In October 2023, Isak Andic turned 70, the minimum age to join the VESP group (Veteran Entrepreneurs Well Prepared), created in Barcelona by Juan Echevarría Puig. They met regularly and each meeting was organized by a club member. On February 20, 2024, the president of Mango attended his second meeting at the Mutua Universal headquarters.
Hundreds of flights have been canceled in the United Kingdom due to a technical issue related to air traffic control, according to the flight monitoring site FlightRadar24, which identifies London’s Heathrow Airport as the most affected.
Asclepius (Escolapio) the Greek god of medicine, welcomed, this Wednesday, Princess Leonor and Infanta Sofía, at the gates of the ruins of Empúries. The daughters of the Kings took a walk through the origin of the territory, now known as Girona, which twenty-seven centuries ago was a commercial hub throughout the Mediterranean thanks to Empúries, the market founded by the Greeks that, after a period under the Roman Empire and being lost in the early Middle Ages, was reborn last century as the most important Greco-Roman archaeological site in the Spanish Mediterranean.
The 430 members of the Global Sumud Flotilla intercepted on Monday off the coast of Cyprus by the Israeli navy have been transferred to Israel, the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on Tuesday night to Wednesday. “The 430 activists have been transferred aboard Israeli ships and are heading to Israel, where they will be able to meet with their consular representatives,” said a ministry spokesperson.
The king is dead, long live the King. Minutes after Harald of Norway was officially declared deceased, his son, and until now crown prince, Haakon, in accordance with the Norwegian constitution, has automatically assumed the head of state, becoming the fourth king of the modern era of Norway after his great-grandfather, Haakon VII, his grandfather, Olav V, and his own father. This very Friday, Haakon VIII will convene the Council of State to sign the acceptance act and deliver his first message to the nation. The until now crown prince, who has just turned 53, receives the Viking throne at the worst moment for the Norwegian monarchy weakened by the situation faced by the until now princess Mette-Marit, who, besides recovering from a lung transplant, has to overcome the situation of her eldest son Marius Borg, who is serving house arrest after being convicted of rape and abuse, and her own crisis after her connections with the sexual criminal Jeffrey Epstein were revealed.
It seems like centuries have passed since the days when representatives of the Trump administration arrived in Rome received with all honors, while ministers competed to get a photo with them. Marco Rubio, on the other hand, lands in the Italian capital in a low-profile atmosphere bordering on distrust. The Secretary of State’s mission, already complicated in itself, has become even more arduous after Donald Trump’s new accusations against the Pope regarding the Iranian nuclear program, to which Leo XIV responded firmly on Tuesday night.
Something had to do with Emilia Clarke, Kit Harington, Peter Dinklage, and Lena Headey becoming stars, at least during the time when Game of Thrones was the absolute queen of television. And although for many he is simply a reference as the author of the books on which the series that has generated nearly 4 billion euros for HBO was based, George R.R. Martin is a celebrity in his own right.
That the FC Barcelona defense has gained in tranquility with the signing of Joan Garcia (24) as goalkeeper is a reality. That this summer the club will have to decide who takes over as second goalkeeper, too. The Polish Wojciech Szczesny (36), who signed a renewal for one year plus another optional, has pretty much accepted that he will not continue next season. Who will take the role of second goalkeeper? That is one of the questions being asked at the training ground.
The firefighters have declared this afternoon a fire that has caught forest mass in Pontils, in the region of Conca de Barberà, stabilized. The fire started in a stubble area, but soon spread to a nearby wooded area. Twenty-three ground crews and six aerial units have worked on it, and so far it has burned an area of four hectares, according to provisional data from the Agents Rurals.
The Government has accepted the requests for appearances of four ministers in Congress for the end of August – between August 25 and 28 – and, shortly after, the PP has responded by summoning three of those Government members to give explanations about the crisis triggered in Ceuta starting August 12. Alberto Núñez Feijóo’s party has also been requesting since July 31 that Pedro Sánchez appear to answer deputies’ questions about the entry of more than 70,000 immigrants from Morocco into Ceuta.