The war in Iran today revolves around the Strait of Hormuz, but Israel has been trying for days to shift attention to another place: the mountain of Kuh-e Kolang Gaz La, better known by its English name, Pickaxe.
The European Parliament has given the green light to a new regulation that introduces significant changes for air travelers. Among the main new features is the obligation that the price shown when purchasing a ticket reflects from the start the cost of the carry-on bag in the cabin when the passenger decides to travel with it, with the aim of facilitating comparison between companies and avoiding unexpected additional costs.
The President of the United States, Donald Trump, said this Monday that “illegal immigration is killing Europe” and that the situation in his country when the Democrats “had open borders” was “much worse” than the massive entry of migrants into the Spanish North African enclave of Ceuta.
The French government bureaucracy has experienced two years of great stress since the controversial dissolution of the National Assembly in June 2024. However, this should not justify the fact that there have been two suicides and two attempts – in a period of seven months – among the officials working for the current Prime Minister, Sébastien Lecornu. Hence, the Paris prosecutor’s office has opened an investigation, supported by another internal one at the Matignon Palace.
Russia accused Ukraine on Monday of deliberately launching its drones against civilians after a Ukrainian attack killed at least seven people in Gelendzhik, a holiday area in the Krasnodar region on the Black Sea coast. Four of the victims died on the Arkhipo-Osipovka beach when a drone shot down by Russian air defenses fell.
The Russian pacifist opposition candidate Borís Nadezhdin, who two years ago unsuccessfully tried to challenge Vladímir Putin in the presidential elections and who has now been barred from any possibility of running in next month’s legislative elections, has left Russia. He announced it this Monday with a video recorded in Paris and published on social media.
The Russian journalist Xenia Fedorova, against whom there was an expulsion order from France and whose assets were frozen last week, has been outside French territory for days, according to her lawyer, Emmanuel Piwnica, who informed the AFP agency this Monday.
War and the change of an era begin with a helmet thrown on the ground. When in January 2025, the rebel group M23 invaded the city of Goma, in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Congolese army soldiers abandoned their uniforms and helmets in their chaotic retreat. Without equipment that could give them away, there was less chance of being shot in the temple. The fear lasted for weeks: the military gear remained scattered in the streets – no one wanted to pick them up and be mistaken for a soldier – and it became the symbol of a sustained change of times.
Cuba went dark this Sunday after a failure in its electrical grid. In a brief message posted on social media, the state company UNE spoke of “a total disconnection of the National Electric System” to refer to the power outage, which left the 10 million inhabitants of the island without electricity.
Bill Galbraith and George Ciampa could never have imagined that the scene of that hell they experienced in June 1944 would be designated, 82 years later, as a World Heritage site. UNESCO had not even been founded yet.