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Donald Trump announces steep punitive tariffs on imports from neighbouring countries. Just a bluff? Canada and Mexico shouldn’t bet on that. And Europe could be the next destination. Donald Trump and the threat of punitive tariffs: America’s friends are Trump’s enemies

If you want to keep everything short and small when it comes to the political situation, you’ll get your money’s worth (not too much) with this recipe: crispy rice paper and a steaming filling banish a bad mood. Cooking without coal: cheap recipe for spring rolls to combat autumn depression

When Javier Milei became President of Argentina, Cecilia Nicolini lost her job in the Ministry of the Environment and the agency was abolished. Here the former State Secretary explains what gives her hope. Argentina under Javier Milei: “Funds are also interesting for a populist government”

They are said to have drunk free “Tiger vodka” in the hostel – shortly afterwards six people were dead. After the methanol scandal, the police in Laos have now arrested several suspects. The Nana Backpacker Hostel in Vang Vieng is still receiving a lot of praise in online reviews: “The hostel leaves nothing to be desired,” writes one person. And: “Free alcohol every evening.” Others commented with the corresponding opening times of the bar. But recently a red sign was put up above it: Temporarily closed. Six tourists from all over the world died last week after drinking liquor that…

They had become a real threat. The six arrested last Friday in Ceuta, Ibiza and Madrid as alleged members of a terrorist cell linked to the Sahel branch of the Islamic State (ISIS) had an increasing determination to commit an action and had sought potential targets in their environment, according to sources close to the investigation. It was a “cohesive group” that had collected knives and cartridges, in addition to handling “very explicit” Islamic State material, in which reference was made to how to carry out attacks or how to manufacture devices. The arrest of the group, aged between 30…

Short, poorly paid working hours. Combine several schools if you want to complete the day. Contracts as leisure instructors. Uncertainty about whether the next course will have a contract. These are some of the situations and working conditions that those known as vigilancewho are educational support personnel who serve students with educational needs related to a disability or behavioral disorder. The complaints from this sector are recurring because their situation is not improving and this Tuesday they staged a protest in Vallès Occidental (which they want to extend to other territories in the coming weeks) to denounce that they feel…

The situation left investigators stumped. One of the gardeners crowded into the plantation that had just been dismantled did not even know that people on the street had been wearing masks for months, because of Covid. He had been locked in that room for more than a year, with mattresses on the floor, one against the other, pots scattered on tables, bottles with yellow liquid, cardboard as a bed with duvets thrown on top. Pseudorooms without windows, with clothes hanging on lines and full of dirt. Three years after that police operation, a pioneering ruling by the Barcelona Court has…

This Wednesday, Pedro Sánchez pointed directly – although without citing him – to Carlos Mazón (PP), president of the Generalitat Valenciana, as the person responsible for the erroneous decisions taken during the management of the tragedy of the dana in Valencia, which has claimed the lives of at least 122 people. The president has used a calm tone in his first intervention in Congress to report on this crisis, a month after it occurred, but he has made it clear that he believes that the institutions that depend on the central Government, such as the State Agency for Meteorology (Aemet)…

The former general secretary of UGT in Andalusia, Francisco Fernández, and three other former senior officials of the union have been sentenced to three years in prison and a fine of 50 million euros, respectively, as perpetrators of a continuing crime of document falsification in competition with a crime of subsidy fraud for the “conscious and fraudulent application of funds received specifically from subsidy for the implementation of training courses for unemployed and employed people for purposes other than those provided by UGT-A to finance the union’s own activities,” according to the sentence drafted by the Third Section of the…

Abascal accuses Sánchez of abandoning the Valencians “out of political calculation, that is, out of evil” The leader of Vox, Santiago Abascal, has charged against the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, accusing him of “not alerting them due to incompetence” and “not helping them due to political calculation, that is, due to evil.” He has told a story of victims of the dana who “day after day, for eternal days” woke up without light, water and without “anyone showing up, not a firefighter, not a soldier.” “All abandoned for days and days by a failed autonomous State,” he said.…