<![CDATA[EL PAÍS]]>https://english.elpais.comMon, 21 Sep 2026 02:49:50 +0000en1hourly1<![CDATA[The ‘dangerous woman’ Virginia Woolf fell in love with]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2026-09-20/the-dangerous-woman-virginia-woolf-fell-in-love-with.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2026-09-20/the-dangerous-woman-virginia-woolf-fell-in-love-with.htmlSun, 20 Sep 2026 04:19:43 +0000Self-help, this is not — but every so often, an obstacle leads to a rugged path, a different road. Such was the case of Violet Dickinson (1865-1948), friend and literary mentor of Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) in her first years of adolescence and youth, back when she was still called Virginia Stephen. Dickinson was a woman belonging to the wealthy, landed aristocracy of Somerset, a person so rich she did not need to work. She was also a little girl who abhorred dolls and small talk, whom her mother called “very fat and happy.” As with everyone from her caste, she had been prepared since birth to be presented to society, a key event in the life of a girl of her class. But at 17 years old, she stood nearly 6’3” — an astounding height at the time — a peculiarity that kept her from being accepted in the Victorian marriage market.

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]]>Mercedes deBellard<![CDATA[An inside look at the Kaisers, the clan leading the far right in Chile ]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-09-21/an-inside-look-at-the-kaisers-the-clan-leading-the-far-right-in-chile.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2026-09-21/an-inside-look-at-the-kaisers-the-clan-leading-the-far-right-in-chile.htmlSun, 20 Sep 2026 04:00:00 +0000In just two years, the National Libertarian Party has become the right-wing party with the most members in Chile, slightly exceeding 50,000. Its leader, Johannes Kaiser, found a niche on the extreme flank of President José Antonio Kast’s Republican Party. He broke away from the party during the 2023 constitutional referendum, opposing his faction’s negotiation with the left-wing administration of then-President Gabriel Boric (2022-2026).

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]]>Cristian Soto Quiroz<![CDATA[The epic life of Schwarzenegger, a bodybuilder-turned-legend: ‘If he had been born in the US he would be president’]]>https://english.elpais.com/people/2026-09-21/the-epic-life-of-schwarzenegger-a-bodybuilder-turned-legend-if-he-had-been-born-in-the-us-he-would-be-president.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/people/2026-09-21/the-epic-life-of-schwarzenegger-a-bodybuilder-turned-legend-if-he-had-been-born-in-the-us-he-would-be-president.htmlSun, 20 Sep 2026 04:00:00 +0000No matter how skeptical we may be about the American dream, Arnold Schwarzenegger’s personal story strains the limits of credibility as much as any of his most over-the-top films. That the destiny of Hollywood—not to mention California, the world’s fourth-largest economy all by itself—should be shaped for decades by an Austrian villager raised among the ruins of World War II would seem highly unlikely, were it not for the fact that the actor and former governor is so firmly ensconced in our collective imagination, his name pronounced by everyone with the same startling ease. Schwarzenegger, 79, is one of those individuals for whom the phrase “larger than life” seems to have been invented: for the scale of his achievements, his film career and his physical presence — 6ft 2in (1.88 meters) of chiselled muscle like a Greek statue.

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]]>Imágenes cortesía de 'Arnold '(Taschen)<![CDATA[Inside Mexico’s gay cowboy parties: Tequila, dancing and romance]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2026-09-21/inside-mexicos-gay-cowboy-parties-tequila-dancing-and-romance.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2026-09-21/inside-mexicos-gay-cowboy-parties-tequila-dancing-and-romance.htmlSun, 20 Sep 2026 04:00:00 +0000Every spring, hundreds of cowboys make a pilgrimage to cities across central and northern Mexico to take part in a very particular kind of cowboy convention. It is not the sort of gathering where people discuss techniques for raising sardo negro cattle — a Mexican breed of cow — or rope calves. Instead, they dance, eat, flirt, and play. These events are opportunities to meet other men who share the same interests and passions, make friends and, who knows, perhaps enjoy a weekend romance or even meet the love of their lives.

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]]>Pablo Sáez (foto cedida)<![CDATA[Dinosaur fossils, the latest obsession of the ultra-rich: ‘Some enjoy knowing only they can admire it’]]>https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2026-09-21/dinosaur-fossils-the-latest-obsession-of-the-ultra-rich-some-enjoy-knowing-only-they-can-admire-it.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2026-09-21/dinosaur-fossils-the-latest-obsession-of-the-ultra-rich-some-enjoy-knowing-only-they-can-admire-it.htmlSun, 20 Sep 2026 04:00:00 +0000“Look, with this I can solve the origin of vipers,” a European collector snapped at Argentine paleontologist Federico Agnolín a few years ago. Then he shut the drawer, consigning the fossil to darkness. “It was like a little blind viper, a creature that never saw the light of science. It’s a very complicated issue. I can’t say much more,” the scientist admits today.

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]]>Nancy Kaszerman ( Zuma Press / Contacto)<![CDATA[Miami’s fairy godmother for undocumented domestic workers]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-09-21/miamis-fairy-godmother-for-undocumented-domestic-workers.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-09-21/miamis-fairy-godmother-for-undocumented-domestic-workers.htmlSun, 20 Sep 2026 04:00:00 +0000It is around 9:00 p.m. and Karla De Anda’s phone rings. The number is unknown to her. On the other end, connected to the free Wi‑Fi at a Miami airport terminal, a woman is sobbing uncontrollably. Her name is Rosa. She has just had her bags packed for her. A coworker told the family they both worked for that Rosa had been secretly talking to a stranger about the wages she was owed. The family would not hear any more: they bought her a one‑way ticket to her country of origin and put her in a taxi to the airport. Karla, who barely knows her, asks a single question: “Do you want to stay or not? Just answer me.” Between sobs the woman says yes. She hangs up, gets out of the departure line, and an hour later Karla is waiting for her at the arrivals gate with another activist, ready to take her to her home that same night.

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]]>Eva Marie UZCATEGUI<![CDATA[From Opus Dei alumni to McKinsey consultants: The clans that run Spain’s biggest companies]]>https://english.elpais.com/economy-and-business/2026-09-21/from-opus-dei-alumni-to-mckinsey-consultants-the-clans-that-run-spains-biggest-companies.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/economy-and-business/2026-09-21/from-opus-dei-alumni-to-mckinsey-consultants-the-clans-that-run-spains-biggest-companies.htmlSun, 20 Sep 2026 04:00:00 +0000An invisible web of connections links the executives and board members of Spain’s largest companies. Having spent time at certain elite consulting firms, business schools or government institutions opens more doors than any headhunter ever could. Former state attorneys sitting on the boards of major Spanish companies, ex-McKinsey executives running some of the financial sector’s most powerful firms, and alumni of leading business schools such as IESE and ICADE holding top positions in multinational companies all illustrate a network of influence, as subtle as it is enduring, that has been woven through Spain’s corporate elite.

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]]>Daniel Diosdado<![CDATA[Resistance to AI gathers strength]]>https://english.elpais.com/technology/2026-09-21/resistance-to-ai-gathers-strength.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/technology/2026-09-21/resistance-to-ai-gathers-strength.htmlSun, 20 Sep 2026 04:00:00 +0000The world is becoming increasingly aware of the dangers posed by the development of artificial intelligence (AI), ranging from the terrifying risk of human extinction to potential disruption of labor markets, cognitive and mental health impacts, threats to democracies and privacy, military and civilian security problems, and the massive concentration of power and wealth in the hands of a few, among many other issues. Voices warning about these threats have been common for years, and in recent weeks the chorus has grown louder on the basis of new troubling evidence. Alongside growing awareness, a multifaceted civic resistance to an unregulated technological race is advancing worldwide.

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]]>Darryl Dyck<![CDATA[The Mormon church is expanding its real-estate empire across the United States: ‘They’re opportunists in a very calculated way’]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-09-21/the-mormon-church-is-expanding-its-real-estate-empire-across-the-united-states-theyre-opportunists-in-a-very-calculated-way.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-09-21/the-mormon-church-is-expanding-its-real-estate-empire-across-the-united-states-theyre-opportunists-in-a-very-calculated-way.htmlSun, 20 Sep 2026 04:00:00 +0000Just 20 minutes from Denver International Airport, plans are under way for an ambitious project on a stretch of empty land larger than Manhattan’s Central Park.

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]]>Jessie Wardarski (AP / LAPRESSE)<![CDATA[Andrew Scott, the expert in tortured characters: ‘I join projects because of the script’]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2026-09-19/andrew-scott-the-expert-in-tortured-characters-i-join-projects-because-of-the-script.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2026-09-19/andrew-scott-the-expert-in-tortured-characters-i-join-projects-because-of-the-script.htmlSat, 19 Sep 2026 04:00:00 +0000Consciously, in what he himself calls “a healthily obsessive way,” Dublin-born Andrew Scott has built a career across film, television and theater by gravitating toward complex characters. In his hands, no role is ever banal or simple.

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]]>Chris Pizzello<![CDATA[Europe does not want to depend on foreign technology in the new digital order]]>https://english.elpais.com/technology/2026-09-19/europe-does-not-want-to-depend-on-foreign-technology-in-the-new-digital-order.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/technology/2026-09-19/europe-does-not-want-to-depend-on-foreign-technology-in-the-new-digital-order.htmlSat, 19 Sep 2026 04:00:00 +0000For years, Europe grew used to a contradiction that it is only now beginning to see as a risk: being one of the world’s foremost regulatory powers in the digital sphere while remaining dependent on others for much of the technology those rules were designed to govern. Over the past decade, Brussels has assembled an extensive legislative arsenal aimed at curbing the power of big tech, from the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) to the Digital Markets Act, the Digital Services Act and the AI Act. Yet while Europe was writing rules, the United States and China were building companies, data centers, chips, cloud platforms and artificial-intelligence models on a scale that no European firm has managed to match.

