PUEAA

Xi Jinping has backed Vladimir Putin’s stance on his war in Ukraine but held back from confirming plans for a crucial pipeline to reroute Russia’s gas exports from Europe to Asia.

Las acciones de Asia caen por el sector bancario mundial

EL FINANCIERO

Las acciones asiáticas bajaron el viernes debido a que el malestar que se cernía sobre el sector bancario mundial redujo la toma de riesgos en los mercados. El yen se recuperó.

Kenya: Arrests made in anti-government protests
DW
Riot police in Kenya lobbed tear gas canisters at demonstrators on Monday who had gathered to protest the administration of President William Ruto. Authorities arrested several protestors, including two opposition lawmakers.

South African stocks fall as banking worries spread
REUTERS
South African stocks fell on Friday after a plunge in European banking shares shook up the local market, while the rand weakened against a stronger U.S. dollar.

Kamala Harris to discuss China influence, debt distress in Africa
ALJAZEERA
The US has unleashed a charm offensive in Africa under President Biden as it seeks to rival Russia and China.

How an east African country became an odd sort of global powerhouse
THE ECONOMIST
RED-EYED damsels, pole dancers, two-bit hookers, hot-legs foxy gotcha, woolly buggers, drunk and disorderly, Mrs Simpson and orange boobies are not what you might think. They are just a few of the colourful, dexterously tied flies that fishing folk cast from their rods to lure trout and salmon in the rivers of Scotland, South Carolina, Russia's Kola peninsula and beyond. What these wacky names have in common is that they are among several thousand fluffy but lethal creations that have made Kenya a global hub of fly-tying.

A 20 años de la invasión de Estados Unidos a Irak
ETCÉTERA
El 20 de marzo de 2003, Estados Unidos apoyado por algunos de sus aliados -de manera destacada España y el Reino Unido-, inició las hostilidades contra Irak sin contar con la autorización del Consejo de Seguridad de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas (ONU). El fin de la guerra fue proclamado oficialmente el 31 de agosto de 2010 por parte del gobierno de Barack Obama y el retiro de los últimos soldados estadounidenses del atribulado país árabe se concretó en diciembre de 2011.