King Juan Carlos returned this Thursday to Barcelona to say the final goodbye to his friend Josep Cusí. In a lightning trip, coming from Geneva, the King’s father stayed several hours at the deceased’s home to accompany the family in these sad moments.
The University of Ghent has announced the adoption of “measures” against Nathan Cofnas, a postdoctoral researcher at that center who instigated the public lynching of former University of Cambridge professor Jason Arday, accused of plagiarism and found dead in mid-month at his home in London.
The Mossos d’Esquadra arrested one of the squatters of an apartment on Muntaner Street on Thursday afternoon who was making life difficult for the building’s neighbors. For months, the coming and going of people with many drug problems had shattered coexistence in this stairwell, as La Vanguardia has been reporting over the past few weeks.
The Australian parliament has just passed a law that will force four major tech companies – Meta, Google, Microsoft (LinkedIn), and TikTok – to compensate media outlets for the use they make of the information. The Australian Government’s approach, which has received opposition support, is that the existence of digital platforms has left news companies in an inferior position when negotiating possible compensation for the use of their information. The new legislation will become a corrective factor for the protection of journalism.
North Korea launched ten ballistic missiles over the Sea of Japan on Thursday morning, just hours after Donald Trump had downplayed his support for the southern neighbor and shown his respect for Kim Jong Un, whom he has promised to meet before the end of the year.
Given the strategic failure of the six-month military campaign and stalled diplomacy with Iran, Donald Trump’s plan to defeat the enemy now involves the economic isolation of the Islamic regime. The president announced last night what he dubbed an “economic D-Day,” a new offensive with which he aims to punish any country that helps or does business with Tehran, a measure that could provoke a new indirect confrontation with China or Russia.
The strong storms and wind gusts exceeding 140 kilometers per hour this Thursday in the Ribera Alta have caused the collapse of the roof of the Santa Catalina church in Alzira, as well as the falling of trees, road closures, and other incidents in various parts of the region.
For weeks, some of Europe’s great rivers have been in the spotlight for revealing striking images of treasures hidden for decades. Shipwrecks, Nazi relics, and even mammoth bones. The drought that has been hitting the continent since spring and the prolonged lack of rain have severely affected the flow of Europe’s most important rivers such as the Loire, the Rhine, and the Danube, leaving them extremely dry.
Moscow gas stations have resumed rationing gasoline supply this week as long lines begin to appear and authorities acknowledge the start of the “second stage” of the fuel shortage crisis due to Ukrainian attacks on Russian refineries. The Kremlin has had to redirect supplies from the provinces to the capital and import gasoline from other countries to stabilize the situation.
The meteorological services and Civil Protection of Catalonia are monitoring the episode of rains forecast for this Thursday and the coming days, which could generate locally intense storms. Civil Protection has activated the pre-alert of the Inuncat plan and has asked the population to take extreme precautions.
