“King Abdullah instructed Jaafar Hassan on Sunday to form a new government,” the palace said in a statement.

Hassan, 56, replaces Bishr Al Jasauneh, who has led the government since October 2020 and who previously submitted his resignation to the king, state television reported.

“The government of Bishr Al Jasauneh has submitted its resignation to the Jordanian king,” Jordan’s official Petra news agency reported today.

According to the statement, this was Al Jausaneh’s longest term as Prime Minister since Abdullah II took office as King of Jordan in February 1999, and in the last three years he has undergone seven reshuffles, with several changes in portfolio.

After Al Jausaneh announced his resignation, Abdullah II issued a statement accepting the resignation of the Jordanian Executive and thanking him for all his efforts in the last legislature in which he had to face the coronavirus pandemic and the serious effects it left on the country, as well as everything that the reform of the political and electoral system in 2022 entailed.

Director of King Abdullah II’s office, the new government director held the position of Minister of Planning.

In the legislative elections held on Tuesday, the Islamic Action Front (AIF), the political wing of the Muslim Brotherhood and the main opposition party in Jordan, emerged victorious among the political groups after a vote marked by low turnout, against a backdrop of a slow economy and war in the Gaza Strip.

Out of a total of 138 seats, the Islamists won 31, including 17 (out of 41) reserved for political parties and the rest allocated to the regions.

The Jordanian Parliament is bicameral. In addition to the 138 elected deputies, it has 69 senators appointed by the monarch. The assembly can withdraw its authority from the government, sign and publish laws.

According to analysts, the war in the Gaza Strip between Israel and the Palestinian movement Hamas influenced the outcome of the legislative elections in the kingdom, which has been linked to Israel by a treaty of tranquility since 1994 and where almost half of the Jordanian population is of Palestinian origin.

Protests regularly demand the cancellation of this treaty.

The war in Gaza has also dealt a severe blow to the economy of Jordan, a country neighbouring Israel and the occupied West Bank, in terms of personnel in the tourism sector (14% of GDP).

The kingdom is heavily dependent on foreign aid, notably from the United States and the International Monetary Fund, and unemployment reached 21% in the first quarter of 2024.

UmarSissoco Embaló had announced that he would not run for a second term after following his wife’s advice.

“It is a decision taken by listening to the opinion of my wife, who is my first family,” Embaló said at the end of the Council of Ministers meeting chaired by him.

Speaking today at the meeting of the National Council of a wing of the Movement for Democratic Alternation (Madem G-15), which is loyal to him, Umaro Sissoco Embalo admitted, in front of an enthusiastic audience of militants of that party, that he could be a candidate.

“If yesterday [last Tuesday] I said that I would not reapply for a second term, if you understand that I should do so, I am at your disposal. I’m not over you,” Embalo noted.

The politician stressed that he is available to Guinean citizens to face any threats.

“If you understand that I am still the solution, I will be ahead of you,” said Umaro Sissoco Embaló.

Madem G15, a party founded in 2018 by dissidents of the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC), is currently divided into two groups.

The group of militants gathered today in the National Council, in one of the hotels in Bissau, says it is available to support a second term of Umaro Sissoco Embalo and another group is against this intention of the politician.

The group meeting today is led by Guinea-Bissau independence veteran Satu Camará, and the other group is led by businessman Braima Camará, who considers himself a legitimate leader because he was elected at an ordinary congress in 2022 for a four-year term.

The disputes within Madem are in court awaiting a final decision that should be known after the judicial vacation, next October.

Umaro Sissoco Embalo announced in his speech that he accepts the distinction made to him by the group of militants from Madem who consider him honorary president of the party.

“I am grateful for the distinction they made me to be the honorary president of Madem and in the same way that I am honorary president of all political parties in Guinea-Bissau,” said the Guinean head of state.

Widely criticized in the country by politicians and members of civil society, who recall that the functions of President of the Republic are incompatible with those of another nature, Umaro Sissoco Embalo said that no one takes away his right to be a founding member of Madem.

“We will notmake a segment of electoral fraud, we will not support a dictatorial government. We are a democratic country, which respects the rule of law, institutions and the Constitution,” he stressed during a solemn event.

