Berlin announced on Wednesday that Russia will suspend the supply of Kazakh oil to a major refinery supplying eastern Germany starting May 1. The suspension comes amid the global energy crisis caused by the war in the Middle East.
The real political pulse of the day was not taken this Wednesday in the chamber, but a few meters away, in the Plaza de las Cortes. A fire drill forced the evacuation of Congress and pushed deputies, ministers, and advisors into an improvised gathering where, far from the face-to-face confrontations of the control session, interpretations and consequences about the UCO’s entry into Ferraz multiplied. The noise of the debate paused for a few minutes, giving way to countless cross conversations that, between cigarette breaks and searches on mobile phones, allowed some and others to reposition their pieces on a political board that keeps suffering shocks. The PSOE has activated a strategy of resistance and calm, the partners have begun to verbalize their limits, and the PP has opted for patient waiting, convinced that socialist wear and tear will do the work on its own.
Lluïsa Moret (Barbastro, 1965), in addition to holding the vice-first secretary position of the PSC and serving as the mayor of Sant Boi de Llobregat, which she hopes to renew in the elections on May 23, 2027, presides over the Diputación de Barcelona, an institution that seems to inhabit a world very different from that of other public administrations, immersed in permanent stability.
A deathly silence has taken over the Sant Roc neighborhood of Badalona. On Sunday afternoon, a vehicle stopped without turning off the engine at number 19 Còrdova Street, next to a square where drug buying and selling is common. An individual armed with an automatic pistol emptied the magazine, eight shots, aiming, according to some witnesses, at the place where two minors were playing. A ten-year-old girl received a clean shot in the elbow, with an entry and exit wound, and a bone fracture.
West of the Greek island of Crete, in waters of international jurisdiction -according to Greece-, and 1,100 kilometers from Gaza, the Israeli armed forces intercepted on Wednesday night at least 22 of the 57 vessels of the Global Sumud Flotilla, which were heading with humanitarian aid to the Palestinian strip, according to reports from the flotilla and Israel. The Israeli Foreign Minister stated that about 175 activists have been detained, who are being transferred to the Hebrew country.
Spain will suffer its third heatwave this week so far this summer. Three episodes of very high temperatures in just six weeks. Faced with this unusual streak, some meteorologists are starting to talk about a new concept: “heatwave trains”, a succession of extreme events with hardly any respite and which reflects a change in climate patterns in Europe and, especially, in Spain.
The workers of the Consorci de Biblioteques de Barcelona have started an indefinite strike this Tuesday to protest the lack of progress in the negotiation process with the City Council regarding their working conditions, and 37 of the 40 centers in the city have not opened; only the libraries of Collserola-Josep Miracle, Canyelles-M. Àngels Rivas, and Joan Miró have remained operational.
The “Spain case” continues to make headlines worldwide. A few weeks ago, the firm stance of the Spanish Government against the start of the Iran war became a reference point. It seemed like the brave culmination of a calculated strategy to distance itself from the postulates and demands of the President of the United States, Donald Trump. The head of the Spanish Government, Pedro Sánchez, was on the rise, seeming to dare to say what other European politicians remain silent about.
A specter is haunting the world: the specter of Artificial Intelligence (AI). It will destroy jobs on an unprecedented scale. It will make wars more lethal and efficient (eliminating many more enemies and faster). It can destroy the Earth. And it will place at the pinnacle of power a…
Jonathan Andic’s defense has filed an appeal against the decision of the judge in Martorell to accept the prosecutor’s request to incorporate the central unit for missing persons of the Mossos d’Esquadra into the investigation of Isak Andic’s death, for which his son is accused. Lawyer Cristóbal Martell signed a document on June 18 warning that the technical operational analysis of the evidentiary elements, which the prosecution wants to assign to the aforementioned unit, is not appropriate in this procedure and that the assessments they want to assign correspond exclusively to the judicial authority. He also asserts that what the prosecutor actually intends is to commission an intelligence expert report, which also has no place in this case.