One morning in 1965, some French businessmen took 600 kilos of sand from the beach of Portocristo to recreate an artificial beach on the French Riviera. That operation, called Operation Plages Internationals, turned a piece of the Mallorcan coast into a curious tourist postcard a thousand kilometers away.

"We are facing a new cold war in the Sahel, which has become Europe's new geopolitical laboratory," says Beatriz Mesa, researcher and professor at Gaston Berger University. The coup in Niger has shifted the pieces of the game in the international and geopolitical sphere. Two blogs have spoken out and taken a position.

Niger expects a military response from Nigeria, Benin, Ivory Coast and Senegal after the Nigerien military junta ignored the ECOWAS ultimatum (Economic Community of West African States) to "restore constitutional order" and release President Mohamed Bazoum. The deadline was 11 p.m. last Sunday, and this group of governments had warned that they would take military action to restore order in the Sahel country.

Goodyear, the American tire manufacturer, is facing a massive scandal in Europe that has gone surprisingly unnoticed in Spain, to the point of being hard to believe: until the report you are reading today, nothing had ever been published in Spain about this case. An extensive investigation of Le Monde, a newspaper that has had access to confidential documents from the multinational thanks to an anonymous informant, reveals that for more than a decade, Goodyear has hidden a manufacturing defect in two tire models intended for heavy-duty vehicles that has caused hundreds of fatal accidents in various European countries. The world's third-largest tire manufacturer has maneuvered to prevent it from coming to light.

Smoke and ash from the massive wildfire raging in southern France is reaching the Balearic Islands this Wednesday, mainly visible over Mallorca and Menorca. The Balearic State Meteorological Agency (Aemet) reported this in a message on the X network, using satellite images to show the dense cloud of smoke and ash.

The Balearic Islands' airports recorded a total of 85 canceled flights and widespread delays this Friday, the second day of the French air traffic controllers' strike. According to information from Aena consulted by Europa Press, up to 69 connections to Palma Airport, the most affected of the Spanish airports, were canceled this Friday, along with a dozen in Ibiza and six in Menorca.