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Massive Attack reacts to the ban on entering Singapore: “We did not imagine that raising the Palestinian flag would violate the law”

The Government has vetoed the entry of two members of the British band to the Asian country after the action carried out at their concert last Wednesday

Tadej Pogacar confirms his participation in La Vuelta, one of the few races that he has not yet won

The Slovenian will be at the start of Monaco on August 22 to try to win the red jersey after achieving a historic fifth yellow in the Tour de France

An incident in the Atocha-Chamartín tunnel paralyzes the high speed between Madrid and Levante for an hour and a half

Adif warned of the suspension of traffic around 10:00 a.m. due to the presence of a person on the roads. Traffic resumed after 11:15 a.m., with consequent delays

The Burmese junta releases photos of Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi with a representative of the Red Cross

The former Burmese leader, 81, has remained detained since the 2021 coup. The images coincide with a government campaign to try to break the international isolation imposed on the regime

The Supreme Court endorses aid for the murder of a family member even if there is no coexistence

The decision annuls the requirement to live at the same address established by the Regulation of aid to victims of violent crimes and crimes against sexual freedom.

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TOBY'S CLUB

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PAY THE DUCK

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SO THEY LEARN TO RESPECT

The pillars of the future

WHO recommendations for healthy growth during the first five years of life.

David Brooks: American curiosities

In addition to the deluge of news about wars (including, for example, that the United States dropped a 2,000-pound megabomb on a family's home in Iran, killing a child and his two parents), interventions, the climate of fear over operations by armed and masked men hunting “illegal” migrants (detaining, among others, an emergency room nurse for the color of her skin) and more news that children continue to be separated from their immigrant parents and several minors, including a six-year-old baby months, are caged in detention centers, censorship of history and literature, efforts to suppress the minority opposition vote, new outbreaks of diseases previously under control as a result of the disastrous management of public health by the government, more corruption at unprecedented levels and with a long history of the presidential family (a bank has just disclosed that it closed some 300 accounts of the Trump Organization a few years ago due to detection of possible money laundering), since the only thing missing was even more worrying news: the closure of more and more cantinas and the collapse of the wine industry. Oh, and pieces of artifacts, some weighing more than a ton, are falling from the skies.

Woodstockhousen Festival will have its first Mexican edition in CDMX

Mexico City will host a local version of Woodstockhousen, a festival that has taken place in locations as unconventional as the music it has sought to spread since 2013.

The U-23 women's team thrashes and secures a place in the semifinals

The Mexican U-23 women's team yesterday not only secured its place in the semifinals of the Central American and Caribbean Games Santo Domingo 2026: it did so with a display of power that made it clear why it arrived as the great favorite at the event.

They dictate preventive detention to El R1, linked to the murder of the mayor of Uruapan

A control judge issued preventive detention against Ramón Ángel Álvarez Ayala, El R1, identified as the intellectual author of the murder of the municipal president of Uruapan, Michoacán, Carlos Manzo, and leader of one of the most violent cells of the Jalisco Nueva Generación cartel (CJNG).

It is urgent to address the harmful use of screens in minors: expert

The warning about the harmful use of electronic devices in childhood was raised at least 10 years ago. Later, in 2019, the World Health Organization (WHO) recognized video game use disorder in the international classification of diseases (ICD-11), while excessive activity on social networks or excessive Internet browsing is considered “problematic use.” In Mexico, it is a serious and urgent matter, warned Deimos Aguilar Jiménez, a psychiatrist specialized in children and adolescents.

Basketball breaks 12-year drought without a podium; gets money

The Mexican women's basketball team stood on a podium at the Central American and Caribbean Games for the first time in 12 years, winning the silver medal in this edition held in Santo Domingo – the 250th of the season for the delegation. The tricolor quintet fell 57-44 against Puerto Rico in the match that was played yesterday at the Banreservas Arena.

