After some controversial semifinals, marked by historical tensions between both nations, and with a bitter ending for England, the British press celebrates this Monday the victory of the Spanish team against Argentina in the World Cup final.
Artificial intelligence is already here. Every day it is more present in our lives. The great debate we face as a society is how it will develop and be applied in the future so that it serves humanity and does not entail a loss of freedoms…
The United States Central Command (Centcom) reported late this Friday that its forces shot down four Iranian drones launched towards the Strait of Hormuz, considering they represented an immediate threat to commercial navigation in the area.
The battle to dominate the global market for obesity drugs has moved from laboratories to courts. Danish pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk has sued Eli Lilly in the U.S. for alleged misleading advertising, claiming that its promotional campaigns present “false and materially misleading” comparisons between the treatments of both companies, to make it appear that its product yielded better results.
This Tuesday, negotiations between the Departament de Educació and the unions resume to resolve the educational conflict in Catalunya. They do so amid a call for a series of strikes and demonstrations that, if supported by public school teachers as they have been so far, will especially pressure the city of Barcelona and its metropolitan area this week. This occurs in a context of rising temperatures that will increase the initiatives of teachers throughout Catalunya to take desks and tables to the streets to highlight the lack of air conditioning in school buildings.
A gunman killed eight children in Louisiana in several domestic violence-related shootings that occurred in different homes early Sunday morning, Shreveport police reported. The victims were between one and 14 years old, said Shreveport police spokesman Chris Bordelon. A total of ten people were wounded by gunfire. The gunman later died after a pursuit with officers who shot him, Bordelon explained.
Andalusia, this time its waters of Huelva, has once again been the scene of a tragedy that strikes the Civil Guard. On the day the institution celebrated the largest cocaine seizure so far in the world, two of its men, a captain and a civil guard, aged 54 and 55, died when their Maritime Service vessels, the patrol boat Rio Antas and a rigid inflatable boat of the corps in which the two deceased were traveling, collided while trying to cut off the passage to a drug-running boat. The rigid inflatable boat is 12 meters long and has three engines, similar in structure, but much larger and faster than the zodiac run over by a drug-running boat in Barbate, in February 2024, in which two civil guards died.
A critical Europeanist is defined. The British Martin Wolf (London, 1946) has received the European Construction award given each year by the Cercle d’Economia. His columns in the Financial Times have inspired the debate on the global economy for decades.
The novelist and RAE academic Juan Goytisolo (Barcelona, 1935), National Prize for Spanish Literature in 2013, has died at the age of 91. The author of the monumental tetralogy Antagonía was the brother of the also great Barcelona writers Juan Goytisolo and José Agustín Goytisolo.
Rocío Cortés, former mayor of Requena, a town flooded by the October 29 flood in which there were no victims, has stated in court that “in Requena there were no deaths or injuries because the population was warned.”