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    25Mar, 2023
    AEMET advances the weather that will be at Easter

    The AEMET spokesman, Rubén del Campo, explained that “it will not be a very rainy week”, although he insisted that there is still a long way to go to launch an accurate forecast.
    Nine days until Palm Sunday arrives and with it, Easter 2023 can begin. This is one of the most anticipated moments of the year by thousands of citizens who will take to the streets to witness the processions in different country cities.

    One of the main unknowns in this period of the year, as in previous periods, will be the weather. From the State Meteorological Agency (AEMET) its spokesman, Rubén del Campo, made it clear that there are still many days left to give a clear forecast since, according to his version, spring is “given to give surprises in the meteorological year” .

    Even so, he advanced the forecast that could be the most likely for the first week of April. “During the week of April 3 to 9 (from Holy Monday to Easter Sunday), temperatures could be above the normal average in the center and south of the Peninsula, but not very markedly. It will not be a very hot or cold week, it will be a mild environment or something warmer, normal for the time of year.

    Regarding rainfall, he mentioned that you have to be “prudent” although everything seems to indicate that it will not be the main protagonist of the week. “In principle, it will not be a rainy Holy Week in most of the Peninsula.” A forecast that, if confirmed, will be a relief for all those who want to witness the most anticipated and visited processions of the year.

    On the other hand, from eltiempo.es they stressed that, according to the weather of the period 1991-2020 for the selected dates, there is a reality, and that is that the rain “appears in almost 3 out of 4 years in practically all the country”. Ricardo Torrijo, another AEMET meteorologist, agrees with his colleague from Campo, assuring that “broadly speaking, the period in which Holy Week falls this year is a spring period, in which great weather changes can occur” .

    weather for next week
    For next week, the last week of March and the week before the start of Holy Week, rainfall is expected in the northwest and northern third of the peninsula, with generally “stable” weather in the rest of the country. No precipitation is expected except in the areas mentioned above, and a mild environment is expected for this Saturday with 5/10ºC higher than the average for the period in the east and south of the peninsula.

    Looking ahead to Monday the 27th, daytime temperatures will drop in the Mediterranean area as the northwesterly winds stop blowing, and the situation in terms of fire risk will ease. In the middle of the week, the daytime is expected to exceed the annual average for the season in the Guadalquivir valley. A situation that can be maintained until Friday. In Madrid, for example, maximum temperatures between 24 and 27ºC are expected for the last days of March.

    22Mar, 2023
    The US Federal Reserve raises interest rates another 0.25 points despite bank fragility

    The Federal Reserve of the United States (Fed) has decided this Wednesday to continue with its plan to increase interest rates to contain inflation and raises interest rates again by 0.25% despite the financial instability generated by the crisis Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and Signature Bank. With this rise they are in a range of 4.75% to 5%.

    In addition, the US body wanted to send a message of calm and said in a statement in which it announced the decision that the banking system “is solid and resilient.”

    With this rise in rates, it is the ninth consecutive increase and it is the same amount as the one already carried out in February, when it placed them at around 4.5% to 4.75%.

    Although the president of the US bank, Jerome Powell, indicated in the first week of March that “there is a long way to go” with regard to the rate hike, this Wednesday he changed his discourse and anticipated this Wednesday that, as a result of the recent crisis banking, current interest rate increases may not be adequate to contain inflation. “Instead, we now anticipate that some additional policy firmness may be appropriate,” he said at a press conference following this recent rate hike.

    The US Federal Reserve raises interest rates by 0.25 points to 4.75 and warns that they will continue to rise
    The US Federal Reserve raises interest rates by 0.25 points to 4.75 and warns that they will continue to rise
    However, many experts consider that the entity should stop the increases in an environment of banking uncertainty after the fall of the SVB. In fact, New York Fed President John Williams has warned against using monetary policy to mitigate financial instability: “Monetary policy should not try to be jack of all trades and master of none.”