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]]>CN-STR / AFP / Getty Images<![CDATA[Douglas Stuart, author: ‘If you’ve ever known poverty, you never forget it’ ]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2026-09-19/douglas-stuart-author-if-youve-ever-known-poverty-you-never-forget-it.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2026-09-19/douglas-stuart-author-if-youve-ever-known-poverty-you-never-forget-it.htmlSat, 19 Sep 2026 04:00:00 +0000This was an interview designed to avoid mentioning Donald Trump. Douglas Stuart’s literature — and his life, which is inextricably linked to it — provides ample material for hours of conversation on much more fascinating topics. His work deals with family (understood as a suffocating bond, rather than a refuge), secrets that are kept hidden for years (which offer both salvation and damnation) and the evolution of gay life over the last half-century. His writing also examines how poverty continues to mark those who have experienced it, long after they have overcome it. The idea was to focus on these themes. But, after 45 minutes of conversation, the name of the U.S. president comes up.

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]]>David Levenson<![CDATA[Gonçalo M. Tavares, writer: ‘If a country like the U.S. has 40 million poor people, that country isn’t rich’ ]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2026-09-19/goncalo-m-tavares-writer-if-a-country-like-the-us-has-40-million-poor-people-that-country-isnt-rich.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2026-09-19/goncalo-m-tavares-writer-if-a-country-like-the-us-has-40-million-poor-people-that-country-isnt-rich.htmlSat, 19 Sep 2026 04:00:00 +0000There are writers… and then, there’s Gonçalo M. Tavares. His strange, surgical and violent literature springs up from who knows where. Then, unflinchingly, he lets it rest. When he returns to long-forgotten drafts, he’s capable of hacking at them with the same machete blows he would use on a tangled jungle. If something can be said in three words, Tavares will never use six. With this method, the 56-year-old — who was born in Luanda, Angola — has published 50 works of literature (almost one for each year he’s been alive), known collectively as The Notebooks of Gonçalo M. Tavares. This conceptual tree branches out into epics, novels, mythologies, haikus, artworks, plays and poems. Genres matter to him as little as tidying up his kitchen, which is exactly where EL PAÍS spoke with him one afternoon this past May, amidst piles of dirty dishes and kitschy figurines that he buys on his travels around the world.

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]]>Ximena y Sergio<![CDATA[How to navigate William S. Burroughs in the 21st century]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2026-09-19/how-to-navigate-william-s-burroughs-in-the-21st-century.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2026-09-19/how-to-navigate-william-s-burroughs-in-the-21st-century.htmlSat, 19 Sep 2026 04:00:00 +0000The year is 1960. The setting is London’s Empress Hotel — a boarding house with a chilling reputation, located right next to Brompton Cemetery, in the heart of Earl’s Court. Chronicles from that time period — including the descriptions given by those who associated with William S. Burroughs (the establishment’s most illustrious guest) — describe the place as a sort of stifling bunker.

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]]>jean-Louis Atlan<![CDATA[The story of the Barcelona DJ who spent five years in a Panamanian prison ]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2026-09-19/the-story-of-the-barcelona-dj-who-spent-five-years-in-a-panamanian-prison.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2026-09-19/the-story-of-the-barcelona-dj-who-spent-five-years-in-a-panamanian-prison.htmlSat, 19 Sep 2026 04:00:00 +0000He walked down the prison corridor, guarded by police. His wrists and ankles were shackled.

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]]>MOEH ATITAR<![CDATA[From Argentina to Morocco: How Trump is stoking territorial revisionism]]>https://english.elpais.com/opinion/2026-09-19/from-argentina-to-morocco-how-trump-is-stoking-territorial-revisionism.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/opinion/2026-09-19/from-argentina-to-morocco-how-trump-is-stoking-territorial-revisionism.htmlSat, 19 Sep 2026 04:00:00 +0000U.S. President Donald Trump has once again shared a map on which the American flag covers not only the United States, but also many other countries, including Canada, Cuba, Greenland, and Mexico. The message is clear: in today’s world, where might makes right and geopolitical power runs roughshod over shared rules, territorial revisionism is back on the table.

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]]>Evan Vucci<![CDATA[Mexico’s murder rate: a snapshot of a debate]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-09-19/mexicos-murder-rate-a-snapshot-of-a-debate.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2026-09-19/mexicos-murder-rate-a-snapshot-of-a-debate.htmlSat, 19 Sep 2026 04:00:00 +0000In mid-March of 2025, the Mexican Navy arrested José Remedios Araiza — alias “R1” — in the state of Yucatán. He led the group of “hitmen working for the Santa Rosa de Lima Cartel” (CSRL), one of the most violent criminal organizations in the lowlands of central Mexico, particularly active in the states of Guanajuato and Querétaro. Authorities simultaneously announced the arrest of nine other individuals, all part of the same criminal network. One of the detainees was even accused of committing a massacre in Querétaro in late 2024.

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]]>Francisco Guasco<![CDATA[Held in hotels or detained for a year after being deported to Africa: ‘This is called human trafficking’]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-09-19/held-in-hotels-or-detained-for-a-year-after-being-deported-to-africa-this-is-called-human-trafficking.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2026-09-19/held-in-hotels-or-detained-for-a-year-after-being-deported-to-africa-this-is-called-human-trafficking.htmlSat, 19 Sep 2026 04:00:00 +0000Among so many faces, Roberto Mosquera remembered one in particular the day he arrived in Eswatini, a small country tucked away in southern Africa. He kept seeing that face over the following 14 months, which passed slowly and unbearably in the compressed world between the white and gray walls of the maximum-security cell at Matsapha prison. The man is serious, tall, dark-skinned and wears round glasses. His name is Jabulani Kunene and he is the prison official in charge. For more than a year, Mosquera has asked him the same question every time he passes by: “How long are you going to keep me locked up here?” Kunene has always given him the same answer: “I don’t know, Roberto, I don’t know.”

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]]>Eduardo Ramón Trejo<![CDATA[‘I have spoken 22 times with President Trump’: Sheinbaum confident a trade deal is near]]>https://english.elpais.com/economy-and-business/2026-09-18/i-have-spoken-22-times-with-president-trump-sheinbaum-confident-a-trade-deal-is-near.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/economy-and-business/2026-09-18/i-have-spoken-22-times-with-president-trump-sheinbaum-confident-a-trade-deal-is-near.htmlFri, 18 Sep 2026 19:38:54 +0000President Claudia Sheinbaum said on Friday that Mexico is close to finalizing a trade agreement with the United States. That was the reason for the phone call she held on Wednesday with President Donald Trump, during which she was joined by Foreign Secretary Roberto Velasco and Economy Secretary Marcelo Ebrard. “The call was very good. We are making good progress, but there is not yet a closed agreement,” she said.

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]]>Presidencia de México<![CDATA[‘Hypnocracy’: The regime to numb critical thinking ]]>https://english.elpais.com/technology/2025-03-26/hypnocracy-the-regime-to-numb-critical-thinking.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/technology/2025-03-26/hypnocracy-the-regime-to-numb-critical-thinking.htmlMon, 07 Apr 2025 10:39:40 +0000Kevin Lamarque<![CDATA[US citizen goes missing in Sinaloa, hotspot of cartel war]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-09-18/us-citizen-goes-missing-in-sinaloa-hotspot-of-cartel-war.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2026-09-18/us-citizen-goes-missing-in-sinaloa-hotspot-of-cartel-war.htmlFri, 18 Sep 2026 16:44:18 +0000José Antonio Castro Meza, a U.S. citizen, has been missing since Tuesday, when he was last seen in the Mexican state of Sinaloa, which is grappling with a serious outbreak of violence due to a long-running war between criminal factions.

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]]><![CDATA[Spanish student Claudia Tacoronte’s alleged killer arrested in Cuautla]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-09-18/spanish-student-claudia-tacorontes-alleged-killer-arrested-in-cuautla.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2026-09-18/spanish-student-claudia-tacorontes-alleged-killer-arrested-in-cuautla.htmlFri, 18 Sep 2026 16:02:52 +0000Police in Cuautla, in the state of Morelos, Mexico, have arrested Francisco Javier N., alias “El Trompas,” the alleged killer of Spanish student Claudia Tacoronte. Spain’s Foreign Minister, José Manuel Albares, said on Friday that Mexican authorities told him the suspect has confessed.

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]]>SSPC<![CDATA[The tragedy of ‘Pichi’: He went to LA to buy a car and was killed by a helicopter]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-09-18/the-tragedy-of-pichi-he-went-to-la-to-buy-a-car-and-was-killed-by-a-helicopter.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-09-18/the-tragedy-of-pichi-he-went-to-la-to-buy-a-car-and-was-killed-by-a-helicopter.htmlFri, 18 Sep 2026 14:26:23 +0000Grief over the death of three people in the NBC and Telemundo helicopter crash in Los Angeles traveled over 2,300 miles south to Cuilapa, Guatemala, the impoverished community where victim Edy Fernando Gutiérrez Mejía was born. The 29-year-old had arrived that same day in Chatsworth with the intention of buying a vehicle. He never returned. The helicopter that fell on him was the one from which journalist Eliana Moreno and pilot George Marciniw were reporting on a terrible traffic accident.

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]]>GoFundMe<![CDATA[Daniela in Miami and Daniel in Africa, the deportation of a trans woman: ‘I dressed as a man to survive’]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-09-18/daniela-in-miami-and-daniel-in-africa-the-deportation-of-a-trans-woman-i-dressed-as-a-man-to-survive.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2026-09-18/daniela-in-miami-and-daniel-in-africa-the-deportation-of-a-trans-woman-i-dressed-as-a-man-to-survive.htmlFri, 18 Sep 2026 14:15:52 +0000In a single life that seems like many, she was born Daniel in a municipality on the outskirts of Havana; became Daniela at the height of adolescence; reverted to Daniel to cross Central America; and was Daniela again when she finally arrived in Miami.

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]]>Cedida por Daniela Fuentes<![CDATA[Israel moves closer to Austria’s Freedom Party, founded by former SS members and Nazi Party affiliates]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-09-18/israel-moves-closer-to-austrias-freedom-party-founded-by-former-ss-members-and-nazi-party-affiliates.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2026-09-18/israel-moves-closer-to-austrias-freedom-party-founded-by-former-ss-members-and-nazi-party-affiliates.htmlFri, 18 Sep 2026 12:40:53 +0000Since the October 7, 2023 attacks and the subsequent Israeli offensive in Gaza, Israel has stepped up contacts with various far-right parties in Europe and Latin America, including Spain’s Vox. However, last Thursday, the Israeli government took that policy a step further when its foreign minister, Gideon Saar, said the country seeks “a substantive, open and sincere dialogue” to establish ties with Austria’s far-right Freedom Party (FPÖ), the Israeli daily Haaretz reported.

