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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.

Throughout Europe, governments are reconsidering their relationship with the Palantir platform. The French domestic intelligence service has replaced it with a national provider. Spain has ordered its public companies to stop signing contracts with the company. The…

The Italian Foreign Minister, Antonio Tajani, believes that Spain’s reaction to also suspend the Schengen free movement treaty, introducing border controls as Italy had done following what happened in Ceuta, is “incomprehensible and totally unacceptable.”

Unlike what happened with the migratory wave experienced by Poland in 2021, the influx of 72,000 people into Ceuta, instead of fostering unity and solidarity within the EU, has revealed European divisions and miseries.

Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer, Todd Blanche, has been confirmed this morning as the new Attorney General of the United States, in a move that further calls into question the alleged independence of the Department of Justice. The official has held the position on an interim basis until now, following the dismissal in April of his predecessor, Pam Bondi, after a controversial handling of Jeffrey Epstein’s files and several failed attempts to convict Trump’s political opponents.