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2022-01-28T10:58:31.090Z


The 5 things you should know this 5 things January 28: How does the tension in Ukraine affect Latin America?


Latin America has less than 30% of women in ministerial positions: why is parity in government important?

Biden is committed to appointing the first black female Supreme Court justice.

This is what you need to know to start the day

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Drums of war are sounding in Ukraine: how can this affect the countries of Latin America?

A series of trenches run through eastern Ukraine: there, Ukrainian troops await a possible Russian attack that has been talked about for months.

And in front of them, in almost identical trenches, await the Moscow-backed separatists against whom they have been fighting for more than seven years.

The escalation is underway and the drums of war are deafening, although there are several negotiations and the parties assure that they do not want to reach an open war.

But how could this affect the countries of Latin America?

  • US, NATO security responses are not enough for Russia, says Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov

  • What is NATO and when does it act?

  • Ukrainians and Latinos living in Europe: We are worried about an imminent war


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Why is the mechanism to protect journalists in Mexico failing?

The murder of three journalists so far in 2022 once again brings into focus the effectiveness of the protection program for communicators in Mexico, considered one of the deadliest countries in the world to practice journalism.

Why has the public policy that seeks to guarantee the protection of journalists not served to prevent these crimes?

  • Anxiety and anger take over the press in Mexico after wave of murders of journalists

Journalist Lourdes Maldonado is murdered in Tijuana, Mexico 0:30

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Moderna begins the next phase of the trial for the specific reinforcement against omicron

Moderna announced that the first participant received a dose in the company's phase 2 clinical trial of a COVID-19 booster vaccine that is specific for the omicron variant.

  • Should you expect an omicron-specific booster shot?

    This is how a doctor responds

How does omicron affect aviation and restaurants in the US?

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Latin America has less than 30% of women in ministerial positions

The election of Chile's new president, Gabriel Boric, came with a promise of change: higher political parity with a cabinet whose majority are women.

Now that in Chile there will be a cabinet with more women and that for the first time there is a female president in Honduras, we take a look at the panorama in the governments of the region.

Women will be the majority in Boric's cabinet in Chile 3:52

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Biden commits to appointing the first black female Supreme Court justice

US President Joe Biden has pledged to appoint the first black female Supreme Court justice following the retirement of Justice Stephen Breyer.

“The person I will appoint will be someone with extraordinary qualifications, character, experience and integrity.

And that person will be the first black woman appointed to the Supreme Court of the United States,” Biden said.

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This is how a US Supreme Court Justice is elected. 2:34

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Statue of Kobe and Gianna Bryant put up at crash site on second anniversary of their deaths

A bronze statue of NBA legend Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gianna was placed at the crash site in Calabasas, California, where the Bryants and seven others died.

They remember Kobe Bryant and his daughter with a statue 0:42

Novak Djokovic is scheduled to return to the professional courts in Dubai at the end of February.

The organizers of the ATP 500 Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships confirmed this Thursday that the Serb has entered the tournament that begins on Monday, February 21.

Is Djokovic at risk of losing his sponsors?

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Meet 190-year-old Jonathan, the world's oldest tortoise

When the giant tortoise Jonathan was born, Queen Victoria was just a teenager.

40 endangered turtles return to the ocean 0:44

Spotify Says It Will Pull Neil Young's Music

A day after the musician expressed in a now-deleted post on his official website that he no longer wanted his music on the platform because of its connection to divisive podcast host Joe Rogan's comments on Covid-19 vaccines, the company says it complied with Young's request.

Avoiding 'time warping' of life in space could help astronauts thrive on Mars

Since the pandemic began, the arrival of each new year feels like a "let's do time travel again" reprise of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show."

Now, imagine that you lived in space.

Water on Mars flowed for longer than believed 1:29

The number of the day

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Do you want to work legally in the United States?

The US Government announces the availability of an additional 20,000 H-2B visas

The US needs workers and will offer 20,000 visas 0:38

quote of the day

"It is a deep cut for the Church"

A senior cleric in Germany's Catholic Church said Thursday that the report of historic sexual abuse in the Munich archdiocese is "a deep cut for the Church."


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14 Valentine's Day Gifts For Her That We Know She'll Love

Are you already looking for something special for this Valentine's Day?

Here are ideas you can order online.

And to finish...

Unmissable aerial images of Beijing one week before the start of the Winter Olympics

There is little left for the start of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics and a tour through the air shows the spectacular nature of the different venues that will receive nearly 3,000 athletes.

The Games will take place between February 4 and 20.

This is what the Olympic venues look like from the air 0:54

Source: cnnespanol

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