Trump tries to contain Israel to save the negotiation with Iran

Trump tries to contain Israel to save the negotiation with Iran

Donald Trump sought to exit the war with Iran with a pact before the midterm elections, but his unruly ally, Israel, threatens to blow the agreement apart. Benjamin Netanyahu announced early Sunday a new wave of bombings in the southern neighborhoods of Beirut, one of the red lines that the United States had set in the ceasefire signed between the Lebanese and Israeli governments last April 17.

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Aldama: “They told me that part of that money was for the party's financing and that the president knew about it”

Aldama: “They told me that part of that money was for the party’s financing and that the president knew about it”

The broker Víctor de Aldama, who at one time reached a deal with the Prosecutor’s Office to get out of prison for another case, has appeared before the Supreme Court judging him for the mask case, willing to explain how he paid the former Minister of Transport José Luis Ábalos and his then advisor Koldo García, also in the dock. He has elaborated on all the corruption within the Ministry and beyond. That red line, according to the businessman, was crossed at Ábalos’s request because – he declared – “he needed money for the party’s financing” and the president knew all about it.

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Mapi León will not renew with Barça and is aiming for London City

Mapi León will not renew with Barça and is aiming for London City

Mapi León will not continue at FC Barcelona. As reported by the program Tot Costa on Catalunya Ràdio and confirmed by this newspaper, the Aragonese center-back will put an end to nine seasons as a blaugrana, also being one of the undisputed starters in the heart of the defense. According to sources familiar with the operation, the defender will move to the London City Lionesses, owned by Michele Kang.

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If there are no books in your house, I won't stay overnight

If there are no books in your house, I won’t stay overnight

The director of Pink Flamingos said a phrase that has the insolence of good aphorisms. It sounds like a joke, but it might be a theory about love. “If you go to someone’s house and they don’t have books, don’t sleep with them.” Waters was not making a plea in favor of literature. Not at all. He was defending something else: the ability of objects to tell who we are. A library does not guarantee intelligence or sensitivity, but it does leave a trace, just like certain lamps, a bookshelf full of records, a fridge, or a wall covered with photographs. The casual and biting Waters, author of phrases like “After 25 years old, you can’t wear skinny pants,” once pointed out as his favorite website the hilarious Lurid Digs, created by Frederick Woodruff to show bizarre domestic interiors of gays in photos taken from dating app profiles.

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