Half-hearted contrition for the infiltration of agents from the Mossos de Esquadra information police station in a teachers’ union assembly. Neither mea culpa nor chest beating. The interior minister, Núria Parlon, and the director general of the Police, Josep Lluís…
The American laboratories Merck and Moderna announced this Wednesday positive results in the final phase of clinical trials of their experimental messenger RNA vaccine against skin cancer, aimed at patients with high-risk melanoma who had the tumor completely removed by surgery. “This is the first announcement of positive phase 3 results (…) for an mRNA-based cancer therapy,” Merck and Moderna state in a joint statement.
The delay in obtaining major construction permits in Alicante has been a constant in recent times, which developers and professionals in the construction sector denounce wherever they find interlocutors. This happened at a recent technical conference organized by the Colleges of Architects and Technical Architects together with representatives from the Urban Planning Department. The aim was to bring together those who draft the technical documents with those who supervise and approve them, in order to streamline procedures and administrative processes.
The principal of the Nepali school Tribhuvan Trishuli, in the Nuwakot district, one of the areas most affected by the devastating flood that has caused nearly a thousand deaths in the country, became a hero after evacuating the center minutes before a huge flood hit the town. This is Rajendra Dawadi, who told the BBC how his quick intervention allowed about 900 students to be taken to higher areas to avoid being swept away.
There is still a year left to witness what will be the “eclipse of the century.” On August 2, 2027, the phenomenon will be visible from practically all of Spain, but only in the south of Andalusia, Ceuta, and Melilla will the Moon completely cover the Sun, plunging the day into night. Still recovering from the eclipse of last August 12, reservations for houses, apartments, and rooms have already skyrocketed in provinces such as Cádiz, Málaga, Granada, and Almería. And, with them, the prices.
“Absolute zero.” “None.” “Neither by action nor by omission.” Félix Sanz Roldán, who was director of the National Intelligence Center (CNI) between 2009 and 2019, has categorically denied that Spanish spies participated in any activity related to the so-called Kitchen operation, to steal information from the former treasurer of the Popular Party Luis Bárcenas. “The CNI always acts with absolute respect for the law. “No government of any color – of the four I had the honor to serve – asked me to do anything illegal,” Sanz Roldán assured in his testimony as a witness in the trial about the parapolice operation at the National Court.
The Spanish Agency of Medicines and Medical Devices (Aemps) has banned the sale and ordered the withdrawal from the market of all units of about twenty slimming products for containing sibutramine, an active ingredient suspended in the EU since 2010 due to its association with several serious adverse effects.
Alberto Núñez Feijóo has made a small pause with the Ceuta crisis to also focus on other problems that worry Spaniards, such as housing. In this regard, the leader of the PP traveled this Tuesday along with José Luis Martínez-Almeida to visit a public housing development for rent in Madrid and recalled his commitments to ease prices if he comes to Government, which include, among other things, drastic tax cuts for young people and the construction of more supply.
Jordi Pujol i Soley will be judged by history or time, but not by the courts. As of 10:55 AM yesterday, he is a man legally free for all purposes, as the case against him, which is being heard in the Audiencia Nacional against his entire family and nine businessmen for alleged corruption, has been archived or dismissed due to health reasons. The court summoned him yesterday for a medical and personal examination before deciding whether to keep him in the case and subject him to interrogation or, given his deteriorated state of health, to exonerate him. The president of the court, José Ricardo de Prada, issued a medical and judicial diagnosis, all in one: Pujol cannot be judged.
Argentina, the country from which the cruise ship where a hantavirus outbreak was detected departed, has confirmed 41 cases of the disease so far in 2026 and reported that the current epidemiological season shows a higher circulation of the pathology compared to previous years and “above the outbreak threshold,” according to the Ministry of Health on Tuesday.
