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“No one is moving me from here,” said Keir Starmer, tying himself with a double sailor’s knot to the chair in his Downing Street office after one of the worst electoral results in Labour’s history (if not the worst), with the loss of power in Wales, half of the councilors he defended in the English local elections, and total abdication in Scotland. He admits the disaster but believes he can fix it with a couple of paracetamols, a colonoscopy, and a visit to the hygienist for a dental cleaning. Uncomfortable interventions, of course, but they are commonplace and no one dies from them.

“Regarding the statement issued this morning by the Community of Madrid, WE CATEGORICALLY DENY having received any threats or instructions from the President of our country, Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, or any official of the Government of Mexico regarding the holding of the Los Premios Platino Xcaret.” Not even carved in stone with a chisel would the denial be read more emphatically than the hotel group, the most important in the Riviera Maya and one of the largest in the country, has just issued a few minutes ago.

“No one is moving me from here,” said Keir Starmer, tying himself with a double sailor’s knot to the chair in his Downing Street office after one of the worst electoral results in Labour’s history (if not the worst), with the loss of power in Wales, half of the councilors he defended in the English local elections, and total abdication in Scotland. He admits the disaster but believes he can fix it with a couple of paracetamols, a colonoscopy, and a visit to the hygienist for a dental cleaning. Uncomfortable interventions but ones that are common and no one dies from.

The truce between Russia and Ukraine for the days May 8, 9, and 10 is now a reality. This was confirmed by the President of the United States, Donald Trump, in a statement on Truth Social, in which he thanks both presidents for reaching an agreement.

Russia has asked Ukrainians to evacuate Kyiv on Saturday, May 9, Victory Day in Russia, due to the possibility of launching a major attack on the city.

Rarely have municipal and regional elections been described as “historic” without it being an exaggeration, like when a football match is dubbed “the match of the century,” or a film, a work of art deemed essential and momentous, that would be a sin to miss. But referring to yesterday’s elections in Scotland, Wales, and England in this way is no hyperbole, because they will symbolize the end of the two-party system, the decline (terminal or not, we shall see) of Labour and the Conservatives, the emergence on the scene of the far right (Reform) and far left (Greens), the rejection of the technocratic centrism represented by Keir Starmer, and the sharp condemnation of Jacobin centralism, with three of the four nations that make up the Kingdom possibly in the hands of nationalists.

The fragile ceasefire that had been in place since last April 7 between the United States and Iran hangs by a thread after a violent exchange of attacks in the Strait of Hormuz in the early hours of this Friday. Both powers have confirmed the crossfire, but maintain opposing versions about who initiated the aggression and what the actual damages have been.

A federal judge in New York has ordered this Wednesday to publish a suicide note allegedly written by the pedophile Jeffrey Epstein and found by his cellmate in the cell where he died under federal custody in 2019, while awaiting trial for sex trafficking offenses. The evidence has remained under seal since then, alongside the emergence of multiple theories about the veracity of his suicide.

The presidents of the two most populous countries in the Western Hemisphere, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Donald Trump, staged their reconciliation this Thursday in an unexpected meeting at the White House, after a year marked by tension between Brazil and the United States over tariffs and the exchanged insults between their leaders, who are ideological opposites.

Despite the growing complaints from citizens, who according to surveys do not believe that life is better under the current president, Donald Trump demonstrated that his fist is still made of steel in controlling the Republican Party.