Author: Jaime Corey Floyd

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will address Mexican lawmakers on Thursday by video, the lower house of Congress said, as he seeks support in his country’s war with Russia. The Mexican government has said it wants to remain neutral in the conflict, and some supporters of Ukraine have criticized leftist President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador for taking issue with European arms shipments to Kyiv. Still, Mexico has voted alongside the United States and other Western countries on a number of major U.N. resolutions critical of Russia’s February 2022 invasion of Ukraine. Congress said in a statement late on…

China has warned Guatemala against helping Taiwan and said the one-China principle was “the overriding trend in the world” ahead of the Latin American nation’s president announcing a two-day visit to Taipei. Taiwan is a self-governing country that China claims as its own territory. The country often frowns upon attempts by Taiwan to shore up international support for its cause. Guatemala is only one of the 13 remaining diplomatic allies the self-governing island has. The list mostly includes small nations in the Caribbean, the Pacific and Latin America. On Wednesday, Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin also dismissed Taiwanese attempts to expand its international space, dubbing it as just…

Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi has rightly reminded Australia to be clear and open with Indonesia about its activities as part of the AUKUS trilateral security pact, which involves the United States and United Kingdom. But Indonesia, too, must be more mature in dealing with Australia, as oversensitivity has harmed the neighbors’ friendship in the past. At the eighth annual 2+2 foreign and defense ministers’ meeting in Canberra last week, Retno, accompanied by Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto, stressed to their counterparts Penny Wong and Richard Marles “the importance of AUKUS transparency and the commitment [to stopping] nuclear proliferation, as well as…

Despite the difficulties they have endured in the last few weeks, Real Madrid proved that they are still the king of football world. Since last October, Real Madrid did not look like an unbeatable team. The team that won almost nearly everything in 2021-2022 season are struggling. Luka Modric and company are losing a lot of ground to their arch-rival in LaLiga, Barcelona. Real Madrid lost their position on the top of the league table with a 2-3 loss at the hand of Rayo Vallecano. Things went worse for Carlo Ancelotti’s team. Another defeat in the match against Villarreal and…