PARAGUAY ELECTIONS
Asuncion – Some 4.8 million Paraguayans are called to vote in general elections in which the pro-government Santiago Peña and the opposition Efraín Alegre face each other for the presidency of the country, without a clear favorite.
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UKRAINE WAR
Moscow/Kiev – Russia uses all its resources to recruit more professional soldiers to defend the occupied territories in Ukraine against the little impact of the mobilization of reservists on the battlefield (photo) (video)
SUDAN REBELLION
Khartoum – Warplanes and anti-aircraft artillery are heard in Khartoum on the last day of a truce broken by the warring parties in Sudan in a conflict that has left hundreds dead and thousands injured.
POPE HUNGARY
Budapest – The pope celebrates a mass in Kossuth Lajos square and delivers a speech to the university world at the Faculty of Informatics and Bionic Sciences of the Péter Pázmány Catholic University of Budapest. by Cristina Cabrejas. (photo)(video) – Francis also gave a press conference on the plane back to Rome after his trip to Hungary. (photo)(video)
CUBAN LITERATURE
Mexico City – “Cuba is a political corpse that is still unburied but it is dead,” said Cuban writer Carlos Manuel Álvarez in Mexico City, where he is presenting his book “Los Intrusos.” By Alfonso Fernandez.
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Miami – The American artist Whitfield Lovell, known for his installations around pencil or charcoal portraits of anonymous African-Americans, tells EFE that “detaching from history does not help to share the future.” By Ana Mengotti
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PANORAMA
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FIRST OF MAY
América Writing – Latin American trade unionism has weakened in recent decades and has left the streets to take office, according to experts consulted by EFE on the eve of May 1st. By Beatriz Diaz.
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INFORMATION AGENDA
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Takasaki – The G7 ministers in charge of Digitalization meet in the Japanese city of Takasaki.
Moscow – Uzbekistan holds a referendum on the reform of the Constitution, which introduces more than 200 changes to 64 articles and establishes the presidential term in 7 years instead of five.
London – British nurses start a 48-hour strike to demand better pay.
New York – The MoMA in New York inaugurates a major exhibition of contemporary Latin American artists.
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