According to the BBC, since Friday hundreds of thousands of computers in 150 countries have been hit in a cyber attack. It has hit a number of major companies and organisations such as FedEx in the US, Telefonica in Spain and the NHS in the UK. The ransomware that hit the NHS in England and […]
In our time, nine countries possess around 15,000 nuclear weapons, according to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons. The United States and Russia maintain approximately 1,800 of their nuclear weapons on high-alert status, which means, ready to be launched within minutes of a warning, but there are another countries with nuclear programs. United Kingdom, […]
Este jueves 11 de mayo de 2017, se ha celebrado la reunión del Consejo Científico del Real Instituto Elcano, presidida por Su Majestad el Rey, su Presidente de Honor. La reunión ha sido inaugurada por Emilio Lamo de Espinosa, presidente del Real Instituto Elcano, quien ha dado la bienvenida y presentado las líneas maestras del […]
On the 18th April Britain’s Prime Minister, Theresa May made the announcement that there would be a Snap Election on the 8th of June, despite the fact that she had repeatedly insisted that she had no intentions to divert from the planned election in 2020. Speaking outside of Downing Street, on her reasons for the […]
Last Wednesday Fox News dropped one of their top-rated cable hosts Bill O’Reilly after a series of sexual harassment allegations made against him hit the headlines. Since joining the network in 1996, O’Reilly has been one of the company’s top assets, dominating prime time viewing and becoming a key voice in political commentary. In the […]
Two different political ideologies faced each other last Sunday in France. The liberal party of Emmanuel Macron won widely the extreme-right party of Marine Le Pen. Macron´s European project was most voted against the populism and antieuropeism of Le Pen. Opposite candidates, and French bet for the logic option for their country. Emmanuel Macron: disliked […]
More than 250 migrants have gone missing while two ships drowned in Mediterrian sea in past days. According to UNHCR, one ship broke down near shores of Libya on Sunday. There were 163 people on board, however, only six men and one women were saved. Also after several hours, one more rubber boat was […]
El presidente de Turquía, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, ha criticado esta mañana en el parlamento israelí el proyecto de ley que prohibe la llamada matutina a la oración en las mezquitas. “Es motivo de vergüenza que se haya llegado a este punto. No permitiremos en ningún caso que la llamada a la oración se acalle en los cielos de Jerusalén”, […]
Nato has asked Britain to consider sending more troops to Afghanistan, the BBC understands as currently there are about 500 British troops in the country, providing security in Kabul and training at the Afghan Officer Academy. Nato’s general secretary, Jens Stoltenberg, is going to meet with Theresa May at Downing Street on Wednesday and is […]
We’ve all seen the results of the French elections, with the victory of Emmanuel Macron against the extreme right party of Marine Le Pen, “Le Front National”. However, the political life still exists and many events happened in France in the past few days since the results of the elections. First of all; Marine Le […]
