Author: Colquetora

LIMA, Nov 22 (Reuters) – Peru has lost 56% of its tropical glaciers in the last six decades due to climate change, according to a new government inventory released on Wednesday. Peru holds 68% of the world’s tropical glaciers and warming temperatures have led to melting and the creation of new mountain lagoons that risk overflowing and flooding, the National Institute of Research of Mountain Glaciers and Ecosystems said. The report uses satellite imagery until 2020 and shows that 2,084 glaciers are covering 1,050 square kilometers (405 square miles) in Peru, compared to the 2,399 square kilometers of ice and…

LIMA, Peru — Japanese Princess Kako on Friday arrived in Peru on an official visit to commemorate 150 years of diplomatic relations between both countries. Kako, 28, will spend six days in the South American country, where she will lead a ceremony to celebrate the start of bilateral relations in 1873, when both countries signed a treaty of friendship, commerce and navigation. She is expected to visit several landmark sites, including Cuzco, the Andean city that was the capital of the Inca Empire between the 15th and 16th centuries. From there the Princess will head to Qoricancha, or “The Golden Temple”…

Germany has suggested splitting off the more controversial parts of the draft regulation aiming to prevent and combat child sexual abuse material online, according to the country’s position paper dated Thursday (12 October) and seen by Euractiv. The proposed regulation aims to prevent and combat online child sexual abuse material (CSAM), making it a requirement for digital platforms in the EU to detect and report such material. However, some elements of the proposal – in particular, detection orders which some argue break encryption and violate users’ privacy – have proved controversial and difficult to move past. The German position paper…

The Minister of Public Works and Communications in Paraguay, Claudia Centurión, has said that, through the 2028 Road Infrastructure Plan, approximately US$5.5 billion will be invested into the country’s infrastructure in the next five years. She added that this would take place through the Ministry of Public Works and Communications (MOPC) and would generate a significant number of jobs. The investment amounts to an average of 4% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of the country. During the ‘Infrastructure Development: Betting on the Growth of Paraguay’ conference, Minister Centurión emphasised that the current government’s primary objective is to transform Paraguay…

On October 18, 2022, a meeting was held in Kiev between Darkhan Kaletayev, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Kazakhstan to Ukraine, and Alibek Mukhammad-Rakhimov, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of BTA Bank Ukraine JSC. This was announced on Wednesday, October 19, by the Embassy of Kazakhstan in Ukraine. The success of the operation was a result of intensive collaboration of BTA Bank, Kenes Rakishev, the embassy and Ukrainian authorities. During the meeting, a conversation took place about the current economic situation in Ukraine, topical issues of representatives of Kazakh business in Ukraine and prospects for the development…

Frankfurt, Brussels (6/10 – 27) While Tajik authorities have not been able to lay their hands on their activist opponents living in Europe, they are able to turn the screws on their families and relatives, back in the old country. The recent case of arrest of family members took place shortly after President Emomali Rahmon’s visit to Germany, to attend a summit of Central Asian leaders, at the end of last month. Throughout Rahmon’s visit, he was trailed by demonstrators holding up placards bearing pictures of political prisoners and calling him a dictator. When Rahmon headed to the Bundestag on…

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbia’s president demanded Tuesday to have a NATO-led peacekeeping force take over for the national law enforcement agency in northern Kosovo after a daylong shootout between armed Serbs and Kosovar police left one officer and three gunmen dead. In one of the worst confrontations since Kosovo declared independence from Serbia in 2008, about 30 masked men opened fire on a police patrol near the village of Banjska early Sunday then broke down the gates of a Serbian Orthodox monastery and barricaded themselves with the priests and visiting pilgrims. The violence further raised tensions in the Balkan region at a time when European Union and…

Indigenous groups in Peru’s northernmost department of Loreto issued a communqué rejecting a mining concession approved by the Mining and Metallurgical Geological Institute (Ingemmet) in the Maynas region. The 1000-hectare concession, granted to the local company Raíces Gaddaffy, sits in the upper basin of the Nanay River, which is a tributary of the Amazon River and the main source of fresh water for 500,000 people who live in the departmental capital, Iquitos, and nearby areas. The river has a high fish species richness, including several that are of interest to the aquarium industry. According to the Regional Organization of Indigenous Peoples of the…

The EU has signalled the completion date for its enlargment plan, as the bloc looks at increasing its geographical size. European Council President Charles Michel has announced that the block is aiming to grant membership to its candidate countries by 2030. While Ursula von der Leyen has argued against putting a date on it, the EU’s enlargement chief Olivér Várhelyi has backed Michel’s timeline. EU chiefs are eyeing up geographical expansion of the bloc, with eight recognised candidates for membership: Turkey, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Albania, Moldova, Ukraine and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Josep Borrell, the EU’s High Representative for Foreign…

Peru announced on Thursday it would be suspending tourist visits to parts of Machu Picchu because of the erosion of certain stone structures that make up the Inca citadel. The ancient Incan site is Peru’s top tourist destination, with about 3,800 people visiting per day. However, because of the wear and tear suffered from too many tourists visiting, the country’s Culture Ministry said it is suspending visits to the Temple of the Condor and the Temple of the Sun, as well as the “Intihuatana” – a carved stone structure that was sacred to the Incas. “The damage is irreversible. We have to…