Peru has declared a state of emergency in the Amazonas, San Martin, and Ucayali regions due to forest fires that have claimed 16 lives. Since July, the country has been battling widespread fires, with President Dina Boluarte announcing that of the 238 recorded fires, around 80 percent have been controlled. She urged farmers to stop burning pastures, a major cause of the fires, alongside climate change. According to the Peruvian Ministry of the Environment, forest fires typically occur between August and November. Satellite data from Brazil’s Space Research Agency shows a record 346,112 fire incidents across South America this year, the highest since 2007.
Russia has handed over the bodies of 1,000 Ukrainian soldiers in exchange for 19 Russian soldiers as part of an agreement reached during peace talks in Istanbul.
Russian Vice President Vladimir Medinsky stated, “As a continuation of the Istanbul agreements, we returned 1,000 bodies of Ukrainian soldiers today and received the bodies of 19 of our own. May they all rest in peace in their homeland.”
The Kremlin confirmed that the exchange follows the second round of peace talks held in June in Istanbul. According to Russian state agency TASS, the transfer marks the beginning of a broader process to return 3,000 Ukrainian soldiers’ bodies.
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