International
Putin and Trump agreed on the end of the war through peace, according to the Kremlin
The Kremlin assured today that the Russian presidents, Vladimir Putin, and the American presidents, Donald Trump, agreed on Wednesday during their telephone conversation that the end of the war in Ukraine is possible through peaceful means.
“There is agreement that the settlement is possible through peace negotiations,” said Dmitry Peskov, a Kremlin spokesman, in his daily telephone press conference.
Peskov stressed that “there is political will, which was confirmed during yesterday’s conversation by both parties, to engage in dialogue in search of settlement.”
“From now on we have to wait for the first results of the joint work,” he said.
According to the spokesman, Moscow has already begun to form the working group that will participate in the negotiations and stressed that the conversation between both presidents was “very important”, since there had been no contacts at the highest level between Moscow and Washington for a long time.
Putin and Trump agreed that they will “immediately” order their advisors to organize a bilateral meeting, like the one that both dignitaries held in 2018 in Helsinki, he said.
“The previous US Administration supported the point of view that everything possible must be done for the war to continue. The current Administration, from what we see, is attached to the position that everything possible must be done to stop the war and for peace to prevail,” he said.
He added: “We like the position of this Administration much more. We are open to dialogue.”
On the other hand, Peskov denied that both leaders had addressed issues such as a possible ceasefire, the lifting of sanctions and the recognition of the Ukrainian territories annexed by Russia, including the Crimean peninsula.
As for the possible European participation, he replied that Moscow cannot forget what happened with the Minsk Peace Agreements, which were ten years old the day before and that Russia accuses Kiev and its European allies of non-compliance.
“You have to arm yourself with patience,” he recommended to the press about the details of the future negotiations and the meeting between Putin and Trump.
Trump said on Wednesday that he had reached an agreement with his Russian counterpart for both countries to begin “negotiations immediately” with the aim of ending the war in Ukraine.
As Trump explained on his social network Truth Social, the agreement with Putin was reached after a “long and very productive phone call,” in which both leaders expressed their willingness to “stop the millions of deaths that are taking place in the war between Russia and Ukraine.”
Meanwhile, the Kremlin reported that Putin reminded his colleague that to achieve a lasting peace it is necessary to “eliminate” the original causes of the conflict, in reference to the expansion of NATO.
International
ACLU seeks emergency court order to stop venezuelan deportations under Wartime Law
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on Friday asked two federal judges to block the U.S. government under President Donald Trump from deporting any Venezuelan nationals detained in North Texas under a rarely used 18th-century wartime law, arguing that immigration officials appear to be moving forward with deportations despite Supreme Court-imposed limitations.
The ACLU has already filed lawsuits to stop the deportation of two Venezuelan men held at the Bluebonnet Detention Center, challenging the application of the Alien Enemies Act of 1798. The organization is now seeking a broader court order that would prevent the deportation of any immigrant in the region under that law.
In an emergency filing early Friday, the ACLU warned that immigration authorities were accusing other Venezuelan detainees of being members of the Tren de Aragua, a transnational criminal gang. These accusations, the ACLU argues, are being used to justify deportations under the wartime statute.
The Alien Enemies Act has only been invoked three times in U.S. history — most notably during World War II to detain Japanese-American civilians in internment camps. The Trump administration has claimed the law allows them to swiftly remove individuals identified as gang members, regardless of their immigration status.
The ACLU, together with Democracy Forward, filed legal actions aiming to suspend all deportations carried out under the law. Although the U.S. Supreme Court recently allowed deportations to resume, it unanimously ruled that they could only proceed if detainees are given a chance to present their cases in court and are granted “a reasonable amount of time” to challenge their pending removal.
International
Dominican ‘False Hero’ Arrested for Faking Role in Nightclub Collapse That Killed 231
A man identified as Rafael Rosario Mota falsely claimed to have rescued 12 people from the collapse of the Jet Set nightclub in Santo Domingo—a tragedy that left 231 people dead—but he was never at the scene.
Intelligence agents in the Dominican Republic arrested the 32-year-old man for pretending to be a hero who saved lives during the catastrophic incident, authorities announced.
Rosario Mota had been charging for media interviews in which he falsely claimed to have pulled survivors from the rubble after the nightclub’s roof collapsed in the early hours of April 8, during a concert by merengue singer Rubby Pérez, who was among those killed.
“He was never at the scene of the tragedy,” the police stated. The arrest took place just after he finished another interview on a digital platform, where he repeated his fabricated story in exchange for money as part of a “media tour” filled with manipulated information and invented testimonies.
“False hero!” read a message shared on the police force’s Instagram account alongside a short video of the suspect, in which he apologized: “I did it because I was paid. I ask forgiveness from the public and the authorities.”
Central America
Nicaraguan Exiles to Mark 7th Anniversary of 2018 Protests with Global Commemorations
The Nicaraguan opposition in exile announced on Thursday that it will commemorate the seventh anniversary of the April 2018 protests against the government of President Daniel Ortega and his wife, Rosario Murillo, with events in Costa Rica, the United States, and several European countries.
The commemorative activities—which will call for justice for the victims, as well as freedom and democracy for Nicaragua—will include religious services, public forums, cultural fairs, and other public gatherings, according to official announcements.
In April 2018, thousands of Nicaraguans took to the streets to protest controversial reforms to the social security system. The government’s violent response quickly turned the demonstrations into a broader call for the resignation of President Ortega, who is now 79 and has been in power since 2007.
The protests resulted in at least 355 deaths, according to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), although Nicaraguan organizations claim the toll is as high as 684. Ortega has acknowledged “more than 300” deaths and maintains the unrest was an attempted coup d’état.
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