Strait of Hormuz fills up with loaded tankers without a clear destination
Gulf countries are loading crude onto ships at sea as their onshore storage facilities reach capacity
Asim Munir, the Pakistani field marshal negotiating peace between the US and Iran
Considered the strongman of Islamabad, the officer maintains ties with Tehran while Trump calls him ‘my favorite field marshal’
Spanish man returns home after more than six months in ICE detention: ‘Your life slowly fades away’
Miguel Barreno, stopped by Trump’s immigration agents in Chicago and sent to several centers, arrives in Madrid with a safe-conduct and denounces the ordeal he was subjected to
Madrid leader’s tribute to Hernán Cortés shakes up Mexico City politics
Isabel Díaz Ayuso is on a tour of Mexico, where she was warmly received by a fellow conservative but labeled a ‘fascist’ by the governing party
El Chapo managed to communicate with his sons from US maximum-security prison
Isaías Alvarado|Los Angeles
Amid protests and corsets, the Bezos’ takeover of the Met Gala hints at end of an era
Anna Wintour legitimizes Lauren Sanchez Bezos as a leading cultural figure at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s pre-exhibition party in New York, alongside celebrities such as Beyoncé, Bad Bunny and the Kardashians
Economic crisis in Russia is eroding Putin’s immense popularity
Official and independent polls agree on the decline of the Russian leader’s approval ratings as economic problems worsened from 2025 onwards
Trips, properties, and cash payments: Suspicions of corruption plague Milei’s chief of staff
Manuel Adorni has defended himself again before the press while the judicial investigation into his alleged illicit enrichment continues
The return of premature babies evacuated to Egypt from Gaza: ‘I will never forget that message saying my daughter was alive’
A group of 11 babies transferred to Egypt in incubators at the end of 2023 have returned to the Strip
Married to an American woman for 20 years, but without papers: Angela’s fight to prevent her husband Carlos from being deported
A 1996 law prevents Angela Della Valle from regularizing the status of her husband, who has just been released after almost nine months in immigration detention
The all-out battle for the November midterms
Republicans are rushing to implement the Supreme Court ruling that curtailed minority rights before the November vote
Typos as a symbol of prestige: How to write so it doesn’t sound like AI
The popularity of tools like ChatGPT has led many authors to include errors and write with carelessness in order to appear more human
Drones carrying explosives and a mysterious blue merchant ship: The terror stalking Ecuadorian fishermen
A nearly identical modus operandi staged attacks at sea resulting in injuries, eight missing persons, and allegations of abuses in the fight against drugs
When the USSR won the race to the Moon, although they missed a note in ‘The Internationale’
After more than a dozen failures, the ‘Luna 9’ achieved the first controlled landing on the satellite in 1966 and sent the first images from the surface
Over 1,000 beagles rescued from US research facility
An agreement between rescue organizations and Ridglan Farms, a breeding facility in Wisconsin, brings an end to decades of controversy
Ai Weiwei: ‘The Venice Biennale should not make value judgments about political positions. Otherwise, it’s censorship’
The Chinese artist and activist argues that restrictions on expression are not only a problem of autocracies but also permeate Western democracies
‘Water‑sowing’: When science and ancestral knowledge join forces to fight drought in the Venezuelan Andes
Andrea Hernández Briceño|Mérida
This ancestral practice combines reforestation, soil conservation, and the protection of frailejones — the tall, fuzzy Andean plants that harvest water — to capture fog and rain, recharge aquifers, and ensure the flow of rivers
The invisible face of pregnancy and postpartum: one in every 16 women experiences serious depression
Estel Blay Carreras, the scientist who will lead an Arctic expedition simulating a mission to Mars
Researchers turn ocean dead zones into talking skies for pilots
Michael Allen
Fraudsters are fleecing Americans like never before
Isaías Alvarado|Los Angeles
New methods such as clandestine call centers, the use of scripts and AI, and scammers posing as lawyers are reaping a historic haul
Mariana Mazzucato: ‘The years of US dominance are over. We’re seeing the end of the Roman Empire’
From a soldier with insider information to rigged thermometers: The multimillion-dollar scams on Polymarket
World Cup expected to boost global beer sales by a billion pints
Penélope Cruz: ‘I would never let anyone silence me when it comes to speaking out against the brutal treatment of civilians and children’
The actress is a towering figure in Spanish cinema, global celebrity, Chanel ambassador, human‑rights advocate, and even appeared in Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl show. She reflects on how she continues to renew her passion for her craft and everything that surrounds it
How Edwyn Collins survived two strokes, returned to music and is now retiring with honors
The Scottish singer and founder of Orange Juice suffers from aphasia and partial paralysis, and is bidding farewell to the stage with a long tour of Spain
Petra Collins, the photographer who inspired the ‘Euphoria’ aesthetic
The Canadian artist, who offers a modern interpretation of a feminine perspective, has worked with artists such as Rosalía and Olivia Rodrigo
Lisa Kudrow: ‘OK, so I’ve gotten older — excuse me for not dying’
What to do with 30,000 gouged-out eyes? Writer David Toscana takes on the story of Basil II’s punishment of the Bulgarians
The author, who began his working life as an engineer in Mexican maquiladoras, has won a prestigious literary award with a fictionalized account of a historical event that intertwines fantasy and dark humor
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Is psychedelia making a comeback? The limits of the medical use of hallucinogens
Raimundo Viejo
More than just bad manners: the problem of using your phone with the volume up in public
‘They’re using my images to sell products’: Influencers angry with Instagram over the new feature
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