Topics for the day of EFE International on August 3, 2023 (10:00 GMT)

USA TRUMP

Washington – Former US President Donald Trump (2017-2021) is summoned before a judge in Washington for the reading of charges for his alleged attempt to reverse the result of the 2020 elections, in which he lost to Democrat Joe Biden. (Text) (Photo) (Video) (Direct)

(At 4:00 p.m. (20:00 GMT) Trump will have to appear before Judge Moxila Upadhyaya in the District of Columbia court)

Washington – Overheated, Mary stops to look at the tents, antennas, and lights that surround the federal courthouse in the District of Columbia. “And what is happening here?” She asks aloud, to which a cameraman responds without looking up from his cell phone: here “they impute Trump.” (Chronicle) (Text) (Photo) (Video)

NIGER COUP

Niamey – On the occasion of Independence Day, the pro-coup collective M62 calls demonstrations in Niamey and other cities in Niger to denounce international sanctions, as well as to demand the “immediate withdrawal” of French forces and the French embassy in Niger. (Text) (Photo) (Audio)

Abuja (Nigeria) – The military chiefs of the countries of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), who do not rule out an armed intervention against Niger if the coup junta does not restore power to the ousted president, continue to meet in Abuja. (Text)

UKRAINE WAR

Moscow/Kiev – Ukraine has managed with its sabotage actions to provoke the nervousness of the Kremlin, which is taking additional measures to guarantee the security of its territory, including the restriction of navigation in the strait that separates Crimea from mainland Russia. (Text) (Photo) (Video)

Kupiansk Front (Ukraine) – The Ukrainian military resists in the city of Kupiansk, a key city for both sides, and assures EFE from the trenches that they have caused massive casualties among the 100,000 soldiers that Russia believes has deployed in this area of ​​the front. where the invading army continues on the offensive. By Marcel Gascón (Text) (Photo) (Sent)

Odessa, Ukraine – Nearly 350,000 Ukrainians use a mobile app, developed by Odessa engineers, to inform the Army of missiles and drones they see during Russian strikes in an attempt to help air defenses intercept them. By Rostyslav Averchuk (Text)

EL SALVADOR VIOLENCE

San Salvador – The inhabitants of the department of Cabañas, in the north of El Salvador, where a “security fence” ordered by President Nayib Bukele has been installed with eight thousand soldiers and police to “corral” the gang members, they fear that they produce arbitrary detentions protected by the exception regime. (Text) (Photo) (Video)

COLOMBIA PEACE

Bogotá – The President of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, together with the delegates of the Government and the ELN guerrilla, establishes the National Participation Council (CNP), with the purpose of promoting the inclusion of society in the construction of peace, the same day that a 180-day bilateral ceasefire begins. (Text) (Photo) (Video)

COLOMBIAN PETRO

Bogotá – Nicolás Petro Burgos, eldest son of Colombian President Gustavo Petro, appears in court this Thursday after being charged by the Prosecutor’s Office with the alleged crimes of money laundering and illicit enrichment of a public servant. (Text)

(Appearance at 19.00 GMT)

WYD PORTUGAL

Lisbon – Pope Francis enters the crowd of World Youth Day events with a meeting with university students and their participation in the Welcome Ceremony in Eduardo VII Park where a million young Catholics from all over the world are expected. world. By Cristina Cabrejas (Text) (Photo) (Audio) (Video)

Lisbon – It defied the dictatorship under the name of Liberdade (Freedom) and was forgotten for decades. Today, this “clandestine” neighborhood of Lisbon, punished by drug trafficking, awaits the visit of the Pope and looks skeptically to the future. By Mar Marín (Text) (Photo) (Video)

Lisbon – Dinis, a 17-year-old Portuguese, has just confessed in one of the 150 booths set up in the open air at the World Youth Day in Lisbon, a “unique” experience with which to “cleanse the soul” for which this This week thousands of young Catholics who attend WYD will spend. By Paula Fernández (Text) (Photo) (Video)

