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El Pais Front Page 12/12/2024

South Korea’s President Yoon Suk Yeol has defended his decision to declare a short-lived martial law, saying it was a measure to protect the country’s democracy.

English football endured yet another near miss on the field this year while, off it, some of its most high-profile managers moved on. Hopes had been high ahead of Euro 2024 that England, with a squad bursting with talent, could finally land their first tournament success since 1966. Once again it was not to be as Gareth Southgate’s side fell at the final hurdle, losing to worthy champions Spain 2-1 in the showpiece in Berlin. It was a second successive Euros final loss for the national team but, in truth, it was a patchy campaign that started with a dull…

Dublin Airport has been told by its neighbouring local authority that the night-time noises its flights produce and their impact on local residents are “still a concern”. The latest noise action plan for Dublin Airport, published by Fingal County Council on Wednesday, notes that the number of people affected by night-time noise at the hub is greater than it had been in 2019, in breach of a priority requirement of the Noise Abatement Objective (Nao) for the airport. While the airport is “on track” to achieve the medium and long-term objectives of the Nao, nevertheless “night-time noise exposure remains a…

Feminist megaphone Bretonne by birth, Parisian by adoption, Lauriane Nicol founded the online media outlet Lesbien Raisonnable in 2017. First in the form of a newsletter and an internet site, which she enhanced in 2018 with an Instagram account where she now counts 32,000 subscribers. The 34-year-old sees these tools as both a cultural medium and a relay for feminist struggles. “I can’t help being an activist, it’s in my DNA. Lesbians have always been involved in feminist struggles.” A supporter of Adèle Haenel since the actress revealed to Mediapart in November 2019 that she had been sexually assaulted as…

  “This hearing must remind us of the forbidden, who was the adult, who was the child, it must set the world straight.” It was with these words that prosecutor Camille Poch requested, on Tuesday, December 10, a five-year prison sentence, two of which would be under house arrest, for Christophe Ruggia. The filmmaker is on trial for sexually assaulting Adèle Haenel when she was between the ages of 12 and 14. At the end of two days of often tense hearings, in a packed courtroom at the Paris Criminal Court, the prosecutor highlighted Haenel’s “constant, coherent and clear discourse”…

In recent weeks, more or less discreetly, Alberto Núñez Feijóo has intensified his presence in Catalonia with a focus on connecting with Catalan businessmen. The leader of the PP has visited the economic forums of the Cercle de Economía and the Foment del Treball, where he met with its director, Josep Sánchez Llibre, in a meeting ―last Monday― that the PP did not publicize, after going to the laboratories Catalans Isdin and attending, a few days before, the UGT congress in Barcelona. Feijóo’s agenda looks at the Catalan employers’ association, where according to Génova there is a “growing interest” in…

Updated Wednesday, December 11, 2024 – 22:53The former Minister of Transport José Luis Ábalos faces his statement before the Supreme Court denying practically all of the accusations against him, attacking the credibility of the businessman Victor de Aldama and intoning his particular my fault: “I trusted someone I shouldn’t have and I didn’t protect myself enough.” “Now, when I talk to other officials, the advice I give is: protect yourselves, don’t be trusting, because then there is no remedy,” he explained. Become Premium from €1 the first month Take advantage of this limited time offer and access all web content…

Jesus a Palestinian? Pope Francis prayed at a manger in the Vatican in which the Christ child lay on a keffiyeh. After criticism, the Vatican has now removed the cloth – and also the figure of Jesus.The Vatican and Pope Francis are criticized worldwide: The reason is a nativity scene in the audience hall of the Papal States, in which the figure of Jesus lay in a keffiyeh, a Palestinian cloth.Pope Francis received the nativity scene on Saturday in the Vatican’s audience hall and prayed in front of it. It was designed by Johny Andonia and Faten Nastas Mitwasi, two…

At the moment of his greatest display of power, Trump reportedly wants his Chinese counterpart with him. It would be the first time in at least 150 years that a foreign head of state attended the ceremony. Donald Trump apparently invites Xi Jinping to the inauguration