The president of the Islands demands lowering the state threshold to finance the regional reception of unaccompanied minors Read Historical record of immigrants in the Canary Islands: Clavijo makes another offer to the Government to reach an agreement
Despite Germany pledging a €650 million aid package on Monday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky urged its second-largest backer not to reduce its backing of Ukraine’s efforts to defeat Russia, saying Ukraine’s allies could only “ensure peace through strength” by sending more weapons, financing, and diplomatic support. Zelensky urges Scholz to ramp up ‘fundamental’ support against Russia
A view of Natre-Dame on December 1, 2024. REUTERS/Christian Hartmann CHRISTIAN HARTMANN / REUTERS The reopening of Notre Dame this coming weekend is going to be a high-security affair, with a repeat of some measures used during the Paris Olympics and the sealing-off to tourists of the cathedral’s island location in the heart of the French capital. After more than five years of reconstruction following the fire that devastated Notre Dame in 2019, invite-only ceremonies on Saturday, November 7, and Sunday, November 8, will usher in its rebirth. Read more Inside Notre-Dame: The first images of the cathedral post-reconstruction Paris…
Pedro Sánchez inaugurated this Monday a new PSOE executive with the general, regional and municipal elections of 2027 between eyebrows and the first relevant organic movements after the party congress, held last weekend in Seville, in the Madrid federation with a purpose: to resolve this week the election of Óscar López as general secretary and, according to an unwritten rule, as the next candidate for the presidency of the Community of Madrid, after the resignation last week of Juan Lobato. It will be a lightning operation: the minister for Digital Transformation and Public Service, appointed to the position in September…
The person in charge of the Generalitat for the recovery after DANA assures that his department is “a state of administrative exception” Read The military vice president Gan Pampols separates himself from Mazón: he leaves his continuity in the air until the end of the legislature and avoids criticizing the Government
As French President Emmanuel Macron began a three-day trip to Saudi Arabia, Macron and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman called for Lebanon to hold fresh presidential elections in the wake of a shaky ceasefire between Lebanese militant group Hezbollah and Israel. Live: France’s Macron, Saudi Crown Prince call for new Lebanese elections
US President-elect Donald Trump will attend the weekend reopening of the restored Notre Dame cathedral in Paris, which was ravaged by a 2019 fire, he said Monday, December 2.
The world was quiet from this height. The air was crisp. Cumulonimbus clouds, drifting away toward Montmartre, revealed the blue of the sky. A gull cried, flying upstream along the Seine. Following the brisk steps of Philippe Jost, the man heading the public agency Rebâtir Notre-Dame (“Rebuilding Notre-Dame”), we passed through the scaffolding surrounding the cathedral, crossed the attic, walked along the magnificent fully reconstructed wooden frame and finally climbed the narrow spiral staircase leading to the very heart of the spire. From this solitary vantage point, the scale of the work achieved unfolded before us. Beneath our feet,…
The public bathrooms, actually private, at the Atocha station and so many other stations make me very angry. They relax, there is soft music and warm light, curved and shiny finishes. You could die in them. Above all, they are very clean, as station bathrooms usually are, as squalid as trenches. You pay a euro to cool off or do those secret things that we all do. A euro that not everyone can or wants to pay. A big piss for pissing. Neoliberal capitalism manages to make everything profitable, even the excretory system: cash from piss. This privatization of bathrooms,…
EC threatened his own boss with the sexual assault complaint that he then directed against another colleague, and which has already been filed Read The ‘Tecnocasa raped woman’ is condemned for threatening her boss, who had just fired her, with accusing him of a false sexual assault as revenge
The president of the International Criminal Court lashed out Monday against attacks on the court, which finds itself under the spotlight after issuing arrest warrants over wars in Gaza and Ukraine. The ICC has faced criticism in some quarters after judges issued an arrest warrant last month for Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his former defence minister, and a top Hamas leader. We speak to Anthony Dworkin, senior policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations. ICC president hits back at 'attacks', 'threats'
President Emmanuel Macron and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman signed a strategic partnership on Monday, December 2, aiming at deepening bilateral ties and de-escalating conflict in the Middle East, including Lebanon, where the two leaders called for presidential elections. After a meeting with Prince Mohammed, the de facto ruler of the oil-rich Gulf kingdom, Macron’s office announced the signing of a new partnership aimed at improving cooperation in “defense, energy transition, culture, mobility between the two countries”. The two leaders also “agreed to make every effort to contribute to de-escalation in the region”, including helping to consolidate the…
What would happen if the Social Security budget for 2025 were not approved? On Monday, December 2, Prime Minister Michel Barnier forced the bill through the Assemblée Nationale without a vote, by activating Article 49.3 of the Constitution. The decision prompted two motions of no confidence to be tabled by the left-wing alliance Nouveau Front Populaire (NFP) and the far-right Rassemblement National (RN). If the government falls, the social security budget (PLFSS) would be dead and gone. Former prime minister Elisabeth Borne spoke of such a possibility: “If the Social Security budget is censured, it means that, on January…
