Twenty-six years after Alberto Fujimori's resignation by fax, the surname that dominated Peruvian politics during the nineties returns to the Government Palace of Peru. This time it is the turn of Keiko Fujimori, the eldest daughter of El Chino, who this Tuesday takes office as president after having prevailed by a margin of only 50,000 votes to the progressive candidate Roberto Sánchez.

The weather conditions have brought a slight respite this Monday to the firefighters in southern France who are racing against time to put out the fire threatening Bordeaux. The Gironde fire, which is already the worst recorded in the country in the last fifty years, remains out of control, but firefighters have managed to stabilize it. However, extinction seems a distant goal: the fire "will last several weeks or even several months", said Lieutenant Colonel David Annotel, representative of the National Federation of Firefighters of France, who warned of the need to plan for the rotation of personnel.

Three people have died and at least four have been injured, one of them a minor, in a shooting at a food festival in Seattle, in the United States. The incident took place around six in the afternoon (local time) in the city center, near the iconic Space Needle, and the police have already arrested a suspect, according to informed in a statement the mayor, Katie Wilson.

The armored vehicle advances slowly. Not out of caution, but because every kilometer requires relearning a territory that has changed. A few weeks ago, this road was still closed even to the United Nations Blue Helmets. For the first time in several months, a patrol from the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) travels from the east to the west sector of the south of the country. For the soldiers, it is a journey. For Lebanon, the reflection of a new reality.

Who would have thought four years ago, when the Russian attack on Ukraine took place, that on July 14, 2026, Ukrainian units would parade on the Champs-Élysées in Paris with a not exactly victorious, but satisfied air. Hopeful. Ukraine's drones continue to harm Russia and Putin continues to take refuge in rhetoric and missiles exploding in Kyiv. But this crisis –perhaps the beginning of the end of the war– also highlights the democratic shortcomings of the regime managed by Volodymyr Zelensky. The latest episode has been the dismissal of the Minister of Defense, Mykhailo Fedorov, and as a consequence the head of the military command, Oleksandr Sirski, who was the one demanding it. By expelling Fyodorov, the Ukrainian president gets rid of a rival, but loses one of his best strategists with a lot of support in the streets of Kyiv. A conflict that gives indications of how Ukraine would end up if Putin finally threw in the towel. Or if the Kremlin's dens forced him to throw it in.

Cristian Fàbrega Gallego is a professor in the Department of Electronic and Biomedical Engineering and coordinates the master's degree in renewable energies and energy sustainability at the University of Barcelona. He speaks to ARA to explain the environmental impact and energy consumption of artificial intelligence data centers, which are multiplying around the world.

For the vast majority of Americans, artificial intelligence has appeared in their lives in the form of a chatbot. For others, however, it has also materialized in concrete bunkers, full of servers and cables, that they can see from their own windows. When one of these giants appears, in many municipalities the water pressure drops – or the supply fails altogether – and residents begin to notice health problems.

The most serious fire ravaging France, southwest of Bordeaux, has remained stable overnight, according to French authorities. However, the situation remains at extreme alert because the fire is burning in "very unfavorable" conditions, according to Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez. This Sunday the flames had devoured 42,000 hectares —practically 10,000 more than in yesterday's report—, which places this fire as the most serious in the last fifty years in the country and one of the worst since World War II. Evacuation figures also continue to grow. Counting the nearly 20,000 people who evacuated during the night, the number of displaced people already exceeds 220,000.

In a gloomy basement of a destroyed building in Druzhkivka, a soldier pilots a small drone against a Russian antenna somewhere in Ukrainian Donbas. The pilots take twenty-hour shifts to fight Russian positions sixteen kilometers away, and fatigue does not prevent them from being optimistic about the new army commander-in-chief, Mikhailo Drapati, after his predecessor was sacked this week by President Volodymyr Zelensky, amid the most significant protests the country has experienced since the Maidan revolt in 2014.

The German police have shot dead the suspect in a fatal hit-and-run at a Pride event in Berlin on Saturday night that left at least one person dead and twenty-nine injured – some seriously. The Interior Ministry is treating the incident as a terrorist attack and the police had made a large deployment to find the driver, whom they accuse of having links to Islamist circles. "Everything we see here indicates that we are dealing with an Islamist attack," said Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt, who has pledged to bring those responsible to justice.

