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HOY · LUNES 12 DE OCTUBRE

Confirmed in Florida: the fund for families affected by immigration detentions that even covers rent

Learn about the Doral fund that provides up to US$1,000 to families affected by immigration detentions to pay for rent, food and medicine.

Double surprise in Brazil: two goals from Giay for Palmeiras and Seedorf arrives to lead Corinthians

The full-back of the Argentine team was the figure in the 4-1 in the São Paulo classic; Seedorf has not coached since 2019 and takes over a team threatened by relegation

AYER

Trump announces immediate energy ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine

Ukraine supports the truce, but Zelensky denounces Russian attacks on energy facilities after the announcement.

What was black ball, the system that private clubs used to veto candidates and that gives its name to the successful Spanish film inspired by García Lorca

Before being the title of an unfinished work by García Lorca, "The Black Ball" was a real mechanism of social segregation. Its history goes through Freemasonry, British clubs and the casinos of the Spanish elite.

Sánchez asks the Supreme Court to “stop the attempted abuse” of Feijóo and Abascal and allow the descendants of exile to vote

The President of the Government once again makes the right to housing the focus of his speech during a pre-campaign rally in Ponferrada

Pope Leo XIV announces that he will undergo surgery for a nodule in a lung

The announcement was made this morning. He pointed out that this is something preventive after a lump was discovered in one of his lungs.

Gabriel Rufián will be a candidate for Esquerra Republicana on 29-N

The spokesperson agrees to be able to hold events outside Catalonia with Podemos to mobilize the left

Ángeles González Gamio: From bitter to sweet

What to do after living a bad experience upon arriving after a long flight at terminal 1 of the Benito Juárez airport in Mexico City? When leaving the plane, to go to Immigration you have to go down three different flights of stairs and the electric ones did not work, so passengers had to carry their luggage, and those who couldn't dragged it up the steps. The first bathrooms did not have water, the general finishes of the entire property looked unfinished, including the pavement of the entrances to the terminal, with potholes and the broken railing, and I will not continue with the complaints, because the chronicle will end there. It is the first impression that a visitor who arrives in our country has; Mexico doesn't deserve it.

Editorial: Trump: desperate measures

US President Donald Trump announced an agreement with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, by which Moscow will sell 300,000 tons of diesel to Washington before the midterm elections on November 3 and 1,500,000 after the elections, reaching a quota of 3 million tons per month. With this deal, the Republican politician seeks to reduce the prices of this fuel, which went from an average of $3.72 per gallon before the United States war against Iran to 6.29 percent in September, an increase of 69 percent.

Cándido Conde-Pumpido: “Questioning the Constitutional Court is questioning democracy”

The president of the court of guarantees receives EL PAÍS in the week in which the sentence ordering amnesty for the misappropriation of the 'procés' was issued. With his term expired, he also reflects on the state of justice: “There is no lawfare, but there is a problem of judicialization of politics”

River vs. Students from Río Cuarto, live

El Millonario faces the Cordoba team at the Monumnetal, pressed by relegation

Sánchez plays his last card to stop the advance of the right in Spain

The president of the government of Spain found a last card to turn around an election that, according to the polls, seems lost; The death of the 87-year-old woman will be the symbol of her party to regain ground

ESTA SEMANA

At least 12 dead and more than 300 injured in an attack on the international airport in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia

The incident occurs days after the Houthis of Yemen claimed responsibility for similar attacks against said facility.

Christa Pike leaves hospital and returns to prison 10 days after surviving her botched execution

Pike's lawyers say she is "grateful" to the medical team who cared for her after she survived two lethal injections.

Hiroo Kanamori, the Japanese scientist who created the scale that replaced the Richter scale (and why it is better for measuring large earthquakes)

The 90-year-old Japanese seismologist is considered "a living legend" in seismology. BBC Mundo spoke with him and one of his closest collaborators, the Colombian scientist Luis Rivera.

Sánchez focuses on housing and attacks the PP for doubting the vote by mail: “These are those of the fewer who vote, the better”

The President of the Government, convinced that Maricarmen's “social cause” will achieve a progressive majority

Feijóo assumes that 29-N will be his last chance: "We have no right to fail. We are not going to fail!"

The popular leader begins the pre-campaign for the general elections with a rally in Madrid for 2,000 people and together with the main presidents and regional leaders of his party

Ben Affleck, enthusiastic expert on the use of AI in cinema

Ben Affleck is known for his role as a Hollywood actor, where he has worked as a screenwriter, producer and filmmaker, but he has also shown that he is passionate about technology and deeply knowledgeable about the functioning of artificial intelligence (AI).

