Ukraine, Spain, Air Canada and Terence Stamp: the night's news

Ukraine: European heavyweights alongside Zelensky at the White House on Monday. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will make his second visit to the White House on Monday, “with the heavy task of repairing the damage done to Ukraine’s security prospects by Friday’s Trump-Putin summit in Alaska,” observes The Guardian . But this time, Mr. Zelensky will not be alone against his American counterpart Donald Trump: he will be surrounded by a “dream team” composed of several European leaders, combining “economic and military influence” and “proven complicity with Trump,” notes the daily. Expected at the White House are French President Emmanuel Macron, his Finnish counterpart Alexander Stubb, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and his Italian counterpart Giorgia Meloni, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, and NATO chief Mark Rutte. "Their mission will be to use their individual and collective influence to convince the president to abandon the pro-Russian positions adopted on Friday, after only a few hours under Putin's influence," analyses the British title.

Spain: Sánchez proposes a “national pact” to address the “climate emergency.” As dozens of fires continue to ravage the Iberian Peninsula, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez proposed a “national pact” on Sunday to address the “climate emergency,” involving “public authorities, political parties, the scientific community, unions, businesses, and citizens,” writes La Vanguardia . While visiting Galicia, one of the regions most affected by the flames along with Castile and León and Extremadura, Sánchez explained that the objective of such a pact would be to “ensure that the prevention and response to disasters such as fires or floods are adequately resourced and remain outside partisan conflicts.” The Catalan daily explains that "the forest fires, which have been ravaging various regions of the country with particular violence this summer, have placed the government and the autonomous communities at the heart of a crisis which, in addition to the material and human damage, has reopened the debate on the capacity of public authorities to anticipate increasingly extreme phenomena."

Air Canada: Flight attendants defy back-to-work order, strike continues. Air Canada “cancelled hundreds more flights Sunday, as the union representing its flight attendants announced that workers would continue the strike despite a back-to-work order,” reports the Toronto Star . The airline had announced it would resume flights Sunday at 2 p.m. (Toronto time), in accordance with the injunction from the Canada Industrial Relations Board (CIRB), which was seized by the government. But the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), which represents the striking flight attendants, challenged the order in federal court. “Our members will not return to work,” said Mark Hancock, CUPE national president, outside Toronto Pearson International Airport. “We say no.” The strike, which began Saturday morning, has resulted in the cancellation of 940 flights, according to Air Canada. Flight attendants are demanding better pay, including compensation for hours worked on the ground, which are currently unpaid.

British actor Terence Stamp dies at 87. From the stunningly handsome Redeemer Angel in Pasolini's Theorem to the icy-eyed General Zod in Superman and the trans woman and drag queen in Priscilla, Queen of the Desert: British actor Terence Stamp, a formidably eclectic actor, died Sunday at the age of 87, his family announced. “An iconic figure of the Swinging Sixties,” Stamp was “intense, dark and enigmatic” and was “never an easy man,” writes The Times . This didn't stop him from building an exceptionally rich filmography, from his debut in Peter Ustinov's Billy Budd , which earned him an Oscar nomination, to his later forays into the world of Tim Burton ( Big Eyes , Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children ). In between, he worked with Fellini ( Amazing Stories ), William Wyler ( The Obsessed , which earned him the Best Actor Award at Cannes), Oliver Stone ( Wall Street ), George Lucas ( Star Wars: The Phantom Menace ), Steven Soderbergh ( The Englishman ) and Stephen Frears ( The Hit ). “I have no ambition, I'm always surprised to find another role,” he told the Times . “I've had bad experiences and things that didn't work out. I've done stupid things, because sometimes I couldn't pay my rent. But I'm very happy.”