Israel has intercepted some of the humanitarian aid ships that are part of the Sumud Flotilla heading to Gaza. This was reported by Israeli radio, citing military sources, and confirmed by the Global Sumud Flotilla through a statement in which they assure that speedboats identified as the Israeli army have stopped their ships. According to their account, they pointed their lasers and semi-automatic assault weapons at the crew members and ordered them to position themselves at the front of the boats and get on all fours.

The Flotilla activists detained by Israel will disembark in Greece soon. This was announced by the Israeli Foreign Minister, Gideon Saar, who assured in a message on X that "the individuals transferred from the flotilla boats to the Israeli ship will disembark on a Greek beach in the coming hours", in coordination with the Greek authorities. "Israel will not allow the legal naval blockade on Gaza to be broken", the text concludes.

Ece Temelkuran was Turkey's most read journalist. In 2016, after receiving death and rape threats, she decided to leave the country for good. Now, a decade later, she explores the pain of homelessness in The Land of Strangers (Anagrama 2026), and calls on all those left out in the cold – also morally out in the cold – to unite against a world that is increasingly yielding to fascism. She is in Barcelona to participate in a meeting of ICORN, the International Cities of Refuge Network.

Global military spending has once again exceeded records for the 11th consecutive year, reaching $2.887 trillion in 2025, meaning it cost more than 300 euros per person. This figure is equivalent to 2.5% of global GDP. This is indicated by the annual report published by Sipri (Stockholm International Peace Research Institute), the most prestigious institution for military studies, which warns that global spending has increased by more than 40% in the last decade.

The Pentagon is reportedly considering suspending Spain from NATO, among other proposals to punish countries that have not supported American operations in the war with Iran. This is indicated by an email that has circulated among senior officials of the War Department —formerly the Department of Defense— of the United States, as a funcionario has assured the Reuters agency on condition of anonymity.

At the end of this year, the mandate of António Guterres, current Secretary-General of the United Nations (UN), expires. And the race to succeed him has begun with a very present question: will the organization be led by a woman for the first time in its 80-year history?

"Before the war, I had a good life. [...] One day a shell fell at home. It killed my father and mother instantly." This is the testimony collected by Doctors Without Borders from Amna, a thirteen-year-old girl who now lives with her fifteen-year-old sister in the Tawila refugee camp in Darfur. Like her, 14 million people have been displaced to Sudan because of the war. Like her parents, about 150,000 people have died victims of the conflict.

They waited until the second day to flee. Experience, even in a war, counts for something. The first time Sara Ajami and her family had to leave their home, a small village near Tyre in southern Lebanon, due to Israeli shelling, they had to queue for 15 hours. In 2024, under the shadow of the Gaza war, Israel invaded Lebanon, thousands of people from the south had gathered on the roads leading north. This time, on March 2, under the shadow of the Iran war, Israel launched the offensive in Lebanon, Sara and her family stayed home one more night, exposing themselves to danger, to avoid the queues.

The doors of the Serena hotel, where the conversations between the United States and Iran have taken place in Islamabad –the capital of Pakistan– to end six weeks of war, were barricaded by cars and security agents. Inside, American and Iranian representatives have negotiated face-to-face accompanied by Pakistani mediators, as confirmed by the White House. The meeting was the highest-level direct contact the two powers have had since the Islamic Revolution of 1979.

Writing a diary in wartime often responds to the need to preserve humanity in the face of barbarism and to bring order to chaos. From Anna Frank's to Victor Klemperer's, these are documents for posterity and a portrait of daily life amidst the bombs. With the advent of the internet, these writings reach the world in real time. Now some Iranian citizens share their reflections daily with internet users in the midst of war. But if it is about the son of the president of Iran, his testimony has a special meaning.

"There is method in his madness," says Polonius, the king's advisor, referring to Hamlet. In Shakespeare's play, Hamlet pretends to be mad. But he only pretends to be so to gain time and prepare revenge against his father's murderer. With this metaphor, Christopher Tulloch, a professor of communication at Pompeu Fabra University, defines Donald Trump's communication strategy, also with the Iran war. In recent weeks, the official White House account has shared several videos on social media referring to video games like Call of Duty or Nintendo's Wii Sports. And with clips from movies like Braveheart, Superman or Top Gun. Frenetic scenes mixed with declassified images of attacks on Iranian facilities.

