The Greek Minister of Labor, Adonis Georgiadis, attacked his Spanish counterpart, Yolanda Díaz, this Sunday, after her criticism of the new Greek labor law.

“Dear Mrs. Díaz may wish to ask us for some advice on how to reduce unemployment in her country, which unfortunately is now her champion,” Georgiadis said in a post on X (formerly Twitter).

Last Friday, the conservative Greek government approved a rule that allows companies to impose a sixth working day and vary employee schedules to adapt them to production needs.

The reform allows workers to voluntarily have a second job, for a maximum of five hours a day, alongside their main activity of eight hours a day, something that is not regulated in Spain.

This did not stop Yolanda Díaz from criticizing the Greek law: “Very concerned about this news that comes from Greece. This is the path of involution,” he said.

The comment did not sit well in Athens and this Sunday, they took full revenge, remembering that unemployment data is worse in Spain than in Greece.

“We received Greece in a much worse situation than Spain and today we are in a much better situation than it,” said Georgiadis, who described Díaz as “the new iron lady of Podemos.”

“Your mention gives me the opportunity to demonstrate our great ideological and political superiority with irrefutable evidence.”. Politics is applied art, not theory,” concluded the Greek minister.

The President of France, Emmanuel Macron, announced this Sunday “an orderly departure by the end of the year” of the French military contingent in Niger, estimated at around 1,500 soldiers, due to the coup d'état that overthrew President Mohamed Bazoum in July and put a military junta at the head of the country.

In an interview with TF1 and France 2, Macron noted that France will be “always available” to help Africa in the fight against jihadist terrorism, as long as it is at the request of democratically elected governments or regional organizations.

“France-Africa is over (a geopolitical concept that reflected the influence of Paris in its former African colonies), when there are coups d'état we do not intervene,” he asserted.

Since 2022, Niger has hosted a good part of the remaining troops of the French anti-jihadist operation Barkhane, which had been transferred from Mali, where a military junta in power allied with Russia flatly rejected the French presence in its territory.

“We have been there because Niger asked us, Burkina Faso, Mali, to help them fight terrorism in their territories. Today those countries have been victims of coups d'état. “Just today I spoke with President Bazoum, who is now detained because he was carrying out ambitious reforms,” Macron explained.

France, he added, “has decided to put an end to military cooperation with Niger”. The French head of state announced that in “the next few hours” the French ambassador in Niger “will return” to Paris.

The French contingent in Niger, a country in which France also has economic interests in uranium, is distributed in the capital, Niamey, in Ouallam, to the north, and in Ayorou, near the border with Mali.

The president of Russia, Vladimir Putin, is very jealous of his privacy, but from time to time leaks occur about the details of the Russian autocrat's personal life.

The British writer Ben Judah has published a book where he reveals some of these secrets. For example, those that have to do with Putin's routines when he gets up.

The first thing the Russian president does as soon as he gets up is swim for two hours. It is during this exercise that you take the opportunity to think about your important issues and strategies.

While many world leaders are known to be early risers, the same cannot be said for Putin, who, Judah writes, doesn't get up until noon.

His favorite breakfast is quail eggs with freshly squeezed juice and coffee, writes Judah. On the other hand, the president's meals are previously tasted by a food tester, for fear of being poisoned.

After the two hours of swimming, Putin sometimes also performs routines in the gym. A few hours pass before Putin finally arrives at work, and members of his team carry paper reports to his desk, where there is no computer.

Putin conducts his affairs on paper arranged in red files for fear of cyberattacks, and makes his phone calls on Soviet-era telephones.

The overlord then turns his attention to the news of the day and specifically enjoys reading a specific column about him written by Andrey Kolesnikov in the Russian newspaper Kommersant.

“He is obsessed with information,” writes Judah. “The thicker, fatter folders you ask for are not intelligence reports: they are press clippings,” he says.

“Your hands first open the compendium of the Russian press. The most important newspapers are in front: the obsequious national tabloids. These are the most important, with their millions of readers,” he concludes.

A team of scientists led by a Japanese pharmaceutical startup has been working on a drug to stimulate the growth of new teeth in what would be a world first, with the aim of commercializing it around 2030.

The Kyoto University-funded company Toregem Biopharma is expected to begin clinical trials in healthy adults around July 2024 to confirm the drug's safety, after the team managed to grow new teeth in mice in 2018, according to The Kyodo agency has reported.

Most people have “tooth buds” that have the potential to grow into a new tooth in addition to baby and permanent teeth, although buds usually do not develop and subsequently disappear.

