The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) reported this Thursday that it found evidence of a bird strike before the tourist helicopter carrying a Catalan family (a couple and their three children) crashed into the Hudson River in New York City in April 2025, causing the death of all six people on board (the family and the aircraft pilot).
As he himself explained on the flap of his works, “since he was little he cultivated the dreadful habit of reading.” And of writing: more than 80 essential books to know in detail the history of Barcelona and to approach some of the leading figures of Catalan culture. With this…
Madrid’s political scene is much hotter than usual, and not so much because of the heatwaves, but because of the judicial investigations affecting Pedro Sánchez and his inner circle. The capital’s rumor mills are full of speculation about the next steps that will be taken…
The High Court of Justice of Catalonia (TSJC) is investigating the ERC deputy in the Parliament and former Interior Minister Joan Ignasi Elena and the former ICV coordinator Joan Herrera as necessary accomplices in an alleged crime of administrative misconduct for which the former mayor of Altafulla (Tarragona) and deputy in the Congress for Sumar, Félix Alonso Cantorné, is being investigated in the Supreme Court.
The Mobile organization announced a few days ago through a statement that John Hoffman is stepping down as CEO of the GSMA to take on the role of chairman of the company responsible for the most important congress in Barcelona starting July 1. After 20 years in the position, the step aside has raised some suspicions that Hoffman himself wants to clarify from his home in the United States.
A worker, approximately 30 years old, died this Wednesday and two others were injured after being crushed by metal train maintenance machinery at the Renfe Comprehensive Maintenance Base located in the Madrid district of Villaverde.
The broker Víctor de Aldama, who at one time reached a deal with the Prosecutor’s Office to get out of prison for another case, has appeared before the Supreme Court judging him for the mask case, willing to explain how he paid the former Minister of Transport José Luis Ábalos and his then advisor Koldo García, also in the dock. He has elaborated on all the corruption within the Ministry and beyond. That red line, according to the businessman, was crossed at Ábalos’s request because – he declared – “he needed money for the party’s financing” and the president knew all about it.
The secretary general of Vox, Ignacio Garriga, has no doubt that the president of the Junta de Andalucía and candidate for re-election, Juanma Moreno Bonilla, will sit down to negotiate with his party to achieve the investiture and that sooner or later he will assume and accept the principle of national priority that Santiago Abascal’s party has already imposed in Extremadura and Aragón and is imposing in Castilla y León and the Valencian Community.
The jet fuel crisis caused by the war in the Middle East continues to take its toll on the airline industry. This time, the impact reaches Barcelona airport, which temporarily loses a route to Tangier due to the rising price of fuel. This is the connection that Royal Air Maroc operated until now from El Prat and which transported 83,580 people between January and April, 0.5% of the total passengers, according to Aena data.
Most of the recent Conservative and Labour governments – with the exception of Boris Johnson – have done their best to make the United Kingdom an unfriendly country for immigrants (workers, asylum seekers, and refugees), with the purpose of discouraging them from settling here and preferring to try their luck in other European lands that treat them with more sympathy and humanity. But it has been Keir Starmer – about to leave Downing Street – who has achieved it.