Dozens of people have gathered in the U.S. city of Miami to commemorate Cuban dissident Oswaldo Payá Sardiñas on the tenth anniversary of his death by naming one of the busiest streets in the city after him. The authorities of Miami-Dade County, in the state of Florida, have indicated that “preserving the legacy of Payá,…

UN Resident Coordinator in Sri Lanka, Hanaa Singer Hamdy, has urged “all stakeholders” in the country to ensure a peaceful transition of power “in full respect” of the Constitution. “United Nations Sri Lanka urges all stakeholders to ensure a peaceful transition of power with full respect for the Constitution. It is important that the root…

Sri Lanka’s Supreme Court on Friday ordered former Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa and former Finance Minister Basil Rajapaksa not to leave the country as his brother and former President Gotabaya did last Tuesday following last weekend’s popular uprising against the Sri Lankan government over the devastating economic crisis plaguing the nation. The order, announced by…

The German authorities have reinforced NATO’s military presence with the deployment of troops from the 41st Armored Infantry Brigade, a measure that had already been announced by the German government during the Atlantic Alliance summit in Madrid at the end of June. The head of the Lithuanian Army, Valdemaras Rupsys, confirmed the information after meeting…

Authorities in the Russia-friendly self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic announced Friday the death in custody of British citizen Paul Urey of natural causes, the first foreigner to die in the custody of pro-Russian separatists since the start of the war in Ukraine. Urey, identified by Donetsk authorities as a “mercenary,” died on July 10 from “chronic…

The Southern African Development Community (SADC) has approved the extension until August of the military mission deployed in the Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado (north) to support the efforts of the Mozambican authorities in the fight against jihadism. The mandate of the Regional Operations Coordination Mechanism of the SADC Mission in Mozambique (SAMIM) was due…

The Russian Prosecutor’s Office has declared the activities of the websites Bellingcat and Insider, as well as the Czech NGO Central and Eastern European Legal Initiative Institute (CEELI Institute) “undesirable” on the grounds that they are “foreign agents”. “Taking into account the results of a study based on harvested materials, the Russian Prosecutor’s Office has…

Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelensky on Thursday reiterated his request to Western allies for Russia to be officially considered a terrorist state, claiming that no other country “allows itself to destroy peaceful cities” with cruise missiles and artillery every day. “As a result of a single rocket attack in our city of Vinitsia, (in the center…

At least one person died Thursday in central Chile as a result of heavy rains and snowfall in the region, which triggered several flash floods and landslides, local media reported. In the Coquimbo region, where strong winds and rainfall have been recorded, a woman has died after a tree fell on the tent in which…

Peru’s Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the decision of a Lima court of first instance that upheld last February a person’s right to a dignified death through euthanasia in the country. The applicant, Ana Estrada, 43, is an activist who suffers from an incurable and progressive polymyositis with which she has been living since the…