CRISIS IN NICARAGUA
Tegucigalpa – The Nicaraguan authorities have stripped 94 opponents of their nationality, including writers Sergio Ramírez and Gioconda Belli, as well as the auxiliary bishop of Managua, Silvio Baez, and the former commander of the revolution, Luis Carrion, a decision that is contested by those concerned and by the international community as a whole. (Text) (Audio)
Who are the 94 Nicaraguans who have been stripped of their nationality? (Text) (Sent)
UKRAINE WAR
Moscow/Lviv (Ukraine).- Russia tonight attacked several Ukrainian regions with at least eight Kalibr missiles and hit critical infrastructure in Lviv, western Ukraine, which in turn is trying to repel any assault Russian to the ground and regain the initiative for spring. (Text) (Photo) (Video)
Strasbourg (France) – The European Parliament votes on a resolution to mark the first anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Text) (Audio)
Washington – European Commission Director General for Energy Ditte Juul Jørgensen and U.S. Department of Energy Undersecretary for International Affairs Andrew Light brief the U.S. Senate Energy Committee on the impact of the Ukrainian war on energy security. (Text) (Photo) (Video)
ACCIDENT IN PANAMA
Panama City – Panamanian authorities are continuing to investigate the causes of the accident involving a bus carrying migrants in which at least 39 people died and around 20 were injured. (Text) (Photo) (Video)
SPAIN ABORTION
Madrid – The Spanish Parliament approves laws on abortion and gender self-determination that will allow minors from the age of 16 to terminate a pregnancy without the need for parental authorization or to change sex without the obligation of medical reports or psychological, in the midst of differences in the Left Coalition Government and feminist movement. (Text) (Photo) (Video) (Audio)
NATO TURKEY
Ankara.- NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg is visiting Turkey, a member country with which the organization has differences over the membership of Finland and Sweden, and will meet the country’s President, Recep Tayyip Erdoǧan, and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, as well as visiting the areas affected by the devastating earthquakes of February 6. (Text)
BERLIN CINEMA
Berlin – The Berlinale opens its 73rd edition with “She came to me”, the film by Rebecca Miller which is screened out of competition, and the presentation of the international jury which will be chaired by the American actress Kristen Stewart and with the Spaniard Carla Simon among its members. (Text) (Picture).
(The gala starts at 6:30 p.m. GMT)
BRAZIL AMAZON
Itaituba, Brazil – It’s all about the gold trade, bulldozer shops abound, and locals protect illegal miners. Welcome to Itaituba, considered the epicenter of the laundering of gold illegally mined from the Brazilian Amazon. By Carlos Meneses (Text) (Photo) (Video)
CARNIVAL OF BRAZIL
Rio de Janeiro – The Carnival festivities, which have paralyzed Brazil for five days, are reborn this Friday with the epicenter of Rio de Janeiro, where revenues of 870 million dollars are expected. (Text) (Preview)
CECILE ROTH
Buenos Aires – With more than 45 years of experience, Cecilia Roth is still as valid or more than when she began her “long” artistic history and her friendship with Pedro Almodóvar. “My life is work and work is my life”, this famous Argentine tells EFE, who established herself as an actress in Spain in the 1980s, when, she says, “we weren’t freer than today”. By Rodrigo García (Interview) (Photo) (Text) (Video)
INFORMATION CALENDAR
12:00 GMT Paris.- FRANCE PENSIONS.- French trade unions are calling for a new day of protests and strikes against the pension reform proposed by President Emmanuel Macron. (Text) (Video) (Photo)
16:30 GMT Zagreb.- SPAIN CROATIA – Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez visits Croatia and meets with his Croatian counterpart Andrej Plenkovic to discuss the priorities of the Spanish Presidency of the European Union in the second half of 2023. (Text) (Picture) (Video)
11:30 GMT Vienna.- SPAIN AUSTRIA.- The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, visits Austria and meets his counterpart, Karl Nehammer. (Text) (Photo) (Video)