The team has created an antibody drug that inhibits the protein that suppresses tooth growth, acting on these buds and stimulating their growth.

In 2018, the team gave the drug to ferrets, which have baby and permanent teeth similar to those of humans, and they grew new teeth.

The team plans to conduct a clinical trial of the drug starting in 2025 in children ages 2 to 6 with anodontia who are born without some or all of their permanent teeth.. Children will be injected with a dose to induce the growth of their teeth.

“Missing teeth in a child can affect jaw bone development,” said Katsu Takahashi, co-founder of Toregem Biopharma and head of dentistry and oral surgery at Kitano Hospital in Osaka.

There are also hopes of using the drug in the future for adults who have lost teeth due to cavities.. “We hope that the drug will serve as a key to solving these problems,” added Takahashi.

Pope Francis went this Sunday by surprise to the funeral chapel of the former president of the Italian Republic, Giorgio Napolitano, who died this Friday at the age of 98, and prayed for a few moments standing before the coffin in the Senate in Rome.

The Argentine pontiff arrived at the Roman Madama Palace, seat of the Upper House, aboard a car and entered the funeral chapel sitting in a wheelchair due to his knee problems.

Once inside, Francis stood up and first offered his condolences to the widowed wife, Clio Bittoni, and her family, and then prayed for a few minutes before the coffin, covered by an austere Italian flag and with the presidential necklace on it. a cushion.

The Pope's arrival at the funeral had not been announced by the Holy See and he was welcomed by the president of the Senate, Ignazio La Russa, among other political authorities.

Giorgio Napolitano, the first communist to hold the highest position in the State between 2006 and 2015, died this Friday afternoon at the age of 98 at the “Salvator Mundi” clinic in Rome.

After his death, the Pope sent a telegram of condolences to his family in which he defined the politician as a “statesman” of “great intellectual gifts” and “animated by the search for the common good.”

And he expressed his “shock” and memories of the meetings held with him, since Francisco was elected in 2013 while Napoliano served as president of the Italian Republic.

After praying before the coffin, Francis left the funeral chapel and the Senate, but not before signing the book of condolences for the family.

The funeral chapel in the Senate will last until this Monday, at 4:00 p.m. local time (2:00 p.m. GMT), and this Tuesday a secular State funeral will take place in the Chamber of Deputies.

This Sunday the far-right Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni passed through the funeral chapel, but for the moment no other representatives of the Government have attended.

There was no bathroom. An LED light on the ceiling was on 24 hours a day and if I wanted to go to the bathroom I had to call an intercom: 'Please, toilet' and the guards laughed,” he explained in an audio that he managed to send to a friend and to which he had access. the COPE Chain.

Can you imagine Iker Jiménez giving a talk about “his mysteries” in a commission of the Congress of Deputies? Something like this has happened in Mexico. On the 12th, a ufologist presented allegedly “non-human” bodies in the Chamber of Deputies of Mexico City. It was during the so-called Public Hearing on Unidentified Anomalous Aerial Phenomena (FANI), with the aim of establishing legislation in this regard.

“We are going to show non-human bodies, which are part of our evolution.”

That ufologist is Jaime Maussan. That day, before some deputies, he presumed that the two bodies shown were more than 1,000 years old, according to research carried out by the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).. “We are going to show non-human bodies, which are part of our evolution, according to the test carried out by the UNAM, these beings are more than a thousand years old,” said the journalist.

Hours later, the Physics Institute of the UNAM itself denied him. Those responsible rejected that based on their studies it can be asserted that the two dissected bodies that Maussan showed belong to extraterrestrials.

Later, it was learned that the mummies were assembled in 2017 with remains of mummies from ancient Peru, to be sold on the black market.. In his defense, Maussan told Peru's Canal N that a person who obtained the bodies “requested anonymity” and preferred not to reveal the details of the discovery.

According to the Peruvian authorities, these are bodies that, in reality, were already discovered in the country in 2017 and that after analysis it was determined that they were “dolls” that had been manufactured. Maussan would have taken these “pre-Hispanic” objects without knowing it, sending them to a laboratory in Mexico. This has led to the initiation of a criminal investigation against him.

Cakes, memes and piñatas

In Mexico, the matter has been taken with humor. Cakes in the shape of extraterrestrial mummies have appeared and the “tamaliens” have gone viral. Maussan himself already has his own piñata, one of the most typical elements of celebrations in Mexico. Hand in hand with some and other things, the slogan “I do believe you” has also spread, applied to the ufologist.

