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against the opposition by Kais
Saied, the increasingly repres
sive president.
In a sign that the two sides in
Yemen’s
civil war may be
getting closer to a peace deal,
almost 900 people were
released in a prisoner swap
between the Houthis, a Shia
rebel group that controls large
parts of the country, and the
Saudiled coalition that has
been fighting them since
2015. Meanwhile at least 80
people died in a crush as aid
was being distributed in
Sana’a, the capital.
Sergei Lavrov,
Russia’s
foreign
minister, visited
Brazil
and
Venezuela
. Luiz Inácio Lula da
Silva, Brazil’s president, met
Mr Lavrov, after stirring up
trouble by suggesting that
America was prolonging the
fighting in Ukraine by sending
weapons to Kiev. Lula clarified
later that he condemned the
invasion of Ukraine, but Amer
ican officials remained
unimpressed. Mr Lavrov is also
visiting Cuba and Nicaragua.
Mexico’s
Supreme Court
annulled a contentious reform
backed by Andrés Manuel
López Obrador, the president,
which would have put the
National Guard, ostensibly a
civilian police force, under the
control of the armed forces. Mr
López Obrador meanwhile
accused the Pentagon of spy
ing on Mexico, and promised
to safeguard classified
information about the army.
A Russian court sentenced a
prominent critic of the Putin
regime to 25 years in prison for
criticising the war in Ukraine,
which the prosecution consi
dered to be tantamount to
treason.
Vladimir Kara-
Murza
, who holds dual Brit
ishRussian citizenship, told
the court he stood by “every
word” and did not want to be
acquitted. The judge took just
minutes to rule on the case.
A separate Russian court
upheld the detention of
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