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Millones de europeos sufren limitaciones inéditas en el acceso al agua por la falta de lluvias. El escaso caudal de los grandes ríos frena el comercio, lastra la producción de energía y diezma cultivos básicos como el maíz, el arroz, el trigo y la soja
Un estudio confirma que las temperaturas marinas récord en Europa están causadas por el cambio climático y multiplican impactos, como el riesgo de episodios como la dana de Valencia
“La situación está muy tensa, por eso es necesaria la contención”, señalan en las nuevas zonas habilitadas por el Ejecutivo, que aún no están listas
Una mujer marroquí de 28 años que entró a nado a Ceuta el pasado 30 de julio relata las razones que la llevaron a jugarse la vida por dejar su país
Los nuevos centros, que se están adecuando, podrían albergar a 4.000 personas
La directiva de retornos exige unas condiciones de acogida en el país de origen
La Moncloa pretende equilibrios imposibles con Marruecos, con Ceuta, la UE y la opinión pública
España necesita saber qué quiere de Marruecos y qué está dispuesta a pagar por conseguirlo
Martial law has been in place in Ukraine since February 2022, under which elections are suspended.
US President Donald Trump said he will delay imposing new tariffs on a wide array of Canadian goods for three days as the countries firm up a trade deal.
Meta argued social media addiction does not exist, as a trial stemming from a major lawsuit brought by US states started.
US president delays 50% tariffs by three days, and says contentious oil project ‘may be awoken from the grave’ Canada has temporarily avoided a bruising 50% US tariff, reaching a Tuesday-evening agreement with Trump administration officials hours before a hike that would have affected $20bn worth of goods was set to take effect. Donald Trump posted late on Tuesday on social media that he had paused the tariffs for three days “based on the fact that Canada and the USA, subject to the finalization of documents, have a DEAL!” Continue reading...
South Korea’s joint chiefs of staff said the Ulchi Freedom Shield exercise would end on 21 August at the request of the US South Korea’s military has confirmed that joint military drills with the US will be cut short, days after Donald Trump ordered the Pentagon to scale back the exercises. In a statement on Wednesday, South Korea’s joint chiefs of staff said at the request of the US side, the Ulchi Freedom Shield (UFS) exercise – which began on Monday would end on Friday, six days earlier than originally planned. Continue reading...
Country’s second fatal school shooting in two months took place in southern city of Zamboanga A student livestreamed himself shooting and killing another pupil in a classroom in the southern Philippines before taking his own life, the second school attack in the country in less than two months. The shooting took place at a school attached to Ateneo de Zamboanga University in the southern city of Zamboanga, a Catholic private institution in western Mindanao. Zamboanga city’s mayor, Khymer Adan Olaso, told the DZMM radio station that the shooter “managed to enter carrying a high-powered…
ABC sued the FCC, arguing the agency is waging a retaliatory campaign of censorship against the broadcast network, violating its right to free speech. ABC says the commission has wielded its regulatory power to punish and pressure the company through investigations and threats to strip local stations of their broadcast licenses. Amna Nawaz discussed more with FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez.
In our news wrap Tuesday, a federal trial against Meta started with four states laying out their case that the company's social media platforms harm children, crews are working to clear roads and restore power to tens of thousands of people in Hawaii in the wake of Hurricane Lala and President Trump said that there are no talks taking place between the U.S. and Iran and none are scheduled.
In several key battleground states, Republican candidates who have questioned the legitimacy of the 2020 election are on the ballot. If elected to statewide offices like governor and secretary of state, these candidates could shape how elections are administered and certified in the years ahead. White House correspondent Liz Landers reports on election deniers running for office.
Le populaire ex-ministre, dont l’exclusion du gouvernement a précipité une crise politique dans le pays, franchit une ligne jamais dépassée depuis le début de l’invasion russe en appelant, dans une vidéo publiée mardi 18 août, à « restaurer le processus démocratique » malgré la guerre.
L’entreprise est jugée au civil en Californie, poursuivie par 29 Etats fédérés pour avoir trompé les consommateurs et violé la loi fédérale sur la protection des mineurs, en exposant les jeunes utilisateurs à des contenus violents ou sexuels et à des risques d’addiction.
« La centrale a cessé de produire de l’électricité à la suite de dommages significatifs causés aux infrastructures par cette frappe », a déclaré, mardi, le groupe DTEK, sans spécifier immédiatement la localisation exacte du site touché.
Face à l’intensification des bombardements russes et à l’affaiblissement de la défense antiaérienne, de plus en plus de Kiéviens préfèrent descendre dans les stations de manière préventive à la nuit tombée, sans attendre d’éventuelles alertes.
Après plusieurs années de débats, ce texte crée un droit à l’aide à mourir, sous plusieurs conditions, pour certains patients, leur permettant de s’administrer un produit létal en présence d’un soignant.
A Chinese national, described by the US Justice Department as a “prolific” money launderer, was sentenced to 15 years in prison on Tuesday and ordered to pay US$25 million for his role in a Chinese money laundering outfit with ties to Mexican drug gangs. The agency said Jianfei Lu, aged 31, was involved in laundering more than US$92 million in illicit funds in a two-year period, collecting the money from US-based drug traffickers and depositing it into shell company bank accounts using both real...
A new film telling the story of the Iraq war through Chinese eyes marks the latest in a series of soft power initiatives designed to get Beijing’s message across to the wider world. Although Once Upon a Time in the Middle East does not explicitly state the name of the country in question, it is set in the 2000s and features an invasion by American troops. The film’s central character, a Chinese chef named Xu Fu who is working off his debts at the time the war starts, turns his modest restaurant...