And Jaime Maussan is very famous in the country; what has been said, something like our Iker Jiménez. Precisely, Maussan was at the start of the 'Horizonte' season, on Cuatro. The presenter and director of Cuarto Milenio interviewed Maussan live:

'Horizonte' experts explained the “fraud” of the alien mummies from Mexico. As we saw before, they are actually made from children's remains.

A television personality

Born in Mexico City in 1953, he is a journalist, ufologist and, as his Wikipedia profile says, television personality. And it is, because his program “Tercer Milenio” is a classic of Mexican television. It has been broadcast since 1997 and is still on the air.

His program “Tercer Milenio” has been broadcast in Mexico since 1997 and is still on the air

Before, he studied journalism at UNAM and at the University of Miami in Ohio (USA).. He began working as a journalist in the 70s. He went through El Sol de México, La Afificación, Telesistemamexicano or the radio channel 24 Horas W Radio.

In 1973 he joined Jacobo Zabludovsky's program “Today Saturday” as a reporter.. The following year and until 1976 he was a correspondent for Televisa in the United States.. He returned to Mexico and worked with Zabludovsky on “Domingo a Domingo.”

At that time Maussan was still a journalist fond of facts. He even won an Ondas Award. It was in 1979 for one of his works on nature and the environment.. It was titled, 'Monarch, Queen of Butterflies'.

The alien who was a child

In the 80s and until the 90s he became a reporter for the Televisa program “60 minutes”, of which he later became head of information and general director.. It was then that he began to deal with the UFO phenomenon.. And so comes, in 1997, Tercer Milenio, of which he has been director and producer and presenter.

From that time his “research” of the Nazca mummies is famous.. In June 2017, he showed the mummified body in a crouching position of a humanoid figure with an elongated skull and three fingers on each hand and foot.. He was supposedly an alien.. However, later, the mummified corpse was proven to be that of a human child.

In reality, Maussan's record is full of “traps”. In 1996 he presented the bearer of a supposedly extraterrestrial object. It was a strange bracelet capable of teleporting whoever wore it.. The ufologist interviewed Jonathan Reed, the person who said he found a being from another world during a walk in the forest, beat him and took him home. The supposed evidence was the bracelet. Years later, a Maussan collaborator recognized that everything was a fraud.

And the Virgin spoke to him

Maussan believes in extraterrestrials and also in the Virgin of Guadalupe. During a recent interview, in the program 'The minute that changed my destiny', he explained that in the past he received a message from this Virgin. He said that his family adopted Catholicism after facing a difficult situation with his father and that this had a great influence on him.

He hit me in the back of my head. She told me 'what do you want from me?', as if vigorous and a little angry.”

The ufologist stated that in 1991 the Virgin spoke to him. “There was a very profound moment. A very intense voice that hit me in the back of my head. It said 'what do you want from me?', as if vigorous and a little angry. I was very scared. I didn't imagine it. “I know it was real,” Maussan said.

In 2019, after 46 years at Televisa, the journalist left for his main competition, TV Azteca. Already this 2023 he announced his return to Televisa, with “Jaime Maussan Presenta”.

On the map, beyond Turkey, further east, there is Armenia and a little further, Azerbaijan. Between these last two countries stands Upper Karabakh or Nagorno Karabakh, a conflictive region belonging, de jure, to Azerbaijan but controlled de facto for the most part by the government of Artsakh, that is, by the separatists of Nagorno Karabakh.

They have been at war since 1988. Azerbaijan launched a military operation against the self-proclaimed republic last Tuesday, but suspended it on Wednesday after the authorities of the separatist territory accepted a ceasefire proposal made by Russia.. Just a few hours, but according to human rights officials cited by Reuters, 200 people died and another 400 were injured.

Artsakh, between Armenia and Azerbaijan

Artsakh, officially called the Republic of Artsakh or the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, controls part of the region. But those territories, close to the border with Armenia, are internationally recognized as part of Azerbaijan.

The borders between Armenia and Azerbaijan were already the subject of controversy when both countries gained independence from the Russian Empire in 1918, particularly Nagorno-Karabakh, an area of great ethnic diversity.. Although both states later became part of the Soviet Union, the controversy continued. In practice, the Nagorno-Karabakh area remained within the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic since 1923.

Why does Artsakh want independence?

We are facing a conflict of ethnic origin. The population of Nagorno-Karabakh is almost entirely made up of Armenians: today there are about 120,000. That is why they have sought their independence. But the population of Azeri origin accuses the independence supporters of having been expelled.

