Bangkok/Madrid, February 22(EFE).-
.- Moscow (Russia).- On the occasion of the anniversary of the war in Ukraine, the Kremlin is organizing a big event with concerts at the Luzhniki stadium in Moscow, in which the participation of Russian President Vladimir Putin is expected.
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.- United Nations – The United Nations General Assembly is holding a special meeting for the first anniversary of the war in Ukraine, a session that is expected to last two days and include the vote of a resolution supporting Kyiv.
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.- Madrid (Spain).- The President of Honduras, Xiomara Castro, begins an official visit to Spain this Wednesday, during which she will meet King Felipe VI and the Head of the Spanish Executive, Pedro Sánchez, in addition to hold meetings with cooperation agencies to improve migration relations between the two countries.
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.- Mexico City.- Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador reacts and announces the next steps his government will take after a jury in New York found Genaro García Luna, his mayor’s former security secretary, guilty of drug trafficking political rival, former President Felipe Calderón.
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.- Hatay (Turkey).- After ending the search for victims, the Turkish authorities are trying to provide basic services to the hundreds of thousands of victims of the earthquakes that shook the region.
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.- London (United Kingdom).- The President of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, continues her official visit to the United Kingdom.
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.- Jakarta (Indonesia).- Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang remarked on Wednesday from Jakarta, Indonesia that there is no room for “a cold war in the region”, which “should not be forced to choose sides”, in the midst of rising tensions between China and the United States.
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.- Washington (USA).- A day after hearing a case against Google, the United States Supreme Court is considering another similar case brought against Twitter by the family of a young Jordanian man who died in an ISIS attack and who blames technology for not having done enough to stop the spread of violent content.
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.- Paris (France).- Unesco organizes a forum to define global guidelines for a better use of information on the Internet, with 3,000 participants including personalities such as the Filipino Nobel laureate Maria Ressa.
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.- Havana (Cuba).- Three massive blackouts in less than two weeks have left much of Cuba without electricity. The cuts broke a truce that existed in the last days of December and January, when electricity consumption plummeted thanks to low temperatures.
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.- La Uribe (Colombia).- In the mountains that surround La Uribe, where about ten years ago shelling and gunfire between the Colombian army and the FARC were heard, now the muffled trill birds reign as tourists burst onto floats gliding down the rapids and meanders of the Guape River.
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.- Cúcuta (Colombia).- The paths that for years were the only means of communication between Colombia and Venezuela still exist on the border after the reestablishment of relations between the two countries, although with a reduced circulation of people and goods.
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.- Miami (United States).- Radio telemetry is the new hope in the titanic fight against the Burmese python, a non-native species which, since the 1990s, has invaded the wetlands of the Everglades and deteriorated the biodiversity of Florida.
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.- New York (United States).- The General Assembly of the United Nations opens a special meeting for the first anniversary of the war in Ukraine, a session which should last two days and include the vote of a resolution supporting Kyiv. Today, the Secretary General, the head of European diplomacy, Josep Borrell, and the head of Spanish diplomacy, José Manuel Albares, take the floor.
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.- Hong Kong.- The gross domestic product (GDP) of China’s semi-autonomous region of Hong Kong contracted 3.5% year-on-year in 2022, the city’s finance secretary revealed today , Paul Chan, who predicts that this year economic activity will pick up between 3.5% and 5.5%.
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.- Basilica of Santa Sabina (Rome).- The pope presides in the basilica of Santa Sabina on the Aventine hill in Rome the mass of Ash Wednesday when due to his mobility problems he will not be able to participate in the traditional procession.
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.- Vatican City.- Weekly Audience of Pope Francis.
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.- Miami (USA).- Radio telemetry is the new hope in the titanic fight against the Burmese python, an invasive alien species (ISA) that since the 1990s has been invading the Everglades wetlands and damaging Florida’s biodiversity.
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.- Mexico City.- The researcher Francisco Valdés, author of the recently published “Essay for After the Shipwreck”, estimated in an interview with EFE that Mexican democracy “is quite sick”, a situation of which President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is in blame party.
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.- Berlin (Germany).- The Spanish Minister of Culture and Sports, Miquel Iceta, attends the European Film Market in Berlin during the Berlinale and meets in the German capital the German Minister of Culture, Claudia Roth.
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.- Bangkok (Thailand).- Over the past twenty years, cocoa production in Thailand has fallen from more than 1,000 to 97 tons per year due, among other things, to competition in the region. From now on, the country is betting on the “craft fever” to train farmers and raise the quality of local chocolate.
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.- Berlin (Germany).- The Spanish film “20,000 species of bees”, directed by filmmaker Estíbaliz Urresola is presented at the Berlinale, during a day of competition shared with “Roter Himmel”, by German Christoph Petzold, a regular filmmaker at the Berlin festival.
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.- Viña del Mar (Chile).- The public of the International Song Festival of the Chilean city of Viña del Mar awards its prizes to the artists and comedians invited to the event.
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.- Mexico City.- The Italian group Il Volo arrives in Mexico, where it has its most loyal audience, to offer its first tour after the covid-19 pandemic, in which it will honor artists who sing of love, such as José José, Luis Miguel or Julio Iglesias. “We are all in love and we can dedicate a love song to the people we love,” Gianluca Ginoble said in an interview with EFE.
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.- Rio de Janeiro (Brazil).- The Spanish Navy training ship Juan Sebastián de Elcano calls at the military arsenal of Ilha das Cobras, in the port of Rio de Janeiro, the second stage of its cruise XCV drive.
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.- Bogotá (Colombia) destination for guests.
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