Miami (USA).- USA CUBA.- The Foundation for Human Rights in Cuba (FHRC) and its Cuban Repressors program make public the records of 20 Cuban repressors living in the United States (Text)
Lima.- CRISIS IN PERU.- Amnesty International (AI) presents at a press conference the first conclusions of its investigation into the human rights situation during the wave of anti-government demonstrations that are raging in Peru and which, since December, has left a death toll of 70. (Text) (Photo) (Video)
London.- UNITED R. CINEMA.- London premiere of the film based on the Marvel comic ‘Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania’, which Paul Rudd, Evangeline Lilly and Michael Douglas are expected to attend. (Text) (Photo) (Video)
Santiago de Chile.- CHILE NERUDA.- Manuel Araya, former driver of Chilean Nobel Prize winner Pablo Neruda and one of the first to defend the theory that he was poisoned twelve days after the 1973 coup, comments during a press conference the conclusions of an expert report which, according to the family of the poet, would agree with him. (Text) (Photo) (Video)
11:30 a.m.- Geneva.- UN GUATEMALA.- Launch of the Humanitarian Response Plan for Guatemala by the United Nations. (Text)
3:00 p.m.- Washington.- UKRAINE WAR.- The Director General of Energy of the European Commission, Ditte Juul Jørgensen, and the Undersecretary for International Affairs of the United States Department of Energy, Andrew Light, appear before the US Senate Energy Committee to discuss the impact of the war in Ukraine on global energy security. (Text) (Photo) (Video)
1:00 p.m.- BERLIN.- CINEMA BERLINALE.- The Berlinale opens its 73rd edition with “She came to me”, the film by Rebecca Miller screened out of competition, and the presentation of the international jury chaired by the American actress Kristen Stewart and with the Spanish director Carla Simón among its members. (Text) (Photo)
5:15 p.m.- Berlin.- MUNICH CONFERENCE.- George Soros delivers a speech at the University of Munich on the confrontation between open and closed societies and the war in Ukraine, on the eve of the start of the Munich Conference on security (text)
15:00h.- New York.- USA SOROLLA.- The gouaches that Joaquín Sorolla used as sketches for his monumental Vision of Spain are exhibited for the first time to the public in an exhibition organized by the Hispanic Society and the National Arts Club. National Arts Club. 15 Gramercy Park South. (Text) (Photo) (Video)
Moscow – RUSSIA FOREIGN AREA -Moscow. – Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov meets with the heads of the executive bodies of the member countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), the Eurasian Economic Union and of the Union Government of Russia and Belarus, to discuss the results of these associations in 2022. (Photo)
San Salvador.- HUMAN D.EL SALVADOR.- Members of committees of mothers of people murdered, tortured and disappeared in the context of the internal armed conflict in El Salvador present the audiovisual ‘We are not dead’. (Text) (Video)
Guatemala.- ECONOMY OF GUATEMALA.- The President of the Bank of Guatemala, Álvaro González Ricci, presents in a press conference the data on the exports of services of the Central American country in 2022, in addition to the evolution overseas sales over the past decade. (Text)
Tegucigalpa.- HONDURAS MIGRATION.- The International Organization for Migration (IOM) offers a press conference on a national survey on migration and remittances in Honduras. (Text) (Video)
Tulcán.- ECUADOR COLOMBIA.- The armed forces of Ecuador are stepping up their actions on the border with Colombia, with border towers used by organized crime for drug trafficking, arms trafficking and even the trafficking of ‘Human being. (Text) (Photo) (Video)
3:30 p.m.- Caracas.- ELECTIONS IN VENEZUELA.- Leaders of the Primero Venezuela party, a minority wing of anti-Chavismo, will establish a position regarding the primary opposition elections, to be held on October 22, in which the candidate who will face the ruling party in the 2024 presidential elections.
Madrid – The 77th edition of Madrid Fashion Week kicks off, with immersive experiences and a hippy vibe. (Picture)(Video)
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