“Flying rats,” “city plague,” “winged mice,” “urban plague,” “garbage cats”… pigeons do not have a particularly good reputation, to say the least. It is estimated that there are more than 400 million worldwide, and most of them are concentrated in urban areas, an ideal habitat where they can thrive.
After unveiling the call-up with the 26 chosen to represent Spain in the World Cup, Luis de la Fuente sat on a stool and openly discussed all his decisions. “It is a very mature, well-worked, and thoroughly analyzed list, we have spent many months going over it,” he began, flanked by the press chief of the Spanish national team.
The most emblematic bird of New Zealand, the kiwi, has returned to inhabit the hills of Wellington after more than a century of absence thanks to an ambitious citizen initiative. The so-called Capital Kiwi Project, driven by neighbors, scientists, and indigenous communities, has managed to reintroduce 250 specimens in the surroundings of the capital, in an unprecedented effort to recover local biodiversity.
As he did with the president of Brazil, Lula da Silva, last Friday, after the bilateral summit with Spain held at the Palau de Pedralbes, the president of the Generalitat, Salvador Illa, took the president of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, to the Barcelona Supercomputer Center (BSC), the leading high-performance computing center in Spain and one of the most important in Europe.
This election campaign has so far been a balm for the president of the Junta and candidate for re-election for the PP, Juanma Moreno. Until tonight’s debate broadcast by Televisión Española and directed by Xabier Fortes and Laura Clavero.
For the second consecutive year, the celebration of Barcelona’s League has ended at PortAventura. After Wednesday night’s dinner in Castelldefels, this Thursday, following the morning training session, a large delegation of the squad led by Hansi Flick arrived at the famous theme park after 6:15 PM to enjoy a few hours of leisure, once it was closed to the general public.
The King has awarded the Order of the Golden Fleece, the highest decoration granted by the Crown, to Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, former president of Portugal, as a sign of his personal and institutional appreciation. It is the first distinction by Felipe VI to a foreign personality since his proclamation, following the award of the Golden Fleece to the Princess of Asturias, Queen Sofía, former Prime Minister Felipe González, and the fathers of the Constitution Miquel Roca i Junyent and Miguel Herrero y Rodríguez de Miñón.
The Mossos d’Esquadra have dismantled a family organization based in Barcelona that was dedicated to supplying firearms and ammunition to organized crime. The arms traffickers were led by the family father, a 37-year-old Spaniard, who directed the purchase and sale of material from prison, where he had been incarcerated since 2009, convicted of homicide. The investigation by the Mossos d’Esquadra coincided during one of their surveillances with investigators from the Policía Nacional who were on the trail of the same arms traffickers. The heads of both investigations created a joint group from that moment on.
The instructions to get a copy signed by Nobel laureate Han Kang were clear: she was only going to do one signing session, at La Central del Raval, and would sign one hundred copies, one per reader. The monumental queue that formed on Tuesday at the CCCB, where the author held a Sant Jordi Dialogue, foreshadowed that it would not be easy.
Juanfran Pérez Llorca has closed the budget agreement for the Generalitat Valenciana for 2026 with Vox. This was confirmed by the spokesperson of the far-right party, José María Llanos. The pact, according to the Vox spokesman, was possible after both parties negotiated that the accounts include national priority in access to public aid, a reduction in taxation, and measures in favor of housing. The goal is for these budgets to be approved next Friday after the meeting of the plenary of the regional government, with the idea that they will be ratified in the Corts Valencianes the week of July 21 to 24.