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 John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts was conceived, as its name indicates, as a memorial to the media-savvy Democratic president, assassinated eight years before the building’s opening in 1971. The whim of another president, Donald Trump, intent on putting his name on the cultural center, could soon lead to its definitive closure.

Hostilities between Russia and Ukraine are once again worrying the world, and not just Europe, because they are intensifying in the Black Sea, a vital area for grain exports. This has become in recent weeks the latest battlefield in a conflict that has lasted almost four and a half years, with both sides trying to destroy the economic base of their enemy.