More than 21,000 people joined the day of protest called this Wednesday in Peru, in which eight were injured in clashes with the National Police and six were arrested, according to the Interior Minister, Vicente Romero, at the end of the mobilization in Lima.

The “social cost” of the anti-government campaign has been “low”, as reported by the minister at a press conference. Romero clarified that some 6,000 people who demonstrated did so for reasons other than the call for this day, which responds to the request for the resignation of the president, Dina Boluarte, and the closure of Congress.

When taking stock of the mobilizations in Lima and several cities in the country, the minister affirmed that “it is becoming evident that the vast majority of the population wants to work.” “We should be proud. It is a clear sign that our country is taking another course, people want to work,” he added.

Romero reported that one of the detainees is a person who threw a Molotov cocktail at the Police in Lima. These bombs are “to attack and kill the Police, but the body reacted well and this has not happened,” said the authority.

He also mentioned that several protesters tried to set fire to the Prefecture premises in the southern Andean city of Huancavelica, but that the Police managed to control the fire and had no major consequences. He also explained that of the eight injured, half are police officers. “We regret and hope that they are not serious and that in the next few days they will be in good condition,” he added.

Meanwhile, the Ministry of Health reported that during the protest demonstrations on Wednesday, 11 attentions were reported, of which 4 affected were treated by the health brigades in downtown Lima and that 3 were evacuated to the Dos de Mayo Hospital and have already been discharged.. The majority of those treated present bruises and wounds in various parts of the body.

Collective protest actions took place this Wednesday in 64 provinces with mobilizations and blockades, while marches and rallies took place in 59 provinces of the country. The march that took place in Lima went to Congress, after breaking through the police siege, and then dispersed through various arteries of the capital, with several points of confrontation in which the Police used tear gas to remove the protesters from the historic center.

In Vilnius, at the conclusion of the Atlantic Alliance summit on the 12th, the Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, told reporters that Spain is going to substantially increase the presence of its soldiers on the “east flank” of NATO. So the combat battalion in Romania is going to send 250 more soldiers, and in Slovakia it is going to deploy another 700 soldiers with the ambition of leading a brigade in the region whose details will be designed in a Force Generation Conference held by the chiefs of staff.

These announcements have been formulated avoiding making any reference to article 17.1 of the Organic Law 5/2005 of National Defense, according to which “in order to order operations abroad that are not directly related to the defense of Spain or the national interest, the Government will carry out a prior consultation and obtain the authorization of the Congress of Deputies”.

Section 2 of that same article provides that in missions abroad that, in accordance with international commitments, require a quick or immediate response to certain situations, the prior consultation and authorization procedures will be carried out through emergency procedures that allow compliance with said commitments.. And still section 3 of the aforementioned article insists that in those cases when for reasons of utmost urgency it is not possible to carry out prior consultation, the Government will submit to the Congress of Deputies as soon as possible the decision that it has adopted so that it can be ratified, if applicable.

In other words, the decision to order operations abroad must be taken taking into account that:

1. It is not unipersonal of the president, but it is up to the Government to adopt it and it requires prior consultation and also to obtain the authorization of the Congress of Deputies.

2. If a quick or immediate response is required, due to international commitments, prior consultation and authorization from Congress will be processed through urgent procedures that allow them to be met.

3. If it were the case that reasons of the utmost urgency prevent prior consultation, the Government would submit to the Congress of Deputies the decision it had adopted as soon as possible so that, if applicable, it ratified it.

The call for general elections made by President Sánchez included, as is mandatory, the dissolution of the Chambers while a Permanent Deputation assumes its functions. However, we lack any news about the call of that Permanent Deputation whose agenda includes validating or rejecting Royal Decree-Law 5/2023, which must be processed within thirty days of its promulgation, that is, before July 28.. Nor do we know that it has been called to rule on the missions of the Armed Forces abroad to which President Sánchez mentioned on Wednesday the 12th in Vilnius.. Nor is there any known pronouncement from the loyal opposition headed by the Popular Party or by Sumar or subtract in such a relevant matter.. On the other hand, those who know it well assure me that these shipments of soldiers must be approved by the Government through a formal agreement in the month of December. We will see.

The state funeral of former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, who died on Monday at the age of 86, will gather today in the cathedral of Milan, his hometown, his family and friends, as well as national and European authorities, among other attendees .