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]]>Anadolu<![CDATA[Shakira’s master stroke]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2026-09-18/shakiras-master-stroke.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2026-09-18/shakiras-master-stroke.htmlFri, 18 Sep 2026 12:17:30 +0000In January 2023, Shakira’s career was floundering. Her last full-length album had come out five years earlier, in 2017. El Dorado was rated 2.3 out of 5 on the Rate Your Music page. Between 2017 and 2023, she had just one hit and her popularity had sunk to an all-time low. Something had to be done. She released BZRP Music Sessions, Vol. 53, popularly known as Pa’ tipos como tú, with the Argentine producer Bizarrap. She won two Latin Grammy Awards for best song of the year and best pop song, and the track leaked into conversations from bars to political talk shows. It was not so much that the song was good but that people were fascinated by what it said about her relationship with her ex-partner, soccer star Gerard Piqué.

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]]>Kevin Mazur<![CDATA[The Azcatitlan Codex returns to Mexico from Europe after nearly two centuries ]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2026-09-18/the-azcatitlan-codex-returns-to-mexico-from-europe-after-nearly-two-centuries.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2026-09-18/the-azcatitlan-codex-returns-to-mexico-from-europe-after-nearly-two-centuries.htmlFri, 18 Sep 2026 11:29:18 +0000The Azcatitlan Codex, a 50‑folio summary of the Aztec empire’s history, has temporarily returned to Mexico on loan from France to mark the 200th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the two countries. The document left Mexico in 1840 and has come back nearly two centuries later to be exhibited for three months at the National Museum of Anthropology and History in Mexico City. Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum and French president Emmanuel Macron agreed in November 2025 to exchange this codex and the Boturini Codex to mark the relaunch of Franco‑Mexican relations.

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]]><![CDATA[Crypto giants flood the Republican Party with money despite failure of the Clarity Act]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-09-18/crypto-giants-flood-the-republican-party-with-money-despite-failure-of-the-clarity-act.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-09-18/crypto-giants-flood-the-republican-party-with-money-despite-failure-of-the-clarity-act.htmlFri, 18 Sep 2026 10:40:24 +0000In July 2024, during a crypto conference held in Nashville, Donald Trump vowed that if he returned to the White House he would turn the U.S. into the crypto capital of the world. Two years later, the largest market for digital assets still lacks a law to regulate the industry, while Europe has had one since December 2024. On Tuesday, the Senate blocked the progress of the Clarity Act yet again, citing insufficient safeguards to prevent public officials — including the president himself — from benefiting from their crypto businesses. Despite the legislative setback for a bill that includes many of the industry’s proposals, the sector has not lost faith: crypto firms and entrepreneurs continue to pour money into Republicans and pro-crypto candidates ahead of the November midterm elections.

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]]>Jessica Koscielniak<![CDATA[Chaotic scenes as Spanish police clear Ceuta migrants from beaches]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-09-18/chaotic-scenes-as-spanish-police-clear-ceuta-migrants-from-beaches.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2026-09-18/chaotic-scenes-as-spanish-police-clear-ceuta-migrants-from-beaches.htmlFri, 18 Sep 2026 09:50:11 +0000Around 150 police officers began the process of moving migrants encamped on two beaches in Ceuta on Friday to facilities set up at the port in the Spanish exclave city, after the National High Court allowed their temporary use on Thursday following repeated judicial and political disputes. The start of the operation was marked by an initial stampede that led officers to fire warning shots into the air and left several people injured. Once that initial phase had passed, police organized the migrants into groups along the entire promenade, from Benítez beach to the start of the industrial area of the port, occupying a distance of just under 1,000 meters.

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]]>Reduan<![CDATA[Shakira’s ‘magical world’ in Madrid, a monument to the singer’s greater glory]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2026-09-18/shakiras-magical-world-in-madrid-a-monument-to-the-singers-greater-glory.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2026-09-18/shakiras-magical-world-in-madrid-a-monument-to-the-singers-greater-glory.htmlFri, 18 Sep 2026 08:46:10 +0000“Welcome to Shakira’s magical world, one of the great musical events in history.” Live Nation Spain president Pino Saglioco appealed to euphoria at a news conference on Wednesday to describe what is being built around the Colombian singer’s concerts in Madrid, a residency of 12 shows running from September 18 to October 11.

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]]>Víctor Sainz<![CDATA[Democratic senators ask Trump administration for details on money from Venezuelan oil sales]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-09-18/democratic-senators-ask-trump-administration-for-details-on-money-from-venezuelan-oil-sales.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-09-18/democratic-senators-ask-trump-administration-for-details-on-money-from-venezuelan-oil-sales.htmlFri, 18 Sep 2026 08:31:52 +0000A group of Democratic senators has asked the Donald Trump administration to provide details on the status of money from Venezuelan oil sales that is reportedly being held in a Treasury-controlled account, according to a letter obtained Thursday by The Washington Post.

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]]>Carlos Garcia Rawlins<![CDATA[Trump administration responds to María Elvira Salazar: No amnesty for irregular immigration ‘whether you like it or not’]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-09-18/trump-administration-responds-to-maria-elvira-salazar-no-amnesty-for-irregular-immigration-whether-you-like-it-or-not.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-09-18/trump-administration-responds-to-maria-elvira-salazar-no-amnesty-for-irregular-immigration-whether-you-like-it-or-not.htmlFri, 18 Sep 2026 07:55:20 +0000The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has responded to Republican congresswoman María Elvira Salazar’s statement questioning Donald Trump’s immigration policy and saying it has gone “too far.”

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]]>Tom Williams<![CDATA[Latin America remains the deadliest region for land and environmental defenders with 85% of cases in 2025]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-09-17/latin-america-remains-the-deadliest-region-for-land-and-environmental-defenders-with-85-of-cases-in-2025.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2026-09-17/latin-america-remains-the-deadliest-region-for-land-and-environmental-defenders-with-85-of-cases-in-2025.htmlThu, 17 Sep 2026 15:00:54 +0000The map of Latin America is dotted with red markers representing land and environmental defenders who have been murdered. Cándido Esaú Román Pérez, a leader and protector of communal lands in Cihuatlán, in the state of Jalisco in Mexico, was killed in November 2025, and in February of the same year the same fate befell Suyapa Guillén and her husband, José Luis Hernández, members of a peasant cooperative, in Honduras’s Caribbean region. Over the past year in Colombia, Aida Damaris Flor Camayo, a member of the Indigenous guard in Cauca, was killed, as was a Pataxó Indigenous person in the far south of Bahia, Brazil. With 85% of cases confirmed by Global Witness in 2025, the region again ranks as the deadliest for activists and environmental defenders, a pattern that has not changed since the international organization began publishing its reports in 2012.

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]]>Leslie Searles<![CDATA[ICE is laying off agents hired during its rapid expansion after discovering discrepancies in their backgrounds]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-09-17/ice-is-laying-off-agents-hired-during-its-rapid-expansion-after-discovering-discrepancies-in-their-backgrounds.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-09-17/ice-is-laying-off-agents-hired-during-its-rapid-expansion-after-discovering-discrepancies-in-their-backgrounds.htmlThu, 17 Sep 2026 19:11:33 +0000Joseph Moore had spent years trying to build a career in law enforcement. A former Marine reservist and father of two, the 38-year-old finally landed a job as a deportation officer with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in 2025. Less than a year later, the agency decided to fire him. And just hours after going to an ICE office in Philadelphia to learn about his employment status, Moore died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, according to police.

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]]>Vincent Alban<![CDATA[How do you make a map? The problem of flattening the Earth and why the UN is abandoning Mercator]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-09-17/how-do-you-make-a-map-the-problem-of-flattening-the-earth-and-why-the-un-is-abandoning-mercator.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2026-09-17/how-do-you-make-a-map-the-problem-of-flattening-the-earth-and-why-the-un-is-abandoning-mercator.htmlThu, 17 Sep 2026 18:49:47 +0000Representing a sphere on a flat surface is a geometric challenge that humanity has tried to solve for more than 2,000 years. A map can faithfully preserve one or several properties of the Earth, such as distance, shape, direction, or area, but never all of them at the same time. There will always be some kind of distortion. In the case of the recent U.N. resolution, the issue with the Mercator projection, the map used in schools, textbooks, international organizations, and even GPS systems, lies in the size of the continents.

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]]><![CDATA[‘Hispanics feel betrayed’: María Elvira Salazar breaks with Trump over his immigration offensive in campaign ad]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-09-17/hispanics-feel-betrayed-maria-elvira-salazar-breaks-with-trump-over-his-immigration-offensive-in-campaign-ad.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-09-17/hispanics-feel-betrayed-maria-elvira-salazar-breaks-with-trump-over-his-immigration-offensive-in-campaign-ad.htmlThu, 17 Sep 2026 18:02:49 +0000Republican congresswoman María Elvira Salazar, who is seeking re-election in Miami in November, released an ad Thursday directly attacking President Donald Trump over his immigration policy, saying his arrest-and-deportation operations “have gone too far.”

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]]>Tom Williams<![CDATA[ICE agent accused of assault and lying to justify a shooting arrested in Minneapolis]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-09-17/ice-agent-accused-of-assault-and-lying-to-justify-a-shooting-arrested-in-minneapolis.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-09-17/ice-agent-accused-of-assault-and-lying-to-justify-a-shooting-arrested-in-minneapolis.htmlThu, 17 Sep 2026 17:58:01 +0000An Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent accused of lying about the circumstances that led him to wound a Venezuelan during an operation was arrested Wednesday in downtown Minneapolis and taken to a county jail.

