Doctors know that when circulation in the arteries is blocked, there is a risk of having a heart attack. For the first time, several key maritime navigation channels are simultaneously experiencing disruptions, which increases costs, delays delivery times, and heightens the specter of inflation, when maritime transport accounts for more than 80% of global goods trade.
Icelanders go to the polls this Saturday to decide in a referendum whether this North Atlantic island, which for decades has preferred not to be part of the European Union (EU), will resume negotiations with Brussels for a possible accession to the community club.
Experts say that the least important thing is the more than 17 billion that Meta pays to acknowledge that the tools applied on Facebook and Instagram were designed to turn minors into addicts without caring about their mental health. Just last year Meta earned…
The out-of-court settlement that Meta reached on Wednesday with a coalition of prosecutors from dozens of U.S. states, under which it agrees to pay an amount of up to about $18 billion over about 10 years, may seem like a blow to Mark Zuckerberg’s company, but it is barely a scratch. In the same Wall Street trading session, the market already returned a market value increase of 1% – which represents between 122% and 86% of what it may end up paying the states based on the agreements reached. The algorithm that supports the business model will not be affected despite the time and age restrictions that the company has committed to assume. In any case, the agreement only binds the tech company in U.S. territory and not in the rest of the world.
This Friday in Nepal, excavators continue searching through the mud for victims of the massive flood from two days ago. The police have raised the death toll to 469, while lowering the number of missing persons to 910. On the Tibetan side of the Himalayas, meanwhile, Chinese authorities suspended rescue operations for hours after detecting an imminent risk of overflow at an altitude of 2,900 meters. It is believed to be a natural dam formed by debris from the first flood, containing two million cubic meters of water, which is already showing signs of leakage.
On February 28, the United States and Israeli Armed Forces launched a risky military campaign against Iran with the declared objective of overthrowing the Islamic regime, eliminating its nuclear program once and for all, and ending the threat capacity of its allied militias in the region. Emboldened by a swift and successful operation in Venezuela in January, when they kidnapped the dictator Nicolás Maduro in one night, President Donald Trump promised the American people that this would be a new “excursion” lasting “four or five weeks.” By the end of March, when the deadline arrived, he said it would take “maybe two more weeks to finish the job.” Since then, Trump has repeatedly declared that the Pentagon has emerged victorious, despite the reality on the ground showing a very different picture.
The persistent rise in oil prices due to the Iran conflict and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz is already having a strong impact on prices. General inflation rises in August, reaching 4.3%, according to the preliminary CPI indicator from the National Statistics Institute, seven tenths higher than that recorded in July and the highest rate in the last three years, since February 2023. With the August data, inflation records two consecutive months of increases and stands above 4% for the first time since April 2023.
The king is dead, long live the King. Minutes after Harald of Norway was officially declared deceased, his son, and until now crown prince, Haakon, in accordance with the Norwegian constitution, has automatically assumed the head of state, becoming the fourth king of the modern era of Norway after his great-grandfather, Haakon VII, his grandfather, Olav V, and his own father. This very Friday, Haakon VIII will convene the Council of State to sign the acceptance act and deliver his first message to the nation. The until now crown prince, who has just turned 53, receives the Viking throne at the worst moment for the Norwegian monarchy weakened by the situation faced by the until now princess Mette-Marit, who, besides recovering from a lung transplant, has to overcome the situation of her eldest son Marius Borg, who is serving house arrest after being convicted of rape and abuse, and her own crisis after her connections with the sexual criminal Jeffrey Epstein were revealed.
Harald of Norway will go down in history as the first heir to the throne who dared to challenge dynastic laws by breaking a centuries-old tradition in European courts and marrying a commoner. It is known to be his only act of rebellion in his 89 years of life. Today, the third king of modern Norway leaves behind his widow Sonia Haraldsen, the young woman he fell in love with in the late 1950s and with whom, after a ten-year effort and obtaining his father’s permission, he married in 1968.
The Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, made a call for “calm” in Ceuta this Friday after social tension increased in recent hours. In this regard, in his appearance at his own request before the Interior Committee of the Congress, Marlaska called for the “cessation of any kind of violence” since “that is not the way.” “I express my absolute empathy with the citizens, but violence is not the way,” he emphasized.
