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It will take at least six months to remove all the mines placed in the Strait of Hormuz and truly reopen it.

But first we need to understand if these mines are there, because Iran might or might not have placed them.

Society
The Court of Cassation has established that if your colleagues cause you anxiety and stress, your boss must compensate you (and quite a lot, too).

After the ruling, the worker in question was rehired and the employer was forced to pay a compensation of 80 thousand euros.

Culture
In Berlin, there will be the largest retrospective ever dedicated to Ryuichi Sakamoto.

It is titled seeing sound, hearing time and, after Tokyo and Beijing, it finally arrives in Europe, from September 11, 2026 to May 23, 2027.

Pop
Immanuel Kant’s tomb in Kaliningrad has surprisingly become one of the most visited, photographed, and reviewed tourist attractions on Tripadvisor.

Some were very satisfied with the visit. Some accuse Kant of being a bluff and his tomb of being boring. But on average, on Tripadvisor, the philosopher does well: average score 4.3.

Culture
Thomas Bangalter of Daft Punk has released online a set where he plays all his favorite songs.

He did it for The Lot Radio, a Brooklyn radio station, which put the entire set online for free. Bangalter announced nothing, he simply got into position and started playing.

Pop
The highly prized collection of Stalin’s wines will be sold to fund the opening of a wine school in Georgia.

Inside, there are more than 40,000 bottles, partly taken from the cellars of the tsars and partly personally selected by Stalin.

City
The City of Detroit, birthplace of techno, has established Techno Week

Mayor Mary Sheffield has proclaimed the week from May 18 to 25 as Detroit Techno Week, coinciding with the Movement festival at Hart Plaza.

Internet
There is a copy of Wikipedia where all the articles are disconnected and incoherent ramblings written by an AI.

It is called Halupedia and contains all the information on historical events such as the Great Pigeon Census of 1887 and insights into the gnomonic mandate of circular reasoning.

City
The City of Paris will significantly increase taxes on vacant homes to force owners to rent or sell them.

It is one of the measures that the new socialist mayor Emmanuel Grégoire intends to take to address the housing crisis.

Internet
The growth of the AI industry is causing RAMageddon, the worst memory chip shortage in history.

It is called RAMageddon and it is caused by the expansion of server farms that have absorbed not only the current global supply of chips but also its production capacity for several years.

Internet
Building a cyberdeck has become the latest form of protest against the tyranny of Big Tech

They are small "handcrafted" computers, built with old, cheap, and second-hand parts, and customized in every possible and imaginable way.

City
In ten years, rents in Berlin have increased by 69 percent.

Prices have increased throughout Germany, but in the capital the situation is clearly the worst.

Lifestyle
The latest trend in tourism is the extreme daytrip, which means trips abroad, with low-cost flights, that last only one day and in which everything worth seeing is visited in 24 hours without ever stopping.

It is the day trip taken to the extreme. Of stress, of touristification, and of environmental impact, above all.

City
In London, two drug quality control points have been opened to prevent overdoses and deaths.

They are located in Hackney and Camden, managed by the association The Loop, together with the Municipality and the local police.

Lifestyle
Due to the growth of the wellness industry, incense is becoming an increasingly rare and expensive commodity.

The demand is too high and the trees that produce incense resin are not enough. At this rate, in 20 years, global production will be halved.

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