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]]>Cortesía<![CDATA[Global warming slowly brought about the catastrophic collapse of the Nepalese glacier]]>https://english.elpais.com/climate/2026-09-17/global-warming-slowly-brought-about-the-catastrophic-collapse-of-the-nepalese-glacier.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/climate/2026-09-17/global-warming-slowly-brought-about-the-catastrophic-collapse-of-the-nepalese-glacier.htmlThu, 17 Sep 2026 17:33:15 +0000The catastrophic avalanche of rock and ice on Langtang Lirung mountain, on Nepal’s northern border — which caused 1,300 deaths and as a result of which, 22 days later, more than 5,000 people remain missing — was the result of a combination of factors that simmered until they triggered an unprecedented disaster in the Himalayas. A report published on September 17 by World Weather Attribution (WWA), the group of scientists that specializes in calculating the influence of climate change on extreme weather events, sheds light on the catastrophe. Among the factors, the authors note “unusually warm conditions before the failure, supporting enhanced snow and ice melt and more precipitation falling as rain rather than snow” around the site where the collapse occurred.

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]]>Ritesh Shukla<![CDATA[Claire-Louise Bennett: 'Difference, chance and risk should be at the heart of the experience of love, something almost impossible in a world of dating apps']]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2026-09-16/claire-louise-bennett-difference-chance-and-risk-should-be-at-the-heart-of-the-experience-of-love-something-almost-impossible-in-a-world-of-dating-apps.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2026-09-16/claire-louise-bennett-difference-chance-and-risk-should-be-at-the-heart-of-the-experience-of-love-something-almost-impossible-in-a-world-of-dating-apps.htmlThu, 17 Sep 2026 15:16:30 +0000Claire-Louise Bennett has said she is fascinated by the ways we exist in other people’s minds, by what we become when we are reduced to an idea. Perhaps that is why her fiction is always filtered through a consciousness: someone obsessively searching for a way out, or for a place in the world. Is love a kind of compass? Can it give shape to the self, each time in a different way?

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]]>Patricia Bolaños<![CDATA[The road map still holds its own against GPS navigation (at least in The Netherlands) ]]>https://english.elpais.com/lifestyle/2026-09-17/the-road-map-still-holds-its-own-against-gps-navigation-at-least-in-the-netherlands.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/lifestyle/2026-09-17/the-road-map-still-holds-its-own-against-gps-navigation-at-least-in-the-netherlands.htmlThu, 17 Sep 2026 14:44:35 +0000Modern road maps emerged in the 20th century, driven by the rise of the automobile, which was patented in January 1886 by German engineer and inventor Carl Benz. The first publisher to print road maps at a national scale, in 1904, was the American firm Rand McNally. In 1910 the French brothers André and Édouard Michelin, founders of the well-known tire company, created the famous guide to Europe, and later produced other related documents.

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]]>Anastasiia Havrysh<![CDATA[Juan José Tamayo, theologian: ‘Jesus is a vulnerable, fragile person, by no means a hero; rather, he is a failure’]]>https://english.elpais.com/society/2026-09-17/juan-jose-tamayo-theologian-jesus-is-a-vulnerable-fragile-person-by-no-means-a-hero-rather-he-is-a-failure.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/society/2026-09-17/juan-jose-tamayo-theologian-jesus-is-a-vulnerable-fragile-person-by-no-means-a-hero-rather-he-is-a-failure.htmlThu, 17 Sep 2026 14:30:58 +0000January 2006. Nobel laureate in Literature José Saramago and theologian Juan José Tamayo walk out of the Los Seises Hotel in Seville together. At 9.00 p.m. they pass in front of the Giralda and the bells begin to toll.

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]]>Pablo Monge<![CDATA[Mark Carney, after Trump’s new tariff threats: ‘Europe and Canada are stronger together’]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-09-17/mark-carney-after-trumps-new-tariff-threats-europe-and-canada-are-stronger-together.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2026-09-17/mark-carney-after-trumps-new-tariff-threats-europe-and-canada-are-stronger-together.htmlThu, 17 Sep 2026 13:16:54 +0000Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said on Thursday, speaking from the heart of the European Union, that his country and the EU are “stronger together” and that deeper cooperation between two regions with shared values will allow them to become a “beacon for other democracies” at a time when the international order is wobbling.

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]]>Yves Herman<![CDATA[Patrick Baty, the ‘paint detective’ who has traced the hues of the past for Windsor Castle and 10 Downing Street]]>https://english.elpais.com/eps/2026-09-17/patrick-baty-the-paint-detective-who-has-traced-the-hues-of-the-past-for-windsor-castle-and-10-downing-street.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/eps/2026-09-17/patrick-baty-the-paint-detective-who-has-traced-the-hues-of-the-past-for-windsor-castle-and-10-downing-street.htmlThu, 17 Sep 2026 13:03:00 +0000Patrick Baty, 70, thought the greatest adventure of his life would culminate in the fight against the communist insurgency in the Dhofar region of southern Oman in the 1970s. Britain’s elite Special Air Service, the feared SAS, was involved in the covert operation, and the young Baty, then a captain in the 9th/12th Royal Lancers, had already begun learning Arabic and was preparing to emulate Lawrence of Arabia.

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]]>Manuel Vázquez<![CDATA[From Uma Thurman and Ethan Hawke to Naomi Watts and Billy Crudup: 31 Hollywood couples who fell in love on set]]>https://english.elpais.com/people/2026-09-17/from-uma-thurman-and-ethan-hawke-to-naomi-watts-and-billy-crudup-31-hollywood-couples-who-fell-in-love-on-set.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/people/2026-09-17/from-uma-thurman-and-ethan-hawke-to-naomi-watts-and-billy-crudup-31-hollywood-couples-who-fell-in-love-on-set.htmlThu, 17 Sep 2026 12:02:46 +0000Dave Hogan<![CDATA[Trump escalates his campaign against Washington’s cultural institutions]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-09-17/trump-escalates-his-campaign-against-washingtons-cultural-institutions.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-09-17/trump-escalates-his-campaign-against-washingtons-cultural-institutions.htmlThu, 17 Sep 2026 11:26:42 +0000For the past 96 days, a huge tarp has hung over the facade of the Kennedy Center, a fitting symbol of Donald Trump’s assault on Washington’s cultural institutions.

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]]>Allison Robbert<![CDATA[Mounting cost of Iran war clouds Trump’s prospects ahead of the midterms]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-09-17/the-cost-of-the-war-against-iran-clouds-trumps-prospects-ahead-of-the-midterms.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-09-17/the-cost-of-the-war-against-iran-clouds-trumps-prospects-ahead-of-the-midterms.htmlThu, 17 Sep 2026 08:46:37 +0000The cost of the U.S. war against Iran is soaring, complicating Donald Trump’s prospects just seven weeks before November’s midterm elections. According to congressional figures, the United States has already spent nearly $40 billion. The rapid consumption of critical munitions is depleting the Pentagon’s stockpiles, especially missile interceptors. According to the congressional report, the consequences are likely to feed inflation in the United States well into next year.

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]]>Majid Asgaripour<![CDATA[‘La Bola Negra’ enters the Oscar race with the biggest awards campaign ever mounted for a Spanish film ]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2026-09-17/la-bola-negra-enters-the-oscar-race-with-the-biggest-awards-campaign-ever-mounted-for-a-spanish-film.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2026-09-17/la-bola-negra-enters-the-oscar-race-with-the-biggest-awards-campaign-ever-mounted-for-a-spanish-film.htmlThu, 17 Sep 2026 10:26:59 +0000Never has a Spanish film entered international awards season from such a position of strength as La Bola Negra (The Black Ball), which Spain’s Film Academy announced on Wednesday will represent the country in the Oscar race for Best International Feature. Only Juan Antonio Bayona’s Society of the Snow and Oliver Laxe’s Sirât, which earned two Oscar nominations earlier this year, have come close to generating this kind of momentum.

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]]>Joel C Ryan<![CDATA[‘I fear for his safety’: Nicaraguan journalist persecuted by Ortega faces deportation from US]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-09-17/i-fear-for-his-safety-nicaraguan-journalist-persecuted-by-ortega-faces-deportation-from-us.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2026-09-17/i-fear-for-his-safety-nicaraguan-journalist-persecuted-by-ortega-faces-deportation-from-us.htmlThu, 17 Sep 2026 10:27:37 +0000The Nicaraguan journalist Luis Galeano, a critic of Daniel Ortega’s regime who has been exiled since December 21, 2018 in the United States, where he sought asylum, has been detained by immigration authorities and now faces deportation proceedings. Press freedom organizations as well as members of Congress have asked U.S. authorities to consider that Galeano was persecuted in Nicaragua for his work and would face reprisals if returned to that country.

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]]><![CDATA[Mexico issues arrest warrant for Francisco Javier ‘N’, the alleged killer of Spanish student Claudia Tacoronte]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-09-17/mexico-issues-arrest-warrant-for-francisco-javier-n-the-alleged-killer-of-spanish-student-claudia-tacoronte.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2026-09-17/mexico-issues-arrest-warrant-for-francisco-javier-n-the-alleged-killer-of-spanish-student-claudia-tacoronte.htmlThu, 17 Sep 2026 10:08:29 +0000The Morelos Attorney General’s Office said Wednesday that a judge has issued an arrest warrant for Francisco Javier N, aka El Trompas, in connection with the killing of Claudia Tacoronte, an exchange student from Spain.

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]]>Rodrigo Oropeza<![CDATA[Rosalía ends the Lux Tour in Miami as the high priestess of avant-garde pop]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2026-09-17/rosalia-ends-the-lux-tour-in-miami-as-the-high-priestess-of-avant-garde-pop.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2026-09-17/rosalia-ends-the-lux-tour-in-miami-as-the-high-priestess-of-avant-garde-pop.htmlThu, 17 Sep 2026 08:59:03 +0000It was in Miami, a land of mirages, magic and more vice than faith, that Rosalía staged the final stop of the Lux Tour, the tour that has cemented her status as pop’s most avant-garde star. Less than a year after descending on the streets of Madrid as a modern-day saint, dressed head to toe in white and crowned with a bleached halo to unveil her most ambitious work yet, the Spanish singer brought a global pilgrimage to a close with one last appearance and one more triumph: seven Latin Grammy nominations, including Album of the Year.