Complaints about property dispossession in Edomex increased 9% in one year

Toluca, Méx., Since the creation of the Special Unit for the Investigation of Crimes of Dispossession and Against the Security of Property and Possession of Real Estate, of the Attorney General's Office of the State of Mexico (FGJEM), in April 2025, the number of complaints received for this crime has increased by 9 percent, to the point that in one year 7,018 files have already been opened. investigation.

Mutiny at Tapachula immigration station; 2 arrested

Tapachula, Chis., Migrants of various nationalities held at the Siglo XXI station of the National Migration Institute (INM), in this city on the border with Guatemala, rioted the night before to demand their release since, they claim, they suffer abuse within the facility.

Dead letter, law that punishes littering

Although the local Congress approved reforms to the Civic Culture Law to toughen sanctions against those who throw garbage in public spaces, open-air dumps continue to invade streets, medians and green areas.

They go for Internet firms that do not stop illegal content from their users

As a priority for the next period of sessions, the Chamber of Deputies plans to approve a reform proposed by the Executive Branch to the Federal Copyright Law, in order to define the shared responsibility of Internet providers for the trafficking of illegal content carried out by their users.

They plan to eradicate the screwworm from Mexico in 5 or 7 years

The eradication of the cattle screwworm in Mexico could be completed within a period of between five and seven years, once the production of sterile flies accelerates at the new Metapa plant in Domínguez, Chiapas, and with the future operation of another one being built by the United States, said Francisco Javier Calderón Elizalde, head of the National Agri-Food Health, Safety and Quality Service (Senasica).

The Navy has contributed to reducing intentional homicides by 48%: García Harfuch

By sponsoring the new generation of midshipmen, the Secretary of Security and Citizen Protection, Omar García Harfuch, recognized the Secretary of the Navy as a key player in the fight against organized crime and highlighted that in this administration, the naval institution has seized more than 80 tons of cocaine at sea and has contributed to reducing homicides in the country by 48 percent.

Historical delay in Mexico in updating studies to be a pilot

Being an aviator pilot in Mexico is a career with high technical and professional demands. It requires an investment of up to 2 million pesos, passing strict medical filters and dealing with a competitive market at the beginning.

Applicants for a UNAM degree who were selected refuse to undergo a second evaluation

The crisis over the admission process for the 2026 degree at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) seems to be far from over. To the complaints of applicants who reported irregularities in the first virtual entrance exam, are added the increasingly frequent complaints of selected students, who refuse to undergo a second evaluation and this Monday will demonstrate in front of the Rectory Tower.

Mateo Chávez wins the Dutch Super Cup

Mateo Chávez has more and more confidence to stand out on European courts. The young tricolor had a great performance and even collaborated in a goal so that his team, AZ Alkmaar, celebrated the first title of this season by winning the Dutch Super Cup after beating PSV Eindhoven 4-0.

The Noyola Fernández gallery establishes a dialogue between modern and contemporary art

San Miguel de Allende, Gto., The tour of The Wild Order does not end when you leave the room where Ray Smith's hybrid creatures coexist. In the adjacent space, pieces by Pedro Coronel, Ricardo Martínez, Javier Marín, Dr. Lakra and other artists representative of different stages of Mexican art are exhibited.

Arturo Balderas Rodríguez: From the other side

Political commentator E.J. Dion wrote an article last week about the problems that the Democratic Party has regarding its ideological definition in the context of the campaign for the elections in November. The reason for his comment lies in the statements of several successful candidates in the primary elections, in the sense of their social democratic vocation. The expectation has to do with the need for a moderate path to prevail “more in line” with the characteristics of the majority in American society. For them, the electoral campaign should focus on this order of priorities: famine in general, mainly that experienced by those with lower incomes; the draconian immigration policy; and in the clumsy foreign policy decisions of the current administration.

Trump shares article that criticizes the President

The president of the United States, Donald Trump, yesterday shared an article by conservative presenter and commentator Bill O'Reilly, published on March 11, in which he maintains that "Mexico is not a friend of the United States" and criticizes President Claudia Sheinbaum for her strategy against drug trafficking cartels.

