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La seguridad ha desplazado a la economía en el centro de la política latinoamericana. La creciente insatisfacción social y el avance sin tregua de la criminalidad ha empujado a los candidatos presidenciales a abandonar el tradicional debate sobre reformas, crecimiento y desarrollo para colocar el control territorial, el despliegue policial y la lucha contra el crimen organizado como prioridades de gobierno, según se concluye del Informe de Economía Latinoamericana, publicado este martes por el Banco de España.
Ukraine holds personal data on each of the nearly 46,000 foreigners it has identified as signing with Russia’s army since 2022, Dmytro Usov, secretary of its prisoner-of-war coordination headquarters, said on 19 October. If the current pace holds, he expects this year’s contracts to reach Moscow’s plan. Meanwhile, a survey of captured foreigners gave a split answer on how many knew they were heading to war.
Usov said 41% of surveyed foreign POWs signed at enlistment offices and recruitment points, which the headquarters reads as a sign of a systematic campaign. He also said the hiring is meant to ease the social and budget burden of Russia’s own losses. Russia has long turned to foreigners to offset shortages in its regular forces. In April, Ukraine’s military intelligence (HUR) said enlistment offices had reportedly been assigned regional quotas.
Usov, a brigadier general and secretary of Ukraine’s Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War, spoke at the international conference Crimea Global. He said Russia’s Defense Ministry has signed 45,959 foreigners from 151 countries. Ukraine’s records include each one’s rank, dog tag, and contract date.
The figure counts everyone who signed, not only those serving now. In April, Usov said his count left out North Korea’s regular troops, that 25–30% more recruits were likely still unidentified, and that at least 5,149 foreign recruits had died, Interfax-Ukraine reported.
Contracts have grown every year: 94 in 2022, 4,067 in 2023, 8,877 in 2024, and 16,085 in 2025. Some names surface late. At the same April event, Interfax-Ukraine reported, Usov had put 2025 at 13,997 and said the headquarters adds newly identified foreigners every month.
For 2026, Russia’s Defense Ministry planned 18,500 foreign contracts. Ukraine knows of 16,168 so far, roughly level with all of 2025. Another 668 contracts still have no year assigned. If the same dynamic holds, Usov said, the ministry will fully meet its plan and may even exceed it.
He named Indonesia, Peru, Chad, and Zimbabwe among the ten countries that drove the growth in recruits, Ukrinform reported. At the same time, he said, Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry and POW agencies have cut recruitment in some countries and stopped it in others.
Ukrainian forces have captured citizens of 59 countries since the full-scale invasion began. Uzbeks, Tajiks, Belarusians, and Colombians are among the largest groups.
In the headquarters’ survey of foreign POWs, nearly half said they knew they would fight Ukrainian soldiers and civilians. Another 28% said they didn’t know, 14.8% weren’t sure, and 13.8% said they were deceived. The headquarters ran the survey, and neither report gave a sample size or explained how the shares fit together. Usov said the results showed most knew where they were going. Almost 47% said they signed up for Russian citizenship.
O Ministério da Agricultura e Pecuária (Mapa) confirmou o registro de um foco da doença de Newcastle em um estabelecimento de avicultura comercial de corte de perus no município de Nova Itaberaba, em Santa Catarina. A existência do foco foi confirmada no domingo (18).
O ministério informou que o estabelecimento foi interditado pelo Serviço Veterinário Oficial de Santa Catarina, com a suspensão da movimentação de aves. Além disso, a pasta esclareceu que medidas de controle, contenção e erradicação do foco serão executadas conforme as diretrizes do Plano de Contingência para Influenza Aviária e Doença de Newcastle.
A doença de Newcastle afeta aves domésticas e silvestres e é causada por vírus virulento do paramixovírus aviário do sorotipo 1 (APMV-1), conforme os critérios estabelecidos pela Organização Mundial de Saúde Animal (OMSA).
A ocorrência foi identificada durante investigação epidemiológica conduzida pelo Serviço Veterinário Oficial de Santa Catarina e confirmada por análise realizada no Laboratório Federal de Defesa Agropecuária de São Paulo (LFDA-SP).
