UKRAINE WAR
Kyiv/Moscow.- Russia today took revenge for the alleged Ukrainian incursion into Russian territory with another massive bombardment that hit military and civilian targets across the country, an attack in which the military Russian made extensive use of hypersonic weapons. (Text) (Photo) (Audio) (Video) (SENT)
Kiev – Ukraine is mobilizing its diplomacy so that Russian war crimes on its territory do not go unpunished, an effort in which civil society has also been involved, gathering evidence and even offering rewards in exchange for information for the capture of the presumed culprits. By Marcel Gascón (Text) (SENT)
ARGENTINIAN VIOLENCE
Buenos Aires – The Argentine Minister of Security, Aníbal Fernández, defended before a committee of the Chamber of Deputies the work carried out by his ministry in the context of the increasing violence, associated with drug trafficking, registered in Rosario, the third city most populated in the country. (Text) (Video) (SENT)
ARGENTINE JUSTICE
Buenos Aires – The Oral Federal Court 2, which on December 6 sentenced Argentinian Vice-President Cristina Fernández to 6 years in prison and a ban on exercising public functions for fraud in public works, declared that Thursday that it is “a serious act of unprecedented corruption” in the country. (Text) (SENT)
UNITED STATES BUDGET
Washington – United States President Joe Biden presented a budget proposal on Thursday asking Congress to approve $6.8 trillion, or $0.6 trillion more than the $6.2 trillion he endorsed last year in the US Legislative Assembly. (Text) (Video) (Photo) (SENT)
PERU CASTLE
Lima – Peruvian judge Juan Carlos Checkley decides whether to accept the prosecutor’s request for 36 months of preventive detention for former president Pedro Castillo while he is under investigation for corruption and after “absolutely and categorically” denied being the author of or being part of any criminal organization formed under his rule. (Text) (SENT)
CRISIS IN GEORGIA
Tbilisi – The promoters of the controversial foreign agents bill, denounced by the Georgian opposition as a repressive instrument and which provoked massive protests, today withdrew their “unconditional” legislative initiative, already approved in first reading by the Parliament. (Text) (Photo) (SENT)
– Keys: Why Georgians are protesting (Text) (Photo) (SENT)
– Documentation: Georgia, a divided country (Text) (SENT)
MEXICO UNITED STATES
Mexico City – White House fentanyl official Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall travels to Mexico to meet President Andrés Manuel López Obrador amid growing demand in Washington to fight drug cartels after death two out of four Americans removed from the Mexican border. By Lluís Lozano (Text) (Photo) (Video) (SENT)
CRISIS IN NICARAGUA
Washington – A month after landing in the United States after being expelled from his country along with 221 other political prisoners by the unilateral mandate of Daniel Ortega, former presidential candidate Félix Maradiaga talks to Efe about actions for face the regime from a distance. By Paula Escalada (Interview) (Text) (Audio) (Video) (SENT)
Washington – Perplexed and lost, but free. This is how many of the 222 Nicaraguan political prisoners feel who were expelled from their country to the United States by the regime of Daniel Ortega a month ago today and who are trying, little by little, to heal their wounds and start a new life. (Chronicle) (Text) (Audio) (Video) (SENT)
UN DRUGS
Vienna – Cannabis legalization, endorsed by countries like Uruguay and Canada, increases consumption, does not reduce the illegal market or crime and, in general, is harmful to public health, says INCB, l United Nations body responsible for ensuring compliance with the drug treaties. (Text) (Photo) (Audio) (Video) (SENT)
PARAGUAY BRAZIL
Asunción – Brazilian Foreign Minister Mauro Vieira is visiting Paraguay for the first time since taking office, as the two countries prepare to renegotiate some of the clauses of the treaty that was used to build the gigantic hydroelectric plant of Asunción. Itaipu. (Text) (Photo) (SENT)
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