Vox in the Alicante city council avoided this Thursday the censure of the city’s mayor, Luis Barcala, from the PP, by abstaining from the request of -PSOE, Compromís and EU-Podem justified by the “express and unjustified” refusal to appear before the municipal investigation commission regarding the scandal of the public housing Les Naus de la Playa de San Juan.
“Please sign the petition for the repair of the Lukianivskyi market,” reads the signs held by several women. Behind them lie the burnt iron and roofs of what until the early hours of last Sunday was one of the oldest markets in Kyiv, said to date back 120 years. “I have been living in fear of missiles, of losing everything, for more than four years. And now we have nothing left,” says Marina, who stands out among the other women because of her yellow wool jacket. For 25 years she has had, or had, a small fruit and vegetable shop.
PP, Compromís and Vox have criticized that the ‘former president’ of the Generalitat Ximo Puig has hired the nephew of his partner, the former councilor Gabriela Bravo, as his driver in his ‘former president’ office, while the PSPV has defended the figure of the one who was his secretary general and has recalled that this is a position of free appointment in which a person from the family environment can be hired, just as politicians from other parties do in other administrations.
The Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office has entered the scene in the case of the former Direcció General d’Atenció a la Infància i l’Adolescència (known as Dgaia, now renamed as Dgppia). According to information obtained by La Vanguardia, this specialized body of the Public Prosecutor’s Office will be the one to determine, in the first instance, whether any breach occurred in the payment of aid to young people formerly under guardianship by the Generalitat.
The U.S. National Academy of Sciences has decided to retract from its scientific journal (PNAS) an article published by a group of researchers, including the Spanish Mariano Barbacid, on advances in combating pancreatic cancer, after detecting a “significant” conflict of interest.
Almost 90 drones fell from the sky over Darling Harbour in Sydney during a popular winter light show, with footage showing the devices plunging into the water near the audience. The organizers of Vivid Sydney, an annual three-week festival featuring large light installations, stated that the failure on Monday night, local time, was due to “unforeseen technical difficulties” and have canceled several upcoming shows.
The State security forces and bodies have once again deployed early this Friday at Trampolín beach to evacuate the more than a thousand migrants who were once again gathered in that area after having been evacuated this Thursday.
The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) reported this Thursday that it found evidence of a bird strike before the tourist helicopter carrying a Catalan family (a couple and their three children) crashed into the Hudson River in New York City in April 2025, causing the death of all six people on board (the family and the aircraft pilot).
The Minister of Transport, Óscar Puente, and the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, have become embroiled in a bitter controversy, including an exchange of insults, following the request made by the popular leader for the State to declare a national emergency to combat the fires and take command.
President Donald Trump has never been a fan of the Pulitzer Prizes. Not long ago, he demanded that those awards be withdrawn from the media that investigated his Russian connections. This year’s edition, announced this Monday, also does not put him in a good light, and much of the awarded information, reports, and opinions expose the alleged corruption and his authoritarian policy, especially against opponents and immigrants, which have marked his first year back in the White House.