Author: Frank Deux

  The eyes of Víctor Ángel Torres, minister of the Government of Spain, light up when he hears the question. “Is the government afraid of a possible indictment of Pilar Sánchez Acera?” they asked her this Wednesday at an event honoring the Constitution. “Fear of justice, none,” responds the Canary Islands politician before it is known that the Supreme Court refuses “for now” to investigate the senior Moncloa official in the case opened against the…

The Chief of Staff of the Navy presents the ‘Armada 2050’ report, a document that has been worked on for two years. “The world’s economic centre of gravity is shifting towards the Indo-Pacific, where the sea will gain importance and it will be necessary to act within the framework of international coalitions.” This is one of the main conclusions of the Armada 2050 report presented yesterday by the Chief of Staff of the Navy, Admiral Piñeiro ,…

The chief executive of one of the United States’s largest health insurance companies, UnitedHealthcare, was shot and killed outside a New York Hilton hotel in an apparently targeted hit Wednesday. Brian Thompson was shot just before 7 am outside the hotel in the Midtown district of Manhattan. Police are searching for the killer. Police hunt for US healthcare executive’s masked killer after New York attack

  Three months after he was appointed prime minister by French President Emmanuel Macron, Michel Barnier and his government were toppled on Wednesday, December 4, after a majority of PMs voted a no-confidence motion. The Assemblée Nationale debated two motions of no confidence, one presented by the radical left and the other by the far right, in a standoff over next year’s austerity budget, after the prime minister on Monday forced a social security financing…

  As a special privilege, Emmanuel Macron was given a preview of the cathedral ahead of its reopening on Friday, November 29, and shared this moment with over a thousand lucky visitors. According to the Élysée, they were the people “most involved,” a term used to describe both the workers and restorers who brought the cathedral back to life, as well as the most generous donors who financed the project. Read more Inside Notre-Dame: The…

She is a tiny woman, but she alone explains an entire neighborhood to you. There is a woman in La Latina who, once a week, goes out to scrub the piece of sidewalk in front of her doorway. Theirs is a virtually infinite task, since scrubbing the street is the urban version of putting up doors to the countryside. Once you start on the first cobblestone it is difficult to find the last one. Where…

The Catalan Police avoids pointing out in its report to the CNI that Sánchez was beheaded at the request of ERC. The Mossos d’Esquadra have declared themselves unable to find out who spied on the pro-independence leaders with the Pegasus program. The Catalan police force admits this in the file resulting from the analysis of the mobile phones of two of the presidents of the ANC who claimed to be victims of wiretapping: Jordi Sànchez and Elisenda Paluzie ;…

Amnesty International released a report on Thursday which concludes that Israel is “committing genocide” against Palestinians in Gaza. The report says Israel has “unleashed hell and destruction on Palestinians in Gaza brazenly, continuously and with total impunity”. Amnesty’s report is the first such determination by a prominent human rights organisation in the 14-month-old conflict. Israel denies allegations of genocide, accusing Hamas of using civilians as human shields. Amnesty International report concludes Israel is committing genocide in…

The UN’s cultural organization on Wednesday, December 4, added the skills of Parisian zinc roofers and ornamentalists to its list of intangible cultural heritage, calling the French capital a “living archive” of their work. Zinc roofers and ornamentalists — those who install and restore the decorations topping the city’s buildings – began honing their craft in the 19th century as the use of grey metal in construction exploded. The skills needed to install the zinc…

The French navy rescued 85 migrants trying to cross the Channel from France to England on Wednesday, December 4, maritime authorities said, the latest in a deadly series of dangerous crossings. One of “numerous” migrant boats that set out to sea called for help after hitting a sandbank off the Pas-de-Calais region, France’s Channel and North Sea maritime prefecture said in a statement. A navy tugboat saved 80 passengers from that boat and five more…

The president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, despised this Wednesday the landing of Óscar López as general secretary of the PSOE of Madrid, replacing the resigned Juan Lobato. During a television interview, the conservative baroness ruled out that the minister would be a candidate in the 2027 regional elections, recalled his electoral defeat in the 2011 regional elections of Castilla y León, and accused him of being “an errand boy” for the…

“We must put an end to the rubbish of socialism once and for all,” he later stated before hundreds of Argentine and foreign supporters gathered at CPAC Argentina 2024. Read “Tortures suffered by the poor Spaniards”: Milei attacks Zapatero and Sánchez and compares them with Maduro

