International

This Monday the earth opened under Valle del Cauca, in Colombia. A 7.4 magnitude earthquake, with its epicenter in San José del Palmar, shook the southwest of the country and caused significant damage in Cali, Pereira, and Quibdó, adding to the long list of tremors that have hit Latin America this year. It came weeks after a much deadlier tragedy on the west coast of Caracas, when two earthquakes separated by just 39 seconds collapsed buildings and left a death toll that today is around 6,000.

On July 8, after the NATO summit in Ankara (Turkey) ended, Donald Trump announced to the world that he was going to board his “old Air Force One,” instead of the one Qatar gave him this year, the Boeing 747-8 he had been using and had brought on the outbound trip. The president boarded the presidential plane, a scene captured by television cameras, but minutes later he was secretly transferred to a third, smaller one, the Air Force C-32. The Secret Service made this extraordinary and unprecedented decision after detecting a credible assassination threat from Iran, according to an exclusive report tonight by The Washington Post and confirmed by other U.S. media.

At least 164 people died, according to initial Reuters data, and more than 570 were injured in Colombia due to the magnitude 7.4 earthquake that shook the country this Monday, according to a provisional report from the Colombian Association of Capital Cities (Asocapitales).

The 7.4 magnitude earthquake that has caused dozens of deaths in Colombia, as well as numerous damages, was particularly severe in the department of Risaralda, where five hours after the earthquake at least 40 deaths were already counted out of the total of more than 70 from the earthquake. Of these, 18 were recorded in the capital, Pereira.

The reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, Donald Trump’s sword of Damocles, has become the main objective of the United States in its war in Iran, which has already lasted five and a half months. When he ordered the start of the joint offensive with Israel on February 28, the president set optimistic and unrealistic goals: he promised the people that he would achieve a regime change in two weeks, during which he would end Tehran’s nuclear program and eliminate the threat of its allied militias in the region. However, even before the launch of the first missile, U.S. intelligence had already determined that these objectives were unattainable solely through military action.

Ukrainian drones attacked both civilian and industrial facilities in the Russian republic of Tatarstan on the night of this Monday, according to local authorities. As a result of this latest offensive, at least 13 people died, while nearly 40 were injured.

An earthquake of magnitude 7.4 shook Colombia this Monday, according to the Euro-Mediterranean Seismological Center (EMSC). The earthquake has caused material damage and injuries in the city of Quibdó, the closest capital to the epicenter, a government official told Reuters.

With or without Santa Claus, more and more Christmas gifts will arrive at European homes through Arctic landscapes. But they will not come by reindeer, but on container ships chartered from China. Like the one that will set sail next Wednesday from Ningbo to reach the English port of Felixstowe twenty days later. Thus inaugurating the first weekly line of the Polar Silk Road.

The Italian Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, and her Danish counterpart, Mette Frederiksen, published a joint statement this Monday in which they reject “uncontrolled immigration” and call for repatriation centers in third countries.

The Government of Israel has rejected the fifteen-point plan established by Donald Trump for Gaza that Hamas had accepted and which involved the disarmament of this group that has governed the Strip since 2006. Benjamin Netanyahu had expressed in recent days his disagreement with the plan. He has now formalized it and postponed its implementation, and the partial withdrawal of the Israeli army from part of the strip, until the complete disarmament of Hamas. In reality, Netanyahu will not make a move until the elections in Israel have been held, in October.