The Trump administration’s policy of detaining most migrants facing deportation without bail has just suffered a setback in court. A three-judge panel of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, based in New York, ruled unanimously on Tuesday that the administration cannot broadly apply mandatory detention by classifying nearly any undocumented migrant as an “applicant for admission,” even if they have been living in the United States for years.

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The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday struck down a key part of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, a landmark achievement of the civil rights era. In a 6-3 decision, in which the conservative bloc used its supermajority, the court ruled in favor of the plaintiffs who challenged the State of Louisiana for creating a second majority‑Black district to comply with Section 2 of the law.

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Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is now in its fifth year and shows no signs of ending. The strain on the militaries on both sides of the border has increased both countries’ reliance on recruiting thousands of foreigners, who are primarily sent to high-risk operations on the front lines. Several governments have warned against this practice and urged their citizens not to fall for the lucrative offers, which are often deceptive. A new report published on Wednesday by the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and two other organizations analyzes the recruitment of foreigners in Russia and documents Moscow’s campaign to target vulnerable populations through misleading strategies.

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Rome received an unprecedented visit this week that has triggered an unexpected butterfly effect across the Atlantic. Two Ayoreo Indigenous leaders traveled from the Gran Chaco — their forest, and the second‑largest in South America — to denounce before the Italian government, Parliament, and the Vatican that it is being illegally cleared with bulldozers. And that their people, who live inside this Paraguayan forest, are being displaced. All for a reason they find utterly absurd: producing leather for luxury car brands.

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For centuries, along the entire northern border of the Roman Empire, local inhabitants coexisted with Roman citizens and their slaves, as well as the legionaries who guarded the Roman Limes, the imperial frontier. But there is no evidence that they mixed extensively. However, everything changed with the fall of Rome: a study of bodies buried in some 20 cemeteries in Germania shows that, without the rule of lex romana, local inhabitants, citizens, slaves, and legionaries began to intermingle. The study, published in Nature, also describes the families of these groups, their life expectancy, and the prevalence of orphanhood among young children at the beginning of the Middle Ages.

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On the morning of April 25, the Nicaraguan writer and poet Gioconda Belli received an alert from Managua: customs officials had banned the entry of her latest novel, Un silencio lleno de murmullos (A Silence Full of Murmurs), into the country from which she is in exile. The book joins other titles by Nicaraguan authors whose sales have recently been blocked by the regime of Daniel Ortega and his wife and co-president, Rosario Murillo. “The dictatorial power fears the truths that literature illuminates. That is why they expel us, exile us, and imprison us. This happens and has happened to writers throughout history,” Belli reacted. The censorship of her work is the latest chapter in a systematic offensive that has outlawed 81 cultural institutions in the country, confiscated festivals, and replaced independent creative work with an official offering controlled by the presidential family.

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An Argentine court on Tuesday ordered the case to proceed to trial against Diego Armando Maradona’s last lawyer and legal representative, Matías Morla, as well as his sisters Rita Mabel and Claudia Norma Maradona, who are accused of defrauding the sports icon’s legitimate heirs in the exploitation of his commercial trademarks. More than five years after the star’s death, the National Criminal and Correctional Court No. 43 rejected a request to dismiss the charges and declared the investigative phase closed.

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Argentina’s chief of Cabinet, Manuel Adorni, has become a liability for President Javier Milei. The luxury trips he took with his family and the properties he purchased after entering government are under judicial investigation and have tanked his public image, which is now the worst among all ministers: seven in 10 Argentines disapprove of him.

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Last Sunday, about six nautical miles off the Somali coastal city of Garacad, a group of armed individuals stormed and seized control of the cargo ship MV Sward, which was sailing under the flag of St. Kitts and Nevis, according to the UK Maritime Maritime Trade and Operations Organisation (UKMTO). Just five days earlier, another armed group had hijacked the oil tanker Honour 25 while it was sailing off the coast of the Somali town of Durdura under the flag of Palau, according to the same agency.

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That the world has been spinning at double or triple speed since Donald Trump’s return to the White House is something that European leaders are well aware of. Just like the Estonian prime minister Kristen Michal, 50, they are all trying to maintain their composure and stay on course amidst Washington’s dangerous accelerations. Since the liberal politician sat down with EL PAÍS in Nicosia last Friday during the summit that brought together EU leaders for the first time since the start of Trump’s latest military adventure in the Middle East, the fragile truce with Iran is threatening to collapse, Washington has issued further threats against its European allies, and Trump himself has been the victim of another assassination attempt.

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The war in Iran, which in just two months has shaken the global energy supply chain, is now opening a crack in one of the pillars of oil diplomacy of the last five decades. In the midst of the Persian Gulf blockade, the United Arab Emirates announced on Tuesday its withdrawal from the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), the cartel that has set the course for the crude oil market since the energy crisis of the 1970s. This organization has lost influence with the rise of other producers such as the United States, Canada and Brazil, which has increased the economic and political cost of influencing oil prices through production increases or cuts.

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With the arrest of Audias Flores, aka “El Jardinero” (The Gardener), one of Mexico’s most wanted drug traffickers and a leading contender to take over the decapitated Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), Mexico has not only dealt a brutal blow to that criminal organization, but is also trying to send a message of effectiveness to Washington and contain Donald Trump’s interventionist impulse in his crusade against drugs.

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