Paraguay moves its embassy in Israel back from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv. The government of the new president Mario Abdo Benítez finds the decision of the predecessor of Abdo, Horacio Cartes, unwise and undiplomatic.
A plane that, among others, the Paraguayan Minister of Agriculture Luis Gneiting had to bring back to the capital Asunción has crashed. This has been said by the director of the national aviation authority against the local media. The device suddenly disappeared from the radar on Wednesday evening not long after taking off in Ayolas.
Paraguayan police early Saturday morning shot dead a 25-year supporter of the opposition. That happened as local media when agents office of opposition party PLRA invaded in capital Asunción.
An estimated 130,000 people are due to heavy rainfall and high water levels in the South American Paraguay on the run from the water. The large flows of the rivers Paraguay, Paraná, and Uruguay Quarai entered by the extremely wet weather far beyond their banks and cause a nuisance in their catchment areas in Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay.
