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El Salvador’s government, led by President Nayib Bukele, has moved ahead with plans to issue Bitcoin bonds by preparing 20 bills designed to provide a legal framework for them.

A 22-year-old tourist was killed by an elephant at a sanctuary in Thailand after the animal turned on her while she was giving it a bath, according to local media reports.

Botero, whose sculptures and paintings of playful, rotund subjects in sometimes harrowing situations made him one of the world's richest artists, has died at 91. Heralded as South America's answer to Picasso, Botero also tackled violence and political topics, including Colombia's internal conflicts, as well as portraying daily life. His works have featured in exhibitions across the world. His canvases and sculptures sell for more than $2 million each, according to Sotheby's. The artist's bodacious subjects were portrayed in everyday situations — a corpulent naked woman lounging on a bed or a stout man riding a humorously out-sized horse — but served the artist's more serious goal of transporting the reader to what he called a «superlative dimension», where commonplace situations took on exaggerated proportions. Despite the comic plumpness of many of his creations, the artist never shied away from serious subject matter — his series of paintings about the Abu Ghraib prison scandal generated discussion across the art world. «Fernando Botero has died, the painter of our traditions and defects, the painter of our virtues.

The State Tax Administration Agency of the Government of Spain (AEAT) increases its efforts to charge the local holders of crypto assets. The AEAT intends to dispatch 328,000 warning notices to those who should pay their taxes on crypto for the 2022 fiscal year. 

Muslim leaders in Spain called for calm ahead of Tuesday's crunch World Cup decider between Spain and Morocco amid fears of a repeat of crowd trouble in Belgium last week.