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SITUATION – Moscow/Kyiv – Moscow/Kyiv – The Battle of Azovstal in the city of Mariupol has come to an end after the evacuation of nearly 300 Ukrainian soldiers from the steel plant that has been under Russian siege for weeks: Russia says the Ukrainians are taking them have surrendered and are now prisoners of war, while Ukraine claims to have already considered its mission accomplished.
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DESTRUCTION – Kharkiv (Ukraine) – Anatoliy pedals on the road to Kharkiv. He leaves behind tanks, bullets, rockets and other remnants of battle. He is a thin man with a white beard and clear eyes who is leaving his village for the first time, which has not been occupied by the Russians for a week. By Lourdes Velasco, Special Representative
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EU – BRUSSELS – European Union defense ministers held a meeting in Brussels on Tuesday, which will be attended by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and Ukraine’s Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov as Russian military aggression in the country escalates Way to graduate three months.
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NORDIK — Copenhagen — Finnish President Sauli Niinistö travels to Stockholm on Tuesday for a visit ahead of Finland and Sweden formally submitting their bid to join NATO, from where they have received almost unanimous support for the initiative.
(The path of Finland and Sweden has hit a stumbling block: Turkey. An article is broadcast explaining the reason for this position, which relates to the Swedish attitude towards Kurdish militias.)
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SPAIN MOROCCO — Castillejos (Morocco) — The Moroccan border town of Castillejos welcomes the first people arriving from the Spanish city of Ceuta after the partial reopening of the Tarajal Pass last night, in hopes border traffic will boost the ailing economy. By Maria Traspaderne
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FRANCE GOVERNMENT – Paris – The newly appointed French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne has been working since Tuesday to form a new government of a more social nature with a first provisional objective: the general elections in mid-June.
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EU-ECONOMY – BRUSSELS – The business community analyzes the course of the European recovery with a focus on the ecological transition and the background of the Ukraine conflict at an event in Brussels, which will be attended by US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, Spanish Vice President Teresa Ribera and several EU commissioners.
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USA CUBA – WASHINGTON – In the Joe Biden administration’s most important gesture towards Cuba to date, the US has announced, among other things, the resumption of all commercial flights to the island, amid criticism from several countries against Washington over a possible exclusion of that country, Venezuela and Nicaragua from the Americas Summit.
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VIOLENCE — New York — US President Joe Biden on Tuesday visits the city of Buffalo, Upstate New York, where a white supremacist murdered 10 people last Saturday in a new massacre targeting the black community.
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FRANCE JIHADISTS – Paris – Several members of the rock group Eagles of Death Metal performing in the Bataclan space in Paris when the attack on 13 French capital.
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MEXICO VIOLENCIA – Mexico City – The Institute for Economy and Peace (IEP) this Tuesday presents the Mexico Peace Index, an annual study that found in 2021 that insecurity cost Mexico 22.5% of its GDP, or more than $235,000 million .
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AUSTRALIA ELECTIONS – SYDNEY (Australia) – Australia’s election campaign is entering its final stage ahead of this Saturday’s general election, with the opposition Labor Party leading the polls, shaped and closely watched by policies aimed at tackling rampant cost-of-living growth becomes China’s expansionism in the Pacific.
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US UFOs – Washington – United States intelligence and defense chiefs testify about UFOs before a subcommittee of the country’s lower house this Tuesday, in the first session the Capitol has held on the phenomenon in more than 50 years.
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FOREST WHITAKER – CANNES (France) – American actor, producer and director Forest Whitaker will receive the Palme d’Or at the 75th Cannes Film Festival, which kicked off this Tuesday, in recognition of a career which has included films such as ‘Bird’ ( 1998), for which he received an award in Cannes, or The Last King of Scotland, for which he won the Oscar for best actor.
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CALCULATIONS – Cannes (France) – The jury of the 75th edition of the Cannes Film Festival, chaired by Frenchman Vincent Lindon, prepares for twelve days of deliberation to select the winner from among the 21 films competing for the Palme d’Or.
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CONFLICT IN COLOMBIA – Arquía (Colombia) – The Arquía Tule Indigenous Reserve on the border with Panama is one of the few communities in Colombia that has managed to reclaim the lands taken from them by the conflict. Dispossession is a constant in the history of a country where people continue to kill for the country. By Irene Escudero
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IRAN AFGHANISTAN — Tehran — Thousands of Afghan refugees in Iran are living with economic hardship and fear of being deported to Afghanistan, which they fled after the Taliban took power in Kabul. By Artemis Razmipour
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