The United States Border Patrol reported intercepting a group of 50 migrants, including Cubans, trying to reach lands of freedom and finally flee the misery that reigns on the island.

This event took place near the Port of Lukeville last Wednesday night but was only announced in the last few hours by Officer John R. Modlin, the Tucson sector head of that security agency.

Ajo Station agents continue to encounter large groups near the Port of Lukeville.

On Wednesday evening, 50 migrants were found, including Cubans, Dominicans, Nicaraguans and Peruvians. They were taken into custody and transported for processing. pic.twitter.com/EKtqtMw7Ox

— John R. Modlin (@USBPChiefTCA) December 6, 2022

It turned out that in addition to the Cuban migrants, travelers from the Dominican Republic, Nicaragua and Peru were also arrested.

All of them were left behind by order of the relevant immigration authorities, who transferred them to the shelters to await due process.

Ajo Station agents continue to encounter large groups near the Port of Lukeville. On Wednesday evening, 50 migrants were found, including Cubans, Dominicans, Nicaraguans and Peruvians. They were arrested and transported for processing.” Specific Modlin.

It is important to note that the agent did not specify the number of West Indians who were in this large group, nor the number of women and minors involved.

Other Cuban migrants arriving in the United States

Recently, Gloria Chávez, an officer with the Rio Grande Valley Sector Border Patrol, reported that 420 migrants, including Cubans, arrived on US soil through the state of Texas, divided into large groups.

In addition to the Antilles, other travelers came from countries in Central and South America.

“Agents found three large groups totaling 420 migrants in the first four days of December: 103 family members, 56 unaccompanied children and 261 single adults from Cuba and several countries in Central and South America,” he said in his report. .

Again La Grulla, TX!

This time #RioGrandeCity #USBP Agents encountered three large groups totaling 420 migrants in the first four days of December: 103 family members, 56 unaccompanied children and 261 single adults from Cuba and various Central and South American countries. pic.twitter.com/SBIIzlvzAi

— Chief Patrol Agent Gloria I. Chavez (@USBPChiefRGV) December 5, 2022

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A US court has rejected a lawsuit against Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman for his alleged involvement in the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi (Jamal Khaschukji).

In November, the US Department of Justice recommended that the court grant Mohammed immunity from trial. The court followed the recommendation and dismissed the lawsuit, according to court documents released yesterday.

Judge John Bates referred in his reasoning to the reasoning of the US government and “Mohammed’s immunity as head of state”. At the same time, Bates addressed a “judicial discomfort” over the Justice Department’s recommendation in his argument.

That unease stems not only from “credible allegations” about the prince’s involvement in Khashoggi’s murder, the judge wrote, but also from the timing of the prince’s appointment as Saudi Arabia’s prime minister.

criticism of Biden

Journalist and Saudi government critic Khashoggi’s fiancée, Hatice Cengiz, appeared as a plaintiff. After the murder four years ago, she filed a lawsuit in the United States against the Saudi crown prince and others she alleges were involved in the reporter’s murder.

Among other things, Khashoggi worked as a columnist for the Washington Post. Cengiz accused US President Joe Biden of saving the “murderer” and “criminal” Mohammed by granting him immunity, thus becoming an accomplice.

According to Willis Towers Watson (WTW), the average revaluations planned by companies for the next year range from 4% in France to 6.6% in Brazil.

From the United States to China via Germany, average wage increases in 2023 should exceed 4% in seven of the world’s major economies, according to a study by Willis Towers Watson (WTW) released on Tuesday. The average revaluations planned by companies for the next year range from 4% in France to 6.6% in Brazil, according to the Anglo-American consultancy and insurance brokerage.

They should reach 4.6% in the United States and 5.67% in China, adds WTW, which surveyed companies in a total of 135 countries but only communicated the responses collected in seven of the world’s major economies. In six of the seven countries affected (Germany, Canada, China, France, United Kingdom and United States), the planned percentage increase for 2023 is higher than for 2022. Only Brazil, where the average increase is projected to reach 7%. in 2022 and 6.6% in the next year are an exception.

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Among the reasons companies give more generous pay rises, companies cite inflation and labor market tensions as priorities. According to their own statements, in each of the seven countries they will have greater difficulties recruiting and retaining their employees in 2022 than in the previous year.

Recruitment tensions

Forecasts for 2023 are more divergent: Canadian and American companies expect these hiring tensions to ease and Chinese companies to maintain them. In Germany, France, Brazil and the UK, on ​​the other hand, they fear that hiring and retaining employees will become even more difficult in 2023. According to their own statements, companies in the IT and digital professions in particular have the greatest difficulties with recruitment. The engineers are also very much courted.

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“The economic outlook for 2023 is generally pessimistic, with expectations of recession in several economies,” comments Khalil Ait-Moouloud, Head of Compensation Surveys at WTW.

The study was conducted online from October 3 to November 4, 2022 among 25,000 companies in 135 countries. Among them, more than 6,500 companies in Germany (802), Brazil (500), Canada (882), China (888), the United States (1,550), France (800) and the United Kingdom were surveyed. .

