The leader of Vox, Santiago Abascal, had a “endearing reunion” this Saturday with the elected president of Argentina, Javier Milei, with 24 hours to go before his inauguration in Buenos Aires.

According to the photo that emerged, the meeting took place at the Hotel Libertador, in the Argentine capital, where the Argentine economist has had his work headquarters for about two months, between the electoral campaign and his current work as president-elect, and where he formed his office and receives numerous visitors.

After the meeting, which lasted more than 40 minutes, according to Vox sources, Abascal published a message on his social network account of the Argentine Nation, Javier Milei”.

“Irrevocably twinned in the cultural and political battle for freedom and against leftist ruin,” concluded the message, which was accompanied by a photo of both.

Furthermore, according to sources from the group he leads, Abascal and Milei “have committed to maintaining close and permanent relations to continue fighting against the harmful machinery of the Puebla Group and the Sao Paulo Forum.”

On the eve of his arrival in Argentina, the Spanish far-right leader described Milei's ascension to the Argentine Presidency as an “admirable historical feat”, after defeating the official candidate, the Minister of Economy, Sergio, in the second round of elections held on November 19. Massa.

According to sources, Milei and Vox have maintained a close collaboration “for more than three years” in the Disenso Foundation, since the now elected president of Argentina signed the 'Madrid Charter', the founding document of Foro Madrid.

As a result of this collaboration, the Argentine economist has participated in various Spanish training events.

In October 2021, after obtaining his seat as a deputy, he participated in a massive Vox event on a giant screen from Buenos Aires.

A year later, at the VIVA22 festival, organized by Vox and with the participation of several members of the European extreme right, such as the Italian Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, Milei gave an in-person speech in which he summarized: “Go, and fight. This is not for the lukewarm, it is to take it against the socialists and win the battle against them.”

When on November 19, Milei was proclaimed winner of the elections, Abascal congratulated on the same social network for his “great victory” and expressed his joy that “a path of future and hope is opening up for Argentines and all of Latin America that we celebrate in Spain with special joy”.

The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has sent a letter to the President of the European Council, Charles Michel, in which he requests that a debate about the situation in Gaza be held during next week's EU summit, in order to that there is a “clear and common” position.

Sánchez's letter is also signed by his Belgian counterparts, Alexander de Croo; Ireland, Leo Varadkar and Malta, Robert Abela, after this week António Guterres, Secretary General of the UN and very critical of Israel, requested the intervention of the Security Council.

The four heads of government believe that the situation in Gaza is alarming and believe that it should be addressed at the summit on December 14 and 15, and that the proposal for the creation of two states should be included.

The signatories reiterate that they condemn the terrorist attack by Hamas, which caused 1,300 deaths in Israel on October 7, that they admit that the Jewish state has the right to defend itself, as well as they are glad for the one-week humanitarian pause that allowed the release from the hostages kidnapped by the Palestinians, as well as the entry of humanitarian aid.

But in the letter they say that the EU must demand the entry into force of a humanitarian ceasefire, demand the protection of civilians in Gaza and that humanitarian aid can enter the Strip without obstacles.

Specifically, they propose that the work of UN agencies be facilitated and that the Kerem Shalom border crossing be opened for direct access of humanitarian products.

Regarding politics, Sánchez asks that the EU defend a political process on the two-state solution. This solution would be proposed at an international peace conference, and would be the basis, in his opinion, of a lasting peace.

The signatories are betting that the Palestinian National Authority will assume control of Gaza, and they want to reduce tension in the West Bank by banning travel and freezing the assets of Israelis who settle there.

Sánchez, De Croo, Varadkar and Abela show in the letter their concern about the increase in anti-Semitic attacks in Europe, and believe that the EU must take action on the matter.

This letter is signed by Sánchez when there is less than a month left for the Spanish rotating presidency of the Council to end, and it will be Belgium precisely who will take over.

A month ago, De Croo and Sánchez made a controversial visit to Israel, where they challenged Prime Minister Netanyahu, which caused a series of disagreements that have opened a serious diplomatic crisis between Spain and Israel.