Boluarte recalled that, in recent weeks, her country has demanded that the Venezuelan authorities present the results of the elections, which, according to the National Electoral Court (CNE), were won by Nicolás Maduro, while the opposition claims that the winner was the candidate Edmundo González Urrutia.

“He who owes nothing fears nothing, as soon as one counts ballot box by ballot box, vote by vote. If the opposition presented the minutes on the internet, giving victory to its candidate, it is up to the party in power to do the same and present its minutes, so that this situation is definitively resolved,” he said.

The Peruvian head of state said that the reshuffle she made this week in her cabinet of ministers, which included the reshuffle of the head of diplomacy, with the replacement of political scientist Javier González-Olaechea by diplomat Elmer Schialer, did not imply a change in her country’s foreign policy.

The President’s statements were made the day after the President of the Council of Ministers, Gustavo Adrianzén, stated that Peru did not recognize González Urrutia as President-elect of Venezuela, contrary to the statements of the then Peruvian Minister of Foreign Affairs on July 30, who stated that this was the Peruvian position.

“We do not have any solemn communication from the Peruvian State that recognizes González Urrutia as president-elect. We ask for a recount (…) because we also understand that it has to be within the scope of the electoral process that these (voting) records have to be reviewed,” Adrianzén said.

As for Peru’s position, the official said that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has issued several official statements that “demand the delivery of the minutes” and that “it is essential that these results be reviewed.”

Schialer, the new holder of the portfolio, meanwhile assured that Peru “will continue to support the Venezuelan people in their struggle for democracy and freedom”.

“As far as Venezuela is concerned, I want to underline that there is no turning point. Peru will continue to maintain its firm and unalterable position of demanding respect for the will expressed by the Venezuelan people in the presidential elections of July 28,” he noted after Adrianzén’s statements.

Schialer also recalled that his country “resolutely rejected the arrest warrant issued against Edmundo González Urrutia” and said that “what is happening in Venezuela is of the greatest influence for Peru and the region, and also of the greatest concern.”

González Urrutia, leader of Venezuela’s largest opposition coalition, was recognized as the winner of the July 28 presidential election by the United States, Argentina, Uruguay, Ecuador, Panama and Costa Rica.

The candidate for the White House dedicated a large segment of his speech to insecurity and “the criminal gangs that are ravaging the cities”.

At that time, he outlined what penalties he intends to impose for the most serious crimes in his new term: “Death penalty for drug traffickers and anyone guilty of sex trafficking of children and women, which is happening in massive numbers, and we also call for a strong death penalty for anyone who kills a police officer”.

The audience of police and family members erupted in long applause, reported the Efe agency.

On drug traffickers, Trump assured that he inherited the theory from Chinese President Xi Jinping, with whom he “got along very well” in the pre-pandemic years.

“I told him, do you have a drug problem? No, none. And why? Death penalty, death penalty for drug traffickers, so you don’t have the slightest problem with that. The only problem is that they send the medicines to us,” he concluded.

Trump also pointed out that his rival and current US vice president, the Democrat “Kamala Harris and the communists”, are responsible for the “plague of bloodshed, crime, chaos, misery and death in the cities”.

The newspaper later detailed some crime figures in cities such as Chicago, which it classified as “worse than Afghanistan”, or Baltimore.

And he went on to describe cities like New York, inhabited by homeless people “in numbers not seen for twenty years”, illegal immigrants, mothers “who do not dare to cross with their children to the park”, where “graffiti invades everything” and the innocent “are victims of random or brutal attacks”.

Before Trump’s meeting with the leaders of the police group, the fraternity announced its support for the Republican for the presidency.

This is the largest police labor group, with more than 350,000 members, and has supported candidates from both major parties in the past, the third time it has supported Trump.

This Monday, during his weekly television program, Nicolás Maduro announced that he would bring forward the start of Christmas celebrations to October 1 “in tribute” and “gratitude” to the Venezuelan “working people”.

“It’s September and it smells like Christmas, it smells like Christmas. And that is why I read this year, in honor of you, in gratitude to you, I will legislate that Christmas will be brought forward to October 1st,” said the President.

“September is approaching and, thanks to the fact that we end the month of August with good economic prospects, we can say, and I have already said: it smells like Christmas”, he said, thanking his compatriots for the efforts made in the face of the “fascist” attacks.

