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A blast at a military school in the Indian capital Delhi has been claimed by the separatist Khalistan Movement of East Punjab.
According to Indian media reports, a massive explosion took place outside the Paramilitary Force (CRPF) in North Delhi’s Rohini area, leaving a large hole in the wall of a school. The police started an investigation from the person who reported the incident.
According to the report, Indian police are investigating the explosives used in the 7:40 am explosion at Prashant Vihar on Sunday.
According to Indian media, the echo of the explosion near the school of the Indian Paramilitary Force (CRPF) was heard far and wide, but no one was killed or injured in the attack.
On the social media app Telegram, an account created in the name of Khalistan Justice League India released a video claiming responsibility for the Delhi attack, which was also watermarked with Khalistan Zindabad, along with this message. That the Khalistani workers are ready to attack at any time.
After 6 weeks of fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh, Armenia’s prime minister was protested and called for his resignation after signing a cease-fire agreement with Azerbaijan.
According to the report of news agency Reuters, thousands of protestors were demanding to leave the post while shouting slogans of ‘Nikol Gaddar’.
In Armenia’s capital, Yerevan, thousands of people marched towards the parliament but were stopped by police, but protesters chanted ‘Nikol resign’.
Eyewitnesses said that many protesters were arrested by the police, but no reports of clashes or damage have been received yet.
It should be noted that on November 10, Armenia and Azerbaijan announced a cease-fire agreement after the worst fighting, and this was celebrated as a victory in Azerbaijan.
In the agreement with Russia, along with the announcement to stop the ongoing fighting in the Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan, it has been agreed to deploy about 2,000 Russian troops in the region to establish peace and end the Armenian occupation of the regions.
The Prime Minister of Armenia called it a tragedy and said that seeing the signs of defeat, there was no other choice.
A day later, protesters trampled the streets under martial law and took out rallies and demanded the resignation of the prime minister, while also burning some government buildings.
Corona virus cases are also increasing in Armenia, that’s why many protesters were wearing masks.
It should be noted that after the cease-fire agreement, the fighting in the internationally recognized region of Azerbaijan, Nagorno-Karabakh, has ended.
Under the agreement, 2,000 Russian troops will be deployed to maintain peace in the region, which was occupied by Armenia after fighting in the 1990s but has lost most of the territory in recent fighting.
The Prime Minister of Armenia said that I finalized the peace agreement under the pressure of my army. The leadership of Nagorno-Karabakh said that after the capture of Shusha, the second largest city in the region, there is a fear of Azerbaijan’s capture of the entire region.
Nikol Pashinyan said after the deal that it was “a huge failure and a tragedy” and that he took personal responsibility for the failure, but rejected calls to resign.
Armenia’s prime minister has not issued a statement regarding the protests that broke out in the capital, but his resignation was demanded by 17 opposition parties, many of whose leaders have been arrested.
On the other hand, to maintain peace in the region, Russian troops have also left and will be deployed in the Lechen Corridor connecting Armenia with Nagorno-Karabakh.
According to the agreement, Russia’s peacekeeping force will remain for 5 years while Russia and Armenia already have a defense agreement.
Turkey, as an ally of Azerbaijan, did not play a role in the ceasefire agreement, but Russia and Turkey jointly signed a monitoring agreement.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that both countries will work together to establish peace in Nagorno-Karabakh.
Meanwhile, Azerbaijan hailed the ceasefire agreement as its victory, while a number of citizens are also upset that the advance of the army to occupy more areas has been stopped.
Citizens of Azerbaijan are also concerned about the arrival of Russia as a peacekeeping force, while Russia is an influential country in the entire region.
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- They reported human rights violations against Venezuelan children and adolescents to Unicef. Cendas-FVM reported that the family basket stood at $531.57 during September. Venezuelans occupied fifth place in the table of foreign workers in Spain. They confirmed the arrest of Pedro Tellechea, former Minister of Industries of Venezuela | Photo: EFE
Opposition parties in Venezuela denounced on Monday, October 21, before the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in Madrid, Spain, the “serious violations” of human rights suffered by children and adolescents detained in the country.
The food basket for a family of five people reached $531.57 during September, according to the Center for Documentation and Social Analysis of the Venezuelan Federation of Teachers (Cendas-FVM).
Spain revealed that Venezuelans occupied fifth place in the table of foreign workers in that country with 168,019 employed in various sectors.
In international news, early voting has begun in eight states and most counties in Florida for the US presidential election.
Below are the most notable news from Monday, October 21:
On Monday, October 21, members of different opposition parties in Venezuela delivered a letter to the Unicef headquarters in Madrid, Spain, to denounce the “serious violations” of human rights suffered by children and adolescents detained in the country.
In the letter, the complainants indicated that there are 142 boys, girls and detained teenagers70 of them held in centers with “inhumane conditions”, which they consider to be unsuitable for their age and condition, in violation of international standards.
In the document they demand the immediate release of these young Venezuelans because the conditions include overcrowding, lack of access to basic health services, poor nutrition and lack of protection against physical and psychological abuse.
Furthermore, the opposition representatives indicated in the letter that the adolescents have been “tortured with electric shocks, beatings, lack of food or even sexual abuse.”
