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REPORT: Nearly 30,000 rescuers mobilized in Venezuela, an unprecedented effort
Facing the scale of the June 24, 2026 earthquakes, Venezuelan authorities deployed a considerable human mobilization. According to The Star, nearly 30,000 personnel along…
REPORT: At La Esperanza cemetery, 500 fresh graves and 150 unnamed
There are places where the scale of a disaster can be measured better than in any official bulletin. The La Esperanza cemetery, in the…
REPORT: 50,000 missing in Venezuela, the number Caracas won't say
There are numbers that circulate in diplomatic corridors long before they reach a microphone. This one just reached one. The UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian…
OPEN LETTER: Venezuela's earthquake toll climbs to 3,889 dead, and still rising
There are numbers that should never become a routine news bulletin item. This is one of them. According to Al Jazeera, the official toll…
REPORT: EU Locks in Its Timeline to Break Free From Russian Gas
On July 2, 2026, the Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER) published a report confirming that the European Union's REPower Gas regulation…
OPEN LETTER: To Budapest, Which Has Finally Stopped Shielding a Fugitive
Dear Hungarian leaders, I write to you the day after an announcement that deserves to be praised without hesitation. On July 2, 2026, Poland…
REPORT: Tusk Tells Kyiv to Confront Its History With Warsaw
On July 3, 2026, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said, according to Reuters, that Ukraine must "confront its history" while seeking to ease bilateral…
ANALYSIS: Government Survives No-Confidence Vote, Not the 2,025 Deaths
On July 6, 2026, the French government led by Sébastien Lecornu survived a no-confidence motion filed by the Greens, which challenged its handling of…
FACT-CHECK: RN Leads the Polls as Centrists Talk Budget Discipline
Nine months before the 2027 presidential election, one fact resists every attempt at spin: the National Rally candidate remains favored to reach the runoff.