    For her part, the US Treasury Secretary, Janet Yallen, defended on Tuesday the “soundness” of the country’s banking system, stressing that the current situation cannot be compared to the 2008 crisis, since the financial system it is now “significantly stronger” than then. “The situation is stabilizing and the US banking system remains strong,” she said in a speech to the American Bankers Association in Washington.

    A context altered by the Silicon Valley Bank crisis
    All this situation of banking uncertainty is due to the bankruptcy of the SVB and Signature Bank, which caused collapses and volatility in the world stock markets last week, including European banks such as Credit Suisse, whose crisis was resolved when it was acquired this weekend. week by its competitor UBS. All in all, world markets and banks have experienced one of the toughest financial weeks in a long time.

    Keys to the collapse of the Silicon Valley Bank: what has happened and what are the risks of its fall?
    Keys to the collapse of the Silicon Valley Bank: what has happened and what are the risks of its fall?
    In this context, both Janet Yellen and Jerome Powell have tried to provide some stability, assuring citizens and markets that the situation will not lead to a financial crisis. In fact, the Fed has launched a new fund so that banks that need to insure their customers’ deposits have money to do so.

    In addition, major US banks banded together last week to bail out First Republic Bank with $30bn, which was threatening to go the way of SVB and Signature Bank after a sharp drop in share value.
    Follow in the footsteps of the European Central Bank
    The Fed’s decision occurs in a scenario where another major world bank, the European Central Bank (ECB), maintained last week its plan to raise interest rates by 0.5 points to curb inflation, up to the environment 3.5%, despite the concern in the markets caused by the crisis of the Swiss bank Credit Suisse and that of the SVB.
    The president of the ECB, Christine Lagarde, has put the mission of bringing inflation to the 2% target -far from the 8.5% reached in February- before containing the increases due to the uncertainty of the markets. In fact, he wanted to give them some reassurance by making it clear that the ECB had the necessary tools to provide banks with liquidity after the Credit Suisse and SVB crisis: “We are prepared to respond as necessary to maintain price and financial stability in the Euro zone”.

    11Mar, 2023
    Smorodskaya told how she sued 10 million from Diarra. But the disassembly continues – they reached the EU court

    Smorodskaya could hardly have imagined such a thing.

    The former president of Lokomotiv, Olga Smorodskaya, came to the Commentary Show and, in her usual style, told how successfully she managed the club. For example,  she recalled the trial with Lass Diarra: “I won the most important CAS in my life and created a precedent. Diarra won 10 million!”

    True, Smorodskaya does not know if this money reached Loko: “They should have received [Ilya] Gerkus, who replaced Smorodskaya as president of the club. And then a dark story.

    Sports.ru found out how the story with Diarra’s payments ended, and also found out why Lass is still suing because of the scandalous break with Loko.

    Loko terminated the contract with Diarra due to missed training camps. The club talked about the conflict between Lass and Kuchuk, but it was about Smorodskaya

    Lokomotiv snatched Diarra at the Anji sale in the summer of 2013. 12 million euros for the Frenchman is still in the top 3 purchases in club history (15 million were given for Mubarak Boussouf at the same time), and in the first six months Diarra fully justified the cost and led Loko to a real fight for the championship. 

    In the spring of 2014, Diarra complained about his health – as a result, he scraped together only 17 matches in the championship. Lassa’s toxicity manifested itself both on the field (three removals) and beyond: several times he returned from France later than he should have. 

    After the 2013/14 season, Diarra and Boussufa disappeared, missing the summer training camp. “No one from the club can contact. Neither the coaching staff nor the guys succeed. They do not respond to text messages or e-mails, ”said Dmitry Tarasov.

    Legionnaires returned only after the start of the new championship, explaining their absence by illness. Boussufa provided the documents – he was forgiven. Diarra had no proof.

