Diasporas

Authorities in the United States have designated the Russian paramilitary group Wagner as an international criminal organization. The White House made the announcement on Friday, denouncing the group’s activities in Ukraine. “Wagner is a criminal organization that commits vast atrocities and human rights abuses,” White House National Security Council spokesman …

A 10-year-old in Mexico shot and killed another 11-year-old because he beat him at video games, several Mexican media reported Wednesday. The attacker shot the victim with a pistol that he picked up at the family home in a miserable area of the state of Veracruz (southeast). The two children …

Devanshi Sanghvi, heiress of the jewelry business Sanghvi and Sons in the Indian city of Surat (Gujarat, west) has decided to give up her fortune to become a nun in a strict religious order of the Jain faith. Renouncing a fortune of millions of dollars in diamonds, the eight-year-old Indian …

Chinese population, the world’s most populous country, fell in 2022 for the first time in six decades, an official body said on Tuesday. In total, 9.56 million births were registered last year, and did not compensate for the 10.41 million deaths, announced the National Bureau of Statistics (BNS) in a …

A group of scientists discovered a new species of lizard in a nature reserve in Cusco, in southeastern Peru, the national agency in charge of protected natural areas said on Monday. “Otishi National Park reveals a new species of lizard to science,” the institution said in a statement. This lizard …

An explosion at a chemical plant in northeast China has left at least two people dead, 34 injured and 12 missing, state broadcaster CCTV reported on Monday. “The fire is currently under control, the last flames having stabilized”, according to CCTV. Videos and photos released by television show a thick …

A 41-year-old woman has cut off her husband’s penis and stabbed him to death in their flat in the Altos de San Lorenzo area of Argentina. “The deceased was found with the knife embedded in his eye, wounds all over his body, including his chest and his genitals mutilated,” according …

Far-right Brazilian former president Jair Bolsonaro left Brazil for Florida two days before Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s inauguration on January 1 and stayed at the home of a former Brazilian MMA fighter. He was admitted to hospital last Sunday for an intestinal “adhesion” and was released on Tuesday evening. …

Democratic lawmakers in the US called on Thursday for President Joe Biden to revoke the visa of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, who is in Florida, refusing to allow the United States to serve as a refuge for the former leader. “We must not allow Mr. Bolsonaro or any other …

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has held talks with his Kenyan counterpart William Ruto during which they discussed food security and the Grain from Ukraine initiative – a humanitarian program to bring Ukrainian grain to countries with severe shortages food. In a tweet, Mr Zelensky said they also spoke about the …