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The investigation of the cause of the fire in the Copenhagen stock exchange could take months

The investigation of the causes of the fire that on Tuesday caused serious damage to the historic old building of the Copenhagen stock exchange could last “several months,” the Danish Police reported on Wednesday.

The authorities assumed the fire was controlled on Tuesday afternoon, about eight hours after its emar, but several dozen firefighters continued this Wednesday with the extinguishing work, which is expected to last until Thursday.

“Shortly after the fire broke out, an investigation was opened and we have carried out several interrogations, ensured surveillance and taken a series of steps. But there is still a part left, especially since we have not yet been able to examine the bag itself or do the technical exams,” deputy comissary Brian Belling said in a statement.

The fire devastated half of the building, from the 17th century and whose facade and roof were being restored, and caused the collapse of part of the roof and the iconic spire of its tower, although hundreds of works of art from its interior were saved.

Apart from extinguishing the last flames, the work is now focused on stabilizing the construction and ensuring that the walls of the burned part do not collapse, for which forty containers full of cement have been placed on the outside.

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The police have progressively opened to traffic areas of the center that were cut off by the fire, but maintain the cuts in the vicinity of the building, located a few meters from the seat of the Parliament.

When the fire broke out, at 07.30 local time (05.30 GMT) on Tuesday, there were inside it, ten workers from the company that was restoring it and who left the place on their own foot.

“We have said that, no matter what happens, we are obliged to restore the Stock Exchange, out of consideration for our history, our cultural heritage, Denmark and the business world,” the director of the Chamber of Commerce, Brian Mikkelsen, reiterated today.

It is one of the oldest buildings preserved in Copenhagen, built between 1619 and 1623 by order of King Christian IV of Denmark and which functioned as the city’s purse until 1974.

King Frederick X yesterday described what happened as “sad” and the Danish Prime Minister, Mette Frederiksen, as “horrible.”

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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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