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Ukraine: A journey to the front that has the world on edge

Mónica Ceberio / Cristian Segura / Luis de Vega / Carlos Martínez

Special correspondents from EL PAÍS traveled along the 750 miles of frontlines in the country, collecting testimonies from civilians and soldiers

Russia TV celebrates as it reports the capture of Bakhmut, comparing it to Berlin in 1945

Despite the Russian claims about Bakhmut, top Ukrainian military leaders say the fight there is not over, even though they still control only a small part of the city

Sanctions threaten Russian aviation safety: Expired components and concealed malfunctions

Javier G. Cuesta|Moscow

A number of leaks expose the risks taken by the companies, like the 2,000 flights that took off with outdated parts

Republican presidential candidate Tim Scott delivers his speech announcing his candidacy for president on the campus of Charleston Southern University in South Carolina, on May 22, 2023.

Tim Scott launches GOP presidential bid: ‘I’m living proof that America is the land of opportunity and not a land of oppression’

No agreement yet on debt ceiling, but Biden and McCarthy say they’re optimistic after meeting

Cleaning employees sweep volcanic ash from a plaza in the city of Atlixco, in the state of Puebla.

Mexico’s Popocatépetl volcano activity mobilizes the army in the event of a possible evacuation

Sinan Ogan, center, the nationalist presidential candidate, is surrounded by supporters during a city tour, in Ankara, Turkey, on May 4, 2023.

Erdogan wins endorsement for Turkish election runoff from third-place candidate Ogan

Sudan's Army chief Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan speaks following the signature of an initial deal aimed at ending a deep crisis caused by last year's military coup, in Khartoum, Sudan, Dec. 5, 2022.

UN urges Sudan’s warring parties to honor cease-fire that began Monday night

Vinícius Júnior of Real Madrid argues during the LaLiga Santander match between Valencia CF and Real Madrid CF at Estadio Mestalla on May 21, 2023, in Valencia, Spain.

After abuse against Vinícius Junior, Spanish soccer admits to racism problem

A victim of an alleged fentanyl overdose in San Diego (California), on November 12.

How the United States got hooked on fentanyl

Iker Seisdedos|Washington

More women sue Texas, asking court to put emergency block on state’s abortion law

More than a dozen women have joined the Center for Reproductive Rights’ lawsuit against the Texas’ law, which prohibit abortions unless a mother’s life is at risk — an exception that is not clearly defined

Nebraska governor signs 12-week abortion ban and limits on gender-affirming care for minors

E. Jean Carroll arrives to a courthouse in New York, Tuesday, April 25, 2023.

E. Jean Carroll adds Trump’s post-verdict remarks to defamation case and seeks at least $10M

A jury two weeks ago decided that Trump had sexually abused Carroll at an upscale Manhattan department store in early spring 1996

Meta fined record $1.3 billion and ordered to stop sending European user data to US

The penalty of €1.2 billion is the biggest since the EU’s strict data privacy regime took effect five years ago, surpassing Amazon’s €746 million fine in 2021 for data protection violations

People attend a news conference on Lake Mead at Hoover Dam, April 11, 2023, near Boulder City, Nevada.

California, Arizona and Nevada offer landmark drought deal to use less Colorado River water — for now

The plan would conserve an additional 3 million acre-feet of water through 2026, when current guidelines for how the river is shared expire. About half the cuts would come by the end of 2024

Natalie Portman, at the press conference on Sunday morning in Cannes for 'May December'.

Natalie Portman: ‘Human beings need to be told stories’

Gregorio Belinchón|Cannes

The actress produces and co-stars in ‘May December,’ a film by Todd Haynes based on a teacher who had a relationship with a student more than 20 years her junior

Sam Clemmett, a commoner in the courts of ‘Bridgerton’

Juan Sanguino|Madrid

The actor came up through the theater and suffered through the pandemic in the elitist acting world. Now, his fortunes may change

Is digital violence in an AI era yet another threat to women?

Noor Mahtani

A hundred apps creating hyperrealistic erotic images are being flagged up by experts who are pushing for comprehensive public policies and criminalization

Why do all celebrities want their own brand of alcoholic beverages? From George Clooney’s tequila to Emma Watson’s gin

Ixone Arana|Madrid

More and more A-listers are looking for a way to redistribute their wealth and associate themselves with values such as authenticity by becoming involved with the spirits industry, where the presence of women is still rare

Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of the Wagner Group military company speaks holding a Russian national flag in front of his soldiers in Bakhmut, Ukraine.

Peace, food and fertilizer: African leaders’ challenge heading to talks with Moscow and Kyiv

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy have both agreed to separately host the delegation of presidents from South Africa, Senegal, Egypt, Republic of Congo, Uganda and Zambia

Wild buffalo in Kenya’s Masai Mara National Reserve, on March 2, 2023.

This how animals make collective decisions: Bees dance and the elephant matriarchs decide

Laura Camón

Species that live in social groups have different ways of communicating preferences

The Teams app on the Play store on an Android phone.

This is how Android apps reveal our secrets without us being aware of it

Jordi Pérez Colomé

A new investigation uncovers how advertising companies have access to log records left by programmers inside mobile devices

Two men resting in the sun on Malvarrosa beach in Valencia, Spain.

The best kind of nap, according to experts: Short, early and not in bed

Jessica Mouzo

A member of a health brigade fumigates a street to prevent the spread of dengue in the San Juan de Lurigancho district in Lima, on May 11.

Dengue in Latin America: How it spreads and how to avoid it

Sebastián Padrón Jaramillo|Mexico

Enrique Echeburúa at his office, in San Sebastián, Spain.

Psychologist Enrique Echeburúa: ‘People who die by suicide want to stop suffering, not to stop living’

Daniel Mediavilla

Is ‘The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom’ really the best video game in history?

Jorge Morla

A ground-breaking game of immeasurable depth, the latest installment in the Nintendo series has been a hit

Link, the hero of 'Tears of the Kingdom,' on one of the floating islands worked into the new game’s extensive map.

European public goods and fiscal rules for the new economic policy

Ángel Ubide

The EU will not achieve its goals for strategic autonomy and decarbonization, without a budget to support them

The rich on the run in Los Angeles: Dodging a mansion tax that benefits the homeless

Luis Pablo Beauregard|Los Angeles

Californian millionaires are looking for ways to dodge the new levy on luxury homes, which enables social housing construction

Debt limit talks start, stop as Republicans, White House face ‘serious differences’

President Joe Biden and Republicans are racing to strike a deal as the nation careens toward a potentially catastrophic debt default if the nation fails to pay its bills

Fewer Americans apply for jobless benefits, as labor market still showing strength

The U.S. economy has added jobs at a breakneck pace despite interest rates that have been rising for more than a year and fears of a looming recession

Deutsche Bank to pay $75 million to settle lawsuit from Epstein victims, lawyers say

The settlement stems from a lawsuit claiming that the German lender should have seen evidence of sex trafficking by Jeffrey Epstein when he was a client