Amid rumors about what includes the memorandum of understanding announced between Washington and Tehran to extend the truce by 60 days and open a negotiation period, a senior U.S. official read the content of the text this Wednesday on a call with journalists. For now, there is no graphic evidence and Iran has not confirmed that it is the agreed text. The media that have had access to the call, however, give credibility to the senior official, who spoke to the press on condition of anonymity.

Donald Trump appeared triumphantly on the stage of the G-7 summit in the French city of Évian. At the closing press conference, he assured that, with the memorandum of understanding agreed with Iran, the United States had achieved "everything they had set out to do and much more." As usual, he boasted that the American military is the most powerful in the world and assured that they could have continued bombing Iran for weeks or even years, but that he stopped it to avoid "an economic catastrophe."

The European Union is in a hurry on migration matters and, at an unusual speed, the European Parliament has already definitively ratified the regulation that will allow centers to be set up outside the community territory to deport immigrants, as the Italian Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, has attempted in Albania.the Italian Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, in Albania. The community club considers it a priority initiative and wants it to come into force as soon as possible. And, for this reason, the European Parliament has forced the initiative to be approved quickly — it has approved it by 418 votes in favor, 218 against, and 30 abstentions — just two weeks after reaching an agreement with the member states and the European Commission, although normally the procedures take months.

The Ångermanland court, in northern Sweden, on Tuesday sentenced Tomas Runsten, a 61-year-old man, to four years and five months in prison. According to the verdict, he allegedly sexually exploited his wife for three years and exposed her to between 250 and 275 men in exchange for money since 2023. The case has inevitably been compared to that of Dominique Pelicot in France — for which he is known as the "Swedish Pelicot" — both for the extent of control exerted over the victim and for the way intimate life was turned into a system of sustained exploitation.

Mariam Barghouti (Atlanta, 1993) is a Palestinian journalist and researcher born in the United States who has become a reference for her articles from occupied West Bank in media such as The Guardian, the BBC, Al-Jazeeraand Mondoweiss. This year she is the international resident of the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB).

The Russian war frigate Admiral Grigorovich reportedly fired warning shots at a British-flagged yacht in the English Channel on Tuesday, in an incident that the UK Ministry of Defence is investigating, and which occurs at a time of high tension between London and Moscow. The war in Ukraine and the activities of the so-called ghost fleet of tankers at the Kremlin's service have maximally strained relations between the two capitals, as already happened in 2018 following the attempted assassination on British territory of former spy Sergei Skripal by agents of Vladimir Putin.

This Tuesday's statements from Tehran and Washington show that the battle to interpret the agreement between the United States and Iran has only just begun. While the official signing of the memorandum of understanding remains scheduled for next Friday in Geneva, the Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Abbas Araghchi, has increased pressure on Israel by stating that the end of the war in Lebanon constitutes an inseparable condition for the end of the conflict with Iran.

Donald Trump's threats to withdraw US military capabilities from Europe were serious. The Pentagon has reported that it intends to reduce its presence on the European continent for the rest of NATO allies, and European countries are preparing and organizing to replace and fill the defense gaps that the North American power will leave, according to diplomatic sources from the Atlantic Alliance. In fact, many European allies have already put on the table what capabilities they can contribute and how they can contribute to Europe's security.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has called for legislative elections on September 20. For the first time, Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia, the four Ukrainian provinces annexed by Moscow, will be able to vote in Duma elections. All four had already participated in the last elections in which Putin was re-elected.

A 21-year-old woman died in Brazil this weekend after being thrown into the void without a rope while practicing bridge jumping. The events, which took place at the Skeleton Bridge, in the state of Sao Paulo, left chilling images that filled social media, where it is seen how three workers throw the young woman down the bridge without anything to hold her.

If there is one thing the G-7 countries agree on, it is that the pact between the United States and Iran to end the conflict could provide a boost for peace in Ukraine. With the war in Iran, that of Ukraine had taken a back seat. But now, with the Middle East conflict on track – albeit with a fragile agreement – the wind is blowing in the right direction. At the summit gathering the seven major world powers – France, the United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, Italy, Japan, and the United States – in the French city of Évian-les-Bains until this Wednesday, the G-7 leaders have united to redouble pressure on Russia to sit down and negotiate peace. "Russia should reach an agreement," warned US President Donald Trump.

"Ships of the world, start your engines. Let the oil flow!", the American president wrote this Sunday on his network, Truth Social. On his 80th birthday, Donald Trump celebrated that the agreement with Iran had been "completed", congratulated all those involved and boasted of having gone much further than any other leader of the United States.

The streets of Ashton‑in‑Makerfield and Hindley, the two main towns in the Makerfield constituency in northwest England, still echo a past that no longer exists. Their inhabitants would like to regain the security of a mine closed decades ago or the stability provided by the wages of a factory now reduced to ruins. Instead, they are faced with logistics centers, service companies, healthcare and elderly care providers, and zero-hour contracts that do not guarantee a single work shift.

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.

The memorandum that the United States and Iran have virtually signed and plan to formalize this Friday in Switzerland is presented as an attempt to extinguish several fires simultaneously in the Middle East. It is not a definitive treaty, but a framework of understanding that opens sixty days of negotiation and seeks, above all, to avoid a new regional escalation.

Trump celebrated his 80th birthday with a dantesque spectacle of almost no-holds-barred wrestling, a metaphor for the world he desires. And also with a poisoned gift from Tehran: the announcement of a ceasefire that, if it doesn't derail before being signed on Friday in Geneva, will put an end to more than 100 days of war against Iran. The American president needed to reach an agreement at all costs with a regime he had promised to annihilate and which has resisted the onslaught.

Europe and the main world powers have received the peace agreement between the United States and Iran with caution but also with hope. The announcement came just hours before the start of the G-7 summit, which will be held until Wednesday in the French city of Évian-les-Bains, with Lake Geneva as its backdrop, and with the presence of the US President, Donald Trump. "The agreement is an opportunity to restore regional stability and stabilize the world economy," France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Italy, and Japan have stated in a joint statement.

Israel finds itself in a very complicated moment, perhaps the most difficult in the history of the country, founded in 1948. At the helm we have Benjamin Netanyahu, a controversial prime minister not only because of the situation derived from the war with Iran and its uncertain consequences, but also because of the deep religious, social and political division that shakes Israel.

Russia launched one of the most massive aerial attacks in recent months against Ukraine early Monday. Among the affected targets is the Dormition Cathedral of the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra, one of the great spiritual and cultural emblems of Ukraine and Orthodox Christianity, founded in the 11th century, which is a UNESCO World Heritage site. The attack caused a spectacular fire.

Geneva has become this Sunday afternoon the epicenter of anti-capitalism, with a demonstration against the G-7 meeting this week in the French city of Évian-les-Bains, which ended with riots and violent clashes with the police. Some 20,000 people participated in the protest, the only one authorized, according to police estimates, although organizers put the figure at 60,000 demonstrators.