Saturday, April 1, 2023 (08:00 GMT)

UKRAINE WAR

Russia assumes UN Security Council presidency amid kyiv complaints

United Nations. Russia assumed this Saturday the rotating presidency of the UN Security Council, a responsibility that it will occupy for a month and that is fundamentally formal, but that has angered the Ukrainian government and has generated calls for a boycott. During April, the Russian delegation will be the one in charge of managing the work agenda and presiding over the meetings of the highest decision-making body of the United Nations, at the head of which a Member State is placed each month based on a rotation in alphabetical order.

USA TRUMP

Trump campaign raises $4 million in one day after impeachment

Washington. The campaign for the re-election of Donald Trump as president of the United States in 2024 raised more than 4 million dollars in 24 hours, after the news broke that the former president has been indicted by a New York grand jury for the payment case to the porn actress Stormy Daniels. “More than 25% of the donations came from new benefactors,” the organization explained this Friday in a statement. According to the campaign, the average amount of donations is $34. accusation, several US media published an email sent by the organization trying to take advantage of the news to generate momentum in collection.

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FMI

Yellen celebrates $15.6 billion deal to boost Ukraine’s economy

Washington. The US Treasury Secretary, Janet Yellen, celebrated that the agreement closed between the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the Ukrainian authorities for an amount of 15.6 billion dollars will help boost economic growth in that country.

GUERRA

Ukraine remembers the Bucha massacre a year later and calls for punishment for Russia

kyiv/Moscow. Ukraine recalled on Friday the Russian massacre in Bucha a year after the liberation of this city north of Kiev, and demanded punishment for Russia, which refuses to acknowledge its responsibility for these events investigated by the West as alleged war crimes. Russian Foreign Spokesperson Maria Zakharova again denied any Russian responsibility for the deaths.

HIM

UN denounces executions of Russian and Ukrainian prisoners of war

Geneva. Both Russia and Ukraine have tortured and sometimes executed prisoners of war in the current conflict that confronts them, High Commissioner Volker Türk denounced today before the United Nations Human Rights Council.

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CHINESE SPAIN

Sánchez urges Xi to speak with Zelenski and reactivates cooperation with China

Peking. The head of the Government of Spain, Pedro Sánchez, concluded a two-day trip to China on Friday during which he “encouraged” his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, to speak with the Ukrainian president, Volodímir Zelenski, and declared cooperation resumed. with the Asian giant after the pandemic. Sánchez, who supports Zelensky’s peace proposal for “laying the foundations of a lasting peace in Ukraine”, conveyed to Xi “his concern” about “Putin’s illegal aggression”, as he declared at a press conference before leaving Beijing. .

GUATEMALA TAIWAN

President of Taiwan thanks Guatemala for “support and friendship”

Guatemala city. The president of Taiwan, Tsai Ing-wen, thanked on Friday the “support” provided by the Government of Guatemala commanded by Alejandro Giammattei, one of his last allies in the American continent. “Last year, when we had to experience the air maneuvers of China, President Giammattei came out to defend Taiwan’s sovereignty at the international level,” declared Tsai Ing-wen during an official message given at the National Palace of Guatemala, after a bilateral meeting, during the first of three days of official visit to the Central American country.

FMI ARGENTINA

The IMF approves the disbursement of 5,400 million dollars for Argentina

Washington. The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) approved on Friday the disbursement of 5.4 billion dollars for Argentina, the institution reported in a statement. With this, the agency definitively approves the fourth revision of the agreement with Argentina to refinance its debt, which which brings the total disbursements to 28,900 million dollars. On March 13, the IMF technical staff already gave the green light to the fourth revision of the Extended Facilities Program that it signed a year ago with the Latin American country.

PERU JUSTICE

A fugitive for the massacres that condemned Fujimori is handed over to Peru

Lime. A member of the Colina undercover military group, identified as Aldo Velásquez Asencio, was handed over on Friday to the Peruvian National Police after being detained in the US and must respond to a process for forced disappearance in the case of La Cantuta, a of the two massacres for which former President Alberto Fujimori was sentenced to 25 years in prison. Velásquez Asencio had been wanted by Interpol since the trials began against the Colina group, responsible for disappearances and extrajudicial executions since the 1990s and as a result of which Fujimori was sentenced for crimes against humanity.

