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(9/3 – 50) Kazakhstan is gearing up for snap elections of the lower house of parliament on March 19, and there is a sense of anticipation in the air. President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, who came to power in 2019, called for snap elections in the wake of the deadly street protests in January 2022. The elections are part of the president’s ambitious reform agenda, Jana Kazakhstan (New Kazakhstan), which aims to usher in a new era of political liberalization. The parliamentary elections are stage two of Tokayev’s program, following his re-election winning 80 percent of the votes last November. The coming…

SIMFEROPOL, February 22 – RIA Novosti Crimea . The number of people injured in a fire in a shopping center in Shebekino, Belgorod Region, has risen to two, and another man was taken to the hospital with a contusion. This was announced by the Governor of the region Vyacheslav Gladkov.A shopping center in Shebekino  caught fire on Wednesday afternoon after shelling by the Ukrainian Armed Forces. It was previously reported that one victim was taken to the hospital with shrapnel wounds. Doctors assess his condition as extremely serious.”Another victim was delivered to the Central District Hospital – a man with a contusion. The condition is of…

Issued on: 21/02/2023 – 02:32Modified: 21/02/2023 – 02:30 Caracas (AFP) – An old radio plays background music as Cira Madrid, 83, prepares coffee for a rare visitor to her small but spotless apartment in Caracas, where she lives alone. Her face lights up at the arrival of Morella Russian, a volunteer with the Convite NGO whose projects include taking care of Venezuela’s elderly — thousands of them abandoned amid an exodus of younger people seeking better lives elsewhere. “My good girl!” Russian, 66, greets the older woman with an affectionate hug. “How have you been? Are you sunbathing?” Over coffee…

SAO PAULO (AP) — Heavy rain caused flooding and landslides that have killed 36 people on the northern coast of Brazil’s Sao Paulo state, officials said Monday, while fatalities could rise. Sao Paulo’s state government said in a statement that 35 died in the city of Sao Sebastiao and a 7-year-old girl was killed in neighboring Ubatuba. On Monday morning, more than 500 people were continuing search and rescue efforts. Some of the hardest-hit cities that are under a state of emergency, including Sao Sebastiao, Ubatuba, Ilhabela and Bertioga, canceled their Carnival festivities as rescue teams contined a search for…

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Debinha scored off a pass from Marta in the second half and Brazil won the opening match of the SheBelieves Cup 1-0 over Japan on Thursday. Marta, who has been named FIFA World Player of the Year six times, came in as a second half substitute for Brazil. The game was Marta’s first since tearing the ACL in her left knee last March during a preseason National Women’s Soccer League’s tournament, which caused her to miss the entire 2022 season for the Orlando Pride. Just a few minutes after entering the game, she sent a cross…

Americas Quarterly Editor-in-Chief Brian Winter spoke to Slate’s Mary E. Harris on the What Next daily news podcast about current instability in Latin America and how things have changed from the economic growth era of the early 2000s. Winter said that he is struggling to find the optimism he usually uses to talk about Latin America “because I worry sometimes that I hear myself talk about the 2000s and it almost sounds like an aging rock band playing its greatest hits”. In light of protests against the government getting violent in both Peru and Brazil, Winter said that “all these…

Peru’s former President Pedro Castillo is in prison, at least 20 people are dead, hundreds of tourists are stranded, and the nation is in crisis after Castillo was ousted from his position on December 7. Dina Boluarte, the South American nation’s sixth president in seven years, is now struggling to maintain control in a political environment where chaos and corruption are the norm. Castillo’s leadership came to an end after he attempted to dissolve Congress earlier this month, prior to a planned impeachment vote following corruption charges. “We have taken the decision to establish an emergency government, to reestablish the…

New York, Brussels (21/12 – 60). Tajikistan regime’s crimes committed against humanity breeds an atmosphere of fear and oppression amomgst the Pamiri community was the verdict of a United Nations human rights mission conducted by Special Rapporteur Mary Lawlor, after a recent visit to the country earlier this month. She described the situation of human rights defenders in Tajikistan as an atmosphere of corruption and the fear of persecution. She called on the government to treat human rights defenders as allies, not opponents. There is a violent repression of the ethnic and religious minority – Pamir Ismailis – and it…

Iberia presented its outlook for 2023, in which it seeks to strengthen its current destinations in Latin America and the Caribbean starting next summer, after having recovered its flights to Rio de Janeiro (GIG), Brazil, and Caracas (CCS), Venezuela. According to what the airline stated in a meeting with the media that took place in Madrid, they plan to have approximately 260 weekly flights between Spain and Latin America, a figure 5% higher than the pre-pandemic figure, highlighting a third daily service to Bogota (BOG), Colombia, and the recovery of the second daily flight to Lima (LIM), Peru. Iberia highlights having recovered 95% of its capacity during the third…