The U.S. House of Representatives approved on Thursday a bill to provide aid to Ukraine and impose new sanctions on Russia, demonstrating that some Republicans are willing to defy their party’s leaders and oppose President Donald Trump.
The DelcyGate, as the meeting on January 20, 2020, at Barajas airport between the former Minister of Transport José Luis Ábalos and the now acting president of Venezuela Delcy Rodríguez – who was banned from the Schengen area by the European Union – is known, has landed in the Plus Ultra Case file. The commissioner in charge of the Madrid airport on the night of the murky stopover, Jesús María Gómez Martín, was able to provide “favors,” such as allegedly avoiding customs controls for the investigated Venezuelan magnates, in exchange for “rewards.”
End of an era for Atrápalo. The Ávoris group, owned by Barceló, announced this Thursday an agreement to buy 100% of the online travel and leisure platform. The operation is subject to approval by the National Commission for Markets and Competition (CNMC) and is part of the hotel company’s growth strategy to strengthen its position in the online travel agency business. Neither party has made the purchase amount public.
The Los Gallardos fire in Almería has not only forced the deployment of the largest firefighting operation in recent years in Andalusia, but it has also caused the first political friction between the partners of the new Andalusian Government. Just a few hours after Juanma Moreno appeared alongside Pedro Sánchez in Turre to warn that forest fires are “increasingly dramatic” in a context marked by climate change, Vox publicly came out to correct that narrative. “Climate change cannot be an excuse to shirk responsibilities,” said the party’s spokesperson in Congress, Pepa Millán, on Tuesday.
Much of Europe is experiencing unusual heat that is breaking temperature records for the month of May in countries such as the United Kingdom and France. In the neighboring country, this “heat dome” has triggered government alerts following reports of several deaths at amateur sporting events. The French Minister of Sports, Marina Ferrari, expressed her condolences to the family of a runner who died on Sunday in a popular race in Paris.
It is hard to imagine today that Just Marlès Avenue in Lloret de Mar, popularly known as “la riera” and which concentrates much of the nightlife and an important hotel offer, was decades ago a wild place. In the sixties, the riverbed had not yet been paved and the sand reached the doors of the first hotels that were located there. Back then, that space which today is the core, was the outskirts.
The double murder that occurred on Monday night in the El Canalillo neighborhood, in El Ejido (Almería), has taken a turn in just 48 hours. What was initially investigated as an episode of domestic violence within a family marked by marginalization and police records now points to a possible case of gender-based violence and vicarious violence.
Nestlé announced this Tuesday an ERE in Spain that will affect up to 301 workers in its offices, sales teams, distribution centers and six factories, as reported in a statement. It represents 7% of the workforce.
This year marks the 150th anniversary of the death of Ildefons Cerdà. The engineer and urban planner laid the foundations of modern Barcelona after the demolition of the walls, a process that lasted for years, from 1854 to 1873. In the General Theory of Urbanization of 1867, Cerdà promoted a humanistic and egalitarian urbanism that was meant to provide the “public happiness” of its inhabitants, regardless of their origin or social class. In addition to avoiding differences between neighborhoods, conditions of hygiene, healthiness, and green areas occupied a prominent place.
David Otero and Sofía Cristo DJ (May 9), a tribute to Extremoduro (May 11), Rubén Pozo, Miguel Ríos, Alejo Stivel, The Refrescos, Sole Giménez, Celtas Cortos, Amistades Peligrosas, Nena Daconte, Marilia from Ella Baila Sola and OBK (May 14), Nuria Fergó, Las Ketchup and Los Chunguitos (May 15), Fangoria, La Bien Querida and Triángulo de Amor Bizarro (May 16) will provide the soundtrack in San Isidro, which “will be ablaze with festivities from May 7 to 17,” affirmed the mayor, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, at the presentation of the celebrations for the capital’s patron saint festivities.