International

Boluarte announces that Venezuelan migrants must show rental and work contracts

The president of Peru, Dina Boluarte, announced that the Executive will promote adjustments to regularize the situation of Venezuelan migrants such as the requirement that they show work and rental contracts, as well as monitor the sending of foreign currency outside the country, with the aim of fighting organized crime.

Boluarte’s announcement about Venezuelans

“We are going to track the currencies and remittances that are sent outside the country, to know where they generate that income from. And the one who does not answer with certainty where his income is from, well, that’s where we’re going to fall,” Boluarte said in the balance of his government management of the last eight months.

After more than 100 days without reporting to the press, Boluarte specified that they are going to make adjustments in Migration to demand that “every Venezuelan”, who apparently works legally, present the employment and rental contract.

In this sense, the president also asked property owners to take care of “to those who rent” their homes.
“We are going to go hand in hand with the National Superintendence of Customs and Tax Administration (Sunat) to be able to control those who rent and those who do not show where their income is from,” he reiterated.

The president addressed the issue of the swee of extortion and organized crime that is going through Peru and assured that they will capture foreign criminals.

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“We will throw criminals out of the national territory”

“To the foreign criminals who are in our country, we say to them, we will throw them out of the national territory, we are not going to allow them to stay one more day in our territory,” Boluarte said.

He said that the departure of about 9 million Venezuelans due to the failure of the Government of that country “affects all countries of the world” and that there is an exodus of migrants that has not been seen “since the time of Moses.”

In this sense, he added that, for years, Peru left the borders open to Venezuelan migrants.

“We know well who has left our borders open, and thousands of them have entered our borders without even mentioning their names. And those subsequent governments have been doing nothing in the face of crime,” he said.

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Iran Reports 201 Dead, 747 Injured After U.S. and Israeli Strikes

The Iranian Red Crescent Society reported Sunday night (local time) that at least 201 people were killed and 747 injured following attacks carried out by Israel and the United States against the Islamic Republic.

A spokesperson for the humanitarian organization said more than 220 rescue teams have been deployed across affected areas and that relief operations are continuing without interruption. The official highlighted the difficulty of treating the large number of wounded and the urgent need for additional resources in impacted provinces.

Out of Iran’s 31 provinces, 24 have reported damage, according to a statement carried by the Isna news agency. This marks the first overall casualty toll released by Iranian state-affiliated media since the launch of the offensive.

Among the dead are 85 schoolgirls from a school in the southern city of Minab, according to the country’s judiciary. “The number of martyrs at the Minab girls’ school has risen to 85,” the local prosecutor’s office said, as quoted by the judiciary’s website, Mizan Online.

Iranian President Masud Pezeshkian described the attack as a “savagery” that “constitutes a new black page in the record of countless crimes committed by the aggressors.”

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Meanwhile, the international community continues to monitor the situation closely amid concerns about possible further reprisals and the broader impact on Middle East stability, energy markets, and global security.

AFP noted that it was unable to independently verify the casualty figures or the circumstances surrounding the events.

International

Pope Leo XIV Urges End to ‘Spiral of Violence’ in Middle East

Pope Leo XIV on Sunday called for an end to the “spiral of violence” in the Middle East, following military strikes by the United States and Israel against Iran and subsequent retaliatory bombardments in the region.

“Faced with the possibility of a tragedy of enormous proportions, I urge the parties involved to assume their moral responsibility and stop the spiral of violence before it becomes an irreparable abyss,” the pontiff told the crowd gathered in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican.

Speaking during the Angelus prayer, the U.S.-born pope said stability and peace cannot be achieved through threats or weapons. “Stability and peace are not built with reciprocal threats or with arms that sow destruction, suffering and death, but only through reasonable, sincere and responsible dialogue,” he declared.

The leader of the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics also called for diplomacy to “regain its role” amid escalating tensions.

In addition, the pope urged Afghanistan and Pakistan to urgently resume dialogue after several days of clashes between the two countries.

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Security Council to Hold Emergency Meeting on Middle East Crisis

UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Saturday condemned the “military escalation in the Middle East” following attacks by the United States and Israel against Iran and Tehran’s retaliatory strikes, just hours before an urgent meeting of the UN Security Council.

“I call for the immediate cessation of hostilities and de-escalation,” Guterres said in a statement.

The Security Council is scheduled to meet on Saturday at 21:00 GMT (4:00 p.m. in New York) to address “the situation in the Middle East,” the United Nations announced.

The meeting, during which Guterres will deliver remarks, was convened at the request of France, Bahrain, Colombia, Russia and China, according to a diplomatic source.