Before she became an actress and entrepreneur, Cara Delevingne, 33, was already commanding attention as a model. Her defiant attitude and her eyebrows — which broke with the industry’s classic beauty standards — turned her into a global phenomenon almost overnight. Her closeness to fans, her bold use of social media — back when influencers didn’t wield the power they do now — and her constant presence on platforms like Tumblr and Twitter propelled her to stardom.

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The U.S. naval blockade on Iran’s ports aimed to thwart the country’s crude exports. However, in recent days, several specialists have warned of a serious fallout: the country’s storage capacity is nearing its limit and — as a result — oil wells could be forced to shut down. It is a situation that could lead to dangerous long-term damage to crude oil extraction facilities.

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In the small, remote Romanian village of Vacareni, nestled on the banks of the Danube and a mere 50 meters south of the border with occupied Ukraine, the calm you see in the day is merely an illusion. Houses with roofs painted in different colors — some of them rusted metal sheets — and neatly kept vegetable gardens dotting the valley project a sense of quiet. But at night, the buzz of drones and the echo of their explosions remind the village’s 1,400 residents that they are direct witnesses to Russia’s offensive in neighboring Ukraine — an invasion they describe as a “disgrace” and one that has intensified in recent weeks.

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Colombia, the world’s largest producer of cocaine, is striving to show that its fight against drugs is succeeding. It is a decisive factor in its global image, but also in its economic and political relationship with the United States, its main trading partner. Rather than focusing on crop eradication and aerial fumigation, the government of Gustavo Petro has placed its biggest bet on cocaine seizures — and it has reached record levels.

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The specter of narcopolitics is once again looming over Mexico’s ruling party, Morena. The accusations brought by the U.S. Department of Justice against Rubén Rocha Moya, the governor of Sinaloa, echo earlier cases in which Morena was accused of receiving support from drug‑trafficking groups in local campaigns during the administration of former president Andrés Manuel López Obrador. These allegations appeared in electoral proceedings and in complaints filed before international bodies such as the Organization of American States (OAS).

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The Supreme Court ruling that on Wednesday undermined the Voting Rights Act of 1965 — and with it the electoral representation of minorities in the United States — had its first consequence the following day, with the announcement that Louisiana is preparing to postpone its primary elections. Originally scheduled for mid-May, these primaries were the first step in the process that will lead to the midterm elections in November. In those elections, the country will elect all members of the House of Representatives and one-third of the Senate.

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Ravenous hunger was what led Jonathan David Muir to strike a deal with another inmate inside the Cuban prison where he is being held: in exchange for two packets of Zuko powdered drink mix, he offered his flip‑flops — black and white, size 42, the size of a 16‑year‑old. He wasn’t giving away something trivial, but the only pair he owned. His father, Pastor Elier Muir, had managed to buy them with difficulty, stretching a budget almost always reserved for food or medicine. “He doesn’t have shoes; thank God those flip‑flops have lasted him this long,” he says. Weeks earlier, Jonathan had worn them to take to the streets of Morón alongside a crowd of angry neighbors after more than two days without electricity. When he was arrested, the criminal investigator noticed his footwear and asked him: “Did you take part in the protest wearing those flip‑flops?”

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A 40-year-old man with no prior criminal record and a father of two has been formally charged with raping and sexually abusing 34 children between the ages of three and nine between 2020 and 2024 in Lucenay, a town of just over 2,000 inhabitants near Lyon, France. He filmed and photographed the victims, who were his children’s schoolmates, and committed the acts when the children came to his house to play with his children during so-called “sleepovers.”

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