Pope Leo XIV begins a tour of Spain today that will last until next Friday and will take him first to Madrid, then to Barcelona, and finally to the Canary Islands, where he will learn firsthand about the migratory reality in the archipelago.
On May 27, two days before Jonathan Andic’s defense showed on RAC1 a document with the record of calls and messages that Isak Andic’s eldest son made during his lightning trip to Ecuador, the judge of Martorell investigating him for the father’s homicide ordered Vodafone to provide the call traffic of that terminal, as reported this Wednesday by El País and confirmed by this newspaper. The order from Judge Raquel Nieto responded to a request from the Mossos d’Esquadra, prior to the arrest of the son of the founder of Mango. The son of the founder of Mango arrived in Quito on March 24, 2025, and returned two days later, on the 26th, on a lightning work trip.
There was something poetic about Robert Smith’s appearance last night on the Primavera’s Estrella Damm stage, the same one that succumbed on Thursday to the climatic gale and left musicians and fans stranded. The recorded sound of rain and thunder preceded the appearance of the veteran vocalist with painted lips and tangled hair, a Shakespearean neighbor of Caliban and Sycorax, freshly arrived from the island of The Tempest to appease the bad spirits of the previous day with the music of Songs of the lost worlds.
What is literature made of? Of emotions, structures, actions, ideas…, yes, of course, but above all, as you know, of words. One after another, they line up and mix first in the author’s mind and, then, in the reader’s. And if there is a literary party, its soul is those who have chosen some words and not others, and yesterday at the Alma hotel there were a lot.
It is surprising to visit with today’s eyes the “journalists’ chalets” of the past, those single-family homes, with outdoor vegetation, terraces, and a modernist air that the architect Enrique Viedma (València, 1889-1959) built in 1935 next to Blasco Ibáñez Avenue in the capital of the Túria. Single-family homes, with a lobby, living room, kitchen, three or four bedrooms, outdoor patio, and a privileged location next to the Viveros gardens that were designed for the Press Association. Looking at them with the eyes of a city now besieged by the real estate crisis, which tears its seams, raises its prices, and expels its neighbors, is even more surprising.
The Japanese authorities have withdrawn this Monday the tsunami alert issued hours earlier after a 7.7 magnitude earthquake on the open Richter scale off the country’s eastern coast, with no information on victims or material damage so far. However, a warning remains in place for the prefectures of Hokkaido, Aomori, and Iwate, as well as Miyagi and Fukushima, due to a potential ‘mega-earthquake’ that could occur as part of the aftershocks of the quake.
The Japanese have celebrated this Sunday the traditional Enoshima Tenno Festival in the city of Fujisawa, one of the most emblematic summer festivities in the region.
The judge of the National Court José Luis Calama has ordered a preliminary appraisal of the numerous jewels found during the police search on May 19 in the office of the former Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, according to Efe.
El Banc Sabadell has completed today the sale of its British subsidiary TSB to Santander for 3.3 billion euros once all the relevant authorizations have been obtained. That amount includes 300 million in capital gains (extraordinary profit) from the operation.
The Spanish population is subjected to extensive exposure to pesticides through food. 46% of the foods analyzed in the official program contain residues of at least one pesticide, a percentage that reaches 69.5% in the case of fruits and 38% in vegetables.