The United States has temporarily suspended visa processing appointments for applicants worldwide, as part of the immigration crackdown campaign being carried out by the administration of Republican President Donald Trump during his second term in the White House.
Everything coming from Gaza is seen as a threat to the Israeli communities surrounding the strip. Even if “terror” arrives driven by the sea breeze in the form of a kite, and even if at the end of the string of this toy there is a child.
Day of mystery, silences, hopes, and speculations this Tuesday in Moscow. It all began when the specialized website Flightradar24 reported the landing of a U.S. military plane at Moscow’s Vnukovo airport. Since the arrival of Donald Trump’s mediators to resume the stalled search for solutions to the war in Ukraine has been expected for weeks, speculations did not take long. But a few hours later, American media CBS and Axios claimed that none other than the head of U.S. espionage, the CIA director John Ratcliffe, had flown to the Russian capital to attend meetings with Russian authorities in Moscow. Neither the United States nor Russia have officially confirmed this trip.
By the work and grace of the bad neighborhood of President Donald Trump, the United States and Canada have declared a trade war. For Ottawa, however, there is more than just business in this conflict and it considers it an attack against the French language and culture, which constitute a fundamental part of Canadian national identity.
“Shouldn’t we fix that little spot on her nose?”. On her return from the trip to Kyiv, where she was exposed to the air raid siren alerts of the Ukraine war, the Danish Prime Minister, Mette Frederiksen, received on her Instagram that masked criticism of her appearance offered by a plastic surgeon whom she did not identify. “I am happy with my body and I don’t need a plastic surgeon, a man, to have an opinion about it,” the 48-year-old politician responded sharply.
The German far-right is euphoric. The Alternative for Germany (AfD) party boasts a new face that could bring it its first regional presidency, after years of growth at the polls since its founding in 2013 without this translating into access to power due to the cordon sanitaire applied by other parties. Ulrich Siegmund, candidate in the elections of the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt, to be held on September 6, could garner up to 43% of the vote, according to the latest poll by the Pollytix institute.
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.
