The United States has once again opened fire on Iran this Tuesday night, as reported by the Central Command of the army (Centcom) in a statement. It would again be a reactive maneuver, as the army justifies it as a response to Tehran's attack on "manned commercial vessels". Between Monday and Tuesday, at least three ships circulating in the Strait of Hormuz have been targets of Iranian missiles.

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.

In a typical populist move, Nigel Farage, the leader of the Reform Party, announced this midday that he is resigning as a Member of Parliament for Clacton-on-Sea, a decision that will trigger a by-election in which he has already confirmed he will stand again as a candidate. Farage justified the move by stating that he wants the voters, not the Westminster "establishment", to judge his conduct after the controversy generated in recent weeks by parliamentary investigations into his finances.

Donald Trump is setting fire to relations with Europe and puts Greenland back in the crosshairs just hours before the NATO summit begins. "Greenland should be under the control of the United States, not Denmark," said the North American leader from Ankara (Turkey). Although the leaders' meeting was to focus on rearmament and aid to Ukraine, the President of the United States took the opportunity to revive his expansionist desires with the territory of a NATO ally and member state of the European Union such as Denmark.

At least 18 people were injured in two explosions this Tuesday in Damascus, the capital of Syria, during the visit of French President Emmanuel Macron. Among the injured there would be four police officers, according to the Syrian Arab News Agency. The visit of the French president is the first by a European head of state since the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad in December 2024.

The far-right French leader Marine Le Pen will be a candidate in the 2027 presidential elections. It was unlikely that after the forceful sentence that condemned her to four years in prison and five years of disqualification in March 2025 for embezzlement of public funds could run for president, but an unexpected judicial plot twist will make it possible. "The French will have the freedom to choose. They will have the last word," Le Pen assured this evening in an interview on TF1 in which she announced that she will run for president despite being convicted.The leader of the National Rally also stated that she will appeal to the Court of Cassation – the equivalent of the Spanish Supreme Court – the sentence that has convicted her, a fact that adds uncertainty to her presidential candidacy. If the high court ends up confirming the verdict, Le Pen will have to campaign and participate in the presidential elections under house arrest and with an electronic ankle bracelet. If she were elected president, she would move to the Elysée with the electronic bracelet. It would be an absurd situation with no precedents.French justice has made public this Tuesday a tailor-made ruling so that Le Pen can be a candidate in the presidential elections. The Paris Court of Appeal has confirmed the first-instance conviction, but has shortened her prison and disqualification period, which left the door open for Le Pen to run in the elections, scheduled for the spring of next year. The court has imposed a sentence of three years in prison, of which only one is firm.House arrest

However, Le Pen will not enter any penitentiary center: she will have to serve the 12 months under house arrest with an electronic bracelet. The convicted person, however, could request a reduction of the house arrest, and if the judge accepts the request, she would only have to serve six months. In any case, if the future candidate appeals the decision, it is most likely that the sentence will be suspended until the Court of Cassation rules. It is expected to do so in January 2027 and, a priori, it would be then when the far-right leader would have to begin her house arrest. The high court only rules on the legality of the sentence, not on the merits.Regarding the disqualification – which is the key to Marine Le Pen's political future – the court has sentenced her to 45 months of disqualification, of which only 15 are final. As she was convicted in the first instance on March 31, 2025, she has already served the disqualification sentence. Legally, she has a clear path to be a candidate. This is the major new development in Tuesday's decision. The number two of RN –Jordan Bardella is the formal president– has benefited from a recent reform aimed at alleviating prison overcrowding, which provides that a part of prison sentences remain suspended and do not have to be served within penitentiary centers. But the court has also taken into account the political situation and its desire not to interfere in a presidential election. The president of the court, Michèle Agi, has made it clear, emphasizing that the ruling has taken into account the guarantee of "the elector's freedom of choice, an indispensable condition for the expression of democratic suffrage." And she added: "Ignoring this would violate the principle of freedom of candidacies, an essential condition for the expression […] of universal democratic suffrage." In other words, it acknowledges that the ruling has been issued in such a way that Le Pen, despite being convicted, can be a candidate.Bracelet campaign

Before the ruling became public, Le Pen had conditioned her candidacy on not being convicted of any crime and not wearing an electronic bracelet. "When one is a candidate for the presidential elections, one must have absolute freedom of movement and cannot depend on a magistrate to authorize you to go to a rally in Romorantin or to a market in Hénin-Beaumont," Marine Le Pen said last week on the LCI channel. The electronic bracelet greatly limits the movements of the convicted person: a movement perimeter is established and they must comply with house arrest schedules.

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Sam Edwards is a professor of contemporary political history at Loughborough University, one of the most prestigious British research institutions, located in the heart of England, between Leicester and Nottingham. Edwards is a specialist in historical memory, commemorations, and transatlantic relations, and is one of the leading authorities on the study of how the United Kingdom and the United States have constructed the shared memory of their colonial past. A member of the Royal Historical Society, he has dedicated the last few years to researching the memory of the American Revolution.

