A Russian drone has struck the locomotive of a Ukrainian train traveling from Kyiv to Warsaw, the capital of Poland, just two kilometers from the border, although no one has been injured, according to the Ukrzaliznitsia railway company reported this Sunday.
The victory of the AfD in Saxony-Anhalt has highlighted the weight of the legacy of the former GDR among the citizens of East Germany, their conversion into second-class Germans, and the strength of that nostalgia when it comes to capturing votes. For more than forty years, more than half…
The rapid advance of the Houthi guerrilla on the coast of Yemen in the Red Sea, and the temporary closure of the East-West pipeline in the Arabian Peninsula, threaten to choke Saudi Arabia’s oil export capacity, the world’s leading producer, and further complicate the situation of a conflict that intensifies as the U.S. mid-term elections approach.
I acknowledge my fondness for resorting to historical analogies to describe the perceptions (both accurate and mistaken) of governments regarding the shifting rivalries among great powers. A pertinent example is the possible analogy between naval competition…
“The Global South rises, not against anyone, but in favor of everyone,” proclaimed Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi this Saturday at the Brics group summit in New Delhi. A meeting in which the eleven full members managed to agree on a text unanimously, despite tensions among some of them.
The President of the United States, Donald Trump, reiterated this Saturday that he believes the war with Iran will end after the midterm elections, which the United States will hold next November 3 and in which the Republican candidates will compete for the conservative majorities in the House of Representatives and the Senate.
Sweden faces a tight general election this Sunday, with polls showing how the right-wing bloc of the conservative Prime Minister, Ulf Kristersson, is increasingly closing the gap with the center-left opposition, which had been leading for weeks and was pointing to an almost certain victory. This possibility is due to the fact that, according to the latest survey by the market research institute Novus, the Liberal Party – a minor partner of Kristersson – would surpass the 4% threshold necessary to obtain parliamentary representation.
Not all past times were better. In fact, most of the time it was worse than the deceptive memory suggests. It is understandable that older people feel nostalgia for their youth, when – for better or worse – they had their whole lives ahead of them. It is more surprising that young people feel it for an idealized time they have not lived through. But, beyond the ignorance it denotes – and which, given the levels of reading comprehension of our schoolchildren, shows no signs of improving – it is an indicator of the discomfort and bewilderment that the present arouses in part of society.
Twenty-five September 11 later, in the same place, it is a splendid day. Blue sky, ideal temperature. It was also a splendid day that Tuesday in 2001. A detail that seems secondary until it ceases to be.
Saudi Arabia announced this Friday the closure of its East-West pipeline, a key alternative route to the Strait of Hormuz, following multiple attacks that occurred on Thursday.
