CRISIS IN PERU
5 Peruvian soldiers disappeared after being swept away by the river as they fled from protesters
Lime. Five Peruvian soldiers are missing after being swept away by a river while fleeing a group of anti-government protesters in the southern region of Puno (bordering Bolivia) on Sunday, an incident in which a soldier also died, reported military sources. The soldiers were part of a patrol that moved from the town of Ilave to Juli, where protesters set fire to a police station yesterday, when they were intercepted by a violent group who prevented their passage, detailed the Joint Armed Forces Command. situation, according to the press release, the patrol decided to take an alternative route and cross the Ilave River to avoid confrontation, but, “due to the difficulties, the flow of the river and the attack with stones and other blunt objects”, six members of the patrol were swept away by the current.
UKRAINE WAR
Ukraine keeps fighting in Bakhmut where Russia claims little progress
Moscow/Kyiv. Ukraine maintains its resistance in strategic Bakhmut despite reports of a tactical withdrawal and announcements from the Russian side of small advances in the region. The Ukrainian soldiers assured that they had repelled during the last day “more than 130 enemy attacks” in various sectors of the front, in particular in Kupiansk, Lyman, Bakhmut and Avdiivka, all in eastern Ukraine, where the Russians are concentrating their “main efforts”, according to Kiev.
UKRAINE WAR
Russia Says It Will Join Grains Deal Only If Everyone Complies
Moscow. Russia will extend its participation in the Ukrainian grain export deal if all parties involved fulfill their obligations, Russian Foreign Affairs spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Sunday. Russia has threatened to withdraw its support for the grain export pact, which expires on March 18, if sanctions on Russian trade in agricultural products are not lifted, a request that Moscow links directly to this agreement.
ASSEMBLY OF CHINA
China sets its goals for the first year after the end of “zero covid”: economic growth and defense budget
Beijing. China set its economic and political goals for the first year after the end of the “zero covid” policy on Sunday at the country’s main annual political event, during which the focus is on stability as the cornerstone of recovery. Outgoing Prime Minister Li Keqiang put forward a roadmap in his report on government management, announcing an economic growth target “in the region of 5%” for this year and an increase in defense spending of 7 .2%. Li referred to the conflict with Taiwan and warned that China would “resolutely” fight against Taiwanese “independence”.
CUBA AVIATION
Southwest plane makes emergency landing in Havana
Havana. A plane from the southwest which covered the Havana-Fort Lauderdale route (Florida, United States) made an emergency landing yesterday Sunday at the international airport of the Cuban capital, which caused two minor injuries, according to a state television report. During the take-off process of the American airline’s Boeing 737 – which was carrying out flight 3923 – failures were detected in one of its engines, as explained by the Cuban Civil Aviation Corporation in a note published on its page on the Facebook social network.
UNITED STATES THE MIDDLE
Austin meets Abdalá II at the start of an O.Medio tour
Haman. US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin met with Jordanian King Abdullah II in Amman on Sunday at the start of a Middle East tour that will also take him to Egypt and Israel, where he plans to discuss the defense cooperation. and reiterate Washington’s commitment to the security of its allies in the face of the growing Iranian threat. Abdallah II and Austin discussed “the strategic partnership between Jordan and the United States, particularly in the field of defence”, according to the official Jordanian news agency, Petra.
ESTONIAN ELECTIONS
Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas’ party wins national elections
Riga. Estonia’s incumbent Prime Minister Kaja Kallas’ Reform Party won parliamentary elections on Sunday, the official count of which has not been finalized giving it more than 31% of the vote, which will likely allow it to lead the country’s next government. Baltic. The result allows Kallas’ party to obtain 37 seats, according to still provisional data, three more than during the previous legislature. The centrist liberal leader said after learning of her victory that she would not yet disclose her preferences for renewing the government coalition.
