The advertising and public relations company Whathefav, owned by Laura and Alba Rodríguez Espinosa, the daughters of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, received more than one million euros in the payment scheme linked to the former Prime Minister following the bailout of the airline Plus Ultra, according to the court order in the case.
The simultaneous advance of wildfires in central Spain has unleashed a new political confrontation between the Community of Madrid and the central government. While the regional president of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, has requested the declaration of operational situation 3 of national interest, the Government Delegation questions the measure and demands documentation to support it.
While Barcelona finalizes preparations to receive the imminent visit of Pope Leo XIV and a few days before the Pontiff officiates a mass in the Sagrada Familia basilica, the Lego Group presented this Thursday the largest set in its history by volume of pieces: an exact replica of the expiatory temple, the city’s most emblematic building, composed of 12,060 pieces.
“Let Moreno Bonilla tremble this Sunday!”, warned the socialist José Antonio Carranza, mayor of the town of Pulianas in Granada, where the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, held his penultimate rally of the Andalusian electoral campaign this Wednesday to support María Jesús Montero, before concluding his electoral tour for the 17-M next Friday in Seville.
Donald Trump is not only insolent in his public interventions and tweets. The President of the United States can adopt a blatantly rude behavior in private meetings with his counterparts around the world, even if they are allies and have known each other for years, as is the case with Emmanuel Macron.
With the Iran war, the US president, Donald Trump, has made backtracking a habit. In the midst of efforts to reach an agreement with Tehran to end the conflict initiated by Washington and Tel Aviv at the end of February, the president uses backtracking as a pressure tool, although he risks calling his credibility into question. The latest example took the form of a message on Truth Social on Monday, where Trump claimed he had authorized a new wave of attacks against Iran starting this Tuesday, but postponed them after three leaders of the allied Gulf monarchies requested more time to negotiate the nuclear agreement.
Leire Díez was appointed in April 2024, by order of the then PSOE organization secretary, Santos Cerdán, to initiate a series of actions to save the PSOE and Pedro Sánchez’s circle from the legal cases that threatened them and to dig up dirt on their political rivals. Now, the Audiencia Nacional has uncovered these dealings and found a large amount of audio material because Díez recorded those clandestine meetings, where she offered agreements with the Prosecutor’s Office and claimed to be the emissary of the PSOE and the Government to “put themselves on the right side of history.”
The Civil Guard of Alicante is investigating the death of a 56-year-old woman that occurred last night in a home in the urban center of the municipality of Almoradí as a possible gender-based crime, according to the Government Delegate in the Valencian Community, Pilar Bernabé.
“Dying didn’t matter to me, but stopping making violins…”. The phrase perfectly defines its author, David Bagué (Barcelona, 1964), considered one of the best luthiers in Spain and with the greatest international projection. Beyond having a Creu de Sant Jordi, which is no small thing, the Vienna Philharmonic has three of his instruments (two violins and a cello) and Leonidas Kavakos, one of the best violinists in the world, owns between four and five of his violins. However, at the age of 28 (now he is 61), Bagué began a ordeal that almost took away what he loves most in this life and which is his reason for being: making violins. He was diagnosed with Wegener’s granulomatosis, a rare disease from the group of systemic vasculitis, which recently had its world day.
At the doorstep of summer, many families face a period in which the household budget soars. Vacations, leisure, travel, or the maintenance of a second home increase expenses just at a time when the cost of living remains high. The feeling is repeated in thousands of households: saving is becoming increasingly difficult.