On July 8, after the NATO summit in Ankara (Turkey) ended, Donald Trump announced to the world that he was going to board his “old Air Force One,” instead of the one Qatar gave him this year, the Boeing 747-8 he had been using and had brought on the outbound trip. The president boarded the presidential plane, a scene captured by television cameras, but minutes later he was secretly transferred to a third, smaller one, the Air Force C-32. The Secret Service made this extraordinary and unprecedented decision after detecting a credible assassination threat from Iran, according to an exclusive report tonight by The Washington Post and confirmed by other U.S. media.

At least 164 people died, according to initial Reuters data, and more than 570 were injured in Colombia due to the magnitude 7.4 earthquake that shook the country this Monday, according to a provisional report from the Colombian Association of Capital Cities (Asocapitales).

The 7.4 magnitude earthquake that has caused dozens of deaths in Colombia, as well as numerous damages, was particularly severe in the department of Risaralda, where five hours after the earthquake at least 40 deaths were already counted out of the total of more than 70 from the earthquake. Of these, 18 were recorded in the capital, Pereira.

The reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, Donald Trump’s sword of Damocles, has become the main objective of the United States in its war in Iran, which has already lasted five and a half months. When he ordered the start of the joint offensive with Israel on February 28, the president set optimistic and unrealistic goals: he promised the people that he would achieve a regime change in two weeks, during which he would end Tehran’s nuclear program and eliminate the threat of its allied militias in the region. However, even before the launch of the first missile, U.S. intelligence had already determined that these objectives were unattainable solely through military action.