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HOY · JUEVES 20 DE AGOSTO

Peter Thiel's US$12 million mansion in Buenos Aires was at the center of an unusual protest

The magnate, who is visiting Argentina for two months, acquired a property in one of the most expensive areas of Buenos Aires and met with Javier Milei at the Casa Rosada

How much does a prefabricated house with 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom and kitchen cost in Argentina in August 2026

A survey by several companies shows values ​​that start at US$50,000 and can reach up to US$120,000 in Argentina

Prince Harry and his wife Meghan will return to live in the United Kingdom with their children after 6 years in the US.

The couple's children, Prince Archie (7 years old) and Princess Lilibet (5 years old), are registered to start classes at a British school in September.

AYER

We're making meal times wrong: This is the best time to dine, according to science

Our circadian rhythm directly influences the way we metabolize food.

The oldest prisoner in the US who avoided execution 8 times dies at 101

Francis Smith was the oldest prisoner in the US prison system.

The Government is working on the urgent transfer of 500 migrant girls from Ceuta to the Peninsula

The autonomous city accepts the Executive's plan as an “extraordinary measure” and demands the return of all foreigners who entered irregularly

El Niño: they demand a national plan to confront the extreme climate phenomenon

CRA warned that producers' concern about the forecast is growing and called for preventive works, coordination between the Nation and provinces and infrastructure to reduce the impact. The Government said that it has the ENSO 2026/2027 Federal Coordination Plan in place.

Bundesliga against the world: the “50+1” rule challenges the advance of “accumulators of inconceivable wealth”

Private investment gains dangerous ground in the life of institutions

Last minute of the entry of immigrants to Ceuta, live | Ceuta accepts the Government's plan to transfer 500 migrant girls to the Peninsula as an “extraordinary measure”

The PP, on the transfer of 500 migrant girls from Ceuta: “The best interest of the minor will be to be with their family” | The popular ones ask for the disapproval of five ministers for the management of the migration crisis in Ceuta

The announcement of the success of the first vaccine against melanoma boosts the shares of Moderna and Merck

The advance has been released in a press release in which no specific data on improved survival is offered. If confirmed, it would be a historic milestone

Ayuso settles in an urbanization in Puerta de Hierro after leaving the apartment she shared with González Amador

The president moves to a wealthy area after leaving the neighborhood where she grew up and where the Community of Madrid bought the controversial apartment with 199 meters of terrace

Gastroenteritis, tuberculosis, scabies: nurses denounce an “unprecedented health collapse” in Ceuta

Defense assures that the outbreak of skin infections among the military is not related to the care of immigrants, since two soldiers have already arrived infected

"The deadliest of major US rail lines": why more than 200 people have died on the train tracks connecting Miami and Orlando

The deaths on the Brightline tracks have engulfed a service launched to connect the main cities of Florida in controversy.

"Having lost my husband hurts me more than having lost my right hand": the testimony of Nayarit Colmenares, the amputee woman after the earthquakes in Venezuela

Nayarit is looking for resources to get a bionic prosthesis that will allow him to paint and draw again, after authorizing his doctors to cut off his arm due to the effects of crush syndrome.

The teenage hackers that worry the United Kingdom (and how they seek to rehabilitate them)

Cyber ​​Prevent primarily targets boys and young men at risk of becoming involved in cybercrime.

The President foresees the transfer to Mexico of Rear Admiral Farías

President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo said yesterday that “everything seems to indicate” that there will be a transfer to Mexico of Rear Admiral Fernando Farías Laguna, identified as the alleged leader of a tax huachicol network and detained since last April in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

México Canta and Spotify join forces in a strategic alliance to support youth

The music platform Spotify joined the binational México Canta contest by signing an agreement with the federal Ministry of Culture, Channel 22 and the Mexican Music Council, to create “a México Canta playlist, in addition to giving masterclasses to the 14 semifinalists” and bring them closer to the musical ecosystem of Mexico and the United States.

We work “shoulder to shoulder”: Johnson

The United States ambassador to Mexico, Ronald Johnson, stated yesterday that criminal organizations “operate across borders” and that this condition constitutes “one of their greatest vulnerabilities,” in response to a previous message from the Secretary of Security, Omar García Harfuch.

