The war in Iran that began on Saturday It's much more than a backdrop to our everyday lives. It's not that conflict we see images of but that remains distant from us, because It has the potential to complicate our daily livesAnd a lot: the price of oil and gas has increased, there are disruptions in international trade, global insecurity has increased, France has reminded Iran – and the whole world in general – that it has a nuclear arsenal.

Saturday morning, the attack by the United States and Israel against Iran activated the morning specials. Antonio García Ferreras did not delay, and turned the breaking news into a minute-by-minute, adrenaline-fueled report that added even more anxiety to the events: “¡Good morning! The United States and Israel are attacking Iran! And Iran is responding with missiles against Israel and several countries in the region! Regionalization of the conflict! According to the US war department, what they call... Operation Epic Fury! is already underway.”. But for epic fury it was the presenter's, who deployed his emergency manual to generate a sense of impatience and countdown, to create the expectation that anything catastrophic could happen at any moment before the eyes of the viewers.

We've all had to return to normal without warming up: on January 3rd, Trump bombed Caracas and President Maduro is being taken to New York to be tried..

Trumpism has forced the world to reposition itself. As can be read in thereport The world in 2026: ten issues that will shape the international agenda, from CIDOBThe return of Donald Trump to the White House marked the beginning of a new era in the instrumentalization of economic and technological coercion, the intensification of competition for resources, and the need to seek alternative trade relationships in the United States, which has accelerated a global race to diversify the friends and rebuild bridges with allies of convenience.

The scene took place last September in a refined restaurant in Strasbourg, a very European city. Two prominent voices from the European Parliament were discussing tanks, drones, and the risk of war in Europe while enjoying a meal. chicken in cream sauceThe conversation proceeded normally among those at the table: politicians and journalists. "Does Europe have enough soldiers to fight?" "European armies must modernize; tanks no longer win wars.""If Russia were to attack us, with the weaponry we have, we could only hold out for a few days." These were slogans heard during dinner.

Last Monday, a surprising scene unfolded in downtown Barcelona: two Ukrainian soldiers, dressed in full military uniform, were waiting in front of the Estacion del Norte station. They were waiting for a bus. ARA's Head of International, Francesc Millan, They were found by chance. After a conversation, the two soldiers agreed to anonymously tell their story to ARA. They were deserters who had fled the front lines a few days earlier after three and a half years of fighting in the Ukrainian army. They had just arrived in Barcelona and had slept on the streets for the first two nights. We published the entire story in the newspaper this weekend. You can retrieve it at this link if you haven't read it yet.

We're not exactly at war, but there is, there is. Let's see how we deal with (how we deal with) this contradiction in itself. The school year has started, PSG is coming to Barcelona to play the Champions League on Wednesday, everyone who could has gone on vacation this summer, and the other day I attended a family conversation about whose turn it is to celebrate Christmas and whose turn it is to celebrate Easter. But, meanwhile, the Russian invasion of Ukraine has been going on for more than three and a half years, and now Russia is inviting us to enter the war by the provocative method of sending us drones.

The Nayib Bukele government has taken a new step in its strategy of social control and discipline. Army captain and current Minister of Education Karla Trigueros—a dual position that would be an oxymoron in any state governed by the rule of law—has announced new regulations on school attire. The stated objective: to reinforce student discipline. The measures require students to wear a clean and tidy uniform and, in the case of boys, to adopt an "appropriate hairstyle": a short, uniform haircut that excludes styles popular among young people, such as the Mohawk (crest) or the well-known Edgar court (cup). Those who break these rules face sanctions ranging from lower grades to community service. Images of lines of children waiting to be shaved, more fitting for a military barracks than a school, have gone viral on social media. The question is inevitable: why does Bukele consider it necessary to shave the children of El Salvador? And what symbolic meaning lies behind an element as seemingly trivial as a hairstyle?

You knew you'd come back from a walk and another disaster would be waiting for you on your phone in the form of a fire or a massacre. After dinner, a young woman told you she felt like she was playing the Hunger Games. A very old person commented that young people might be able to change things in the future, but that it saddened her to see that the aspirations of her youth—human rights, democracy, and social justice—seem to no longer have any value.

A man died this Tuesday at Bergamo-Orio al Serio Airport, in northern Italy, after entering the runway and being sucked into the engine of a plane as it was preparing for takeoff. The plane involved was an Airbus A319 of the Spanish company Volotea whose destination was Oviedo Airport.

