France 🇫🇷: Pope Francis arrived in Marseille, France, this Friday, (22), for a two-day visit that should focus on the increase in migrants trying to cross the Mediterranean, and intends to bring a message of tolerance about the subject.
Ukraine 🇺🇦: Volodymyr Zelensky invited Marina Abramović to be Ukraine's ambassador.
Abramović, stated that the Ukrainian president asked for his help to rebuild schools.
China 🇨🇳: “The pandemic may have been the impetus for China to create a network for collecting DNA and storing genetic data around the world” according to the newspaper “Washington Post”
One of the ways to collect the data would have been done by portable laboratories that China donated or sold to several countries.
A spokesperson for the Chinese embassy in the US denied that China had misused the laboratories and that the intention was to collaborate with countries during the pandemic.
🚨Argentina 🇦🇷❌🇵🇾Paraguay: Tensions between the two countries have increased in recent days due to a dispute over toll charges for barges that sail along the Paraná River Waterway.
Argentine Economy Minister and presidential candidate Sergio Massa declared that his country had paid for the construction of the Yacyretá dam between the 1980s and 1990s and insinuated that Paraguay owes “billions of dollars” for it.
In response, Paraguayan congressman Rubén Isaac Rubín Orrego, from the National Encounter Alliance (Alianza Encuentro Nacional - AEN), said on Wednesday (20) that his country needs “missiles that can reach important points in the region because, otherwise, it will already We are losing the diplomatic game”
“As a young Paraguayan, I would go to war (with Argentina)”, insisted the 25-year-old parliamentarian.
🚨USA 🇺🇸: Speaker of the US House of Representatives K. McCarthy (R) said he denied Zelensky the opportunity to speak before Congress “due to the compromise of lawmakers.”
USA 🇺🇸/ Ukraine 🇺🇦: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visits Washington this Thursday (21) to pressure Congress for more aid and meet with Joe Biden.
The images below are of his arrival at the American Congress.