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It was Yevgeny Prigozhin, the ill-fated head of the Wagner mercenary group, who first began recruiting soldiers from Russian prisons to send them to fight in Ukraine. In mid-2022, he personally toured penal colonies, promising pardons to those who joined his ranks. A year later, the Russian army also began recruiting, and now, in need of personnel to advance on the front and take control of the entire Donbass, it is once again looking to those who have lost their freedom due to their criminal acts.

France is overwhelmed by forest fires and by the lack of sufficient aerial means to combat them. Hence, the Government announced this Thursday that it will experimentally adapt a military transport aircraft, the Airbus A400M Atlas, to help extinguish fires like the one that has already forced the evacuation of more than 20,000 people near Bordeaux.

On November 17, 2025, the UN Security Council approved a resolution (2803) creating a Peace Board to oversee Gaza. On January 19, 2026, while President Trump threatened to invade Greenland, the content of a letter he addressed to the Prime Minister of Norway was made public: “Given that your country has decided not to grant me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped MORE than eight wars, I no longer feel obliged to think exclusively about peace.”

New front of tension between Brussels and the Venice Biennale. The European Commission has confirmed the withdrawal of the two million euro subsidy granted to the Venice Biennale Foundation, after the organization, one of Italy’s most emblematic cultural institutions, allowed the reopening of the Russian pavilion in its 61st edition, inaugurated this spring in a climate of maximum tension.

For the ordinary pedestrian, the large house located at Salzburger Vorstadt 15 in Braunau am Inn does not attract attention. It is a common-looking building, although originally from the 17th century. The only clue to its history is given by the Mauthausen commemorative stone erected in front of the facade, with the inscription: “For peace, freedom, and democracy. Never again fascism. The millions of dead remind us of this.”

The White House plans to announce as early as this Wednesday an agreement that would allow Saudi Arabia to enrich its own fuel for civilian reactors without the need for international supervision, according to The Wall Street Journal and confirmed by multiple US media outlets. The controversial pact, which would last 30 years, must first be approved by Congress, a process that could face obstacles because many legislators view it with suspicion due to the possibility that the Arab kingdom could end up building a nuclear bomb in the future. It is also a setback for Israel, the US’s biggest ally in the Middle East, which has been warning for years about the risk of Riyadh enriching uranium.

Shock in Mexico after a new massacre by the cartels. This past Saturday, authorities in the state of Zacatecas discovered ten bodies violently murdered, some of them tied up and hung from a bridge in several municipalities.

U.S. President Donald Trump has issued a new threat against Iran’s civilian infrastructure via his platform, Truth Social. After Washington bombed the Persian country last night for the eleventh consecutive day, the president warned the Islamic republic that “every time it fires at a ship in the Strait of Hormuz, whether with a missile, a rocket, a drone, or any other device or weapon, the U.S. will bomb and destroy a bridge or a power plant”.

The French-Swedish model agent Daniel Siad, identified as a recruiter of young people for the network of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, was found dead on Monday night at his home in Colombes, on the outskirts of Paris, the Nanterre prosecutor’s office confirmed this Wednesday.

For the third time in five days, Ukrainian drones have again hit Wildberries warehouses, Russia’s largest e-commerce company. Wednesday night’s attacks occurred in two southern Russian regions, Krasnodar and Stavropol. Several people were injured, according to the company’s founder.