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NATO has no court or coercive power that can force a member state to reach 5% of its gross domestic product (GDP) in military spending. However, the rest of the allies, especially the United States, can exert all kinds of diplomatic pressure, economic and military to pressure countries like Spain, which refuses to accept Donald Trump's demands and wants to stay at 2.1%. And this is what the Secretary General of the Atlantic Alliance himself, Mark Rutte, has hinted that the White House will do against Pedro Sánchez's government.

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Israel has taken an unprecedented step in its institutional history. The government has announced that it will not obey a Supreme Court ruling that allows the Council of the Second Authority for Television and Radio, the regulatory body for private television and radio channels, to resume its activity. A decision that has reopened the tug-of-war between the executive and the judiciary with only a few months left until the elections in which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is playing for his future.

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While Catalonia is still working on extinguishing the Gavarres fire, which has already burned more than 2,300 hectares, numerous forest fires are ravaging southern Europe this Monday and have forced thousands of people to abandon their homes. As of this morning, the fires – located mainly in France, Portugal, Greece, and Spain – had already burned 19,000 hectares in total, which would be equivalent to almost twice the size of the city of Barcelona.Fires arrive after a June marked by a strong heatwave that crossed the continent, broke record highs in many places and caused thousands of deaths attributable to these extreme temperatures, especially in France. With an eye on a new heatwave predicted for this very week, Europe does not lower its guard and maintains caution against possible flare-ups of flames.

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Hamas announced this Monday the resignation of the members of the provisional government of Gaza to cede it to a Palestinian technocratic committee, as foreseen in Donald Trump's plan. The measure remains, however, a symbolic gesture, because Israel has not allowed the committee members, who were constituted a few months ago in Cairo, to enter the Strip. The Islamists send the signal that the government of Gaza is not an obstacle to advancing the plan of the American president, which only carries peace in name, since the genocide of the Palestinians has not stopped.

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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.

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Russia does not loosen its pressure on Ukraine. This Monday in the early morning, Moscow has once again bombed Kyiv, just four days after the last fatal attack on the Ukrainian capital. At least 14 people have died in Kyiv and six more have lost their lives in the neighboring town of Vyshneve, where 500 people have been evacuated due to the risk of new explosions following attacks on fuel depots. In addition, according to the balance of the Ukrainian authorities, 87 people have been injured.

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It has been days since Donald Trump began warming up for this week's NATO summit in Ankara. Although until recently he achieved almost everything he set out to do from his allies, the President of the United States has seen European leaders refuse in recent months to participate in the war in Iran and even criticize him. Furthermore, even though they had committed to it at last year's Atlantic Alliance summit, more and more partners are admitting difficulties or directly refusing to spend 5% of their gross domestic product (GDP) on defense. Two issues that deeply anger Trump, and his European counterparts are already preparing for the US president's reproaches, according to NATO diplomatic sources: it remains to be seen in what tone.

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Only drones can be heard! There is only darkness and the hum of the small drones' engines, interrupted from time to time by an explosion when they find a victim. There are others, much larger, that make no noise. Only the detonation is heard. "It's terrifying," Andrei, one of the few remaining inhabitants of Kramatorsk, tells me. Most have been evacuated by government order.

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This Saturday, a handful of masked men from a recognized supremacist group marched through Washington shouting "Reclaim America!". The gathering —held as the US capital prepared for the main events of its 250th anniversary— was brief and, according to a statement from the Metropolitan Police Department, they left the city shortly before 11 a.m.

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A week ago in Washington there were smiles, handshakes and an agreement presented as the beginning of the end of the war between Israel and Lebanon. However, the situation on the ground has barely changed. Israeli soldiers remain deployed in parts of southern Lebanon and thousands of residents are still displaced, waiting to return to their war-torn villages. The document, presented by the United States as the first step to stabilize the border and restore the authority of the Lebanese state, leaves the most important question unanswered: when will the Israeli occupation really end?

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Donald Trump celebrated the 250th anniversary of the United States under a light drizzle from the Washington monument with a markedly patriotic speech. Amidst the quagmire of the war in Iran, the rising cost of living, and the isolation of traditional allies, the American president wanted to emphasize the "exceptional" character of the country. "No people have done more good, shown more courage, made more progress, corrected more injustices, or achieved more greatness than you, the American people," he argued, assuring that the country is "a nation of winners."

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Riot police have clashed with protesters demonstrating against the congress of the far-right party, Alternative for Germany (AfD), in the streets of Erfurt, the capital of Thuringia. Police reported that 20,000 protesters were demonstrating in this city in eastern Germany, where Alice Weidel and Tino Chrupalla have been re-elected co-chairs of the party before decisive regional elections, in which the AfD could come to state power for the first time.

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Before the sun beat down strongly on Tehran, thousands of people already occupied the surroundings of the Mosalla mosque. They wore black, held up portraits of the supreme leader and Iranian flags, and advanced in a slow choreography that turned the space into a state-sponsored stage. The authorities have prepared one of the largest funeral arrangements in the country's recent history, with official estimates speaking of between 15 and 30 million participants over the six days of ceremonies. In addition to Tehran, celebrations will extend to several key cities in the country and the Shiite space, and he will finally be buried at the shrine of Imam Reza, in Mashhad, the man who for 36 years concentrated the highest authority of the Islamic Republic, until he was killed on the first day of the joint attack by Israel and the United States, on February 28.

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