SUDAN MINE

At least 14 dead in the collapse of a gold mine in northern Sudan

Khartoum. At least fourteen miners died and more than twenty were injured by the collapse of a gold mine located in northern Sudan, near the border with Egypt, while it is feared that many more are under the rubble, official media reported. Sudan is considered one of the largest gold producers in Africa, but 80% of the mineral extracted in the country comes from informal mining, in which more than two million people work in extremely harsh conditions.

USA TORNADOES

A strong tornado hits Arkansas (USA) and leaves thousands without electricity

Washington. A strong tornado hit the US state of Arkansas on Friday and caused more than 88,000 people to lose access to electricity, according to data from the PowerOutage.us website, which monitors this service. In various images and videos posted on social networks you can see the phenomenon, which has uprooted trees and roofs in its path. More than 20 patients are being treated at two hospitals in the Arkansas capital, Little Rock, according to The Washington Post. Of these, five are in critical condition.

ARGENTINE YPF

US Justice condemns Argentina in case of nationalization of YPF

Buenos Aires. A New York judge condemned the Argentine State on Friday for the decision in 2012 to expropriate the Spanish Repsol 51% of the shares in YPF without making a public offer to acquire titles to other minority shareholders of the oil company. Judge Loretta Preska, of the Southern District Court of New York, found the Argentine State responsible but not YPF itself, which had also been sued in this trial. The judge did not specify in her ruling on Friday the amount that the Argentine State should pay. According to YPF’s 2022 financial statements, Burford and Eaton claim total damages of $15.9 billion, made up of $8.4 billion in direct damages and $7.5 billion in accessory claims and interest calculated through September 24, 2021.

PERU CASTLE

Peruvian Supreme Court ratifies 36 months of preventive detention for Castillo

File. The Supreme Court of Peru ratified the decision to impose 36 months of preventive detention for former President Pedro Castillo while he is investigated for a corruption case, after rejecting an appeal filed by his defense.” (The) Permanent Criminal Chamber of the Court Supreme Court, chaired by César San Martín Castro, ratifies 36 months of preventive detention issued against former president Pedro Castillo Terrones, investigated for the alleged crime of criminal organization and others,” the high court announced on its Twitter account.

COLOMBIA PEACE

Government asks the ELN to say if it is using negotiations to strengthen itself

Bogota. The Colombian government admitted yesterday Friday that the peace negotiations with the National Liberation Army (ELN) are in crisis and asked that guerrilla to say if it is using the talks to strengthen itself or if it has a real desire to put an end to the armed conflict. The government’s chief negotiator, Otty Patiño, assured that there is “great questioning” about whether “the ELN is using the talks to strengthen itself in its territories, as an organization, or if, on the contrary, its stay at the table means a real vocation for peace “.

PERU JUSTICE

A fugitive for the massacres that condemned Fujimori is handed over to Peru

Lime. A member of the Colina undercover military group, identified as Aldo Velásquez Asencio, was handed over yesterday Friday to the Peruvian National Police after being detained in the US and must respond to a process for forced disappearance in the case of La Cantuta, a of the two massacres for which former President Alberto Fujimori was sentenced to 25 years in prison. Velásquez Asencio had been wanted by Interpol since the trials began against the Colina group, responsible for disappearances and extrajudicial executions since the 1990s and as a result of which Fujimori was sentenced for crimes against humanity.

PERU CORRUPTION

Former Minister of Pedro Castillo is arrested for corruption case in Peru

Lime. The former Peruvian minister Geiner Alvarado, who was in charge of the ministries of Transport and Housing in the government of Pedro Castillo (2021-2022), was arrested by the National Police this Friday in Lima, following a judicial resolution that handed down 36 months of preventive detention against him for a case of alleged corruption. Alvarado was arrested in the wealthy Lima district of La Molina, when he was traveling in his truck, and taken to the headquarters of the Prosecutor’s Office, in the center of the capital, according to what was shown pictures from local television. EFE

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