General News Hop

  De cara al mundo hace un repaso semanal de la actualidad internacional. Javier Fernández Arribas analiza los principales sucesos en el panorama internacional con entrevistas a expertos y un panel completo de analistas. Las claves del mundo en tus manos.

 Former Stanford student Elise Clougherty has dropped a high-profile lawsuit against venture capitalist Joe Lonsdale, a former paramour who Clougherty later accused of sexual assault. Lonsdale, who had strongly denied Clougherty’s allegations and filed a countersuit against her, including for defamation, has dropped his lawsuit, too. Clougherty’s suit received national attention in the months after she filed it in January, even garnering a lengthy New York Times Magazine piece. The allegations also resulted in a 10-year ban from Stanford for Lonsdale, who dated Clougherty while her mentor for an undergraduate course called Technology Entrepreneurship, Engineering 145. At the time, the school cited its Title IX policy , which prohibits discrimination on the basis of gender in educational programs and activities receiving federal financial assistance. But Stanford Review reported earlier today a university investigator had considered “new evidence that came to light during litigat...

 In May, Princess Haya Bint Al Hussein was caught red-handed by Prime Minister of UAE Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum when he suddenly visited their London home and found Princess Haya Bint Al Hussein and her lover-cum-bodyguard. The Dubai ruler also found strips of used condoms beside Haya Bint Al Hussein’s bed as well as two glasses, proving the romantic couple were having sex in the bedroom while their children were in the next room. Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum was already suspecting his wife Princess Haya Bint Al Hussein had inappropriate relations and the suspicion was proved as the couple were found to having sex. The Dubai ruler unexpectedly returned to London from attending a joint wedding of three sons in Dubai in May. According to sources, he was shocked seeing the 45-year-old Princess Haya Bint Al Hussein with the bodyguard at the lavish residence and demanded her immediate return to Dubai with him. But the Princess refused and abruptly left the house...

 Women from across British politics called Monday for action to tackle misogyny after a newspaper ran a story accusing the deputy opposition leader of trying to “distract” the prime minister during debates by crossing and uncrossing her legs. LONDON (AP) — Women from across British politics called Monday for action to tackle misogyny after a newspaper ran a story accusing the deputy opposition leader of trying to “distract” the prime minister during debates by crossing and uncrossing her legs. The Mail on Sunday quoted an anonymous Conservative lawmaker as saying Labour Party Deputy Leader Angela Rayner tried to throw Prime Minister Boris Johnson “off his stride” as she sat across from him in the House of Commons. The article likened it to a scene in the 1992 thriller “Basic Instinct” in which Sharon Stone is interrogated by police. Rayner accused “Boris Johnson’s cheerleaders” of using “desperate, perverted smears.” “I stand accused of a ‘ploy’ to “distract” the helpless PM — by b...

 Gustavo de Arístegui, diplomat and international analyst, recently spoke about the letter that Pedro Sánchez sent to the King of Morocco Mohamed VI, while attending the latest episode of ‘Facing the world’, on Onda Madrid. The letter reflects the details about change in Spain’s position regarding Western Sahara. Gustavo de Arístegui assured that “the security of the Maghreb is the security of Spain”. Reflecting on the years long conflict, Gustavo de Arístegui said, it cannot be believed that persevering with a situation that has not brought anything positive for the last forty-seven years, was the most logical thing to do. After forty-seven years of perfect ineffectiveness, we analyse the situation and see that there has also been an obvious geopolitical evolution, since policies and measures had to be adopted that revolve around the new circumstances. Besides Gustavo also identifies that the war in Ukraine has served as a catalyst for the global geopolitical situation, accentuat...

  Traders are bracing for the possibility of more aggressive policy tightening by the United States Federal Reserve. U.S. stocks slid as the selloff in Treasuries resumed, with traders bracing for the possibility of more aggressive policy tightening by the Federal Reserve. The dollar gained. The S&P 500 dropped 1.5% in a dramatic reversal of a more than 1% rally in early trading Thursday on the back of upbeat earnings. The tech-heavy Nasdaq 100 fell about 2%, underperforming than main benchmarks, as the jump in yields weighed on growth-related stocks. Treasury yields rose across the curve, with the policy-sensitive two-year rate climbing as much as 15 basis points 2.73% as traders priced in 50 basis-point rate hikes at each of the next three meetings. The dollar gained against all of its major peers following the surge in yields. Fed Chair Jerome Powell said he saw merit in the argument for front-loading interest-rate increases and that a half-point hike “will be on the table f...

  Pledging not to seek revenge for the US assassination of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps commander Soleimani is ‘a fantasy’, the elite force says. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) says it will not stop attempts to avenge its top general killed in a United States attack as a condition to end sanctions — a key sticking point to reviving an important nuclear deal. General Qassem Soleimani , who headed the elite Quds Force, the foreign operations arm of the IRGC, was killed in a US drone strike in Iraq’s capital Baghdad in January 2020. “Enemies have asked us several times to give up avenging the blood of Qasem Soleimani, for the lifting of some sanctions. But this is a fantasy,” navy commander Rear Admiral Alireza Tangsiri was quoted as saying by the IRGC’s Sepah News website. Former US President Donald Trump ordered Soleimani killed, saying he was planning an “imminent” attack on American personnel in the Iraqi capital. Iran responded to his assassination by firin...