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Europe receives Trump’s victory ready to collaborate and work for peace
The main European leaders received this Wednesday the victory of Republican Donald Trump in the elections in the United States with a willingness to collaborate to improve the transatlantic relationship and work together for peace.
The former president has attributed the victory over Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris by obtaining good partial results and winning the popular vote, according to the preliminary scrutiny, although the final data have yet to be confirmed.
The first to congratulate Trump from Europe was the Prime Minister of Hungary, the ultra-nationalist Viktor Orbán, who said on his Facebook account that he had “big plans” with the likely new tenant of the White House.
Considered a leading leader of the world extreme right, Orbán is a close ally of Trump and already during the US election campaign he had made clear his preference for the Republican, about whom he has assured several times that if he returns to the White House he will bring peace to Ukraine in a few days.
Netanyahu highlights the great alliance between Israel and the United States.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has also chosen social networks, who has congratulated Trump for “the greatest comeback in history.”
“Your historic return to the White House offers a new beginning to the United States and a return to commitment to the great alliance between Israel and the United States. It’s a great victory!”, the president wrote on the social network X.
Zelenski congratulates Trump on his “impressive victory”
Hoping to work for a “just peace” in Ukraine, its president, Volodymyr Zelensky, congratulated Trump on his “impressive victory” electoral.
“I appreciate Trump’s commitment to the principle of ‘peace through strength’ in international affairs. It is exactly the principle that can, in a practical way, bring us closer to a just peace in Ukraine,” Zelenski said on his social network account X.
The Ukrainian leader recalled “the great conversation” he had with Trump in New York in September, when the two spoke for the first time in person since the beginning of the Russian invasion about bilateral relations, the so-called Zelenski Victory Plan and the possible ways to end the war.
NATO “counts” on Trump’s leadership
From Brussels, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte held out to collaborate with Trump to promote peace.
“Through NATO, the United States has 31 friends and allies who help promote US interests, multiply American power and keep Americans safe,” Rutte said.
The European Commission “warmly” congratulates the former president
Also from the community capital, the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, “warmly” congratulated Donald Trump on Wednesday, and invited him to work together on a transatlantic agenda that benefits the EU and the US. USA.
“I warmly congratulate Donald J. Trump The EU and the US. The US are more than just allies. We are united by a true partnership between our peoples, which unites 800 million citizens. So let’s work together on a solid transatlantic agenda that continues to provide results for them,” Von der Leyen wrote in a message on the social network X.
Macron and Scholz, “prepared” to work with Trump
For his part, French President Emmanuel Macron said in a brief reaction in X that “he is ready” to work with Trump as they knew how to do during the previous term of the Republican, each with their convictions, “with respect and ambition. For more peace and prosperity.”
“From growth and security to innovation and technology, I know that the special relationship between the United Kingdom and the United States will continue to prosper on both sides of the Atlantic for the coming years,” British Prime Minister, Labor Keir Starmer, also commented on X, congratulating Trump on “a historic electoral victory.”
The German Chancellor, Olaf Scholz, also trusted when congratulating Trump that Germany and the United States will continue their “sussfue” working relationship to promote prosperity and freedom on both sides of the Atlantic.
Pedro Sánchez highlights the “strategic” relationship with the United States.
The President of the Spanish Government, Pedro Sánchez, described relations with the United States as “strategic” when congratulating Trump in X, although the first Spanish political leader to congratulate the former president was the president of the far-right party Vox, Santiago Abascal.
The “strategic” link was also underlined by the Italian Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, who assured that “Italy and the United States are ‘sister’ nations, united by an unwavering alliance, common values and a historical friendship.”
Among the conservative governments of Europe, the Dutch Dick Schoof, prime minister of a coalition government in the Netherlands that includes the radical right, and the Prime Minister of Portugal, Luís Montenegro, who advocated maintaining “close collaboration,” sent congratulatory messages to Trump.
Also the head of the Austrian government, Karl Nehammer, who hoped to expand transatlantic relations “to successfully face global challenges,” and the President of Serbia, the nationalist Aleksandar Vučić, who spoke of cooperating with the United States “for stability, prosperity and peace.”
The first contact between European leaders to assess the results of the US elections will be this Thursday in Budapest (Hungary), where they will meet within the framework of the fifth summit of the European Political Community.
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Seven bodies found with signs of torture in Sinaloa
Mexican authorities discovered seven lifeless bodies on Wednesday, showing clear signs of torture, in the rural area of Culiacán, Sinaloa, just one day after the same number of bodies was found in several municipalities in the western state of Mexico.
Six of these seven victims were found along the side of the highway that connects Culiacán to Mazatlán, near Laguna de Canachi, according to local media reports, which also noted that messages addressed to a criminal group were found near the bodies.
This brings the total number of violent deaths in the region to seven within just 24 hours. On Tuesday, authorities reported more victims found in the municipalities of Culiacán, Elota, and Mazatlán.
Among the victims identified was a local cattle rancher named Ramón Velázquez Ontiveros, as well as a police officer from Mazatlán, who was killed by a motorcyclist outside his home in San Marcos.
International
Málaga paralyzed by new storm as torrential rains hit Spain
Thousands of people were evacuated and trains were suspended as torrential rains once again struck Spain on Wednesday, following the devastating floods that killed at least 223 people two weeks ago, most of them in the Valencia region.
The national meteorological agency (Aemet) issued a maximum, red-level alert for the Andalusian province of Málaga in the south, and for Tarragona in the northeast, due to the new DANA (isolated depression at high levels), also known as a cold drop.
The city of Málaga appeared to be the hardest hit by the rains, with more than 3,000 people evacuated from 1,000 homes near rivers, flooded streets, and the suspension of urban transport and train services to Madrid.
“Today Málaga is paralyzed,” said Andalusia’s regional president, Juan Manuel Moreno, to reporters. “I know it is a problem for citizens not being able to take their children to school or go to work, but after what we saw in Valencia, we need to ‘prevent’ and minimize the impact in terms of loss of life,” he added.
The storm also led to the postponement of a match between Spain and Poland in the Billie Jean King Cup women’s tennis competition, which was scheduled for Wednesday afternoon in Málaga.
International
Hezbollah launches explosive drone strike on Israel’s defense headquarters
The Lebanese Islamist movement Hezbollah claimed on Wednesday that it launched an attack with explosive drones against the Israeli army’s headquarters in Tel Aviv.
The Iran-backed organization reported in a statement that it had carried out “an aerial attack with a squadron of explosive drones” targeting the site that houses Israel’s main defense institutions.
Hezbollah later stated that it also fired a barrage of rockets at the Glilot military intelligence base in the suburbs of Tel Aviv.
The Israeli military indicated that “sirens sounded in several areas of northern and central Israel following the launch of projectiles from Lebanon.”
It later clarified that “five projectiles were identified over the territory, and some were intercepted.”
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