Who determines what is true? In the era of fake news, manipulated algorithms, and post-truth, a group of architects, journalists, engineers, and lawyers work together, putting technology at the service of facts. They call it forensic architecture and they dedicate themselves to reconstructing disputed events, from demonstrations to military attacks around the world. Since 2023, they have focused on Gaza, and their reports are used as evidence in South Africa's accusation against Israel at the International Court of Justice. We speak with Júlia Nueno, a researcher at Forensic Architecture, based in London, and editor of Genocides. A Forensic Reading (Galaxia Gutenberg).

"We were taken to an open field [...]. The first man raped me twice; the second, once, and the third, four more times. The fourth also raped me once". "All the way, the militiamen asked the women to follow them and insisted when we refused. It happened everywhere. In the woods: two militiamen there, three more after a while. They were everywhere. Everything happened in broad daylight".Testimonies as chilling as these are common in the Darfur region, in Sudan, where in a couple of weeks it will be three years since the country has been immersed in a devastating civil war.

When Tehran was attacked by US and Israeli drones and missiles on February 28, Iran's allies responded swiftly. Hezbollah, the Shiite armed group from Lebanon, did not wait. The moment Ali Jamenei's death was confirmed, it launched a barrage of over 90 rockets and drones at northern Israel and against the monitoring base on Mount Hermon, in Israel. Iraqi militias attacked the US embassy in Baghdad and forced an evacuation of diplomatic staff. Even Syrian militias – weakened since the fall of Bashar al-Assad – launched projectiles towards the border area with Turkey. But, until today, a key ally of the so-called axis of resistancehad refrained from formally entering the conflict: the Houthis of Yemen.

The French municipal elections this Sunday These were the last electoral test before the presidential elections scheduled for 2027, where the support base of the far right and the resilience of the main parties were tested in a fragmented political landscape marked by parliamentary instability. We've compiled some charts to help understand the results:

The doorbell keeps ringing. Another group has arrived. They descend a staircase decorated with rugs and mirrors and sit with the other diners, who were waiting for them. The restaurant El Rincón Persa is packed with Iranian families and groups of friends who have come to celebrate Nowruz, the Persian New Year, which coincides with the beginning of spring. With the clinking of cutlery in the background, many mouths devour aromatic rice dishes and stews while chatting happily. But behind the smiles, the unease is palpable: many have their minds elsewhere.

The world's largest natural gas field, located in the Persian Gulf, was struck on Wednesday, in a move that has escalated the conflict between Tehran, Israel, and the United StatesIranian authorities have warned that neighboring countries' energy facilities would be targeted by their missiles "in the coming hours." The attack affected the South Pars gas facility, part of the shared reserve between Iran and Qatar, which is crucial for Iranian exports.

Under pressure from a November election with a high cost of living and soaring inflation due to rising oil prices, the Trump administration is trying to sell the military campaign against Iran as an unprecedented success. But most of the independent press isn't buying it. While some journalists are wondering if Donald Trump did not foresee the economic impact that the closure of the Strait of Hormuz would have.Others question the thirteen American victims that have occurred so far or investigate the bombing of a girls' school. The White House's strategy has thus far been to belittle and discredit the press.

Early Saturday morning, the United States bombed Kharg Island, the nerve center of Iran's oil industry, from which it exports 90% of its crude. Donald Trump called the attacks the "most powerful" in the history of the Middle East and claimed they "annihilated" all military targets on the island, located in the northern Persian Gulf, about 25 kilometers off the Iranian coast.

On clear days, the mountains of Lebanon are visible on the horizon from the coast of Cyprus. This island, which holds the rotating presidency of the Council of the European Union, is geographically closer to the coasts of Syria, Gaza, and Turkey than to mainland Greece. Its strategic location, which makes it a key stronghold for the European Union (it is the easternmost point of the Union), also makes it more vulnerable to attack due to its military importance.