UKRAINE WAR
Russia launched 32 cruise missiles in latest massive attack on Ukraine
Lvov (Ukraine). Last night, Russia fired a total of 32 cruise missiles that were launched from the air and from the sea, and Ukrainian defense managed to shoot down 14 of them, the Ukrainian military said on Thursday. “The Russian occupation forces carried out a large-scale missile attack against critical infrastructure in Ukraine on the night of February 15-16,” the press service of the Ukrainian Air Force Command said, according to information from agencies. Ukrainians.
CRISIS IN NICARAGUA
Nicaragua strips citizenship of Ramírez, Gioconda Belli and 92 others
Tegucigalpa. Nicaraguan authorities on Wednesday stripped 94 people of their Nicaraguan nationality, including writers Sergio Ramírez and Gioconda Belli, the auxiliary bishop of Managua, Silvio Báez, and the former commander of the revolution, Luis Carrión. Also to veteran human rights defender Vilma Núñez, former foreign minister Norman Caldera, former Sandinista magistrate Rafael Solís, former OAS ambassador Arturo McFields, journalist Carlos Fernando Chamorro and 85 other accused Nicaraguans of crimes considered “treason”. Court of Appeal of Managua.
ACCIDENT IN PANAMA
Death toll in bus crash with migrants in Panama rises to 40
Panama City. Panamanian authorities have raised to 40 the death toll, including children, in the accident of a bus carrying irregular migrants to a refuge near the border with Costa Rica on Wednesday. In the accident in Gualaca, an area of the western province of Chiriquí located about 450 kilometers from the Panamanian capital, more than 20 people were injured, according to authorities.
UNITED STATES SHOOTING
One dead, three injured in shooting at Texas mall
Washington. At least one person has died and three have been injured in a shooting last night at a mall in the US city of El Paso, Texas, local media reported Thursday. Two people have been arrested in connection with the incident, Acting Police Chief Peter Pacillas said in a media appearance. Pacillas said one of the shooters was quickly shot by an off-duty police officer working security at a store in the mall.
REFORMS IN COLOMBIA
Mass participation in marches against Petro reforms in Colombia
Bogotá. The streets of Colombia’s main cities on Wednesday became a platform where thousands of people came out to express their displeasure against Colombian President Gustavo Petro and his health, labor and pension reforms, among others. These were protests whose number exceeded the languid demonstrations of support for the government and the reform of the health system, presented on Monday amid a deluge of criticism from different sectors which considered it harmful for the people.
ELECTIONS IN VENEZUELA
The opposition struggle begins to aspire to the presidency of Venezuela
Caracas. After months of doubts and, after multiple speculations, the Venezuelan opposition announced this Wednesday that the primary elections will be held on October 22, during which it will choose the candidate who will face chavismo in the presidential elections, scheduled for 2024. course of an act Marked by the presence of some possible candidates and the absence of others, the National Commission for the Primaries (CNP), the body that will govern the process, has revealed the final electoral calendar, in which the date for detainees, originally proposed tentatively for June 25, was finally set for four months later.
BRAZIL AMAZON
Brazil launches anti-mining operation in troubled Amazon region
Itaituba (Brazil). Brazilian authorities have deployed a major operation against the advance of deforestation and illegal mining in one of the most conflicted areas of the Amazon, official sources reported on Wednesday. The action takes place in the surroundings of Itaituba, in the state of Pará, one of the areas of the jungle most affected by deforestation, and was launched in parallel and independently of the operation carried out for days to evict illegal miners from Yanomami natives land.
LATIN AMERICA BIRD INFLUENZA
The alarm bell is ringing in Latin America due to the advance of avian flu
Write America. The decision of Argentina and Uruguay to declare a state of health emergency after the discovery of the first cases of avian flu raised the level of alert in Latin America on Wednesday due to the advance of this disease, which has affected humans in recent decades and which has recently also been detected in certain mammalian species. The situation in Argentina and Uruguay is far from isolated, since on Tuesday Guatemala declared a state of emergency after confirming the presence of the H5N1 virus in pelicans.
CUBA ECONOMY
The Minister-President of the Central Bank of Cuba is sacked
Havana. The Cuban government on Wednesday sacked the minister-president of the Central Bank of Cuba (BCC), Martha Sabina Wilson González, after four years in office, and appointed Joaquín Alonso Vázquez to replace him, until now president of the company of State Casas de Cambio. (cadeca). The Council of State reported on this change in the leadership of the BCC and the Council of Ministers, previously approved by the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC, the only legal one), but without explaining the reasons. . movement.
TITANIC
Never-before-seen images of the Titanic show nearly intact ruins of the ship
Washington. The iconic bow of the Titanic, immortalized by James Cameron in his 1997 film, is seen nearly intact, sunk to the seabed, in never-before-seen footage of the ship’s wreckage recorded in 1986 and released on Wednesday. The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute in the United States has released more than an hour of raw video of the wreckage of the Titanic, recorded in July 1986 with the cameras of the manned submarine Alvin and with those of another similar device, Jason Junior, remote controlled. In the images, posted on the institute’s YouTube account, you can see the remains of the boat, covered in rust and marine plants. EFE
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