El Camp Nou overflowed with joy. Winning the League after winning the clásico was a milestone that both the team and the fans celebrated in grand style. A celebration that has sparked reactions from various personalities. Among them, Pedro Sánchez, Leo Messi, and Ronaldinho.
The luxury cruise ship Hondius, affected by a hantavirus outbreak, will finally dock in the Canary Islands, where it is scheduled to arrive next Sunday at twelve noon with more than 140 people on board, who do not show symptoms of the disease. The three sick people on the ship, one of them the doctor and in serious condition, were evacuated yesterday on two medical planes and transferred to Amsterdam, where they are receiving the necessary medical care.
The World Cup final has prompted several major chains to change their hours for this Sunday to allow their employees to watch the match between Spain and Argentina. El Corte Inglés, Inditex stores, and Carrefour will be some of those that will close their open stores earlier on a day that could be historic.
The German politician Jens Spahn, one of the most prominent figures of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party of Chancellor Friedrich Merz, resigned this Saturday as head of the conservative parliamentary group after it became known that he has become a father through surrogacy in the United States.
The Vatican flag has been flying since Thursday in Brians 1, the penitentiary center of Sant Esteve Sesrovires that will receive Leo XIV on Wednesday, becoming the first Pope to visit a Spanish prison. A brigade of bricklayers works tirelessly tidying up the auditorium that will host the Pontiff’s meeting with eighty inmates and twenty prison officials. The walls are immaculately white and smell of fresh paint.
As a child, on a day like this, every year at school I would paint a photocopy with Sant Jordi, Saint George in my land. Every year I would change the color of the dragon so as not to get bored. Then I would write stories for the saint, destinies, love affairs. Years later I dreamed this
Europe took a new step this Monday to defend itself autonomously, without so much dependence on the United States. During a summit in Paris, ten countries, including Spain, launched “the coalition against ballistic missiles,” with a “purely defensive” vocation, aimed at jointly developing or at least coordinating efforts to equip themselves with systems that serve to protect against attacks like those carried out by Russia against Ukraine.
The United Kingdom Army has carried out an air operation to assist one of the passengers of the Hondius residing in Tristan da Cunha, a British territory in the South Atlantic with 221 inhabitants. The island lacks an airport and upon hearing that a passenger from the cruise with hantavirus was in the territory and showed symptoms compatible with the disease, the Army sprang into action.
President Salvador Illa has put on the table 3.3 billion euros in infrastructure investments at the start of the 41st edition of the Annual Meeting of the Cercle d’Economia, which began this afternoon in Barcelona. The investment will be through a public-private collaboration mechanism, the president explained at the inauguration of the traditional sessions that were previously held on the Costa Brava and now in Barcelona. Last February, the Government already said it would survey the market to see if there was interest in recovering concessions for road networks and metro stations.
Former president José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero is said to have used his influence within the government of Pedro Sánchez and that of Venezuelan Nicolás Maduro to conduct business, according to the judge of the National Court José Luis Calama, who has charged him. The question is: whom did he influence? The court order does not specify which senior government official or administration employee was influenced but, however, hints at meetings, encounters, contacts, or references regarding the moves that the former socialist leader and his network would have made to achieve the bailout of the airline Plus Ultra.