The President of the United States, Donald Trump, has announced a joint operation with the Middle East to free the ships stranded in the Strait of Hormuz. The Republican, who has called the mission “Project Freedom,” has given more details through his Truth Social account about an intervention that will take place starting this Monday morning.
China has launched its first robotic traffic police squad, which has officially started operating in Hangzhou, one of the country’s main technology hubs.
Two U.S. military personnel participating in the African Lion 2026 military exercises were reported missing on Saturday night in a training area of Cap Draa, near the city of Tan-Tan, in southern Morocco.
Iran has presented the United States with a 14-point proposal to definitively end the war, with a resolution timeline of 30 days and a set of demands ranging from lifting the naval blockade to the withdrawal of US troops in the region.
The Magistrate’s Court of Ashkelon, a coastal city in southern Israel, extended the detention of the Palestinian-Spanish activist Saif Abukeshek and his Brazilian companion Thiago Ávila for two days, Adalah, the legal center representing the two members of the Global Sumud Flotilla, reported to Efe. Israel links both activists, especially Abukeshek, to having connections with Hamas.
Perhaps what happened in the Bundestag (lower house of Parliament) a year ago, on May 6, 2025, when the Christian Democrat Friedrich Merz became Chancellor of Germany, was somewhat prophetic. The winner of the elections was elected Chancellor in a second vote after failing to secure enough votes from the deputies in the first vote, an unprecedented event in the history of the Federal Republic. Thus was born, visibly weakened, his leadership as head of a coalition government of conservatives and social democrats that has often been at odds since then.
Donald Trump is not only insolent in his public interventions and tweets. The President of the United States can adopt a blatantly rude behavior in private meetings with his counterparts around the world, even if they are allies and have known each other for years, as is the case with Emmanuel Macron.
The wooden doors of most of the nearly 200 vaulted shops surrounding the outer part of the grand Naqsh-e Jahan square are closed. The printed fabrics, carpets, carved copper objects, among other products sold in this bazaar that has fascinated tourists for centuries, now gone, are kept inside by order of the authorities. Many of the families who usually take advantage of this time on a spring day to have a picnic have not arrived either, much less the teenage girls – many of them without veils – who enjoy riding around the square on electric motorcycles.
The United States will withdraw 5,000 troops from its NATO ally, Germany — one seventh of those present in the country —, the Pentagon announced on Friday, following a public confrontation over the war in Iran between U.S. President Donald Trump and Chancellor Friedrich Merz.
The German Defense Minister, Boris Pistorius, has stated that the partial withdrawal of US troops from the country, announced by the Pentagon, was foreseeable, but emphasizes the need for Europe to take a more active role in its own defense.