    “I got the impression that Diarra thought that everything would be as always, he would come, and there would be nothing for him for absenteeism. And he was asked to provide a written explanation and evidence of the disease. It seems that he did not expect such a turn of events, believing that in the worst case, everything would end in a fine, ”said Evgeny Krechetov, the club’s then director of legal affairs.

    6Mar, 2023
    The smartest dog race, according to science

    A recent study prepared by scientists from the University of Helsinki (Finland) has revealed which is the most intelligent canine breed through a series of cognitive tests for which they have taken more than 1,000 copies of 13 different races. The result points to Malinois Belga, a tracker dog characterized by its ability to solve problems and its magnificent understanding of the human being and his needs.

    To achieve this conclusion, the research has prepared the data set on cognitive aspects of more complete canine breeds that exists to date. The dogs examined have passed a total of 10 tasks: seven cognitive and three behavioral. Subsequently, the same team of experts responsible for the creation of Smartdog has evaluated the results.

    Each race has its strengths and weaknesses. However, as indicated by one of the authors of the study, Katriina Tiira, in the case of the Belgian pastor Malinois, “he said in many of the cognitive tasks, with very good results in most of them.” The scientist has also highlighted the role of the border collies in the tests performed.

    How has dogs be examined?
    Among the tests to those who have submitted the canines are those of logical reasoning, where there has been no great difference between the different races, and those of cognition, which have been differential and have served to verify the capacity to solve problems of problems of problems dogs. Another remarkable test has been the one that measured the ability to read human gestures, which has been carried out evaluating the reaction of the canines to five gestures of the people: to indicate constantly, point very little, point out with the foot, point out something While looking in another direction and, finally, following the human look.

    In line with this test, scientists have investigated the degree of independence of dogs and the speed with which they help a human who needs help. To do this, the irresolvable task has been raised to try to access the food inside a box that cannot be opened. “This task also measured a social aspect; Some races obtained very high scores in humans directed by humans, which means that they tried to ask the human help, while, at the other extreme, the dogs tried to solve the problem independently, ”said Tiira, which has added“ Both answers can be useful in different situations. ”

    Final results of the tests
    Both in the proof of gestures and in cognition, Belgian pastor Malinois was first. In addition, it was the fifth most independent. The border collies was followed in the results -secondly -and the Havawart -tercero-. However, the team of scientists has clarified that the classification with respect to each trait is not “as useful” as knowing what races they work best in their own skills.

    6Mar, 2023
    Four years in prison for the accused of theft in Atrio

    The Audience of Cáceres has sentenced Romanian Dumitru Constantin to four years in prison, 48 -year -old partner and his 29 -year -old Mexican exmsss, after they were accused of stealing 45 bottles of wine from the Atrio restaurant, located in the city Cacereña and that they visited up to three times.

    However, the thing was not there since the judges forced the two defendants to pay compensation of 753,454 euros, that is, the same amount in which the expert Roberto Nebreda and the restaurant insurance company, Reale Seguros, tasted the bottles stolen. An established sanction after the judges considered proven that the authors committed a crime of “robbery with force open to the public of special gravity.”

    The sentence, of 24 folios and whose content includes ‘El País’, said that Constantin and Guevara “planned the events on June 1 and 13, and on August 12”, with the previous stay of the woman at the Hotel Athrus Located next to the restaurant on October 26. The exmiss, according to the brief, arrived with a false Swiss passport and with an empty backpack and had dinner that same night with the Romanian male. In room 107 of the hotel, they tested a tasting menu of 14 dishes.

    After dinner, the theft happened. Everything came with the hotel receptionist’s refusal to process a woman’s command, who asked for a salad to subjected her to her room. Finally, he agreed to indicate that it would take 20 minutes. At the time this employee went to the kitchen, Constantin took control of one of the hotel’s electronic cards to access the cellar, although the key did not serve to open the door.

    With the aim of preventing them from being hunted by hotel and restaurant workers, Guevara entertained the receptionist with two more orders. During that period of time, Constantin took the key that did serve to open the winery. There, he proceeded to keep the 45 bottles in the backpack supported in towels, to prevent them from breaking. The sentence considers proven that the two defendants of the robbery left at 5:00 of the facilities.