MEXICO MIGRATION CRISIS

Mexico City – Behind a fictitious name and the darkness of the backlight, Rosa, Valentina and Rosario, victims of political persecution or the cruelest forms of violence, are some of the 74,764 faces hidden behind the avalanche of refugee applications that Mexico has received during the first semester of the year. (Text) (Photo) (Video)

CHILE PROTESTS

Santiago de Chile – The long wait for justice, the lack of psychological support and the delay in government aid have plunged the eye mutilated from the Chilean social outbreak into a feeling of abandonment that has led to the suicide of four victims of the massive protests of 2019. By Elvira Osorio (Text) (photo) (video)

INFORMATION AGENDA (GMT hours)

8:00 p.m.- Washington.- USA TRUMP.- Former US President Donald Trump (2017-2021) is summoned before a judge in Washington for the reading of charges for his alleged attempt to reverse the result of the elections in 2020, in which he lost to Democrat Joe Biden. (Text) (Photo) (Video)

12:20 p.m.- Abuja.- NIGER COUP.- The military chiefs of the countries of the Economic Community of West African States (Cedeao), who do not rule out an armed intervention against Niger if the coup junta does not return power to the deposed president , meet in Abuja (Nigeria) (Text)

11:30 a.m.- LISBON.- WYD PORTUGAL.- Daily press conference for World Youth Day (WYD) in Lisbon. (Text)

3:45 p.m.- Lisbon. WYD POPE.- – The pope participates in the welcoming ceremony in Eduardo VII Park within the framework of World Youth Day. (Text) (Photo) (Video)

Tokyo.- JAPAN TYPHOON.- The powerful typhoon Khanun is heading to the main islands of Japan after passing through Okinawa, in the south of the country. (Text) (Photo)

Miami (USA).- USA DEATH PENALTY.- Florida executes James Phillip Barnes, 61, sentenced for the rape and murder of Patricia Miller, and who becomes the fifth person to receive a lethal injection in this state in what what’s up this year (Text)

7:00 p.m.- Bogotá.- COLOMBIA PETRO.- Nicolás Petro Burgos, eldest son of Colombian President Gustavo Petro, appears at a hearing in which he has promised to reveal acts of corruption that are known to him as part of his collaboration with the Justice that charged him with money laundering and illicit enrichment. (Text)

13:00h.- Bogotá.- COLOMBIA PAZ.- The president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, and the delegations of the Government and the ELN guerrilla initiate the Participation Agreement with the installation of the National Participation Committee (CNP), a special instance transitory emanating from the Roundtable for Peace Dialogues with a specific mandate to promote the design of the process of participation of society in the construction of peace. (Text) (Photo) (Video)

14:00 .-United Nations – UN CONFLICTS – Debate in the Security Council on “Famine and induced global food insecurity”, promoted by the United States. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will participate. (Text) (photo) (video)

London.- R. UNITED TYPES.- The Bank of England announces its decision on whether to order a new increase in interest rates in the United Kingdom -currently at 5%- to control year-on-year inflation, which is at 7, 9%. (Text)(Audio)

Lima.- PERU CRISIS.- The Peruvian Congress debates the request of President Dina Boluarte, who has requested permission from Parliament to attend the Amazon Summit in Brazil and, if granted, will make her first trip abroad as representative (Text) (Photo) (Video)

Panama City.- PANAMÁ CANAL -Panama City- The administrator of the Panama Canal, Ricaurte Vásquez Morales, held this Thursday a meeting with journalists under the slogan “A Canal for the Future”, in which aspects such as the lack of of water that affects the circulation of ships in this route that unites the Pacific Ocean with the Atlantic. (photo)(video)(text) (Text) (Photo) (Video)

12:00h.- Brasilia.- BRAZIL AMAZONIA.- The Brazilian Government presents deforestation data for the Amazon for the month of July, on the eve of the Amazon Summit. (Text)

New Delhi.- INDIA SOUTH AMERICA.- The India-LAC (Latin America and the Caribbean) conclave on economic cooperation begins in New Delhi, attended by ministers and trade representatives from several countries. (Text)

16:00h.- Lima.- PERU ECONOMY.- The Minister of Economy of Peru, Álex Contreras, offers a press conference to the international media about the measures adopted to deal with the El NIño phenomenon. (Text) (Video)

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