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]]>Paula Cabaleiro<![CDATA[Trump threatens to cut off trade with the EU if it partners with Canada]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-09-17/trump-threatens-to-cut-off-trade-with-the-eu-if-it-partners-with-canada.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2026-09-17/trump-threatens-to-cut-off-trade-with-the-eu-if-it-partners-with-canada.htmlThu, 17 Sep 2026 08:47:00 +0000The president of the United States threatened Wednesday to impose “very serious tariffs” on Europe if the European Union’s plan to deepen ties with Canada comes to fruition. Donald Trump also did not rule out going as far as cutting off trade entirely, he said.

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]]>Kevin Lamarque<![CDATA[Trump removes Venezuela from list of countries failing to combat drug trafficking but keeps Colombia on it]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-09-17/trump-removes-venezuela-from-list-of-countries-failing-to-combat-drug-trafficking-but-keeps-colombia-on-it.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2026-09-17/trump-removes-venezuela-from-list-of-countries-failing-to-combat-drug-trafficking-but-keeps-colombia-on-it.htmlThu, 17 Sep 2026 07:23:40 +0000The U.S. government has decided to remove Venezuela from its list of countries it accuses of not doing enough to combat international drug trafficking. In a statement, the State Department said the decision, which marks a sharp departure from previous years, was prompted by the arrest and removal from power of former president Nicolás Maduro in January, and by the death of Tren de Aragua gang leader Héctor Rusthenford Guerrero in June. Both events followed U.S.-led military operations in the country. The move also amounts to a reward for acting President Delcy Rodríguez, who governs under U.S. supervision.

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]]>NurPhoto<![CDATA[Trump steps up pressure on Mexico over drug trade: ‘They must arrest corrupt officials’]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-09-17/trump-steps-up-pressure-on-mexico-over-drug-trade-they-must-arrest-corrupt-officials.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2026-09-17/trump-steps-up-pressure-on-mexico-over-drug-trade-they-must-arrest-corrupt-officials.htmlThu, 17 Sep 2026 06:59:57 +0000In a so-called presidential determination sent to Congress on Wednesday, U.S. President Donald Trump again singled out Mexico as one of the most important countries in the production and transit chain of drugs to the United States.

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]]>Evelyn Hockstein<![CDATA[The Federal Reserve defies Trump with a unanimous rate hike six weeks before the midterms]]>https://english.elpais.com/economy-and-business/2026-09-16/the-federal-reserve-defies-trump-with-a-25-basis-point-rate-hike.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/economy-and-business/2026-09-16/the-federal-reserve-defies-trump-with-a-25-basis-point-rate-hike.htmlWed, 16 Sep 2026 18:23:41 +0000Kevin Warsh has been chair of the Federal Reserve for just four months, but this Wednesday will be remembered as the day he showed that he and his fellow governors, not outside forces, are the ones truly steering U.S. monetary policy. The Fed has done exactly what U.S. President Donald Trump did not want it to do under any circumstances: raise interest rates just six weeks before the midterm elections, in which Republicans risk losing control of Congress.

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]]>Evelyn Hockstein<![CDATA[Mice with millions of human neurons in their brains bring scientists closer to understanding mental disorders]]>https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2026-09-16/mice-with-millions-of-human-neurons-in-their-brains-bring-scientists-closer-to-understanding-mental-disorders.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2026-09-16/mice-with-millions-of-human-neurons-in-their-brains-bring-scientists-closer-to-understanding-mental-disorders.htmlWed, 16 Sep 2026 16:04:37 +0000Neuroscientist Sergiu Pasca, 44, holds up a transparent vial filled with tiny white spheres floating in liquid. Each one is a cortical organoid, a millimetre-scale replica of the part of the brain responsible for complex thought, language and the mystery of the human mind. Pasca’s team implanted these seeds into the brains of mice that had been genetically altered so they would not develop a cerebral cortex of their own. The experiment, unique in the world, has produced healthy animals with brains that are an integrated blend of human and mouse. These animals contain more transplanted human neurons than any others ever born, the scientist tells EL PAÍS.

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]]>S. Pasca/Stanford<![CDATA[Shakira set to break records with Madrid residency: Hotel rates of $350 and thousands of extra seats on planes and trains]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2026-09-16/shakira-set-to-break-records-with-madrid-residency-hotel-rates-of-350-and-thousands-of-extra-seats-on-planes-and-trains.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2026-09-16/shakira-set-to-break-records-with-madrid-residency-hotel-rates-of-350-and-thousands-of-extra-seats-on-planes-and-trains.htmlWed, 16 Sep 2026 14:34:36 +0000Spain’s capital had not yet recovered from the four days in which the Formula 1 Grand Prix gridlocked the city’s streets, with an economic impact close to €470 million ($542 million), and it is already bracing for the side effects of the Colombian singer Shakira’s Madrid residency, part of her ‘Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran World Tour.’

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]]>Ricardo Rubio<![CDATA[Céline Dion: The looks that became her armor against illness and vulnerability]]>https://english.elpais.com/people/2026-09-16/celine-dion-the-looks-that-became-her-armor-against-illness-and-vulnerability.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/people/2026-09-16/celine-dion-the-looks-that-became-her-armor-against-illness-and-vulnerability.htmlWed, 16 Sep 2026 14:29:57 +0000THOMAS SAMSON<![CDATA[Superfast jet-powered drones, the Russian weapon Ukraine is not ready for]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-09-16/superfast-jet-powered-drones-the-russian-weapon-ukraine-is-not-ready-for.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2026-09-16/superfast-jet-powered-drones-the-russian-weapon-ukraine-is-not-ready-for.htmlWed, 16 Sep 2026 13:43:26 +0000The direction of a war is sometimes more closely related to initiative than to combat. Ukraine is a good example. On paper, Russia’s numerical superiority should have ended the conflict quickly, but creativity and the element of surprise have allowed Kyiv to hold its ground. This is not always the case, though. Lately there is a growing sense that Ukrainian interceptors are struggling to deal with Russia’s jet-powered drones. According to data from the Ukrainian Air Force, four out of every 10 attack vehicles of this type — capable of speeds of up to 370 miles per hour and carrying a 90-kilogram explosive payload — reach their target successfully. The defensive gap is large. One of these aircraft struck a shopping center in Kryvyi Rih on August 21 after a first drone hit its warehouses a few minutes earlier. Sixteen people were killed.

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]]>Viacheslav Madiievskyi / Zuma Pr<![CDATA[The Hasan Piker case: How the right tried to mock his ‘meat pics’ and failed]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-09-16/the-hasan-piker-case-how-the-right-tried-to-mock-his-meat-pics-and-failed.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-09-16/the-hasan-piker-case-how-the-right-tried-to-mock-his-meat-pics-and-failed.htmlWed, 16 Sep 2026 12:16:44 +0000“A Progressive Mind in a Body Made for the ‘Manosphere’” That’s how The New York Times described the streamer and political commentator Hasan Piker, 35, in a feature that emphasized his demanding workout routines and likened them to those of fitness influencers, whose ideology tends to shift toward conservatism.

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]]>Taylor Hill<![CDATA[Scarlett Johansson on being ‘hypersexualized’]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2022-10-18/scarlett-johansson-on-being-hypersexualixed.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2022-10-18/scarlett-johansson-on-being-hypersexualixed.htmlTue, 18 Oct 2022 11:55:30 +0000“Voluptuous.” “Attractive.” “Sex bomb.” These are just some of the descriptions that have been used to describe American actress Scarlett Johansson. Even Woody Allen – who directed Johansson in three movies – called the then 19-year-old star of Match Point (2005) “sexually radioactive.”

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]]>Matt Winkelmeyer<![CDATA[The online network that offers jobs in Russia and sends people to fight in the war in Ukraine]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-09-16/the-online-network-that-offers-jobs-in-russia-and-sends-people-to-fight-in-the-war-in-ukraine.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2026-09-16/the-online-network-that-offers-jobs-in-russia-and-sends-people-to-fight-in-the-war-in-ukraine.htmlWed, 16 Sep 2026 11:59:44 +0000A report by the African nonprofit network of digital democracy laboratories and data journalism, Code for Africa (CfA), published on September 16, sheds light on the shadowy digital network that, through deception and false information, recruits young people from poor countries — primarily in Africa — to fight for Russia in the war in Ukraine. The study reveals a criminal industry that uses at least 135 digital resources — websites, messaging accounts, or social media profiles — originating in Russia or Belarus but hosted on Western servers, to offer supposedly well‑paid jobs that end up being a one‑way ticket to the war, often with no return. According to Ukrainian government figures, around 3,000 African recruits have fought in the war in Ukraine, of whom about 500 have been killed in action.

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]]>Anadolu<![CDATA[$150 for an oil barrel, the new extreme scenario following closure of key Saudi pipeline]]>https://english.elpais.com/economy-and-business/2026-09-16/150-for-an-oil-barrel-the-new-extreme-scenario-following-closure-of-key-saudi-pipeline.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/economy-and-business/2026-09-16/150-for-an-oil-barrel-the-new-extreme-scenario-following-closure-of-key-saudi-pipeline.htmlWed, 16 Sep 2026 10:39:14 +0000Saudi Arabia, the world’s largest oil exporter, is running out of alternatives to export its production, a fact that will raise oil prices even more after months of intense price escalation. The blockade of the Strait of Hormuz due to the war in Iran delivered the first blow, and now, more than six months after the war began, the East-West Pipeline connecting Saudi oil fields with its Red Sea ports — the best alternative route — is under threat following attacks by Yemen’s Houthis, who are allies of Iran.

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]]>Tom Hanley<![CDATA[‘El Trompas’, the main target of Mexican authorities for the killing of Claudia Tacoronte]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-09-16/el-trompas-the-main-target-of-mexican-authorities-for-the-killing-of-claudia-tacoronte.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2026-09-16/el-trompas-the-main-target-of-mexican-authorities-for-the-killing-of-claudia-tacoronte.htmlWed, 16 Sep 2026 10:38:50 +0000Mexican authorities already know the nickname of the alleged killer of the Spanish exchange student Claudia Tacoronte. The main suspect in the crime is known as El Trompas, sources close to the investigation told EL PAÍS. The man had already been recorded committing several robberies at different businesses in Cuautla, one of them on the same day that the student was attacked near the Casa de la Cultura cultural center. The clothing in the robbery videos matches what witnesses said the man was wearing, and what shows up on private security cameras owned by neighbors: a white T-shirt, light-colored bermuda shorts and a black backpack. That man is now the main target of Mexican authorities.