The world of cinema allows us to recreate the universe we want almost anywhere in the world, but sometimes, the terrain itself helps and becomes another element in the work.

The filming locations are also a constant source of curiosities and also function as tourist attractions for fans of the films filmed.

Now, an interactive map called CineMapper has been created that reveals locations around the world where famous movie scenes were filmed.

Tim Hughes, the map's creator, told the Daily Mail: “There are 318 movies, TV shows and video games, and we're adding almost 100 new locations a week.”

Hughes was inspired to create it in 2021 after making a post about filming locations on TikTok. “I create online content about movies (@whoshughes) and in a TikTok I covered Star Wars locations you can visit in the UK,” he explained.

“This TikTok reached over a million views, so I turned it into a TikTok series and eventually made a Google map to document them. Two years later, my web app developer friend Izzy said he could help me turn it into a proper web application,” he adds.

“We started sharing CineMapper and it went semi-viral again!” adds the digital creator.

For now, there are not many locations in Spain: the Bank of Spain in Madrid (La casa de papel) or the Plaza de España in Seville (Star Wars VII: The Force Awakens) stand out, among others.

The outgoing president of Argentina, Alberto Fernández, has approved a decree by which the Argentine State will pay for security and bodyguard services around the world. Fernández has already announced his intention to move to Spain after the replacement in command with Javier Milei, scheduled for this Sunday, December 10.

Specifically, Fernández has modified a 2019 decree that he himself had signed to expand the functions of the Military House so that it provides security services to all former presidents and their immediate families throughout the planet and for life.. Until now, this service was limited to the borders of Argentina. Former presidents can do without this custody, but the current president cannot.

Sources close to the president-elect, Milei, have explained to La Nación that “no one consulted us”. “He did it on his own. Surely he thought about his trip to Spain or the one Cristina Kirchner will make to Italy. I don't think he did it thinking about (Mauricio) Macri's involvement with FIFA,” explained a source who works near what will be the Military House.

“It is very expensive to guard a former president outside the country. First, because he can get a ticket and go to a place tomorrow and we have to prepare everything to accompany him.. Furthermore, these are armed police officers who require agreements and agreements with third countries to be able to bring in the weapons,” added a member of the Military House quoted by La Nación.

It is a decree, so the incoming president could revoke it with a similar rule. “I don't think this regime will last long.”. “It's outrageous,” noted another member of the Military House.

Bullying is one of the main problems that children, parents and the educational community face, and sometimes it is not detected until the victim screams for help.

This is what happened with an 8-year-old girl, whose mother discovered her daughter's problem when reading a devastating letter to Santa Claus, which reveals that school is not a bed of roses for the little girl.

The beginning of the wish list was completely normal, until the mother discovered two unconventional wishes at the bottom of the list: “More friends” and “Less bullying for me.”

The mother, Suzy Boliver, shared the content of the letter on her TikTok account: “When you receive your eight-year-old daughter's Christmas list,” wrote the mother, who accompanied the text with the crying emoji and added: ” “My heart sank.”

Messages of solidarity with the mother and daughter accumulated in the comments. “We need to do something about bullying. “We're taking too long,” said one follower.

Many others advised the woman that she should talk to a teacher or principal about the list she had received from her daughter.. “It breaks my heart. I would go talk to their teacher and tell them you want a meeting.. Take the letter and don't move until you get a response,” another person said in the comments.

The United States condemned this Friday the attack against its embassy in Baghdad, where an unidentified group launched a barrage of rockets that hit near the building without causing victims or material damage, and warned of its right to self-defense.

“The Iraqi Government has repeatedly committed to protecting diplomatic missions, as well as US military personnel, who are present in the country at the invitation of Iraq. “This is non-negotiable, and neither is our right to self-defense,” State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said in a statement.

Security sources informed EFE that at least five rockets hit the vicinity of the US legation, located in the fortified Green Zone, amid a spike in attacks against US targets in Iraq coinciding with the war in Gaza.