The funeral will begin at 3:00 p.m. local time at the “Duomo” presided over by the Archbishop of Milan, Monsignor Mario Delpini, while the country lives a day of national mourning with flags at half mast as a sign of mourning.

The mortal remains of the tycoon, who died at the San Raffaele hospital in Milan due to leukemia, have been held in private for the past two days at his mansion in the nearby town of Arcore by his closest family, friends and associates.

The country's main representatives will participate in his funeral, such as the head of state, Sergio Mattarella, and Giorgia Meloni, prime minister of the coalition government of which Berlusconi's party, the conservative Forza Italia, is a part.

His girlfriend, the deputy Marta Fascina, his five children -Marina, Pier Silvio, Barbara, Eleonora and Luigi-, among other relatives, and the senior staff of his circle of trust and training will also attend.

In total, the Milan cathedral will accommodate some 1,800 attendees, according to the calculation made the day before by the organizers of the ceremony, which will have strict security measures.

Among the attendees, many well-known faces of Italian politics are expected, such as his friend the Vice President of the Government and ally, Matteo Salvini, and also rivals such as the secretary of the progressive Democratic Party, Elly Schlein, although there will also be some absences, such as that of Giuseppe Conte, former Prime Minister and leader of the M5S.

The European Commission will be represented by the Commissioner for the Economy and former Italian Prime Minister, Paolo Gentiloni, as the President of the Community Executive, Ursula von der Leyen, is on an official trip to Latin America.

The presence of the leader of the European People's Party, Manfred Weber, as well as politicians from the continent such as the Hungarian Prime Minister, Viktor Orban, is also expected, according to the media.

Other countries will be represented by ministers or other authorities, such as Spain, which will send the ambassador in Rome, Miguel Ángel Fernández-Palacios.

Thousands of followers and sympathizers are expected to gather on the huge esplanade that precedes the temple, up to 10,000 according to various media, who will be able to follow the liturgy from two giant screens.

State funerals in Italy are reserved for presidents of constitutional bodies, even after their mandate has expired, for ministers in the exercise of their functions or for personalities who have offered high services to the country.

Its celebration follows a strict protocol: the coffin must be transported by six officers of the Carabineros in full dress uniform and will receive military honors at the entrance and exit of the temple.

The decision of the right-wing government of Meloni to pay this high tribute to Berlusconi, as well as that of decreeing a day of national mourning, have received much criticism from some of his opponents.

They see him as “untimely” for being such a controversial politician, involved in sexual scandals, who had to perform community services in a nursing home for his conviction for tax fraud, accused of maintaining alleged links with Masonic lodges such as P2 and author of countless political tricks.

Russia has responded to the advances of the Ukrainian counteroffensive by launching a nightly missile attack against Odessa, Ukraine's third largest city and the country's main port.. The attack has left fatalities and extensive material damage. In addition, Russian troops have shelled Ukrainian positions in the Donetsk region, also causing at least six fatalities.

China has taken two hours away from Messi at the passport control at the Beijing airport. He was missing a piece of paper, the visa. They made him a special one but it took two hours.

Dictatorships, to imitate democracies, work with papers, visas, stamps, accreditations. If it's not you or similar, you don't enter. But Messi is the most famous and appreciated kid in the world. He doesn't mess with anyone. He sneaks the same in life as in area. He has left Paris Saint Germain and has signed for a team from Miami (United States). Inter Miami. Messi is world champion with Argentina. Messi and Argentina, World Champions. China is only champion of the Wuhan coronavirus, in that it is unbeatable. There the already forgotten virus was born. Whether it's from the Wuhan lab or a twisty bat, the virus is a total Chinese export. There is no comparison between what Messi brings to the world and what China brings.

However, and for this very reason, China has retained Messi for two hours at a counter. to what end? Don't they know him? Perhaps China only wanted, like Teruel a few years ago, to exist. China is a great world power without interest, perhaps it has already surpassed the USA in many or all headings. But, like everyone, he needs a Messi (a popular messiah) to appear in the memes and suck a bit of popularity, glamor (Pure glamour, by Aloma Rodríguez).

Dictatorships are less cool than nothing. Totalitarianism, the more it spreads and tempts with its tyrants, the more rejection it gets. It will be an internal, intimate and not very showy rejection, but the invisible rejection, perhaps cowed, still generates more volts and more resentment. If you take it out it ventilates and evaporates a bit. If you keep it, it ends up crashing. The natives are silent out of fear (in Russia or China, for example). The neighbors of countries with democracy always roaming and threatened, say nothing and allow themselves to be seduced and entertained by the claims of tyrannies, who try –and in general succeed– to sign their declining stars. Xavi defended the viziers of the Gulf. For whatever reason, nobody says anything and thus the star system is degrading, always in danger. Türkiye, Poland, Hungary, Russia… China!