Díaz “welcomes” a public housing company but says he will not lower pricesThe second vice president of the Government and Minister of Labor, Yolanda Díaz, “welcomed” this Monday the announcement by the Chief Executive, Pedro Sánchez, to create a large public housing company, but pointed out that it will not serve to lower prices and blamed the 11 communities governed by the PP to maintain the high rental amounts.“The news is welcome, it is a form of management, it is good and therefore we design collective strategies as a country, from the public, in terms of housing, but this does…
Thursday, December 12. D-Day has arrived for José Luis Ábalos, former all-powerful right-hand man of Pedro Sánchez and now banned by a PSOE that wants to turn him into a firewall and, if possible, a human shield. If he Koldo case does not escalate beyond the former Minister of Transport and former Secretary of Organization of the Socialists, in Ferraz’s engine room there will be a song in their teeth: «We act immediately for the responsibilities Ábalos will go on the attack in the Supreme Court: “I will dismantle the UCO and Aldama”
The UN’s top court begins landmark hearings Monday on global climate protection guidelines. Vanuatu and Pacific island nations lead proceedings before 15 judges. Over two weeks, 100+ countries and organizations—the highest-ever number—will present submissions on safeguarding vulnerable nations from climate change impacts. UN top court opens landmark hearings on climate protection guidelines Climate Change – The full low down on what’s happening at world court. The global climate protection agenda takes centre stage
Mo Salah Sparks New Contract Drama Following Liverpool’s Triumph Over Man City Liverpool star Mo Salah has raised fresh doubts about his future following the Reds’ 2-0 victory over Manchester City. With his contract set to expire at the end of the season, Salah revealed he hasn’t been offered a new deal. Speaking to Sky Sports, he said, “Until now, this is the last City game I will play for Liverpool. I just wanted to enjoy it. Hopefully, we win the league, and we’ll see what happens.” Salah assisted Cody Gakpo’s opener and scored a second-half penalty, continuing his impressive…
This weekend two men armed with a firearm, a motorcycle robbed a woman who was walking on Alberto Alcocer Street, in the Chamartín district, stealing a luxury watch valued at more than 20,000 euros. According to police sources, the two thieves violently approached the victim who was walking with a companion, stole the piece and fled on the motorcycle. This is a type of crime that has been occurring for a few years in the wealthy neighbourhoods of Madrid and that led to the creation of a specific police group to investigate these criminal groups. Robbed on the street in…
The scene of the representation of the pain and fury of a president, that was Congress. He carries a backpack of cobblestones from the TS and his wife ‘is’ one more in the leadership of the PSOE. Read Five days of April, three days of Numancia
US President Joe Biden pardoned his son, Hunter Biden, avoiding potential prison time for gun and tax convictions. The decision reverses Biden’s past pledge not to use presidential powers for family benefit. The move comes weeks before sentencing and amid President-elect Trump’s impending White House return. Hunter Biden was scheduled to be sentenced for his conviction on federal gun charges on 12 December. He was scheduled to be sentenced in the tax case four days later. In the statement, Joe Biden said that he had long maintained that he would “not interfere with the Justice Department’s decision-making, and I kept my word…
Traffic accident on the A-30 highway towards Cartagena, near the Corvera airport exit, on October 22.Marcial Guillén (EFE)Highways and urban roads claimed five fatalities a day last year, according to the Annual Road Accident Report of the General Directorate of Traffic (DGT). A total of 1,806 people died in the 101,306 traffic accidents recorded throughout Spain. This represents a 3% increase in deaths, in a year in which the historical record for long-distance trips was broken, with 438.78 million, 2% more than in 2022. Motorcyclists and accidents on the roads interurban roads are at the head of the black list…
The conservatives have forced deliberation in plenary, which delays the decision and predicts a close debate on the annulments in the TS of the promotion of the former attorney general and the case of the Juvenile Chamber. Read Battle in the TC for the appointments of the fiscal leadership with Delgado and García Ortiz
Clashes at a football match in Guinea’s N’Zerekore left around 100 dead, hospital sources report. Scenes of carnage included overflowing morgues and hallways. Unverified videos show chaos, with angry crowds later torching a police station. Authorities have yet to confirm the toll.
Riss, director of “Charlie Hebdo”, in Paris, March 2024. JOEL SAGET / AFP To mark the 10th anniversary of the attack on Charlie Hebdo on January 7, 2015, the satirical newspaper is publishing a book that pays tribute to the eight members of the team murdered that day. Charlie Liberty. A Journal of Their Lives (“Charlie Liberty: A Diary of Their Lives”) is a deeply moving book in its fragility and its very simplicity, as it mostly limits itself to showing images by cartoonists Cabu, Charb, Honoré, Tignous and Wolinski, and texts by psychoanalyst Elsa Cayat, proofreader Mustapha Ourrad and…
On January 14, Metro de Madrid interrupted the circulation of its trains between the San Blas and García Noblejas stations on line 7. There have been no accidents. There has also been no terrorist threat. What is happening is much more prosaic: a pigeon is hiding under the subway rails as it passes through the Simancas station. The incident, detailed in various internal documents accessed by EL PAÍS, forces the service to stop for just a few minutes. It is not an exceptional case.On June 21, 2023, circulation between the Acacias and Puerta de Toledo stations also had to be…
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