The Nepal Tourism Board (NTB) reported this Sunday that the authorities have managed to contact three Spanish citizens following the massive flood last Wednesday after which more than 500 foreigners remain missing.
Every return of the Tour de France to Orcières-Merlette brings back memories of that afternoon in 1971 when Luis Ocaña made history. For many, that remains the most important feat in modern cycling. Due to the magnitude of the stage, the differences generated, and above all, the defeated rivals, fundamentally the insurmountable Eddie Merckx. Ocaña broke away when there was still an eternity ahead (60 km) and the minutes fell one after another until the definitive 8m40s. Not even when they hinted from the car that it was enough to wear yellow did he give up continuing to increase his lead. The Spanish champion, a genius with his own ghosts, showed that even the most dominant rider could be defeated, even humiliated. “Luis Ocaña killed us all today, like El Cordobés kills his bulls,” Eddy Merckx acknowledged after the stage, in a phrase reported the next day by La Vanguardia and which perhaps remains the best way to explain what happened in Orcières-Merlette. “A magnificent feat, which Spanish cycling greatly needed,” said Federico Martín Bahamontes for this newspaper that same day.
Abstention was expected to be one of the great fears in these elections, but the day is disproving that fear with data in hand. The people of Andalusia are going to vote and are doing so to a greater extent than in 2022. This is confirmed by the third (and final) turnout update, provided by the Minister of the Presidency, Antonio Sanz, from the Data Center. By 6:00 p.m., 51.65% of the census had already voted, more than seven points above the 44.51% recorded at the same time four years ago.
The Dane Jonas Vingeggard was forced to abandon the Tour de France after suffering a dramatic crash 20 km from the finish of the fifteenth stage, which was held between Champagnole and Plateau de Solaison, in which the Mexican from UAE Isaac del Toro was also involved. Vingeggard, winner of two Tours de France and one of the favorites in the current edition, went down in a curve along with other riders, but the Dane got the worst of it with a strong blow to his right shoulder.
The orbital railway line had been kept in a drawer of the Departament de Territori for 15 years. Manel Nadal, the Mobility Secretary who left the file there when the tripartite ended, is the same person who revived the project a decade and a half later. Why invent something new when you have that project and the transversal railway axis?, the socialists must have thought, who made these two lines the main bets of the 2025-2050 infrastructure plan presented last year with the aim of breaking the radial railway scheme of Catalonia, in which everything passes through Barcelona, both in Rodalies and high speed.
“I won the elections here.” It had been just over three minutes since the start of his press conference in Ceuta last Sunday, and the far-right leader Santiago Abascal had already claimed twice the strength of Vox in this autonomous city, where it managed to be the leading force in the November 2019 general elections, something it has only achieved so far also in its other stronghold, Murcia. Ceuta was, moreover, in the last three calls to the Congress, those of July 2023 and April and November 2019, the constituency where Vox obtained its highest percentage of votes in all of Spain.
The Government of the Generalitat is in contact with the Archdiocese of Barcelona and assures that it “works discreetly” to try to include Catalan in the blessing of the tower of Jesus of the Sagrada Família, which crowns Antoni Gaudí’s basilica and makes it the tallest church in the world.
The same habits as always. And the same mindset, as strong as overwhelming. This is how Ferran Torres faced this World Cup. And, just like Andrés Iniesta was in 2010, he became the hero of the final against Argentina by scoring the goal that allowed Spain to win the second star in its history.
From the Vatican, the debate on artificial intelligence that has erupted in the United States is being followed with great attention. It is not the style of the house to say “we had already warned,” and Leo XIV does not do so either. But within the Leonine walls, it is observed that many of the doubts raised today by the very directors and researchers of the large technology companies were already at the heart of Magnifica Humanitas, the first encyclical of the pontificate, published last May.
With the permission of Trump, Khamenei and the Strait of Hormuz, negotiations for a possible merger between the American giant Estée Lauder and the Catalan multinational Puig are moving forward. Beyond geopolitical tensions, the operation “makes sense
