🔥 War

Turkey decides this Sunday whether to extend the mandate of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for another five years, who is already the second most influential leader in modern Turkish history, only behind the founder of the Republic, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, and the second president to He has been in charge of the country for the … Read more

More than five centuries at the head of the world diamond trade provide many lessons on how to survive wars, political conflicts and crises of all kinds. Even so, the Belgian city of Antwerp, the main center in Europe and the world of buying and selling the coveted precious stones, is holding its breath these … Read more

In the failed launch of his candidacy by Elon Musk, Ron DeSantis only uttered the word once trump. And it was not the name, but the verb: “Merit must triumph (trump) about identity politics”, he said a minute after starting. Although he did not mention Donald Trump once, the former president is the great rival … Read more

Russia redoubles airstrikes in anticipation of imminent counteroffensive Russia has redoubled its air attacks and reinforces its lines on different fronts to stop the announced and imminent counteroffensive by the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Russian assault planes and bombers attacked enemy positions in eastern and southern Ukraine, the Russian Defense Ministry spokesman, Lieutenant General Igor Konashenkov, … Read more

Un reportero invisible que, para seguir contando Nicaragua desde el terreno, tiene que borrarse del mapa: nadie puede saber a qué se dedica, no firma sus historias y vive en alerta permanente a que alguna fuente lo delate, a que el Gobierno lo identifique y vaya a por él, como ha hecho con más de … Read more

“I want to underline that this is the last time that I address you and my dear compatriots from this podium in my capacity as deputy.” These words from the center-leftist Kemal Kiliçdaroglu, on April 23 —a national holiday in Turkey— marked the farewell of the man who has been the head of the Turkish … Read more

President Joe Biden and the leader of the House of Representatives, Republican Kevin McCarthy, yesterday cherished an agreement on the United States budget that would allow the essential increase in the debt ceiling to be approved on time and prevent the country from going into suspension of payments or default. A disagreement could cause a … Read more

Agreement principle. After weeks of negotiations, the United States will be able to avoid defaulting on the debt if Congress approves the agreement reached by the president, Joe Biden, with the speaker of the House of Representatives, Kevin McCarthy. Both have been speaking this Saturday by phone to certify the pact, which the most radical … Read more

The weeks go by, the wait increases and the announced Ukrainian counteroffensive does not arrive. Or if. This was stated by one of President Volodimir Zelenski’s advisers, who assured this week that it had already begun, and this is also believed by soldiers on different fronts who think that the various movements in recent days … Read more

Anyone who has ever seen how Lula acts before sitting down in an international meeting will know that the Brazilian president’s attitude last weekend in Hiroshima was completely bizarre. Usually extroverted, the president used to greet his interlocutors effusively, but at the G-7 meeting extended to the invited countries, Lula remained seated, writing and apparently … Read more

He dropped his phone into the water while taking a selfie and ordered the swamp to be emptied. This has happened in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh and the architect of this uncivil act has been the government official and food inspector, Rajesh Vishwas, who has been suspended from his position and an investigation has … Read more

Spain has so far avoided committing itself to the training of Ukrainian pilots, arguing that it does not have the F-16 combat plane, which will be sent to Kiev for air defense against attacks by Russian troops. However, other countries in which their Air Force does not have this fighter model either have taken the … Read more

The streets of Iran have stopped screaming. The Iranian regime has put down the demonstrations that shook the country after the death of the young Mahsa Amini last September at the hands of the morality police for wearing the veil incorrectly. He has killed more than 500 people, jailed thousands and executed seven, according to … Read more

At the age of 28, the Portuguese deputy Mariana Mortágua made the leap to the international press for her impressive management as a spokesperson for the economy. And at 36, this weekend she assumes the leadership of a Left Bloc in very low hours, after being the third political force in Portugal until a year … Read more

Ukraine is ready to launch the long-awaited counteroffensive against Russia, Oleksiy Danilov, a senior Ukrainian security official, declared yesterday in an interview with the BBC. Danilov did not want to put a date, but he did affirm that the attacks could start “tomorrow, the day after or in a week”. He also added that the … Read more

NATO has urged Kosovo this Saturday to reduce tension, one day after the Pristina government forcibly accessed the official buildings in the north of the country (where a large number of people from the Serb minority live) to install mayors ethnic Albanian. The United States, France, Germany and the United Kingdom have also warned of … Read more

A room at the Central University of Venezuela, in Caracas.MIGUEL GUTIERREZ (EFE) The elections to choose the rector and the rest of the academic authorities of the Central University of Venezuela, the oldest and most important in the country, -the first that were organized in the institution after 15 years of judicial struggles in the … Read more

The fall of Bakhmut shows that the war in Ukraine is also very private Video Risk of civil war in Russia after the anti-Putin raid in Belgorod Hundreds of Russian soldiers fight with the Ukrainian army. They are military ready to overthrow Putin. Given the weakness of the internal opposition, the incursions of these military … Read more

The man, who is in his thirties and whose identity has not been revealed, opened the emergency door between 10 and 5 minutes before Asiana flight OZ8124, connecting Jeju Island with the airport, landed at its destination. from Daegu (about 240 kilometers southeast of Seoul). Open the emergency door of the moving plane and unleash … Read more

In Bakhmut almost nothing is left standing, only mercenaries from the Wagner group and Russian troops. The Ukrainian city of the Donetsk province is today a landscape of complete destruction, like Gernika in the Spanish civil war, Grozny in the wars in Chechnya, like the devastated Berlin that shows Germany, year zero. But unlike Roberto … Read more

The embassy of the People’s Republic of China in Mexico denied this Friday that the fentanyl chemical precursors come from their nation, as the Mexican and US governments have accused. “Such statements are unfounded that confuse the facts and maliciously frame China,” the embassy said in a statement. In recent months, Mexico and the United … Read more

On the morning of this Friday, May 26, a priest from a church in the colonial city of Granada, the former capital of Nicaragua, went to the bank to withdraw money from his parish bank account. The cashier informed him that she could not give him money because the accounts had been blocked. Hours later, … Read more

The former candidate for the presidency of Guatemala Carlos Pineda, during a campaign event.Moises Castillo (AP) The possibility of winning the presidency of Guatemala vanished in less than a month for Carlos Pineda, who had led the polls since the beginning of May. The 23% in the intention to vote that gave him strength to … Read more

“If guns are the answer, we need a new question,” Quaker pacifists said outside the world’s largest arms fair. Will the human being be able to find new questions? Lockheed advertisement in ‘National Geographic’ magazine in January 1943 . It is irresolvable: even if a war is just, someone makes a living selling missiles. There … Read more

Any Israeli residing in the vicinity of Gaza has several things clear after two decades of rockets fired from the Strip every time tension in the area escalates. The first is the actions (a powerful raid in the West Bank, a selective assassination, an incident in the Jerusalem Mosques…) that usually precede a barrage of … Read more