Alexander Saraff Marcos

A journalistic investigation revealed that a village doctor in Sweden used his own sperm to inseminate women in the 1970s and 1980s, when insemination was not yet regulated by the law. The doctor said that he was trying to help after the law allowed children to know the identity of their biological father.

On the 1st of December, Costa Ricans gathered to commemorate the 75 years since the official abolishment of the military. The gathering took place at Abolishment Square, where the former president, José Figueres Ferrer, symbolically destroyed the wall of the former military headquarters with a mace.

Friction has sparked from within the EU, as countries are unable to agree on a definition of rape. The European Parliament (EP) decried the decision of Emmanuel Macron, Olaf Scholz and other ministers, to deny the proposal to define rape only according to consent across the EU. The issue remains contested.

MERCOSUR has allowed adding Bolivia as a member. The government hopes this move will give leverage to negotiate with major partners, to increase its industrial exports and turn around its trade deficit.

The United States of Kailasa, a self-proclaimed nation and a religious movement released a statement defending their rights as a nation. The entity published a collaboration proclamation from Paraguay signed in October by two government officials, which led to the firing of Paraguay’s Minister of Agriculture.

The seawater on the Netherlands coast is being studied for the presence of a type of chemical, PFAS, which is common in everyday products in Europe and abroad. The chemicals are very difficult to remove from the environment and are connected to a number of health issues.

People looking to receive any cosmetic surgery procedure will need to have a mental health assessment prior to it. Such was one of the new rules limiting the cosmetic surgery industry in Australia, motivated by research linking mental health issues with desire for cosmetic surgery.

A comprehensive study on Portuguese emigration indicated that 70% of emigrants from Portugal are young: between the ages of 15 and 39. The study went further and estimated that almost one third (30%) of young Portuguese people live abroad on a permanent basis.

Only the third reform ever to change the Spanish Constitution passed nearly unanimously in Congress. Spanish social groups have advocated for the use of different terms to refer to handicapped people than the wording in the constitution.

Telecommunications operators in Russia may start turning over location data of all of their network users to the Russian authorities starting in September. The government wants to create a database with the location of Russian Internet users across the country.