The populations of Los Ángeles de San Rafael and Vegas de Matute, in Segovia, have been evacuated this Sunday as a preventive measure due to the fire that started this Saturday in Las Navas de San Antonio and that this afternoon has been raised to the maximum level, 2, of the potential severity index.
The space agency NASA has landed in a village in Burgos that was abandoned for two decades to install its powerful telescopes with which to broadcast live to 10 million people the solar eclipse on August 12.
The Valencian government has sent this afternoon an ES-Alert to the residents of Catí, located inland in Castellón with more than 700 inhabitants, asking them to evacuate the town via the CV-128 or N-232 roads towards Xert. Its residents had been confined since yesterday due to the smoke from the Tírig fire, and this afternoon the next instructions were to be decided at the 5 p.m. Cecopi meeting, and finally Emergencies issued the alert.
The former secretary general of the Union of Farmers and Ranchers of Aragon (UAGA), Javier Sánchez, and his wife, Esther Latorre, have been found dead in their home in the town of Tauste, Zaragoza. Their bodies show signs of violence, according to sources from the Delegation of the Government of Aragon. The discovery took place early on Saturday night.
The hectares affected in the Niebla (Huelva) fire have doubled compared to yesterday and amount to 8,000, although not all are burned, according to the Minister of the Presidency, Health and Emergencies of the Junta de Andalucía, Antonio Sanz.
The Government of Israel has rejected the fifteen-point plan established by Donald Trump for Gaza that Hamas had accepted and which involved the disarmament of this group that has governed the Strip since 2006. Benjamin Netanyahu had expressed in recent days his disagreement with the plan. He has now formalized it and postponed its implementation, and the partial withdrawal of the Israeli army from part of the strip, until the complete disarmament of Hamas. In reality, Netanyahu will not make a move until the elections in Israel have been held, in October.
Throughout Europe, governments are reconsidering their relationship with the Palantir platform. The French domestic intelligence service has replaced it with a national provider. Spain has ordered its public companies to stop signing contracts with the company. The…
The Italian Foreign Minister, Antonio Tajani, believes that Spain’s reaction to also suspend the Schengen free movement treaty, introducing border controls as Italy had done following what happened in Ceuta, is “incomprehensible and totally unacceptable.”
The total solar eclipse that we will see on Wednesday, if there are no clouds, has become the center of attention. Astronomy enthusiasts have been preparing for months, but the general public has been receiving a flood of information for only a few weeks. You can never have too much…
The great excitement generated by the total solar eclipse threatens to collapse roads, access to the best observation spots, and cause a disorderly invasion of natural spaces amid the general alert for the risk of forest fires. There is deep interest, but also uncertainty, because no one knows for sure the final scale of the mobilization. In the middle of the tourist season and with accommodations already full, prices soar and opportunists and scams appear. Tourist behavior will also be key, in addition to internal mobility, with locals and enthusiasts moving at the last minute if bad weather appears.