International

Wherever anyone has gone in the United States, Flock knows it.

The more than 5,000 sailors and soldiers aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, one of the largest aircraft carriers in the United States fleet, have been deployed in the Persian Gulf for over 250 days due to the Iran war. They have not made a port call in more than half a year, a new modern record for consecutive days at sea, and with no signs that the conflict will end soon, their families have reported a serious deterioration in living conditions and mental health.

“A horrible act of terror.” This is how the occupation, for the past five days, of two Palestinian houses by Israeli settlers in the town of Qusra, in the West Bank, has been described. The condemnation does not come from a human rights group or the ever “concerned” European Union, but from a great ally of Israel, the United States ambassador in Jerusalem, Mike Huckabee.

Russian President Vladimir Putin visited the island of Iturup in the Pacific Ocean this Thursday, provoking a strong protest from the Japanese government, which claims this and three other islands, the southernmost of the Kuril archipelago, controlled by Moscow since the end of World War II in 1945. Due to this dispute, Moscow and Tokyo have never signed a peace treaty that would formally end the conflict.

The first thing is the movement. The life that begins every Monday at the first hour and suddenly, past seven-thirty, the ground starts to shake rhythmically: from here to there and from there to here. Through the window, the trees join in this dancing. Then, the creaks of the house walls begin to sound: one creak, another one. And in the distance, the neighbors’ shouts, the prayers like lifebuoys. Immediately, the nerves of my little dog, Kosti, expressed in broken barks.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, reported this Tuesday that his department has registered 164 people of Spanish nationality missing in Colombia after the earthquake that the country suffered this Monday, but that it has no record of injured or deceased nationals.

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.