UKRAINE WAR
Biden rules out sending F-16 fighters to Ukraine ‘for now’ after announcing new aid package
Washington. US President Joe Biden has ruled out sending F-16 fighters to Ukraine “for now”, as requested by his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodimir Zelensky. “He doesn’t need an F-16 anymore,” Biden said in an ABC interview that aired Friday. The president argued that, at the moment, there are no logical reasons to send fighters, according to the criteria of American military leaders. This Friday, a year after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the US Department of Defense announced the delivery of a new $2 billion military aid package to Kyiv which includes HIMARS missiles, artillery munitions and drones.
EU UKRAINE WAR
EU accepts 10th sanctions against Russia on war anniversary
Brussels. The European Union accepted Friday “in extremis” the tenth package of sanctions against Russia, coinciding with the first anniversary of the war in Ukraine, which includes a ban on the export of technologies for military use and measures against Iranian companies who supply drones to Moscow. “The EU has approved the tenth package of sanctions against Russia” to “help Ukraine win the war”, announced the Swedish Presidency of the Council of the European Union on its official Twitter account. The EU is “united with Ukraine and the Ukrainian people”, continued the Swedish presidency of the EU, which promised that the 27 would continue to support kyiv “as long as it takes”.
G20 INDIA
Calviño: discussions are less constructive but progress is being made at the G20
Bengaluru (India). The Vice-President of the Spanish Government, Nadia Calviño, claimed on Saturday that talks between G20 finance chiefs are becoming “less constructive” as the war in Ukraine progresses, but underlined the “progress” in the search for a common position on the Russian invasion of this country and the control of the debt. “The talks are becoming more difficult than in previous meetings because as the war continues, some of these positions may be less constructive on these issues. At the same time, we are able to make progress,” he said. Calvin said.
BELARUS CHINA
Lukashenko will travel to China next Tuesday for a state visit
Moscow. Belarusian President Alexandr Lukashenko will travel to China on Tuesday for a state visit that will last until March 2, the official Belarusian BELTA news agency reported today. Lukashenko will discuss with Chinese President Xi Jinping the development of bilateral economic and trade relations, investment projects, as well as “interaction in the political sphere”. According to BELTA, the two leaders will also discuss the “most serious challenges of the current international situation”. Belarus is Russia’s main backer in its military campaign in Ukraine, but its armed forces are not directly involved in the conflict.
IRAN MISSILE
Iran presents a missile with a range of 1,650 kilometers
Tehran. Iran’s Revolutionary Guards have unveiled a new ballistic missile with a range of 1,650 kilometers, amid tensions with the West over the sale of drones to Russia and a crackdown on protests sparked by the death of the young Mahsa Amini in September. “We have added a new missile with a range of 1,650 kilometers to the arsenal of the Islamic Republic,” IRGC Aerospace Force Commander General Amir Ali Hajizadeh said last night. Named “Paveh”, after a city in Iranian Kurdistan, the new missile has an accuracy of less than one meter and great maneuverability.
PERU MEXICO
Boluarte withdraws its ambassador to Mexico in response to criticism from López Obrador
Lima Feb 24 The President of Peru, Dina Boluarte, announced this Friday that she had decided to withdraw the Peruvian ambassador to Mexico in response to the declarations of its president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, whom she accuses of “interference in the affairs interior” of the Andean country and for having “decided to support the coup” of former President Pedro Castillo. In a message to the nation, the president said that “diplomatic relations between Peru and Mexico are formally at the level of business leaders”, after her desire to permanently withdraw the Peruvian ambassador to the North American country. .
GOVERNMENT OF ECUADOR
Ecuador’s largest indigenous organization demands that President Lasso issue
Stop. The Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (Conaie) asked this Friday the president of the country, the conservative Guillermo Lasso, to resign from office because of the alleged “inability” to govern and solve the serious problems facing the nation is confronted. This is one of the resolutions of Conaie, which held an expanded Council of its organizational structures in Quito, where it also asked the National Assembly (Parliament) to initiate a political censorship trial against the president.
CAESAR PRIZE
“Pacification” gets two Césars and Sorogoyen wins the prize for best foreign film
Paris. “Pacification”, the exotic thriller by Spaniard Albert Serra shot in French Polynesia, received this Friday two of the nine Césars to which he aspired, during a gala whose big winner was “La Nuit du 12” and in the one that “As bestas”, by Rodrigo Sorogoyen, won the prize for best foreign film. The 48th edition of the most important awards in French cinema, which did not forget to pay a small tribute to Jean-Luc Godard and which even made a surprise appearance by Brad Pitt to present the César d’honneur to director David Fincher , elevated the detective drama “La Nuit du 12” as Best Film of the Year and its director, Dominik Moll, as Best Director.
BERLIN CINEMA
“Adolfo” wins the Berlinale Generation Award and “Orlando” wins the Teddy
Berlin. The Mexican film “Adolfo”, by Sofía Auza, won the Crystal Bear in the Generation 14Plus section of the Berlinale, dedicated to young audiences, while “Orlando, my political biography”, by Spaniard Paul B. Preciado , won the award for best documentary from the Teddys, from the LGTBI collective. Auza (Mexico, 1993) skilfully describes in his film “the inspiring search” of the protagonist and his way of overcoming the past and looking towards the future, according to the jury. Preciado, a Spanish-born, Paris-based philosopher and art critic, won the award among Teddy documentaries, the most consolidated among European awards geared towards the LGTBI collective. EFE
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