Editorial: Behind the right, the CIA

Fernando Cerimedo, co-founder and partner of the disinformation platform La Derecha Diario, was arrested yesterday in Bolivia after an attack against his ex-partner, Nadia Beller. She accuses him of attempted feminicide by hanging during their relationship and claims that Cerimedo sent the hitmen who shot him three times at the exit of a hotel. Although the administration of President Rodrigo Paz expressed solidarity with the victim and demanded “a serious and thorough investigation,” she considers the government to be “the main interested party in silencing her” due to its knowledge of acts of corruption related to the president's wife.

The largest wave pool in Europe brings discord to a district of Madrid: “It's nonsense”

Residents of San Blas-Canillejas and environmentalists denounce the high consumption of drinking water of a project questioned in the courts, with a budget of 60 million, and which hopes to open its doors in 2027

ESTA SEMANA

Evo Morales led a march to demand the resignation of Rodrigo Paz

The former president, who has an arrest warrant, conditioned his surrender to Justice on receiving guarantees, and challenged the president: “If he is macho, let him come to Lauca Ñ”

Facundo Moyano's lawyer spoke and insisted that Candela Arizaga did not suffer violence

Juan Pablo Fioribello referred to how the case continues in which the former deputy is accused of alleged injuries and the alleged illegitimate deprivation of his partner's freedom.

Psychologists agree: re-watching movies or series that we have already seen is related to the search for well-being

Although the platforms' catalog changes daily, many people choose stories that they know by heart; nostalgia, emotional regulation and predictability explain this common phenomenon in the general public

A new earthquake of magnitude 4.8 shakes Granada and leaves three people with minor injuries

The tremor, with its epicenter in Gójar, has been strongly felt in the metropolitan area of ​​the capital. “It's torture,” says an affected neighbor

Trump declares the Strait of Hormuz “new territory of the United States”

The Republican goes one step further in his threats of annexation with an image published on his own social network

The 10-year-old girl trafficked from Peru to Ecuador to marry a 50-year-old man (and what she reveals about child marriage in Latin America)

One in four girls in Latin America have been involved in child marriage or early union. And it is the only region in the world where there has not been a significant reduction in this practice.

How García Lorca's bond with Latin America was forged (and the trip to Mexico that he never took and that could have saved his life)

From Havana to Buenos Aires and Montevideo, the poet found in the region a scene of freedom and success that transformed his life and his work.

391,251 people participated in the massive boxing class

President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo indicated that in the massive Fists of Transformation boxing class, which took place last weekend, boxers who receive support as part of the Youth Building the Future program, and those who are in charge of teaching the classes of this sport, participated.

Publisher: Ediciones Era: Latin American mourning

Ediciones Era announced yesterday its definitive closure due to the economic unviability of continuing its operations. In a statement addressed to clients and friends, the publishing house announced that "66 years after the publication of the first Ediciones Era book, we find ourselves in the need to recognize that the book market has changed so much that it does not allow us to live off the sales of our books. The network of bookstores that existed before the pandemic and that guaranteed our subsistence disappeared, to the point that sales plummeted to be barely 25 percent of what they were before."

The White House attacks a Democratic senator for talking about Natalie Harp, Trump's "human printer"

Lawmaker Jon Ossoff accuses the president of preferring to “travel in his flying palace” with his most loyal aide to doing his job.

The Mecca pact: 4 keys to understanding the "Muslim NATO" created by Türkiye, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan

The defense pact between Türkiye, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan has been called the "Muslim NATO" or "Sunni pact." But will it work like this in practice? We analyze it.

