The Paris prosecutor’s office has opened an investigation into alleged Russian interference, through fake news spread on social media, to harm two candidates for the Élysée, former prime ministers Édouard Philippe and Gabriel Attal.
I was 18 when I first read The Odyssey along with The Iliad. I remember perfectly how much I enjoyed this journey full of traps and a sense of survival. What I felt with the ultimate trolling of the Cyclops: Nobody; the party of pig-men with the witch Circe that reminded me…
As in all families, the royals also come together at funerals. This Wednesday, in Oslo, kings and princes of Europe, the so-called royal cousins, have gathered to bid farewell to Harald V, king of Norway, who passed away on August 28. Oslo Cathedral was too small to accommodate the representatives of all the royal houses, related to the deceased to a greater or lesser degree, who accompanied kings Haakon and Mette-Marit, Queen Sonia, and the rest of the family members.
The Council of Ministers has given the green light today to the airport regulation document for the period 2027-2031, known as DORA III. This includes an investment of nearly 13 billion euros across the entire network of Spanish airports managed by Aena, of which 1.963 billion euros will be invested in the airports of Catalunya.
“Currently there is a central Government in Spain with which we do not agree. We do not agree with its policy, with its statements, with its initiatives, and we see a specific approach against Israel,” said the chargé d’affaires of the Embassy of Israel in Spain, Dana Erlich, this morning during the Fórum Europa press breakfast. Erlich stated that for Israel to return “to normality with the current Government, a change in policy is needed.” Because, according to this diplomat, “Spain is important for Israel.”
In the midst of a wave of local pessimism and bewilderment that has lasted too long, the leader of the League arrives today at Mestalla with a golden opportunity to distance himself from his theoretically strongest rivals, following the defeats of Real Madrid and Atlético de Madrid against Betis and Athletic Club de Bilbao.
The Italian Foreign Minister, Antonio Tajani, believes that Spain’s reaction to also suspend the Schengen free movement treaty, introducing border controls as Italy had done following what happened in Ceuta, is “incomprehensible and totally unacceptable.”
The President of the Generalitat, Juanfran Pérez Llorca, has announced that the plenary session of the Consell has approved a package of extraordinary measures to mitigate the consequences arising from the La Vall d’Uixó fire. A line of aid worth 67 million has been activated for the affected residents.
On the esplanade of Loma Margarita in Ceuta, near what will be the city’s sole military base, about twenty legionnaires surrounded around fifty immigrants yesterday at noon, who had previously been herded there in groups. Sitting in the shade, wearing the same swimsuit they had on four days ago when they jumped from Morocco to Spain, they waited for instructions from the legionnaires to board a bus that would take them to the border to supposedly return voluntarily to their country. “You,” “you,” “you,” a soldier shouted, as a way of distributing return tickets, with no other criteria than the appearance of the young men. Meanwhile, on the other side of the street, a member of the Ceuta association Elín closely watches the scene because they have detected that among the bagged youths there are many minors and three Sudanese: neither group can be summarily expelled by law. The bus fills up without them. And the loud clap of a legionnaire gives them the green light to get up and leave. Even if only to continue wandering around the outskirts of the city, until they are detained again.
European countries recorded more than 10,000 deaths above the average during the unprecedented heatwave that hit the western part of the continent in late June. The vast majority – more than 9,000 – were people aged 65 or older, according to data published by EuroMOMO, a network supported by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control and the WHO. Extreme heat can cause death by exacerbating, especially, cardiovascular and respiratory diseases, with older people being the most vulnerable. However, some experts point out that some of the deaths related to high temperatures are actually due to pollution.