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Delcy Rodríguez: Maduro sees what is happening as positive

Venezuelan interim president Delcy Rodríguez has communicated very little with Nicolás Maduro since he was ousted in dramatic fashion in January. She has received a few messages through his lawyers, she says in an interview with Time.

– He sees what is happening in Venezuela as very positive, she says.

When asked what she believes Maduro's biggest mistake was, she replies that Venezuela should have been more open geopolitically.

Gaza War
Analysis: More talk than action as Trump celebrates deal

The de-escalation agreement that is said to have been reached between Hamas and Israel, and which President Donald Trump himself claimed is complete, has neither been signed nor fully negotiated, writes Haaretz's Liza Rozovsky.

“Trump is merely repeating what has become a familiar pattern by now: He is raising an agreement as if it were already complete,” she writes.

On Friday evening, Trump's so-called peace council announced that the terms of the agreement - which includes a disarmament of Hamas and a withdrawal of the Israeli military - will be hammered out over the next two weeks. However, its viability is unclear, as neither party is expected to sign it.

RTE's Edmund Heaphy writes that the news of the agreement comes at a time when Trump needs to show progress to his peace council, not least given that it has spent several months on these negotiations. He also sees another problem in this particular issue:

"Although several media outlets have quoted representatives from Hamas, the group has not officially confirmed that they agree to a disarmament," he writes.

Tourist plane has crashed in Peru - 13 dead

13 people have died after a small tourist plane crashed in Peru, state channel TV Peru reports according to Reuters.

The plane flew over the popular tourist destination of the Nazca Lines, a collection of geoglyphs in the desert in southern Peru.

Eleven passengers and two pilots were on board the plane. Peruvian authorities have recovered four of their bodies, but given the severity of the crash, none are believed to have survived.

Global Public Health
Low-sugar diet for children may reduce dementia risk

Children under two who eat little refined sugar may have better brain health in later life, a study from a university in Hong Kong shows. Researchers have compared two different periods in the UK, before and after sugar rationing ended in 1953. The results suggest that those who were young children during the sugar rationing period had a 23 percent lower risk of developing dementia later in life, writes the BBC.

When sugar rationing was abolished, sugar consumption doubled almost overnight – from around 41 grams a day, equivalent to about ten sugar cubes, to around 80 grams, or 20 sugar cubes.

Experts say the results are interesting and that there have been previous studies that indicate that a person's first 1,000 days are of great importance. However, they emphasize that more research is needed because the study is based on people born in the 1940s and 1950s.

Russian invasion Ukraine's response
Expert: The reshuffle is "political jealousy"

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's reshuffle of the government is partly due to him getting nervous when other politicians become very popular. Ryhor Nizhnikau, senior researcher at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA) in Helsinki, tells TT.

- Zelensky becomes politically jealous, so to speak. Then he wants to eliminate every potential challenger, and I emphasize potential, because Fedorov has been a solid Zelensky loyalist.

According to Nizhnikau, it is likely that Zelensky will continue with the prodding, and sees a worrying trend in that he seems to care less and less about the public's reactions.