(...) The Ukrainian president met this week with his counterpart, Joe Biden, who announced a fresh military aid package for Kyiv against a backdrop of Republican resistance to continued provisions for Kyiv’s cause. “Today, I approved the next tranche of U.S. security assistance to Ukraine, including more artillery, more ammunition, more anti-tank weapons, and next week, the first U.S. Abrams tanks will be delivered to Ukraine,” Biden said as the Ukrainian counteroffensive continues on the ground.
EL PAÍS spoke to Thelma Aldana, the former attorney-general of Guatemala, who went into exile in the U.S. due to threats generated by her anti-corruption investigations. More than 40 high-ranking lawyers like her have also had to flee their home country but Aldana is hopeful center-left President-elect Bernardo Arévalo will be able to take office in January after defeating former first lady Sandra Torres in the elections in August. (...)
Elsewhere, an investigation into Mexican organized crime has revealed that the cartels are now the fifth-largest employer in the country. The report by the Complexity Science Hub Vienna, published Thursday in Science, states that criminal groups number around 175,000 members, 60,000 more than a decade ago. (...).
And finally, a recent study published in PNAS examined 34,600 species of 5,400 vertebrate genera over the past 500 years and found that entire branches of the evolutionary tree are being destroyed. (...). In the absence of human influence, it would have taken 18,000 years to see so many genera disappear, the study concluded. “We are losing the only living companions we know of in the entire universe,” said Paul Ehrlich, a professor at Stanford University and a co-author of the paper.
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