O laboratório é reconhecido pela OMSA como de referência internacional para o diagnóstico da doença.
“O Mapa ressalta que, apesar da necessidade de adoção de medidas sanitárias para controlar a ocorrência, o consumo de produtos avícolas submetidos à inspeção oficial permanece seguro, sem contraindicações”, disse o ministério.
O governo informou que notificou a OMSA e aos parceiros comerciais do Brasil, em cumprimento aos compromissos internacionais de transparência sanitária.
O secretário-substituto de Comércio e Relações Internacionais do ministério, Rafael Requião, disse que não recebeu qualquer informação sobre a suspensão das exportações brasileiras por conta do foco da doença.
"Ainda não temos nada objetivo a informar [sobre suspensão de exportações]", afirmou.
Papa Leone XIV potrà affrontare il viaggio in America Latina programmato dal 6 al 17 novembre. A rassicurare sulle condizioni del Pontefice, dimesso dopo cinque giorni di ricovero al Policlinico Gemelli per l’asportazione di un tumore maligno al polmone destro, è Stefano Margaritora, il chirurgo che lo ha operato e che nella foto si vede proprio dietro le sue spalle. “Direi che non ci sono motivi clinici per cui” il viaggio “non venga fatto”, ha spiegato ai media vaticani, indicando nella ripresa post-operatoria un elemento favorevole in vista dell’impegnativa trasferta. Secondo il medico, per il pieno recupero saranno sufficienti ancora una decina di giorni. “Trattandolo come una persona normale, dopo questi tipi di intervento, penso che un paio di settimane per una ripresa fisica veramente completa ci vogliono. Quindi, essendo già quasi passata una settimana, tutto sommato io credo che il Papa in un’altra decina di giorni possa essere pienamente recuperato”, ha dichiarato Margaritora.
Il chirurgo ha descritto il Pontefice come un paziente particolarmente collaborativo, capace di affrontare il percorso di cura con serenità e determinazione. “Papa Leone è stato un paziente ideale. Non lo dico per piaggeria, ma è stato veramente un paziente che non ha dato alcun minimo problema all’équipe che si occupava di lui, e non l’avrebbe dato neanche se si fosse chiamato Mario Bianchi”. Sempre sorridente e poco incline a lamentarsi, ha seguito le indicazioni dei medici sia sul piano alimentare sia su quello della fisioterapia.
La volontà di recuperare rapidamente, ha raccontato Margaritora, si è manifestata anche in un episodio avvenuto nella cappella durante la degenza. “Nella seconda giornata dopo l’operazione, ci siamo girati e stava sistemando lui le sedie nella Cappella. Noi gli abbiamo detto: ‘Santo Padre, ci siamo noi’. E lui: ‘Non importa, riesco a farlo, lo faccio'”. Un atteggiamento che, per il chirurgo, testimonia la motivazione con cui Leone XIV ha affrontato la riabilitazione: “La sua volontà di avere una ripresa in tempi molto rapidi è molto efficace da tutti i punti di vista: è stata veramente encomiabile”.
L’intervento, ha precisato lo specialista, è stato di routine dal punto di vista chirurgico. Nel caso di un tumore polmonare di determinate dimensioni, la procedura prevede l’asportazione del lobo che contiene la lesione. Per il Pontefice è stato rimosso il lobo inferiore del polmone destro. La scoperta della malattia, ha aggiunto Margaritora, è avvenuta casualmente durante alcuni esami di routine all’addome. Le immagini avevano evidenziato una piccola macchia alle basi polmonari. “Questo è abbastanza normale, perché quando si fanno degli esami radiologici all’addome, dato che il diaframma è una specie di paracadute, si visualizzano normalmente le basi polmonari”. Se la lesione fosse stata localizzata più in alto, ha osservato il chirurgo, avrebbe potuto non essere individuata in quella fase: “Ma certamente, se questa piccola macchia fosse stata un pochino più alta, non sarebbe stata vista”.
L'articolo Papa Leone XIV, via libera al viaggio in Sudamerica. Il chirurgo che lo ha operato: “Non ci sono motivi per cui non venga fatto” proviene da Il Fatto Quotidiano.