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]]><![CDATA[Mother of 16 children found confined amid human waste in Ohio to appear in court ]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-09-16/mother-of-16-children-found-confined-amid-human-waste-in-ohio-to-appear-in-court.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-09-16/mother-of-16-children-found-confined-amid-human-waste-in-ohio-to-appear-in-court.htmlWed, 16 Sep 2026 10:37:10 +0000Elizabeth Siders will appear Wednesday before a Vinton County court in a hearing that opens a new chapter in the case of 16 minors found confined in a tiny room amid human waste inside a house in the village of Hamden, Ohio. The 34-year-old remains in custody and faces 19 counts of endangering children, as well as charges of sexual assault and illicit sexual conduct with a minor.

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]]>Carolyn Kaster<![CDATA[US to divert military aid from European and Middle Eastern countries to allies in Latin America]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-09-16/us-to-divert-military-aid-from-european-and-middle-eastern-countries-to-allies-in-latin-america.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2026-09-16/us-to-divert-military-aid-from-european-and-middle-eastern-countries-to-allies-in-latin-america.htmlWed, 16 Sep 2026 09:38:22 +0000The Donald Trump administration has diverted $52 million in military aid that had until now been delivered to allies in the Middle East and Europe, redirecting it to countries in Latin America governed by ideologically aligned conservative administrations. The State Department’s notice to Congress comes just one week after Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s visits to Ecuador, Colombia and Peru, during which he pledged new aid to fight illegal immigration and drug trafficking, two of the main priorities of U.S. foreign policy.

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]]>SOPA Images<![CDATA[Analysts warn of the global effects of a hypothetical AI stock crash]]>https://english.elpais.com/economy-and-business/2026-09-16/analysts-warn-of-the-global-effects-of-a-hypothetical-ai-stock-crash.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/economy-and-business/2026-09-16/analysts-warn-of-the-global-effects-of-a-hypothetical-ai-stock-crash.htmlWed, 16 Sep 2026 09:37:37 +0000Up until now, investors’ fears were focused on artificial intelligence (AI) coming up short of the expectations that have built up around it. But starting this past weekend, the main fear is that its own creators might slow down the speed of development out of concern for other kinds of worst-case scenarios.

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]]>Brendan McDermid<![CDATA[Lionel Messi to bid farewell to Argentina national team with a final match in Buenos Aires: ‘The last tango of the world’s best player’]]>https://english.elpais.com/sports/2026-09-16/lionel-messi-to-bid-farewell-to-argentina-national-team-with-a-final-match-in-buenos-aires-the-last-tango-of-the-worlds-best-player.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/sports/2026-09-16/lionel-messi-to-bid-farewell-to-argentina-national-team-with-a-final-match-in-buenos-aires-the-last-tango-of-the-worlds-best-player.htmlWed, 16 Sep 2026 08:54:43 +0000A story that had it all, from painful defeats to everlasting victories, will come to an end. It will happen on October 6, when Lionel Messi plays his final match with the Argentina national team. That day the Albiceleste will face Benin in Buenos Aires in a friendly. “The last tango of the world’s best player,” said the president of the Argentine Football Association (AFA), Claudio Tapia.

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]]>Hannah McKay<![CDATA[CJNG cartel leader’s birth certificate reveals previously unknown details about his origins in California ]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-09-16/cjng-cartel-leaders-birth-certificate-reveals-previously-unknown-details-about-his-origins-in-california.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2026-09-16/cjng-cartel-leaders-birth-certificate-reveals-previously-unknown-details-about-his-origins-in-california.htmlWed, 16 Sep 2026 08:37:16 +0000In the fields designated for the father’s information the abbreviation “N/A” appears, for “Not applicable.” That is how the name Armando Valencia Cornelio, one of the founders of the Milenio Cartel, is recorded. The newborn listed on that birth certificate, issued by the state government of California, was Juan Carlos Valencia González. Four decades later he would become the first head of a Mexican drug-trafficking organization — the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) — born on U.S. soil, a huge paradox in light of the anti-drug rhetoric of the Donald Trump administration.

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]]><![CDATA[Trump continues effort to subvert midterms despite Supreme Court loss over mail ballots]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-09-16/trump-continues-effort-to-subvert-midterms-despite-supreme-court-loss-over-mail-ballots.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-09-16/trump-continues-effort-to-subvert-midterms-despite-supreme-court-loss-over-mail-ballots.htmlWed, 16 Sep 2026 08:10:40 +0000President Donald Trump on Monday lost a battle in his long-running crusade to limit mail-in voting following an adverse Supreme Court decision, but it has not ended his campaign to influence the November midterms by changing the rules and hampering access to the ballot box. It is an effort his administration has been engaged in for months: a campaign to preserve “electoral integrity” built on exaggerations, baseless suspicions and conspiracy theories about an alleged mass voter fraud that supposedly always benefits his opponents.

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]]>Lynne Sladky<![CDATA[Mexico authorizes entry of 139 US troops for training operations]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-09-15/mexico-authorizes-entry-of-139-us-troops-for-training-operations.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2026-09-15/mexico-authorizes-entry-of-139-us-troops-for-training-operations.htmlTue, 15 Sep 2026 16:32:08 +0000The Mexican Senate on Monday authorized the entry into the country of a group of 139 U.S. military personnel. The operation, intended for training purposes, will take place at the Santa Gertrudis military base in Chihuahua between September 20 and 30.

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]]>The Washington Post<![CDATA[Svend Brinkmann, psychologist: ‘If you place conditions on forgiveness, love or freedom, you have already destroyed them’]]>https://english.elpais.com/health/2026-09-15/svend-brinkmann-psychologist-if-you-place-conditions-on-forgiveness-love-or-freedom-you-have-already-destroyed-them.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/health/2026-09-15/svend-brinkmann-psychologist-if-you-place-conditions-on-forgiveness-love-or-freedom-you-have-already-destroyed-them.htmlTue, 15 Sep 2026 19:22:46 +0000Svend Brinkmann, 50, admits that he has a tendency toward nostalgia. The psychologist and philosopher, who teaches at Aalborg University in Denmark, has spent years pushing back against one of contemporary culture’s fixations: the constant quest to become the best version of yourself. He says we live in a society that values everything — work, education and even personal relationships and leisure — only insofar as it brings us closer to personal success, turning every aspect of life into an instrument for self-improvement.

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]]>S. B.<![CDATA[Maduro ally Alex Saab pleads guilty in US money-laundering case ]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-09-15/maduro-ally-alex-saab-pleads-guilty-in-us-money-laundering-case.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-09-15/maduro-ally-alex-saab-pleads-guilty-in-us-money-laundering-case.htmlTue, 15 Sep 2026 16:57:39 +0000Alex Saab, the Colombian businessman and alleged frontman for former Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro, pleaded guilty on Tuesday in a Miami court to conspiring to launder money linked to a multimillion-dollar fraud scheme involving Venezuela’s subsidized food program known as CLAP.

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]]>Anthoni Belchi<![CDATA[AI agents invent their own language to shut humans out]]>https://english.elpais.com/technology/2026-09-15/ai-agents-invent-their-own-language-to-shut-humans-out.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/technology/2026-09-15/ai-agents-invent-their-own-language-to-shut-humans-out.htmlTue, 15 Sep 2026 16:42:21 +0000No one taught them those words. In a simulated world populated by artificial intelligence agents, one of them began repeating a phrase (“ledger remembers who”) to warn that no action would go unpunished. The others adopted it. They repeated it. They turned it into jargon. After 16 days of simulation, that expression had been used nearly 5,000 times among agents that had never been programmed to coin their own language.

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]]><![CDATA[The hunt for the alleged killer of Spanish student Claudia Tacoronte in Morelos]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-09-15/the-hunt-for-the-alleged-killer-of-spanish-student-claudia-tacoronte-in-morelos.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2026-09-15/the-hunt-for-the-alleged-killer-of-spanish-student-claudia-tacoronte-in-morelos.htmlTue, 15 Sep 2026 14:07:10 +0000The residents were gathered Saturday afternoon drinking coffee inside the house when they heard the first screams. “Help, help!” A young woman had been mugged and stabbed beside the Casa de la Cultura in downtown Cuautla, in the state of Morelos in central Mexico. It was Claudia Tacoronte, a Spanish exchange student at the Autonomous University of the State of Morelos (UAEM). Security cameras in the building, footage from which EL PAÍS has seen, recorded a man wearing a white T‑shirt and carrying a black backpack. First he walks by and stops. Then he disappears from the footage for about a minute before being seen again, running. A camera from another angle captures that entire run. It is 8.50 p.m. At 10.12 p.m., a Facebook video from local outlet 45 Digital Noticias shows the young woman on the ground. The reporter calls for an ambulance and asks for help: “To any residents who see a person with a white jacket or sweatshirt and a black backpack on Los Pinos street heading toward Santa Inés, notify the authorities or detain them, please.”

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]]>Rodrigo Oropeza<![CDATA[Alejandro Betancourt ‘disappeared’ from his castle in Spain the day police went to arrest him]]>https://english.elpais.com/spain/2026-09-15/alejandro-betancourt-disappeared-from-his-castle-in-spain-the-day-police-went-to-arrest-him.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/spain/2026-09-15/alejandro-betancourt-disappeared-from-his-castle-in-spain-the-day-police-went-to-arrest-him.htmlTue, 15 Sep 2026 13:58:07 +0000Police had been monitoring the movements of Alejandro Betancourt since late August 2025. He was being secretly investigated in both Spain and Switzerland, and on the morning of August 28, Spain’s Economic and Fiscal Crime Unit (UDEF) had located him at his Alamín estate in Toledo, a property of roughly 1,440 hectares valued at more than €25 million ($29 million), after learning that he had arrived at Madrid’s Barajas Airport with his family.

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]]><![CDATA[European Canada]]>https://english.elpais.com/opinion/2026-09-15/european-canada.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/opinion/2026-09-15/european-canada.htmlTue, 15 Sep 2026 13:34:16 +0000“Wouldn’t it be lovely if Canada were the 28th state of the European Union instead of the 51st state of the United States?” Finnish president Alexander Stubb asked a few months ago. The question was neither a provocation nor a mere intellectual exercise. Although it is hard to imagine a North American country fully joining a European club, the prospect of a much closer alliance to the point of making Canada an “associate member of the EU” — has moved out of the realm of political fiction. Today it is a real possibility.