It is not the first time that Maduro has brought Christmas forward to October and intensified during this period at the end of December the distribution of aid and food bags in the neighborhoods, through the so-called Local Supply and Production Committees (CLAP).

Nicolas Maduro’s inauguration is scheduled for after Christmas and New Year, for January 10.

Venezuela, a country that has a significant community of Portuguese and Portuguese descendants, held presidential elections on July 28, after which the National Electoral Council (CNE) awarded the victory to Maduro with just over 51% of the votes, while the opposition claims that its candidate, the old diplomat Edmundo González Urrutia, obtained almost 70% of the votes.

The Venezuelan opposition and several countries in the international community have denounced electoral fraud and demanded that the voting minutes be presented for independent verification, which the CNE says is unrealizable due to the fact of a “cyber attack” of which he was hypothetically the target.

The election results have been contested in the streets, with demonstrations repressed by security forces, with the registration of about two thousand arrests and more than two dozen fatalities.

The attackers were two women and thirteen men who were quickly captured and placed in detention, according to the authorities of the province of Izmir on the social network X, about Monday’s incident.

“The two marines are safe. They were assisted by other Marines in the area and taken to a local hospital for evaluation, but they were not injured,” Ryder added.

The two Marines are from the USS Wasp, a U.S. Navy ship.

The ship arrived in Izmir on Sunday after having conducted joint training with Turkish assault ships in the Mediterranean.

Izmir province noted that “five plainclothes U.S. soldiers watched the incident from a distance and were involved” in its resolution.

The Pentagon spokesman detailed today that no marines have been arrested and that those involved are collaborating with investigators.

The Turkish prosecutor’s office had announced on Monday the arrest of 15 people due to the assault on the two US soldiers, adding that the suspects are members of the Turkish Youth Union (TGB).

The attack was claimed responsibility for TGB in a video shared on its X account.

“We covered the heads of the American soldiers of the USS Wasp with a bag (…). American soldiers, who have on their hands the blood of our soldiers and thousands of Palestinians, cannot contaminate our country,” the nationalist group said.

In mid-August, the USS Wasp carried out maneuvers with Turkish military ships in the Mediterranean, which Turkish media associated with the opposition saw as a manifestation of support for Israel.

The Turkish Defense Ministry rejected the criticism, insisting that the maneuvers were “routine.”

“In the accident, Five GNR soldiers died. The CDS in the Government will be represented with the Prime Minister”, he announced at the entrance to AgroSemana – Feira Agrícola do Norte in Póvoa de Varzim, in the district of Porto, whose visitor, like Agrival in Penafiel, was canceled.

“Both visits were canceled, anything else would not be acceptable, the moment is one of deep pain, today the funerals of GNR soldiers who die in combat and public service circumstances take place, I think this sign of respect is due,” he announced.

Following the incident that killed five GNR soldiers, the centrists had already announced that they would postpone for 15 days their political ‘rentrée’ which was scheduled to start this Saturday.

Refusing to answer any questions about the State Budget for 2025, the CDS leader and Minister of Defense reaffirmed his “deep regret”, leaving once again a word of gratitude to the operatives who participated in the searches.

“Once again reaffirm the deep regret and sincere feelings towards the family of these soldiers who gave their lives to perform public service. Also a lot of solidarity with the Republican National Guard in this moment of pain and obviously leave my congratulations to the operatives of many entities, coordinated by the Maritime Police, because they were unsurpassed”, he declared.

Rescued survivor.

The forest firefighting helicopter crashed on Friday in the Douro River, near the city of Samodães, Lamego, inside the aircraft: a pilot and a team of five soldiers from the Emergency Protection and Relief Unit (UEPC). They were returning from a mission (from a fire) in the municipality of Baião.

The helicopter pilot was rescued alive. He had only minor injuries.

Also on Friday, the bodies of four GNR soldiers were located. The fifth was located on Saturday afternoon, after intense searches at the site.

The Office for the Prevention and Investigation of Aircraft Accidents and Railway Accidents (GPIAAF), an agency of the Portuguese State, has a team on the ground and is investigating the accident.

The funerals of four of the five GNR soldiers, who died in the crash of a helicopter in the Douro River, will take place this Sunday.