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Given the strategic failure of the six-month military campaign and stalled diplomacy with Iran, Donald Trump’s plan to defeat the enemy now involves the economic isolation of the Islamic regime. The president announced last night what he dubbed an “economic D-Day,” a new offensive with which he aims to punish any country that helps or does business with Tehran, a measure that could provoke a new indirect confrontation with China or Russia.

Moscow gas stations have resumed rationing gasoline supply this week as long lines begin to appear and authorities acknowledge the start of the “second stage” of the fuel shortage crisis due to Ukrainian attacks on Russian refineries. The Kremlin has had to redirect supplies from the provinces to the capital and import gasoline from other countries to stabilize the situation.

The Israeli Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben Gvir, announced this Tuesday the start of the construction phase of what he called a “hanging facility” for those sentenced to death in the center of the country, according to a video he himself shared on his Telegram channel.

Resisting is everything for people trapped in the wheel of destruction, reconstruction, and destruction again. Resistance determines who they are and what they do. If they want to keep living, they must first resist. Any aspiration they have is secondary. In the Middle East, the most militarized region in the world, millions of people wake up every morning with the goal of resisting. The strongest and best-armed set the level of endurance that the rest must reach. Political, social, and economic relations are determined by this hierarchy of resistance.

She is called the “human printer” because she follows President Donald Trump wherever he goes with a portable printer to deliver him physical documents.

Donald Trump started the Iran war convinced that the ayatollah regime would fall in a few days. When it became clear that this would not be possible, the US president tried to sell another idea: the offensive had served to pave the way for a new Iranian leadership “less radical and much more reasonable,” with which agreements could be reached.

The Israeli army announced this Wednesday that it has opened a criminal investigation into the shootings by Israeli soldiers in Gaza, in January 2024, against the vehicle in which the girl Hind Rajab was traveling and the ambulance that went to rescue her. That episode resulted in the death of nine people, including the minor.

The relations between London and Moscow are enormously complex and not exactly friendly (poisonings, persecution of dissidents on British territory, expulsion of spies, disinformation and fake news campaigns, hacks, attempts to destabilize democracy and influence elections, sabotage, attacks on infrastructure, economic sanctions…). But politics is one thing and finance another, and none of that prevents the Russian state and allied oligarchs from using the City without opposition as a giant money laundering machine.

The Paris prosecutor’s office has opened an investigation into alleged Russian interference, through fake news spread on social media, to harm two candidates for the Élysée, former prime ministers Édouard Philippe and Gabriel Attal.