International

In the midst of a diplomatic crisis between Argentina and Brazil due to insults from the Argentine president, Javier Milei, to the Brazilian president Lula da Silva at an event supporting candidate Flávio Bolsonaro, the Casa Rosada announces the signing of a Presidential Decree that will allow the prohibition of entry or stay in the country to any foreigner accused of sending or inciting messages of hate, discrimination and/or violence against the Argentine people or its national symbols.

Russia launched a massive attack against Ukraine during the early hours of Thursday, in which the bombings caused the death of 13 Ukrainians, including two children, in an offensive that could have had a direct impact on Polish territory.

The United States Central Command (CENTCOM) has announced a new wave of attacks against Iran after bombing dozens of military targets, in response to Iranian attempts to attack U.S. troops deployed at bases in the Middle East.

The Trump administration will impose new tariffs of 10% and 12.5% on Friday on 60 trading partners, including the European Union, due to accusations of lax enforcement of forced labor bans, just as a temporary global tariff of 10% expires, senior government officials said Thursday.

After twelve consecutive nights of US bombings on Iranian territory, which have blown up the ceasefire agreement signed last month by Presidents Donald Trump and Masoud Pezeshkian, the US House of Representatives rejected the return of hostilities this Thursday. In a resolution approved with 214 votes in favor and 208 against, this is the second time the lower house reaffirms Congress’s authority over war.

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.”