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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.

Spain is not the country in the European Union where the most people smoke. According to Eurostat data from 2023, 24% of the population over 15 years old are smokers, a percentage that coincides with the European average. Countries like Bulgaria (37%) or Greece (35%) are above the Spanish prevalence of smokers, while Sweden (8%) and the Netherlands (11%) record some of the lowest rates. However, smoking remains one of Europe’s main public health problems: the European Region – as defined by the WHO, which includes countries outside the EU – has the highest prevalence of smokers in the world, at 24.1%, above the global average (19.5%).

The United States has completed its eleventh consecutive night of attacks against Iran, in a new operation in which it struck military operations centers, drone facilities and aircraft, maritime capabilities, and military logistics.

When he returned to power a year and a half ago, Donald Trump promised that he would adopt a hands-off approach to artificial intelligence development, which would allow the United States to “unleash the full potential of AI,” in contrast to the more regulatory stance of his predecessor, Joe Biden, and that of the countries of the European Union.

Shake-up in the Ukrainian army. President Volodymyr Zelensky dismissed the commander-in-chief of the armed forces, Oleksandr Syrskyi, this Tuesday and has appointed General Mykhailo Drapatyi, who until now was in charge of leading the Joint Forces, in his place.

The goal by Ferran Torres gave a moment of euphoria to more than 2,000 Palestinians in Ramallah, in occupied West Bank; a place where collective joy is an extremely scarce commodity. Good news is fleeting in this land. Barely three minutes later, as the crowd held its breath before the imminent victory of the Spanish team, the broadcast of the match stopped.