EARTHQUAKE IN TURKEY
Six dead and 294 injured after two new earthquakes in southeastern Turkey
Ankara. At least six people died in two new earthquakes of magnitude 6.4 and 5.8 that struck Turkey’s Hatay province last night, according to various local media on Tuesday, while the health ministry said another 294 people injured. The main tremor occurred around 1704 GMT in Defne district, south of the city of Antioquia, in Hatay province, one of the eleven that were devastated two weeks ago by two earthquakes which had caused the death of at least 41,000 people and more than 105,000 injuries.
UKRAINE WAR
Biden arrives in Poland after an eight-hour train journey from Kyiv
Warsaw. US President Joe Biden arrived in Warsaw last night after a more than eight-hour train journey from kyiv to the border town of Przemysl and a flight on Air Force One to the Polish capital. The White House had not revealed until now how Biden entered Ukraine and how he planned to leave for security reasons. However, with the president already out of Ukrainian territory, the only reporter accompanying him, from the Wall Street Journal, was able to inform the rest of the reporters that Biden had traveled by train both to Kyiv and to Russia. Poland. .
UKRAINE WAR
Chinese FM: “China will continue to play a constructive role in Ukraine”
Beijing. Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang said on Tuesday that China “will continue to play a constructive role in the Ukraine crisis”, while asking that “the flame of war not be fanned”, the press reported today. local. At a security event hosted by the Foreign Ministry, Qin urged “certain countries” to “stop provoking that ‘today’s Ukraine is tomorrow’s Taiwan,'” the Global said. Times, quoted by the Global Times.
UKRAINE WAR
Meloni arrives in Kyiv today and will meet Zelensky and visit Irpin and Bucha
Rome. Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni will arrive in Kiev today to meet Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelensky and will also visit the towns of Irpin and Bucha, symbols of the massacres perpetrated by the Russian army. Meloni arrived in Poland on Monday to meet the Polish Prime Minister, Mateusz Morawiecki, and at dawn he left on the train that will take the entire Italian delegation to the capital of Ukraine.
TAIWAN USA
Taiwan chief says island ‘continues to strengthen military ties’ with US
Beijing. Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen said today that the island “continues to strengthen its military ties with the United States” to “prevent the spread of authoritarianism”. meeting with a delegation of US Congressmen visiting the island made up of Democratic lawmakers Ro Khanna (California), Jake Auchincloss (Massachusetts) and Jonathan Jackson (Illinois), as well as Republican Tony Gonzales (Texas).
GOVERNMENT OF ISRAEL
The Israeli government manages to advance two bills of its judicial reform
Jerusalem. Israel’s parliament moved forward tonight on approving two bills included in the judicial reform that Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing government is promoting, after a large protest yesterday around the hemicycle in which tens of thousands of people protested against the controversial plan. The two bills were validated in the first instance by 63 votes in favor and 47 against during a tense plenary session, and to be definitively approved they will still have to be voted on in second and third reading, a process which will have to be done at a later date.
METHANE IEA
IEA urges cuts in global methane emissions after 2022 rise
Paris. The International Energy Agency (IEA) urged on Tuesday to reduce global methane emissions, which increased in 2022 in the energy sector despite the low cost of their reduction and the high prices of fossil fuels. Methane emissions from the energy sector reached nearly 135 million tonnes last year, up slightly from 2021 and slightly below the 2019 record, despite high natural gas prices around the world, indicates the IEA’s annual report on these emissions.
SOUTH KOREA GAY
Landmark ruling grants South Korean gay couple the right to health coverage
seoul. A South Korean appeals court today issued a landmark decision in favor of a same-sex couple who sought for themselves the same health coverage that national health insurance gives to heterosexual couples, the only type of union that the Asian country recognizes. It is the first time that a South Korean court has recognized the rights of a gay couple.
CARNIVAL OF BRAZIL
Between odes to the renaissance and criticism of Bolsonaro, the parades in Rio end
Rio de Janeiro. With a tribute to Brazilian culture, the black race and diversity, the majestic parades of the samba schools of Rio de Janeiro ended on Tuesday, a spectacle in which the joy of a new era was a common theme and the criticism Jair Bolsonaro’s government has no The political tone was seen in many of the parades, with blame for hunger, violence, censorship, racism and repression, eternal conflicts in Brazil that have aggravated during the term of the far-right leader (2019-2022).
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