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Chinese trade was hit by slowing demand due to interest rate hikes. The impact of lockdowns on domestic consumption: -10.6% per year vs. -6% expected.

Exports fell to $296.1 billion after falling 0.9% in October. Imports fell to $226.2 billion after a 0.7 percent drop in the previous month. The country’s world trade surplus shrank by 2.5% year-on-year.

The Impact of the “Zero Covid” Policy – Chinese trade was expected to slow, with global demand cooling as the Federal Reserve and central banks in Europe and Asia hiked interest rates to stem rising inflation. Chinese consumer demand has been hit by the “zero Covid” strategy, which has repeatedly closed large parts of cities to contain virus outbreaks.

The easing of measures against Covid – A policy that Beijing now wants to loosen with an abrupt about-face, even after the most recent protests. People who have tested positive for the virus can self-isolate at home and schools that have not seen any outbreaks will return to classroom teaching. We will also restrict blocks to buildings, districts and neighborhoods. According to new National Health Commission (NHC) guidelines, “asymptomatic infected people and mild cases will now be generally isolated at home” and the country “will reduce the frequency of testing”.

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The Twenty-Seven on Tuesday reached agreement on legislation that seeks to halt global deforestation, a serious problem that has already resulted in the loss of a mass of forest larger than the area of ​​the European Union itself. In a session that Lasted until dawn, the Council (the member countries) and the European Parliament managed to reach a tentative agreement on the new regulation, which once it comes into force will ensure that companies wishing to sell in the EU market seven products, which are considered “keys” and whose derivatives, with their production, have not contributed to deforestation or forest degradation anywhere in the world.

Products covered by this new European regulation (which do not need to be transposed into national law, so their adaptation will be faster) include palm oil, cocoa, coffee, rubber, livestock, wood and soybeans and their derivatives others, beef, leather or printed paper products, furniture, cosmetics or chocolate. This list will be updated taking into account new data such as B. Changes in deforestation patterns, reviewed and updated.

The companies that want to exploit these products and market them in the common space must do so with a label that confirms – the so-called “due diligence” – that these goods were manufactured on land that has been in use since 31st 2020 and which also complies with all relevant laws comply with this in the country of production. In addition, they must collect “precise geographical information” about the acreage where these products were grown, a trace that allows to verify compliance with all regulations. For their part, the 27 must ensure that any companies that do not comply with the rules face “effective and dissuasive” sanctions.

Although the rules only affect products entering the EU, Brussels is confident the impact will be on a global scale as the European bloc is one of the biggest consumers of these products. Therefore, “this move will help halt a significant part of global deforestation and forest degradation,” the European Commission said in a statement welcoming the agreement on its original proposal, launched just a year ago.

Discussions in the European Parliament over the last few months on the original text of the European Executive have allowed for an extension of the list of products subject to these new regulations (such as rubber, charcoal or printed paper products). They also managed to include a provision that obliges the Commission to assess the regulation “no later than one year after the entry into force” when extending this regulation to other forest areas. And in two more years, it must also assess whether it extends to other ecosystems, including areas of high biodiversity value or importance for carbon storage.

The Zero Deforestation Alliance – which brings together the organizations Greenpeace, WWF, Seo/BirdLife, Friends of the Earth, Ecologists in Action, State Fair Trade Coordinator, CECU and Mighty Earth – has celebrated its “satisfaction” with this agreement. She also felt that “the possibility of including other forested areas in its scope is lost from the start”, although she welcomes that the Commission is leaving the door open for a later assessment.

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The European decision, taken on the eve of the start of the Montreal Conference on Biological Diversity (COP15), which aims to set targets for protecting nature for decades to come, represents the “first law in the world to stop global deforestation” , was celebrated by Environment Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevicius. The agreement marks an “important turning point in the fight against deforestation,” said European Commission Vice-President Frans Timmermans. “As we go green in the EU, we also want to ensure that our value chains become more sustainable. Fighting deforestation is an urgent task for this generation and a great legacy for the next,” added the leader of the European Green Pact.

As the Zero Deforestation Alliance has recalled, the European Union is currently the world’s second largest contributor to tropical deforestation after China, due to its imports of agricultural and livestock products (with 16% of the global total, with a total of 203,000 hectares deforested in 2017 and an associated CO₂ -Emission of 116 million tons). Soy, palm oil and beef, now included in the regulations, were the commodities that caused the most tropical deforestation in EU imports, followed by rubber, cocoa, coffee and wood products. Embodied deforestation was higher in imports from Brazil, Indonesia, Argentina and Paraguay, according to the NGOs, who have expressed hope that the European example at the Montreal event will serve to prompt a similar commitment from other major global stewards Deforestation, such as China (24% of the world’s deforested forests), the United States (7%) and Japan (5%).

Once the European Parliament and Council have formally adopted the regulation, it will come into force, although both operators and traders have 18 months to implement the rules. According to the European Commission, small and medium-sized companies enjoy a slightly longer adjustment period.

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