Moscow - Russia announced on Monday that charges are to be made against the 24 military staff involved in a provocation of three small Ukrainian Navy ships in the Black Sea and near the Kerch Strait.

Brasilia - Brazilian President-elect Jair Bolsonaro called the meeting held Thursday in Rio de Janeiro with United States National Security Advisor John Bolton a productive one. A very pleasant and productive meeting with the US National Security Advisor, John Bolton, the right wing politician wrote on Twitter and posted a photo of the meeting, in which he appears with Donald Trump''s advisor, together with General( r) Augusto Heleno, future minister of Institutional Security, and Foreign Minister to be Ernesto Araujo.

La Paz - The president of Bolivia, Evo Morales, rejected on Wednesday the economic sanctions imposed by the United States on Tuesday against the vice president of Nicaragua, Rosario Murillo, and the adviser of that country, Nestor Moncada.

Kiev - Ukraine on Friday announced a travel ban for Russians aged between 16 and 60 years ago, while it closed foreign citizens'' entry to Crimea.

Caracas - The Public Prosecutor''s Office ( ''MP'') is working today to ensure that Venezuela is a country free of administrative corruption, drug trafficking and organized crime, according to Attorney General Tarek William Saab.