“I feel Flick’s trust and I want to stay in Barça’s first team,” said Xavi Espart yesterday, a versatile right-back of 19 years who can also play as a defensive midfielder, a position with which, for example, he won the U-19 European Championship with Spain. “Being here is a great opportunity to earn a place in the first team,” agreed Álvaro Cortés, a 21-year-old center-back, beside him.
Leire Díez was appointed in April 2024, by order of the then PSOE organization secretary, Santos Cerdán, to initiate a series of actions to save the PSOE and Pedro Sánchez’s circle from the legal cases that threatened them and to dig up dirt on their political rivals. Now, the Audiencia Nacional has uncovered these dealings and found a large amount of audio material because Díez recorded those clandestine meetings, where she offered agreements with the Prosecutor’s Office and claimed to be the emissary of the PSOE and the Government to “put themselves on the right side of history.”
Traffic disruptions due to the visit of Pope Leo XIV to Madrid from June 6 to 9 will begin very significantly at midnight with the occupation of Plaza de Lima, so that traffic will only be allowed around the roundabout and with certain limitations, the mayor, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, reported yesterday. The traffic closures due to the Pope’s visit will cause circulation problems for several days. Therefore, last week Almeida recommended teleworking.
The Andic family has shown strong support this Tuesday for the decision of the eldest son of the family, Jonathan Andic, to temporarily leave the vice presidency of the textile empire Mango to focus on defending himself against the homicide charge against him. The case investigates the death of the group’s founder, Isak Andic, in a fall during a walk with his son in Montserrat in December 2024.
About 400 people demonstrated this Sunday in Serra de Daró (Baix Empordà) to demand more safety on the roads of Baix Ter. They did so in a slow march on foot, by bicycle, or with tractors to Mas Bahí, heading towards Gualta, to denounce the lack of investments in the road network.
Spain added the eighth medal of its Birmingham World Championship with a bronze in the mixed 4×100. The Spanish team, made up of Guillem Crespí, Maribel Pérez, Andoni Crespí, and Jaël Bestué, crossed the finish line in 40.42, a time that sets a new Spanish record.
Spain has a certain tendency towards atypical borders. The municipality of Llívia or the border by turns — six months French, six Spanish — of the Island of the Pheasants, between Irún and Hendaye are two good examples. In this line, Spanish geography has the curious honor of hosting the shortest border in the world. It is barely 85 meters of sand that separate Spain and Morocco on African land due to the Spanish possession of the Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera.
The former Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero has requested the judge of the National Court investigating him for the so-called ‘Plus Ultra case’ not to grant the police the authority for the Anti-Money Laundering Prevention Service (SEPBLAC) to expand all the information it needs to prepare an analysis of his bank accounts, those of his friend Julio Martínez Martínez, and the company of his daughters – also under investigation – Whathefav.
From the Vatican, the debate on artificial intelligence that has erupted in the United States is being followed with great attention. It is not the style of the house to say “we had already warned,” and Leo XIV does not do so either. But within the Leonine walls, it is observed that many of the doubts raised today by the very directors and researchers of the large technology companies were already at the heart of Magnifica Humanitas, the first encyclical of the pontificate, published last May.
The top official of China’s intelligence services has issued one of Beijing’s most detailed warnings to date about artificial intelligence, pointing out that the rapid advances of this technology could threaten political stability and critical infrastructures.
