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  Andrés Villavicencio, a 31-year-old lawyer, had just a minute to think about the decision that changed his life. As in the last eight elections that have taken place since he came of age, on July 28, 2024, he was an electoral observer for the opposition coalition at the Paraguaná Institute, in the municipality of Carirubana. This is an impoverished area between the Caja de Agua and Antiguo Aeropuerto sectors of the oil-producing state of Falcón, on Venezuela’s west coast. However, this past election was the only time in which he ever had to demand the records that must be…

Goodbye toll booth during the day. With the minutes of agreement signed on 5 December between the managers of the Autostrade per l’Italia company and the national representatives of CGIL, CISL and UIL and of the autonomous Cisal and UGL, together with the territorial structures and the RSA, the end of the toll collector or, as the technical term dictates, the toll collector, i.e. the employee who collects the toll from motorists at the barrier. Autostrade spa, goodbye toll booths even during the day: experimentation in Liguria from January https://genova.repubblica.it/cronaca/2024/12/16/news/autostrade_spa_casellanti_addio_anche_di_giorno_sperimentazione_in_liguria_da_gennaio-423888518/?rss

South Korea’s acting president, Han Duck-soo, moved on Sunday to reassure the country’s allies and calm financial markets a day after President Yoon Suk Yeol was impeached and suspended from his duties over a martial law attempt.

British teen sentenced after sex in Dubai could see jail time increased to 20 years A British teenager held in a Dubai prison after having sex with a 17-year-old girl could face 20 years behind bars. Marcus Fakana, from Tottenham, London, was jailed in the United Arab Emirates during a family holiday. The 18-year-old was detained and given a one-year sentence after the secret romance with the young woman, now aged 18, he met during a family vacation, according to Detained in Dubai. Now a lawyer has warned that Marcus’s sentence could be extended up to 20 years as he…

Ulster captain Iain Henderson knows what it takes to get to the pinnacle of rugby. A celebrated Ireland international and British and Irish Lion, Henderson has been performing at the top level for over a decade now and is better placed than anyone to help mould a new generation of Ulster players. But that’s a process that doesn’t happen overnight. The last two weeks have been very painful for Ulster but there are signs of improvement as Saturday’s first half suggests. But despite feeling frustrated after Saturday’s loss, Henderson was delighted to see a big improvement from last week’s loss…

People leaving direct provision are facing straight into homelessness due to an “ad hoc system” that is heaping “maximum stress” on services, local authorities and the international protection applicants themselves.Mike Allen, director of advocacy at Focus Ireland, said the system appears designed to ensure that the failure of Ireland’s housing system and its asylum system falls “most heavily” on those who have come to Ireland for protection and have had that claim upheld.“[This is] one of the major challenges facing the incoming Government, and one that went entirely unmentioned in the election period, with no party bringing forward ideas for…

Faithful members of the Fraternité Saint-Barthélemy walk along the seafront promenade during Good Friday, as part of the Easter celebrations, in Bonifacio, Corsica, March 29, 2024. PASCAL POCHARD-CASABIANCA / AFP This Sunday, December 15, Pope Francis is attending a symposium on “popular religiosity” in Ajaccio, Corsica, organized at the initiative of local cardinal and bishop François Bustillo. This is a theme dear to the pontiff, who placed it at the heart of his latest encyclical, He loved us (“he loved us,” in Latin), published on October 24. Corsica appears to be a particularly rich laboratory for the study of this…

A man who turned himself in saying he was responsible for five murders in northern France on Saturday, December 14, had no criminal record, authorities said Sunday.

“Meteorites are sold.” The sign, hand-painted in lurid colors, rests on a two-meter-long table covered in stones that are advertised as having arrived from outer space. There are rocks that made a trip of almost 55 million kilometers, from Mars, before landing at the International Fair of Minerals, Fossils and Meteorites that was held at the Chamartín station, Madrid, this weekend. More than 30 exhibitors from Spain and other countries – Brazil, Morocco, India, Pakistan, Czech Republic – have participated in the event, which already has 41 editions and which, between this Friday and Saturday, attracted more than 2,000 people,…

The commissioner of the ‘Koldo case’ testifies today in the Supreme Court as a defendant, after having promised to prove the incriminations against members of the Government that he pointed out in the National Court Read Aldama’s third round, 25 days after his "invented": only three of his 10 accusations remain without documentation or evidence