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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.

Donald Trump posted this Tuesday on his Truth Social network a map in which the Strait of Hormuz appears described as “new U.S. territory,” thus resuming an idea he had already expressed in recent days. The president spoke for the first time of “U.S. territory” to refer to this strategic commercial artery last week, during a rally and in a tone that made it seem like a joke.

A fifteen-minute walk separates the Bab Tuma gate from the ruins of Jobar. You start walking in the city that has been preserved and a kilometer later you cross an abyss and reach the one that has disappeared.

The U.S. Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, Elbridge Colby, was blunt last week: “America is not disengaging from Asia. We are not leaving; in fact, we are digging in.”

The U.S. administration is having great difficulties advancing the Peace Plan for Gaza. After two days of on-the-ground talks, the special envoy of the U.S. president, his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, only secured a vague commitment from the Israeli prime minister to “move forward.” Benjamin Netanyahu insisted that Israel will not withdraw its army from the Gaza Strip until Hamas has been completely disarmed, a position he has not changed for weeks. In his meeting with Kushner, which was described as “extensive, deep, and very productive” in a statement from the Peace Board, Netanyahu requested that a U.S. general oversee the delivery of weapons by the Palestinian group.