Donald Trump’s emissaries, his son-in-law Jared Kushner and businessman Steve Witkoff, completed their final mission in Kyiv this Sunday. This was not without difficulty, as they had to relaunch peace negotiations between Russia and Ukraine. After meeting with Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin on Saturday, the American mediators arrived for the first time in the Ukrainian capital by train to meet with Volodymyr Zelensky.
The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, landed this Sunday in Greenland to bring the European voice to the island after months in which the President of the USA, Donald Trump, has repeatedly insisted on annexing it to his country since the start of his second term. “It should be under the control of the USA, and not Denmark,” the magnate insisted in July from the presidential palace of Recep T. Erdogan in Turkey, on the sidelines of the NATO summit.
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps of Iran claimed that it attacked three oil tankers in “unauthorized routes” in the Strait of Hormuz and three vessels linked to the U.S. in “other areas,” according to the Iranian agency Fars.
The far-right party AfD shook the political landscape of Germany this Sunday by winning the regional elections in Saxony-Anhalt with a record result of 44%, according to the first projections from the public broadcaster ZDF while awaiting the final count. Far behind, the Christian Democratic CDU would remain as the second force, falling to 18.5%, followed closely by the leftist Die Linke and the Social Democratic SPD, both parties with 9%.
A Chinese citizen trapped in the tunnel of a hydroelectric plant and a 64-year-old woman buried by mud in a house were rescued alive this Saturday in Nepal, on the eleventh day after the devastating floods, two findings that keep hopes alive of finding more survivors.
The long reign of Vladimir Putin in Russia may have entered its final phase. This is what some analysts believe, who perceive in the Russian leader, threatened by his failures in Ukraine, a growing weakness. Which makes him dangerous.
The capital of Saxony-Anhalt, an eastern German state that is holding regional elections this Sunday which literally have the whole country on edge, has until now been mostly known for a famous scientific experiment: the Magdeburg hemispheres. In 1656, its mayor, the physicist Otto von Guericke, demonstrated the tremendous force of atmospheric pressure by joining two metal hemispheres and extracting the air from inside them using a vacuum pump he invented himself. He then hitched two teams of sixteen horses, eight on each side, to try to pull them apart, but they could not. After opening a valve and allowing air to enter, both hemispheres separated without much effort.
An obsession has accompanied Donald Trump during his ten years dedicated to politics: the existence of one form or another of “fraud” to blame for his electoral setbacks, to direct discredit towards democracy, to justify a greater concentration of power around his figure, as well as measures against irregular immigration.
Dying of boredom for a firefighter means that no disaster occurs to which they must respond quickly for rescue.
Russian President Vladimir Putin is expecting Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner this Saturday, who are bringing him a proposal from U.S. President Donald Trump to end the war between Russia and Ukraine. The mission of the American envoys will be completed with a visit to Kyiv to meet with the Ukrainian leader, Volodymyr Zelensky.