The investigators of the alleged attempted attack in early August at the German Leipzig airport found, ten days after discovering a first drone equipped with an explosive charge, another unmanned aerial vehicle near the airfield, as well as explosives, German media report this Tuesday.
Not even when the European delegations are in Kyiv does Russia stop terrorizing the Ukrainian capital with its airstrikes. The alarm went off this Monday night at the Intercontinental hotel in Kyiv, where, among others, the President of the European Council, António Costa, was staying, who, like the other hotel guests, hurried to lock themselves in the shelter located in the hotel’s garage due to possible ballistic missiles launched from the Russian city of Tagarog.
The United States Secretary of the Treasury, Scott Bessent, announced this Monday a new round of economic sanctions against all countries that refuse to cut their formal and informal ties with Iran. In a tone more threatening than usual for him, Bessent warned both allies and adversaries alike, including China, with reprisals that will expose them “to the full reach of American power.”
After a dreadful summer due to the Russian missile rain and several scandals in his domestic policy, the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, has finally received good news. The new British Prime Minister, Andy Burnham, has confirmed in his first participation as organizer of the volunteer coalition that the United Kingdom will assist Kyiv in manufacturing long-range missiles due to the shortage of Patriot air defense systems, key to defending Ukrainian skies from Moscow’s assaults.
The square of the Saint Sophia Cathedral in Kyiv has become an impregnable fortress this morning. All eyes in the capital were on the temple, where the President of the European Council, António Costa, the new British Prime Minister, Andy Burnham, on his first international trip, and other European leaders have come to support President Zelenski on the 35th anniversary of the country’s independence from the Soviet Union. Burnham is also said to have arrived with good news: during today he plans to share the plans of his long-range missiles for production in Ukraine, according to British media reports.
It is already breaking news, not so much for what it does, but for what is hinted to be happening behind closed doors.
Outside Latin America, where the U.S. is imposing its imperium in an update of the Monroe Doctrine, Donald Trump’s foreign policy is floundering, both in Europe and in Asia and the Middle East, his Achilles’ heel.
The serious warnings of this scorching summer in Europe, with fires that have devoured France or Belgium, a heatwave that left thousands dead, and an unusually warm Mediterranean Sea, do not faze Brussels. Ursula von der Leyen’s European Commission, in its second term, is carrying out a series of controversial policies, having put the handbrake on some of its green ambitions due to pressure from industry, major community countries, and also the European People’s Party (EPP), the majority party in the European Parliament, where it can rely both on the pro-European coalition and the far right. In Strasbourg, a far right more numerous – and louder – than ever works tirelessly to “dismantle the green agenda,” their political obsession in this legislature alongside reducing immigration.
This scorching summer has offered scenes never seen before in Europe. Seaplanes drawing water from the Seine to extinguish the fire in Fontainebleau, in the historic hunting forest of the kings of France. The Rhine and the Danube at their lowest flow levels and almost unfit for navigation. Forest fires in Wales, on the border between Belgium and Germany, on the beaches of Croatia.
“I don’t sleep thinking about whether the patients have survived,” confesses P., a general surgeon from Pinar del Río, in western Cuba. The doctor, with whom this newspaper spoke via WhatsApp, prefers to remain anonymous. The lack of medical personnel, medicines, and basic resources necessary to practice his profession, worsened by the shortage of supplies the island suffers and the U.S. sanctions, leads him to ask himself: “Why am I still here?”. The tension he experiences at work has caused him alopecia, weight loss, and episodes of depression.