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The Republican Party formally nominates Trump as its candidate

The Republican Party on Monday formalized, during its national convention in Milwaukee, the nomination of former US President Donald Trump as its candidate for the elections next November.
Just two days after surviving an assassination attempt at a rally, Trump was crowned by party delegates as the Republican candidate for the Nov. 5 election, in which he will likely face incumbent Democrat Joe Biden.
The nearly 2,400 delegates representing the country’s various states and territories cast their votes en masse for Trump, who ultimately obtained 2,387 votes.
When Eric Trump, the former president’s son, announced that Florida’s votes had been cast for his father, the number needed to formalize the nomination was reached and a standing ovation erupted to the tune of the song ‘Celebration’ by Kool & the Gang and Pat Boone.
Delegates gathered at the Republican National Convention also unanimously approved the selection of Ohio Senator JD Vance, a 39-year-old politician who is also a businessman and writer, as Donald Trump’s presidential running mate.
Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Whatley opened the meeting with a moment of silence for the attack on Trump on Saturday during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, that left him injured in the ear and killed a member of the audience.
The venue is surrounded by tight security and the red, white and blue balloons, the colour of the American flag, are already ready on the roof to mark the celebrations following Trump’s final speech on Thursday.
This is the former president’s first public shower since a man shot him in Butler. In addition to the person in the audience who died, two others were injured and the attacker was neutralized by law enforcement.
According to what he told the conservative magazine Washington Examiner, the events have led him to rewrite his speech to focus on the need for unity in the country and not on his likely electoral rival on November 5, President Joe Biden.
The Republican National Convention kicked off in Milwaukee on Monday with Trump’s nomination mathematically assured: he needed the votes of 1,215 delegates to secure it, and the primary process guaranteed him 2,268.
In addition, his primary rival Nikki Haley, a former US ambassador to the UN, released her 97 delegates so they could vote for the former president.
The party’s unity around Trump has grown even stronger since the Republican survived the attack last Saturday in Pennsylvania.
International
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.
International
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.
International
Son of journalist José Rubén Zamora condemns father’s return to prison as “illegal”

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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