International

Ten years is how long the validity of the passport, the ID card, the population census, the property registry, some fashions and cultural trends last in many countries. After a decade, the most romantic celebrate aluminum weddings, movies, albums, and video games that have been popular are relaunched, and the planet Mercury crosses in front of the Sun as seen from Earth. It is also how long it has taken the British Labour Party to reconsider returning to the European Union.

The Israeli army began intercepting several vessels of the Global Sumud Flotilla on Monday morning, which is trying to reach the Gaza Strip with the declared aim of breaking the blockade imposed by Israel, according to the flotilla. “Military boats are intercepting and boarding the first of our ships in broad daylight,” the organization warned after 10 a.m.

The ceasefire agreed upon by the United States and Iran has been in place for more than five weeks, but no one rules out the reactivation of the war. The full reopening of Hormuz seems like a chimera today, and the demands of both countries to definitively close the conflict remain very far apart.

For Vladimir Putin, Victory Day had always been a source of pride. A day to show off military muscle. His best tanks and missiles, deployed in the heart of Moscow.

Seven people, two seriously, have been injured this Saturday when a car ran over several pedestrians in the center of Modena, a city in northern Italy, according to the police. Four of them are said to be in serious condition, local press reports.

The search for the four missing Italian tourists in the Maldives has claimed a new victim. A diver from the National Defense Forces of the archipelago died this Saturday in the hospital after being admitted in critical condition during rescue operations in the underwater caves of Alimathà, in the Vaavu atoll.

More than sixty years after the excavations in the so-called Garden of the Fugitives in Pompeii, the city devastated by the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD, the profession of one of the victims has been identified: he was probably a doctor who died while trying to escape carrying some of the tools of his trade.

The different factions in the battle for the succession to Keir Starmer’s throne have adopted a one-month truce, awaiting whether the Mayor of Manchester, Andy Burnham, defeats or not Farage’s far-right in the contest for the vacant Makerfield seat in the House of Commons. That small town of one hundred thousand inhabitants is going to decide the fate of the entire United Kingdom.

Emmanuel Macron emerged in 2017 as a political anomaly in France. And he is on track to end up the same way. The French president managed to be elected by making his way against all odds between the two major political forces at the time: the Socialist Party (PS), whose government he had been part of as Minister of Economy under the presidency of François Hollande, and The Republicans (LR), the latest brand of the Gaullist movement, whose last two presidents had been Jacques Chirac and Nicolas Sarkozy. It was a radical shift in axis.

Donald Trump and Xi Jinping, the two most powerful men in the world, do not think about us. During the two days they have spent together in Beijing, they have smiled a lot and been showered with praise, but they have not said anything in favor of a better, less violent, and more sensible world. Not a word…