The night has given firefighters in southwestern France a brief respite, who view the evolution of the most serious fire ever recorded in the country with "optimism". After a "very quiet night", meteorological conditions with 80% humidity suggest a "much more acceptable situation", assured Commander Matthieu Jomain, communications officer for the Departmental Fire Service. The prefecture of Gironde announced this morning that it has authorized the immediate return of residents to nine municipalities in the department, allowing 84,000 evacuated people —out of a total of 220,000— to return home.

It was a long time ago the meeting between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin in Anchorage, in Alaska, where the American president received his Russian counterpart – against whom an arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court is pending – with a red carpet. That August, the leaders spoke of a possible general peace framework in Ukraine that would involve Kyiv ceding the Donbas region. The optimism of the meeting crystallized in three-way negotiations in Geneva, in February of this year, which were abruptly interrupted without any agreement. Since then, it seemed that the White House – distracted by the war in the Middle East – had set aside diplomacy in Ukraine.

The rising cost of living continues to wreak havoc on household economies and has a dramatic impact on the population's access to food. One in three people globally cannot afford to maintain a healthy diet after covering basic expenses such as housing or transportation. Specifically, 2,692 million people – 32.7% of the global population – are condemned to a deficient diet for economic reasons.

What began as a mocking gesture on social media has left a large wave of protest in India that poses a challenge for Narendra Modi's conservative government. Thousands of protesters took to the streets of New Delhi on Monday in a march towards Parliament to demand the resignation of the Education Minister. The protests, among the largest in recent years, have left images of protesters hidden behind barricades and police officers charging at them with batons and tear gas.

The United States continues its offensive to dismantle the International Criminal Court through sanctions and a major media campaign. We discuss this with Pablo Pareja, an expert in international relations and international law at UPF.

"There is an atmosphere of constant fear and panic." Halima Mustafa, a young Sudanese psychologist, describes by phone the situation in the city of El-Obeid, Sudan, in recent days. Like her, nearly 500,000 people are trapped in the capital of the North Kordofan region, which is under the control of the Sudanese army. The Rapid Support Forces (RSF), who have been confronting them for three years in a brutal fight for control of the country, have surrounded the city and are besieging it, awaiting entry. "We have reports indicating that the RSF are preparing to launch a massive attack on El-Obeid," confirms Amnesty International's Sudan researcher, Abdullahi Hassan, to ARA, warning that "time is running out to act."

Donald Trump has once again attacked press freedom in the United States without mercy. The Justice Department of his administration has summoned several journalists from the American newspaper " TheNew York Times after they published a report detailing security issues with Air Force One, the aircraft used by the US president for travel and which was a donation from Qatar. Journalists will have to appear on Wednesday before a grand jury to testify "in relation to an alleged violation of federal criminal law".

The Ukrainian oligarch Vadim Ermolaev, his wife and his thirteen-year-old daughter were victims last week of a sudden explosion as they entered the building where they live, on Révérend Père Louis Frolla street, in Monaco. According to police sources, the detonation was caused by a device hidden in a backpack that targeted this businessman with a troubled past, leaving him critically injured, as was his wife. On Friday, the Monaco Prosecutor's Office identified Anastasiia Berezovska, a 39-year-old Ukrainian woman, as the presumed perpetrator of the attack. Berezovska, disguised as a man, left the device at the door and detonated it remotely when Ermolaev, his wife, and his daughter arrived at the building, according to the prosecutor. The suspect, who allegedly did not act alone, fled on foot to France and was seen in Frankfurt days later.

The scorching sun has not been an impediment for the thousands of Iranians who, for the third consecutive day, mourn the death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei at a massive funeral in Tehran. Tens of thousands of people have gathered on Damavand Avenue in the center of the Iranian capital to march in a funeral procession, the most important day of the commemorative ceremonies in honor of the supreme leader assassinated on February 28 in an Israeli-American attack.

The European Union wants to have a say in the war in Ukraine again. After months on the sidelines of negotiations sponsored by Donald Trump, which were paralyzed as soon as the war with Iran began, Brussels considers that there is now a momentum for diplomacy with Russia and to put an end to the Ukrainian conflict.