What is the message that the Chinese dictatorship wants to send to the world by holding Messi for two hours in an airport?

China, like Teruel before, needs to exist in popular affective zones, let's put soccer. In this case, he needs it to be known that Messi is there, oh. And that is why he has kept it on a counter under the pretext of a pretext. A visa. The strategy is not successful but it can be forgiven. The same thing happened to Russia, it could not exist even with shots. So he invaded the neighbor next door, Ukraine.. It is better to retain Messi than to invade Ukraine.

Saudi Arabia and the other Emirati abominations of the Persian Gulf, also manual dictatorships (or more) fail to launder their image no matter how much money they throw into the world. We all carry or see their logos, Formula 1, soccer, airlines, even a soccer World Cup! But they get nothing. They spend enormous amounts and don't get an iota. It would be enough for them to call elections. Cheaper and more effective.

But they have to sign poor Benzemá to get a brief at Marca. What a mess. Messi has resisted, he has preferred to go to Miami, which is something else. Saudi Arabia not even with Benzemá will be able to wash Khashoggi's thing. Well, yes, it's already washed. Who remembers the guy who went to the Saudi embassy in Istanbul to get a visa and was cheated? To something else butterfly. Also the USA, our beloved current metropolis that perhaps has already been superseded and we don't know it, has dropped more bombs and invaded more countries than the rest of the universe, including from here to Andromeda and beyond the Kuiper Belt. But it can be said, and there are choices. Assange is a martyr, but he hasn't been nailed down… yet.

What is the message that the Chinese dictatorship wants to send to the world by holding Messi for two hours in an airport? That China is a legal country, with legal certainty and papers and policies and visas. In other words, it is like a democracy. But in dictatorship. Well, call elections.

The United Kingdom has experienced a new chapter of child cruelty. A mother has been found guilty of the involuntary manslaughter of her nine-year-old son, who in February 2021 was found unconscious in a cold bathroom with 50 injuries all over his body, while his partner has been found guilty of his murder.

Prosecutors said nine-year-old Alfie Steele was repeatedly assaulted, beaten and placed in a cold bath as part of a cruel and “sinister” punishment regime by his mother Carla Scott and her partner Dirk Howell in Droitwich, Worcestershire. .

Jurors at Coventry Crown Court deliberated for just over 10 hours to reach a verdict for Scott, 35, and Howell, 41.. At the moment, both defendants are in pretrial detention and will be sentenced next Thursday.

During the trial, both defendants denied having “immersed” Alfie in a cold bath as punishment before his death on February 18, 2021.. Scott said he had been enjoying a hot bath, but his low body temperature of 23C suggested otherwise.

At the trial, which lasted six weeks, Scott and Howell, a career criminal, were said to have tried to cover up the murder by delaying calling emergency services after Alfie drowned, suffocated or suffered a cardiac arrest.. The exact cause of his death could not be determined, the indications indicated that he had died after being submerged in icy water.

Opening the case last month, prosecutor Michelle Heeley KC said the pair beat Alfie with “belts, or a slider, like a heavy-duty flip-flop, and used other, more sinister forms of punishment” and made him being out at night and pouring cold water over it.

Neighbors used to repeatedly call the police after hearing screams and crying coming from the family home. Some neighbors heard him scream as he was forced into the cold baths, and others reported seeing him standing in the garden at night “like a statue” while Howell berated him.

In a call to emergency services made six months before Alfie's death, a neighbor told police: “It looks like my neighbors are doing something bad to their son in the bathtub.. As if they were really hurting him. It sounds like someone was spinning in the bathtub.. It sounds like he's being hit and held underwater or something.”

The call was played to jurors, along with audio from an emergency call in 2020 in which a concerned resident told the operator “something weird is going on.”

Despite a social services plan to protect Alfie, which prohibited Howell from spending the night with the boy, Scott regularly broke this rule, Crown Prosecutions told jurors.

Howell “believed in discipline,” which was much more physical and psychological than conventional methods such as bedtime or the naughty step, Heeley said.

Alfie was the product of his mother's previous relationship, but the couple broke up in 2017. Scott began dating Howell in July 2019 and within six months they were engaged.