Russia cannot stop celebrating Victory Day, because it is part of its current DNA, but in next month’s military parade there will be no presence of heavy weaponry and the tanks and combat vehicles will not clatter like on other occasions over the cobblestones of Moscow’s Red Square during the traditional military parade.
The man accused of attempting to assassinate the President of the United States took a photo moments before the attack, carrying several weapons and in front of the mirror in his hotel room.
Club Vanguardia organizes a meeting with Joel Albarrán, Reader Ombudsman and deputy director of La Vanguardia, this Wednesday, April 29 at 7 p.m., at Casa Seat in Barcelona.
Iain MacGregor follows the British tradition and narrates the story with the suspense of fiction: “I wrote it almost like a movie, with four key characters driving the action,” he says about Hiroshima Men (Ático de los Libros). “I didn’t want an academic work, but a reading that would captivate you,” he adds in a conversation about the end of the Second World War, about the race to build the atomic bomb and the fateful decision to use it, in which parallels with the contemporary world are intertwined: “There are similarities in the choice of right-wing populists and I am worried about having someone like Trump in power, who has a two-second attention span and with whom you cannot build international relations,” he maintains. However, he does not fear that the President of the United States will press the nuclear button: “It would be reckless,” he points out. “And, fortunately, there are sane people in the military leadership who would not give him the codes,” he concludes.
The wife of the Prime Minister, Begoña Gómez, is expected to file a complaint against the well-known far-right troublemaker Vito Quiles for an alleged “assault” suffered inside a café, according to sources from La Moncloa.
Rescue operation. After being exonerated on Monday due to age and health reasons, the children close ranks with Jordi Pujol i Soley. Five of them emphasized this morning in the trial ongoing at the National Court against the family that they “never” had an account in Andorra nor had any participation or benefited in any way from the ‘legacy’ of their grandfather, Florenci Pujol i Brugat.
The popular Jorge Azcón is again president of Aragón. After almost five months of institutional deadlock in the community, the popular leader has renewed the position with the support of his 26 deputies and the 13 from Vox (there was one absent), which in February doubled its representation and has leveraged that new weight both in the ideology of the government program and in its organizational chart, where they will hold a vice presidency and three ministries (Deregulation, Social Welfare and Family; Environment and Tourism; and Livestock, Agriculture and Food).
Chief inspector with professional ID 81.067 is not just another police officer among the line of uniformed officers who have testified—or will testify—as witnesses in the National Court room where the Kitchen Operation trial is taking place. So far, some—assuming their testimony will be brief—have answered questions standing about their knowledge of the parapolice device used to monitor the former treasurer of the Popular Party, Luis Bárcenas. Others have preferred to sit down and get comfortable, uncertain about how long the interrogation will last. Agent 81.067 went further: he used a side table to carefully arrange stacks of reports and a laptop on which he could consult data down to the last detail. All this under the incredulous gaze of the court, which had to remind him that the oral hearing “favors spontaneity,” “what memory allows to recall.” The meticulous police officer is Manuel Morocho, the lead investigator of the Gürtel case, who struck at the defenses’ weak point by confirming that there was a parallel investigation into Bárcenas without judicial permission.
The rejection yesterday in Congress of the decree containing the extraordinary extension of rents opens a scenario of legal uncertainty that may pit tenants who, while the regulation was in force, requested this two-year contract extension, against the owners of these homes, to which the Government admits that there may be lawsuits and trusts that the courts will be in favor of the right to housing.
Víctor de Almada’s statement this Wednesday in the ongoing Supreme Court trial against former minister José Luis Ábalos, in which the controversial businessman accused Pedro Sánchez of being aware of alleged irregular financing in the PSOE, although again without providing any evidence, has once again stirred up Moncloa and the Ferraz leadership, who have expressed their irritation. The socialists immediately announced that they will again seek protection before the Supreme Court, for the “insults and slanders” they have attributed to Aldama. “We will not allow ourselves to be defamed with impunity,” warned the PSOE leadership.