Given that the world's rending of garments over the annihilation of Gaza and the more than 50,000 dead has been essentially declarative (with particular restraint in the response of Arab countries) and that Russia has other work to do in Ukraine, Israel has turned the Middle East into its highway of most coveted desires.

"I left when I had the inner conviction that everything was lost and there was nothing left to save, when terror wouldn't let me live and blood was choking me."

Following a technical problem, paraglider Peng Yujiang ended up sucked into an updraft that carried him to an altitude of 8,598 meters, according to Chinese media. Guangming DailyDespite that unprecedented journey, the freezing process he experienced, and the lack of oxygen he suffered for several minutes, he was able to land safely because he never lost consciousness. All this happened on Saturday in the mountainous region of Qilian, in northeast China, and the videos recorded by the 360-degree camera attached to the paraglider are capturing headlines in the international media and videos on social media. But how was it possible for him to reach so high and return alive?

Bill Maher, the comedian of reference for the American progressives (the people who there call themselves liberals), has surprised his fans by explaining a recent meeting with Donald Trump at the White House, including dinner. Maher and Trump have a long history of cross insults, even some lawsuits, but that has not prevented Maher, in his show, from explaining that the president had been "friendly and measured" in the meeting, which took place on March 31. At dinner they exchanged points of view, jokes and even some coincidences (such as, for example, that Europe must take charge of its own defense). "And if this bothers the ranchers of Trump, I'm mad", the comedian is going to say, who will even attack those who "in the process of dialogue prefer to write the editorial material for a thousand times." Públic amb la seva agressivitat habitual, les seves sortides de to i la seva malaptesa. I conclude that this Trump desaforat, the Trump that is shown by the microphones and the cameras, is a mena de mask that does not shine in the reality. say in public that everyone else World leaders are "flashing their asses" from the outside of the tariffs, and I'm going to think just the opposite: that the president is a filter-free figure, who speaks in public the same way he would in private. And that, to most people, he appears to be shameful and irresponsible, but to his followers, he's a virtue.

Pilgrims from all corners of India undertake journeys that last for days, crammed into overcrowded buses and trains. The final leg of the journey is made in small pedal-powered vehicles known as rickshaws or, in some cases, on foot. For them, the important thing is to reach their destination.

Easter Island, the remote little piece of land in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, is caught in an oceanic plastic vortex. According to municipal data from Rapa Nui – the local name – this island receives about fifty times more plastics and microplastics than the coasts of Chile. This is largely due to its location in the South Pacific Gyre, which carries trash from Australia, South America and also from fishing boats. "The microplastic we find on the coasts is not ours," explains Moiko Pakomio, a marine biologist with the local government, who adds that worldwide the majority of microplastics come from fishing boats that dump their waste into the ocean. "This plastic waste decomposes as it travels through the currents and degrades until it becomes microplastics," she says.

There is a corner of the world, like many others, where history will never cleanse. Where words, books or any work will not be able to describe its horrors and the only thing that will remain will be a hole and a wooden cross as witnesses. This place, in Ukraine, is located in the town of Izium, in the province of Kharkov, where one of the main mass graves in recent European history is located. Up to 451 people were buried in a hidden forest, to avoid rotting in the streets, following the shells and explosions that the Russians used to enter this town, mostly of peasants and workers, during the first months of the invasion. The shames of war are covered with other shames and, after the withdrawal of the army, the Ukrainian armed forces discovered a wasteland that remains untouched today as a memory of contemporary barbarity.

It appeared thirty years ago The culture of complaint, Robert Hughes' essay satirizing political correctness. And here we are, still complaining all day long. I'm not just talking about the so-called Wokeism, but also the new right, which has made an argumentative corkscrew by complaining about the complaints of others and formulating its own. As a result, everyone feels victimized and everyone can promote or receive a lynching, thanks to the multiplying effect of social networks. Public opinion has been democratized, but democracy always has a trick; in the case of networks the trick is that the debates are oriented, that most of the debaters are bots or paid agitators, and that the algorithm rewards bipolarization. We live in a society of interchangeable aggressors and victims, while the most sensible are afraid to demonstrate (this was the great threat that Hughes foresaw) because the possibility of stepping on a tempranillo, using an incorrect term or causing collateral damage is tremendously high.