30-year Treasury bonds at their highest since 2007

U.S. borrowing rates hit their highest level since June 2007. Fears of inflation catapulted the yield on the 30-year U.S. bond above a 19-year high of 5.27 percent on Friday.

Government seeks to reduce positions in Alameda from 600 to 77; street vendors ask for an even floor

Authorities from the Government Secretariat informed street merchant leaders who set up shop in Alameda Central that as of this Monday each group will only be allowed to place seven of its members, that is, with the measure it is expected that there will be around 77 stalls and no more than 600, according to estimates from some vendors interviewed.

They ask in Europe for the departure of Gianni Infantino from FIFA

London. Criticism against Gianni Infantino, president of FIFA, continues two days after withdrawing the controversial proposal to partially privatize the World Cup. Now, political leaders, clubs, leagues and specialists question his leadership at the head of football's governing body.

Carlos Fazio: Trump, victim of his deification

Since the beginning of the war of aggression by the United States and Israel against Iran on February 28, launched treacherously and with perfidy while Washington and Tehran were holding nuclear negotiations, the conflict has gone through different phases and has fragmented and expanded throughout the Middle East. Instigated by the war criminal and fugitive from international justice, Benjamin Netanyahu, Donald Trump initially approached the stealth attack of beheading and terror from a transactional and aesthetic logic: bomb, obtain the image of the Iranian collapse and withdraw in a couple of days (a replica of the New Venezuela operation). However, despite the unlimited violence – the destruction of critical dual-use infrastructure and the selective assassination of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and a group of generals and nuclear scientists, and at least 200 civilians dead and 750 wounded – there was no regime change or capitulation. On the contrary, Iran counterattacked and, since then, through a disciplined, methodical and millimeter-precise asymmetric war of attrition, which hit and “blinded” the sophisticated military (and paramilitary) bases and intelligence and communications nodes of the Pentagon's Central Command (CentCom) in the Persian Gulf theater of operations (Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Jordan and Kurdistan), it has set the pace of the war and undermined the myth of American power projection.

They open a process against a pimp who operated in BJ

Yosthan N, El Diente de Oro, an alleged member of the Tren de Aragua criminal group, according to the Attorney General's Office (FGJ), was linked to proceedings for the crime of human trafficking in the form of sexual exploitation for allegedly demanding money from a sex worker to let her carry out her activity in the Benito Juárez mayor's office.

Tlallipan Garden attracts city dwellers and visitors as a site of culture and recreation

The Tlallipan garden has become a meeting point for visitors from different regions and even from other states of the Republic, who come to see the space and take advantage of it as a place of recreation.

Investment in infrastructure skyrocketed during June: Treasury

Physical investment in the first half of this year remains 7.9 percent below that registered in the same period last year, although the gap has been narrowing and only in June was a rebound of 56.2 percent at an annual rate, reported the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit.

Trump confirms US intervention to support the yen

Washington. US President Donald Trump confirmed that the US has intervened to support the Japanese yen, saying it is a “sign of friendship” that will also be “positive for the global economy”.

Oil opens lower in Asian markets

Oil prices fell today as Asian markets opened after President Donald Trump said a deal is close.

America wins and takes the lead

There is something about this America that forces its fans to speak in a low voice, to look at the Liga Mx calendar with caution, as if they had lost the habit of claiming the lead. The change did not happen overnight, but its effects are visible. The administrative restructuring brought with it cold numbers in finances, a locker room that stopped being filled with international figures to make way for young people from basic forces, capable of resolving long-suffering matches like the one yesterday at the Banorte stadium against Santos (3-0).

Tamaulipas, second entity with the highest economic growth in the country: Inegi

Ciudad Victoria, Tamps., Tamaulipas began 2026 with one of the best economic performances in the country. In the first quarter of this year, state economic activity grew 5.2 percent compared to the same period in 2025, ranking it as the second entity with the highest economic growth at the national level.

