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16 abril, 2025
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Spain in the world in 2025: perspectives and challenges (Real Instituto Elcano)

The Elcano Royal Institute once again publishes its annual edition of the collective work analysing the outlook for the international context and the short-term challenges for Spanish foreign policy. In 2025, global dynamics will be shaped by the continuity of the war in Ukraine, upheavals in the Middle East, and the return of Donald Trump to the White House with his disruptive agenda, which could complicate transatlantic relations and intensify the confrontation with China.

A new legislative term is beginning in the EU, facing the significant challenge of adapting Europe to new technological, energy, and geopolitical realities, all within a context of eroding pro-European coalitions and political changes in Germany and France. In 2025, Spain’s foreign policy will be marked by the desire to lead in strategic areas such as Latin America, migration, the Mediterranean, and the European budget, while being influenced by intense internal polarisation.

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15 abril, 2025
por Felipe Sahagún
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Reporting the Israel-Hamas war

Our top 10 crisis reporting resources published in 2024

 
Dec 30, 2024 in Crisis Reporting

2024 was an intense year for journalists. 

Reporters covered elections in more than 60 countries, capped by the U.S. results that will bring Donald Trump back to the presidency in January. Russia’s war on Ukraine has continued, and Israel’s war with Hamas expanded to Lebanon and deepened the humanitarian suffering in Gaza. Extreme weather events caused widespread destruction in Spain and the U.S., bringing home the growing costs of climate change. And in just the past month, the 50-year rule of the Assad family came crashing down as rebels swept into the country’s capital. 

Journalists have responded quickly to report on these events even as they face increased repression from state actors, a collapse in public trust, and the rampant spread of disinformation online. Journalists’ jobs, to put mildly, have not been easy this year. 

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7 abril, 2025
por Felipe Sahagún
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News Graveyards: How Dangers to War Reporters Endanger the World

Al Jazeera 

April 7, 2025   (09:30 GMT)

Number of journalists killed in Gaza rises to 210, authorities say

Al-Faqawi was among at least two people killed when Israeli warplanes bombed a tent for journalists near a hospital in Khan Younis early on Monday. At least seven people were wounded in the attack.

In a report published on April 1, the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs said Israel’s war on Gaza has been the deadliest for media workers ever recorded and that Israeli forces had killed 232 journalists since October 7, 2023.

That means more journalists have been killed in Gaza than in both world wars, the Vietnam War, the wars in Yugoslavia and the US war in Afghanistan combined.

Since the 2000s, national governments and terrorist groups – from Israel, Syria’s Assad regime and the United States to the Islamic State – have found ways to curtail conflict coverage through myriad means, from repressive policies to armed attack. All have killed journalists and helped to foster a culture of impunity, turning conflict zones like Syria and Gaza into “news graveyards.” The war in Gaza has, since October 7, 2023, killed more journalists than the U.S. Civil War, World Wars I and II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War (including the conflicts in Cambodia and Laos), the wars in Yugoslavia in the 1990s and 2000s, and the post-9/11 war in Afghanistan, combined.

Worldwide, threats to journalists in conflict zones are increasing. In 2023, a journalist or media worker was, on average, killed or murdered every four days. In 2024, it was once every three days. Most reporters harmed or killed, as is the case in Gaza, are local journalists.

Not only do local reporters face great risk, standing alone in the face of extraordinary violence; this also impairs news coverage and, as a result, the worldwide information ecosystem. The decreasing number of experienced foreign correspondents in conflict zones, due to long term shifts in the global news industry that have led to the de-prioritization of international news coverage and the closure of foreign news bureaus, has likewise crippled critical knowledge and helped facilitate the creation of news graveyards. Reliable information about wars and conflicts is essential for the wellbeing of local populations and is necessary to enlighten the world on the forces behind wars and the toll on civilians

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Opinion columnist and associate editor David Ignatius is online every other Monday at 12 p.m. Eastern to answer reader questions on Russia’s war in Ukraine and foreign policy. Read David Ignatius’s columns and past live chats or sign up to receive his latest columns in your inbox.