The progress of the La Mierla fire (Guadalajara) forces the evacuation of 34 towns and the confinement of another 14, as well as raising the danger level to 2 for two new fires in Retortillo (Soria) and Brieva (Segovia); in Andalusia, the two fires declared today in Huelva and Granada are considered stabilized.
Miguel Santamarta worked hard this Monday morning to clean every last corner of his restaurant in order to reopen today as if nothing had happened here. The neighbors and shopkeepers of numbers 56 and 58 on Sant Gervasi Cassoles street, evacuated a couple of weeks ago due to the appearance of a sinkhole more than eight meters in diameter and four meters deep caused by the extension works of metro line L9, were able to return to their activities this Monday. Sant Gervasi is a very popular eatery in the Sant Gervasi-la Bonanova neighborhood. These buildings include eleven homes and four businesses. The number of apartments evacuated due to this incident was 93. In total, about ten businesses saw their activity interrupted.
The Mossos d’Esquadra have arrested an 18-year-old young man allegedly related to the death of Dolors Agustí, a 75-year-old woman, who was found dead on Saturday night in a cornfield in Soses, a municipality in the Segrià region of Lleida.
The European Commission has today imposed a fine of 550 million euros on AliExpress for the Chinese platform’s failure to control risks related to the sale in the European Union of illegal, unsafe, or counterfeit products on its electronic marketplace. This includes everything from toys to dangerous cosmetics that circulated freely on the platform and, in many cases, remained online for weeks after being detected until they were removed. The company intends to appeal what it calls a “disproportionate” sanction, Reuters reports.
Purchases from Chinese platforms in Spain cause a revenue shortfall of 1.058 billion euros in the trade and distribution sector. Whether Shein, Temu, or Alibaba, behind cheap purchases there is a greater impact than consumers imagine, blindly guided by price. The truth is that their packages usually pay VAT on less than their real value; social security contributions and personal income tax are lost by avoiding setting up a chain of stores, workers, and local suppliers; and companies do not face corporate tax like local ones, as these are brands with a foreign base and minimal presence in Spain.
The housing market has entered a new cycle after more than a year of accelerated growth. The first sign was the cooling of sales in practically all of Spain, with 3.4% fewer transactions between January and May. Now, the slowdown in transactions is followed by a slowdown in mortgage signings.
The concentration of supermarkets in specific areas of large cities changes the eating habits of families and promotes an increase in the consumption of ultra-processed foods. A report from the Barcelona Urban Research Institute (IDRA) and coordinated by AMcoop – Escola de Mobilitat Sostenible, points out that the food purchasing decisions of families in the Barcelona Metropolitan Area rarely depend solely on personal preferences. Economic capacity, time, and above all, the food supply they have access to are the main determining factors.
Andy Burnham is now serving as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. The former mayor of Manchester, who was received on Monday morning by Charles III at Buckingham Palace, gave a speech at the doors of his new residence, 10 Downing Street, in which he pledged to restore stability to the United Kingdom and admitted the lack of quality of the current political generation in the United Kingdom.
The director of the United States Center for AI Standards and Innovation, Chris Fall, resigned just three months after being appointed to lead the federal AI testing institute at the Department of Commerce, a department spokesperson told Reuters.
The United States and Iran are heading towards the return of war on all fronts, due to the lack of solutions that resolve their fundamental disagreement: who should control the Strait of Hormuz. Washington concluded yesterday its ninth consecutive night of attacks against Iranian military and civilian infrastructure, bombings that reached the cities of Bushehr, Chabahar, Bandar Mahshahr, and Bandar Imam Jomeini. For its part, Iran attacked for the second day the Aqaba international airport, in southern Jordan, as well as military bases in Bahrain and Kuwait, and two oil tankers in Hormuz, a maritime route through which 20% of the world’s oil passed before the war.