The Cendas-FVM indicated on Monday, October 21, that a Venezuelan needed $106.3 in September to cover basic food expenses.
Additionally, he noted that the cost of the food basket for a family of five reached $531.57, $7.59 less than in August.
Likewise, the organization specified that a Venezuelan household with five members needed 17.7 dollars a day to be able to buy the 60 products that make up the food basket in the country.
Venezuela was ranked fifth in the table of foreign workers in Spain with 168,019 currently employed in various sectors in that country. While Colombia occupied third place with 222,217.
In 2015, Venezuelans with work in Spain were 16,631 while Colombians had 54,690 affiliates in Social Security.
According to data published on Monday, October 21, by the Ministry of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration of Spain, Venezuelans rose from the nineteenth position in the table of foreign workers in the European country.
Tarek William Saab, attorney general of the Public Ministry (MP), confirmed on Monday, October 21, the arrest of Pedro Tellechea, former Minister of Industries in Venezuela, who on October 18 reported that he left that portfolio for “health reasons.”
The MP indicated that the former Venezuelan official was arrested in the early hours of Sunday, October 20, and is accused of committing “serious crimes that threaten the highest interests of the nation.”
Saab pointed out that Tellechea would have participated in the “delivery of the Automated Command and Control System, known as the brain of PDVSA, to a company controlled by the United States Intelligence Services.” In addition, the Venezuelan State will judge him for other actions that violated “national sovereignty.”
5. Presidential elections: early voting began in eight US states
Early voting in the United States presidential elections began on Monday, October 21, in eight states in the country and most counties in Florida, including the most populated, where attention will be focused on a race for the Senate in Washington and an amendment constitutional on abortion.
Alaska, Arkansas, Connecticut, Idaho, North Dakota, South Carolina, Texas, and Miami-Dade, Broward and Monroe counties in southern Florida, which join Georgia, a key state that began early voting last week. last week and already broke a participation record.
More than 60 voting centers opened their doors from 7:00 am (Venezuela time) in Miami-Dade and Broward counties. These centers will remain operational until Sunday, November 3
The Argentine journalist and writer Martín Caparrós revealed that he has been suffering from Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) for more than two years, a degenerative disease.
Caparrós indicated that on October 24, his memoirs First of all, in which he speaks for the first time about his illness. In an interview with the Spanish newspaper The Vanguard He expressed that he had not talked about the condition even with his friends, since he did not want them to see him “as a dying man.”
“Scientists don’t even understand how that biological process works. What they do know is that life expectancy is 3 to 5 years. At some point, you have trouble breathing or even speaking and you die. Which is not bad, because that’s how they tolerate certain things, like eating all the chocolate you want,” he said.
7. Neymar returns to play after recovering from an injury for a year
Brazilian forward Neymar, a player for Saudi Al Hilal, returned to the playing field on Monday, October 21, after overcoming the serious knee injury that has kept him out for a year.
Neymar suffered a torn anterior cruciate ligament and meniscus in his left leg in the match that the Brazilian team played on October 17, 2023 against Uruguay. The footballer took to the field in the 77th minute of the Asian Champions League duel that pitted the Saudi team against Al Ain of the United Arab Emirates, reported the EFE news agency.
The Brazilian attacker, who turned 32 years old in February, had time to test the Al Ain goalkeeper. Neymar made a cross shot that narrowly missed after a quick combination with Serbian Aleksandar Mitrovic.
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The advisor for international affairs of the Brazilian Government, former Foreign Minister Celso Amorim, declared himself against Venezuela’s entry into the BRICS group of emerging economies, of which Brazil, China and Russia, among others, are part.
“I do not defend the entry of Venezuela. I think we have to go slowly. There is no point in filling (the BRICS) with countries, otherwise a new G-77 will soon be created,” said the president’s advisor Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in statements to CNN Brazil.
Amorim, who met this Monday with the Brazilian president, convalescing after suffering a domestic accident, pointed out that the entry of new members to the forum “has to be very well studied” within a “polarized and multipolar” global context.
“You have to have a strategic conception of admissions. Remember that the world is experiencing wars with the potential to become world wars. So the admission criteria are more important than the country itself,” he said.
Asked about Venezuela, Foreign Minister Mauro Vieira, who heads the Brazilian delegation that will participate this week in the BRICS leaders’ summit in Kazan (Russia), told reporters that “all candidate countries have options.” to be part of the group.
Among the States that publicly expressed their interest in joining the forum, currently made up of nine countries, are Cuba, Venezuela, Turkey, Azerbaijan and Malaysia, among others.
Brazil and Venezuela have distanced themselves from the elections held in the Caribbean country on July 28, in which the Venezuelan electoral authorities declared President Nicolás Maduro victorious, a result questioned by the international community.
Lula has not recognized either Maduro’s victory or that of the opposition leader Edmundo González Urrutia, now exiled in Spain, and has insisted from the beginning on the publication of the electoral records in a disaggregated manner, something that the Venezuelan authorities have not done until now. moment.
The Brazilian progressive leader has tried without success to mediate between the parties, together with the president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, in favor of the disclosure of those minutes, which the opposition made public on the Internet with a result largely favorable to González Urrutia.
Brazil / EFE
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