KOREA CONFLICT
Kim Jong-un urges expanding North Korean deterrence in a more “offensive” way
seoul. North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has urged strengthening the army’s deterrent capacity “in a more practical and offensive way” in the face of, as he denounced, the situation created on the peninsula by the large military exercises by South Korea and the US. The marshal’s comments came during an extended meeting of the Central Military Commission held on Monday in Pyongyang, the state news agency KCNA reported on Tuesday. Kim stressed the need to “with increasing speed strengthen the deterrence capacity of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea’s official name) in a more practical and offensive way in order to apply it effectively as a measure to achieve more control and management security landscape, which is worsening on the Korean peninsula.
USA PENTAGON
Seoul, Washington consider wiretapping reports falsified
seoul. South Korean and US defense officials Lee Jong-sup and Lloyd Austin agreed Tuesday that recently leaked Pentagon documents to social media revealing Washington allegedly spied on the South Korean Presidential Office have been falsified. It was made by South Korean Deputy National Security Adviser Kim Tae-hyo, who spoke to the media after both sides made the call and just before Kim himself took a flight to Washington to prepare for the summit that the presidents of the two countries will maintain in two weeks.
USA SHOOTING
The death toll rises to five after shooting in Louisville (USA)
Washington. Five people have died and eight others have been injured, including two police officers, in a shooting that occurred yesterday Monday morning at a bank in the US city of Louisville (Kentucky, USA), the local Police reported. The city Police reported on Monday night on its Twitter account that the death toll after the attack rose to five and identified the last victim as 57-year-old Deanna Eckert. The other four fatalities, three men and one female, ranged in age from 40 to 67. The shooter, an identified 25-year-old white male identified as Conner Sturgeon, was “neutralized” by police officers and also died, authorities said.
PERU JUSTICE
Prosecutor of Peru files complaint against former prime minister for corruption
Lime. The Prosecutor of the Nation (general) of Peru presented yesterday a constitutional complaint in Parliament against former deputy and former Prime Minister Betsy Chávez, the last chief of staff of former President Pedro Castillo, for allegedly hiring relatives for public office.” The Nation’s Prosecutor’s Office filed a constitutional complaint against Betssy Chávez Chino -in her capacity as minister and congresswoman- as the alleged perpetrator of the crimes of incompatible negotiation or misuse of office and aggravated influence peddling,” reported the Public Ministry in its official account of Twitter.
USA TERRORISM
The US will pay $2.7 billion to 5,361 victims of the 9/11 attacks
Washington. The US Department of Justice announced yesterday Monday that it will pay some 2,700 million dollars in the coming weeks to 5,361 victims of the attacks of September 11, 2001, which brings to more than 6,000 million the compensation granted to victims of international terrorism and its families. The Fund to Compensate Those Affected was established by Congress in 2015 and is managed by the Criminal Division’s Money Laundering and Asset Recovery Section (MLARS). Since then, it has distributed with 3,300 million dollars in four rounds and the payment announced this Monday is added to that amount.
US ELECTIONS
Biden says his plan is to run even if he is not ready to announce it yet
Washington. The president of the United States, Joe Biden, said Monday in an interview with NBC that his plan is to run for re-election in November 2024, although he is not yet ready to make the official announcement. “I plan to introduce myself, but we are not ready to announce it yet,” Biden said in this interview on the “Today” program of the aforementioned chain this morning, before presiding over the event on Easter Monday in the White House gardens. The US president has been dropping his intention to run again for months, although he has not yet made the official announcement.
UKRAINE WAR SITUATION
Russia lowers hopes of a truce and prepares reinforcements for counteroffensive
kyiv/Moscow. Russian and Ukrainian troops reinforce their positions with thousands of soldiers in different sectors of the front in the face of a possible Kiev counteroffensive, while the Kremlin threw cold water on Monday on hopes of an eventual truce on the occasion of Easter Orthodox next Sunday. “Nobody has proposed it,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov said Monday, referring to a truce, suggesting that Russian President Vladimir Putin has no intention of calling a temporary ceasefire. The commander of the Ukrainian Land Army, Oleksandr Syrsky, who visited the Bakhmut front again on Sunday, said that “Ukrainian forces exhausted the Wagners”, Russia’s main assault force in that theater of war.