So far no group has claimed responsibility for the attack, although the amalgamation of pro-Iran militias Islamic Resistance in Iraq has claimed responsibility for around eighty actions against facilities with a US presence in Iraq and Syria since the conflict broke out in Gaza on October 7.

It is the first attack against American targets in Baghdad after the start of hostilities between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, which have provoked the response of Iraqi militias backed by Iran against Washington for its “unwavering support” for the Jewish State in the war. in Gaza.

“terrorist act”

For its part, the Government of Iraq described this Friday's attack against the United States Embassy as a “terrorist act.”. “Attacking any foreign mission or diplomatic headquarters is a terrorist crime that exposes the perpetrator to maximum penalties,” Iraqi Prime Minister Mohamed Shia al Sudani said during a meeting with senior officials of the Iraqi Armed Forces, according to a statement released by his office.

Al Sudani reiterated his Government's commitment to “protect all diplomatic missions” and noted that “it will never give in when it comes to confronting outlaws who endanger Iraq's security and damage its reputation.”

Likewise, he indicated that investigations are being carried out to “identify the elements that are altering the security and stability of the country” and bring them to justice, while he also asked to open an investigation against the security forces in charge of monitoring the area from where attacks were launched.

Iraq's pro-Iran militias are part of the so-called Axis of Resistance, a loose anti-Israel alliance led by Iran and made up of the Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah and Yemen's Houthi rebels, among others.

They are also represented in the pro-government militia group Popular Multitude, which collaborated with the US in the fight against the Islamic State terrorist group between 2014 and 2017, and they also have a political arm that is the majority in the Iraqi Parliament.

However, several of these Iraqi groups are considered “terrorists” by Washington, which since the outbreak of the war in Gaza has killed more than a dozen militants in two separate attacks in Iraq in response to the launch of rockets against facilities with presence US.

The Public Ministry (Prosecutor's Office) of Guatemala carried out this Friday an “attempted coup d'état”, as the Organization of American States (OAS) has called it, against the elected president, Bernardo Arévalo de León, to prevent him from taking office. Next January 14th.

In a conference led by the Secretary of the Public Ministry, Ángel Pineda, sanctioned by the United States on charges of corruption, the Prosecutor's Office disclosed several alleged criminal cases against Arévalo de León and also against the Supreme Electoral Tribunal.

Derived from one of these cases, the Public Ministry argued that the results of the general elections of June 25 and the runoff of August 20, won surprisingly by Arévalo de León, who obtained 58% of the votes counted, should be annulled..

The alleged invalidation of the electoral results was presented by prosecutor Leonor Morales who said in a press conference that the elections for president, deputies, mayors and deputies to the Central American Parliament must be annulled.

Morales argued that there is an administrative irregularity, since the electoral records used are not those originally approved by the Supreme Electoral Tribunal.

“The formats used were not those approved by the plenary session of magistrates,” said Morales, who added that the votes “are null and void.”

The lawyer and elected representative of the Semilla Movement, Andrea Reyes Zeceña, warned on her social networks that the Public Ministry “does not have any authority” to declare the elections null and void.

Similarly, the Prosecutor's Office also accused Arévalo de León of alleged illegalities in the formation of his party in 2018, in addition to an alleged case of money laundering of around $40,000..

Arévalo de León, who warned last September 1 that the attorney general, Consuelo Porras, is carrying out a “coup d'état” against him to prevent him from taking office next January, called a press conference for this Friday.

Since July 12, the leadership of the Guatemalan Public Ministry, sanctioned by the United States under accusations of corruption, has tried to reverse the electoral victory of Arévalo de León, despite the fact that the law does not allow it to interfere in the electoral results.

Opposition of the electoral court

Minutes after the Prosecutor's Office's presentation, the Supreme Electoral Court guaranteed the victory of Arévalo de León and also the results of the elections.

The president of the electoral court, Blanca Alfaro, indicated in a press conference that the results are signed and certified, although she also pointed out that a different ruling from the Constitutional Court, the country's highest court, could annul her decision.

