The United States is increasingly a fortress against immigration
El País Englishby Macarena Vidal Liy27 Aug 2026
During Donald Trump’s second term the United States is determined to become a fortress that only a few, select foreigners can enter.
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top 78%The mystery of Salzburg’s missing mini Mozarts
El País Englishby Benjamín G. Rosado26 Aug 2026
Mozart emerged unscathed from the monument wars of 2020. No one vandalized his statues over the alleged racism of The Magic Flute or the orientalism of The Abduction from the Seraglio.
Britain’s economic reality threatens Burnham’s honeymoon with voters
El País Englishby Rafa De Miguel26 Aug 2026
Andy Burnham is about to bid farewell to his political honeymoon and confront the harsh realities of the economy.
Tim Curry, star of ‘The Rocky Horror Picture Show,’ dies at 80
El País Englishby Gregorio Belinchón Yagüe26 Aug 2026
British actor Tim Curry died on Tuesday night at his home in Los Angeles at the age of 80, according to TMZ.
The desert’s ‘resurrection plant’ paves the way to fridge-free vaccines
El País Englishby Lola Hierro26 Aug 2026
It lives in deserts where not a drop of rain falls for months, and botanists call it the resurrection plant for its seemingly miraculous return to life.
Meta reaches nearly $17 billion settlement over social media harms to children
El País Englishby Macarena Vidal Liy26 Aug 2026
Meta has agreed to pay up to $16.68 billion as part of a settlement to resolve lawsuits brought by states across the country alleging that the company designed Facebook and Instagram to be...
Displaced by Colombia’s conflict, now uprooted again by the earthquake: ‘We arrived with nothing and we’re back to having nothing’
El País Englishby Diego Stacey26 Aug 2026
Mario Suárez was already awake when the ground beneath his feet began to shake. He waited a few seconds, but the tremor did not stop.
Holding out in Ceuta until asylum is granted
El País Englishby Jacobo García26 Aug 2026
Since July 30 and 31, when some 80,000 people entered Ceuta, the streets leading to the Loma Margarita facilities in the western part of the city have become a vivid summary of all the wars...
Maxim Kuzminov, the Russian deserter who failed to keep a low profile in Spain
El País Englishby Óscar López-Fonseca26 Aug 2026
On September 22, 2022, a Russian man in his twenties named Maxim Kuzminov uploaded what would be the last photograph to his Instagram profile. Mounted on a horse, he smiles at the camera.
Bolivia opens investigation into former presidential advisor for alleged links to drug trafficking
El País Englishby Caio Ruvenal26 Aug 2026
The Bolivian Prosecutor’s Office on Tuesday announced a third proceeding against former presidential adviser Fernando Cerimedo, who had worked on the staff of President Rodrigo Paz.
Colombia seeks to isolate jailed extortion kingpins on prison ships
El País Englishby Emma Jaramillo Bernat26 Aug 2026
Faced with the inability to stop organized crime from operating in land-based prisons, the government of Abelardo de la Espriella is seeking to do so at sea.
Chavismo blocks proposal to dollarize Venezuelan economy
El País Englishby Alonso Moleiro26 Aug 2026
Deputy Antonio Ecarri, leader of the centrist Alianza del Lápiz party, was removed a week ago from the presidency of the Venezuela–United States Parliamentary Friendship Group —a post he had held...
Dolly Parton, the star who refused to pick a political side but never remained silent
El País Englishby Abel Fernández26 Aug 2026
Dolly Parton, the singer, songwriter and actress who rose from a poor family in the Tennessee mountains and became one of American music’s biggest stars, died Tuesday at 80 in Nashville.
Deported to Equatorial Guinea with a large abdominal hernia: ‘I’m not worth a dime’
El País Englishby Carla Gloria Colomé26 Aug 2026
Faces have blurred with the days, as they slowly sank into the reality of waking up in America and suddenly finding themselves in Africa.
The migrants’ church: The only refuge for a Texas community stalked by ICE
El País Englishby Patricia Clarembaux26 Aug 2026
The church of Pastor Dianne García in San Antonio, Texas, has lost 32 of its active volunteers since President Donald Trump returned to the White House: they were detained by immigration agents and...
Trump records an electoral win with his candidate’s victory in South Carolina primary
El País Englishby Macarena Vidal Liy26 Aug 2026
U.S. President Donald Trump scored a significant win in South Carolina in the race toward November’s midterm elections and showed he still commands influence within his party.
Victoria Bodean, the mother with cerebral palsy showing the world how to overcome disability barriers
El País Englishby Luisa Arditi25 Aug 2026
For many women, not having children is a form of emancipation. Ultimately, that emancipation lies in the ability to choose, a choice made possible by material circumstances, physical factors and...
USS Abraham Lincoln heads to Thailand after more than 250 days at sea
El País Englishby Jordi Alonso Martínez Yañez25 Aug 2026
The USS Abraham Lincoln is about to bring one of the longest deployments by a U.S. aircraft carrier in recent decades to an end.
One migrant raid in New Jersey, 46 lives destroyed: ‘My life is incomplete without my daughter’
El País Englishby Paola Nagovitch,Photographs: Corrie Aune25 Aug 2026
María Eugenia García’s second daughter was born prematurely. Killy Tatiana Yangquen García arrived at seven months, tiny and fragile, entirely dependent on her mother’s protection.
Two months after Venezuela’s earthquakes, La Guaira gets back to work
El País Englishby Gabriela Mesones Rojo25 Aug 2026
Two weeks after losing her home and her hair salon, Alejandra went back to work. Not from a rebuilt premises, but from a tent set up in Playa Verde, in Catia La Mar, the epicenter of the second...