Peru's congress on Wednesday voted down another bid to advance elections from April 2024 to this year, a move sought by President Dina Boluarte to calm unrest that has left dozens dead in seven weeks of anti-government protests.. In December, lawmakers moved elections originally due in 2026 up to April 2024 -- but as protesters dug in their heels, Boluarte called for holding the vote this year instead.
Peru's congress on Wednesday voted down a third bid to advance elections from April 2024 to this year, a move sought by President Dina Boluarte to calm deadly unrest amid anti-government protests.. In December, lawmakers moved elections originally due in 2026 up to April 2024 -- but as protesters dug in their heels, Boluarte called for holding the vote this year instead.
Jamaica is ready to participate militarily in an international force in Haiti, Prime Minister Andrew Holness said, an intervention the UN has been calling for without success for months to counter record violence by criminal gangs. . In October, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres relayed a call for help from Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry, asking the Security Council to send a multinational emergency force to help the Haitian police overwhelmed by gang violence.
A lawmaker backed by President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was reelected the leader of Brazil's Senate Wednesday, fending off a challenge from a rival supported by far-right ex-president Jair Bolsonaro.. Formerly a Bolsonaro ally, Lira made an overture to Lula immediately after the new president narrowly won the runoff election, saying it was time to "build bridges."
A leading US maker of advanced military surveillance drones announced Wednesday that it was willing to sell two to Ukraine for just $1, and called on the US government to approve the deal.. The US military has provided Ukraine with a number of small attack and surveillance drones, but nothing with the advanced technologies and long-range abilities like General Atomic's unmanned aircraft.
Russian police seized a protest artist's work in a raid on an anti-war exhibition in Saint Petersburg on Wednesday, organisers said.. Osipova had described the event as a protest and an "anti-war exhibition".
Ukraine expanded a clampdown on corruption on Wednesday, launching coordinated searches of residences linked to a divisive oligarch and former interior minister as well as tax offices in the capital.. Law enforcement also raided tax offices in the capital and senior customs officials were fired, Arakhamia said.
El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele on Wednesday defended a newly-unveiled mega-prison built to house 40,000 alleged gangsters rounded up in his campaign against violent crime. . Bukele, who has made reducing the murder rate a key priority, has previously accused critics of his shakeup of defending gangsters. ob/cmm/fj/mlr/md
A senior Ukrainian lawmaker called Wednesday for the United States to impose secondary sanctions on China and India if they keep buying Russian energy, urging total solidarity against Moscow's invasion.. "Which means the United States can and should deter China from helping Russia and preferably introduce secondary sanctions to stop China from financing the Russian economy and the Russian military machine by buying Russian oil and gas," he said.
The United States called Wednesday on Tunisia to show greater democratic inclusion after just 11.4 percent of voters took part in a second round of elections for a toothless legislature.. "The low voter turnout reflects the dire need for the government to engage in a more inclusive path going forward," State Department spokesman Vedant Patel told reporters.
