The Bolsonaro clan: A presidential hopeful, four new parliamentarians and a tangle of internal issues
El País Englishby Naiara Galarraga Gortázar·2d ago
The Bolsonaro family tree can be very confusing, so a guide is often helpful. “God, homeland, family and liberty” is the slogan that sums up the idea of Brazil put forward by the clan in recent...
What authorities have said about plague alert after death of a laboratory worker in Russia
El País Englishby Pablo Linde·2d ago
The death of a worker at a plague research laboratory in Irkutsk, Russia, has triggered a public health emergency in the region.
Venezuela confirms it did not seek Nicolás Maduro’s release or request immunity to prevent US trial
El País Englishby Maye Primera·2d ago
“There is only one president in this country and his name is Nicolás Maduro Moros,” Venezuela’s current interim president, Delcy Rodríguez, said on the same day as the U.S.
Luis Har, former Israeli hostage in Gaza: ‘If it had been only up to our government, we would still be there’
El País Englishby Antonio Pita·2d ago
Luis Har (Buenos Aires, 73) squeezes in a break during his vacation at a hotel in Eilat, a tourist city on the shores of the Red Sea at Israel’s southernmost tip.
Sylvester Stallone: ‘I don’t know what the new masculinities are. It’s in a man’s nature to conquer’
El País Englishby Luis Doncel·3d ago
It is Sylvester Stallone’s fourth interview of the day. Is he tired of talking yet? “No, because this is the first one about my memoirs,” he replies from a hotel room in New York, his hometown...
The most relevant initiatives that will appear on the ballots in November’s midterm elections
El País Englishby Jordi Alonso Martínez Yañez·3d ago
The U.S. midterm elections will not only determine who will occupy the Congressional seats and governorships up for grabs in November.
‘Cornell protects rapists’: Outrage at the university after leniency toward accused comes to light
El País Englishby Luis Doncel·3d ago
“Let’s defeat the patriarchy.” “Cornell protects rapists and expels protesters.” Graffiti like this appeared Monday morning on the facade of Day Hall, one of Cornell University’s administrative...
Former Trump White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt joins Fox News
El País Englishby Iker Seisdedos García·3d ago
The White House press secretary is one of the most exposed jobs in the world, but with a $195,200 salary it is not among the highest paid.
My North Korean neighbors
El País Englishby Cristian Segura·3d 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·3d 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·3d 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·3d 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·3d 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·3d 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·3d 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·3d 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·3d 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·3d 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·3d 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·3d 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.
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