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For Vladimir Putin, Victory Day had always been a source of pride. A day to show off military muscle. His best tanks and missiles, deployed in the heart of Moscow.

Seven people, two seriously, have been injured this Saturday when a car ran over several pedestrians in the center of Modena, a city in northern Italy, according to the police. Four of them are said to be in serious condition, local press reports.

The search for the four missing Italian tourists in the Maldives has claimed a new victim. A diver from the National Defense Forces of the archipelago died this Saturday in the hospital after being admitted in critical condition during rescue operations in the underwater caves of Alimathà, in the Vaavu atoll.

More than sixty years after the excavations in the so-called Garden of the Fugitives in Pompeii, the city devastated by the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD, the profession of one of the victims has been identified: he was probably a doctor who died while trying to escape carrying some of the tools of his trade.

The different factions in the battle for the succession to Keir Starmer’s throne have adopted a one-month truce, awaiting whether the Mayor of Manchester, Andy Burnham, defeats or not Farage’s far-right in the contest for the vacant Makerfield seat in the House of Commons. That small town of one hundred thousand inhabitants is going to decide the fate of the entire United Kingdom.

Emmanuel Macron emerged in 2017 as a political anomaly in France. And he is on track to end up the same way. The French president managed to be elected by making his way against all odds between the two major political forces at the time: the Socialist Party (PS), whose government he had been part of as Minister of Economy under the presidency of François Hollande, and The Republicans (LR), the latest brand of the Gaullist movement, whose last two presidents had been Jacques Chirac and Nicolas Sarkozy. It was a radical shift in axis.

Donald Trump and Xi Jinping, the two most powerful men in the world, do not think about us. During the two days they have spent together in Beijing, they have smiled a lot and been showered with praise, but they have not said anything in favor of a better, less violent, and more sensible world. Not a word…

The future of the Cuban revolution, accustomed to overcoming all crises since it ousted dictator Fulgencio Batista in 1959, has been darkened by the Trump administration as much as the darkness of the streets of Havana, affected by continuous blackouts, which in some neighborhoods last more than twenty hours a day.

Representatives of Israel and Lebanon agreed this Friday in Washington to extend the ceasefire declared on April 16 by 45 days, announced the United States Department of State, which acts as mediator.

The future of the Cuban revolution, accustomed to overcoming all crises since it ousted dictator Fulgencio Batista from power in 1959, has been darkened by the Trump administration as much as the darkness of the streets of Havana, affected by continuous blackouts, which in some neighborhoods last more than twenty hours a day.