The United States stated this Tuesday that it had destroyed five Iranian oil tankers in response to two ballistic missile attacks launched by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) against a U.S. warship during the previous two days.
The Portuguese Parliament rejected this Tuesday the motion of no confidence from the far-right Chega with 104 votes against, 60 in favor, and 62 abstentions, including the decisive ones from the socialist deputies who, for the sake of stability, thus saved the government of conservative Luís Montenegro. However, the most revealing figure of a debate whose outcome was clear from the very presentation of the motion was not generated by parliamentary arithmetic, but by political dynamics. It concerns the maximum amount of the additional extra payment of 1,611.13 euros that Portuguese pensioners will receive in December. It is part, along with tax reductions for the lowest incomes, of the package of measures announced by a besieged Montenegro, in response to the scandals that have his Interior Minister, Luís Neves, on the ropes, and the growing social unrest due to a much higher fuel cost than in Spain, with more than 30 cents difference on both sides of the border.
Hundreds of flights have been canceled in the United Kingdom due to a technical issue related to air traffic control, according to the flight monitoring site FlightRadar24, which identifies London’s Heathrow Airport as the most affected.
The Kremlin announced this Tuesday that, during a one-hour phone call, the President of the United States, Donald Trump, asked his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, to quickly end the war in Ukraine with the aim of restoring diplomatic and commercial relations between the two world powers.
The Icelandic government has summoned the US ambassador after President Donald Trump posted on social media an image with a map in which Mexico, Canada, Greenland, Iceland, and the Caribbean islands appear covered by the colors of the US flag. “It was made clear in the meeting that the post was completely unacceptable,” said Icelandic Foreign Minister Þorgerður Katrín Gunnarsdóttir to the public television RÚV.
Nothing less than the most emblematic monument of Paris and France, so proud of its freedoms and the defense of gender equality, has been the protagonist of a controversy over sexist behavior. The employees of the Eiffel Tower went on strike on Monday and prevented the opening of the monument, in protest against a private visit made on Saturday by a very conservative Hindu religious organization in which instructions were given to hide the female staff.
The left-wing anti-immigration, pro-Russian, and Europhobic party Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW, its acronym in German), founded in 2024 by the charismatic and controversial Sahra Wagenknecht, has become key for the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) to govern the state of Saxony-Anhalt.
The overwhelming victory of AfD in Saxony-Anhalt will radicalize the European far-rights
The President of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed, warned the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, that Hamas was planning a large-scale attack a week and a half before the October 7 attacks, Haaretz newspaper exclusively reported this Tuesday.
The European Union wants to be more present in Greenland. While at the White House, the President of the United States, Donald Trump, has been insisting for months on annexing the Arctic island, the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, has traveled to Von der Leyen to announce a new strategy towards the island that includes 200 million euros more in investments and also a strengthening of political ties with the Danish autonomous territory, whose future, she has insisted, concerns only Greenland and Denmark “and no one else.”
