Donald Trump has announced that the United States and Iran have reached a preliminary peace agreement, renewing optimism about the end of two months of war in the Middle East. At the same time, the president has threatened Tehran with the largest bombings since the start of the offensive if it does not comply with the conditions of the supposed pact.
It seems like centuries have passed since the days when representatives of the Trump administration arrived in Rome received with all honors, while ministers competed to get a photo with them. Marco Rubio, on the other hand, lands in the Italian capital in a low-profile atmosphere bordering on distrust. The Secretary of State’s mission, already complicated in itself, has become even more arduous after Donald Trump’s new accusations against the Pope regarding the Iranian nuclear program, to which Leo XIV responded firmly on Tuesday night.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney illustrated his approach to Europe during his trip this week to the Old Continent, while his compatriots increasingly embrace the idea of joining the European Union (EU), an idea that not long ago seemed an aberration just to consider.
Donald Trump needed only a phone interview to shatter any illusion of détente with the Vatican. The president, in an interview on the ultraconservative Salem News Channel, once again attacked Pope Leo XIV: “I think he is endangering many Catholics and many people; for him, it is fine that Iran has a nuclear weapon.”
The White House and the Pentagon consider that Iran’s attacks on commercial and military ships in the Strait of Hormuz, as well as the bombings on the territory of the United Arab Emirates, do not constitute a violation of the fragile ceasefire, in effect since April 8.
Argentina, the country from which the cruise ship where a hantavirus outbreak was detected departed, has confirmed 41 cases of the disease so far in 2026 and reported that the current epidemiological season shows a higher circulation of the pathology compared to previous years and “above the outbreak threshold,” according to the Ministry of Health on Tuesday.
The United States Army liberated the Mauthausen concentration and extermination camp 81 years ago today, where the Nazis murdered about 90,000 people through forced labor in quarries, starvation, torture, gas chambers, or experiments with direct phenol injections into the heart.
The publication of a political manifesto by the technology company Palantir, a contractor for the United States Government, specializing in the application of Artificial Intelligence in the military field and in domestic surveillance, has made an impression
President Donald Trump has never been a fan of the Pulitzer Prizes. Not long ago, he demanded that those awards be withdrawn from the media that investigated his Russian connections. This year’s edition, announced this Monday, also does not put him in a good light, and much of the awarded information, reports, and opinions expose the alleged corruption and his authoritarian policy, especially against opponents and immigrants, which have marked his first year back in the White House.
A Ukrainian drone struck a residential building in Moscow for the first time in several years this Monday, just ten kilometers from the Kremlin, according to the mayor of the Russian capital, Sergey Sobyanin. The attack in the capital adds to other drones that Ukraine had launched against the oil terminal at the port of Primorsk, one of Russia’s main export ports with the capacity to handle one million barrels of oil per day, in the Baltic Sea, and two tankers from the Russian ghost fleet in waters near the entrance to the Russian port of Novorossiysk, in the Black Sea.