Egypt steps up persecution of independent media with arrest and alleged torture of six journalists from an investigative outlet
El País Englishby Marc Español·2h ago
In a new escalation against the media, Egyptian authorities have arrested and pressed terrorism charges against six journalists who make up the editorial staff of Matsaddash, the country’s leading...
Tragedy at a neonatal ward in Mexico: ‘There were weeks when all the moms left without their babies’
El País Englishby Verónica Garrido·3h ago
For seven months babies have been dying in the same neonatal ward in Guadalajara, in the Mexican state of Jalisco.
What are Jair Bolsonaro’s chances of being freed? And on what timeline?
El País Englishby Naiara Galarraga Gortázar·3h ago
The inauguration in Brazil includes a moment of enormous symbolism that comes courtesy of the architect Óscar Niemeyer.
WHO offers technical support to Russia over suspected plague case in Siberia: ‘We need more information’
El País Englishby Pablo Linde·4h ago
International health authorities are on alert over a possible case of plague that may not even exist.
Juan Miguel Matheus, Venezuelan opposition negotiator: ‘The terms have been defined by the US State Department’
El País Englishby Alonso Moleiro·4h ago
Juan Miguel Matheus acknowledges United States involvement in the process that Chavismo and part of the opposition began on January 12, and which this month opens its third round of meetings.
African Union launches continent’s first credit rating agency to counter what it says is bias inflating borrowing costs
El País Englishby José Naranjo·5h ago
The African Union (AU) on Wednesday launched a continental credit rating agency aimed at providing risk assessments that it says will be more credible and realistic than those produced by the major...
Canadian poet Anne Carson wins the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature
El País Englishby Andrea Aguilar·7h ago
Canadian poet Anne Carson wins the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature “for her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary...
The Trump administration will both detain migrant children and defend them in court
El País Englishby Patricia Caro·7h ago
The Donald Trump administration is creating a team of federal attorneys to represent unaccompanied migrant children (UACs) in their asylum cases.
Abortion measures return to the ballot in US midterms
El País Englishby Maye Primera·7h ago
Since the U.S. Supreme Court’s June 2022 decision overturning Roe v. Wade, which had guaranteed a constitutional right to abortion, states have been responsible for regulating access to the...
Gina Hinojosa gains ground in Texas governor’s race as Democratic leaders push for more campaign funding
El País Englishby Patricia Clarembaux·8h ago
When Republican Greg Abbott was re-elected governor of Texas in 2022, his margin over opponent Beto O’Rourke was nearly 11 percentage points.
New US security agreement requires Greenland to remain in NATO if it becomes independent
El País Englishby Adrián Sagredo·8h ago
Seventy-five years after the 1951 defense agreement, the new security pact commits Greenland to remaining in NATO even if it one day gains independence from Denmark.
Timeline of the Maricarmen case: From four eviction attempts to a housing movement that shook Spain
El País Englishby Beatriz Olaizola·9h ago
Maricarmen Abascal faced four eviction attempts, and the last one succeeded. It happened two weeks ago.
‘Thank you for changing Spain’: Madrid’s Sol protest camp mourns Maricarmen
El País Englishby Manuel Jabois·10h ago
When news of the death of Maricarmen Abascal began to spread through the protest camp in Madrid’s Puerta del Sol, many at first dismissed it as a cruel joke.
Maricarmen, the woman who became a symbol of Spain’s housing crisis, dies at 87
El País Englishby Lucía Franco·22h ago
Maricarmen Abascal, the woman whose eviction became a rallying cry against Spain’s housing crisis, died on Wednesday at Madrid’s Gregorio Marañón Hospital at the age of 87, the Tenants’ Union...
Corinna Lain, death penalty expert: ‘Lethal injection has been problematic from the start’
El País Englishby Abel Fernández·23h ago
Christa Pike was supposed to be executed on September 30 at a Tennessee prison for the 1995 murder of a fellow student.
Hispanidad or latinidad: Shakira opens debate on cultural identity beyond a common language
El País Englishby Manuel Morales Ruiz·1d ago
And Shakira said: “Let’s not speak only of hispanidad: let’s speak of latinidad, an even broader embrace. Hispanidad is beautiful, but it falls short of everything we are.
The age of nuclear clocks is here: A new tool for probing the laws of physics
El País Englishby Miguel Ángel Criado·1d ago
Welcome to the age of nuclear clocks. They are not yet as precise as the atomic clocks that keep time (and much more) in modern society.
Rosalind Franklin had seen the helix: A forgotten photograph rewrites the history of DNA’s structure
El País Englishby Daniel Mediavilla·1d ago
For decades, one of the best-known stories in science was told like a movie. In 1953, at the age of 23, James Watson visited Maurice Wilkins’s laboratory at King’s College London.
The Madrid bear sculpture meant for a Miami roundabout that ended up inside a restaurant instead
El País Englishby Fernando Peinado,Abel Fernández·1d ago
Sometimes people count their chickens before they hatch. That’s what happened to the regional premier of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, in June 2022 during one of her trips to Miami, where she posed...
Flávio Bolsonaro announces he wants to ‘reform the Constitution to redemocratize’ Brazil
El País Englishby Naiara Galarraga Gortázar·1d ago
Right-wing candidate Flávio Bolsonaro, who hopes to win Brazil’s presidential election before the end of the month, announced Tuesday that he intends to leverage the large parliamentary bloc won by...
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