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]]>Thierry Monasse<![CDATA[Illegal weapons are behind 76% of firearm homicides in Colombia]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-09-15/illegal-weapons-are-behind-76-of-firearm-homicides-in-colombia.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2026-09-15/illegal-weapons-are-behind-76-of-firearm-homicides-in-colombia.htmlTue, 15 Sep 2026 13:10:35 +0000A gun is produced thousands of miles from Colombia and only ends up in the hands of a local criminal after crossing several borders and changing hands multiple times. Although 76% of homicides committed with firearms in the South American country were carried out with illegal weapons, according to the National Police, reconstructing the route they took to reach the black markets is not easy for authorities. Records show that a large share come from the United States, while Turkey appears as the main origin of traumatic (non-lethal) weapons, which are increasingly being used to commit crimes.

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]]>Fernando Vergara<![CDATA[First diplodocus found outside North America discovered in Spain]]>https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2026-09-15/first-diplodocus-found-outside-north-america-discovered-in-spain.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2026-09-15/first-diplodocus-found-outside-north-america-discovered-in-spain.htmlTue, 15 Sep 2026 12:55:24 +0000All known diplodocus ― a 25-meter-long dinosaur that lived about 150 million years ago ― come from the same North American deposit, the formation known as the Morrison Formation in the western United States. However, the recent discovery of one of these specimens at La Tejería (El Castellar, Teruel, Spain) “challenges our understanding of dinosaur distribution during the Late Jurassic,” write researchers from the Joint Paleontology Foundation Teruel-Dinópolis in the scientific journal Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. “The discovery of this sauropod represents one of the most complete diplodocid skeletons ever found in Europe,” they add.

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]]>Carmelo López<![CDATA[Who is Umar Kremlev, the Russian magnate who paid for Donald Trump Jr.’s wedding festivities?]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-09-15/who-is-umar-kremlev-the-russian-magnate-who-paid-for-donald-trump-jrs-wedding-festivities.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2026-09-15/who-is-umar-kremlev-the-russian-magnate-who-paid-for-donald-trump-jrs-wedding-festivities.htmlTue, 15 Sep 2026 11:42:56 +0000The U.S. nonprofit journalism organization ProPublica has revealed that Umar Kremlev, a 43-year-old Russian businessman with close ties to the Kremlin, paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for Donald Trump Jr.’s wedding celebrations last May, and that another contractor for Russia’s Defense Ministry, Alexander Lagutin, was also invited to the event. Only one photo taken by a guest fleetingly shows Kremlev’s presence at the event, just days after both men accompanied Vladimir Putin on a trip to China.

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]]>Contributor<![CDATA[Are we all going to die or is it just theatrics? The arguments against an AI apocalypse]]>https://english.elpais.com/technology/2026-09-15/are-we-all-going-to-die-or-is-it-just-theatrics-the-arguments-against-an-ai-apocalypse.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/technology/2026-09-15/are-we-all-going-to-die-or-is-it-just-theatrics-the-arguments-against-an-ai-apocalypse.htmlTue, 15 Sep 2026 11:36:19 +0000Fear of artificial intelligence (AI) has firmly entered the public debate. In recent days people have spoken of a possible extinction of humanity, of this technology being uncontrollable, and of the industry itself—not regulators—needing to self-regulate to rein in its own progress. These systems are already very powerful, and given their growth rate, no one knows how far they could go in the coming months or years.

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]]>HANNIBAL HANSCHKE<![CDATA[‘Widow’s Bay’ makes history by sweeping the 2026 Emmy Awards in a night of surprises]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2026-09-15/widows-bay-makes-history-by-sweeping-the-2026-emmy-awards-in-a-night-of-surprises.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2026-09-15/widows-bay-makes-history-by-sweeping-the-2026-emmy-awards-in-a-night-of-surprises.htmlTue, 15 Sep 2026 11:02:57 +0000It was 5.00 pm on a hot Los Angeles afternoon when the Emmy Awards began, an event the Television Academy has presented every year for 78 years. Three hours later the results were clear, when The Pitt was crowned best drama series and Widow’s Bay took top honors at a two-hour ceremony hosted for the first time by actress Mariska Hargitay, who shone in her role.

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]]>Mario Anzuoni<![CDATA[Kremlin-backed Russian oligarch Umar Kremlev funded Donald Trump Jr.’s post-wedding celebrations in the Bahamas]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-09-15/kremlin-backed-russian-oligarch-umar-kremlev-funded-donald-trump-jrs-post-wedding-celebrations-in-the-bahamas.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2026-09-15/kremlin-backed-russian-oligarch-umar-kremlev-funded-donald-trump-jrs-post-wedding-celebrations-in-the-bahamas.htmlTue, 15 Sep 2026 10:53:43 +0000A Russian oligarch close to Vladimir Putin paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to cover the celebrations after the wedding of Donald Trump Jr., the U.S. president’s eldest son, last May in the Bahamas. The information, first reported by the journalists’ consortium ProPublica, has been confirmed by the couple in an Instagram post.

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]]><![CDATA[US and China bare their teeth over AI: from fear of the apocalypse to a tech cold war]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-09-15/us-and-china-bare-their-teeth-over-ai-from-fear-of-the-apocalypse-to-a-tech-cold-war.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2026-09-15/us-and-china-bare-their-teeth-over-ai-from-fear-of-the-apocalypse-to-a-tech-cold-war.htmlTue, 15 Sep 2026 10:41:04 +0000An entire generation of Americans was marked by the terror they felt when a Soviet device flew over their heads: the Sputnik probe, the planet’s first artificial satellite. That “Sputnik moment” not only spurred the United States in the space race — which ended with the USSR derailed and Neil Armstrong stepping onto the Moon — it also became the great metaphor for the flashiest contest of the Cold War. These days, the vast rivalry between the two superpowers of our era has a different actor, China instead of the U.S.S.R., but it is still being waged on every front: trade, space, weapons, and also artificial intelligence.

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]]>Evan Vucci<![CDATA[Trump administration confirms use of punishment cages at Alligator Alcatraz]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-09-15/trump-administration-confirms-use-of-punishment-cages-at-alligator-alcatraz.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-09-15/trump-administration-confirms-use-of-punishment-cages-at-alligator-alcatraz.htmlTue, 15 Sep 2026 10:16:03 +0000A report from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) under the Donald Trump administration found that dozens of migrants held at the Alligator Alcatraz detention center in the Everglades were confined in small metal cages, which were referred to as “calming areas,” some for nearly two hours.

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]]><![CDATA[Supreme Court rejects Trump’s restrictions on mail-in voting ahead of midterms]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-09-15/supreme-court-rejects-trumps-restrictions-on-mail-in-voting-ahead-of-midterms.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-09-15/supreme-court-rejects-trumps-restrictions-on-mail-in-voting-ahead-of-midterms.htmlTue, 15 Sep 2026 08:47:03 +0000On Monday, the Supreme Court rejected the restrictions that President Donald Trump sought to impose on voting by mail. The Court upheld a federal judge’s decision to block the president’s executive order, which would have jeopardized the votes of millions of people with less than two months to go before the midterm elections.

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]]>Brian Snyder<![CDATA[Four female students murdered in seven months at the University of Morelos, where Claudia Tacoronte was studying]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-09-15/four-female-students-murdered-in-seven-months-at-the-university-of-morelos-where-claudia-tacoronte-was-studying.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2026-09-15/four-female-students-murdered-in-seven-months-at-the-university-of-morelos-where-claudia-tacoronte-was-studying.htmlTue, 15 Sep 2026 08:24:45 +0000Kimberly, an accounting student, disappeared and her classmates took to the streets to protest. The day they found her dead in an industrial area of Cuernavaca was the same day they learned that Karol, a nursing student, had vanished, and the protests continued. Demonstrations surrounded the Autonomous University of the State of Morelos (UAEM) early in the year. Karol’s body was found just before International Women’s Day on March 8, and terror gripped the university in central Mexico: “We didn’t know studying could cost you your life,” students chanted. Despite the scrutiny, in May, Michelle, a high school student at the same institution, disappeared. She was 15 and was also later found dead. In Mexico, the history of femicide is long, but it is sometimes forgotten. Last Saturday, Claudia Tacoronte, a Spanish exchange student in Morelos who was returning that night from the opening of the National Medicinal Plant Festival, was killed, and the murders of Kimberly, Karol, and Michelle have resurfaced: in just seven months, four students have been murdered.

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]]>Margarito Perez Retana<![CDATA[3D printing returns hope to amputees in Syria]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-09-14/3d-printing-returns-hope-to-amputees-in-syria.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2026-09-14/3d-printing-returns-hope-to-amputees-in-syria.htmlMon, 14 Sep 2026 13:48:39 +0000Salwa al Raslan never imagined that her walk home from school would end that way. The seven-year-old tripped and fell to the ground. The impact broke the prosthetic that had replaced the leg she lost in early 2025, when a landmine exploded. For weeks she sat by the window watching other children go to school, her disability keeping her from moving freely.

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]]>Sonia al Ali<![CDATA[Trump brings US democracy to its lowest point in recent history]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-09-15/trump-brings-us-democracy-to-its-lowest-point-in-recent-history.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-09-15/trump-brings-us-democracy-to-its-lowest-point-in-recent-history.htmlTue, 15 Sep 2026 07:12:27 +0000A great deal would have to change in the next two years for Donald Trump’s second term not to go down in history as the period of greatest democratic decline in recent U.S. history. The main democratic quality indicators measured by the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance, founded in 1995 by 14 countries from the Americas, Europe and Africa—from judicial independence to press freedom; from freedom of speech to economic equality—have fallen to 50-year lows. The indicators are at their lowest this year since the institute began conducting its annual study half a century ago, based on data from more than 170 countries. In March, the Sweden-based V-Dem Institute also removed the United States from the category of a full liberal democracy.

