King Haakon VIII of Norway will take the oath this Tuesday before the Parliament following the death of his father, committing to respect the Constitution and the laws of this Nordic country, the last in a series of ceremonies representing the transfer of the crown.
The long list of more than twenty senior Pentagon officials who have resigned or been dismissed in the past year added a new name this Monday: Daniel Driscoll, the United States Army Secretary, has left the position after 18 months in office. The resignation occurs in a context of growing internal tensions in the Department of Defense, both due to the purge initiated by Secretary Pete Hegseth last year and because of the duration and decisions made in the Iran war, which has already lasted more than half a year and has caused shortages in the U.S. arsenal.
A woman, who had a known history of mental illness within the New York Police Department (NYPD), was fatally shot this Monday in Times Square after stabbing two people, one fatally, and confronting officers while violently wielding two kitchen knives and threatening to kill them, the NYPD reported.
On August 29, during a meeting with staff and students at a university in Moscow, Vladimir Putin commented that orcas feed on polar bears. “That is the food chain,” said the Russian president. “Children should be taught this, so they understand what kind of world we live in and why we are carrying out the special military operation,” his expression to refer to Russia’s war against Ukraine.
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The United States Supreme Court granted President Donald Trump a victory this Monday, deciding to allow him to continue indefinitely with the construction of a ballroom in the White House, a controversial project that the president has persistently advocated for and that had faced legal challenges.
The Polish Air Force intercepted a Russian reconnaissance plane over the Baltic Sea this Monday, according to government sources. The aircraft, an Ilyushin Il-20, was flying thirty kilometers north of the coastal town of Łeba, wrote the Polish Defense Minister, Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz, on X.
The presidents of Russia and China, Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping, along with a dozen partners, such as the Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, support their Iranian colleague, Masud Pezeshkián, for two days in Kyrgyzstan (Central Asia) amid a military and economic war with the United States. In Bishkek, the Kyrgyz capital, the leaders of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) meet this Monday and Tuesday to deepen their regional ties and confront Washington’s influence.
The principal of the Nepali school Tribhuvan Trishuli, in the Nuwakot district, one of the areas most affected by the devastating flood that has caused nearly a thousand deaths in the country, became a hero after evacuating the center minutes before a huge flood hit the town. This is Rajendra Dawadi, who told the BBC how his quick intervention allowed about 900 students to be taken to higher areas to avoid being swept away.
Search teams remain flying over the spot where a high-speed ferry with 267 people on board sank this Sunday, in the waters of the Mediterranean, specifically north of Cyprus.