Israel is going through one of the biggest political and social crises in its history due to the controversial judicial reform that the government of Benjamin Netanyahu has brought to Parliament. The tension has grown in recent days to the point of motivating a general strike on Monday, which has paralyzed key ports and departures …
The number of active soldiers in the government of NicolĂĄs Maduro is increasing. The NGO Control Ciudadano has published a study in which it is established that, with the appointment of Colonel Pedro Tellechea as the new Minister of Oil, 42 percent of the executive has a military presence, one of the highest averages in …
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Ecuador is headed for a political trial against its president, Guillermo Lasso. The Assembly of Ecuador passed the first filter that the Legislative Administration Council (CAL) made up of seven assembly members, with an opposition majority, approved the request for impeachment for concussion and embezzlement against Lasso and sent the document to the Constitutional Court …
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French citizens continue with the demonstrations after the approval of the pension reform by the Government of Emmanuel Macron. Protests have been made from different parts of the country, either on a larger or smaller scale, to show the president that everything possible will be done so that the reform does not become law. But …
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Caroline Ann Maria van der Plas (Cujik, 55 years old) is the new Dutch political star. With her closed defense of the countryside, marked by the reduction of polluting gases, she has not only managed to focus agrarian populism in national politics in the Netherlands. The victory of her party Peasant-Citizen Movement (BBB, in its …
The great trade union center of Israel, the Histadrut (General Organization of Israel Workers), has fully entered the struggle for the controversial judicial reform this Monday with the call for a general strike whose first consequence has been the paralysis of the main airport of the country. “I have ordered the immediate stoppage of airport …
Two Israelis, who do not know each other, debate in the middle of a massive demonstration in Tel Aviv against the judicial reform of the Government of Benjamin Netanyahu. â Don’t you think it’s time to focus on what’s happening? â It is that what is happening is the occupation The first is a young …
Members of the French Constitutional Council, in an official image of the French institution. Laurent Fabius and Alain JuppĂ©, veteran French politicians who dreamed for years of being president of the Republic, have the future of Emmanuel Macron in their hands. Fabius, JuppĂ© and the other seven members of the Constitutional Council, the equivalent of …
Nightmares are usually built in the brain through anecdotes poorly accommodated in memory. Rajib Bayati’s, a 27-year-old Bangladeshi, is in the shape of a rickshaw Electric, that kind of motorcycle with pedals that serves as a taxi on the streets of India or Bangladesh, where he lived in 2018. Rajib decided to buy one and …
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France condemns Putin’s intention to deploy tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus The French Foreign Ministry has issued a statement condemning the intention of Russian President Vladimir Putin to deploy tactical nuclear weapons on the territory of Belarus, and has called on Moscow to show “responsibility” and reverse its decision. “Following Russia’s violation of the Intermediate-Range …
German soldiers, last February in Schleswig-Holstein.picture alliance (dpa/picture alliance via Getty I) A phrase from the new German Defense Minister, Boris Pistorius, has been the spark that has ignited the latest debate on security in Germany: “It was a mistake to suspend compulsory military service.” At another time it might have gone unnoticed. However, one …
In Lebanon, you can no longer even tell the time without falling into sectarianism. This Sunday, the Lebanese have woken up with two different hours. One, the one that was scheduled, with the entry into force of summer time, as in many other countries (among which Erdogan’s Turkey is not counted). Another, the one decided …
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The protest against the pension reform in France has invaded the entire social protest in the country and in recent days has led to violent acts that have pitted the government against opposition from the radical left. While the Executive accuses politicians from that political spectrum of fueling violence against the forces of order, in …
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For more than four years, the mayor of Milan, the progressive Giuseppe Sala, has allowed the names of both parents to be registered on the birth certificates of the children of homosexual couples. He so far he had recorded some 400 creatures. But he will no longer be able to do it, by order of …
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After more than two and a half months without news from Monsignor Rolando Ălvarez, the government of Daniel Ortega has released some images of the Nicaraguan bishop this weekend. Sentenced to more than 26 years in prison accused of “treason against the homeland”, the priest appeared in some photographs and videos broadcast by official media …
Kamala Harris is on a special mission to Africa. The vice president of the United States, with a higher bar than her predecessors, perhaps because she is the first woman in office and, moreover, not white, began a nine-day trip to Ghana, Tanzania and Zambia, three chosen countries this Sunday. by Washington in light of …
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Beniamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel, announced this Sunday the sudden dismissal of his Government’s Defense Minister, Yoav Gallant, after he publicly requested on Saturday the interruption of the controversial judicial reform promoted by the Executive. The announcement was made by an Israeli government spokesman, who merely read a statement without offering any explanation. “The …
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Twelve weeks after its presentation and massive demonstrations, the judicial reform in Israel claimed its first political victim this Sunday, with the dismissal of Defense Minister Yoav Gallant by the head of government, Benjamin Netanyahu. The announcement statement reads simply “The Prime Minister has decided this afternoon to dismiss Defense Minister Yoav Gallant.” The reason, …
Well seen, the coincidence between the popular mega-demonstrations in France and Israel may not be accidental. Of course, some have to do with the reduction of acquired social rights, as in the first case, and others with the threat of blowing up basic institutions for the control of political power. However, if we broaden the …
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In the tragicomic theater of the pending cases with the justice of Donald Trump, this week seemed like a montage of Waiting for Godot. The possible arrest for a payment in 2016 for the porn actress Stormy Daniels to keep quiet about an extramarital affair that the former president denies, did not come on Tuesday, …
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La cĂłlera contra el presidente francĂ©s, Emmanuel Macron, se radicaliza cada dĂa: la violencia âla de los manifestantes y la de la policĂaâ se ha introducido esta semana en la protesta contra la reforma de las pensiones. Y el movimiento se amplĂa: se acumulan las reivindicaciones. Una manifestaciĂłn ecologista en una zona rural en el …
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Al final de la visita de Estado realizada a Rusia a principios de esta semana, el presidente de China, Xi Jinping, se despidiĂł de su homĂłlogo ruso, VladĂmir Putin, con las siguientes palabras: âSe estĂĄn produciendo cambios que no han ocurrido en 100 años. Cuando estamos juntos, pilotamos esos cambiosâ. âEstoy de acuerdoâ, respondiĂł Putin. …
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Dos nuevos naufragios de migrantes en el MediterrĂĄneo central han provocado la muerte de al menos 29 personas este domingo frente a las costas de TĂșnez, segĂșn ha informado la guardia costera tunecina. Ambos siniestros sucedieron frente a las costas de Mahdia, a unos 200 kilĂłmetros al sur de TĂșnez, la capital del paĂs. En …
Uno menos en la ya exigua lista. El Gobierno de Honduras rompiĂł el sĂĄbado relaciones diplomĂĄticas con TaiwĂĄn y acto seguido, este domingo, las ha establecido con la RepĂșblica Popular China en un acto oficial en el que el ministro de Exteriores del paĂs centroamericano, Eduardo Reina, y su homĂłlogo chino, Qin Gang, han firmado …
