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 to pieces. 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.
If British politics were a horror movie (and the truth is it often seems like one, even Oscar-worthy), its title would be The Zombie and the Ghost. Because to the famous zombies of Night of the Living Dead, we must add Keir Starmer as the resident of Downing Street (awaiting to be guillotined), and to the famous ghosts like the Phantom of the Opera, Anne Boleyn roaming the Tower of London, the Flying Dutchman, or Abraham Lincoln in the White House, we must now add Peter Mandelson.
President Donald Trump added another medal on Monday by announcing that negotiations between the United States and Iran had resumed, after Tehran announced that they were walking away from the table due to Israel’s attacks in Lebanon. However, in an initial reaction to the Islamic republic, Trump downplayed his claim, saying he had not been informed about it beforehand. “I think it’s fine if they have finished talking,” he replied with apparent indifference.
One of the fashion companies, Anthropic, reported this Monday that it confidentially filed its initial public offering (IPO) prospectus with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), laying the groundwork for a possible historic stock sale aimed at investors willing to bet on artificial intelligence (AI). This could happen this coming fall.
Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision to order new bombings on Beirut has once again raised tensions in the Middle East and put the United States’ strategy in the region to the test. According to Helena Pelicano, La Vanguardia’s special envoy in Jerusalem, it is “one more step in this military escalation in Lebanon” after a ceasefire signed last April which, in practice, “has not been observed by either side.” The journalist recalled that Israel maintains troops in Lebanese territory and that, until now, the capital had only been attacked once, following an express request from Donald Trump to avoid bombings on a densely populated city.
The last time they saw each other, both were dressed in white when they met at the Vatican a year ago, at the mass marking the beginning of the pontificate of Leo XIV. This Monday, Queen Letizia chose white again for her meeting with Princess Charlene, who opted for a sky blue so light that from a distance it also looked white. Both, accompanied by the King and Prince Albert of Monaco, walked through the Botanical Garden of Madrid to inaugurate a commemorative exhibition of the 150th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Spain and Monaco.
El Club Vanguardia is organizing this Monday, June 1st at 7:00 PM as part of the QuèFem? event in person an exclusive meeting with the Catalan rock band Lax’n’Busto. The event will take place at Casa Cupra Raval, at Passeig de Gràcia with Avinguda Diagonal.
“We are at a decisive moment. We must go further than autonomy, and instead move towards sovereignty.” This was expressed by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, on the occasion of the first day of the Annual Meeting of the Cercle d’Economia. According to Albares, “Europeans must guarantee security in a broad sense, and for that a federal leap is needed. It is not ideas that we lack, but the will to put them into practice. We must remove the obstacles in the internal market, particularly the capital market, and ensure it finances innovation in Europe, so that it is not in the hands of foreign companies.”
The Ministry of Finance has set to work to begin holding bilateral meetings with the autonomous communities (and cities) to address the reform of regional financing. The department has reported that this Monday it sent letters to the ministries of the common regime communities, as well as Ceuta and Melilla, with the aim of arranging dates.
“Prison or death,” repeated over and over in his rallies Abelardo de la Espriella, a controversial 47-year-old lawyer, to refer to the fate that awaits criminals, drug traffickers, and guerrillas if he ends up being the next president of Colombia. It hardly matters that the far-right leader built a media career as a lawyer for celebrities, footballers, and paramilitaries, before having an epiphany in Italy and deciding that he should enter the electoral arena to save his country from the left, according to his words, in July 2025.