Amidst the uncertainty, Kevin Warsh's Federal Reserve (Fed) has opted for prudence and has kept interest rates unchanged around 3.5%. According to the statement from the U.S. central bank, there were three dissenting votes on the institution's governing council that favored raising rates by 0.25 points.

This time, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky does have "cards" to play the game. Or at least to make his American counterpart, Donald Trump, take an interest again in the almost forgotten war in Ukraine. With the conflict in Iran stalled, the Ukrainian leader has reminded the Republican that he can revive the peace process he initiated last year to end the Russian invasion. "We talked about diplomacy; it is important that the process be reactivated," Zelensky said in a statement on X about the closed-door meeting he had with Trump this Tuesday at the White House.

The US President, Donald Trump, and the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, have positively assessed this Tuesday's meeting at the White House. Both sides have avoided making any further comments on the closed-door meeting at a time when their relationship has been visibly affected by discrepancies over the war in Iran. The entrenchment of the conflict, which has already lasted five months, has only intensified friction.

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.

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 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.

The race to decide who will be the new UN Secretary-General when António Guterres's mandate ends in December has already begun. In an attempt to spark general interest, the four women and two men who have presented their candidacies have taken part in a debate in the General Assembly. The little interest this process has generated among public opinion is a reflection of the organization's low point.

In his conviction to maintain the trade war, Donald Trump has announced a new tariff package that replaces the universal taxes that the Supreme Court annulled in February. The US president has signed a new executive order establishing levies of between 10% and 12.5% on more than 60 countries, including members of the European Union, China, and Mexico. The leader justifies this as retaliation against these states for not having taken sufficient measures to control imports of goods produced through forced labor. Furthermore, hours later, Trump also accused the EU of harming American companies through multimillion-dollar fines and threatened to impose a new tariff "as soon as possible".

U.S. President Donald Trump has now said that the nuclear deal with the Saudis is subject to the Gulf monarchy adhering to the Abraham Accords. "It will be approved, but it is totally conditioned on Saudi Arabia adhering to the highly respected and successful Abraham Accords," he said this Thursday morning on Truth Social, where he stressed that "there will be no enrichment" of uranium. Trump pushed for the Abraham Accords during his first administration to normalize relations between Arab countries and Israel. While some states like Morocco and the United Arab Emirates joined, Saudi Arabia, Oman, and other major regional powers remain outside.

It was a long time ago the meeting between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin in Anchorage, in Alaska, where the American president received his Russian counterpart – against whom an arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court is pending – with a red carpet. That August, the leaders spoke of a possible general peace framework in Ukraine that would involve Kyiv ceding the Donbas region. The optimism of the meeting crystallized in three-way negotiations in Geneva, in February of this year, which were abruptly interrupted without any agreement. Since then, it seemed that the White House – distracted by the war in the Middle East – had set aside diplomacy in Ukraine.

The Donald Trump administration announced this Wednesday that the United States has agreed with Saudi Arabia that it can enrich its own uranium. According to the U.S. Department of Energy, there are two documents: one for the nuclear cooperation agreement – dubbed "123 agreement" – and another bilateral one on security pacts for a program that is to last "decades". The announcement was imminent after several U.S. media outlets had reported on the agreement between Riyadh and Washington.

The President of the United States, Donald Trump, is running a marathon to dynamite all the international rules that have been built over the years and, with his direct action, or with his alliances, to work towards a world in which, effectively, only the law of the strongest or, also, the law of the richest prevails. This is the case of the agreement he has signed with Saudi Arabia to allow the great Gulf power to enrich uranium in its own territory for nuclear fuel. In principle, it would not have military purposes, but, unlike other previous agreements with third countries, such as the United Arab Emirates, it is not foreseen, according to what has transpired so far, that there will be strict security clauses or the requirement of full access for inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency. It simply mentions "high standards of nuclear safety" and "nuclear non-proliferation." Although it is an agreement that has been negotiated for many years, it was initially linked to Saudi Arabia's commitment to recognize the State of Israel - which was cut short after Hamas's attacks on October 7 - and had more limits than are now foreseen to be imposed.

