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While sanctions and the United States-led blockade continue to have a serious impact on the Iranian economy, the Tehran authorities maintain a firm position on the closure of Ormuz, a strategic maritime route through which a significant part of the world oil trade is moving.
Representatives of Maricarsen, the 87-year-old woman evicted last week in Madrid, and the company owned by her home for more than 70 years, reached an agreement to be able to return home. The pact must be ratified by Maricarsen, who continues to be hospitalized after eviction. Meanwhile, hundreds of people maintain a camp in Madrid to demand more forceful action in the face of the housing crisis, just as the deadline for the Government to move forward with a new decree on this matter.
The sudden floods that devastated northern Nepal on 26 August left unprecedented destruction. The number of fatalities continues to increase: nearly 1,400 people have died and a further 5,130 remain missing, including some 600 foreigners from 35 countries. While families continue to seek answers, the authorities now face another challenge: to recover and identify the victims. Report by Shahzaib Wahlah and Ondine de Gaulle for France 24.
Susan's mother, Elizabeth, was five months pregnant when she contracted polio in the 1950s.
As the contagies multiply, women's groups are organized to support survivors, against stigma and state abandonment, which threatens the entire community
Despite the division among the Swiss on their position of neutrality, the refusal to strengthen it in the Constitution won widely in the referendum of 27 September. While activists defend the role of Switzerland as a negotiating actor and the need not to take sides in conflicts, others ensure that it is not already involved in taking a position and can put the security of the country at risk, especially with the war in Ukraine happening in Europe and Russia by supporting the party that promotes neutrality.
In the final line of the election campaign in Brazil, the female vote is one of the decisive factors. Women represent more than half of the electorate and their support was key in the last elections. However, challenges such as gender-based violence and low political representation of women, with only 18 per cent of the seats in the Chamber of Deputies occupied by women, remain. While an important part of the evangelical electorate identifies with the right, more and more women seek religious spaces with more progressive positions. The report is from us.
While the superpowers take steps with artificial intelligence, Latin America and the Caribbean is looking for a position in this race that some leaders have renamed as "stampede." In Brazil, Mexico, Argentina or Colombia, the use of IA tools is becoming more and more common for daily activities but sponsored by large parent houses that saw chatbots such as Gemini or ChatGPT born. When will the Latin American region start running this race? Is it too late to run?
France lives a surprising wave of baptisms of young people between 17 and 25 years old. Although sociologists cannot explain this trend, Pope Leo XIV claims that it is perhaps "the best sample of God's action," while the role of social networks and the need for youth to find answers is partly attributed. Our journalist Erika Olavarría reports.
As the luxury towers advance over traditional areas and families face growing pressure to sell their homes and leave, the real estate renews the popular colonies
While the developers of artificial intelligence themselves shake the ghost of a brazen technology that will end up escaping their control to claim their own regulation, more silent mechanisms rapidly deteriorate the work world without the need to replace the human being completely. Far from science fiction, what is the real impact of this tool and who really decides about its future?
The Huti rebels claim to have attacked the state oil facilities of Saudi Aramco in the port city of Yanbu, while the French president has decided to deploy "soldiers, radar systems and defence systems" to protect the Red Sea oil route, denying that he will be involved in the conflict. Meanwhile, the U.S. Senate has refused to limit Trump's offensive in Iran, amid an apparent reactivation of the Strait of Ormuz.
Adelle Overton had been with Steven Uden for 13 years when she discovered that he had been raping her while she was asleep.
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is on Thursday, September 24, the third day of UN General Assembly discussions. In his video conference intervention, following the denial of a visa by the Donald Trump Administration, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas stressed that his people "are facing one of the most dangerous moments in their history," he called for the failure to allow a second Nakba and urged the implementation of the so-called Gaza plan, including its reconstruction and the arrest of the Israeli siege. The first mini speech is now expected
Many things have changed since Xi Jinping and Donald Trump were last seen in May. The American president is still in a war in Iran and is facing a half-term election with his falling approval. While its Chinese counterpart, also with economic difficulties, arrives without internal pressure and with a better image worldwide. On the table, the possibility of extending the trade truce that will expire on 10 November.
The President of Argentina addressed the UN General Assembly on 23 September with a speech marked by tensions over the Malvinas. Javier Milei recalled his Government's legal actions against the companies that exploit resources on the island, controlled by the United Kingdom, and warned that he will take "letters on the matter." Shortly before, Iran's president, Masoud Pezeshkian, went up to the podium where he denounced "the cowardly attacks" of the US. The United States and Israel against their country, warned that it will maintain the defence and reproach "the double standards" of the international bodies they punish and their
In the UN General Assembly, some leaders mentioned the crisis in Gaza, but citizens do not expect major changes. While the international community is debating without providing immediate solutions and criticizing the lack of action in the enclave without taking concrete action, the lack of water, food and medicine remains serious, while Israeli attacks do not stop despite the agreed ceasefire.
Thousands of migrants remain in a limbo in Ceuta, pending a plan by the Spanish Government to relocate some 10,000 people to shelters. Meanwhile, non-governmental organizations reported torture, assault and threats of sexual violence against minors, allegedly committed by security forces. In the midst of migration tension, increased xenophobia and the demands of local authorities, our correspondent Sofia Català analyses the situation on the ground.
Compensates weekly sedentary hours without giving up the physical exercise of a certain intensity with this folding machine: it includes two wheels and mobile application
The country comes to the elections with a strong police deployment along the Ceuta border and a young generation marked by unemployment and lack of opportunities
