Russia and North Korea tighten their alliance (further) by road
Moscow and Pyongyang are finalizing construction of their first direct road link while Volodymyr Zelenskiy says the Kremlin plans to bring another 30,000 North Korean troops to fight in Ukraine
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The major sporting event put gambling addicts on alert, many of whom now have new profiles linked to online betting
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With his candidacy for a third term already formalized, the promise of alternation goes up in smoke in a country where the Constitution is being rewritten to suit the president
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Florida carries out its first double execution in more than 60 years
Among those executed Tuesday was an 80-year-old man, the oldest in the state since capital punishment was reinstated
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A 9/11 firefighter in the Mediterranean: The volunteer brigade on the front line of Spain’s wildfires
A major fire in 2016 left a lasting impact on the Alicante municipality of Jávea, which developed a prevention plan and relies on trained personnel to respond from the very first minute
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The cocktail behind the wildfires ravaging Spain: Unprecedented heat waves and a changing relationship with the countryside
Experts warn that large wildfires are the new reality and the only way to combat them is to adapt and manage the land
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Mamdani’s plan for public supermarkets outrages New York merchants
The mayor responds to inflation alarm with an announcement of five stores that will open between 2027 and 2029. Competitors say it will push many businesses into bankruptcy
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‘I’m pretty sure he’s a wetback’: Lawsuit attributes racist slurs to immigration agents in Los Angeles
A court document says officers used derogatory terms in text messages and in conversations captured by their body cameras
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'Hukou,' the invisible border that follows China's internal migrants
The government is pushing a reform so that nearly 358 million citizens who live outside their registered residence can access public services on equal terms with locals
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Keiko Fujimori takes office as president of Peru with the promise of a ‘safe, prosperous, and united’ country
The historic inauguration marks the return of Fujimorism after almost 30 years and makes the new leader the first woman elected by popular vote to lead the country
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Thousands of Haitians face deportation after losing TPS: ‘They have been struggling for years and now they have nothing’
The end of Temporary Protected Status, fear of raids, and mortgage foreclosures corner immigrant families in Miami’s Little Haiti
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US recalls over 19 million eggs due to salmonella outbreak that has caused illness in nearly 100 people
Health authorities are investigating an outbreak detected in 17 states linked to eggs produced in Texas. So far, 98 cases and 26 hospitalizations have been confirmed
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Were the dinosaurs incinerated in a matter of hours? The meteorite created a layer of dust that turned the planet into a grill
A study suggests heat from fires trapped in the atmosphere wiped out most terrestrial life in a matter of moments 66 million years ago
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Numerous people trapped in a shopping mall following powerful earthquake in Japan
Fuji TV reports that there are several fatalities. The earthquake has left at least 50 people injured in the southern prefecture of Kumamoto and 300,000 people have been instructed to go to evacuation...
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DNA test confirms woman believed disappeared under Pinochet’s dictatorship is alive in Argentina
Bernarda Vera was 27 in 1973 and a member of the MIR revolutionary movement. Her name was on the official list of victims of the repression in Chile
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Toni Kurz’s agony on the north face of the Eiger: 90 years since mountaineering’s greatest tragedy
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The telescope that could reveal the missing half of the universe
A new Europe-led observatory could map half the universe where the light comes from galaxies buried behind starlight-dimming dust
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Carlo Maley, evolutionary biologist: ‘We have become so obsessed with curing cancer that we haven’t thought about how to extend life without a cure’
The head of the Arizona Cancer Evolution Center proposes fighting tumor resistance with adaptive therapy: administering drugs at the lowest effective dose
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Berna León, a Harvard researcher in Spain’s Socialist ranks: ‘Entering politics today is like throwing yourself to the wolves’
The sociologist and public‑policy expert left his job in the US as an assistant professor to thinker Michael Sandel to join Fundación Avanza, the policy think tank of the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Pa...
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Atlanta activist charged after using phone-wiping software during federal questioning
Sam Tunick has been accused of destroying evidence after using GrapheneOS to erase the contents of his device, but his defense argues the case is retaliation for his opposition to the construction of...
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Freed dissident artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara: ‘Cubans are desperate for something to happen, anything’
After five years in prison and now living in exile in Miami, he reflects on the island’s crisis, a possible US intervention, and what he sees as a decisive moment for Cuba
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AI-powered digital friends, the new threat to teenagers’ mental health
Psychologists warn that young people are increasingly turning to tools like ChatGPT for emotional support, a practice they consider highly dangerous
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Trump administration steps up fight to block undocumented students from attending college
Colorado becomes the 14th state the government sues for refusing to discriminate against students based on immigration status
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Race against time in Spain’s wildfire battle: 24 critical hours before the heat wave
Emergency crews in Ávila and the Madrid region are trying to bring the blazes under control before a new stretch of extreme heat
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‘They sweated profusely and gasped for air’: The journey of seven migrants who died on a train in Texas
At least 11 people were part of a migrant-smuggling network that had operated on the Texas border since April 2023. They are charged with crimes that could keep them in prison for life
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A Louisiana community rises up against a new ICE center to detain and deport families
In Alexandria, residents refuse to be silenced by the authorities as they push to prevent the facility’s opening
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An appeals court upholds the injunction blocking Trump’s order that sought to restrict mail-in voting in 23 states
The decision prevents, for now, the plan to create a federal list of eligible voters from taking effect and places conditions on the implementation of new restrictions on mail-in voting ahead of the N...