GREECE ACCIDENT
The public prosecutor’s office decrees the preventive detention of the director of the Larisa station
Athens. The Larisa public prosecutor’s office yesterday ordered preventive detention against the station manager in that city, accused of negligent homicide and other crimes after last Tuesday’s train tragedy that left 57 people dead and dozens injured. The 59-year-old official testified for almost eight hours before the assistant prosecutor about what happened overnight from Tuesday to Wednesday when a passenger train collided head-on with a freight train in the center of Greece.
LASSO EQUATOR
Peru expressed support for the Lasso government and political stability in Ecuador
Lime. The government of Peru yesterday expressed its support for the constitutional government of the President of Ecuador, Guillermo Lasso, and hoped for the maintenance of governability, political stability and social peace in this country, after a request for impeachment against him for alleged crimes of corruption In a statement issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Peruvian executive added that governability, political stability and social peace are “indispensable conditions for the full validity of the principles and regulations on the promotion and the strengthening of democracy in the region”.
VIOLENCE IN MEXICO
Civil servant and son gunned down in eastern Mexico
Veracruz Mexico). An armed commando yesterday afternoon, Sunday, killed a Congress official from the Mexican state of Veracruz and his seven-year-old son, while his wife was seriously injured, local authorities reported. secretary of the Legislative Services of the Congress of Veracruz, Alexis Sánchez García, who was traveling with his family in his private vehicle. the mountainous region of central Veracruz in eastern Mexico.
UN OCEANS
Agreement at the UN on a treaty to protect the high seas
The United Nations. UN countries reached an agreement on Sunday to establish a treaty that protects the high seas, an instrument that has been negotiated for years and that experts and environmental organizations say is vital to saving the oceans. Among other things, the text lays the foundations for the creation of marine protected areas, which should facilitate the fulfillment of the international promise to safeguard at least 30% of the oceans by 2030.
CRISIS IN PERU
Dina Boluarte will testify before the prosecution for the dead in the demonstrations
Lime. The President of Peru, Dina Boluarte, will go in person to the prosecutor’s office to offer her testimony in the investigation into the genocide opened against her following the 70 deaths during protest demonstrations, according to what her lawyer reported this Sunday to local media. The National Prosecutor’s Office opened a preliminary investigation against the head of state last January for the alleged crimes of genocide, aggravated homicide and serious injuries due to the deaths and injuries caused by the anti-government protests since December in various parts of the country. .
DEMONSTRATION IN TUNISIA
New demonstration in Tunisia against the campaign to arrest opponents of Saïd
Tunisia. More than a thousand people defied a government ban on the demonstration called yesterday Sunday by the National Salvation Front coalition to demand the “immediate” release of detained opponents and to call for an end to what they see as “a coup” by President Kais Said. Photographs of lawyers, politicians, journalists and magistrates, arrested in recent weeks, have dominated the protest in the center of the Tunisian capital, which follows the massive demonstration yesterday Saturday led by the powerful trade union UGTT, which accuses the president of “a political man.
PAKISTANI OPPOSITION
Former Pakistani PM escapes arrest protected by supporters
Islamabad. Pakistan’s former prime minister and current opposition leader Imran Khan escaped arrest on Sunday by being protected by hundreds of his supporters, who prevented police from reaching the charismatic politician, indicted for having kept gifts he received during his government. Police left the grounds of the former cricketer-turned-politician’s residence after trying to persuade hundreds of supporters who arrived at the scene to prevent his arrest.
POISONING IN IRAN
New gas poisoning affects hundreds of schoolgirls in Iran
Tehran. Iran suffered new cases of gas poisoning yesterday Sunday in several women’s education centers in which hundreds of female students were again poisoned across the Persian country.So far, more than 1,000 female students were poisoned in dozens of schools and institutes and suffered from headaches. , palpitations, nausea, dizziness and sometimes the inability to move the extremities after smelling rotten oranges and cleaning products. The Government said on Sunday that the wave of gas poisonings in women’s schools is an operation “of psychological contamination” which aims to revive the protests sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini. ECE
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