Mes: junio 2022

Polish world No. 1 Iga Swiatek dropped a set in Wimbledon action on Thursday, but she found her game in time to extend her winning streak to 37 matches and advance to the third round. Fast-rising American Cori «Coco» Gauff, who lost to Swiatek in the Roland Garros final, also booked her place in the

More than 100 abortion rights supporters mounted an act of civil disobedience here Thursday to protest the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision that made abortion legal throughout the United States. Sporting green bandannas, protesters marched several blocks behind a banner emblazoned with «We Won’t Back Down,» before arriving at an

Ecuador’s government and the country’s largest indigenous organization agreed Thursday on a plan to address the causes that spurred nearly three weeks of unrest in which six people died and some 500 others were injured. The Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (Conaie) and its allies pledged to end the protests in exchange for a

A night of dance and revelry that a score of refugees enjoyed at this year’s Rio Carnival has been captured in a new documentary, a film that pays tribute to the resilience of people who fled persecution and conflict in their homelands to make a fresh start in Brazil. «Resistencia. La jornada de los refugiados

Spain will increase its defense spending to 2% of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) by 2029, prime minister Pedro Sanchez said on Thursday. “Spain will fulfill its commitment to Nato and to the European Union to allocate 2% of the GDP to the defense budget,” Sanchez told a press conference at the end of a

As the war rages in Ukraine, caring for animals might be considered trivial by many, but that is not the case for Lara Bezvesilna. When the eastern Ukrainian city of Merefa was evacuated amid Russia’s invasion, abandoned cats and dogs started turning up on Bezvesilna’s doorstep, so she turned her house and the land around

United States president Joe Biden on Thursday said Washington would announce an additional $800 million in weaponry to be delivered to Ukraine. The White House leader was speaking at a press conference at the closing of a Nato summit in the Spanish capital Madrid. “In the next few days we intend to announce over $800

Nato secretary general Jens Stoltenberg on Thursday urged Russian president Vladimir Putin to put an immediate end to the war in Ukraine. «President Putin should withdraw (his) forces and end this war immediately by stopping attacking a democratic and sovereign nation and causing so much suffering in Ukraine,» Stoltenberg said at a press conference at

Nato leaders must work urgently to bring an end to Russia’s blockade of Ukrainian food exports through political or military means, Ukrainian lawmaker Oleksiy Goncharenko told Efe at the Alliance summit taking place in Madrid. Goncharenko, who represents a district of Odesa, in the country’s south, as a member of Ukraine’s parliament, the Verkhovna Rada,

Russian president Vladimir Putin said Thursday that Sweden and Finland would face consequences if Nato military infrastructure was installed on their territories. «As to Sweden and Finland, we do not have the same problems with Sweden and Finland as we, unfortunately, do with Ukraine,” Putin was quoted by the Interfax agency as saying. (…)

Two men arrested for their alleged connection to the migrant smuggling incident that resulted in the deaths of 53 people who were left in an abandoned truck in San Antonio, Texas, could face life imprisonment or the death penalty if convicted. Out of 64 undocumented migrants discovered in or nearby the truck on Monday, 48

Australia’s prime minister announced that negotiations to reach a free trade agreement with the European Union will resume in the coming months, his office reported Thursday. Anthony Albanese said that European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen had expressed a desire for the negotiations to restart during a meeting on the sidelines of the NATO

Indonesia’s president has offered to mediate between Ukraine and Russia to seek a negotiated solution to the war triggered by Russia’s invasion, his office said. Joko Widodo met Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the Mariyinsky Palace in Kyiv on Wednesday, the Indonesian presidential office said in a statement late Wednesday.

Six-time Wimbledon champion Novak Djokovic further cemented his status as tournament favorite with a dominant display Wednesday on Centre Court, while fast-rising Spaniard Carlos Alcaraz looked comfortable on the grass in a straight-set victory of his own. The top-seeded Serbian, winner of the last three editions of tennis’ most prestigious event (2018, 2019 and 2021),

Second-seeded Estonian Anett Kontaveit and 2017 champion Garbiñe Muguruza of Spain were both eliminated from Wimbledon in surprisingly lopsided losses on Wednesday. Kontaveit missed all of the grass-court events leading up to Wimbledon due to a bout with Covid-19, and that lack of match practice on tennis’ trickiest surface was apparent in a 6-4, 6-0

The battle between Ecuador’s government and the indigenous movement mounting protests about the soaring cost of living appeared to reach a deadlock Wednesday, with President Guillermo Lasso having withdrawn from church-mediated talks and a bid by his opponents in Congress to impeach him falling short. For the last 17 days, demonstrators mobilized by the Confederation