Pedro Sánchez is increasingly alone in the European Union with the migratory challenge. A few days after the entry into force of the migration reform and the agreement to create centers outside the Community territory for deporting immigrants, several European leaders have reproached the Spanish Prime Minister for his stance on migration and the massive regularization of newcomers at the European Council meeting this Friday in Brussels, according to various diplomatic sources.

Pedro Sánchez is already used to swimming against the current in the European Union. He was one of the first leaders to raise his voice against Benjamin Netanyahu and, later, against Donald Trump. He also refused to accept the major rearmament demanded by NATO and, among other things, is the voice that has shown itself most openly opposed to the hardening of migration policies. And now, he adds another battle in which he finds himself increasingly alone: at a time when the community club intends to toughen its tone against China, Sánchez defends it as a "potential ally". "Europe needs friends", he defended at the entrance to the meeting of European leaders.

The United States administration has once again attacked European allies from Brussels. U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced on Thursday a new review of the deployment of American troops in Europe and threatened to stop paying its NATO dues until all allies fulfill their defense spending commitments. Spain, for example, has refused to commit to reaching 5% of its gross domestic product (GDP) on defense, as demanded by the White House. "Some countries have not yet shown a credible path to meeting commitments made in The Hague. Too much talk," lamented the American leader.

The relationship that the European Union should maintain with China has divided member states in recent years, but now all agree in qualifying the trade deficit between the European bloc and the Asian giant "unsustainable", according to various diplomatic sources. For this reason, more and more European governments are advocating for an escalation of tone against Beijing, and want to request at the leaders' summit this Thursday and Friday in Brussels that the European Commission put forward measures to limit Chinese imports.

About twenty workers from Doctors Without Borders (MSF) sexually abused at least fifty-nine refugee women from Sudan. In most cases, humanitarian staff forced them into non-consensual sexual relations in exchange for food or work. The non-governmental organization has admitted the accusations and explained in a statement this Monday that it has dismissed the 18 responsible individuals—who will not be able to work with the organization from now on—but acknowledges that it has not been able to identify some of the other alleged perpetrators.

For the first time in a decade, the number of forcibly displaced people worldwide has fallen. At the end of 2025, there were 117.8 million people in this situation, representing a 4% reduction compared to the previous year. But what might seem like good news at first glance hides a darker reality: record numbers of returns under adverse conditions have also been recorded.

The United States has launched a new wave of attacks against Iran. Late Tuesday evening, Central Command reported that its forces had begun firing "self-defense" projectiles into Iranian territory in response to the downing of a U.S. Army Apache helicopter. "The mission is a proportional response to unjustified Iranian aggression," the U.S. military said on X. Meanwhile, the Fars news agency reported several explosions in the southern Iranian province of Hormozgan, near the Strait of Hormuz. This is the first time the U.S. has attacked Iran since the ceasefire. According to the news portal Axios, the target of the attacks would be Iranian air defense and radar systems around the strait.

Nuclear deterrence is the idea that one state will think twice before attacking another if the second possesses a nuclear weapon. With this premise, for decades the maintenance of atomic arsenals has been justified and some middle powers have continued developing and modernizing missiles in an opaque manner. Political consensus on the idea of nuclear deterrence has reached the point where European powers are beginning to unite under a single nuclear umbrella, now that their American protector is more reluctant to defend them.

A naval drone detonated this Friday in the Romanian port of Constanta, in the Black Sea, near an oil terminal, causing a large explosion. The incident, caused by a device similar to those used in the war in Ukraine, left no victims, according to the Ministry of Defense. Images from the scene shared on social media show a large plume of smoke rising on the horizon of the coastal city's port.

While the energy crisis is choking the Gulf countries, which foresee billions in losses and years of hardship due to damage to their oil infrastructure, on the other side of the Atlantic there is a country experiencing unprecedented growth. Bathed in Caribbean sun and covered in tropical forests, Guyana has benefited from the chaos resulting from the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz thanks to its oil production.