The president of Venezuela detained in North American territory, Nicolás Maduro, and his wife, Cilia Flores, will be tried for drug trafficking on June 1, 2027, in the United States. Judge Alvin Hellerstein set the date during Wednesday's hearing in the Manhattan court. Both the defense and the prosecution had previously submitted requests for the trial to begin on June 1 of next year.

The President of the United States, Donald Trump, has promised new attacks against civilian infrastructure if Iran continues to launch missiles at the few ships attempting to pass through the Strait of Hormuz. "Every time the Islamic Republic fires at a vessel in the strait, be it a missile or a drone, the US will bomb and destroy a bridge or a power plant, including those located next to, or inside, Tehran," the Republican wrote on Truth Social. The leader intends to apply a kind of eye for an eye, which brings Washington even closer to an all-out war with the ayatollahs.

Jordan has ceased to be a secondary theater of war. After last Friday's attack on a military position in the northeast of the country, in which several American soldiers died, Iran attacked Jordanian territory again this Tuesday. Tehran assured that it had reached the Rukban area, near the borders with Syria and Iraq, and that it had caused new casualties among the American troops deployed there, information that Washington has not confirmed. Beyond the victim count, the succession of attacks reveals a fundamental change: the Hashemite kingdom, for decades one of the most discreet allies of the United States in the Middle East, has moved to occupy a central place in the confrontation between Washington and Tehran.

The fronts stemming from the Iran war are only multiplying for the US president, Donald Trump. Tuesday's meeting with his Lebanese counterpart, Joseph Aoun, was to focus on the next steps of the preliminary agreement for the withdrawal of Israeli troops in the south of the country. A conflict that Washington and Israel are trying to remove from the regional equation, even though the Iranian regime demanded an unconditional ceasefire to Lebanon in the memorandum signed in Versailles. But, even so, the Republican has had to answer not only questions about Hezbollah but also about the Houthis of Yemen.

The most improbable photograph of the World Cup and the one that, surely, Donald Trump would have wanted to avoid. Just over a week after railing against Spain and threatening to cut off trade relations with it, the American president found himself in the position of having to present the World Cup trophy to the national team. When the tycoon stepped onto the MetLife Stadium turf this Sunday, the booing was widespread. The president of FIFA, Gianni Infantino, accompanied him and could do little on this occasion to heal the republican's ego.

The United States has bombed Iran for the eighth consecutive night this Sunday, and the Persian country has now set Jordan in its sights. The Jordanian army has reported intercepting three Iranian missiles, while another has fallen in a remote area in the south of the country. The attack has not caused "human casualties or material damage", according to military sources, but it has led the Jordanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs to summon the chargé d'affaires of the Iranian embassy in Amman to protest against "the brutal and unjustified Iranian attacks" against its territory, which have intensified in recent days. The Persian country has also bombed Kuwait again this Sunday for the second consecutive day. Its target has been a desalination and power plant.

Iranians received an unexpected message this Saturday from the authorities: save electricity and gas at home. The recommendation may seem minor, but it is profoundly symbolic in a country that has the world's second-largest gas reserves and fourth-largest oil reserves. The American military offensive against Iran enters its second week, and the military escalation does not seem to be stopping. Even less so after two American soldiers were killed this Saturday in an Iranian attack with drones and ballistic missiles against a United States base in Jordan, according to a statement from the US Army's Central Command. A third soldier is missing and four others were injured.

The United States has opened a new diplomatic front this week. Donald Trump's administration has once again declared war on the International Criminal Court (ICC) with a campaign of pressure to dismantle the body that tries those responsible for war crimes, genocides, and crimes against humanity. The offensive, announced this Monday by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, adds a new episode to the White House's long history of attacks on the Hague court.