The National Police have solved the homicide of a 38-year-old man committed on New Year’s Day in the Madrid district of Usera with the arrest in Toledo and Navarra of four men, who apparently were known to the victim. The assaulted man died after receiving five stab wounds.
If we review the archives of the last three years, we will see that the current legislature is being fought more in the courts than in the Congress of Deputies. The judicial cases involving politicians fall on the two main parties in Spain, with the…
The long-awaited summit between China and the U.S. kicked off this Thursday in Beijing, with apparent harmony between Presidents Xi Jinping and Donald Trump. Despite the commercial focus, the shadow of Iran and Taiwan looms over the meeting from the start. Xi, in fact, pointed out that the Taiwan issue is the most important in the relationship between China and the U.S.: “This will be stable if handled well, otherwise there will be clashes and even conflicts, which will pose a great danger.”
Summer in Catalonia smells like the sea and, above all, sweet fruit. But, what is the undisputed queen of the season? According to the 1st edition of the Flavor Thermometer presented by Ametller Origen, the verdict is clear: watermelon (39%) is the fruit with the preferred flavor of summer for Catalans.
A minor stabbed a man in the early hours of this Sunday, on Pau Street, next to the Fòrum beach in Sant Adrià de Besòs (Barcelonès Nord). The events occurred around six in the morning and ended with the arrest of the attacker thanks to the intervention of the security guards of an establishment in the area, who provided the description.
El Partido Popular already managed to provoke the irritation of the governments of Pedro Sánchez and Emmanuel Macron, by blocking a week ago in the Senate the friendship treaty that both leaders sealed at the Hispano-French summit held in Barcelona on January 19, 2023. And now some controversial words from former Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy – in which he pointed out that the French national football team is playing the World Cup, in his opinion, “without French players” – have the effect of lighting a match on a barrel of dynamite.
The alleged “plumbing” scheme would have started with a clear directive and an “ultimate goal”: “to protect the interests at stake” of the socialist party and, directly or indirectly, of the Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez. The mastermind would be Santos Cerdán, then the strongman of the president, and it all began when his wife, Begoña Gómez, was charged. What can be inferred from the reports of the Central Operative Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard included in the case file, which La Vanguardia has accessed, is that Cerdán already had other dangerous connections prior to that April 2024 with Leire Díez and the former president of SEPI Vicente Fernández. In fact, they are being investigated by the National Court for rigging public contracts.
Catalonia is about to approve new budgets, if nothing goes wrong in the coming days. The news deserves to be highlighted because in the last fourteen years only five budgets have been approved in Catalonia: those of 2017, 2020, 2022, 2023, and this year….
A week ago, while thousands of people tried to get close to the doors of the Teatre Grec, Olivia Rodrigo was singing in Barcelona before barely 2,000 guests at a concert organized by Spotify. Outside, hundreds of fans were left without tickets. Inside, Rodrigo celebrated that nine of her songs have surpassed one billion streams and also debuted a new aesthetic stage coinciding with the release of You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So In Love. Hours later, the internet had decided that the important thing was neither the concert nor her music. It was her look.
At its peak, the column of smoke was visible from some parts of the city of Barcelona. The reason, a fire that broke out on Montjuïc mountain, in the Catalan capital, which was stabilized at 7 PM and burned vegetation in the area of the mountain’s lighthouse path. The fire caused the evacuation of Montjuïc Castle. The cable car service was also suspended as a precaution. Fortunately, there were no injuries.