The German politician Jens Spahn, one of the most prominent figures of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party of Chancellor Friedrich Merz, resigned this Saturday as head of the conservative parliamentary group after it became known that he has become a father through surrogacy in the United States.
A woman, considered the first contact in Catalonia of a fatal victim of the ‘Hondius’ hantavirus, will remain in quarantine at the Hospital Clínic de Barcelona for between three and six weeks. She is a resident of Barcelona who coincided for a few minutes, on April 25, on the plane covering the Johannesburg-Amsterdam route with the cruise passenger who ended up dying in the South African capital. She is around 40 years old, sources from the Departament de Salut told this newspaper.
Timothy Garton Ash (London, 1955) has documented live the European history of the last four decades from his dual role as historian and journalist. Professor of European Studies at the University of Oxford, he has outlined in his books a history of the European present that he has compiled in books such as Freedom of Speech, Facts Are Subversive, or his own History of the Present, all published by Tusquets. A representative of the old enlightened liberalism, he studied Modern History at Oxford, where he became interested in the German resistance to Hitler, which led him to live in Berlin and to gain an in-depth knowledge of the countries of the former Eastern Europe. Precisely in his book The Magic Lantern (Taurus) he narrates the moment when Eastern Europe on the other side of the Berlin Wall begins to falter, a moment he experiences firsthand, including the first free elections in Poland.
The 147 passengers of the Hondius cruise ship, which is heading to the Canary Islands after a hantavirus outbreak was detected, will disembark next Sunday at sea in groups of no more than five people and by nationality. From the cruise ship, they will transfer to some zodiacs arranged by the shipowner and from there they will head to the dock. Specifically, they will be transferred to a specific area of the port of Granadilla “that meets the highest biological containment measures.” Their luggage will be grouped by nationality and disinfected by the ship’s crew before disembarkation, within the protocol established by Foreign Health. If any passenger shows symptoms before arrival, they will disembark first to be referred to the isolation unit of the Hospital de la Candelaria and their luggage will be managed by the shipping company. They would never reach land. After them, close contacts will disembark grouped by nationalities.
The judge of the National Court José Luis Calama has rejected the attempt by former Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero to stop a new line of investigation opened for another alleged influence peddling in favor of a Peruvian company, Grupo Gloria.
When Reese Witherspoon called her to produce and star in Big Little Lies, Nicole Kidman discovered a new world full of opportunities. She won the Emmy and the Golden Globe, yes, but she wasn’t content with having found prestige in television; instead, she turned that temporary idyll with television into a stable relationship.
La Guardia Civil has arrested in Alicante one of the fugitives included in the international search campaign launched by the United Kingdom against criminals linked to organized crime, coinciding with the presentation of the international campaign ‘Operation Capture’ or ‘Most Wanted’, which was precisely presented today by the British and Spanish authorities at the Meliá Hotel in Alicante.
It is 11 in the morning on a working day in mid-July in Barcelona and the humidity and heat are starting to be difficult to manage. Stephany Hijar, a 25-year-old student, walks with both hands occupied: in one, the mobile phone; in the other, a handheld fan. Her sister-in-law gave it to her this year and she admits that it is now a must-have for going out on the street. Until last summer, it was the fan that helped her to mitigate the heat, but she has grown tired of fanning herself.
The music industry has raised alarms over the alleged fraudulent use of copyrights by artificial intelligence platforms. Large groups like Anthropic or OpenAI generate millions of songs daily, inspired –or perhaps copied– from the works of flesh-and-blood artists. While it is true that musical plagiarism has existed forever, in this case, the technological advance is of such magnitude that record labels and artists believe they are losing millions daily.
At least eight people died in Ukrainian drone attacks against warehouses of the e-commerce company Wildberries, known as the Russian Amazon, in the Tambov and Moscow regions. In addition, more than 50 workers have been injured. Several of the injured have been admitted to hospitals in serious or critical condition.