Ana Pantaleoni

1 month ago | english.elpais.com | Ana Pantaleoni |Pablo Linde |Ana Carbajosa

Josephine Karwah lost her mother, father and sister Salomé. Her child was born dead, in the street, on the way to the hospital. No one wanted to help a mother who had contracted Ebola, the lethal virus that claimed the lives of entire families. Sitting in front of the small clinic she now runs in Monrovia, the capital of Liberia, Karwah picks up her phone and opens a WhatApp group. It has 81 members, all of whom suffered from Ebola except for one, a doctor who sometimes offers medical advice.

1 month ago | english.elpais.com | Facundo Macchi |Manuel Ansede |Ana Pantaleoni

Paz Rey Duarte hasn’t been able to get the message out of her head for 24 hours: “possible risk detected.” Although she hasn’t been formally diagnosed by a doctor, the 73-year-old woman with impeccable grey hair is now convinced that she has Alzheimer’s. “For some time now, I’ve noticed that I forget the simplest things,” she says, adjusting a cotton shawl she wears around her neck to combat the Atlantic coastal chill in her home town of Vigo, in the northwestern region of Galicia in Spain.

1 month ago | english.elpais.com | Rafa de Miguel |Ana Pantaleoni

Mikhail Khodorkovsky (Moscow, 61 years old) went from being the richest businessman in the Russian Federation to spending almost a decade of his life in a Siberian prison, on the orders of his arch-enemy, Vladimir Putin. He knows the Russian president’s tactics well. And he is not at all surprised that he gets along so well with Donald Trump. “There have been times in my life when I have witnessed something similar to what we are seeing now: whenever two gangsters spoke to each other.

1 month ago | english.elpais.com | Cristian Segura |Ana Pantaleoni

Ukraine is proposing to Russia a “truce in the sky” – that is, a halt to mutual long-range drone and missile strikes against civilian infrastructure and, above all, against their respective energy industries. The proposal was announced by Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Tuesday via his social networks. The Ukrainian president added that this partial suspension of hostilities would also apply to the naval war and would allow the exchange of prisoners of war held by each side.

1 month ago | english.elpais.com | Josep Catà Figuls |Ana Pantaleoni

The former world champion chess player is an outspoken critic of the Russian president, who he warns is capable of anythingThe man who in his heyday at the chessboard was nicknamed “the Ogre of Baku” can certainly measure up to that moniker: behind his bushy eyebrows and luminous, yet severe eyes lie a steely determination and an aversion to wasting time. This is evident in his interview responses, which can be sharp and abrupt.