    Arrested in Croatia in July 2022
    Only eight months after what happened, both were arrested in the Croatian border post of Karasovici Sutorina, from Montenegro, thanks to a research and coordination work of different European bodies and security forces, including the National Police in collaboration in collaboration With Europol and Interpol agents, as well as the Border Police of Croatia and the Interior Agreed of Spain in Romania and the Netherlands.

    According to the authorities, the thieves “proved to be highly specialized and with experience when robbery with a millimeter planning”, and were identified thanks to international coordination, although their location was “difficult”, according to a statement from the National Police.

    A sentence that can still be used
    A sentence that arrives almost two years after the events that occurred at the end of October 2021. That night, almost half a hundred bottles of wine were stolen among which were, among others, a 38 of Romanée Conti and a unique jewel, A 1806 chateau d´yquem considered “historical”, appraised at 350,000 euros. A copy that was the jewel of the restaurant’s crown, which has two Michelin stars and three Repsol soles.

    Despite the condemnation filed, it is not yet firm and the defendants, ultimately, may still present an appeal before the Civil and Criminal Chamber of the Superior Court of Justice of Extremadura. “From theft is all negative, it was very painful, it was something of José, who had done throughout his life,” said Toño Pérez, one of the owners of Athrium, days ago.

    6Mar, 2023
    Marko continues to accuse Aston Martin: “Today we had three Red Bulls on the podium”

    Marko continues to accuse Aston Martin: “Today we had three Red Bulls on the podium”
    It is known that Helmut Marko has no filters when he exposes his thoughts to the media. Red Bull adviser has accused Dan Fallows of copying the car from the energy drink box. His theory is that the AMR23 bears an uncanny resemblance to the RB19. And it is based on the fact that the aforementioned Fallows knows first-hand the ideas of Adrian Newey. The best designer of all time in F1 has been the inspiration for the main person in charge of creating Fernando Alonso’s ‘weapon’ for this 2023 course.
    “It’s true, what Fallows had in his head cannot be erased. Copying the focus is not prohibited, but can you copy in such detail without having documentation of our car?” Marko said of the former Red Bull, in statements to ‘Servus TV’.
    The Austrian leader has returned to affect the same after the conclusion of the first Grand Prix of the season. He has released a taunt very much like him. “Today we had three Red Bulls on the podium, only the last one with a different engine! (Aston Martin is fitted with a Mercedes power unit)”, he emphasized.
    Marko then added: “I said it before the race: Alonso will be third. His fight with Hamilton was unbelievable. It was a tough duel, but fair. Really old school. If Fernando had started later, it surely would have been a threat to us.” Fernando finished the first round of the championship 38 seconds behind Max Verstappen, but it is also true that he got off to a bad start. Now, his comeback indicates that he is a rival to be reckoned with for the dominant team in current F1.
    And he concluded with a compliment to the two-time Spanish champion, who at 41 continues to maintain the same ambition and competitive spirit. “With Alonso age does not seem to matter. He is in the best form of his life”, he has stressed.

    6Mar, 2023
    Modric, summoned by Croatia, insists that he wants to play the two qualifying matches for the Eurocup

    Modric, summoned by Croatia, insists that he wants to play the two qualifying matches for the Eurocup
    Luka Modric (37 years old) has been called up for the two games that the Croatian national team will play in this upcoming match against Wales and Turkey, qualifying for Euro 2024. The Real Madrid midfielder has been cited by Zlatko Dalic in a list on The one that does not include the Osasuna striker Ante Budimir.

    According to the Croatian newspaper Sportske novosti, the coach would have proposed that Modric play alone in the first match of the European qualifiers, on March 25 against Wales, and then return to Madrid, but the midfielder, who will turn 38 in September, insisted to also play against Turkey, three days later.

