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Official and independent polls agree on the decline of the Russian leader’s approval ratings as economic problems worsened from 2025 onwards

Gulf countries are loading crude onto ships at sea as their onshore storage facilities reach capacity. Normally these vessels are a marginal part of the market, but now they’ve taken on a crucial role

After more than a dozen failures, the ‘Luna 9’ achieved the first controlled landing on the satellite in 1966 and sent the first images from the surface

Forty years after the accident, some residents still refuse to leave, even after Vladimir Putin’s army occupied the area in 2022. EL PAÍS visited the exclusion zone and heard the stories of those who resist there

The officer, considered a hero in his country, accuses the United States of having succumbed to ‘Russian disinformation’ due to its affinity with Vladimir Putin

Celebrities with millions of followers criticize the authorities for not informing the president about the country’s problems, although they avoid attacking him directly

Washington’s military bases in Europe are key to its security. Several laws significantly restrict the Republican’s room for maneuver to withdraw from the Alliance

The scholar has published a book about mounted soldiers in conflicts between 1860 and 1945, from Custer to the Waffen-SS

Kyiv’s military personnel are operating drones from Libya to sink ships carrying Russian fuel and to support anti-Kremlin governments in Africa

Beijing aims to send astronauts to the Moon before 2030 and establish a base there in cooperation with Russia within the next decade. NASA, which has accelerated its lunar efforts with the Artemis program, considers it its ‘greatest competitor’

The Roscosmos agency is delaying its attempt to explore the lunar surface with robots for another year, after its failure in 2023. The initiative seeks to establish ‘sovereign Russian territories on its surface’

Russia has carried out nearly 5,000 attacks targeting Ukraine’s railway system and caused damage to more than 25,000 pieces of infrastructure

Argentine environmentalist Horacio Werner, director of Agenda Antártica, analyzes one of the longest-lasting experiments in international cooperation

Andrei Soldatov and his colleague Irina Borogan say that the Kremlin’s intelligence services believe they are in an eternal war against the West

The European reaction ranges from relief that defense is being taken seriously to fear that increased spending will destabilize the EU

Unmanned aerial vehicles have revolutionized the arms industry, but their production makes many countries even more dependent on imports

The K-278 has been emitting radioactive material since it sank in 1989, although torpedoes with atomic warheads resist corrosion

The Public Prosecutor’s Office estimates that the country will face more than 216,000 potential cases, while some experts warn of a lack of human and material resources

The alleged agents were following a businessman who supplies drones to Ukraine for military use, and preparing new action, possibly with the intention of killing him

Norway’s current finance minister says ‘the attack on Iran has no basis in international law’

Asian countries are most affected by the absence of natural gas from the Persian Gulf, but this could end up putting pressure on prices in Europe and impacting storage capacity for next winter

Incidents attributed to cybercriminals sponsored by Pyongyang increased by 130% in 2025. Analysts highlight their growing sophistication

These shortwave radio stations are used to maintain almost untraceable communications when the internet is down. Cuba has the longest tradition with this technology

The Hong Kong-flagged ‘Sea Horse’ is expected to arrive in five days. It is carrying 200,000 barrels of diesel, enough for 10 days

The main obstacle facing Kyiv is that it has a territory roughly 30 times larger than the Jewish State

Under the Russian invasion, Kyiv has positioned itself at the forefront of the use and downing of drones like those now employed by Iran to respond to attacks by the US and Israel

The Kremlin is offloading its offshore oil reserves due to the Middle East crisis, but a sustained global recession would hit its economy hard