Just on the days when Giorgia Meloni was avoiding a meeting with Pedro Sánchez in Rome citing scheduling issues, her party was preparing a confidential dossier against the Spanish Prime Minister. The title is eloquent: “The Spanish Senate censures the Sánchez Government.” The subtitle goes even further: “Yet another blow to the idol of the left.”
The mother investigated along with her partner for alleged serious injuries and sexual assault with penetration to her six-week-old baby in Barcelona has assured the judge today that she never saw any signs of ill-treatment from her partner towards the little one and has reaffirmed her innocence: “If I had seen it, I would have reported it,” according to judicial sources.
Europe took a new step this Monday to defend itself autonomously, without so much dependence on the United States. During a summit in Paris, ten countries, including Spain, launched “the coalition against ballistic missiles,” with a “purely defensive” vocation, aimed at jointly developing or at least coordinating efforts to equip themselves with systems that serve to protect against attacks like those carried out by Russia against Ukraine.
The Spanish Government has been invited by the company Anthropic, like the rest of the countries of the European Union, to access its artificial intelligence model Claude Mythos, which for the first time will be tested outside the borders of the United States and the United Kingdom. This AI has been considered a very dangerous tool, because in its initial tests it identified hundreds of significant security flaws in all computer and mobile operating systems, which led Anthropic to create in mid-April a closed group of companies such as Apple, Google, Microsoft, Nvidia, and Amazon, among others, in the so-called Project Glasswing, which is now being accessed by European countries.
At least two people died in Argentina between Saturday night and early Sunday in the context of the match that Lionel Messi’s team won 3-1 against Switzerland in the quarterfinals of the 2026 Football World Cup, while other people had to be treated by emergency services.
The capital city effect explains part of why the State invested more than twice as much in Madrid as in Catalonia last year. The other part is because the actual spending on works is lower in the Catalan community than in the one that hosts the capital.
The Dutch Government has sent two medicalized air ambulances to Cape Verde that are evacuating the two passengers from the luxury cruise ship ‘Hondius’ who are in the most serious condition and supposedly infected with hantavirus, as well as a third who has begun to show symptoms, according to sources close to the matter. The three patients will be transferred to the Netherlands to receive medical care.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has warned in its latest annual report that last year disinformation campaigns have established themselves as “a prominent vector” of instability for Spain. The body that advises the President of the Government on National Security matters has identified Russia as the main actor from which campaigns aimed at influencing political processes, eroding trust in institutions, shaping public opinion, and weakening international cooperation originated.
The economic and fiscal crime unit (UDEF) of the Police attributes to the daughters of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, Laura and Alba, a significant role in the issuance of false invoices that would have served to cover up payments linked to an alleged influence peddling in the environment of the former prime minister. In its report, the Police states that the activity of Zapatero’s daughters’ company, Whathefav, would have allowed “generating ad hoc billing intended to provide formal coverage for certain financial or commercial movements” through fake reports.