The Washington Post - Estados Unidos

Las tentaciones que ofrece el submundo del espionaje ilegal en Argentina son demasiado fuertes para los políticos. Todos sus gobiernos, desde el retorno de la democracia en 1983, cayeron bajo sus influjos, con consecuencias institucionales que llegan hasta hoy y que tornan aún más urgente la necesidad de encarar una reforma profunda, de raíz, del sistema de espionaje.

15:26 - The United Nations called for an investigation following reports that at least 35 people, including a child, were killed in a massacre by Myanmar’s military on Christmas Eve. Two workers for Save the Children, a humanitarian organization, remain among the missing.

The Biden administration is facing mounting pressure from lawmakers, aid groups and former officials to restart the flow of billions of dollars in aid and cash to Afghanistan, where a humanitarian crisis is growing increasingly perilous.

Iran and the United Nations nuclear watchdog agency announced Wednesday that they have reached an agreement on one of the most serious outstanding verification issues between them, offering a possible breakthrough in negotiations here over Iran’s nuclear program.

Russia has vetoed the passage of a United Nations Security Council resolution that for the first time would have treated climate change as a threat to peace, even as many Western powers increasingly take climate risk into account as part of their security strategies.

The House of Representatives voted Wednesday night to ban most imports from the Xinjiang region in China over concerns that goods were made there through the use of forced labor, as Western nations continue to confront Beijing’s crackdown on ethnic minorities in the area.

Pakistan, the State Department warns sharply, has more than a dozen serious human rights problems, from “extrajudicial killings” to “forced disappearance by the government or its agents” to “political prisoners” to “severe restrictions of religious freedom” to “trafficking in persons.”

16:18 - Confirmation of the attacks comes one month after the U.S. blacklisted NSO Group

12:50 - President Erdogan pushes lower interest rates as currency plunges; ‘everyone here is outraged’