UKRAINE WAR
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Lviv/Moscow (Ukraine) – The Ukrainian army, with its advance on Kherson in southern Ukraine, holds the annexation of part of the country by Russia in question, is now on the verge of liberating the entire province of Kharkov and invading the Lugansk region in the east. (send)
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– The EU reached a political agreement in Brussels on the eighth package of sanctions against Russia.(send)
– The European Parliament is also debating how to counter the anti-European and anti-Ukrainian propaganda of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s allies in Europe. The Vice President of the EC Margaritis Schinas intervened.(send)
– In Moscow, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the annexation of the Ukrainian regions of Donetsk, Lugansk, Kherson and Zaporizhia to Russia. (send)
OPEC CONFERENCE
Vienna – The OPEC+ alliance, which brings together 23 oil producers led by Saudi Arabia and Russia, is holding a ministerial conference in Vienna to finalize its oil supply from November. (send)
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ELECTIONS IN BRAZIL
SAO PAULO (Brazil) – Center-right Senator Simone Tebet, the third most likely candidate in last Sunday’s Brazilian presidential election with 4.19 percent of the vote, announces who she supports in the second round.
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CHILE-USA
SANTIAGO, CHILE – US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is paying an official visit to Santiago, where he will meet with Chilean President Gabriel Boric and Secretary of State Antonia Urrejola to discuss regional investment security, human rights, immigration and the climate crisis. (send)
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USA ROOM
MIAMI – Crew-5, the fifth manned SpaceX mission commissioned by NASA, will launch from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., to the International Space Station (ISS).
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ATLANTIC HURRICANES
MIAMI (USA) – United States President Joe Biden is visiting Southwest Florida a week after the impact of Hurricane Ian, a disaster that has already outnumbered the victims of the sadly remembered 1992 Andrew.
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R.UNIDO GAMES
BIRMINGHAM (UK) – Britain’s Prime Minister Liz Truss is making her first speech as Prime Minister at the Conservative Party’s annual conference in Birmingham, after just a month in office and at a low point in her popularity.(send)
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KOREA CONFLICT
Seoul — Seoul and Washington today responded to Tuesday’s North Korean test by firing short-range missiles and announcing the return of a US aircraft carrier to waters off the Korean Peninsula, prompting a full-scale escalation of regions in the region.(send)
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IRAN PROTESTS
Tehran – The protests sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini began with large demonstrations that were violently repressed, with mobilizations spreading to universities and now spreading to schools with girls taking off their veils in Iran. By Jaime León (Chronicle) (Posted)
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CHEMISTRY NOBEL
Copenhagen – Scientists Carolyn Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and K.Barry Sharpless are the winners of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing an “ingenious” tool for building molecules, the Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm announced. (send)
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OAS ASSEMBLY
Lima – The OAS General Assembly – attended by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, among others – begins with a day of dialogue with civil society organizations and a meeting of foreign ministers on women’s leadership.(send)
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GEORGE W. BUSH
WASHINGTON – Far from the White House swagger when the Bushes stayed at their Crawford ranch and Camp David, the menus of the then-US presidential couple (2001-2009) opted for home-cooked food, whose chef has now collected in a recipe book . By Martha Garden. (photo) (chronicle) (Posted)
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INFORMATIVE AGENDA (GMT times)
10:00 am.- Geneva.- TRADE PROSPECTS.- The World Trade Organization (WTO) presents its forecasts for trade and the global economy.
5:00 p.m. – Buenos Aires. – ARGENTINA D.HUMANOS. – UN debt and human rights expert Attiya Waris, at a press conference at the end of a visit to Argentina, analyzes the impact of external debt on the human rights situation in the country. Red Room of the Faculty of Law of the University of Buenos Aires, Av. Pres. Figueroa Alcorta, 2263
Matanzas (Cuba) – FIRE IN CUBA – Two months have passed since the fire at the tank terminal base in Matanzas, western Cuba, became the country’s largest industrial fire, which killed 17 people and caused serious property damage. (photo) (video)
La Coruña (Spain).- GERMANY SPAIN – Germany and Spain resume bilateral summits after nine years since the last one, in a climate of harmony between both countries and with the energy crisis as the protagonist of a meeting chaired by the Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez and Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz.
