Author: Frank Deux

The man, with the virus since he was born, assured the Barcelona Provincial Court that he did not know he was a carrier and that he believed that the pills he was taking were vitamins. Read The man sentenced to two years in prison for infecting his partner with HIV and how not to tell it is not a crime

Photos of fentanyl users at an event organized by Facing Fentanyl, a non-profit awareness group made up of families impacted by this opioid, in New York City, August 21, 2023. SHANNON STAPLETON/REUTERS When Nabarun Dasgupta, a leading drug expert at the University of North Carolina, discovered the figures from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in May, he was “skeptical.” For the first time since 2018, they announced a 3% drop in the number of overdose deaths in the US in 2023, compared with the previous year. As the months went by, he had to admit it: the…

Andueza asks not to look at the “dark clouds” that the PP puts on them: “We must continue writing brilliant pages”The general secretary of the PSE-EE, Eneko Andueza, has asked his party colleagues to forget to look up at those “dark clouds” that the PP puts over them, in reference to the accusations of corruption, because the socialist perspective must be in “continuing writing brilliant pages of the history of Spain.”“I am going to ask the PSOE as a whole to forget to look up to observe those dark clouds that some want to put over us. The PP, the…

Updated Monday, December 2, 2024 – 03:12″Our main priority will once again be to win the municipal and regional elections of 2027 and return to govern throughout Spain.” This was the assignment Pedro Sanchez moved this Sunday to the more than 1,000 delegates who attended the Federal Congress of the PSOE in Seville this weekend, an appointment with which they have tried to grease the party machinery with a view to future appointments with the polls.Officially in these three days Become Premium from €1 the first month Take advantage of this limited time offer and access all web content I…

French prisoner Serge Atlaoui (L) is escorted by police upon his arrival at Tangerang court, outside Jakarta, on April 1, 2015. ROMEO GACAD / AFP France has asked Indonesia to transfer a French death row convict, who has been jailed for drug crimes in the Asian nation since 2005, a senior Indonesian minister told Agence France-Presse (AFP), on Friday, November 29. Indonesia is in discussion with three countries, including France, over the return of several high-profile detainees, and aims to transfer the prisoners by the end of December. “The French embassy has delivered a letter from France’s justice minister to…

“They want me like this, without fangs.” Ángel Gabilondo, the man Ciudadanos prevented from governing Madrid with the PSOE in 2019, explained with that metaphor why his slow style had a pull among voters. Two years later, in 2021, with the Isabel Díaz Ayuso (PP) phenomenon in full swing, Juan Lobato, her replacement as regional candidate, offered the opposite recipe: “We have to have a much higher forcefulness.” With the two now gone from the political front line, the contrast of their strategies, which also ended up being convergent in moderation, reflects the constant changes of script in the Madrid…

Feminists manage to have their amendments incorporated into the party’s new ideology Read The PSOE will expel militants who resort to prostitution and will eliminate the Q and the + from their references to the LGTBI group

US President-elect Donald Trump said Jared Kushner’s father, his pick for US ambassador to France, was “a tremendous business leader, philanthropist, & dealmaker”. Trump picks his son-in-law's father, real estate mogul Charles Kushner, as France envoy

The top United Nations court will take up the largest case in its history when it opens two weeks of hearings into what countries worldwide are legally required to do to combat climate change and help vulnerable nations.

French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday, November 29, inspected the gleaming restored interior of Notre-Dame de Paris, saying workers had done the “impossible” by healing a “national wound” caused by a 2019 fire that ravaged the medieval cathedral.

“What a waste of time!” sighed those close to him. But Bernard Arnault wouldn’t listen. France’s richest man dreams of that old-fashioned black suit embroidered with green silk olive leaves and the sword that is the hallmark of an academician’s uniform. He is campaigning to win over the 46 members of the Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques, one of the five Académies that constitute the Institut de France, devoted to developing literature, science, and the arts. Arnault will be seeking the votes of the académie des sciences’ members on Monday, December 2. He set about the task of joining…

Without debate about Pedro Sánchez’s team in Ferraz or discussion of ideological background, what the socialists are doing this weekend in Seville is a kind of group therapy and sharing about what is happening to them on the eve of what that can happen. The 41st Congress of Seville has been conceived as a necessary procedure to start the organic clock and little else. Maybe wait for a sign from Pedro Sánchez this Sunday that indicates that he will do it again, that he will be able to put luck on his side again.The socialist leader said after the summer…

They make up the hard core in Ferraz after being splashed by complaints of bribe collection and Page denounces the strategy of presenting the party as the objective of a “hunt” even for judges. Read Sánchez keeps Montero and Cerdán at the head of the PSOE and incorporates the Government delegate in Valencia

Protesters gathered across Georgia on Saturday night in a third straight night of demonstrations against the government’s decision to suspend negotiations to join the European Union. Masked police in riot gear fired rubber bullets, tear gas and water cannons at protesters as clashes broke out outside parliament in Tbilisi. Georgia sees third night of mass protests after ruling party suspends EU talks