“If they do not take office, I reiterate, there would be a breakdown of the institutional order,” said Alfaro in reference to the possibility that the elections will be annulled and Arévalo de León will not be sworn in on January 14, as established in Guatemalan law.

“There is absolutely no time for us to in any way repeat any election,” added the president of the Guatemalan Supreme Electoral Tribunal.

Alfaro explained that the Public Ministry has the right to carry out “investigations”, but that they do not imply their annulment and also defended the transparency of the electoral process.

Following the accusations from the Prosecutor's Office, the OAS condemned in a statement the “attempted coup d'état” orchestrated by the Public Ministry against Arévalo de León.

This same week, the Secretary General of the OAS, Luis Almagro, was in Guatemala to witness, for the second time, the electoral transition process, in an event in the company of the vice president-elect, Karin Herrera, and the current president, Alejandro Giammattei.

Arévalo de León must be sworn in on January 14, according to Guatemalan law, for a period of four years to replace Giammattei.

Sánchez condemns him

The President of the Government of Spain, Pedro Sánchez, for his part, has expressed his “most absolute rejection” of the actions of the Public Ministry (Prosecutor's Office) of Guatemala against the elections won by Bernardo Arévalo de León, for whom he has expressed his support.

“I want to show my most absolute rejection of the actions of the Public Ministry of Guatemala that threaten democracy and the will of the citizens expressed at the polls,” Sánchez published in a message on the social network X.

The Spanish president added: “My support for the president-elect, Bernardo Arévalo de León. “Democracy must prevail.”

After several days of intense negotiations, the institutions of the European Union agreed this Friday on the artificial intelligence law that allows or prohibits the use of technology depending on the risk it poses to people and that seeks to boost the European industry against giants. like China and the United States.

“The EU artificial intelligence law is a pioneer in the world. A single legal framework for the development of artificial intelligence that can be trusted,” said the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, in a message on the social network X (formerly Twitter).

The agreement was reached after 36 hours of debate, and will still have to be ratified by the European Parliament and the Council of the EU, the institution that represents European governments.

The pact was reached after days of intense negotiations in which one of the sensitive points has been the use that law enforcement agencies will be able to make of biometric identification cameras to guarantee national security and prevent crimes such as terrorism or the protection of infrastructures.

The law prohibits facial recognition cameras in public spaces, but governments have pushed to allow them in specific cases, always with prior judicial authorization.

The European Parliament, on the other hand, came to the negotiations with a clear intention to ban these artificial intelligence cameras, although the rapporteur of the law, the social democrat Brando Benifei, opened the door last Wednesday to allowing some exceptions if they are accompanied by strong safeguards for human rights.

The other big issue that has focused the negotiations is the regulation of the foundational models of artificial intelligence, the systems on which programs with ChatGPT, from the company OpeanAI, or Bard, from Google, are based.

Initially, the law was not intended to regulate these types of systems, because they had not yet become popular when Brussels proposed the law in April 2021, but community institutions have seen the need to legislate them since the outbreak of ChatGPT last year.

The negotiations were “passionate”, since the objective of the law is to regulate the use of a technology with great possibilities for society, which at the same time raises doubts and some questions that the developers of artificial intelligence still do not know how to answer, according to sources familiar with the debates.

The Spanish presidency of the EU Council has achieved one of its main objectives in this semester with the agreement of this pioneering standard in the world.

The objective is to “give peace of mind”

“AI is a great evolution, but it all depends on how we are going to use it,” PSOE MEP Ibán García del Blanco, present at the negotiations, explained weeks ago to 20minutos.

He sees AI as “an opportunity” but recognizes that at the same time “it is full of risks”. García del Blanco, in the current scenario, already assumed reality to also claim the need for a standard at the community level.

“It is a technology that is not new but has reached a point of maturity that makes it seem very revolutionary.”. Technically it is more powerful than it was in the past and it is already being applied very widely,” he summarized.. The objective, he says, “is to give peace of mind to citizens.”

The Brazilian Police confirmed this Friday that the murder of the Spanish chef David Peregrina Capó and his wife Érica da Silva Santos, shot to death on November 23, was committed by a former employee.

