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The United States Central Command (Centcom) has announced that this Tuesday it has launched a new round of attacks against military targets in Iran, in the latest sign of the return to hostilities between the two countries after a month of relative calm. The Pentagon has confirmed that the attacks began at 6 p.m. and were directed at “Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) targets in Iran,” in retaliation for “recent attempted attacks by the IRGC against commercial transport in the Strait of Hormuz and against U.S. service members deployed in the region.”

In a world that is changing rapidly, with an unpredictable White House, turbulence in the Middle East, and an increasingly unstable international landscape, Europe cannot afford decision-making processes that drag on for months (or years) due to the blockages of certain countries. This is the view of a large group of Member States — including Spain — that propose formulas against the unanimity rules to overcome vetoes and speed up the EU’s foreign policy.

Maybe Donald Trump, a football fan who emerged during the World Cup held in North America this summer and which he considered his own, saw the banner that the Argentine players displayed with the slogan “The Malvinas are Argentine.” Maybe he was still thinking about that when the President of the United States suggested from the Oval Office a possible review of the stance on that territory that caused a war between Argentina and the United Kingdom after the invasion of Argentine troops in 1982.

The German government formally pointed to Russia on Tuesday as responsible for the attempted drone attack at Leipzig airport on August 4. Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul and Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt appeared in Berlin to explain the results of the investigations and the agreed measures.

Russian jet-powered drones are the new challenge for the Ukrainian Air Forces. The recent updates of the original Iranian Shahed drones, developed by Russia, are much faster than their previous versions, making them harder to shoot down, and are remotely piloted. A greater deployment of this technology against Ukraine – 800 in just four days – has allowed the Russian army to increase the intensity and duration of bombings against Kyiv and its surroundings, which in the last six consecutive days have left more than fifty dead, including 12 fatalities this Tuesday, and dozens injured.

Around 13,600 residents of the town of Wilhelmshaven, in northern Germany, will be evacuated this Tuesday following the discovery of an unexploded American bomb from World War II. The bomb, weighing 250 kilograms and equipped with two fuzes, was found during construction work at the city’s naval arsenal, and its deactivation requires an evacuation within a one-kilometer radius, according to the Police.

King Haakon VIII of Norway will take the oath this Tuesday before the Parliament following the death of his father, committing to respect the Constitution and the laws of this Nordic country, the last in a series of ceremonies representing the transfer of the crown.

The long list of more than twenty senior Pentagon officials who have resigned or been dismissed in the past year added a new name this Monday: Daniel Driscoll, the United States Army Secretary, has left the position after 18 months in office. The resignation occurs in a context of growing internal tensions in the Department of Defense, both due to the purge initiated by Secretary Pete Hegseth last year and because of the duration and decisions made in the Iran war, which has already lasted more than half a year and has caused shortages in the U.S. arsenal.

A woman, who had a known history of mental illness within the New York Police Department (NYPD), was fatally shot this Monday in Times Square after stabbing two people, one fatally, and confronting officers while violently wielding two kitchen knives and threatening to kill them, the NYPD reported.

On August 29, during a meeting with staff and students at a university in Moscow, Vladimir Putin commented that orcas feed on polar bears. “That is the food chain,” said the Russian president. “Children should be taught this, so they understand what kind of world we live in and why we are carrying out the special military operation,” his expression to refer to Russia’s war against Ukraine.