, the vastness of its territory was considered a strength in the war with Ukraine. One of the air bases hit by Ukrainian operation “Spider Web” was closer to Tokyo than Kiev.

But now the size of Russia is a weakness, writes David Kilichenko on the Atlantic Council’s Ukrainian Watch Blog.

All boundary intersections can be penetration points. All freight containers on all highways or rail lines must be handled with suspicion.

“This is a logistical nightmare,” Kirichenko said.

And there is a direct analogy to the US.

US Air Force bomber bases are usually common inland, but large and small vehicles are accessible.

For example, all 20 B-2 bombers are stationed at Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri. Though about 600 miles from the nearest coastline in the Gulf of Mexico, thousands of commercial vehicles pass by each day, about 25 miles south of Interstate 70, one of the US’s main east-west transit arteries.

Dice Air Force Base in Texas, one of the US B-1 bomber homes, is located just south of Interstate 20, another east-west commercial artery.

“Think about all the containers and illegal entrants within our borders,” said Carl Schuster, former operations director at the United States Pacific Command’s Joint Information Center.

“That connection causes alarms in some US circles,” he said.

Meanwhile, in the Pacific, if a conflict occurs with China, even better US offensive firepower may not be enough, as General Allvin would have hoped.

According to a report from the Hudson Institute, PLA worked together to protect the aircraft during a massive military accumulation under the leaders’ committee Xi Jinping.

China has more than 650 hardened aircraft shelters at the airfield within 1,150 miles of the Taiwan Strait, the report says.

But Sugart and Walton argue that the best move Washington could make is to build Beijing more by improving the US strike capabilities of Asia.

“In response… PLA will likely continue to spend money on additional costly passive and aggressive defence measures, and will be less committed to alternative investments, including strikes and other power projection capabilities,” they said.