Canadians welcome the move toward the EU with pleasure and caution: ‘Something enormous is underway’
El País Englishby Irene Serrano·20d ago
After nearly two years of waking up to news about the latest economic coercion by U.S. president Donald Trump and his threats of annexation, Canadians last week were greeted with a hopeful...
Darth Vader alongside Picasso and Banksy: George Lucas’s ambitious museum opens in LA
El País Englishby María Porcel Estepa·20d ago
Explaining the world through images. Humanity has been doing it for millennia: from cave paintings to photography, cinema, living-room television and the omnipresent screens of today.
From Tinder to running apps: Cellphones become a front for recruitment, spying, and sabotaging the enemy
El País Englishby Fernando Albero·20d ago
The alarms raised by the relationship between a Spanish NATO commander and a woman of Russian origin he met on Tinder, the dating app, are the latest chapter in a new espionage battleground: web...
You fear it, I love it: the Trump–Xi summit will address AI with opposite mindsets
El País Englishby Macarena Vidal Liy·20d ago
Artificial intelligence will be one of the central subjects at the White House summit on Thursday between U.S.
Vladimir Putin militarizes the Russian parliament
El País Englishby Javier González Cuesta·20d ago
The Kremlin has turned the parliament produced by last Sunday’s Russian legislative elections into an echo chamber for the war.
Mexico joins Latin American crackdown on cellphones in schools
El País Englishby Verónica Garrido·20d ago
Children in Mexico spend up to seven hours a day in front of a screen. In light of this reality, the government has decided to completely restrict the use of cellphones in elementary and middle...
Neither US intervention nor Communist stagnation: Harvard’s proposed plan for Cuba
El País Englishby Juan Carlos Espinosa·20d ago
Saying that Cuba is in crisis is hardly news. It has been for decades. Nor is it news that Washington’s sanctions have worsened the health of an economy that is now on life support.
International cuts to development aid foreshadow profound changes to the system: ‘We are terrified of going back to the 1980s’
El País Englishby Ana Carbajosa Vicente·20d ago
Political leaders, civil society representatives and business figures are meeting this week in New York as part of the United Nations General Assembly.
Trump carries his battles to the United Nations General Assembly
El País Englishby Luis Doncel·20d ago
Donald Trump has arrived in New York ready for battle. On Tuesday he will speak at the UN General Assembly at a moment when problems are piling up at home — with inflation showing no respite and...
Venezuelan migrant shot by ICE in Austin cites lack of medical care: ‘How are they going to leave the bullet in me?’
El País Englishby Patricia Clarembaux·20d ago
Wilber Garcés Pérez has endured more than 24 hours of pain. The bullet that an immigration agent fired at him on a street in Austin, Texas, on Sunday at midday still remains in his back.
Migrant wounded by ICE in Austin is in custody with no pain medication, his lawyer says
El País Englishby Patricia Clarembaux·21d ago
The Venezuelan migrant shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent in Austin, Texas, is being held at a detention center in Pearsall, about a two-hour drive from the state capital...
A sheriff’s office, saloon, and gallows: Sergio Leone’s Western-style town in Almería goes up for sale
El País Englishby Nacho Sánchez·21d ago
In the late 1960s, Italian filmmaker Sergio Leone arrived in the province of Almería to shoot the film Once Upon a Time in the West.
Sally Field, the actress who fought abuse and escaped her demons through acting
El País Englishby María Porcel Estepa·21d ago
Sally Field, 79, is a discreet, subtle person. It’s not that she’s delicate, or quiet. She’s a woman who, after 60 years in the entertainment industry, knows what to say, and how and when to say...
Major television networks pull out of presidential press pool following lawsuit filed against Trump by CNN, MS NOW, and ‘Politico’
El País Englishby Iker Seisdedos García·21d ago
Washington-based media outlets CNN, MS NOW (formerly MSNBC), and Politico announced on Monday that they were filing a lawsuit against the Donald Trump administration in response to the decision —...
From Airbnb to stray cats: Trump’s childhood home in Queens sells for $2 million
El País Englishby Luis Doncel·21d ago
The Jamaica–179th Street subway stop in Queens is only about a 10-minute walk from Wareham Place. But an abyss separates the two places.
Ferraris, Porsches, 17 guns and a United Arab Emirates residency card: The search of Alejandro Betancourt’s mansion in Spain
El País Englishby Irene Dorta·21d ago
Alejandro Betancourt’s tentacles in Spain are long. The Venezuelan businessman who amassed a fortune after his country’s power crisis at the end of the 2010s has seen his wealth rise again after...
Human Rights Watch visits Venezuela after 18 years: ‘There is a kind of truce, but the state apparatus responsible for the abuses remains intact’
El País Englishby Florantonia Singer·21d ago
A team of directors and researchers from Human Rights Watch, made up of Federico Borello, Juan Papier, Juanita Goebertus, and Marina Rápido, spent last week in Caracas.
Howard Buffett, the farmer who will guard his father’s business empire
El País Englishby Patricia Vélez Santiago·21d ago
Warren Buffett outlined nearly 15 years ago the reasons why his son Howard would, when the time came, serve as the “guardian” of the Berkshire Hathaway conglomerate.
Venezuelans self‑censor because of US power: ‘Now I don’t know whether I should fear the CIA’
El País Englishby María Martín·21d ago
The phrase is exaggerated, but it conveys a shared feeling: “I used to be afraid of the SEBIN [Bolivarian National Intelligence Service] and now I don’t know whether I should fear the CIA.” An...
Trump’s immigration policy is choking business: ‘There’s nobody to work’
El País Englishby Patricia Caro·21d ago
In recent months, the Donald Trump administration has been proudly releasing statistics on migrant arrests.
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