In October 2023, Isak Andic turned 70, the minimum age to join the VESP group (Veteran Entrepreneurs Well Prepared), created in Barcelona by Juan Echevarría Puig. They met regularly and each meeting was organized by a club member. On February 20, 2024, the president of Mango attended his second meeting at the Mutua Universal headquarters.
The pressure from the Popular Party on the Government does not cease due to the migratory crisis in Ceuta and will use its absolute majority in the Senate to censure, in the first plenary session of September, the ministers Fernando Grande-Marlaska (Interior), José Manuel Albares (Foreign Affairs), Margarita Robles (Defense), Mónica García (Health), and Ana Redondo (Equality).
Ukrainian drones attacked both civilian and industrial facilities in the Russian republic of Tatarstan on the night of this Monday, according to local authorities. As a result of this latest offensive, at least 13 people died, while nearly 40 were injured.
Alberto González Amador, partner of Isabel Díaz Ayuso, has put up for sale the apartment where he lives with the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, in the Vallehermoso neighborhood for almost 1.8 million euros. The listing was published online on July 16, three months after the regional government bought, without making it public, a penthouse of almost 485 square meters in Chamberí.
All intensity needs a vanishing point. Sometimes a meaningful glance, deliberately bold lips, or skin worked to the point of sculptural perfection is enough to transform the message makeup sends to the world. Nars, a master at reconciling sophistication and daring, proposes an exercise in choice: which feature deserves to capture all the light?
With a firm, calm step and now free —which is no small thing—, Luis Bárcenas arrived this morning at the Audiencia Nacional ready to undergo an interrogation in which he would explain what documents were stolen from him through the so-called Operation Kitchen, allegedly orchestrated by the Ministry of Interior during Mariano Rajoy’s time. However, the former treasurer of the Popular Party, with no outstanding issues with justice, delved into an area that the judge who instructed the case did not want to enter: “this operation was initiated by the party leaders”.
In the midst of the debate about the use of AI, there are situations where it is undeniable that its applications and technology in general represent a step forward in quality of life. A clear example is people with visual disabilities, for whom apps or AI glasses allow a broader perception of the world: they serve to read food product labels or describe specific situations when the blind person is alone and needs help. That is why, from ONCE, which these days celebrates the Social Group Week, technology is claimed as a tool to move closer to equality.
The serious warnings of this scorching summer in Europe, with fires that have devoured France or Belgium, a heatwave that left thousands dead, and an unusually warm Mediterranean Sea, do not faze Brussels. Ursula von der Leyen’s European Commission, in its second term, is carrying out a series of controversial policies, having put the handbrake on some of its green ambitions due to pressure from industry, major community countries, and also the European People’s Party (EPP), the majority party in the European Parliament, where it can rely both on the pro-European coalition and the far right. In Strasbourg, a far right more numerous – and louder – than ever works tirelessly to “dismantle the green agenda,” their political obsession in this legislature alongside reducing immigration.
OpenAI claims to have found a solution to one of the deepest problems in mathematics that has remained unsolved for 90 years. The company led by Sam Altman has announced that it shares “a solution to the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem, one of the Millennium Prize Problems,” which represent some of the deepest questions at the forefront of mathematics.
Spain has a certain tendency towards atypical borders. The municipality of Llívia or the border by turns — six months French, six Spanish — of the Island of the Pheasants, between Irún and Hendaye are two good examples. In this line, Spanish geography has the curious honor of hosting the shortest border in the world. It is barely 85 meters of sand that separate Spain and Morocco on African land due to the Spanish possession of the Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera.