This is the isolation unit where the Spaniards from the Hondius will spend quarantine

This is the isolation unit where the Spaniards from the Hondius will spend quarantine

The 14 Spanish passengers traveling aboard the Hondius will be evacuated at the port of Granadilla de Abona, south of Tenerife, from where they will be flown to Madrid to be admitted to the Central Defense Hospital Gómez Ulla. All of them will undergo quarantine in a special isolation unit of this hospital center that was adapted after the 2014 Ebola crisis. Before flying from Tenerife South-Reina Sofía airport to the peninsula, the travelers will be medically evaluated in the Canary Islands.

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Illa bets from Silicon Valley that Catalonia will lead the next 10 years “without asking anyone for permission”

Illa bets from Silicon Valley that Catalonia will lead the next 10 years “without asking anyone for permission”

The president of the Generalitat, Salvador Illa, advocates for Catalonia to free itself from complexes to become a hub of talent attraction in innovation and new technologies. From Palo Alto, a city integrated into the Californian Silicon Valley region, where Illa has met with leaders of local startups, the head of the Government has expressed the hope that Catalonia can “lead the next 10 years without asking anyone for permission.”

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Slogans, emotion and Andalusian pride: the campaign decided in a few words

Slogans, emotion and Andalusian pride: the campaign decided in a few words

“With the strength of Andalusia” (PP), “Defend the public” (PSOE), “Common sense” (Vox), “The Andalusian left” (Por Andalucía) and “Vote what you feel” (Adelante Andalucía). These are the phrases Andalusians encounter on every corner. Brief, direct, designed to stick. Five attempts to get into the mind (and mood) of an electorate being asked to get involved this 17M.

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Sliced life

Sliced life

“We are no longer fed crumbs/we want the whole bread” are some verses from the song Tot explota pel cap o per la pota from the album A Alcoi (1974), by Ovidi Montllor, which has become an anti-capitalist anthem. They mean that simple people, the humiliated and offended of

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Sir Keir Starmer, a slow-motion Labour death

Sir Keir Starmer, a slow-motion Labour death

The seppuku of the Japanese samurais (a painful cut in the abdomen with a dagger, dressed in white ritual clothes and writing a farewell poem) was not just any way to take one’s life, but an honorable death to avoid being captured, pay for failure, demonstrate loyalty, bravery, and self-control. It was banned at the end of the 19th century but even if it were not, and despite its romanticism, there is nothing further from the will of British Prime Minister Keir Starmer than to commit harakiri.

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