International
Leo XIV urges to defend “the dignity” of migrants
Pope Leo XIV urged this Friday to defend the dignity of migrants, which “is always the same, that of a creature loved and loved by God,” in the speech he gave to the representatives of the diplomatic corps accredited to the Holy See.
“In the change of era that we are living, the Holy See cannot exempt itself from making its own voice felt in the face of the numerous imbalances and injustices that lead, among other things, to unworthy working conditions and increasingly fragmented and conflicting societies,” he said before the representatives of the 184 countries with which the Holy See maintains diplomatic relations.
And he said that “it is also necessary to strive to remedy global inequalities, which trace deep grooves of opulence and indigence between continents, countries and even within the same societies.”
The American pontiff made an appeal to those who “have the responsibility of government to apply to build harmonious and peaceful civil societies” and said that “this can be done above all by investing in the family, based on the stable union between man and woman.”
So “no one can exempt themselves from favoring contexts in which the dignity of each person is to be tuted, especially those most fragile and defenseless, from the unborn child to the elderly, from the sick to the unemployed, whether these are citizens or immigrants.”
And he recalled his own life “unfolded between North America, South America and Europe” and his own history, which is that of “a citizen, descendant of immigrants, who in turn has emigrated” so “each of us, in the course of life, can find ourselves healthy or sick, busy or unemployed, in his homeland or in a foreign land”.
“His dignity, however, is always the same, that of a creature loved and loved by God,” he said.
As a cardinal, Robert Francis Prevost had criticized the anti-immigrant policy of US President Donald Trump on social media.
This Friday, in his first meeting with the diplomatic corps, León XIV also advocated giving new impetus to multilateral diplomacy and to those international institutions that were loved and conceived above all to resolve the controversies that may arise within the international community.
And he recalled Pope Francis’ last request on Easter Sunday to abandon the race to rearmament.
“It is a time of conversion and renewal, and above all the opportunity to leave the contests behind and begin a new path, animated by the hope of being able to build, working together, each according to their own sensitivities and responsibilities, a world in which each of us can realize our own humanity in truth, in justice and in peace,” the pope concluded before the diplomats.
International
Trump will receive Netanyahu at the White House next week
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will visit Washington next week, a high-ranking official of Donald Trump’s government told EFE.
The visit, which according to the specialized portal Jewish Insider will take place on Monday, comes amid pressure from Washington to achieve a ceasefire in the Gaza strip.
The US president launched a message on Sunday on his social network Truth calling for an immediate agreement to end the conflict and “release the hostages.”
This message follows another one from last Friday in which he assured that a solution to the conflict in Palestine could be reached as early as this week.
“We are working in Gaza and trying to solve it. We are supplying a lot of money and a lot of food to that area because we have to do it,” the president stressed at an event in Washington.
In addition to publicly insisting on his desire to reach a cease of hostilities in the region, Trump has also supported Netanyahu, a key ally, despite the fact that the Israeli is going through a judicial process where he is charged with bribery, fraud and breach of trust in three different criminal cases.
Israel has maintained its offensive in Gaza, in a resurgence of the conflict that has already lasted for more than a year and that leaves dozens of deaths daily.
The Israeli Army has intensified its attacks in the north of the Strip after ordering last Sunday the forced evacuation of residents in several neighborhoods of the capital of Gaza and the northern city of Yabalia.
Since October 7, 2023, at least 56,259 Palestinians have died and more than 132,000 have been injured by Israeli fire, according to figures from the Ministry of Health of the Hamas Government.
International
The US climate agency will lose access to key data for hurricane forecasting in July
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced on Monday that it will lose access to essential satellite data for the hurricane forecast on July 31, when the Department of Defense will stop sharing the images with that US agency.
Initially, NOAA was going to lose access to the data from today Monday, but managed to extend the deadline since NASA, which was also going to be affected by the measure, requested an extension until July 31.
According to a NOAA statement, late on Friday, June 27, the Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command received a request from Karen St. Germain, director of NASA’s Earth Science Division, “to postpone the withdrawal and continue processing and distributing data from the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program until July 31.”
The original decision to cut off access to satellite data as of today was made with the aim of “mitigating a significant cybersecurity risk,” according to the note.
NOAA’s access to data provided by the Defense Weather Satellite Program was crucial for predicting hurricane formation, since they allowed to mediate variables that were not available to conventional satellites.
In addition, the measure takes place in the middle of hurricane season, which experts expect to be more intense than normal in the Atlantic Ocean.
According to the Colorado State University (CSU), the probability of a major hurricane, category 3 or higher, impacting the United States in the current Atlantic cyclone season amounts to 51%.
This coincides with the approval in the Lower House of Congress of the controversial “great and beautiful bill” of US President Donald Trump, which includes a cut of almost 30% of the annual budget to NOAA and 646 million dollars to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
International
The Argentine justice declares Milei’s measure that limited the right to strike unconstitutional
The Justice of Argentina declared on Monday the unconstitutionality of two articles of the decree signed on May 20 by President Javier Milei that limited the right to strike of workers from various sectors, giving rise to a precautionary measure requested by the General Confederation of Labor (CGT), the main workers’ central of the country.
The decision was made by the National Labor Court No. 3, which ordered to stop the application of articles 2 and 3 of decree 340/2025, considering that they violate constitutional guarantees such as freedom of association and the right to strike, established in the Constitution and in international agreements signed by Argentina.
The decree modified article 24 of Law 25,877, which regulates collective labor conflicts, and declared a long list of activities as essential, limiting the possibility of its workers to carry out union action measures.
Judge Moira Fullana, who intervened in the case, argued that the unconstitutionality is based on the fact that, at the time of the signing of the decree, the National Congress was in full function, so there was no justification of necessity and urgency that deserved to skip the legislative treatment of such modifications.
On June 2, Fullana had provisionally failed to suspend the application of this measure, in response to another precautionary measure, requested by the Association of State Workers (ATE).
Until before its recent challenge, Decree 340/2025 required to guarantee between 50% and 75% of the usual benefits in sectors such as the production of medicines and/or hospital supplies, land and underground transport, radio and television, industrial activities, the food industry, the production and distribution of building materials, all airport services, logistics services, mining activity, refrigeration activity, mail and the distribution and marketing of food and beverages, among others, even during trade union conflicts.
The Government also included in that list of essential services all branches of maritime and river transport, customs, immigration services and education at all levels.
The measure, originally included in an extensive decree of general deregulation of the economy signed by Milei shortly after its assumption in December 2023, had already been unconstitutional by the Argentine Justice at that time.
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