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AI gets pinkwashed as female users are targeted
Big Tech invests in women via influencers and ‘empowering’ messages to improve its image and boost revenue from female data
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Firefighters facing a major crisis: ‘I’ve never seen a fire burn with such intensity’
Crews underline the force and anarchy of the Ávila fire and insist on improving response systems
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US faces the challenge of turning soccer into a mass sport following the success of the World Cup
An Ipsos poll reveals that nearly 60% of Americans believe the tournament will increase interest in the sport
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The incredible story of the man who built a fake Roman theater in Italy and sold tickets to visit it
The fraudster, who charged up to €40 to visit a site built without permits on a hill in Vicenza and presented as a historical find, has been sent to prison
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‘The largest frying pan in Europe’ ignites tempers in Brussels
The failed renovation of a public square in the heart of the EU quarter calls current urban planning into question amid climate change
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What Spain’s wildfires have stolen from people
Evacuees returning home after fleeing the most devastating blazes in the history of the country find they have lost houses, cars, businesses, gardens and crops
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‘Only America was rich enough to satisfy my hypertrophied self’: Florida exhibition explores how Salvador Dalí transformed US culture
As part of America’s 250th anniversary celebrations, the Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg brings together a collection covering the artist’s life and work in New York and California
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Neither blonde nor dumb: Marilyn Monroe against Hollywood’s wolves
A major retrospective revisits the actress’s films and legacy as a performer, beyond the stereotypes that defined her image
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Helena Moreno, mayor of New Orleans: ‘Being Latina and bilingual allows me to defend my community’
Speaking at the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, the former reporter — who is the first Latina to hold the city’s top position — outlines the challenges of standing up to Trump’s immigrat...
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Questions linger following the deaths of four Mexicans at an ICE facility in California
With the deaths of Alberto, Ismael, Gabriel and José Guadalupe, the Adelanto detention center now holds the record for the highest number of migrant deaths in ICE custody along with Krome in Miami
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From the 2024 election fraud to a new negotiation: Venezuela’s political crisis enters another crossroads
Talks between Chavismo and the opposition are set to begin on August 1 under Washington’s supervision. The goal is to establish a path toward new elections, two years after Nicolás Maduro falsely clai...
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Trump finds his own ‘forever war’ in Iran
The return to direct confrontation with Tehran underscores the difficulty the United States faces in securing a peace agreement and confronts the president with the kind of seemingly intractable confl...
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Bodies hanging, extortion and suspicion: the Zacatecas crime exposes cartel infiltration in Mexico
The 10 men killed were businessmen and public officials in small towns suffocated by the presence of cartels and their disputes, which permeate politics
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Peter Singer, philosopher: ‘People still think the animals we eat live out in the fields, outdoors’
The Australian thinker is a leading voice in animal rights and a pioneer of effective altruism, the idea of helping others in ways that achieve the greatest possible impact. In his latest book, he ret...
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Pierpaolo Piccioli, Balenciaga’s creative director: ‘I don’t want to revive the house’s archives; I want to revive its values’
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From being unemployed to hunting migrants in South Africa: The movement that has turned foreigners into scapegoats
A xenophobic wave, emerging in townships and working-class neighborhoods, has placed immigration at the center of political debate
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ICE’s corpses and the search for answers: ‘Let the truth come out. My son was killed by the guard’
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The protest that broke the silence in Cuba: ‘It changed my whole life’
Five years after the unprecedented mass demonstrations, many Cubans remain behind bars while others have been forced into exile
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Fatboy Slim and his disperse dance floor memories: ‘I had to Google myself so many times to check if something happened’
The British artist, a pioneer of the 1990s and author of some of electronica’s biggest anthems of the last decades, turned club culture into a mass phenomenon
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The castle, the cable car and the Nazis: Returning to Schlöss Adler and ‘Where Eagles Dare’
An enthusiastic and hugely entertaining book by Geoff Dyer invites a reappraisal of the iconic war film starring Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood, and the novel by Alistair MacLean
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Fire Island, the ‘hottest’ beach in the world: 100 years of art, parties and wild sex
An hour and a half from New York, the island has been a creative haven and playground for the LGBTQ+ community for an entire century. A new book explores its history and influence on artists such as A...
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Kimi K3, the Chinese AI that has put Silicon Valley on alert
The new model, the world’s largest open-source model, puts China back in the race to lead advances in this technology
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Jamie Dimon, the most powerful banker in the world: ‘I know Europe doesn’t see the US as a friend, but it is’
The chairman and chief executive officer of JPMorgan cautions that stock markets are trading at elevated valuations amid a backdrop of multiple risks. ‘No one saw the 1974 crisis, the 1987 crash or th...