Sumar urges the PSOE to "clean their house" and offers "certainty" to the left: "We are spotless"

Sumar urges the PSOE to “clean their house” and offers “certainty” to the left: “We are spotless”

Between the Andalusian elections of last May 17 and the indictment of former Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, the parties allied in Sumar raised the purpose of regrouping to turn around future prospects in which they see themselves dragged by the decline of the national left against the right and the far right. But the alleged corruption cases affecting the socialists have impacted this purpose, generating a problem: the need to distance themselves from their Government colleagues, and an opportunity: to draw support from voters disillusioned with the PSOE.

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Around 90,000 people resignedly await the moment to confront an uncontrolled fire

Around 90,000 people resignedly await the moment to confront an uncontrolled fire

The fire has driven tens of thousands of people from their homes in the western mountains of Madrid and the Ávila valleys of Tiétar and Iruelas (about 90,000 between evacuated and confined). The vast majority have gone to their primary residences or to relatives’ homes, but many have been housed in more than a dozen sports centers distributed throughout the region (except in Madrid city, which does not house anyone).

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Judge on violence against women: “I resolve delicate situations because you evict people from their homes and limit rights”

Judge on violence against women: “I resolve delicate situations because you evict people from their homes and limit rights”

A few days ago, Cecilia (a fictitious name) was attacked by her partner. As on other occasions, he became nervous and hit her in the eye and mouth, causing a bruise on the right side of her face. After assaulting her, the man forcibly took her away – to ensure that no one saw her injuries – and threatened to kill her and bury her in a hole. It was not the first time Cecilia felt that her life was in danger, so she gathered courage and requested a protection order at the police station, which was granted hours later at the City of Justice in Barcelona. While the woman waits for her gender violence complaint to be resolved, the aggressor is prohibited from approaching her within a thousand meters and from communicating by any means.

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The music mingled among the pages of the evening

The music mingled among the pages of the evening

Despite it being a literary night, there was no music for chameleons at the Sant Jordi party, nor could one dance to the music of time due to the large number of people gathered in the gardens of the Alma hotel. Instead, one could listen to the melodies performed by the Quintet de l’Alma, which, as on previous occasions, was in charge of providing the soundtrack for the event. Led by Edu Miralles on clarinet, the Barcelona-based group combined jazz standards with Italian lyrical songs, featuring Iñaki Rodríguez on drums, Jairo Ortega on piano, Brady Lynch on double bass, and the voice of crooner Stefano Riva, a familiar face from the Barcelona Jazz Festival who didn’t forget to sing Elvis’s Can’t Help Falling in Love, nor Fly Me to the Moon, so appropriate this year when Earth’s old companion has once again received a visit from humans.

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Morocco probes, its allies punish

Morocco probes, its allies punish

The Kingdom of Morocco has two great allies – the United States and Israel –, two great enemies – Algeria and the Polisario Front – and a tradition: testing Spain at very well-chosen moments in order to verify our limits and simultaneously display its power. To the tableau must be added the day chosen by Rabat for the show of force of sending, as if nothing, about 50,000 young people to a Spanish city of 83,000 inhabitants: the celebration of the ascension to the throne of Mohamed VI, whose public appearance on Thursday revealed his poor health, which fosters and anticipates underground struggles in the Majzén, the opaque elite that forms the court and takes its name from the royal residence in Rabat.

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Torroella bursts into the summer festival season with the intimate beauty of Beethoven

Torroella bursts into the summer festival season with the intimate beauty of Beethoven

“Habitar la belleza” is the proposal that in a turbulent and contradictory world the artistic director of Torroella, Montse Faura, makes to us for this edition of the Festival. Nothing less… And she opens the doors to it with a central program of 15 important concerts, some due to the quality of the work of our performers, like this inaugural Beethoven by the OBC and Josep Colom that we have just enjoyed. In it, the musicality and expressive strength of the Catalan pianist was well understood by the OBC and its conductor, the young Belarusian Vitali Alekseenok, current principal of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf and Duisburg, who looks very promising in terms of understanding the language and clear gesturality.

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Elsa Pataky's 50 years: a life in film and a ‘wild’ family

Elsa Pataky’s 50 years: a life in film and a ‘wild’ family

Elsa Pataky (Madrid, 1976) was not content with being the pretty face of Al salir de clase. Daughter of a Spanish biochemist and a Romanian advertiser, she experienced the fortune of a childhood with two cultures and the sorrow of her parents’ separation at four years old. The surname she uses was taken from her maternal grandmother, and the vocation of her life, from her grandfather, the Romanian actor Mircea Medianu. She combined her ambition as an actress with a plan B and studied Journalism at CEU San Pablo University while training in Dramatic Arts.

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Sánchez asks to appear before Congress to go on the offensive amid the flood of legal cases

Sánchez asks to appear before Congress to go on the offensive amid the flood of legal cases

Faced with the flood of ongoing legal cases affecting the Government and the PSOE, Pedro Sánchez is not willing to give up, but is very determined to fight back against the political offensive of the Popular Party and the far-right Vox. The head of the Executive, thus, has requested this Thursday to appear before the plenary session of the Congress of Deputies

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