The President of the United States, Donald Trump, has recorded the worst approval rating of his two terms, according to a survey by The Washington Post, ABC News, and the Ipsos center published this Sunday. Fifteen months after returning to the White House, and just six months before the midterm legislative elections, 62% of the American population disapproves of his management.

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The military operation that U.S. President Donald Trump announced for this Monday as a “humanitarian gesture” meant to escort ships through the Strait of Hormuz encountered its first obstacle: the Iranian navy fired two missiles at a U.S. frigate that was about to enter the waterway through which 20% of the world’s oil passes.

South Korea said it was verifying intelligence information that a ship flying the South Korean flag had been attacked in the Strait of Hormuz, Yonhap News reported on Monday. A spokesperson for the South Korean shipping company HMM told Reuters that a fire had occurred in the engine room of one of its bulk carriers in the Strait of Hormuz, and added that the cause of the fire was still under investigation. They assured that there were no reports of casualties or injuries.

The seppuku of the Japanese samurais (a painful cut in the abdomen with a dagger, dressed in white ritual clothes and writing a farewell poem) was not just any way to take one’s life, but an honorable death to avoid being captured, pay for failure, demonstrate loyalty, bravery, and self-control. It was banned at the end of the 19th century but even if it were not, and despite its romanticism, there is nothing further from the will of British Prime Minister Keir Starmer than to commit harakiri.