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Budapest/Vienna/Brussels – It is Hungary’s “sovereign right” to expel imprisoned foreign smugglers. This was emphasized by the Hungarian ambassador in Austria, Andor Nagy, on the Hungarian InfoRadio on Wednesday. Nagy denied that he was summoned to the foreign office because of this, saying it was just a consultation. According to the diplomat, Austria complained that there was no prior consultation on the decision to release the smugglers.

CUBA

Seeking new trading partners and political allies since the invasion of Ukraine, Russia is getting ever closer to Cuba. Greater proximity might also be beneficial to the island, which, in the grip of its worst economic crisis since the fall of the Soviet bloc, is in dire need of investment.

Since the beginning of 2023, the visits of high Russian representatives have followed one another on the island. After Security Adviser Nikolai Patrushev and the CEO of the state oil company Rosneft in March, the head of diplomacy, Sergei Lavrov, visited Cuba in April.

Havana also welcomed Vladimir Putin’s Economic Advisor, Maxim Orechkin, the representative of Russian entrepreneurs to the Kremlin, Boris Titov, as well as Deputy Prime Minister Dimitri Chernychenko.

The latter presented a few days ago in Havana a “roadmap” to accelerate cooperation with Cuba while representatives of regarding fifty Russian companies were on the island to explore investment opportunities.

(Agence France-Presse, Guyana’s capital, George Town, 23rd) A fire broke out in a school dormitory in central Guyana over the weekend, killing 19 minors. Government sources revealed today that the tragedy arose when a schoolgirl complained that her mobile phone had been confiscated.

“A schoolgirl was suspected of starting the devastating fire following her mobile phone was confiscated,” the police confirmed in an official report.

The teenage schoolgirl, who has confessed to the arson attack, is under police custody at a regional hospital in Mahdia town, officials said.

Police are seeking advice on whether to press charges once morest her, officials said.

The fire that broke out on the 21st destroyed a building where girls aged 11 and 12 and 16 and 17 lived.

In addition to the 19 people who were buried in the fire cave, regarding 20 children were sent to the hospital for treatment, and 2 of them were dying.

“They (staff) took the girl’s phone away and the girl threatened to burn down the building that night and everyone heard it,” said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

Minutes later, the girl entered the bathroom, sprayed insecticide on one of the curtains and lit a match, government officials said.

A female tutor told the police that the dormitory would be locked at night. When the fire broke out, she panicked and mightn’t find the key to the front door. Metal bars were installed on the windows of the building to prevent students from running out. Police said there were 57 students in the dormitory at the time.