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Welcome, Mister Lincoln! Pattaya, the world mecca of sex tourism, has been waiting for the arrival of the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln by its side for over a week. Its five thousand marines, mostly in their twenties, had been on a tough mission at sea for 286 days, not too close nor too far from Iran. D-Day, the landing in Thailand, finally arrived this Wednesday morning. Its entertainment industry – of all kinds – welcomes them with open arms and welcome signs at its hottest spots. From the living forces to the lively ones, in a parody of Welcome Mr. Marshall.

In his strategy to try to damage Russia’s economy to reduce resources for its war machine, the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, has raised the tone of his threats by stating that Russian airspace will no longer be “safe” and will be filled with Ukrainian attack drones. The Kremlin has responded by accusing Zelensky of “state terrorism.”

Her name was Erin Piacenti, she was 32 years old and had just celebrated her second wedding anniversary. This is the randomly chosen fatal victim of the stabbing in Times Square that on Monday was carried out by a woman with severe mental health issues who had even become known to the New York Police Department (NYPD).

The British Prime Minister, Andy Burnham, in his first speech to the House of Commons as head of the Executive, attributed the origin of the problems affecting the country and, above all, the decade of slow economic growth, to Brexit, the exit from the European Union that was approved by the British in a 2016 referendum.

The United States Central Command (Centcom) has announced that this Tuesday it has launched a new round of attacks against military targets in Iran, in the latest sign of the return to hostilities between the two countries after a month of relative calm. The Pentagon has confirmed that the attacks began at 6 p.m. and were directed at “Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) targets in Iran,” in retaliation for “recent attempted attacks by the IRGC against commercial transport in the Strait of Hormuz and against U.S. service members deployed in the region.”

In a world that is changing rapidly, with an unpredictable White House, turbulence in the Middle East, and an increasingly unstable international landscape, Europe cannot afford decision-making processes that drag on for months (or years) due to the blockages of certain countries. This is the view of a large group of Member States — including Spain — that propose formulas against the unanimity rules to overcome vetoes and speed up the EU’s foreign policy.

Maybe Donald Trump, a football fan who emerged during the World Cup held in North America this summer and which he considered his own, saw the banner that the Argentine players displayed with the slogan “The Malvinas are Argentine.” Maybe he was still thinking about that when the President of the United States suggested from the Oval Office a possible review of the stance on that territory that caused a war between Argentina and the United Kingdom after the invasion of Argentine troops in 1982.

The German government formally pointed to Russia on Tuesday as responsible for the attempted drone attack at Leipzig airport on August 4. Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul and Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt appeared in Berlin to explain the results of the investigations and the agreed measures.

Russian jet-powered drones are the new challenge for the Ukrainian Air Forces. The recent updates of the original Iranian Shahed drones, developed by Russia, are much faster than their previous versions, making them harder to shoot down, and are remotely piloted. A greater deployment of this technology against Ukraine – 800 in just four days – has allowed the Russian army to increase the intensity and duration of bombings against Kyiv and its surroundings, which in the last six consecutive days have left more than fifty dead, including 12 fatalities this Tuesday, and dozens injured.

Around 13,600 residents of the town of Wilhelmshaven, in northern Germany, will be evacuated this Tuesday following the discovery of an unexploded American bomb from World War II. The bomb, weighing 250 kilograms and equipped with two fuzes, was found during construction work at the city’s naval arsenal, and its deactivation requires an evacuation within a one-kilometer radius, according to the Police.