The Director-General of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, addressed the population of Tenerife this Saturday to deliver a message of reassurance regarding the arrival of the cruise ship Hondius, affected by a hantavirus outbreak that has claimed three lives.
The Ministry of Health has confirmed that the South African citizen who had brief and mild contact with people infected with hantavirus and traveled to Barcelona to spend a few days has been located. According to the authorities, the woman is in South Africa and shows no symptoms, after having stayed a week in Barcelona before returning to her country. The epidemiological investigation carried out has confirmed that, during her stay, she stayed alone in a hotel and did not have close contacts.
At a time when the process of regularizing immigrants continues to pit the Government and most of the parties that support it against the PP and, above all, Vox, a report on youth reveals that young people between 15 and 29 years old believe that “Spain needs immigrants to maintain its way of life” (50%) and the number of those who think that immigrants take jobs from Spaniards is decreasing (43% in 2025, compared to 78% 20 years ago). However, the idea launched, especially by the far-right, that “we give too many facilities to immigrants” (59%) has taken hold, and 61% link their presence to an increase in crime and public insecurity.
The Minister of Education and Vocational Training, Esther Niubó, speaks with La Vanguardia one day after chairing the meeting between her department and the unions that have been holding a standoff in the streets for two months. Niubó defends the agreement, claiming that never before had 2 billion euros been put on the table for educational improvements. She believes there is room for agreements within it and assures that the Government will not leave the table until it is achieved.
In 1973, the advertiser Lluís Bassat was walking down Consell de Cent street when, at the height of the Sala Adrià, which was run by Francesc Mestre, an exhibition by Serra de Rivera caught his attention. Inside awaited Bañista, an enigmatic painting (the naked figure of a woman in a flooded room who sinks an arm into the water that reaches halfway up her leg) that not only stole his heart but changed his life. That afternoon he not only left with the canvas under his arm but also with 35% ownership of the gallery (he later convinced seven friends to acquire another 35%), and until 1980, when it closed its doors, they organized more than eighty exhibitions. “There I began to get to know the artists; and with my wife, Carmen, we bought one or two works from each of them. And so, almost unintentionally, we built a collection that today has more than 3,000 works.”
The Lebanese government attends the meeting with Israel’s negotiating team at the White House, with Donald Trump present in the room, to close an improbable deal that would end the war with Hezbollah. After two months of conflict against the Shiite militia – which is not part of the negotiations – Israeli troops remain in southern Lebanon, where they have established a so-called ‘yellow line’, a replica of the military division that splits the Gaza Strip in two.
The Minister of Defense is the new protagonist of Foros de Vanguardia, in a session held this Tuesday at the MGS Auditorium. Margarita Robles will talk about defense and peace in a world full of uncertainties.
The pressure from the Trump Administration is forcing more and more Spanish companies to drastically reduce their activity in Cuba. The latest to give in has been the hotel chain Meliá, which will stop managing 15 of its establishments on the island, the company announced this Wednesday. The decision comes just one day after Iberostar announced its exit from 12 establishments and adds to the moves taken in recent months by Minor Hotels and Royalton Hotels & Resorts.
The Portuguese Police have arrested Emilio Vázquez Blanco, former Organization Secretary of the PSOE in A Coruña and former regional parliamentarian in Galicia, as part of an alleged corruption scheme involving a former advisor of the Portuguese Socialist Party (PS) and related to the awarding of irregular contracts in municipalities of the neighboring country.
Mango has undertaken a broad reorganization of its internal powers and signing systems, according to information published this Monday in the BORME. The changes, agreed on May 18, affect dozens of powers of attorney and were approved just one day before the arrest of Jonathan Andic, investigated for the death of his father and founder of the company, Isak Andic.