Drone strike near United Arab Emirates nuclear site. It is an incident which “raises fears about a possible new conflagration†in the Middle East, note Al-Jazeera. A drone strike hit a Sunday “electric generator†near the Barakah nuclear site, in the west of the country, according to the authorities. This caused a fire near the power plant, without causing any injuries or causing an increase in radioactivity. The International Atomic Energy Agency, however, expressed its “deep pre-occupation†. An advisor to the Emirati president denounced an attack “terrorist†, seeming to suggest Iranian involvement, without accusing it by name. On Sunday, Donald Trump made new threats of annihilation against Tehran. “There will be nothing left… of Iran if this country does not quickly reach an agreement with the United States, he warned on his Truth Social platform, while the two countries have not spoken directly since negotiations held in Pakistan in mid-April.
In Andalusia, Pedro Sanchez’s Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE) is in retreat. The formation of the Spanish Prime Minister, the PSOE, led in this region by the former Deputy Prime Minister Maria Jesús Montero, “suffered its worst result in history [de l'Andalousie]passing from 30 to 28 seats, underlines The Country. However, its decline was less significant than what the socialists feared during the last week of the campaign… It was the People’s Party (PP, right) which won the election, obtaining 53 seats, compared to 58 during the previous legislature. Having lost his absolute majority, he “will have to rely on the far-right Vox party to govern,” précise The Country. This crucial regional election serves as a general rehearsal one year before the legislative elections, in a region which has some 9 million inhabitants, or nearly 18% of the country’s total population.
Presidential election in Peru: Fujimori and Sánchez officially qualified for the second round. The right-wing candidate and the left-wing candidate will face each other on June 7, the electoral authority announced on Sunday. Keiko Fujimori, daughter of ex-president Alberto Fujimori, came first in the first round in April, with 17.1% of the votes, followed by Roberto Sánchez (12%), detailed the National Elections Jury, after having finished the official counting of the April 12 ballot. “We have never had two more unpopular winners… notes journalist Rosa MarÃa Palacios in an analysis published on the website of The Republic. “This confirms two things: Sánchez is not as successful as [Pedro] Castillo [le président de gauche destitué]and Fujimori has certainly progressed, but remains largely unpopular… she stressed, recalling that 9 out of 10 Peruvians voted neither for Fujimori nor for Sánchez.
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