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With the Iran war, the US president, Donald Trump, has made backtracking a habit. In the midst of efforts to reach an agreement with Tehran to end the conflict initiated by Washington and Tel Aviv at the end of February, the president uses backtracking as a pressure tool, although he risks calling his credibility into question. The latest example took the form of a message on Truth Social on Monday, where Trump claimed he had authorized a new wave of attacks against Iran starting this Tuesday, but postponed them after three leaders of the allied Gulf monarchies requested more time to negotiate the nuclear agreement.

Things that come with age, Donald Trump shows on his social network that he is obsessed with looking younger than he is to silence the numerous and growing complaints about his physical decline and, above all, his mental state.

TV schedules in the United States were interrupted once again by news on the gun epidemic front, that disease so characteristic of this country. At a time of high sensitivity, this time the tragedy occurred at the Islamic Center of San Diego, the largest in this city in southern California, with 1.4 million residents.

Donald Trump has discovered a toy called artificial intelligence. Either because he is an early riser, or because, things of age, he wakes up and instead of counting sheep he turns to AI, his midnights or dawns arrive loaded on his social network with images of futuristic war style, among many other themes, like those this Sunday where he appeared inside a spaceship pressing the red nuclear bomb button.

Ten years is how long the validity of the passport, the ID card, the population census, the property registry, some fashions and cultural trends last in many countries. After a decade, the most romantic celebrate aluminum weddings, movies, albums, and video games that have been popular are relaunched, and the planet Mercury crosses in front of the Sun as seen from Earth. It is also how long it has taken the British Labour Party to reconsider returning to the European Union.

The Israeli army began intercepting several vessels of the Global Sumud Flotilla on Monday morning, which is trying to reach the Gaza Strip with the declared aim of breaking the blockade imposed by Israel, according to the flotilla. “Military boats are intercepting and boarding the first of our ships in broad daylight,” the organization warned after 10 a.m.

The ceasefire agreed upon by the United States and Iran has been in place for more than five weeks, but no one rules out the reactivation of the war. The full reopening of Hormuz seems like a chimera today, and the demands of both countries to definitively close the conflict remain very far apart.

For Vladimir Putin, Victory Day had always been a source of pride. A day to show off military muscle. His best tanks and missiles, deployed in the heart of Moscow.

Seven people, two seriously, have been injured this Saturday when a car ran over several pedestrians in the center of Modena, a city in northern Italy, according to the police. Four of them are said to be in serious condition, local press reports.

The search for the four missing Italian tourists in the Maldives has claimed a new victim. A diver from the National Defense Forces of the archipelago died this Saturday in the hospital after being admitted in critical condition during rescue operations in the underwater caves of Alimathà, in the Vaavu atoll.