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]]>Alex Brandon (Ap / LaPresse)<![CDATA[Spanish exchange student at University of Morelos murdered in Mexico]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-09-14/spanish-exchange-student-at-university-of-morelos-murdered-in-mexico.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2026-09-14/spanish-exchange-student-at-university-of-morelos-murdered-in-mexico.htmlMon, 14 Sep 2026 19:38:24 +0000A Spanish exchange student was killed Saturday night in a stabbing in Cuautla, Morelos (in central Mexico). The attack on Claudia Tacoronte Aguilera, 21, who was studying early childhood education, occurred during an alleged robbery near the local Casa de la Cultura in the city center. The Morelos Attorney General’s Office, which is investigating the crime as a femicide, has not ruled out any lines of inquiry. “We immediately contacted the Spanish Consulate,” said State Attorney General Fernando Blumenkron. This year alone, three other students from the Autonomous University of the State of Morelos (UAEM), where Tacoronte was studying as an exchange student, have been murdered. Claudia’s death once again confronts Mexico with its trail of femicides.

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]]><![CDATA[Trump is pushing for his election check, but House Speaker Mike Johnson says it will require congressional approval ]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-09-14/trump-is-pushing-for-his-election-check-but-house-speaker-mike-johnson-says-it-will-require-congressional-approval.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-09-14/trump-is-pushing-for-his-election-check-but-house-speaker-mike-johnson-says-it-will-require-congressional-approval.htmlMon, 14 Sep 2026 19:22:58 +0000Donald Trump has turned a potential $5,000 payment for American adults into a key promise ahead of the midterm elections. The president says the money will be distributed if Republicans retain control of the House of Representatives and the Senate after the November 3 ballot, although there is still no approved mechanism to finance or distribute the checks.

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]]>ALBERT PENA<![CDATA[Galerie Kugel, the gallery of out-of-reach treasures: ‘Not every extraordinary object ends up in a museum’]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2026-09-14/galerie-kugel-the-gallery-of-out-of-reach-treasures-not-every-extraordinary-object-ends-up-in-a-museum.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2026-09-14/galerie-kugel-the-gallery-of-out-of-reach-treasures-not-every-extraordinary-object-ends-up-in-a-museum.htmlMon, 14 Sep 2026 15:47:34 +0000At the latest edition of TEFAF, the world’s leading antiques fair, visitors lined up to study, with the aid of a magnifying glass, one of those extraordinary objects that form a category of their own. It is the work shown in the image below this paragraph. It is a view of the city of Madrid made in 1740 by an artist, Nicolas Engelbert Cetto, who lived in a Bavarian town and never visited Madrid. The remarkable thing is that it is made of wax: for months Cetto devoted himself to creating this delirious miniature composition which, when examined with a magnifying lens, even reveals inscriptions identifying, as though it were a tourist map, the main buildings of the city associated with the king of Naples, the future Charles III, who received this work, together with three others, as a wedding gift on his marriage to Maria Amalia of Saxony.

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]]>Roland Beaufre<![CDATA[Dining outdoors in Spain: From popular custom to neighborhood protest against mass tourism and the privatization of public space ]]>https://english.elpais.com/society/2026-09-14/dining-outdoors-in-spain-from-popular-custom-to-neighborhood-protest-against-mass-tourism-and-the-privatization-of-public-space.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/society/2026-09-14/dining-outdoors-in-spain-from-popular-custom-to-neighborhood-protest-against-mass-tourism-and-the-privatization-of-public-space.htmlMon, 14 Sep 2026 15:23:11 +0000Taking out a table and chairs and sitting in the street to have dinner in the fresh air with friends, family or neighbors, especially in the hottest months of the year, has recently assumed the character of protest in several parts of Spain. As cities and municipalities are increasingly stressed by mass tourism and public spaces are progressively privatized, the option of being on the street to socialize free of charge has become akin to a revolutionary act by locals aiming make their demands visible.

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]]>KIKE TABERNER<![CDATA[The homegrown movie that has conquered the Chinese box office ]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2026-09-14/the-homegrown-movie-that-has-conquered-the-chinese-box-office.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2026-09-14/the-homegrown-movie-that-has-conquered-the-chinese-box-office.htmlMon, 14 Sep 2026 15:17:47 +0000In the country that made the dazzling animated film Ne Zha 2 a source of national pride and where artificial intelligence (AI) is dominating the microseries market, the big-screen phenomenon of the summer has been a calf that moves tentatively through a landscape that looks like something out of the video games of the early 2000s.

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]]>Andy Wong<![CDATA[Between Russian troops and Soviet nostalgia in Transnistria: Moldova’s pro-Russian fantasy]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-09-14/between-russian-troops-and-soviet-nostalgia-in-transnistria-moldovas-pro-russian-fantasy.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2026-09-14/between-russian-troops-and-soviet-nostalgia-in-transnistria-moldovas-pro-russian-fantasy.htmlMon, 14 Sep 2026 14:00:40 +0000At the road checkpoint set up at the entrance to a bridge, Russian troops — the country’s flag even appears on the sleeve of a uniform — monitor vehicle traffic between the cities of Bender and Tiraspol. The car carrying the reporters passes without being stopped through the breakaway region of Transnistria, a self-proclaimed republic on Moldovan territory on the left bank of the Dniester River and bordering Ukraine. The Russian banner also appears on the bridge’s structure, on official buildings, in shops, and on some citizens’ vehicles. The Kremlin’s protection is beyond doubt.

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]]>Luis De Vega Hernández<![CDATA[How Trump’s pharmaceutical plan threatens Europe: Higher drug prices and delays in new therapies]]>https://english.elpais.com/health/2026-09-14/how-trumps-pharmaceutical-plan-threatens-europe-higher-drug-prices-and-delays-in-new-therapies.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/health/2026-09-14/how-trumps-pharmaceutical-plan-threatens-europe-higher-drug-prices-and-delays-in-new-therapies.htmlMon, 14 Sep 2026 08:20:57 +0000Donald Trump’s demand that drugmakers raise medicine prices in Europe so they can be lowered in the United States is now more than just another bombastic demand from the president of the world’s leading power. The leading scientific journal The Lancet publishes a pioneering study this Monday warning of the real risk that measures pushed by Washington could reconfigure global pharmaceutical markets, lead companies to raise prices for drugs in other countries and delay the launch of new therapies there. The study was carried out by experts from renowned institutions including the London School of Economics and the universities of Harvard and Zurich, among others.

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]]>Kevin Lamarque<![CDATA[Mariska Hargitay, the Emmy host who found fame, fortune and a social mission with a single role]]>https://english.elpais.com/people/2026-09-14/mariska-hargitay-the-emmy-host-who-found-fame-fortune-and-a-social-mission-with-a-single-role.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/people/2026-09-14/mariska-hargitay-the-emmy-host-who-found-fame-fortune-and-a-social-mission-with-a-single-role.htmlMon, 14 Sep 2026 12:32:39 +0000Mariska Hargitay, dressed in red and laughing heartily while holding an Emmy in each of her muscular arms, is the very picture of happiness, success and strength.

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]]>Chris Pizzello<![CDATA[The risks of AI, according to those who have seen it from the inside: ‘The world is not ready and we are not ready’]]>https://english.elpais.com/technology/2026-09-14/the-risks-of-ai-according-to-those-who-have-seen-it-from-the-inside-the-world-is-not-ready-and-we-are-not-ready.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/technology/2026-09-14/the-risks-of-ai-according-to-those-who-have-seen-it-from-the-inside-the-world-is-not-ready-and-we-are-not-ready.htmlMon, 14 Sep 2026 11:11:56 +0000Inside Anthropic, there is a phrase that circulates through hallways and chat channels and, until a few days ago, had never left the company: crunch time. The moment of truth. Employees use it, according to one former staffer, to refer to a very specific window: the one or two years they believe remain before it becomes clear whether the artificial intelligence they are building slips beyond their control. The other term in circulation is shorter and older in Silicon Valley jargon, but here it has taken on a different meaning: endgame.

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]]><![CDATA[The Mick Jagger of earthquakes]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-09-14/the-mick-jagger-of-earthquakes.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2026-09-14/the-mick-jagger-of-earthquakes.htmlMon, 14 Sep 2026 09:52:41 +0000The planes seem to skim the zinc rooftops as they come in to land. But this Friday, not even the roar of engines approaching the recently reopened Maiquetía International Airport can distract residents from their excitement. They have been waiting for hours to see Kit Miyamoto, who has become something of a celebrity in Venezuela since the twin earthquakes of June 24, which killed at least 6,509 people and left hundreds still missing. “It’s one of the most intense scenes I’ve seen in the last 20 years,” Miyamoto tells EL PAÍS.

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]]>Chelo Camacho<![CDATA[Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, directors of ‘NAZA’: ‘That life in Tel Aviv goes on as if nothing was happening is also an act of violence’ ]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2026-09-14/yuval-abraham-and-rachel-szor-directors-of-naza-that-life-in-tel-aviv-goes-on-as-if-nothing-was-happening-is-also-an-act-of-violence.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2026-09-14/yuval-abraham-and-rachel-szor-directors-of-naza-that-life-in-tel-aviv-goes-on-as-if-nothing-was-happening-is-also-an-act-of-violence.htmlMon, 14 Sep 2026 09:47:07 +0000Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor live in Jerusalem, but their families are from Tel Aviv, the city where they filmed NAZA at night. Their documentary, which has won the Special Jury Prize at the 83rd Venice International Film Festival, gathers the testimonies of 24 military personnel, officers and soldiers from Israel’s intelligence service who demonstrate the systems used for mass killing in Gaza, some based on surveillance and attack programs generated by artificial intelligence.

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]]><![CDATA[Galápagos, a paradise under criminal siege]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-09-14/galapagos-a-paradise-under-criminal-siege.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2026-09-14/galapagos-a-paradise-under-criminal-siege.htmlMon, 14 Sep 2026 08:50:55 +0000When Migration Police opened the backpacks of three Thai passengers at Guayaquil airport, they found something that should not have reached the mainland: 12 Galápagos black marine iguanas whose scientific name is Amblyrhynchus cristatus. They had been transported from Seymour Island with their front legs tied to their bodies and their hind legs bound together. They were completely immobilized, weak, some near death. There were 12 of them, and on the Asian and European markets they would fetch between $25,000 and $500,000 each.

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