“With humility and joy.” This is how the King welcomed the Pope at the beginning of the words he delivered at the Royal Palace, in which there was no lack of reference to Spain’s Catholic roots, to the social work of the Church which, he said, contrasts with “the pain caused by cases of abuse, which neither are nor can be representative of the immense ecclesial community.”
The State Meteorological Agency (Aemet) has raised the high temperature warning to red for tomorrow, Thursday, on the southern coast of Valencia and Alicante, where temperatures could exceed 42º C.
The seppuku of the Japanese samurais (a painful cut in the abdomen with a dagger, dressed in white ritual clothes and writing a farewell poem) was not just any way to take one’s life, but an honorable death to avoid being captured, pay for failure, demonstrate loyalty, bravery, and self-control. It was banned at the end of the 19th century but even if it were not, and despite its romanticism, there is nothing further from the will of British Prime Minister Keir Starmer than to commit harakiri.
Division in the extraordinary plenary this Thursday at the Cambra de Comerç de Barcelona, which will experience one of the tensest votes of this last term. The executive committee, the highest governing body of the institution chaired by Josep Santacreu, approved last week an agreement to increase the so-called silver seats from 2 to 10, and now it is the plenary that must decide whether to accept this measure or not. What is at stake is the number of board seats linked to a voluntary financial contribution and that have historically been held by major corporations relevant to the Catalan economy. The pro-independence candidacy Eines de País – which won the 2019 elections and lost the 2023 ones against Santacreu – opposes it, as does the Catalan employers’ association Pimec.
On November 29, 2024, just a few days after his electoral victory, Donald Trump invited the then Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, to one of his hotels in Florida. It was an unexpected meeting, which had an even more surprising announcement: Trump suggested that Canada…
The city of Madrid has fully rallied behind the Spanish national team. Hundreds of thousands of people have been in the streets of the capital since mid-afternoon. The Government Delegation in Madrid estimates up to two million people, including the entire route. In the Plaza de Cibeles, the players are climbing onto the stage set up for the celebration. Neither the 36-degree temperature nor the desire for vacations and to escape the capital have dampened the enthusiasm of the fans, who have been forming rivers of people heading towards the square that houses the Madrid City Hall and the Bank of Spain. The goal: to see their idols, even if they couldn’t have them as close as they wanted.
The Ministry of the Interior of Morocco shook off any responsibility on Sunday night for the massive entry of migrants last week in Ceuta through the Tarajal breakwater and attributed the crisis to a combination of factors: both to the mafias that traffic in people and to the misinformation on social networks following a Supreme Court ruling from early July.
Rafa Jódar will play his first Masters 1,000 semifinal in Montreal after defeating Arthur Fils last night (7-65 and 6-3), a victory that temporarily moves him up to 11th in the world. The 19-year-old from Madrid had fallen in the quarterfinals of Madrid and Rome. His next opponent will be American Brandon Nakashima, ranked number 25, who had also never reached this far in a major.
Police statistics go one way and public perception goes another. This is the key to everything. In many towns in inland Catalonia, there has been an increase in the immigrant population, mainly from North Africa, which has changed the landscape of the…
It is hard to find someone who has never heard of The Metamorphosis. Although it is not a mandatory reading in Spanish educational centers, it is common for this short novel by Franz Kafka to be taught in classrooms, so the story of its protagonist, Gregor Samsa, the man who wakes up to find himself transformed into a monstrous insect, is at least popular. It has been so since it was published in 1915 under the German title Die Verwandlung or, in other words, The Transformation, a more accurate title for this story, translated in Spain ten years later.