A terribly familiar war rhythm has returned to prevail in Iran: bombed highways, a sinking currency, threatening messages from President Trump on social media, and incendiary rhetoric from religious leaders of the Iranian regime. But when Behnam, an unemployed musician from Tehran, calls relatives or friends to see how they are, he never starts by talking about the war. "The first question we ask each other is: have you eaten?"

The West Bank has experienced one of the most explosive days in recent months. A shooting in the village of Tell, southwest of Nablus, in which at least four Palestinians and two Israeli soldiers died, triggered a massive wave of settler attacks against several Palestinian communities early this morning. Israeli authorities have arrested seventy Palestinians, who have been taken to an interrogation center set up in a house in the village where the incident took place. The army and settlers have organized raids in which they have carried out more arbitrary arrests, after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised "forceful measures," such as demolishing the house of one of those involved in the riots and building new settlements in the area. Israeli settlers have attacked several Palestinian villages, including Urif, Surra, Far'ata, Jit, Imatin, Khirbet Imreiha, Iraq Burin, and the Masafer Yatta area, in the north and center of the West Bank. In Urif, a home was set on fire and at least one Palestinian was injured. In Far'ata, settlers burned agricultural land and shot a man in the chest, who is in critical condition. Other videos shared by residents of various localities show homes, businesses, and vehicles on fire, excavators uprooting olive trees, as well as the word revenge painted on the walls. In some of the incidents, according to local sources, Israeli troops dispersed Palestinian residents with tear gas.The incident that precipitated the escalation occurred after a group of Israeli settlers entered a restricted military zone without authorization or coordination with the army, according to the Israeli army. From here, the versions diverge. The army maintains that the settlers were on an unauthorized excursion when they were attacked and that a Palestinian snatched the weapon from one of the security members before opening fire. Palestinian witnesses, on the other hand, assure that it was the settlers, with the support of the soldiers present, who began to shoot at the inhabitants of the village.A video recorded during the events shows an armed settler trying to push two Palestinians away by pushing them with his rifle. A struggle for the weapon then ensues, while shouts of revenge in Hebrew are heard in the background. Moments later, one of the Palestinians appears holding the rifle and at least a dozen shots are heard coming from different points. Be that as it may, the result was four Palestinians and two Israeli soldiers dead, one of whom was also a settler, according to the Efe agency.A pretext to intensify the offensive

After the events in Tell, the Israeli Prime Minister and Defense Minister, Israel Katz, announced that they would intensify military operations in villages that Israel considers "a hotbed of terrorism." They announced new military deployments, the demolition of homes of suspects who may have participated in the Tell incident, the confiscation of weapons, and the withdrawal of work permits for the inhabitants of this village.Netanyahu also ordered the acceleration of the construction of new settler outposts in the area where the events occurred and the legalization of those that already exist, even though the settlements are considered illegal, according to international law and by the majority of the international community.

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Unlike the idea one might have of countries like Mauritania, from which the main migratory routes to the Canary Islands depart, a large part of the young people in this country do not want to leave their homes and are looking for solutions to continue living where they were born. “You always have to have hope”, says Yacine from a multipurpose room where she was able to watch the documentary "Ebre Trarza, in which he has participated. The project, which will be seen soon at festivals in Catalonia, summarizes more than a year of letter exchange between young people from the Trarza region, in Mauritania, and from the Ebro Delta, two territories that are experiencing the effects of climate change but whose young inhabitants are resisting leaving. “If the Delta dies, we will die with it,” says Jordi Parés, of the Sediments Association in the same documentary.

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The United States and Saudi Arabia on Wednesday closed a civil nuclear cooperation agreement that would open the door to the development of a Saudi nuclear program without some of the safeguards traditionally required by Washington. U.S. President Donald Trump has assured that "there will be no enrichment of nuclear material" and that the program will be exclusively for civilian uses. He also specified that the pact will only go ahead if Saudi Arabia adheres to the Abraham Accords, promoted by the United States in 2020, and if it normalizes relations with Israel. Riyadh has not yet reacted publicly.

