Vandalism and police charges in Paris

Vandalism and police charges in Paris

Even during the Champions League final match in Budapest, skirmishes have already begun in Paris between riot police and groups of fans – or mere troublemakers – on the Champs-Élysées and near the Parc des Princes, the stadium where PSG usually plays. The clashes escalated as the hours passed and spread to other cities such as Clermont-Ferrand, Limoges, Dieppe, and Valenciennes.

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Koldo denies the payments and gifts from Aldama

Koldo denies the payments and gifts from Aldama

When Samson had his hair cut, he lost his superhuman strength. Koldo García had his 27 mobile phones taken away by the police and has lost his memory. “I don’t remember,” has been the main response from the former advisor to José Luis Ábalos during the interrogation conducted by the prosecutor this morning. García, former minister Ábalos, and the commissioner Víctor de Aldama are being tried before the Supreme Court for the alleged crimes of belonging to a criminal organization, influence peddling, bribery, insider trading, and embezzlement.

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“Cuba is not Venezuela, because there was no revolution there”

“Cuba is not Venezuela, because there was no revolution there”

Leonardo Padura (Havana, 1955) is very cautious. The writer refuses to venture predictions for Cuba or to answer whether he sees any middle ground between the current regime and a U.S. intervention that would lead to a status of protectorate or colony for the island. “I have no idea what might happen,” says the winner of the Prince of Asturias Award for Literature in 2015, visiting Paris to promote the French version of Going to Havana and for a colloquium at the Cervantes Institute. The author, tired of the media’s insistence for him to take a stand, acknowledges that the Spanish transition could be an inspiring source, like many others, “but it depends on other decisions that are beyond my reach, not even able to outline them.” “Speculating about any future is very risky; speculating about Cuba’s future is madness,” he apologizes.

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Jordan 'crashes' Guardiola's farewell party in Manchester

Jordan ‘crashes’ Guardiola’s farewell party in Manchester

The legendary basketball player Michael Jordan joined on Monday the tribute that Manchester City fans paid to Pep Guardiola at his farewell. After the parade that the first team made in a convertible bus to celebrate their two titles this season -FA Cup and the Carabao Cup, as well as the Women’s Super League and the FA Youth Cup-, at the closing event held at the Co-op Live Arena, near the Etihad Stadium, a message from Jordan was projected

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Doubts about the first mass sending of alerts to mobile phones for a nuclear emergency in Vandellòs II

Doubts about the first mass sending of alerts to mobile phones for a nuclear emergency in Vandellòs II

The Directorate General for Civil Protection, under the Ministry of Interior, carried out this Monday at 11:00 AM the first drill of the mass alert system for mobile phones (ES-Alert) for a nuclear emergency in the closest influence area to Vandellòs II. It had never before been put into practice alongside the Catalan nuclear power plants. Without yet having the information from telecommunications operators and surveys of residents, there are doubts about the arrival of alerts in some dark areas, without coverage or with deficiencies, within the first ten-kilometer radius of the plant.

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Health says that no Spanish passenger on the hantavirus cruise has expressed opposition to the quarantine

Health says that no Spanish passenger on the hantavirus cruise has expressed opposition to the quarantine

The Secretary of State for Health, Javier Padilla, assured today that none of the passengers of the MV Hondius ship, where a hantavirus outbreak has broken out, have expressed opposition to undergoing quarantine when they are evacuated to the Gómez Ulla Military Hospital in Madrid from the port of Granadilla de Abona in Tenerife, where the technical team from the Ministry of Health will also be deployed tomorrow.

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The Javis reclaim the 'queer' Lorca in Cannes: “There are people trying to make intolerance and fascism fashionable”

The Javis reclaim the ‘queer’ Lorca in Cannes: “There are people trying to make intolerance and fascism fashionable”

The debut of Los Javis at the Cannes festival could not have been more anticipated. After El ser querido, by Rodrigo Sorogoyen, and Amarga Navidad, by Pedro Almodóvar, La bola negra is presented in the final stretch of the event, where Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo aspire to the Palme d’Or with an unfinished story by Federico García Lorca of which only four pages were preserved and which was his first work with an openly homosexual protagonist. The famous Andalusian writer began La bola negra at the beginning of 1936, but he was murdered on August 19 of that same year.

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“The great advantage of Sánchez is that almost no one benefits from elections”

“The great advantage of Sánchez is that almost no one benefits from elections”

The possibility of a motion of no confidence against Pedro Sánchez is once again gaining prominence in the political debate, but the difficulties in forming an alternative majority remain enormous. This is the view of Lola García, deputy director of La Vanguardia, who argues that neither Junts nor the PNV currently find an easy way out of the current situation. “What would interest them is for the current Government to be stronger and more solid, able to present budgets and not be harassed by corruption cases,” she said. In her opinion, the alternative of an Executive led by Alberto Núñez Feijóo with Vox as part of the equation is also not attractive to them.

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