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Donald Trump will have the last word in the electoral debate with Joe Biden

The former president of the United States and Republican pre-candidate Donald Trump will have the last word in next week’s electoral debate in Atlanta (Georgia), with the current president, Democrat Joe Biden, the CNN network, organizer of the event, announced on Thursday.

After the launch of a coin on the air, Biden’s campaign won the right to choose the position of the podium in the debate or the order of the final statements, and opted for the first option.

The Democrats asked Biden to debate from the right side of the television screen, while his rival Trump’s podium will be on the left side.

Then, Trump’s campaign asked the former president to pronounce the final statement of the debate, which means that Biden will be the first to finish his speech.

The debate, which will be broadcast on June 27 on CNN, will be the first of the two face-to-face televised broadcasts between Biden and Trump before the November 5 elections.

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The debate will be in Atlanta, will last 90 minutes and will be moderated by CNN journalists Jake Tapper and Dana Bash.
There will be two commercial breaks during which campaign staff will not be able to interact with their candidate.

Biden and Trump’s teams have also accepted that the microphones are closed throughout the face-to-face except for the candidate to whom they are entitled to speak.

Nor will the contenders be allowed on the stage to accessories or previously written notes, although they will receive a pen, a notebook and a bottle of water.

Biden will spend the next few days at the residence of Camp David (Maryland), on the outskirts of Washington, to practice and be ready.

For his part, Trump has been preparing for a few weeks in meetings with some senators and other politicians that sound like the Republican’s vice-presidents.

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It will be the first time that an active president and a former president face each other in an electoral debate.

It is also not common for the debate to be held in June, before the national conventions of both parties that make the candidacies official, but this year’s primaries were resolved in the spring.

The ABC network will organize the second and final presidential debate in September. The televised presidential debates have been part of the tradition of the United States in all electoral cycles since 1976.

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Trump urges Putin to reach peace deal

On Monday, U.S. President Donald Trump reiterated his desire for Russian President Vladimir Putin to “reach a deal” to end the war in Ukraine, while also reaffirming his willingness to impose sanctions on Russia.

“I want to see him reach an agreement to prevent Russian, Ukrainian, and other people from dying,” Trump stated during a press conference in the Oval Office at the White House.

“I think he will. I don’t want to have to impose secondary tariffs on Russian oil,” the Republican leader added, recalling that he had already taken similar measures against Venezuela by sanctioning buyers of the South American country’s crude oil.

Trump also reiterated his frustration over Ukraine’s resistance to an agreement that would allow the United States to exploit natural resources in the country—a condition he set in negotiations to end the war.

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Deportation flight lands in Venezuela; government denies criminal gang links

A flight carrying 175 Venezuelan migrants deported from the United States arrived in Caracas on Sunday. This marks the third group to return since repatriation flights resumed a week ago, and among them is an alleged member of a criminal organization, according to Venezuelan authorities.

Unlike previous flights operated by the Venezuelan state airline Conviasa, this time, an aircraft from the U.S. airline Eastern landed at Maiquetía Airport, on the outskirts of Caracas, shortly after 2:00 p.m. with the deportees.

Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello, who welcomed the returnees at the airport, stated that the 175 repatriated individuals were coming back “after being subjected, like all Venezuelans, to persecution” and dismissed claims that they belonged to the criminal organization El Tren de Aragua.

However, Cabello confirmed that “for the first time in these flights we have been carrying out, someone of significance wanted by Venezuelan justice has arrived, and he is not from El Tren de Aragua.” Instead, he belongs to a gang operating in the state of Trujillo. The minister did not disclose the individual’s identity or provide details on where he would be taken.

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Son of journalist José Rubén Zamora condemns father’s return to prison as “illegal”

Guatemalan court decides Wednesday whether to convict journalist José Rubén Zamora

The son of renowned journalist José Rubén Zamora Marroquín, José Carlos Zamora, has denounced as “illegal” the court order that sent his father back to a Guatemalan prison on March 3, after already spending 819 days behind barsover a highly irregular money laundering case.

“My father’s return to prison was based on an arbitrary and illegal ruling. It is also alarming that the judge who had granted him house arrest received threats,” José Carlos Zamora told EFE in an interview on Saturday.

The 67-year-old journalist was sent back to prison inside the Mariscal Zavala military barracks on March 3, when Judge Erick García upheld a Court of Appeals ruling that overturned the house arrest granted to him in October. Zamora had already spent 819 days in prison over an alleged money laundering case.

His son condemned the situation as “unacceptable”, stating that the judge handling the case “cannot do his job in accordance with the law due to threats against his life.”

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