Anger in Kenya against the U.S. over Ebola. The plan of Donald Trump’s administration to build a quarantine center to house Americans who have been exposed to the virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo or Uganda has outraged many Kenyans, who took to the streets to protest a measure that, they believe, puts the country’s public health at risk.
There are matches that smell of history, that exude rivalry, that are destined to become myths and that will be forever embedded in individual and collective memory. Today’s England-Argentina semifinal in Atlanta is not just another match. Neither for one side nor the other because it directly appeals to their identity. For both, it is the challenge of the great symbol. For the Albiceleste, facing the English refers to avenging national and nationalist wounds, and that is how they sing it – fans and players, by the way. For the Three Lions, the memory of what happened in 1986 at the Azteca is an affront, because of the cheating on the first goal, because of the humiliation of the second.
The escalation in hostilities that began last week between the U.S. and Iran, after Donald Trump declared the ceasefire sealed in the preliminary agreement from a month ago suspended, intensified this Tuesday. U.S. forces launched a third consecutive attack against the Persian country in the early hours of this Tuesday, by order of the U.S. president, who had announced it hours earlier, as well as the “reestablishment” of the blockade on Iran in the Strait of Hormuz.
Josep Cusí, the most loyal friend of King Juan Carlos, both at sea and on land, passed away in the early hours of this Wednesday, at the age of 92, at his home in Barcelona, surrounded by his family, who have been by his side tirelessly since a few days ago when his already fragile health worsened. Known for his close relationship with the King’s father, Cusí will be remembered as a kind man, a husband in love with his beloved Inés Muiños, father, grandfather, and even great-grandfather, a recognized athlete, promoter of nautical sports, and above all, for having a personality and innate elegance that earned him the affection of all who knew him, from kings and princes to the humblest of sailors. King Juan Carlos, upon learning of the fatal outcome of his faithful regatta and life companion, was the first to mourn the sad loss.
The European Commission continues to take action to tackle the housing crisis in the European continent. In addition to proposing a legal framework to protect public administrations that want to limit temporary tourist rentals and second homes, Brussels accompanies this regulation with a series of non-binding recommendations to member states when fighting against this problem that affects a large part of the cities in the bloc and to increase supply in areas under residential pressure.
September 12, 2024. Robert Smith is at the Abbey Road studios in London. Smith has spent time here recently listening to the atmospheric mix of ‘Songs Of A Lost World’, The Cure’s first new album in 16 years. Today, however, he can be found in Studio 3, where, in an interview as rare as it is revealing, he will delve not only into this new record but also into the past and future of one of the most enduring and fascinating musical institutions of British rock.
In broad daylight and in full view of everyone in a busy square in Figueres, a man stabbed his ex-partner to death this Tuesday. The victim, a 33-year-old transgender woman of Honduran origin, received several stab wounds to the chest, injuries that proved fatal. The attacker, 48 years old and of Spanish nationality, had a restraining order against the victim, but he had violated it twice in the last few hours.
Every poem is an act of hope on the part of the poet, and so proclaimed Margaret Atwood, much more than the author of The Handmaid’s Tale. The 86-year-old Canadian writer received this Wednesday, from the hands of the King, the Joan Margarit poetry prize, in an event held at Victoria College of the University of Toronto, through whose campus a king and a poet were seen walking.
The Moroccan authorities have activated an exceptional security operation in the north of the country to neutralize the calls widely spread on social networks, which incite a new massive entry into the autonomous city of Ceuta tomorrow, August 15, after the one led by more than 70,000 people two weeks ago. “The Ceuta border will be open on the 15th, a holiday in Spain,” some of these messages state.
The professional association Unión de Militares de Tropa (UMT) has reported in a statement that at least 14 soldiers deployed in Ceuta have suffered an outbreak of scabies. The UMT directly points to the “poor conditions in which the personnel were housed last Saturday, August 15” in some old military facilities.