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• Lula visits former Argentinian president under house arrest in snub to Milei

  03-07-2025 21:05
  Brazilian president meets Cristina Fernández de Kirchner at her flat in Buenos Aires after regional summitBrazil’s president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, has eschewed a one-on-one meeting with the Argentinian president, Javier Milei, during a trip to Buenos Aires, instead opting to visit Milei’s political rival, former president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, who is under house arrest.Lula was in the Argentinian capital on Thursday to attend the Mercosur summit.
  
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• How the global trade in donkey skins threatens the lives of women and girls | Letter

  03-07-2025 19:04
  This cruel, largely unregulated industry in the global south undermines UN goals of gender equality and poverty reduction, writes Marianne Steele of The Donkey SanctuaryRe your editorial (The Guardian view on China, Africa and disappearing donkeys: an unexpected crisis offers a clue to perils ahead, 25 June), last year, The Donkey Sanctuary revealed at least 5.9 million donkeys are slaughtered for their skins every year to produce ejiao, a traditional Chinese medicine. Donkeys suffer at every st
  
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