A former member of the Colla Castellera de Sant Pere i Sant Pau de Tarragona has denounced in a letter to the entity that in 2018, when she was only 13 years old, she was a victim of sexual abuse by the current president of the colla, according to this report. Friday the media Porta Enrere and sources from the group have confirmed to EFE. In October, the young woman sent a letter to the…
He wants Sánchez’s endorsement and will “negotiate” the financing in the bilateral Generalitat-Government and in the Joint Commission of Economic and Fiscal Affairs Read Illa will take the Catalan ERC quota to a bilateral negotiation with the Government in the first quarter of 2025
France’s President Emmanuel Macron speaks with medical staff members of the intensive care unit of the Mayotte hospital center in Mamoudzou, on the French Indian Ocean department of Mayotte, on December 19, 2024. LUDOVIC MARIN / AFP France will observe a day of national mourning, on Monday, December 23, for the French overseas department of Mayotte, President Emmanuel Macron said, after the department’s Indian Ocean archipelago was devastated by a cyclone, with lacking water and…
Mathias Pogba, brother of Paul Pogba, arrives to attend the verdict in his trial with 5 others in extortion case targeting French soccer player Paul Pogba at Paris criminal court, France, December 19, 2024. ABDUL SABOOR / REUTERS A Paris court on Thursday, December 19, sentenced a brother of France midfielder Paul Pogba to a three-year prison term, with two years suspended, after convicting him in a high-profile extortion case. Mathias Pogba will be able…
If the use of rubber balls by security forces to deal with street altercations was one of the discrepancies that caused the second attempt to reform the citizen security law, known as gag lawin the current legislature it is once again one of its great obstacles. Junts, Podemos and BNG – three of the parties that support the parliamentary majority of the Government and whose support is essential to carry out the modification of a…
Minister Ana Redondo boasted that there are instruments that allow civil registries to detect deception. Read The legal paradox of the Trans Law: Bolaños admits that there are no guidelines to detect possible fraud in sex changes
French President Emmanuel Macron extended his stay in Mayotte on Friday after distraught and angry locals jeered and shouted out their grievances as he toured the storm-ravaged Indian Ocean archipelago. Emergency efforts continue as the death toll from Cyclone Chido reaches 31, with thousands more potentially affected. Macron extends visit to cyclone-ravaged Mayotte amid local anger
“I’m socialist.” Emmanuel Macron was 36 years old, and had just been appointed as economy minister. In front of an audience of startuppers and business leaders on December 4, 2014, he unfolded a paper on which he had copied a vintage quote from historic socialist figure Jean Jaurès, published in the newspaper The Dispatch in 1887: “All politics of caste and egoism must disappear.” “Me, I’m socialist and I say it,” insisted Macron, despite having…
Virtually extinct at the beginning of the 20th century, Europe’s largest rodent is now well established along French waterways. Its presence, which can give rise to conflicts of use, also significantly benefits biodiversity and society. The beaver, a sometimes annoying yet very useful neighbor, is back in France
Judge Santiago Pedraz has refused to delve deeper into the investigation into the police espionage of Podemos ordered by the Ministry of the Interior in 2016, the objective of which was to discredit the leaders of that political formation by leaking false information to certain media, according to the numerous evidence that already appears in the summary opened for this case.The investigation opened months ago into these events managed to uncover the existence within the…
“Pedro Sánchez, who is not reminded of the fulfillment of any promise, presents any information that questions it as a hoax. By default, only what he says can be true” Read The wall of Buenos Aires
Starbucks employees will strike on Friday in Los Angeles, Chicago, and Seattle, escalating labour tensions during the pre-Christmas rush. The strike, organized by Starbucks Workers United, targets improved pay and conditions following stalled negotiations. The action coincides with an Amazon walkout, amplifying holiday season disruptions. Starbucks workers to strike in three US cities, threaten nationwide action Workers at Starbucks will walk off the job Friday in three US cities in a strike their union threatened…
If we were to compress Earth’s 4.54 billion years of history into a single year, primitive life would have emerged early, before February ended. However, organisms with nucleated cells like ours would not have appeared until August. From then until November, hardly anything new would have happened. These three months, in the context of the analogy, represent a billion years — an unimaginably vast span of time. Now, a new study has helped illuminate this…
