🇮🇶🇮🇷Iraq starts relocating Kurdish groups away from the border with Iran


Iraq has started relocating Kurdish groups to campsites far from the Iran border as part of a security agreement that was reached between the two countries back in March, Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein announced.

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🇲🇽 AMLO proposes 81% increase to armed forces’s budget

Mexico’s armed forces are set to see an 81% increase under the Finance Ministry’s proposed budget for 2024.

The largest increase will go to the Defense Ministry, with an allocation of 259.4 billion pesos ($15 billion) that more than doubles the 111.9 billion pesos that was approved for 2023 for the department. Next up is the Navy, with a 72% increase to its budget that takes it to 71.8 billion pesos ($4.2 billion), according to a draft submitted Friday and that is pending congressional approval.

The budget proposal is the latest indication of President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s increasing reliance on armed forces to carry out large infrastructure works and also tasks that used to be run by civilians.

The Defense Ministry’s proposed budget includes work on the Maya Train and operating Lopez Obrador’s new state-owned airline, Mexicana. It also includes operating the Felipe Angeles airport near Mexico City.

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❗️Germany has become the latest EU country to block Ukrainian Government demands for extradition and mobilisation of Ukrainian men hiding in Germany.

🇸🇩 Hundreds killed in ethnic attacks in Sudan's West Darfur said the UN

Ethnically motivated attacks perpetrated by Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and allied militia have killed hundreds in the West Darfur region, the United Nations human rights chief said on Tuesday.

"In West Darfur, ethnically motivated attacks perpetrated by the RSF and allied Arab militia have resulted in the deaths of hundreds of non-Arab civilians primarily from Masalit communities," Volker Turk, U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, told.

The RSF has denied accusations by conflict monitors, rights groups and witnesses that it is behind attacks on civilians, while saying any of its soldiers found to be involved would be brought to justice.

The reported attacks against the non-Arab Masalit people, the largest community in El Geneina, have sent tens of thousands of people fleeing across the nearby border into Chad.

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🇵🇪🇺🇸 Peru and US strike $20 mln Amazon-focused debt for nature deal

The United States has struck a deal with Peru that will help the Latin American country restore and protect some of its parts of the Amazon rainforest. The agreements will reduce Peru's debt payments to the United States by over $20 million over the next 13 years.

The debt-for-nature swap, as these kinds of agreements are known will put money towards conserving protected areas of the Amazon.

It is made possible through contributions of $15 million by the U.S. government under the Tropical Forest and Coral Reef Conservation Act and a combined donation of $3 million from four international non-governmental organizations.

This is the third debt-for-nature swap between the United States and Peru and took around two years to finalize. According to the Treasury, the first two swaps occurred in 2002 and 2008 and together generated about $36 million for the restoration and conservation.

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