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Argentine Federal Police arrest man for repeated death threats against President Javier Milei
The Argentine Federal Police reported this Saturday that they arrested a 23-year-old man who made repeated death threats over the phone to Argentine President Javier Milei, who took office on December 10th last year.
On March 2nd, the Constitutional Crimes Division of the State Security Directorate received a complaint about an anonymous, violent, and intimidating phone call made to the Emergency Telephone Attention Center 911 in the city of La Plata, the capital of Buenos Aires province.
During the call, a man threatened the president’s life by telling the operator “Death to Milei” (sic) and then abruptly ended the communication.
Later, on March 10th and 13th, the 911 center in La Plata received two identical calls which, thanks to ongoing investigations, were traced back to a residence in the town of José Mármol, also in Buenos Aires province.
With the evidence collected, the National Criminal and Correctional Court No. 2 of Lomas de Zamora ordered a search of the said property, where the suspect was arrested – remaining at the disposal of the intervening judge – and three cell phones were seized.
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Denmark will raise the limit for abortion from 12 to 18 weeks
The Danish center-left government announced this Friday an agreement with four more parties to raise the limit for abortion from 12 to 18 weeks, so this country would be among those with the latest deadlines in Europe, along with Sweden, Iceland and the Netherlands.
The seven signatory parties – which total 124 of the 179 seats in Parliament – justified the decision by the need to give women “more time and possibilities to act according to the knowledge they acquire after the first examinations of the fetus and thus reinforce their right to decide for themselves,” according to a statement.
The text also alludes to the fact that medical techniques, technological possibilities and the diagnosis of the fetus have evolved in a “colossal” way in recent decades and that the current legislation on the subject – which dates back to 1973, when abortion was allowed in Denmark – has been “outdated.”
“After 50 years, it’s time for the rules of abortion to be adapted to their time. We reinforce women’s right to decide. There is no basis for the current limit from a medical point of view and nothing indicates that there will be many more or later abortions to extend the limit,” said the Minister of Health, Sophie Løhde.
Løhde alluded to the case of Sweden, where the 18-week limit applies since 1996 and abortions have not increased or changed when they are done.
The motion will be presented in Parliament this year or the following and is expected to enter into force on June 1, 2025.
The agreement follows the recommendations made last year by the so-called Ethical Council, an advisory body of the Danish Parliament.
In addition to raising the pregnancy limit, the Government announced two other agreements: one to allow young women from 15 to 17 years old to have an abortion without needing the consent of the parents or a special commission; and another to unify the five existing regional commissions into a single national level.
Several non-governmental organizations, in addition to gynecologists and obstetricians, have long been lobbying for Denmark to modify the regulations on abortion.
“It’s a very good agreement, it’s an essential extension of women’s ability to decide,” said today the president of the Danish College of Physicians, Camilla Rathcke.
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Starmer asks Sunak to call elections after the Labour advance in the municipal elections
The head of the opposition in the United Kingdom, Labour Keir Starmer, urged Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Friday to immediately call general elections that allow the country to “sturn the page,” after the collapse of the conservative vote in the by-elections held yesterday.
In an intervention in Blackpool (northwest), where Labour snatched the seat of that constituency from the ‘tories’, Starmer described that result as “historic” and considered that he sends a direct message – since a deputy was chosen in the House of Commons – to Sunak.
The opposition leader stressed that the transfer of vote from conservatives to Labour has exceeded 20% for the fifth time in the last by-elections to choose seats that have been left vacant due to the resignation of their occupants during this legislature.
For his part, the British Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, called the first results declared so far of the municipal elections “disappointing” although he warned that there are still “many to be announced.”
However, the British conservatives scored a relevant victory that will alleviate their lousy result in the municipal elections, by managing to keep Ben Houchen as mayor of the metropolitan area of Tees Valley, in the northeast of England.
According to the provisional results, Houchen, one of the most popular ‘tories’ councilors, obtained 53.6% of the votes, compared to 41.3% of his Labour opponent, Chris Mcean, and 5% of the Liberal Democrats.
In a slow count, which will continue throughout the weekend, the triumph in Tees Valley is presented as one of the few bright moments for the conservatives of the Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, who faces a historic collapse in these partial local elections.
Despite everything, the percentage of Houchen, mayor since 2017 of that metropolitan area that includes cities such as Middlesbrough, Darlington or Hartlepool, plummets compared to the 72.8% support he obtained in the elections in 2021.
For his part, the president of the Conservative Party, Richard Holden, said that “there is no doubt” that the British Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, will lead that formation in the next general elections, scheduled for this year, although he predicted “a few hard days” before the first results of the municipal elections in England.
Citizens elected their representatives in 107 out of a total of 318 consistories in England, the most populous region of the United Kingdom, which were last chosen in 2021. There were also elections for the mayor of London and 9 other mayor’s offices and 37 police commissioners were elected.
The final results are not expected to be known until tomorrow, Saturday.
One of the most painful for the ‘tories’ was the result achieved in the by-election that was held in the constituency of Blackpool South (northeast England) to elect the new deputy to occupy that seat in the House of Commons after the resignation of conservative Scott Benton due to accusations of alleged influence peddling.
In it, Labour deputy Chris Webb prevailed, who snatched the seat from the ‘tories’ with 10,825 votes – a majority of 7,607 -, above the conservative David Jones, with 3,218 votes.
The ‘tories’ barely avoided falling to third position in that constituency, with only 117 votes above the candidate of the nationalist Reform UK party, Mark Butcher.
The Labour leader, Keir Starmer, called the triumph in that consistory “really historic” for his formation.
For his part, former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson forgot to carry a document with an identification photo when going to vote in the municipal elections, a mandatory requirement that, ironically, introduced by his Government in 2022.
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At least 20 dead and 21 injured when a bus crashed through a ravine in Pakistan
At least 20 people died and another 21 were injured this Friday after a passenger bus deviated from the road and fell down a deep ravine in a remote area in northeastern Pakistan.
“The driver of the vehicle lost control, he probably fell asleep and the bus fell into a ravine,” Tahir Shah, spokesman for the rescue services of the Gilgit Baltistan (GB) region, in northeastern Pakistan, where the event took place, told Efe.
As a result, “the death of 20 people has been confirmed and another 21 were injured,” although the death toll could increase in the coming hours, Shah added.
The accident took place around 5:15 a.m. crazy time (00:15 GMT) on the Karakoram highway, located in the mountainous and remote region of GB, while making a route to the Hunza valley from the city of Rawalpindi, in the province of Punjab, the official said.
Images released by the Pakistani news channel Geo show the bus completely destroyed on the bank of a river and surrounded by a steep skirt of stones, where it is presumed that it slipped.
Emergency teams are in the area to help the victims of the incident and transfer the injured to the nearest medical center.
Pakistan has one of the highest traffic accident rates in the world due to the poor condition of its roads, the deficiencies of vehicles and the fact that public transport tends to circulate overloaded with passengers.
About 30,000 people die annually in traffic accidents in the country, according to data from the Pakistani Government.
On April 11, at least 17 people died and 40 were injured when a truck, in which dozens of pilgrims were traveling, crashed through a ravine in southern Pakistan.
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