On Wednesday, December 18, the Cour de Cassation, France’s highest court of appeals, upheld the sentence to which former president Nicolas Sarkozy had been condemned – a three-year jail term, two of which would be suspended and one that would take the form of home detention with an electronic tag allowing his movements to be monitored – in the “Paul Bismuth” corruption case. He was found guilty of having tried to obtain secret information about…
French President Emmanuel Macron extended his visit to cyclone-devastated Mayotte on Friday, December 19, after angry residents vented exasperation and despair over the scale of the disaster. Locals jeered and shouted their grievances Thursday during Macron’s visit to the Indian Ocean archipelago, five days after Cyclone Chido left a trail of destruction in its wake. “I decided to sleep here because I considered that given what the population is going through,” leaving the same day…
García Ortiz allowed key WhatsApp messages to be deleted about the data leak of Ayuso’s partner, who had already announced actions, which would recommend having kept them if they were exculpatory Read The deletion of the mobile phone reinforces the evidence against the attorney general
The United Arab Emirates promised the US it will not arm Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, said US lawmakers on Thursday, as the civil war in the country continues to foster one of the world’s worst humanitarian disasters, placing millions on the verge of famine. UAE tells US it is 'not now' transferring arms to Sudan paramilitaries
New French Prime Minister François Bayrou on Thursday, December 19, said he hoped to name a government to lead the country out of its political quagmire at the weekend or by Christmas at the latest. The country was plunged into fresh chaos earlier this month after the far right and left wing joined forces to eject Bayrou’s predecessor Michel Barnier from office, making his the shortest stint as prime minister in the Fifth Republic’s history.…
On Monday, December 16, at 9:55 am, the very first direct Paris-Berlin high-speed train departed from the Gare de l’Est station in the French capital for the German metropolis’ main station. It was a historic moment. A German white and red ICE train, the product of a partnership between the French SNCF national rail service and Germany’s Deutsche Bahn (DB) departed. Two hours later, another ICE train left Berlin for Paris, setting up a daily…
The Government and the PSOE also express their satisfaction with the votes of the last plenary session of the courseThe final super plenary session of this period of sessions has ended up providing a bit of satisfaction for the two very different blocks that coexist in Congress. The PP and Junts have mutually voted for two amendments on different issues and this reality has made it easy for the popular leaders to appear almost exultant.…
There were 284 people traveling, none of whom were injured. The flight was canceled and travelers have been transferred to hotels Read An Air Europa plane bound for Madrid from Argentina makes an emergency landing in Paraguay due to an engine problem
Three weeks after the 41st Federal Congress that was held in Seville, the unknowns about the immediate future of the Andalusian PSOE remain intact. It should be added to the closing of this edition, as when the strict schedules of the newspaper did not wait for news, except for those that deserve it. This Friday, the 420 members of the steering committee, the highest decision-making body between congresses, are convened in Jaén to approve the…
Updated Wednesday, December 18, 2024 – 22:42Three contracts, all three rentals, hang over José Luis Ábalos like a sword of Damocles now that the Supreme Court has asked Congress, through the magistrate Leopoldo Puentethe request to continue investigating for four crimes – criminal organization, influence peddling, bribery and embezzlement – who was number 2 of the PSOE, main support of President Pedro Sánchez and minister of the budget portfolio. Become Premium from €1 the first…
Israel launched “aggressive raids” targeting Houthi military targets, including ports, power plants, and oil factories, in Sanaa, the Yemeni capital, and the strategic port city of Hodeidah on Thursday, after the Israeli military said it intercepted a Houthi missile. Israel strikes Yemen's capital, port city after Houthi attacks
New heart attack Thursday for the Government. The majority of the investiture arrives at the last plenary session of the year with several cracks whose depth will be tested in a decisive vote in the afternoon in Congress. Both Junts and Podemos, for different reasons but both with the same idea that they do not consider themselves part of the majority of the Government and negotiate point by point, threaten to force several parliamentary defeats…
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