The Ukrainian First Lady is due to meet her French counterpart Brigitte Macron at the Élysée on Monday, local media reported. This is Olena Zelenska’s first visit to France since the start of the war in Ukraine. The two first ladies met in September on the sidelines of the UN …
Read More »Peru: former president Pedro Castillo seeks asylum in Mexico
Former Peruvian President Pedro Castillo, deposed and remanded in custody, has made an official request for asylum in Mexico, which is consulting the Peruvian government, Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard announced Thursday. Prosecuted for “rebellion” and “conspiracy”, Pedro Castillo transmitted his request to the Mexican embassy in Lima on the …
Read More »US Congress passes law protecting same-sex marriage
The US House of Representatives on Thursday passed a law protecting same-sex marriage across the United States, over fears of a backtracking by the Supreme Court on the matter. The text, which was approved by the Senate last week, must now be signed into law by President Biden. He pledged …
Read More »Volodymyr Zelensky named personality of the year 2022
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky succeeds billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk, boss of SpaceX and Tesla, as Time magazine’s 2022 personality of the year. He succeeds Greta Thunberg, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris or even Elon Musk. By crowning the Ukrainian president, the US magazine also paid tribute to the “spirit of …
Read More »China announces general relaxation of its anti-Covid rules
China announced on Wednesday a general relaxation of health rules against Covid, authorizing certain positive cases to quarantine at home and reducing its use of generalized PCR tests. The change comes days after historic angry protests across the country. According to the new instructions unveiled by the National Health Commission …
Read More »Assailants cut open Mexican woman and stole her unborn baby
A pregnant Mexican woman was found dead after being disemboweled by two assailants who stole her unborn baby, authorities said. “The alleged perpetrators were arrested with a newborn baby in their possession,” the Attorney General’s Office of the eastern state of Veracruz said in a statement. The suspects, a man …
Read More »US warns Israel against creating new settlements in West Bank
The head of the American diplomacy Antony Blinken on Sunday said the United States would oppose the establishment of new colonies by the next Israeli government in the occupied West Bank. His remarks come at a time when Benjamin Netanyahu is preparing to regain power thanks to a coalition with …
Read More »Chinese astronauts return to earth after six months in space
Three Chinese cosmonauts returned to earth on Sunday after six months aboard the Tiangong space station, the Chinese space agency said, describing their mission as “total success”. The crew, who had been on board the Chinese space station since early June, landed at the Dongfeng site in Inner Mongolia (northern …
Read More »Woman loses sight after using lightening cream
A woman from Minnesota in the United States, had lost her sight and inadvertently put her entire family at risk of mercury poisoning, after using beauty creams containing high levels of the toxic chemical, according to a case report shared exclusively with CNN. “People have no idea,” Batdorff, a fellow …
Read More »Neuralink, Elon Musk’s controversial brain implant project, is ‘ready’
Neuralink intends to put its computational brain implant in human patients within the next six months, the company announced on Wednesday, Bloomberg reported. “We are now confident that the Neuralink device is ready for humans,” Elon Musk confirmed in a tweet posted on the evening. “The timing” of implementation “will …
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