UKRAINE UN WAR
The West accuses Russia of attempted manipulation in the Security Council
United Nations. Russia convened a discussion yesterday at the UN Security Council on the “risks arising from violations of the agreements regulating the export of arms and military material” that it used to accuse the US of illegal shipment of arms to Ukraine. and the EU, who, for their part, have accused Russia of cynicism and intent to manipulate. “Western countries continue to promote the concept of responsible behavior and increased control over the circulation of weapons. However, the crisis that they themselves provoked in Ukraine was a clear demonstration of the insincerity of their declarations of support for the efforts international organizations to fight the uncontrolled proliferation of weapons,” said Russia’s ambassador to the UN, Vasily Nebenzia.
US ELECTIONS
Trump leads DeSantis by 15 points in Florida primary, poll finds
Miami. Donald Trump leads Ron DeSantis by almost 15 points in the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, according to a poll released Monday, an advantage that led the former US president to say that the governor “is not as popular in Florida as people thought “”I assume, among other things, that they (the voters) do not want their Social Security or their MediCare (public health system) cut,” Trump (2017-2021) wrote on his Truth Social network, where he collected the results of the poll of InteractivePolls for the firm Victory Insights, carried out from the 6th to the 8th of this month among a thousand Republican voters.
USA ABORTION
The US Government appeals the court order against the abortion pill
Washington. The United States Department of Justice filed an appeal on Monday against a Texas federal judge’s order seeking to stop the sale of the abortion pill mifepristone throughout the country. The Administration of President Joe Biden asked the Court of Appeals for the Fifth District, based in New Orleans (Louisiana), to stop the judge’s “extraordinary and unprecedented” decision against the abortion medication. More than 250 executives from pharmaceutical and biotech companies denounced in an open letter on Monday the recent order by a US federal judge to nullify the nationwide approval of the abortion pill mifespristone.
ISRAEL PALESTINE
After upsurge in violence, Netanyahu cancels dismissal of his defense minister
Jerusalem. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Monday that he will keep Defense Minister Yoav Gallant in his post, after several days of a sharp rise in tension in the region that included attacks in the West Bank and Tel Aviv and exchanges of fire with militias in Gaza, Lebanon and Syria. “Gallant will remain in his position and will continue to work for the protection of Israeli citizens,” Netanyahu said, thus reversing the decision to dismiss the minister, announced on Sunday March 26 and postponed days later after massive protests. A 48-year-old Israeli woman died this Monday as a result of injuries sustained on Friday in a shooting attack in the occupied West Bank, in which her two daughters, aged 15 and 20 respectively, also died.
MAURITANIAN TRIAL
A former police chief testifies against the former president of Mauritania
Nouakchott. Mauritania’s former police chief, retired General Ahmed Uld Bekrine, delivered damning testimony against the country’s former president Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz during his trial Monday in Nouakchott. “Abdel Aziz phoned me one day and ordered me to facilitate the reallocation of a part of the land of the Police Academy”, he said. “An official from the Ministry of Housing came to see me the same day (…) and reallocated a part of the land, which was later destined to house businesses Bekrine told the judge.
BRAZIL ENVIRONMENT
Brazil will join the DR Congo and Indonesia alliance of tropical forests
Brasilia. Brazil will form an alliance with the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Indonesia for the defense of the largest tropical forests on the planet, as announced on Monday by the Brazilian President, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. “In June I already have a commitment with the Congo, which is inviting Brazil and Indonesia for a great meeting between the three countries that have the largest green forests in the world”, said Lula in an interview with the state radio program “A Voz do Brasil”.
PERU JUSTICE
Prosecutor of Peru files complaint against former prime minister for corruption
Lime. The Prosecutor of the Nation (general) of Peru presented yesterday a constitutional complaint in Parliament against former deputy and former Prime Minister Betsy Chávez, the last chief of staff of former President Pedro Castillo, for allegedly hiring relatives for public office.” The Nation’s Prosecutor’s Office filed a constitutional complaint against Betssy Chávez Chino -in her capacity as minister and congresswoman- as the alleged perpetrator of the crimes of incompatible negotiation or misuse of office and aggravated influence peddling,” reported the Public Ministry in its official account of Twitter.
CHINA ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Chinese technology company SenseTime launches another alternative to ChatGPT
Shanghai (China). The Chinese technology SenseTime, one of the main companies dedicated to artificial intelligence (AI) in the Asian country, launched a ‘chatbot’ with which it intends to compete with the popular ChatGPT, developed by the American OpenAI and supported by Microsoft. thus joined giants of the Chinese digital sector yesterday Monday, such as Baidu, the ‘Chinese Google’, which already presented its conversational AI, ERNIE Bot, in the middle of last month, and others such as Alibaba, 360 or Tencent, which are also preparing applications for this guy. EFE
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