The Metropolitan Museum of New York dresses its grand staircase this Monday night to celebrate a new edition of the Met Gala. A party with a purpose, that of highlighting fashion and its intrinsic link with art, which this edition begins wrapped in controversy due to the intrusion of Jeff Bezos and his wife Lauren Sánchez as hosts of the gala.
“Absolute zero.” “None.” “Neither by action nor by omission.” Félix Sanz Roldán, who was director of the National Intelligence Center (CNI) between 2009 and 2019, has categorically denied that Spanish spies participated in any activity related to the so-called Kitchen operation, to steal information from the former treasurer of the Popular Party Luis Bárcenas. “The CNI always acts with absolute respect for the law. “No government of any color – of the four I had the honor to serve – asked me to do anything illegal,” Sanz Roldán assured in his testimony as a witness in the trial about the parapolice operation at the National Court.
The Department of Agriculture has asked the Tour de France organization to make a change in the route in the final section of the second stage of this cycling competition to avoid passing through Collserola, an area affected by swine fever. The Generalitat argues that “this is not the first time a route has been changed due to a health crisis.”
Each passing year, the infrastructures in Catalonia are in a worse state than the previous year because the investment from all public administrations is insufficient to compensate for the depreciation of roads or tracks over time. This is one of the conclusions of the report “The investment deficit in infrastructures in Catalonia 2009-2025” published today by the employers’ association Foment del Treball.
If on the day of his inauguration as mayor Jaume Collboni had been told that his first three years in office would be politically smooth, he would not have believed it. Especially because his election was so tense with suspense until the last minute. Despite having
The secular file of the substantial pending investments of the State in Catalonia remains at the center of the political/business debate. The latest episode, Junts’ vote in Congress against the creation of an equal investment consortium between the State and the
Loyalty and silence. Two powerful words that help in those moments in life as in politics when you have to open your eyes and others when you have to close them. On December 17, 2020, when I had heart surgery, I experienced one of the latter. While everyone
At least three people have died and three others are seriously ill due to an outbreak of a hantavirus recorded on a cruise in the Atlantic, the World Health Organization (WHO) has reported. The infection has been confirmed in one of the deceased and is suspected in the others who have fallen ill. It is exceptional for hantaviruses to be transmitted between people, and there is no precedent for hantavirus outbreaks with multiple cases on cruises.
The phenomenon of Latin gangs in Barcelona and its metropolitan area, or simply youth gangs, because it is true that today’s gangs have become more multicultural, has gone from being residual to becoming a growing problem. After a few years, between 2014 and 2023, that did not represent any risk, these groups are back under the spotlight of the Mossos d’Esquadra police officials, who are finalizing a specific plan led by the general information commissariat to address the issue.
Los Mossos d’Esquadra suspect that the perpetrator of the Esplugues crime was suffering from a psychotic episode at the time of committing the acts. This has been confirmed by the Minister of the Interior, Núria Parlon, in an interview on RAC1, in which she also denied that the action had a terrorist motivation. “A priori, the detainee is a person who was in an altered state and probably has some kind of problem that has nothing to do with jihadism,” she stated. The Mossos have not found any neighbor who heard the arrested person utter jihadist slogans. For this reason, for now, the investigation has fallen to the Esplugues Investigation Unit and has not been transferred to the Central Information Unit, which is responsible for matters related to terrorism.