IRELAND USA
Dublin- The US President, Joe Biden, meets in Dublin with the President of the Republic of Ireland, Michael D. Higgins, and the Prime Minister, Leo Vardakar, to celebrate the ties between the two countries and the progress of the peace process in the island on its 25th anniversary. By Javier Aja. (Text) (Photo) (Audio) (Video)
(The interview with the President of Ireland is at 10.15 GMT and with Leo Vardakar at 12.00 GMT)
Dublin – US President Joe Biden appears before the Irish Parliament, sitting in joint session, to praise the cooperation between Ireland and the US to advance democracy, peace, security and prosperity. (Text) (Photo) (Video)
(The speech to Parliament is scheduled at 14.45 GMT)
JUICE MISSION
Writing Science – The European Space Agency (ESA) launches from Kourú, in French Guiana, the Juice mission, which will explore with its ten instruments the intriguing and distant environment of Jupiter and its three large icy moons: Callisto, Europa and, above all , Ganymede. (Text) (Photo) (Video)
– Four keys and a curiosity of the Juice mission to Jupiter (Text) (Photo) (Sent)
(The mission takes off at 12.15 GMT)
UKRAINE WAR
Kiev/Moscow.- The mercenaries of the Wagner Group and the Russian troops try to take advantage of the rainy season to fully take the eastern city of Bakhmut before Ukraine can launch a new counteroffensive with the already dry ground, while Kiev uses this period of it waits to prepare and arm itself further with the help of the West. (Text) (Photo) (Video)
kyiv – The Ukrainian army continues to hold on to the neighborhoods it controls in Bakhmut with the goal of further wearing down Russia until kyiv receives enough ammunition to launch its counteroffensive. (Text) (Sent)
Moscow.- The Russian Duma or Chamber of Deputies is debating a law that punishes high treason with life imprisonment. (Text)
CHINA BRAZIL
Shanghai (China).- The president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, began his state visit to China in Shanghai, where he supported former Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff in her appointment as head of the BRICS development bank, visited a innovation center of the Huawei company and met with the companies BYD and China Communications Construction Company. (Text) (Photo) (Video)
IMF OUTLOOK
Washington – The managing director of the IMF, Kristalina Georgieva, and the president of the World Bank, David Malpass, give an account of the work of the spring meetings of these organizations, which are held this week in Washington. (Text) (Photo) (Audio) (Video)
(Press conference scheduled for 12:30 GMT)
Washington – At a time of uncertainty in the financial sector and slowing economic growth, Latin America has managed to stay afloat, according to the IMF, thanks in part to the speed of its central banks in fighting inflation, although it faces structural problems that can hinder your future. By Jorge Dastis. (Text) (Photo) (Video)
(Embargoed until 19.00 GMT)
MEXICO CENTRAL AMERICA HUMAN D.
Mexico City – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) presents its annual report on the situation in Mexico and Central America in 2022, a year marked by the historic figure of more than 100,000 missing Mexicans, migratory tragedies and imprisonments in countries such as El Salvador and Nicaragua. (Text) (Photo) (Audio) (Video)
(Report at 17.00 GMT)
COLOMBIA PEACE
United Nations – The UN Security Council celebrates its quarterly analysis of the application of the peace agreement between the Colombian State and the FARC guerrillas. (Text) (Photo) (Video)
CHILE SECURITY
Santiago de Chile – International organizations express their concern about the proposal of the Chilean Prosecutor’s Office to decree “preventive detention” for any foreigner without legal documents who is detained for any type of crime, a decision that they consider a dangerous setback that is not even applied by the countries with harsher immigration policies. (Text) (Photo)
SPAIN DROUGHT
Madrid – After a March with almost no rain, an even worse start to April and no prospect of rainfall for the next few days, the drought is becoming a serious problem in Spain, with irreversible consequences for crops and the spread of fires before the summer. (Text) (Photo)
CANNES FESTIVAL
Paris – The Brazilian director Karim Aïnouz will compete for the Palme d’Or at the 76th edition of the Cannes Film Festival with his film “Firebrand”, an event in which “Los delinquents” by Argentine Rodrigo Moreno, the Brazilian “Crowra” will also participate , by João Salaviza and Renée Nader Messora, and “Los colonos”, by Chilean Felipe Gálvez. (Text) (Photo) (Video)
INFORMATION AGENDA
Vienna.- OIL MARKET.- The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) publishes its monthly report on the oil market. (Text)
Paris.- FRANCE CULTURE.- The Petit Palais in Paris is hosting an exhibition on the figure of Sarah Bernhardt, a French actress who was a theater star at the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th. (Text) (Video)
5:45 p.m. Washington – G20 FINANCE – Meeting of G20 Finance Ministers, in which the First Vice President and Spanish Minister of Economic Affairs, Nadia Calviño, participates. (Text)
Moscow.- CENTRAL ASIA AFGHANISTAN.- The foreign ministers of Russia, China, Iran, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan hold a meeting on Afghanistan in the Uzbek city of Samarkand. (Text) (Photo)
Buenos Aires.- ARGENTINA JUSTICE.- The Justicialista (Peronist) Party of the province of Buenos Aires mobilizes in front of the headquarters of the Supreme Court of Argentina in support of the vice president, Cristina Fernández, seven years after the first time she had to testify before a judge.
