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.- Moscow/Kiev (Russia/Ukraine).- The situation around the eastern town of Bakhmut, in the Ukrainian region of Donetsk, is becoming more complicated every day due to the intensification of Russian assaults, admits Ukraine, which also insists on receiving modern fighter jets from the West to better protect their skies after the Russian attack with 14 Iranian drones the day before.
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.- Astana (Kazakhstan).- Kazakhstan hosts a Foreign Ministerial meeting between the Central Asian countries, close allies of Russia, and the United States, with the participation of the American Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, whom he also meets with the Kazakh President, Kasim-Yomart Tokáyev.
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.- Washington (USA).- American Republicans continue their investigation into Washington’s aid to Ukraine with an interrogation of the Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, Colin Kahl, and the Inspector General of the Department of Defense, Robert Storch, before the House Army Services Commission.
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.- London (R. United).- The British government is stepping up its efforts on Tuesday to get the Northern Irish Unionists and the Eurosceptic wing of the Conservatives to support the agreement reached with the European Union to amend the Protocol of Northern Ireland North.
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.- Mexico City – Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador gives details on the establishment of a Tesla electric car factory in the country after his virtual meeting with American tycoon Elon Musk and amid a political fight for define which state will be the seat of the investment.
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.- Miami (USA) this Tuesday with a teleconference hearing.
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.- Guatemala City.- Famous Guatemalan journalist José Rubén Zamora, the main critic of the government led by Alejandro Giammattei, is serving a seven-month prison sentence for an alleged money laundering case and attends a hearing for a second case brought against him.
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.- Brussels (Belgium).- The Assembly for a Bilingual School and the spokesman for Ciutadans, Carlos Carrizosa, attend the media before the session of the Committee on Petitions devoted to the mission of the European Parliament to evaluate the use of Spanish in the classrooms of Catalonia.
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.- Arica (Chile).- The law for people affected by the dumping of toxic waste by the Swedish company Boliden Mineral AB in Arica (northern Chile) excludes people born after 2012, so many children highly exposed to pollution are not treated. Their mothers decided to fight to protect them.
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.- Geneva (Switzerland).- The Spanish Minister of Labor and Social Economy, Yolanda Díaz, visits the International Labor Organization (ILO).
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.- Pyongyang (North Korea).- North Korean leader Kim Jong-un urged to generate “a radical change in agricultural production” during an important one-party plenary session, according to state media reports. today, at a time when it is believed that the food situation in this isolated country could worsen.
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.- Hong Kong .- Hong Kong police are continuing to search for body parts of model Abby Choi, 28, who was murdered and dismembered, a case that shocked the former British colony.
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.- Pattaya (Thailand).- Thailand and the United States on Tuesday began the 42nd edition of the Cobra Gold maneuvers, the largest military exercises in Southeast Asia and which return this year on a large scale after the pandemic of covid-19, with the participation of thousands of soldiers from around 30 countries, including 6,000 Americans.
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.- Washington (United States).- Latin American leaders of the movement for the legalization of abortion join American activists in a demonstration for reproductive rights in Washington DC Among the participants will be Marta Alanis, founder of Catholics for the right to decide in Argentina, Verónica Cruz, founder of the Mexican organization Las Libres, and Morena Herrera, Salvadoran activist.
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.- Quito (Ecuador).- The European Commissioner for Home Affairs, Ylva Johansson, details in an interview with EFE the new framework of cooperation sought with Ecuador to stop the increasing arrival of cocaine shipments by sea to the European ports.
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.- Berlin (Germany).- Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen will pay a diplomatic visit to Germany to discuss Iran’s nuclear issues, as well as energy and regional security issues. He is expected to meet German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock and is expected to visit the Holocaust memorial.
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.- Buenos Aires (Argentina).- It does not appear in tourist guides but the district of Mugica or ‘Villa 31’, as the most emblematic precarious habitat of Buenos Aires is popularly called, promotes tourist visits with a objective: to show its cultural and gastronomic richness and banish the image of insecurity and criminality that places like this have.
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.- New Delhi (India).- India is expected to release Gross Domestic Product (GDP) data for the third quarter of this fiscal year (October to December).
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.- Tokyo (Japan).- The Japan Fair Trade Commission today decided to prosecute six companies, including the country’s largest advertising agency, Dentsu, for allegedly rigging bids for the Tokyo Olympics test events 2020.
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.- Beijing/Shanghai (China).- The National Administration of Radio and Television of China announced on Monday that it would “strengthen the management of short videos” to “prevent addiction among minors”, has published the local press.
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.- Dhaka (Bangladesh).- Argentine Foreign Minister Santiago Cafiero meets in Dhaka with the President of the Bangladesh Football Federation, as part of a two-day official visit after interest aroused by the World Cup in Qatar woke up for the Argentina team among the Bangladeshis.
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.- Rabat (Morocco).- Presentation at the Mohamed VI Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rabat of the exhibition “Arab modernities, museum collection of the Arab World Institute”, organized by this Paris-based organization and the National Museum of Morocco Mohamed VI Museum.
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