As China deepens the commercialisation of its vast troves of data, the United States needs to develop its own national data strategy that treats data as an economic asset to better position itself to prevail in emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and robotics, a key US congressional advisory body has said. In a report published on Tuesday, the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission (USCC) warned that the US risks ceding global leadership in setting global data...
An attack on a village in Nigeria’s central Plateau state has killed at least 25 people.
New rule caps student and exchange visas to four years, while most journalist visas will be limited to 240 days.
Es por un antecedente de mayo de 2025, por el que había estado sólo 20 días preso. Por ese caso, el fiscal Raúl Garzón amplió la carátula a abuso sexual con acceso carnal en grado de tentativa, en concurso real con privación ilegal de la libertad calificada.
Lo hizo como director del Organismo Internacional de la Energía Atómica (OIEA) y confirmó el hallazgo de varias toneladas de uranio, que quedarán bajo la supervisión de su agencia. Destacó la cooperación de las actuales autoridades de ese país para que sus actividades nucleares ya no estén asociadas con armas.
El presidente de Estados Unidos está molesto con el acuerdo que ese pequeño país está por alcanzar con Irán sobre el tránsito por el estrecho de Ormuz. Las claves de una guerra que se extiende y debilita al gobierno de Washington.
Researchers and environmental agencies have created a monitoring network to identify critical conditions in Amazonian lakes in advance and reduce the impacts of extreme droughts on river dolphins and riverside communities. The initiative was launched after 209 river dolphins died during the 2023 and 2024 droughts, when Lake Tefé reached 40.9°C. Leia mais (08/18/2026 - 20h05)
Petrobras confirmed the discovery of oil in the Morpho well, in the mouth of the Amazon basin, off the coast of Amapá. "There is oil and there is a discovery; we still don't know how much, but we are extremely optimistic about what we are finding here," Petrobras CEO Magda Chambriard said at an event with President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (Workers' Party). Exploration of the well is expected to be completed within 15 to 20 days. Leia mais (08/18/2026 - 12h17)
En el sudeste de Alaska, una pequeña embarcación de 21 pies y un superyate de 118 metros acabaron compartiendo la misma historia. La primera se había quedado sin combustible. El segundo era el Launchpad, vinculado a Mark Zuckerberg . Esa diferencia de escala basta para entender por qué el episodio llamó la atención, pero no para explicar lo que ocurrió. Para eso hay que seguir el rastro de las comunicaciones, los movimientos de los barcos y las versiones que aparecieron después. Veamos. El episodio. A las 21:32 del 3 de agosto, la Guardia Costera recibió por VHF la llamada de la barca cerca…
La decisión de PlayStation de matar los juegos en disco sigue dando que hablar. A unas semanas de que Sony reafirmara su decisión de discontinuar el formato físico, nuevas declaraciones de un antiguo directivo dejan entrever que ni la gente de más alto nivel sabía lo que se estaba gestando. Pese a que han surgido […] Seguir leyendo: El hombre que dirigió PlayStation da su opinión sobre la muerte de los juegos en disco
Tanks with defensive tech for shooting down drones are still proving vulnerable.
One of the most enduring principles in the entire Universe is the cosmological principle: an outgrowth of the Copernican revolution. Copernicus, nearly 500 years ago now, hypothesized that the Earth occupied no special place in the Universe when he put forth the heliocentric picture, instead recognizing that Earth might be just an ordinary planet like all the others: revolving around the Sun. We’ve since expanded our view of the Universe substantially, and with it, our view of the cosmological principle. In every way fathomable, there’s nothing special or preferred about our location in space…
Claude ya puede enviar correos desde tu cuenta de Gmail sin pedirte confirmación previa. La IA de Anthropic implementó una función en los conectores de Google Workspace que la dotan de nuevas habilidades. A partir de hoy, el asistente puede redactar y despachar respuestas de forma autónoma, siempre y cuando lo configures previamente. De acuerdo […] Seguir leyendo: Claude ahora puede enviar tus correos de Gmail sin pedirte permiso
A 1918 Detroit Electric Model 75B went under the hammer at Monterey Car Week claiming an original 80 miles of range, against the 73 miles the first Nissan Leaf was rated for. The format died because of the electric starter and a price five times a Model T, not because of range. A 1918 Detroit […] This story continues at The Next Web
Cursor, known for its AI Code Editor, is launching a new code-hosting platform to rival developers' long preferred favorite, GitHub.
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. We still don’t know how people are really using AI AI companies like Anthropic and OpenAI regularly publish reports on how people are using their products. But they only release the…
AI companies like Anthropic and OpenAI regularly publish reports on how people are using products like Claude and ChatGPT, but they only release the data they want us to see, AI researchers say. “There is no independent source to corroborate it,” says Anka Reuel, a computer science PhD candidate at the Stanford Trustworthy AI Research…
This AI startup, which lists Nobel laureate David Baker among its co-founders, has announced a “world model” of a cell that can simulate both its natural state and responses to successive perturbations, potentially transforming biological research. Living in a […]
An international task force co-led by a Georgetown University stroke expert has outlined a new roadmap for stroke recovery, positioning genetic and blood biomarkers to drive the next generation of precision neurorehabilitation and biotherapy. The framework aligns with Georgetown's strategic focus on advancing brain health and accelerating discoveries that restore function and independence after neurological injury.
A new analysis from the Gabriella Miller Kids First Data Resource Center (Kids First DRC) shows how a collaborative, data-driven research model is creating broader opportunities to understand pediatric disease.
MIT researchers’ approach, which uses naturally occurring sugars as antifreeze, could make it easier for hospitals to deploy this type of cancer treatment.
MIT researchers’ approach, which uses naturally occurring sugars as antifreeze, could make it easier for hospitals to deploy this type of cancer treatment.
MIT researchers’ approach, which uses naturally occurring sugars as antifreeze, could make it easier for hospitals to deploy this type of cancer treatment.