Trump threatens to ‘annihilate’ Iran in UN speech with electoral slant
The US president says the war will end after the November midterms, a new timeline for a conflict now stretching into seven months despite promises it would be very short
‘VIPs have become regular clients. There’s no eccentricity anymore’: The return of Manumission, the wild party that revolutionized Ibiza
Countless celebrities spent many memorable nights (that often stretched into days) there in the 1990s. Now, for one weekend from September 25 to 27, the event is making a comeback
The unexpected gift from Donald Trump that is benefiting the big oil companies
The conflict unleashed by the United States in the Middle East is causing ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell, TotalEnergies and BP to post historic profits
Canadians welcome the move toward the EU with pleasure and caution: ‘Something enormous is underway’
Forty-one percent of Canadians consider the US an enemy country and 48% say they have an unfavorable opinion of Americans, according to recent polls
Darth Vader alongside Picasso and Banksy: George Lucas’s ambitious museum opens in LA
With more than 100,000 square feet of gallery space and a thousand works of art where the classics and pop art mix unabashedly, the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art has become a new attraction in California
From Tinder to running apps: Cellphones become a front for recruitment, spying, and sabotaging the enemy
Fernando Albero|Madrid|
Data collected by apps and social networks have become an intelligence source for militaries around the world
You fear it, I love it: the Trump–Xi summit will address AI with opposite mindsets
Most Chinese citizens find this technology exciting, while more than half of Americans fear it will destroy humanity
Vladimir Putin militarizes the Russian parliament
The Russian president’s party, United Russia, has set aside dozens of seats for veterans. The Communist Party supports him despite denouncing electoral fraud
Mexico joins Latin American crackdown on cellphones in schools
The Sheinbaum administration will restrict phones from November, while Brazil, Chile, Argentina, and Colombia move ahead with different approaches to limit devices in classrooms and playgrounds
Neither US intervention nor Communist stagnation: Harvard’s proposed plan for Cuba
A 14-member working group has published a document calling for an end to sanctions, a robust economic reform, and a negotiated transition
International cuts to development aid foreshadow profound changes to the system: ‘We are terrified of going back to the 1980s’
Leaders meeting at the UN General Assembly face a humanitarian polycrisis as the 40th anniversary of the adoption of the right to development is marked, while calls for a rethink of an obsolete cooperation model increase
Trump carries his battles to the United Nations General Assembly
The US president plans to expand sanctions on the International Criminal Court as domestic problems pile up and the war in Iran drags on
ICE stops publishing locations of detainees it intends to deport
The inability to locate people facilitates deportations, because it prevents appeals against deportation orders, leaving detainees with no way to defend themselves
Venezuelan migrant shot by ICE in Austin cites lack of medical care: ‘How are they going to leave the bullet in there?’
Following protests and pressure from Texas lawmakers over his health, the wounded man was readmitted to hospital
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