Students vs. Gymnastics, live, for the Clausura tournament

La Plata mobilizes with the classic in the Uno stadium between Pincha and Lobo

A truck lost control and hit a warehouse in Mar del Plata: one dead and five injured

The incident occurred in the early hours of this Saturday and was recorded by the security camera of a business; several people who were on the sidewalk were run over

Morocco exhibits its maximum strength as guardian of the Ceuta border

Rabat shows that it has sufficient capacity to stop the access of immigrants to Europe. Those affected plead: “Let us enter Ceuta”

Rabat expels Efe and TVE journalists from Castillejos

The reporters were covering a charge by Moroccan riot forces to disperse migrants trying to reach the Ceuta border. The Government of Spain assures that it is looking for a solution

Daniela Largo, the woman rescued after spending 36 hours trapped in the rubble of the earthquake in Colombia, dies

Daniela Largo Sánchez died due to medical complications on the night of Friday, August 14, her father reported.

In the Gurugú there are only the monkeys left

The Moroccan mountain that presides over the landscape of Melilla, shelter for years of sub-Saharan migrants before attempting the jump to Spain, no longer hosts any camps

How much longer can Iran endure the war with the United States?

Seven months after the start of the war, and despite the enormous pressure on the country's economy and infrastructure, its political leaders still do not seem to be in a hurry to end it.

Armenia, the city in Colombia that was rebuilt after the 1999 earthquake and now has no deaths

27 years ago, the city was completely devastated by an earthquake that its inhabitants will never forget. Now they had to experience a new earthquake, but the story was completely different.

One Hundred Years of Solitude 2 shows a too literal Macondo

During his life, Gabriel García Márquez, considered by many the greatest writer in the Spanish language of all time, believed that One Hundred Years of Solitude was impossible to adapt to the seventh art. “The novel, unlike cinema, leaves room for the reader's creativity, allowing him to imagine the characters, settings and situations as he perceives them,” he told an interviewer in the 1980s. However, after his death in 2014, his heirs acted quickly to acquire the rights to the book for an ambitious Netflix series, the second part of which premieres today, before the final feature film arriving at the end of the month.

Editorial: US visas: insidiousness and interference

The cancellation of the US visa of Andrés Manuel López Beltrán, former Secretary of Organization of Morena and now a candidate for a deputy for that party, joins other cases in which this immigration document is used by the US government as an instrument of political beating, sowing suspicion and political interference, as President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo pointed out in her morning conference yesterday.

Loans in dollars for companies: how it would impact the real estate market

The Government will make the conditions more flexible so that banks can lend dollars to companies and focused mainly on the construction industry

Heroic rescue: they formed a human chain to save a dog trapped in a canal

Neighbors from the El Tintal neighborhood in Bogotá coordinated a collective rescue before the astonished gaze of passersby; The video of the moment spread across social networks and sparked praise for the solidarity shown

MÁS ANTIGUOS

"The earthquakes chase us": the teenage brothers who lost their mother in the Venezuela earthquake and now suffered the Colombia earthquake

Deivi and Winder Delfín are 15 and 17 years old. In June his building collapsed after the earthquakes in Venezuela and it took 27 days to remove the bodies of his mother and little brother with his hands. They moved to Colombia with their father and three days later the earth shook again.

Bus stoppage: the UTA suspended the measure it had announced for this Friday, August 14

The cessation of activities was going to affect the service in the interior of the country; The union will wait until it hears an offer “next week”

A Kirchnerist legislator presented a project to declare Martín Cirio as an Outstanding Personality of the City

Federico Mochi, from the Fuerza por Buenos Aires space, assured that the YouTuber made a great contribution to “the new cultural industries.”

What is the importance of the Golan Heights and why is it controversial that Colombia recognizes Israeli sovereignty over them?

Although Israel has occupied the Golan Heights since 1967, only the United States and Colombia recognize its sovereignty over this plateau with great strategic value.

The PP tries to postpone the debate on the reception of overcrowded minors in Ceuta

The first contact between the Government and the autonomous communities ends between mutual reproaches and the announced boycott of Vox

'Absolutely unacceptable': why Putin's visit to a Pacific island sparked outrage in Japan

It is the first time that the Russian leader visits the Kuril Islands, according to state media.

The shocking case of the young Mexican who faked a pregnancy and ended up kidnapping a newborn baby

The Chilean filmmaker Maite Alberdi reconstructs in the Netflix documentary "A Son of My Own" the case of a Mexican woman who faked a pregnancy and kidnapped a newborn.