A general view of Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral, during a visit by French President Macron, in Paris, France, on November 29, 2024. CHRISTOPHE PETIT TESSON / VIA REUTERS Eight days ahead of the December 7 reopening of the cathedral, French President Emmanuel Macron conducted an inspection, on Friday, November 29 − broadcast live on television − of the restored Notre-Dame de Paris. It provided the first official insight into how the 850-year-old edifice now looks inside. Images showed the iconic cathedral as worshippers might have experienced it back in medieval times, its wide, open spaces filled with bright light on…

Bernard Arnault, head of LVMH, leaves a Paris courthouse on November 28, 2024. STEPHANE MAHE/REUTERS On the morning of Thursday, November 28, in front of a packed courtroom in Paris, a leading figure took the stand. The head of the LVMH luxury goods group, Bernard Arnault, appeared with the rosette on a gold braid of the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor pinned to his suit lapel. He was summoned to appear as a witness in the trial of former intelligence boss Bernard Squarcini and nine others. The 10 defendants are on trial for charges ranging from “unlawful employment…

He remembers it with special affection. After playing in a more than notable World Cup in Brazil, James Rodríguez, the brilliant new star of the Colombian team, appears in the summer of 2014 in front of his new fans. It doesn’t do it anyway. For the occasion, the Santiago Bernabéu opens its doors and dresses in its best clothes. The public responds: nearly 50,000 fans, the vast majority Colombians, dressed in the team’s tricolor shirt, receive their new idol, a young man born in Cúcuta, in the northeast of the country who, with his exquisite left foot, makes them feel…

He disassociates himself from the documents that Lobato took to the Supreme Court: it was “in four media” Read Óscar López accelerates his candidacy against Ayuso and plans to launch it in the coming days

Icelanders are heading to the polls after their three-party coalition government collapsed last month. The election comes amid rising concerns over the economy, housing, and immigration, with voters hoping for change. Guillaume Gougeon reports. Icelanders head to the polls in snap election

Emmanuel Macron in the nave of Notre-Dame Cathedral, Paris, November 29, 2024. CHRISTOPHE PETIT TESSON/AFP “We did it”: On Friday, November 29, Emmanuel Macron was so moved by the success of his gamble that he couldn’t wait any longer. A week before the grand ceremony scheduled for December 7 to mark the reopening of Notre-Dame Cathedral, to which some 100 heads of state will be invited, the French president savored, almost on his own, the results of the huge work undertaken by craftsmen, artisans, carpenters, master glassmakers, rope makers and other experts in historic monuments to restore the architectural jewel,…

President-elect Donald Trump on Saturday nominated Charles Kushner, the father of his son-in-law Jared Kushner, as the US ambassador to France, in the latest of several controversial picks. Kushner “is a tremendous business leader, philanthropist, & dealmaker, who will be a strong advocate representing our Country & its interests,” Trump said on his Truth Social website, adding that Jared “worked closely with me in the White House.” The choice is in keeping with Trump’s pattern, so far, of selecting people, often wealthy, who are close to his family or of proven loyalty. Kushner is a multimillionaire real estate executive and…

Applause for the former senior socialist officials convicted by the ERE and acquitted by the Constitutional CourtThe president of the 41st Federal Congress of the PSOE and general secretary of the Andalusian socialists, Juan Espadas, began his speech by giving “special thanks” to some of the former senior officials of the Andalusian Junta who were convicted in the sentencing of the political piece of the ERE and that this summer were partially acquitted by the Constitutional Court, the former Andalusian presidents Manuel Chaves and José Antonio Griñán, the former Ministers of the Treasury, Magdalena Álvarez and Carmen Martínez Aguayo, and…

On Thursday the mandate of Manuel Marchena, president of the Second Chamber of the Supreme Court, who refused to direct the CGPJ, expires. Read The farewell of the judge who said ‘no’ to being a "instrument" of PP-PSOE and sentence the ‘process’: "A mistake was a catastrophe"

“I recommend, as a first step, that you go on this chat [platform] – it’s run by trained volunteer police officers and gendarmes who will answer your questions. They’ll help you through the process and tell you which police station to go to,” explained Cécile, with a calm and reassuring voice. The victim, an incest rape victim was speaking to her: She had decided to file a complaint, several years after being raped by her father. She wrote down the details of the victim support platform that Cécile, a helpline worker for Rapes Women Information (in France), had just provided.…

France’s hardline interior minister, Bruno Retailleau, on Friday, said Britain could no longer “sub-contract” Channel border security out to Paris. With no end in sight to the flows of migrants heading across the waterway. Retailleau is set to meet with his British counterpart on December 9 as tensions rise between the two countries over migration and border security. At least 72 people have died trying to reach Britain from northern France across the Channel this year, making 2024 the deadliest year since migrant crossings began in earnest in 2018. “The relationship between France and the United Kingdom can no longer…