Art is a constant speculation; things are not fixed: Ray Smith

San Miguel de Allende, Gto., The old walls of the La Aurora Factory left behind the roar of the looms decades ago.

Controversial recovery of the Canal Once facilities

The General Directorate of Canal Once reported that it peacefully recovered its facilities, after being taken over for more than two months by unemployed students from the National Polytechnic Institute (IPN).

In The Time of the Monster, Roberto Castelán returns to the freedom of fiction

Guadalajara, Jal., The Time of the Monster, ninth book by Roberto Castelán Rueda (Minatitlán, Veracruz, May 16, 1957), narrates the widespread and largely timeless violence in which we are all immersed, especially women, with an approach that also touches on political violence towards society, which is deceived by the candidates for rulers, who, once installed in power, show their true face, as occurs in Jalisco, he says.

The SSC rejects that police officers have attacked and threatened referees when leaving the Azteca stadium

The Secretariat of Citizen Security (SSC) rejected that elements of the Undersecretariat of Traffic Control have attacked and threatened the refereeing body that participated in the Cruz Azul-Atlante match, after a video circulated on social networks in which the police officers were accused of attacking them when leaving the Azteca stadium.

China challenges NASA, 23 years after its first space flight

Heilongjiang., The day astronaut Yang Liwei returned to Earth, in October 2003, after spending 21 hours in orbit, China entered the exclusive club of nations capable of sending human beings to space with its own technological development, of which only the United States and the Soviet Union were members.

Comparing Israel to Nazis is not a crime: German court

The higher regional court in the German city of Zweibrücken ruled that comparing Israel's actions with those of the Nazi regime does not constitute a crime, after acquitting an Instagram user previously convicted of posting images with Nazi symbols to condemn the genocide in Palestine.

Miguel Ángel Velázquez: Lost City

Whoever says that the crisis at UNAM began with the results of the entrance exams is flatly lying.

Moroccan spies are detected among the migrants who crossed into Ceuta

Madrid. Spanish authorities detected agents of the Moroccan intelligence services infiltrated among the 53,060 migrants who entered the autonomous city of Ceuta last Thursday irregularly in just a few hours, and which, according to data from the Ceuta government, caused 88 deaths. Meanwhile, the Moroccan government officially recognized 11 bodies of migrants recovered in its territory.

The Illustrated Courier

Sixty-eight years have passed on August 3 of this year of one of the great injustices that have been committed against Mexican leaders. Demetrio Vallejo and Valentín Campa were attacked by the Mexican Army at the request of the then president, Adolfo Ruiz Cortines. Date so important that I saw it in the world anniversaries.

Cuba suffers another national blackout

Havana., Cuba suffered a new national blackout of its electrical network last night, the state energy company reported on social networks.

Chen Daojiang*: Shandong: embrace the world with a thousand-year-old civilization

More than two thousand years ago, this land saw the birth of Confucianism, which has deeply influenced China and the entire world. A century ago, this land witnessed the glorious struggle waged by the army and people in resistance to foreign invasion. Today, this land brims with the dynamism of the maritime economy that is increasingly integrated with the world. This is Shandong, a province on the eastern coast of China. Located in the lower reaches of the Yellow River and bathed by the Bohai and Yellow Seas, Shandong is one of the main cradles of Chinese civilization, one of the most populated and economically strongest provinces in the country, and also an important window of China's opening to the outside world.

Marlene Santos Alejo: Balance of the day

They are bad and bad. The Mexican federations were exposed for their convenient stance when faced with the dilemma of choosing between publicly supporting Gianni Infantino or the associations that supported the powerful UEFA, opposed to the mercantilistic plans of the shaky FIFA president... Such was the latest nonsense of the Swiss-Italian leader, that it became the straw that breaks the camel's back... At this time he is going through life like an unburied corpse, the waters are already stirring to find a successor. At the same time, the Mexican plans to organize a Club World Cup and the 2031 Women's Championship were left with a question mark.