Editorial: Pillay: a voice for peace

This year's Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Navi Pillay, a South African jurist with a lifetime of defending human rights and international legality. In her native country, the lawyer fought against apartheid and defended the most famous political prisoner of the racist regime, Nelson Mandela, also a Nobel winner, in 1993. Subsequently, Pillay was part of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and the International Criminal Court (ICC), and chaired the Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory and Israel, created by the UN Human Rights Council in 2021. A year ago, that body concluded that the State Israeli is responsible for genocide in Gaza with the specific intention of destroying Palestinians in the enclave.

Rufián, Junqueras and the sum of the left: the impossible triangle of ERC

The independence party and its spokesperson in Madrid urge not to break up while each one explores other possibilities for 29-N

Nelson Ginter, 62, the southernmost producer of blue eggs in the world: “If you leave them for more than a day they freeze”

Together with his wife, María Alejandra Pirchio, he cares for 115 chickens in Ushuaia and Punta Paraná and supplies local restaurants; The cold forces him to move the birds according to the season and change the water several times a day

Confirmed: CBP no longer stamps the passport of those who enter the US border with the I-94 form

Learn why CBP stopped routinely stamping passports for I-94 entries and how the move reduces operational times and costs.

A strong earthquake of magnitude 7.7 shakes Panama

The epicenter of the earthquake was located in the south of the Central American country.

Trump reaches deal with Putin for Russia to release thousands of barrels of diesel into world markets

The announcement comes a few weeks before the elections and when the price of fuel is affecting the options of Republicans

Mohamed VI warns that he will not accept “pressure, threats or blackmail” from Spain on the eve of Felipe VI's trip

The King of Morocco warns that cooperation between both countries faces serious challenges and criticizes Spanish regulations that “prevent the repatriation of minors” and Moroccan adults

Who is Navi Pillay, the South African jurist who won the Nobel Peace Prize: "I dedicate it to the survivors of international crime"

The Norwegian Nobel Committee has awarded the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize to the former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.

BBC World Special: Coiba Island, the brutal open-air prison that became a natural paradise and to which Panama sends prisoners again

Panama moved 29 prisoners to an island that was a feared penal colony, marked by abuse and forced labor. The decision generates concern for the future of this territory, today a World Heritage Site. We traveled there to learn its history.

The Kings will visit the Muslim cemetery of Ceuta where dozens of those drowned in the entry attempt last July lie

Felipe VI and Mrs. Letizia will go to the Sidi Embarek cemetery and will spend the night in the autonomous city on October 13. He will be the first democratic head of state to spend the night in the city

Del Toro could not endorse the Greater Piedmont title

A few days after the Road Cycling World Championship, the Mexican Isaac del Toro returned to activity in the Gran Piamonte race with the aim of revalidating the title, but his legs did not allow him to achieve it and he finished the race in 82nd place. The UAE Team Emirates rider launched an attack 18 kilometers from the finish line, which only Finn Fisher-Black (Red Bull-Bora) could follow, who stuck to the Mexican at all times. However, with less than two kilometers to go, both riders were absorbed by the pack after failing to establish a considerable lead and fell behind. The Frenchman Dorian Godon won the race in the last sprint, followed by the Dane Anthon Charmig and the Italian Alberto Bettiol. "I'm struggling with jet lag and knee pain, but let's hope to do well and we'll see how my legs are. After the World Cup I started having some problems," declared the Mexican before the test. The one from Ensenada will compete this Saturday in the Giro de Lombardía, where he will once again lead the UAE Team Emirates, in the absence of the Slovenian Tadej Pogacar due to injury.

Editorial: Natural gas: dependence and transition

Last Wednesday, the announcement by the head of the National Center for Natural Gas Control, Cuitláhuac García, about a notification from the United States to our country about a 20 percent reduction in the supply of this fuel, and that Mexico only has reserve capacity for three days, caused concern. The feeling of crisis increased because “a situation of force majeure” in a gas pipeline located in Texas had already caused the decrease in the flow of hydrocarbon, which was corrected on the same Wednesday. Although yesterday the official ruled out a risk of shortages, the episode once again put on the table the problem of high dependence on American natural gas, since 75 percent of what is consumed in Mexico is imported from the neighboring nation.

Vasco da Gama prepares for the semifinal with Boca: an Argentine wants to convert and the change of stadium for the rematch

The Rio team will visit Xeneize next Tuesday at La Bombonera and will close the series without being able to play on their court

Experts agree: “The electric water heater, the iron or the air conditioning can significantly increase your consumption.”

The energy consumption of a home depends both on the power of the devices and the time in which they operate; Knowing how much energy each one consumes is key to organizing its use and planning possible changes that help reduce costs.

