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Regarding Keir Starmer’s political health, there are three distinct and contradictory medical opinions. One says he is already dead, pending certification by the coroner and the subsequent autopsy. Another says he is in a vegetative state from which it is almost impossible to recover, and only the family’s resignation and authorization to disconnect life support remain. And the last is that he has suffered a deep trauma and is in critical condition, and – although difficult – he is strong and it cannot be completely ruled out that he will wake from the coma, recover, and return to normal life.

In his effort to sell a victory to the American people in the Iran war, Donald Trump has stubbornly repeated that the Persian country has already been “annihilated” militarily, so the “total victory” at the strategic level is just around the corner. “They have no Navy, no communications, no Air Force,” he said two months ago, when he lied by claiming that the war was “practically over.” “They have already fired everything they had to fire,” he added: “Iran’s drone and missile capability has been completely destroyed, the navy has disappeared.”

Ancient China did not leave the cosmic order in the hands of amateurs. For two millennia, the emperor himself was responsible for winning over the gods in the Temple of Heaven. As if his elaborate annual rituals were what kept the world ticking. This Thursday, Chinese President Xi Jinping will accompany the sacred navel of Beijing to his American guest, Donald Trump. And a world on edge may wonder what their respective offerings will yield.

China has confirmed this Monday the visit of the President of the United States to Beijing, which will feature meetings with his counterpart Xi Jinping on Thursday and Friday. Air Force One will land in the Chinese capital on the evening of Wednesday, May 13. That a summit of such importance is officially announced with barely two days’ notice attests to the uncertainty of the moment, with both countries watching the evolution of the fragile ceasefire between Washington and Tehran.

“No one is moving me from here,” said Keir Starmer, tying himself with a double sailor’s knot to the chair in his Downing Street office after one of the worst electoral results in Labour’s history (if not the worst), with the loss of power in Wales, half of the councilors he defended in the English local elections, and total abdication in Scotland. He admits the disaster but believes he can fix it with a couple of paracetamols, a colonoscopy, and a visit to the hygienist for a dental cleaning. Uncomfortable interventions, of course, but they are commonplace and no one dies from them.

“Regarding the statement issued this morning by the Community of Madrid, WE CATEGORICALLY DENY having received any threats or instructions from the President of our country, Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, or any official of the Government of Mexico regarding the holding of the Los Premios Platino Xcaret.” Not even carved in stone with a chisel would the denial be read more emphatically than the hotel group, the most important in the Riviera Maya and one of the largest in the country, has just issued a few minutes ago.

“No one is moving me from here,” said Keir Starmer, tying himself with a double sailor’s knot to the chair in his Downing Street office after one of the worst electoral results in Labour’s history (if not the worst), with the loss of power in Wales, half of the councilors he defended in the English local elections, and total abdication in Scotland. He admits the disaster but believes he can fix it with a couple of paracetamols, a colonoscopy, and a visit to the hygienist for a dental cleaning. Uncomfortable interventions but ones that are common and no one dies from.

The truce between Russia and Ukraine for the days May 8, 9, and 10 is now a reality. This was confirmed by the President of the United States, Donald Trump, in a statement on Truth Social, in which he thanks both presidents for reaching an agreement.

Russia has asked Ukrainians to evacuate Kyiv on Saturday, May 9, Victory Day in Russia, due to the possibility of launching a major attack on the city.

Rarely have municipal and regional elections been described as “historic” without it being an exaggeration, like when a football match is dubbed “the match of the century,” or a film, a work of art deemed essential and momentous, that would be a sin to miss. But referring to yesterday’s elections in Scotland, Wales, and England in this way is no hyperbole, because they will symbolize the end of the two-party system, the decline (terminal or not, we shall see) of Labour and the Conservatives, the emergence on the scene of the far right (Reform) and far left (Greens), the rejection of the technocratic centrism represented by Keir Starmer, and the sharp condemnation of Jacobin centralism, with three of the four nations that make up the Kingdom possibly in the hands of nationalists.