In Trump: The Art of the Deal, the 1987 bestseller that made him a household name, the future American president outlines his negotiating methods. Show his strength, surprise even if it means slamming the door, put his adversary’s back against the wall and, above all, putting his name on the deal and taking credit for it matters more than the actual content of the deal. Has far-right leader Marine Le Pen read the book of…

The visit was arranged two days ago, during a call between Donald Trump and Emmanuel Macron. On Monday, December 2, the American president-elect confirmed his trip to Paris for the much anticipated Saturday reopening of Notre-Dame Cathedral, among some 50 foreign heads of state and government. “It will be a very special day for all!” he wrote on his network, Truth Social: “President Emmanuel Macron has done a wonderful job ensuring that Notre Dame has…

The Government believes that the summons of Miguel Ángel Rodríguez in the case brought against the State Attorney General, Álvaro García Ortiz, gives it fresh air after several difficult days following the resignation of the leader of the PSOE in Madrid, Juan Lobato, over this case. The Executive considers that the judicial call to Isabel Díaz Ayuso’s chief of staff, who will have to testify as a witness and, therefore, is obliged to tell the…

He elects Urtasun’s Chief of Staff to the position, the first diplomatic appointment to the liking of the coalition partner and Zapatero. Read Sánchez gives another nod to Maduro and appoints a protégé of Moratinos and akin to Sumar as ambassador to Venezuela

Two days after US President Joe Biden’s controversial pardon of his son, Hunter Biden, President-elect Donald Trump formally requested on Tuesday that a New York judge annul his May felony conviction on 34 counts of falsifying business records to conceal a hush money agreement with porn actor Stormy Daniels.

Culture Minister Rachida Dati (right) and her Saudi counterpart Prince Badr Bin Farhan Al Saoud at the Ministry of Culture in Paris, France, November 11, 2024. BALKIS PRESS/ABACA The French companies escorting Emmanuel Macron on his three-day state visit to Saudi Arabia don’t yet know if they’ll be leaving with any lucrative contracts in their suitcases. For the time being, France has capitalized on the only asset that the conflagration in the Middle East and…

This handout picture released by the Saudi Ministry of Media shows French President Emmanuel Macron speaking in the One Water Summit during an official visit in the capital Riyadh on December 3, 2024. – / AFP French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday, December 3, rejected calls to resign to break a political impasse in the country, saying such a scenario amounted to “political fiction.” “It doesn’t make sense… it’s frankly not up to scratch to…

This Thursday, two months after the last and fruitless meeting, representatives of the Government of Spain will sit at the table with those of the Canarian Executive, that of Ceuta and the Popular Party to try to close an agreement on the reform of the law of Immigration, which must allow the mandatory referral of these minors throughout the State. The meeting takes place in a context of increasing migrant arrivals. According to the latest…

Genoa renounces vetoing the Government’s tax reform in the Senate in order to be able to introduce amendments with an eye on the support of Basque and Catalan sovereigntists. Read The PP once again tempts Junts and PNV with two proposals for taxation and housing for young people in the midst of the PSOE’s judicial crisis

The UN General Assembly passed a new resolution on Tuesday which professes its “unwavering support” for the two-state solution of Israel and Palestine, calling for Israel’s withdrawal from the occupied Palestinian territories and the creation of a Palestinian state. Read our liveblog for the latest developments.  Live: New UN General Assembly resolution calls for creation of Palestinian state

French President Emmanuel Macron speaks during the Saudi-French Business Forum during an official visit in Riyadh on December 3, 2024. JEANNE ACCORSINI / AFP French President Emmanuel Macron announced on Tuesday, December 3, that he and Saudi Arabia’s de facto ruler, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, would co-chair a conference on the establishment of a Palestinian state in June. “We have decided to co-chair a conference for the two states in June next year,” Macron…

December is rich in choices in all areas of the performing arts in Paris and futher afield. There’s a stripped-down Shakespeare in Lyon, an almost complete The Satin Slipper in Paris, a dizzying Polyphemus in Versailles, the glorious voguing/waacking/hip hopping of dancer Amala Dianor and an abundance of children’s events in Le Havre. It’s enough to keep the long evenings lit up until Christmas. THEATER Haribo KimchiJaha Koo’s theatrical cuisine Artist Jaha Koo presents his…

Exhausting weeks with only one day off, working as interns caring for dependent elderly people or doing housework. Without the right to vacations, without health or accident coverage and with just two consecutive hours a day to rest. The more than 185 victims of a criminal organization that, under the umbrella of a fictitious company, took advantage of immigrants in an irregular situation to offer care services to dependent people and cleaning services on the…