The concept of European digital sovereignty has become popular. It is the democratic alternative to the technooligarchy of the USA and the dizzying and unsettling advance of China. The expression is beginning to infiltrate political speeches – at least, those of the leaders…
Saudi Arabia announced this Friday the closure of its East-West pipeline, a key alternative route to the Strait of Hormuz, following multiple attacks that occurred on Thursday.
The director of the United States Center for AI Standards and Innovation, Chris Fall, resigned just three months after being appointed to lead the federal AI testing institute at the Department of Commerce, a department spokesperson told Reuters.
El Govern has expanded this Friday the scope of its loan program for young people aimed at financing the down payment for the purchase of a home. Support to break one of the critical points in access to real estate, which grants financing of up to 50,000 euros without interest, a long grace period, and now extends to new types of property.
On August 3, 1965, a modest article appeared in the pages of La Vanguardia without a signature announcing the result of a surgical milestone. A 35-year-old woman with a terminal illness had received the first organ transplant (kidney) performed in Spain, at the Clínic hospital in Barcelona. “The operation took effect on the 23rd [of July], but the news was not released until the results had satisfactorily fulfilled the intended success,” the text indicates, one of the few mentions of the event.
The Fire Consortium has declared the forest fire, which started around 12:50 p.m. this Saturday in the Salt de l’Aigua ravine area of the Valencian town of Manises, as stabilized. However, the bad news is that the local City Council has reported on social media that the fire has claimed the life of one person. The council has decreed two days of official mourning, tomorrow and Monday.
Russia cannot stop celebrating Victory Day, because it is part of its current DNA, but in next month’s military parade there will be no presence of heavy weaponry and the tanks and combat vehicles will not clatter like on other occasions over the cobblestones of Moscow’s Red Square during the traditional military parade.
The central government has taken control of the port of Ceuta to install a tent where immigrants who remain in the autonomous city can be housed. It is estimated that around a thousand people could access these new facilities that the Ministry of Inclusion, Social Security, and Migrations is going to install. The central government had to sign an emergency resolution, which was done by the Minister of Transport, Óscar Puente, to be able to take this measure that was negotiated in the board of directors of the Port Authority but that the president of Ceuta, Juan Jesús Vivas, refused to concede at the last minute.
The Nepal Tourism Board (NTB) reported this Sunday that the authorities have managed to contact three Spanish citizens following the massive flood last Wednesday after which more than 500 foreigners remain missing.
Spain has requested the support of the European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex) and Europol from the European Commission for the triage –classification– work of immigrants who remain in Ceuta irregularly.