The chief commissioner of the Territorial District of Porto Seguro, in the state of Bahia, Euler da Silva, told EFE that the motivation for the crime committed in the restaurant that the couple ran was due to “a debt” contracted with a former butler..

The suspect, identified as Eliandro Lourenço de Menezes, 46, is missing and the Police issued an arrest warrant against him.

A son of the suspect, also investigated and whose name was not disclosed, surrendered to the authorities at the Porto Seguro police station.

According to investigations, De Menezes allegedly murdered the Spanish chef and his wife after the couple refused to hand over ownership of part of the islet where the restaurant is located, something they had supposedly promised him as payment for his services.

The police chief explained that Peregrina decided not to trespass on the land after discovering that De Menezes, who already had an arrest warrant for drug trafficking, was using the place to hide drugs that were sold in the region.

For this reason, according to the commissioner, it is suspected that other people are also involved in the double murder.

Da Silva indicated that the chef's immigration situation in Brazil was “completely regularized” and said he was unaware of the legal problems he previously had in Spain.

The Ilha dos Ribeirinhos restaurant operated on an islet located in the Buranhém River, in a jungle area that can only be accessed by river.

The place is located near Porto Seguro, a tourist town in the south of the state of Bahia, on the northeast coast of the country.

The Council of the European Union (the countries) approved this Friday an agreement reached with the United Kingdom that guarantees the fishing rights of EU fishermen in the Atlantic and the North Sea, and that will affect around 100 in 2024. shared fish populations.

“Our agreement with the United Kingdom guarantees important fishing opportunities for our fishermen and was reached thanks to the goodwill shown by both parties during the negotiations,” Spanish Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Luis Planas said in a statement from the Council of the EU.

Planas highlighted that the agreement guarantees that the EU's fishing rights in the Atlantic and North Sea will continue to be protected next year and that sustainability commitments are also met.

The pact reached by 2024 will guarantee stability and certainty for EU fishermen and the industry, the EU Council stressed.

The agreement between the EU and the United Kingdom determines fishing rights for 2024 for around 100 shared fish stocks, in particular the total allowable catch (TAC), that is, the maximum quantities of fish from specific stocks that can be caught , and each the respective fishing rights of each party.

Approved by written procedure, this agreement is part of the annual process of establishing fishing opportunities in EU and non-EU waters for the coming year.

At the meeting of the Agriculture and Fisheries Council that will take place next Sunday and Monday in Brussels, the figures negotiated with the United Kingdom will thus become part of the main regulation on fishing opportunities for the Atlantic and the North Sea.

In line with scientific advice, some of the stocks for which the EU and the UK have agreed to reduce TACs for 2024, compared to 2023, are haddock in the Irish Sea (-14.5%) and in the Celtic Sea (-30.6%), as well as Whiting in the Celtic Sea (-50%) and by-catch of plaice in the English Channel (-42%).

In contrast, they agreed to increase TACs for 2024, compared to 2023, with whiting in the west of Scotland (+20%) and roosters in the North Sea (+9.6%).

The EU and the UK based their agreement on the best available scientific advice, provided by the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), and is also in line with the objectives of the EU common fisheries policy and the Fisheries Agreement. Trade and Cooperation concluded with the United Kingdom after Brexit.

For unadvised populations, the EU and UK agreed to work together to improve data availability.

Regarding stocks with zero catch advice, delegations agreed that it would be appropriate to establish specific TACs for bycatch (species that are caught unintentionally while fishing for other specific species).

The level of these TACs has been set to ensure that fishing mortality does not increase and that the stock can recover. For some populations a small TAC was established to allow continuous monitoring of the population.

Following the UK's withdrawal from the EU, fish stocks jointly managed by the EU and the UK are considered shared resources under international law.

Under the Trade and Cooperation Agreement, both parties agree to hold annual consultations with a view to determining TACs and quotas for the following year.

The agreement includes a licensing system for fishing vessels through which mutual access to each other's waters is guaranteed. The adopted provisions will apply from January 1, 2024.