France is overwhelmed by forest fires and by the lack of sufficient aerial means to combat them. Hence, the Government announced this Thursday that it will experimentally adapt a military transport aircraft, the Airbus A400M Atlas, to help extinguish fires like the one that has already forced the evacuation of more than 20,000 people near Bordeaux.
The simultaneity of fires in Madrid complicates extinction efforts, with three active fires within a radius of less than 20 kilometers. Thus, in addition to the fires in Almorox (Toledo) and Burgohondo (Ávila), a new fire has been added in San Martín de Valdeiglesias (Madrid) after a car caught fire on the M-501, with the added difficulty of them being very close to each other and in three different autonomous communities.
The European Commission dealt a very significant blow to Google this Thursday, challenging the United States at a delicate moment in trade relations across the Atlantic. Brussels is shaking up the US tech industry by imposing two fines totaling 890 million euros for violating the European Digital Markets Act (DMA). The sanctions could be a cause for anger in the White House, as the criticized Turnberry trade agreement is about to complete a year and while US President Donald Trump finalizes new tariffs due to the expiration of the 10% global levies he imposed after the Supreme Court annulled his previous tariff barriers in February.
Alberto Núñez Feijóo has been very critical of the “agreed interview” that José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero granted to RTVE to explain the jewels valued at 1.3 million euros and the alleged collection of a commission for helping with the rescue of Plus Ultra. In the opinion of the PP leader, Zapatero “answered nothing” and assured that Pedro Sánchez “is in Zapatero’s hands and Zapatero is in Julio Martínez’s hands,” referring to the businessman who confessed that the former President of the Government took 1% of the Plus Ultra rescue.
Former Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero today reaffirmed his innocence regarding the Plus Ultra case in an interview on RTVE’s Mañaneros. Zapatero maintained that he did not intervene in the rescue of Plus Ultra, distanced himself from the confession of his friend Julio Martínez, and justified the possession of the jewels seized in his office as a “personal courtesy” gift. These are some of the most notable phrases from his intervention.
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero admitted this Thursday, in his first public interview on TVE since he was charged with alleged corruption offenses on May 19, the enormous concern that these accusations have caused in the socialist ranks. “I suffer a lot thinking that the PSOE could suffer because of the situation I am in, I suffer a lot,” he acknowledged. But to all socialists who maintain confidence in his innocence, starting with Pedro Sánchez, he conveyed: “I am not going to ask for an act of faith.”
Former Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero has publicly come out to defend his innocence, his work as a consultant after leaving his political career, and to deny that he exerted any influence in favor of companies, specifically Plus Ultra. The former socialist leader has come forward 48 hours after his friend Julio Martínez Martínez chose to cooperate with justice and point to him as the ideologue and manager of the activities of the company investigated by the National Court, Análisis Relevante.
The Civil Section of the Court of First Instance of Madrid has provisionally suspended the eviction of Paquita López Ruiz, an 82-year-old woman, initially scheduled for this Wednesday, from her home located on Santa Ana street, in the La Latina neighborhood of Madrid, pending public administrations offering her a housing alternative.
The image of a Vox parliamentary group wildly applauding every phrase of its spokesperson in the Corts Valencianes, facing a much less enthusiastic Popular Party bench after the approval of the 2026 budgets, yesterday revealed the big winner of the negotiation. President Juanfran Pérez Llorca will have his budgets and guarantees himself a fairly calm end to the legislature, but in return, he has had to concede and include in the year’s most important bill the national priority that Vox demanded. Concessions were made on all issues demanded by the far-right, except on language, to achieve stability and a candidacy for the Presidency of the Generalitat in 2027.
The Local Police of Elx has closed down a second vehicle parking lot located in the hamlet of Torrellano Alto, in the vicinity of Alicante-Elche- Miguel Hernández airport, which was operating without an opening license, had more than 5,000 square meters and a capacity for more than 3,500 vehicles.