The fragile ceasefire that had been in place since last April 7 between the United States and Iran hangs by a thread after a violent exchange of attacks in the Strait of Hormuz in the early hours of this Friday. Both powers have confirmed the crossfire, but maintain opposing versions about who initiated the aggression and what the actual damages have been.
A federal judge in New York has ordered this Wednesday to publish a suicide note allegedly written by the pedophile Jeffrey Epstein and found by his cellmate in the cell where he died under federal custody in 2019, while awaiting trial for sex trafficking offenses. The evidence has remained under seal since then, alongside the emergence of multiple theories about the veracity of his suicide.
The presidents of the two most populous countries in the Western Hemisphere, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Donald Trump, staged their reconciliation this Thursday in an unexpected meeting at the White House, after a year marked by tension between Brazil and the United States over tariffs and the exchanged insults between their leaders, who are ideological opposites.
Despite the growing complaints from citizens, who according to surveys do not believe that life is better under the current president, Donald Trump demonstrated that his fist is still made of steel in controlling the Republican Party.
Donald Trump has announced that the United States and Iran have reached a preliminary peace agreement, renewing optimism about the end of two months of war in the Middle East. At the same time, the president has threatened Tehran with the largest bombings since the start of the offensive if it does not comply with the conditions of the supposed pact.
It seems like centuries have passed since the days when representatives of the Trump administration arrived in Rome received with all honors, while ministers competed to get a photo with them. Marco Rubio, on the other hand, lands in the Italian capital in a low-profile atmosphere bordering on distrust. The Secretary of State’s mission, already complicated in itself, has become even more arduous after Donald Trump’s new accusations against the Pope regarding the Iranian nuclear program, to which Leo XIV responded firmly on Tuesday night.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney illustrated his approach to Europe during his trip this week to the Old Continent, while his compatriots increasingly embrace the idea of joining the European Union (EU), an idea that not long ago seemed an aberration just to consider.
Donald Trump needed only a phone interview to shatter any illusion of détente with the Vatican. The president, in an interview on the ultraconservative Salem News Channel, once again attacked Pope Leo XIV: “I think he is endangering many Catholics and many people; for him, it is fine that Iran has a nuclear weapon.”
The White House and the Pentagon consider that Iran’s attacks on commercial and military ships in the Strait of Hormuz, as well as the bombings on the territory of the United Arab Emirates, do not constitute a violation of the fragile ceasefire, in effect since April 8.
Argentina, the country from which the cruise ship where a hantavirus outbreak was detected departed, has confirmed 41 cases of the disease so far in 2026 and reported that the current epidemiological season shows a higher circulation of the pathology compared to previous years and “above the outbreak threshold,” according to the Ministry of Health on Tuesday.