When the USSR dissolved in the late 1980s, the conflict arose again. The controversy between Armenia and Azerbaijan was still there. On December 10, 1991, the region's ethnic Armenian population self-proclaimed the territory as an independent republic, with the capital in Stepanakert.. As a consequence, between 1991 and 1994 Armenia and Azerbaijan faced each other in the Nagorno-Karabakh war.

Declaration of independence and war

After the armed confrontation, the Republic of Artsakh controlled a large majority of the territory of the former Soviet autonomous oblast along with an important part of the surrounding regions in Azerbaijan territory that were not in dispute.

For three decades there were multiple violations of the ceasefire by Azerbaijan, the most serious being the clashes in 2016 and July 2020.. That year the tensions increased, ending in the second Nagorno-Karabakh war.

It took place between September 27 and November 10 of that year. A humanitarian ceasefire was agreed in October. Armenia and Azerbaijan accused each other of shelling civilian settlements before the ceasefire, and both sides denied the other's accusations.

As a former “colonial” power, Putin's Russia has attempted to mediate the conflict. On November 9, 2020, following the capture of Shusha, the second largest city in Artsakh before the war, the president of Azerbaijan, the prime minister of Armenia and the Russian president signed a ceasefire agreement, ending all hostilities. The president of Artsakh accepted the agreement.

On December 15, 2020, after several weeks of ceasefire, the parties finally exchanged prisoners. This second war had been won by Azerbaijan, which recovered a large part of the territories, reducing Artsakh to the immediate surroundings of the capital and some other cities.

Blockade and humanitarian crisis

To access the rebel territory, the Lachín corridor was created, the only road that connects the enclave with Armenia.. Its supervision has been the work of the Russian Army on a peace mission. But it only worked for two years.. In December 2022, Azerbaijan-backed activists blocked the corridor. The blockade, which lasted 9 months, increased tensions, the number of skirmishes and caused a humanitarian crisis in the region.

Last Tuesday, Azerbaijan began what it called an “anti-terrorist” campaign against separatist forces.. He justified it by the death of six people in the explosion of several mines placed by alleged Armenian “saboteurs”. The cessation of hostilities came 24 hours after the Azerbaijani military began bombing Nagorno-Karabakh in order to restore what Azerbaijan calls “constitutional order.”

A lightning victory was followed by a ceasefire proposal made by Russian peacekeepers. The balance, at least 200 dead and 400 injured. Among the dead are at least ten civilians and among them, five children. Among the injured, 40 civilians were injured.. Azerbaijan hopes that the territory will come under its authority.

Who recognizes the rebellious republic?

The Republic of Artsakh has been barely recognized. The territory claimed by Azerbaijan is supported by three unrecognized states: Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Transnistria.. The autonomous government is supported by Armenia, but is not officially recognized by this country or any other.

Several nations and the United Nations have strongly condemned the conflict and called on both sides to reduce tensions and resume negotiations for a lasting peace. Countries such as Afghanistan, Pakistan and Türkiye have expressed their support for Azerbaijan. The latter has provided extensive military support to the Azerbaijani government.

Oleksandra Matviichuk (Kiev, 1983) is a 2022 Nobel Peace Prize winner, but above all she is a Ukrainian human rights lawyer and civil society leader, who also directs the non-profit organization Center for Civil Liberties (CCL, its acronym in English). This week he traveled to Brussels and there he analyzed for 20 minutes the details of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the future of his country and, above all, the traces that the conflict can leave on society.

Victory for Ukrainians does not only imply that Russia leaves our territory, but it also has to do with succeeding in the country's democratic transition.

A large demonstration this Saturday in London called for the return of the United Kingdom to the EU in the National March for Reentry (MNR), whose organizers describe Brexit as a “big mistake.”

Most of the attendees gathered on Park Lane wore the blue and yellow colors of the EU flag. They then marched through the center of the capital to Parliament Square, reports the British news agency The Press Association.

The leader and co-founder of the MNR is a Derby lorry driver, Peter Corr. Corr himself has explained that it is all because he “felt as if everyone had given up” among EU supporters.. “Brexit has been a big mistake. “We are all paying for it, especially the working class and the poorest, and we have to do something about it,” he argued.

60% of the country and 80% of those under 25 support re-entering the EU, according to surveys cited by Corr. “I hate racism and xenophobia and it seems to me that the Brexit campaign was largely that,” he added.

Another of the speakers, Ceira Sergeant, 21 years old and living in Liverpool, recalled that she was 14 years old when the referendum was voted, so “there are many people who did not even have the option of being heard.”

The protesters carried banners with slogans such as “The path to reentry begins here”, “Reentry, rejoice” or “Conservatives out. Migrants welcome. Re-entry into the EU”.