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.
It seemed impossible, and many still have doubts, that an idea as simple as peace would be part of the upcoming legislative elections in Russia on September 20. But supporters of ending the war in Ukraine will have their chance, even if only to express it secretly at the polls and in the end the more than predictable result does not change. No one doubts that the Kremlin party, United Russia, will win comfortably again, despite its popularity crisis.
“Will we wake up to air raid sirens tonight?” asks a Jerusalemite to his friend in a café in downtown Jerusalem. “I’ve already made plans. If war comes, let it come; I try not to worry too much,” replies the other, without looking up from his coffee. The scene sums up the mood of a population that no longer reacts to Donald Trump’s threats against Iran: they have heard them too many times.
Six people have died and 30 have been injured this Sunday when a bus and a camper collided on a state road in the province of Rieti (Lazio region, in central Italy), in an accident involving three other vehicles, local media report.
A drone attack by Ukrainians caused the death of at least five people in various parts of Russia and hit industrial facilities, as well as another warehouse belonging to Wildberries, the Russian e-commerce giant.
Two helicopters collided this Sunday in Greece during firefighting efforts against the forest fire advancing towards Athens. About 6,700 hectares have already burned and thousands of people have had to be evacuated due to the fire declared four days ago, which this Sunday is about 35 kilometers from the Greek capital.
