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...The UN COP29 summit to be hosted by Azerbaijan in mid-November has drawn critical attention for being held in yet another petro state, with a poor record on human rights....
...Meanwhile, María Susana Del Prado, who moved from Argentina in 2020, says Madrid isn’t just for the young....
...María Fernanda Carrascal, a lawmaker from Petro’s party, said that advancing reforms in this congressional term, which ends on June 20, would be difficult....
...In the 1950s, Maria Teresa de Filippis became the first woman to join an F1 race. Then in the '70s, Lella Lombardi competed in a dozen races and even won points....
...MARIA BERLINSKA: Very obvious that drones are a game-changer in this war. What we've seen since the full-scale invasion in February last year is a sort of explosion of creativity in this industry....
...“In Colombia, the truth is that we have never had a reform that was focused on making the people who have the most pay,” said María Fernanda Valdés, co-ordinator of economic affairs at Friedrich Ebert Stiftung...
...López Obrador and Petro’s criticisms of western arms shipments to Ukraine were praised by the Russian embassies in their respective countries....
...Pensioner Maria Flier said that almost all of her savings now go to groceries....
...Corruption charges levelled at Zelensky’s predecessor Petro Poroshenko are seen by western officials as politically motivated....
...Maria Zolkina, an expert at Kyiv’s Democratic Initiatives Foundation think-tank, said the US “to some extent exaggerates” the Russian threat, while Kyiv “partially underestimates it....
...It is there, at the headquarters of Afrigen Biologics and Vaccines, a South African start-up, that late one night in January a scientist walked into the office of Petro Terblanche, the company’s managing...
...The oligarch law also threatens to sideline Petro Poroshenko, a former president defeated by Zelensky in 2019, who now as an MP leads a top opposition party....
...“This will polarise the country even more,” said Maria Jimena Duzan, a columnist for Semana magazine....
...Finance minister María Antonieta Alva’s spending package was among the region’s biggest in proportion to the size of the economy and included cash payments to help the poorest....
...Another resident, 78-year-old Maria, said her entire family would vote for Mr Zelensky’s party. “Current lawmakers are not worthy of our Volodymyr, not a single one of them,” she said....
...Lawmakers adopted the legislation on Thursday, before the end of outgoing Ukrainian president Petro Poroschenko’s term next month....
...“It is terrifying even to talk about a mirrored response, because an attempt to mirror what is happening in Kiev could lead to insanity,” foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said....
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...Unlike Mr Petro, he is open to fracking, which could extend the life of Colombia’s extractive industries....
...Maria Zakharova, spokeswoman of Russia’s foreign ministry, blasted the EU members’ moves as a “perverted approach to solidarity” with the UK....
...The human toll of Hurricane Maria on Puerto Rico may have been far higher than official data recognises....
...Voronenkov took up Ukrainian citizenship after he and his wife, fellow lawmaker Maria Maksakova, fled to Ukraine last year....
...de la Mare on Tuesday’s top stories: Michael Bloomberg decides not to run for president, the BoE acts to protect the banking system in the event of Brexit and Nike suspends its contract with tennis star Maria...
...Welcome to the curious incident of the NY Times interview with someone purporting to be Petro Poroshenko, Ukraine’s president....
...“Of course he betrayed us,” said Maria Farou, a 19 year-old student in Athens. “I was very angry. And I still am.”...
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