Donald Trump needed only a phone interview to shatter any illusion of détente with the Vatican. The president, in an interview on the ultraconservative Salem News Channel, once again attacked Pope Leo XIV: “I think he is endangering many Catholics and many people; for him, it is fine that Iran has a nuclear weapon.”
The White House and the Pentagon consider that Iran’s attacks on commercial and military ships in the Strait of Hormuz, as well as the bombings on the territory of the United Arab Emirates, do not constitute a violation of the fragile ceasefire, in effect since April 8.
Argentina, the country from which the cruise ship where a hantavirus outbreak was detected departed, has confirmed 41 cases of the disease so far in 2026 and reported that the current epidemiological season shows a higher circulation of the pathology compared to previous years and “above the outbreak threshold,” according to the Ministry of Health on Tuesday.
The United States Army liberated the Mauthausen concentration and extermination camp 81 years ago today, where the Nazis murdered about 90,000 people through forced labor in quarries, starvation, torture, gas chambers, or experiments with direct phenol injections into the heart.
The publication of a political manifesto by the technology company Palantir, a contractor for the United States Government, specializing in the application of Artificial Intelligence in the military field and in domestic surveillance, has made an impression
President Donald Trump has never been a fan of the Pulitzer Prizes. Not long ago, he demanded that those awards be withdrawn from the media that investigated his Russian connections. This year’s edition, announced this Monday, also does not put him in a good light, and much of the awarded information, reports, and opinions expose the alleged corruption and his authoritarian policy, especially against opponents and immigrants, which have marked his first year back in the White House.
A Ukrainian drone struck a residential building in Moscow for the first time in several years this Monday, just ten kilometers from the Kremlin, according to the mayor of the Russian capital, Sergey Sobyanin. The attack in the capital adds to other drones that Ukraine had launched against the oil terminal at the port of Primorsk, one of Russia’s main export ports with the capacity to handle one million barrels of oil per day, in the Baltic Sea, and two tankers from the Russian ghost fleet in waters near the entrance to the Russian port of Novorossiysk, in the Black Sea.
Two people died and at least another twenty were injured, two of them seriously, in a multiple hit-and-run this Monday in the German city of Leipzig, in the east of the country, according to police. Around 4:45 p.m., a gray Volkswagen SUV sped into a central pedestrian area around Augustusplatz and drove 500 meters running over people. The driver was arrested at the scene.
Uncertainty has settled in the Strait of Hormuz after a series of bombings by Iran against ships flying the flags of the United States, the UAE, and South Korea, as well as against an oil complex in the United Arab Emirates throughout Monday, casting doubt on Donald Trump’s initiative to “guide” the ships trapped in the maritime route. The ceasefire between Washington and Tehran is faltering as peace negotiations, mediated by Pakistan, continue to yield no results two months after the start of the war.
The authorities of Fujairah, in the United Arab Emirates, have reported a fire in the Fujairah Oil Industrial Zone following what they described as a drone attack from Iran. According to the Fujairah press office, civil defense teams were immediately deployed to contain the fire.