    The captain and soul of the Croatian team has in mind reaching the next European Championship and that is why he has insisted on playing the two games, knowing that they are valid to obtain the classification of said tournament that will be held in Germany between June and July of the year that comes.

    The Croatian outlet considers that those in check can expect Modric to participate in Euro 2024 and explains that he must be considered “a supreme player and not a veteran who by a miracle still resists the years.” Dalic published today a first list of the Croatian team for the Eurocup qualifying phase, which in addition to Modric also includes many other players from the last World Cup. “We don’t have to change the team that won the bronze medal at the World Championship a few months ago, so there are 23 Qatari players on the list,” he said.

    Croatian roster for the two qualifying matches:
    Goalkeepers: Dominik Livakovic, Ivica Ivusic, Nediljko Labrovic

    Defender: Domagoj Vida, Borna Barisic, Josip Juranovic, Josko Gvardiol, Borna Sosa, Josip Stanisic, Martin Erlic, Josip Sutalo

    Midfielders: Luka Modric, Mateo Kovacic, Marcelo Brozovic, Mario Pasalic, Nikola Vlasic, Lovro Majer, Luka Ivanusec, Luka Sucic

    Attackers: Ivan Perisic, Andrej Kramaric, Bruno Petkovic, Mislav Orsic, Marko Livaja, Petar Musa

    6Mar, 2023
    The head commissioner of the National Police in Fuengirola is detained by Internal Affairs.

    A court in the town of Malaga attributes the disclosure of secrets, coercion and omission to prosecute the crime in a separate piece of a case that investigates the businessman Salomon Kadosh, also arrested
    The Internal Affairs Unit of the National Police has arrested this Monday the chief commissioner of the Malaga town of Fuengirola, José María Tocornal, for the alleged crimes of discovery and disclosure of secrets, failure to prosecute the crime and coercion, among others, have informed elDiario.es sources close to the investigation.

    The investigation is directed by the Investigating Court number 3 of Fuengirola, whose head has decreed the secrecy of the proceedings. The aforementioned sources specify that the 63-year-old commissioner has been arrested early in the morning at his private home. In the same operation, a 58-year-old businessman, Salomon Kadosh Chuqueron, has been arrested.
    The Efe agency cites police sources to ensure that, after his transfer to police stations, the commissioner will be dismissed and his employment and salary will be suspended, while a disciplinary file will be opened. Commissioner Tocornal is being investigated in a separate piece of a broader proceeding.

    Tocornal, a native of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, joined the Superior Police Corps as an Inspector in 1983. He was stationed in Bilbao until 1992 and later in Huelva. In 2008 he was appointed head of the Provincial Citizen Security Brigade of the Huelva capital and in 2011 head of the Lucena-Cabra police station. He was promoted to commissioner in 2017 and his first destination with that category was Fuengirola.

    For his part, the businessman Salomon Kadosh Chuqueron appears at the head of the company Orgánico Agricultura Andalucía SL, established in 2020, with headquarters in Fuengirola and dedicated to the cultivation of spices, aromatic, medicinal and pharmaceutical plants, as well as the production and marketing of insects for the control and prevention of pests in crops and the import and export of seeds and all kinds of plants.

    6Mar, 2023
    Spain is no longer big business for the largest construction companies

    Of the large listed companies, only FCC and San José generate more than half of their business in their country of origin, while in the case of ACS it is 9% and for Ferrovial, before moving to the Netherlands, 18%.
    The week in which the Ferrovial group has opened a business and political crisis by deciding to move its headquarters to the Netherlands has coincided with the presentation of results, not only of the company chaired by Rafael del Pino, but of almost all the large Spanish construction companies .
    In its financial report, Ferrovial repeats one of the arguments that it has put forward to explain its change of headquarters: Spain is a small part of its business, even though it has its “roots” here. And it is not the only one that emphasizes its internationalization and the strong weight of its activity abroad, although in parallel almost all the companies break down the development of infrastructures in Spain and, some of them, also the impulse that they are going to assume the European recovery funds for their businesses.
    “We are the most advanced country in the deployment of said funds, part of which is being allocated to the improvement of transport and mobility, as well as to energy infrastructures”, Sacyr indicates in its report when talking about the injection that they can suppose the Next Generation. “Regarding the future of the construction sector in our country, it continues to be quite promising, since infrastructures are key when it comes to gaining competitiveness in a country whose economic pillars are tourism and exports,” adds this company, which, in 2022, left the post-pandemic red numbers behind and earned 110 million euros in a record year in revenue, more than 5,851 million.