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Péter Magyar took the helm of Hungary's government on May 9 and has not eased up on the accelerator since then, aiming to leave the autocratic regime built by Viktor Orbán over the last sixteen years behind as quickly as possible, to leave the autocratic regime behind as quickly as possible. The prime minister has christened this democratic transition operation with the name purifying fire, whose top priority is to dismiss Fidesz loyalists holding public office who could hinder the process of reconstructing the rule of law. The first to fall has been the country's president, Tamás Sulyok, whom Magyar described as Orbán's "puppet." This express democratization process has further boosted the popularity of the new government, but it has also raised eyebrows among some organizations and analysts who warn of the risk of overdoing it and falling into the same trap of power concentration as the previous regime.

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It was meant to be the big trade deal that end the belligerence of the United States against the European Union and restore good relations between the two transatlantic powers. However, a year after the handshake between the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, and the US President, Donald Trump, in Scotland, the pact has not managed to change the White House's attitude towards its European allies. During these twelve months – Monday marks the first anniversary – the New York magnate has not stopped threatening and insulting the European Union's partners, which has endangered the application of the trade agreement on repeated occasions and delayed its entry into force in European institutions.

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The member states of the International Criminal Court (ICC) voted this Friday to dismiss prosecutor Karim Khan after receiving accusations of sexual abuse, according to two diplomatic sources who informed Reuters. The 125 member states of the court decided this in a closed-door meeting, and according to the same sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, 82 of the court's member states voted in favor.

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With only a few months left until the elections, the trial against Benjamin Netanyahu has entered a new phase. The Israeli prime minister concluded his testimony before the court at the end of June, after 98 sessions that lasted a year and a half. But the process is still far from over: defense testimonies, final reports from the parties, and the judges' deliberations are still pending before a verdict. What future awaits a case that has marked Israeli politics in recent years and that will mark the country's electoral pre-campaign?The process that began in 2020 has advanced through marathon declarations, postponements for political and security reasons, constant calendar changes due to the different wars Israel has experienced in recent years, and an increasingly open confrontation between the prime minister and the country's judicial system. This is an unprecedented episode in Israeli judicial history: it is the first time that a prime minister in office has faced a criminal trial and has testified for so long in court. True to the strategy he has maintained since the beginning, Netanyahu has denied all accusations and has once again presented the case as a political persecution.The judicial proceeding focuses on three open cases, known as cases 1000, 2000, and 4000, in which the prosecution alleges there are indications of bribery, fraud, and abuse of power. Case 1000 investigates the receipt of gifts valued at approximately 260,000 euros from businessmen such as Arnon Milchan and James Packer, in exchange for possible political favors. For now, Netanyahu has admitted they were friends, but argues that the gifts were part of a personal relationship and not an exchange of favors.Case 2000 analyzes the conversations held with Arnon Mozes, editor of the Israeli newspaper Yediot Aharonot, about a possible improvement in media coverage in exchange for limiting the influence of the rival newspaper Israel Hayom. The legal discussion now focuses on whether those conversations constituted a real negotiation or a political maneuver without intention of materializing.Case 4000, the most serious, focuses on the alleged granting of regulatory favors to businessman Shaul Elovitch in exchange for favorable coverage on the Walla portal. It is the only case in which Netanyahu is accused of bribery, but where the judges have reiterated that they have difficulty seeing where this crime lies. The prosecution maintains the accusation.

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The Ukrainian army intensified attacks inside Russia this Friday, far from its borders, and Vladimir Putin responded with a missile bombing against Kyiv in broad daylight. Today's is one of the deadliest days in recent times, with a provisional death toll of eleven in Ukraine and six in Russia. The attack on the Ukrainian capital caused at least six deaths and dozens of injuries, according to President Volodymyr Zelensky, who also lamented five more deaths in Sloviansk, eastern Ukraine. In Russian territory, six people died and 26 more were injured in a Ukrainian bombing at a factory in the Kirov region, about 900 kilometers northeast of Moscow.

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France continues to be immersed in a fight to extinguish various active fires across the country. 98,000 hectares have been scorched since the beginning of the year, figures that the Minister of the Interior, Laurent Nuñez, has described as a "historic record".

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