(2:45 p.m. – Family photo. 5:30 p.m. – Joint press conference).
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Brussels – EU ENERGY – The European Commission is holding an extraordinary informal meeting of the College of Commissioners to discuss energy on the eve of the EU summit of heads of state and government to be held in Prague on Thursday and Friday.
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Strasbourg (France) – EU ENERGY – The European Parliament is voting on a resolution on the EU’s response to rising energy prices in Europe.
08.30 .- Rome.- ITALIAN PARTIES.- The next head of government of Italy, Giorgia Meloni, meets with the national executive of her party, Brothers of Italy, to analyze the scenarios resulting from her election victory on the 25th.
Moscow.- RUSSIA EDUCATION.- Russian President Vladimir Putin will videoconference with the laureates and finalists of the All-Russian Teachers of the Year competition.
11:00 – Geneva. – DRCONGO D. PEOPLE. – A UN-appointed team of international experts presents a report on the situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). UN Headquarters, Palais des Nations
Kinshasa.- CLIMATE SUMMIT.- Environment ministers from some 50 African countries are meeting in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, to prepare for November’s climate change conference in Egypt (COP27), an African “pre-CO27” face-to-face exchange rather than negotiation.
MADRID – SPAIN ECUADOR – Authorities and business people from Spain and Ecuador will take part in the “Ecuador Open for Business 2022” forum, which will take place on Wednesday, October 5 in Madrid in morning and afternoon sessions, and will be opened electronically by the President of Ecuador, William Lasso .
Zaragoza (Spain) – BOTERO EXHIBITION – Presentation of the exhibition “Fernando Botero. Sensuality and Melancholy” which will open on October 6th in Zaragoza. (text) (photo)
(The presentation will take place at 09.30)
Madrid – LIMAHL MUSICAL – Interview with Limahl, who became famous for the main theme of “The Endless Story” before this story premiered in musical format in Madrid. (Text)
New York.- USA MUSIC.- Puccini’s famous opera Tosca returns to the Metropolitan Opera in New York in a production by David McVicar. MET opera. Lincoln Center.
15.30 – Quito. – ECUADOR FLORES. – Expo Flor, the largest international flower fair in Ecuador, returns after the pandemic with 105 exhibitors and more than 2,000 buyers from 42 countries. Quito Metropolitan Convention Center (photo) (video)
San Salvador – EL SALVADOR POLITICS – Interview with Salvadoran MP Claudia Ortiz of opposition party Vamos on her stance on President Nayib Bukele’s announcement that he would seek immediate re-election in 2024. (photo) (video)
Ciudad Juárez (Mexico) – MEXICO MIGRATION CRISIS – Interview with the family of Mexican migrant Jesús Iván Sepúlveda, who was murdered by two Americans crossing the border and denounces a racial hatred murder. (photo) (video)
Bangkok.- CAMBODIA CUBA – Cuban Prime Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz will meet with the country’s key authorities, including his counterpart Hun Sen, during his three-day visit to Cambodia (between October 4 and 6).
Paris.- FRANCE PARTIES – It is the 50th anniversary of the creation of the National Front (FN), renamed the National Grouping (RN, for its French acronym).
CAIRO – IRAQ D.HUMANS – The Gulf Center for Human Rights addresses the systematic patterns of torture in Iraq on the sidelines of the 51st session of the UN Human Rights Council, which will be attended by Amnesty researchers International and the Iraqi Observatory for Human Rights.
JERUSALEM – ISRAEL JUDAISM – Israel celebrates the holiday of Yom Kippur, or Day of Forgiveness, which is the holiest day in the Jewish calendar when the country’s airspace is closed and cars do not circulate on the roads and highways.
10.30 Mérida (Spain) – INCLUSIVE CINEMA – Disseminating the social and work inclusion of people with disabilities and their daily reality through the seventh art is the goal of the newly created Ibero-American network of inclusive film festivals.
(Video with directors from festivals in Spain and Colombia)
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