My North Korean neighbors
El País Englishby Cristian Segura·6d ago
In the morning, when I get up, the first thing I see from my bedroom window is North Korea. I live in the heart of Berlin but my next-door neighbor is the embassy of the Democratic People’s...
Kaliningrad, the Russian militarized exclave surrounded by NATO that triggered Putin’s nuclear threat
El País Englishby María Sahuquillo ,Javier González Cuesta·6d ago
Kaliningrad, the militarized Russian exclave wedged between NATO and EU members Poland and Lithuania and a constant flashpoint between the Kremlin and the Atlantic Alliance, has become the center...
Mayito Flaco’s hidden past in the US: El Mayo’s son was born near Disneyland and changed his name in Arizona
El País Englishby Isaías Alvarado·6d ago
In the early 1980s, the surname Zambada did not openly resonate in the drug-trafficking world. That allowed Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, patriarch of the criminal dynasty, to move through California...
Spain’s snap elections: Let the voters have their say
El País Englishby EL PAÍS·6d ago
There are moments in the life of democracies when parliament, because of its divisions and deadlocks, is unable to respond to the urgent needs of a country — and when that happens, it means it is...
Vincent Cassel: ‘There are things that are good for your career and others that you like: always do the latter’
El País Englishby Daniel Verdú·7d ago
There is a generation of filmviewers that cannot separate Vincent Cassel, 59, from the 1995 movie La Haine (Hate), where he dominated the screen.
The dark side of Starship’s success: Musk sidelines NASA in his bid to dominate space
El País Englishby Francisco Doménech·7d ago
Elon Musk is stepping on the gas with Starship. His flagship spacecraft, the largest ever built, entered orbit for the first time on Monday, and his space company, SpaceX, has already received...
The end of the world has yet to reach Spain’s Sol square
El País Englishby Manuel Jabois·7d ago
It’s Friday night in Madrid. Walking down Preciados street towards Sol square, the tents and the huge banners announcing the protest encampment can already be seen some distance away.
Cannons and the glow after the crisis: ‘Good things really come from getting through tough times together’
El País Englishby Jordi Alonso Martínez Yañez·7d ago
For Michelle Joy, lead singer of Cannons, learning to live with pain was not a new sensation. As a track and field runner during her childhood in Florida, her father and coach taught her that...
Colombia and Ecuador forge alliance to crack down on Ecuadorian criminals hiding across the border
El País Englishby Diego Stacey,Carolina Mella Happe·7d ago
A development that passed largely unnoticed in Colombia has generated major attention in Ecuador.
Cornell case: an ‘institutional betrayal’ of victims in the post #MeToo era
El País Englishby Paola Nagovitch·7d ago
Ten years ago, Brock Turner, a student-athlete at Stanford University in California, was convicted of three felonies for sexual assault against an unconscious woman whom he attacked, in front of...
Trump’s assault on the US Supreme Court enters a decisive year
El País Englishby Iker Seisdedos García·7d ago
Tradition holds that the first Monday in October marks the start of the nine-month term of the United States Supreme Court.
Spain calls snap election as housing protests spread nationwide
El País Englishby Carlos E Cué ,Xosé Hermida·7d ago
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez delivered an institutional address from La Moncloa, the seat of government in Spain, to announce that a snap general election will be held on November 29.
Bolsonaro defeats Lula in the first round and brings Brazil’s far right closer to power
El País Englishby Naiara Galarraga Gortázar·7d ago
The ultraconservative wave sweeping across Latin America scored a crucial victory in Brazil on Sunday, one that appears likely to become definitive in three weeks’ time.
Lili Reinhart, the actress looking for success away from Hollywood clichés
El País Englishby Andrea Jiménez·8d ago
Lili Reinhart isn’t interested in being a celebrity… and the 30-year-old actress has proven this throughout her career.
Maxx yourself, squeeze yourself dry: The unhealthy obsession with optimizing everything
El País Englishby Karelia Vázquez·8d ago
There was a time when moderation was a virtue and the middle ground, wisdom. Hyperbole was no more than a literary or rhetorical device. But not anymore. We live at the extremes.
The migration routes of pollution: How ozone, Saharan dust and wildfire smoke cross borders
El País Englishby Manuel Planelles ,Pablo Montalvo·8d ago
Pollution crosses any border. Residents of Seville saw this in August when the huge Niebla wildfire in Huelva province collapsed air quality levels in the Andalusian capital.
Three Colombians deported by Trump to Africa seek protection in Spain: ‘I don’t feel anger toward Congo, I feel it toward the US’
El País Englishby Ana Puentes·8d ago
A Spanish police patrol car passes through one of Valencia’s largest parks and Lorena López, a 29-year-old Colombian woman, freezes and completely loses focus in her boxing class.
Carl Cederström, sociologist: ‘Wellness has become a corporate tool. It doesn’t make you happier; just more productive’
El País Englishby Enrique Alpañés·8d ago
What happens when happiness ceases to be a desire and, instead, becomes an obligation? This is a question that Carl Cederström has been posing for years.
AI’s top leaders, like children afraid of a bully
El País Englishby jordi perez·8d ago
“This guy is a monster,” Donald Trump said in front of Sundar Pichai, Google’s chief executive. “And nobody knows him. What a great life!
Shell companies, Kyrgyz firms, and cryptocurrencies: The Kremlin’s phantom network to evade sanctions
El País Englishby Javier González Cuesta ,Elisa Tasca·8d ago
The Russian invasion of Ukraine is approaching its fifth year. Since February 24, 2022, Europe and the United States have rolled out a battery of sanctions intended to strangle the Russian economy...
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