Madrid – FERROVIAL TRANSFER – The Spanish company Ferrovial holds a meeting that is decisive for its future, which involves moving its registered office from Spain to the Netherlands, a strategy in which the lack of agreement with the Government has become clear and for which they continue to collect support to carry out the operation. (Text) (Photo) (Video)
Madrid – SPAIN DRUG TRAFFICKING – The Spanish National Police and the Portuguese Judicial Police report the operation that has allowed the dismantling of the largest laboratory in Europe for the processing of cocaine base paste, located in Pontevedra and with the capacity to produce 200 kilos a day, operating 24 hours a day hours of the day. (Text) (Photo) (Audio) (Video)
Surat (India).- INDIA OPPOSITION.- An Indian court holds an appeal hearing on the sentence of opposition leader Rahul Gandhi, convicted of defamation for a speech in which he mentioned Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
09.00h Paris.- CANNES FESTIVAL.- The Cannes Film Festival, at a press conference in Paris, reveals the list of works that will compete in its 76th edition. (Text) (Photo) (Video)
Paris.- FRANCE PENSIONS.- Another day of mobilizations in France against the pension reform, on the eve of the decision of the Constitutional Council on the validation of the law. (Text) (Photo) (Video)
Panama City.- AROUND THE WORLD.- The Spanish navigator Álvaro de Marichalar offers a conference in Panama City about his around the world on a jet ski, celebrating the 500th anniversary of the first circumnavigation of the planet. (Text) (Photo) (Video)
Tokyo.- JAPAN MURAKAMI.- The new work by the Japanese writer Haruki Murakami, titled “The City and its Uncertain Walls” (The city and its uncertain walls), goes on sale in Japan. (Text) (Video)
Beijing.- CHINA BRAZIL.- The president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, visits Shanghai as part of his official trip to China. (Text) (Photo) (Video)
Moscow.- UKRAINE WAR.- The Russian Duma or Chamber of Deputies debates a law that punishes high treason with life imprisonment. (Text)
10.15 am Dublin.- IRELAND USA.- US President Joe Biden meets with the President of the Republic of Ireland, Michael Higgins, on the second day of his visit to the country to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday agreement.
12:00 Dublin.- IRELAND USA – The US President, Joen Biden, meets in Dublin with the Irish Prime Minister, Leo Varadkar, on the second day of his visit to the country to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday agreement, which ` ended the conflict on the island.
2:45 p.m. Dublin.- IRELAND USA.- US President Joe Biden appears before the Irish Parliament, meeting in joint session, to praise the cooperation between Ireland and the United States to advance democracy, peace, security and prosperity.
Los Angeles.- COACHELLA FESTIVAL.- Latin music reaches its highest point at this year’s Coachella Festival with Bad Bunny becoming the first Latin artist to headline one of the most important musical gatherings in the world, in which artists will also perform like Rosalía, Gorillaz, Blackpink and Björk. (Text)
12:30 pm.- Washington.- IMF PERSPECTIVES.- Press conference with the director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Kristalina Georgieva, within the framework of the institution’s spring meetings, which are being held this week in Washington. (Text) (Photo) (Video)
11:45 am.- Washington.- WORLD BANK.- Press conference with the president of the World Bank, David Malpass, in the framework of the institution’s spring meetings, which are being held this week in Washington. (Text) (Photo) (Video)
5:30 p.m.- Quito.- ECUADOR THEATER.- The Argentine group Les Luthiers offers a press conference prior to their performance in Quito as part of their farewell tour after 55 years of artistic career. Swissotel (Text) (Photo) (Video)
10:00 p.m.- Panama City.- PANAMA GALICIA.- The president of the Xunta de Galicia, Alfonso Rueda, leads the act in the Panamanian capital of the beginning of the construction of a monument in homage to the Galicians who worked in the construction of the Panama Canal. (Text) (Photo) (Video) (Direct)
5:00 p.m.- Mexico City.- MEXICO HUMAN D.- The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) presents its annual report on the situation in Mexico and Central America in 2022, a year marked by the historical figure of more than 100,000 missing Mexicans, migratory tragedies and imprisonments in countries like El Salvador and Nicaragua. (Text) (Photo) (Video)
Miami (USA).- USA DEATH PENALTY.- The state of Florida executes Louis Bernard Gaskin, convicted of a double murder committed with a rifle in 1989 and whose appeal was rejected by the US Supreme Court. It will be the second execution in this southern state so far this year. (Text)(Audio)
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