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Overnight, the atmosphere at the Vatican has shifted and the future has become more uncertain. The news of Pope Leo XIV’s cancerous tumor has caused devastation, just 17 months after his election in May 2025, at a time when, at 71 and in good physical condition, he was thought likely to remain pope for many years. “We thought we had a pope for 20 years and now it’s no longer clear; this changes everything in the Curia, all the dynamics,” a prelate admits.
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It is as though the walls of his office were almost covered by the dead branches of a tree. Floor-to-ceiling shelves are packed with folders, their once-red and green covers faded by time. Inside are dozens of tropical dried plant specimens, tied with string alongside pages of notes. To most people, the mass of documentation would look like a pile of leaves fallen from the sky, but José Luis Fernández-Alonso knows exactly where everything is in his small jungle.
The Dictionary of the Spanish Language explains that a geoglyph is a “large figure on slopes or in wide plains, carved directly into the ground or made with stones, especially by prehistoric peoples.” Of all those located worldwide, the most famous are the Nazca lines (Peru), which have been declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site. They are visible only from surrounding mountains or from the air, which gives them an aura of mystery. Now, a group of researchers from Argentina and Spain will study a structure that could be a geoglyph discovered last year at about 3,000 meters above sea level in the Tigre mountain range (Argentina) and which was found by mountaineer Carlos Gobbi while consulting Google Earth. A joint expedition will attempt to examine it in situ in December.
This is the driest year on record in Tegucigalpa. Eighty percent of Honduran territory is on red alert, and the capital has had a potable water rationing system every 12 days for a month. The lack of rain is making maize and bean crops in Guatemala — the main food source in a country with the region’s highest rate of chronic child malnutrition — even more vulnerable. The Panama Canal has begun restricting vessel traffic because of water stress in the basin, and the parched Amazon rivers are isolating dozens of riverside communities in Brazil and hampering fishermen’s work.
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The EU welcomes Cambodia’s decision to join the Multi-party Interim Appeal Arbitration Arrangement (MPIA) for WTO members, contributing to efforts to uphold a rules-based multilateral trading system.
With Cambodia’s participation, the MPIA now covers 62 World Trade Organization (WTO) members and 60.4% of world trade.
The MPIA brings together participants from all continents and at different levels of development, united by a shared commitment to upholding the rules-based trading system.
The MPIA preserves the right to appeal in trade disputes among participating WTO members, at a time when the WTO’s Appellate Body remains non-functioning. It helps ensure that disputes can continue to be resolved in an orderly and binding manner, avoiding appeals 'into the void'.
“I welcome Cambodia to the MPIA. The arrangement plays an important role in upholding the rules-based trading system. Each new participant helps reinforce the predictability, stability and credibility of global trade rules. I encourage other WTO members to join the MPIA,” said EU Trade and Economic Security Commissioner Maroš Šefčovič.
The MPIA was established in 2020 and has proven its effectiveness in many WTO disputes.
Under the MPIA, appeals are heard by arbitrators randomly selected from a pool of 10 standing appeal arbitrators set up by the participating WTO members. These arbitrators are persons of recognised authority, with demonstrated expertise in law, international trade and WTO agreements.
The MPIA is open to all WTO members as a practical tool for appeal arbitration, pending the restoration of a reformed and fully functioning WTO dispute settlement system.
As of 1 June 2025, the MPIA has an updated pool of appeal arbitrators to ensure that appeals continue to be heard by independent arbitrators of the highest calibre.
At the WTO Ministerial Conference that took place earlier this year, MPIA ministers stressed the importance of the MPIA for the security and predictability of the multilateral trading system.
The current MPIA participants are Australia, Barbados, Benin, Brazil, Cambodia, Canada, China, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, the European Union (and its Member States), Guatemala, Hong Kong (China), Iceland, Japan, Liechtenstein, Macao (China), Malaysia, Mexico, Moldova, Montenegro, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Pakistan, Paraguay, Peru, the Philippines, Singapore, Switzerland, Ukraine, the United Kingdom, Uruguay and Vietnam.
MC14: Supporting the rules-based multilateral trading system: the role of the MPIA
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