    Some businesses linked to concessions
    In the case of Sacyr, almost two thirds of its sales are generated outside of Spain. In our country, it obtains 38% of its turnover, close to 2,166 million euros. A weight of Spain in its activity that is repeated in almost all the large listed construction companies, as detailed in the information that they have sent – although not all – to the National Securities Market Commission (CNMV).

    If we go into detail about the data published by other competitors, Acciona has 43% of its activity in Spain, 4,925 million at the end of the year. The company controlled by the Entrecanales, in recent years, has focused on renewable energy. However, he speaks of the Spanish market as key in infrastructure and real estate activities.

    This is one of the characteristics of how the business of the large Spanish construction companies has changed, which have shifted their activity from traditional construction to businesses linked to public concessions, such as highways, which they have embraced, for example, in the United States. or Canada. Acciona, when explaining the weight by market in its infrastructure construction activities, of the 4,650 million turnover, Spain corresponds to 754 million.

    It is not a very different situation from that of FCC, which is controlled by Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim, who generates almost half of his income outside of Spain. In fact, he talks about the United States as the axis for the future in the environmental business, which includes waste management and urban cleaning services. “At the international level, the strong growth in the US stands out, where the growth in sales in 2022 compared to the previous year was 121%. FCC is already among the Top 15 companies in the sector in the US, with expectations of being in the Top 10 in the next 2 years”, he breaks down.

    In the more traditional construction, its business in Spain fell by 1.7% in 2022, to 870 million euros “even with the good rate of progress in the remodeling of the Santiago Bernabéu football stadium,” he assumes, without saying how much he expects enter for that work.

    There are other companies that are more concise when it comes to talking about how much each country means. This is the case of OHLA, which in recent years has gone from being in the hands of the Villar Mir family to that of Luis and Mauricio Amodio, also Mexicans. This multinational only points out that Spain accounts for almost 30% of its activity, while the whole of Europe -Spanish market, included- is 48%; North America, 35.4%; and Latin America, 16.4%. He does not give more details about how the domestic business is going.

    The one that does have most of its activity in Spain is San José, a smaller construction company -worth 250 million on the stock market compared to Ferrovial’s 19,000- which concentrates 75% of its income in Spain, close to 818 million euro.

    If San José is the one with the most, at the opposite end is ACS, which is the construction company with the highest income (more than 33,000 million) but with less business in Spain, lower in percentage than Ferrovial. The company chaired by Florentino Pérez only concentrates 9% of its activity in the local market, which a year earlier was 10.7%, according to its results presentations, because it has not yet published

    in your annual report. Specifically, in Spain it invoices 3,170 million euros.

    Almost 10 of every 100 euros that ACS earns come from Spain, while 56 come from the United States and 19 from Australia. This proportion is repeated if we look at where its project portfolio is located. With a nuance, its subsidiary Clece, focused on environmental, urban or airport services, does depend on Spain, which accounts for 90% of its activity.

    Ferrovial plans to grow in Spain with European funds
    And what happens in Ferrovial. The multinational argues when explaining its departure to the Netherlands that its “business is predominantly international”, because its country of origin contributes 18% of its turnover. In contrast, Canada and the United States, where it aspires to grow, are 36%.

