The Community of Madrid activated this Wednesday Operational Situation 2 of the Forest Fire Plan due to the forest fire in Almorox (Toledo), which has forced the evacuation of the El Encinar del Alberche urbanization in the Madrid municipality of Villa Del Prado, where the population has been confined.
One of the shafts of the Montcada i Reixac undergrounding works has unexpectedly collapsed while operators were working this midday. No personal injuries have been registered, but the open sinkhole is so large that it has swallowed a large crane.
Former Prime Minister José Luís Rodríguez Zapatero will grant an interview to public television this Thursday. It is his first public appearance after his indictment and after having testified before the judge, José Luís Calama, who is investigating him in the National Court.
OpenAI announced yesterday that it lost control of two artificial intelligence models while conducting a security test. A combination of models, including GPT-5.6 Sol and a “more capable” pre-release one, launched a cyberattack on Hugging Face, an open-source platform focused on AI and machine learning.
A worker, approximately 30 years old, died this Wednesday and two others were injured after being crushed by metal train maintenance machinery at the Renfe Comprehensive Maintenance Base located in the Madrid district of Villaverde.
The Archbishopric of Barcelona has intervened in three foundations linked to the Church, where it has the capacity to appoint trustees, after detecting several irregularities in the administrative area. These are the Valldejuli Foundation, the Sant Josep Oriol Foundation, and the Mare de Déu dels Desemparats Foundation. In the first case, there has been a depatrimonialization, while in the other two, simply poor management.
For the ordinary pedestrian, the large house located at Salzburger Vorstadt 15 in Braunau am Inn does not attract attention. It is a common-looking building, although originally from the 17th century. The only clue to its history is given by the Mauthausen commemorative stone erected in front of the facade, with the inscription: “For peace, freedom, and democracy. Never again fascism. The millions of dead remind us of this.”
The White House plans to announce as early as this Wednesday an agreement that would allow Saudi Arabia to enrich its own fuel for civilian reactors without the need for international supervision, according to The Wall Street Journal and confirmed by multiple US media outlets. The controversial pact, which would last 30 years, must first be approved by Congress, a process that could face obstacles because many legislators view it with suspicion due to the possibility that the Arab kingdom could end up building a nuclear bomb in the future. It is also a setback for Israel, the US’s biggest ally in the Middle East, which has been warning for years about the risk of Riyadh enriching uranium.
The five members of the electoral board of October 1, 2017; Tània Verge, former minister of ERC; the lawyer Marc Marsal; Josep Pagès, current MP for Junts; the professor of Political Science, Jordi Matas, and the lawyer Marta Alsina have been amnestied.
Spain’s World Cup victory celebration has taken its toll on Rosalía. The Catalan singer has been forced to publicly apologize after a post shared on her social media unleashed a wave of criticism among her Argentine followers, who interpreted the gesture as a mockery towards the Albiceleste team after their defeat in the final.