A march in honor of Maricarmen runs through Madrid: “They are not deaths, they are murders!”

Some 20,000 people have left Puerta del Sol towards the house from which the 87-year-old woman was evicted two weeks ago

From Puerta del Sol to Maricarmen's house: this is the route of the march

Protesters have walked the streets of Madrid to pay tribute to the 87-year-old woman who has become a symbol of the fight for housing in Spain

New charges are filed in New York against Maduro and his wife for alleged torture of US citizens.

The former president of Venezuela and his wife were accused by the US Department of Justice of having participated in the torture of Americans detained in Caracas.

Feijóo: “We are not going to allow the attempt to emotionally manipulate citizens”

The leader of the PP, who does not refer to the postal vote controversy again, reorients his speech towards the corruption of the PSOE while urging his supporters to “give everything” in the campaign

How Colombia came to have such a high public debt (and why De la Espriella will have to increase it)

The budget presented by the De la Espriella government foresees that the debt will reach 66.2% of GDP in 2027, the highest in the country's history.

"If we inherited the same genes and grew up in the same environment, why does my sister have schizophrenia and I don't?": the Mexican scientist who has been searching for an answer for more than 20 years

Dr. Consuelo Walss-Bass has spent decades studying the biological causes of schizophrenia, the disease that has deeply marked her life since she was a child. His mother and sister suffer from it.

Coco Gauff: Racist cyberbullying is “exhausting”

Coco Gauff described the impact of racist online harassment as “exhausting” following her elimination from the China Open. The tennis player, who lost in the round of 16 to Elise Mertens 6-3, 6-3, expressed that the constant barrage of hateful comments left her emotionally exhausted.

Editorial: Disinformation: the hand of Washington

Last Saturday, the United States ambassador to Mexico, Ronald Johnson, revealed that the governor of Querétaro, Mauricio Kuri, conspired with him to violate national sovereignty and turn the entity into an operations center for Washington espionage. As soon as the federal government asked the local president for explanations for violating the Constitution and the National Security Law, a media operation was launched to defend the PAN member and the diplomat.

Thursday's TV agenda: the Shanghai Masters 1000 and basketball action

Sports activity throughout the week, available through the screens

Who is Vaguito, the dog who waits every day in front of the sea for the return of his owner, a deceased fisherman

This is the moving story of an animal that awaits its master every morning on the beaches of Punta Negra; His story went on to the big screen and is known as the “Peruvian Hachiko.”

Last minute after the death of Maricarmen, live | Feijóo asks that “interested use” not be made of Maricarmen's death

Maricarmen's lawyer: “If the eviction had been suspended, we would not be in this situation today” | The PP vetoes a minute of silence for Maricarmen in the Madrid Assembly | At least a thousand people march to Congress and light candles in his memory shouting “murderers”

Maricarmen Abascal, the 87-year-old woman whose eviction sparked a wave of protests in Spain over the housing crisis, dies

Abascal died at the Gregorio Marañón hospital in the Spanish capital, where she had been admitted after being evicted from her home on September 23.

Maricarmen changed Spain

The legacy of the hopeless woman in Madrid challenges the entire society

Maricarmen, the woman who ignited the fight against evictions in Spain, dies

The 87-year-old woman died this Wednesday at the Gregorio Marañón Hospital in Madrid, as confirmed by the Tenants' Union in a statement.

How the "strategic relationship" that Venezuela and Cuba have maintained for years has deteriorated after the capture of Maduro

Nine months after Maduro's capture, the strategic alliance forged for more than a quarter of a century between both governments shows signs of weakening.

'One in four was kidnapped or killed': How residents of an Israeli kibbutz devastated by the October 7 Hamas attacks rebuild their lives

Three years after the attack on Nir Oz, in which 47 people were killed and 76 taken hostage, some survivors have returned to live there. Memories are difficult and indelible.

Review “immoral” pensions of former officials, Sheinbaum asks the BdeM

After requesting the Bank of Mexico to reconsider the high pensions received by its former senior officials, President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo reported that they are reviewing the pension systems in state public universities because they are “very excessive.” In some cases, he said, people who receive double and others in which the workers did not contribute anything have been detected.

Editorial: France: back to the streets

Around 440 people, most of them minors, were arrested yesterday in the context of the student demonstrations in France, while some 76 have been injured since the beginning of the protests last week. Discontent among secondary and higher education students is fueled by the chronic shortage of affordable housing for students, the excess of students per classroom, cuts to higher education and what they generally denounce as student precariousness. Among the main demands of the student unions and assemblies are a substantial increase in scholarships, the construction of new accommodation, the freezing of prices in university canteens and the end of algorithmic selection systems for university admission, denounced as exclusive and elitist.