    However, it also expects to grow in the construction business in its still domestic market thanks to European funds. “In Spain, growth in sales is expected with respect to 2022 thanks to the good rate of contracting, with the award of several relevant railway contracts and for private clients, and once the delays in bidding derived from COVID have been overcome,” he argues in your annual report. “In the medium term, the application of the European Next Generation funds will maintain the momentum of the tender, to which is added the good dynamics of public railway and health initiatives, and private initiatives in industrial, building and renewable energy projects”, lists the levers that he believes will make him grow in Spain.

    Here, at the end of 2022, Ferrovial had 5,413 employees. In the United States -where it also expects to grow thanks to public spending on infrastructure-, with 4,178. In the Netherlands, where it plans to be based before the fall, it had five.

    A disparity of templates, which will lead to removals. This Thursday, the company explained to the CNMV that “after the merger becomes effective, it may happen that certain Ferrovial employees voluntarily relocate to the Netherlands.” “Similarly, it is possible that certain Ferrovial employees are relocated and become employees of other subsidiaries of the Ferrovial group in Spain”, he acknowledges.

    5Mar, 2023
    Putin estaría reclutando a combatientes palestinos y sirios para luchar en Ucrania

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    Bashar al-Assad and Vladimir Putin.

    Vladimir Putin would be recruiting Palestinian refugees in Lebanon and Syrian elite soldiers to fight in Ukraine after a brief military training. The Palestinians would earn about 350 dollars a month (about 329 euros) and about 300 have already completed their training and have been sent to the front.

    A journalistic investigation indicates that young Palestinians residing in Lebanon are contacted by activists linked to the Palestinian Embassy. They are looking for Palestinians born after 1969 because they do not have official Lebanese documentation and this makes it easier for them to travel to join the conflict as mercenaries. The Lebanese government also does not have the power to monitor or follow their movements in Ukraine. Most of them come from the largest Palestinian refugee camp in the country, Ein al Jalua, located south of the city of Sidon and are usually affiliated with the Palestinian movement Al Fatá led by Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas, or the Popular Front for Liberation. of Palestine (PFLP).

    This recruitment would be known and even coordinated with the Islamist Hezbollah militia party. The pro-Iranian organization itself would be recruiting sympathizers with knowledge of drone management and experts in urban guerrilla warfare. This recruitment is favored by the “miserable” situation in the refugee camps, in the words of the Lebanese researcher Riad Kahwayi: “There are no jobs for young people,” he pointed out.
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    Bashar al-Assad and Vladimir Putin.

    Vladimir Putin would be recruiting Palestinian refugees in Lebanon and Syrian elite soldiers to fight in Ukraine after a brief military training. The Palestinians would earn about 350 dollars a month (about 329 euros) and about 300 have already completed their training and have been sent to the front.

    A journalistic investigation indicates that young Palestinians residing in Lebanon are contacted by activists linked to the Palestinian Embassy. They are looking for Palestinians born after 1969 because they do not have official Lebanese documentation and this makes it easier for them to travel to join the conflict as mercenaries. The Lebanese government also does not have the power to monitor or follow their movements in Ukraine. Most of them come from the largest Palestinian refugee camp in the country, Ein al Jalua, located south of the city of Sidon and are usually affiliated with the Palestinian movement Al Fatá led by Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas, or the Popular Front for Liberation. of Palestine (PFLP).

    This recruitment would be known and even coordinated with the Islamist Hezbollah militia party. The pro-Iranian organization itself would be recruiting sympathizers with knowledge of drone management and experts in urban guerrilla warfare. This recruitment is favored by the “miserable” situation in the refugee camps, in the words of the Lebanese researcher Riad Kahwayi: “There are no jobs for young people,” he pointed out.

    As for Syria, the fighters are recruited by the Wagner Group, specialized in operations with mercenaries, at the Russian base of Jmeimim, near Latakia. Syrian Army soldiers are also sent to Ukraine, in particular from the 25th Special Operations Division, made up of soldiers already trained by Russia in the framework of the Syrian civil war and who would receive between 500 and 700 dollars a month.