After Catalan teachers rejected the education agreement and amidst the open conflict between teachers and the Department of Education, the Ustec and CGT unions have called a new strike day in Catalonia on June 9, coinciding with the first day of Pope Leo XIV’s visit to Barcelona and also with the start of the university entrance exams.
It’s hard to understand why access to Muchavista beach, in El Campello, is allowed, while access to San Juan beach, in the neighboring municipality of Alicante, is prohibited from five this afternoon. There is no physical separation between the two; we are talking about the same sandy area, but the prevention against meteorological warnings is not the same in the different town halls.
Chargers that cause burns, toys with toxic chemicals for children, or even jewelry harmful to health. The European Commission imposed a fine of 200 million euros on the Chinese giant Temu this Thursday for critical failures in its security system when preventing the sale of illegal items to European consumers that can be potentially dangerous, with the intention that the platform increases its controls while it sweeps across the continent. Temu alone reached an average of 115 million monthly users in the community bloc last year.
The scope of the Plus Ultra case has grown so large with the indictment of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero for corruption that it has led Alberto Núñez Feijóo to prepare a response that may go beyond calling for Pedro Sánchez’s resignation. “I am going to fulfill my duty and do everything possible to ensure there is a change of government,” says the leader of the PP in private conversations.
The judge of the National Court José Luis Calama has at his disposal telephone interceptions and WhatsApp messages sent between the top executives of the airline Plus Ultra and the network allegedly led by former Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero. These conversations now point to the former socialist leader, as stated in the order accessed by La Vanguardia.
The President of the United States, Donald Trump, will remain “patient” to reach an agreement with Iran that consolidates the fragile truce in place since April, but he does not rule out military pressure to achieve it. This was stated this Saturday by his Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, who assured that the White House will continue negotiating to achieve a pact that prevents Tehran from accessing the nuclear weapon, while warning that Washington retains full capacity to strike again if the talks fail.
Shortly before getting bogged down in the Iran war, Donald Trump launched the Peace Board, the initiative with which the US president sought to consolidate the pacification and reconstruction of Gaza. The project was surrounded by doubts from the start, and the passage of time seems to be proving the skeptics right: four months after its establishment, the body lacks official funding and has not made any progress on the ground.
President Salvador Illa has put on the table 3.3 billion euros in infrastructure investments at the start of the 41st edition of the Annual Meeting of the Cercle d’Economia, which began this afternoon in Barcelona. The investment will be through a public-private collaboration mechanism, the president explained at the inauguration of the traditional sessions that were previously held on the Costa Brava and now in Barcelona. Last February, the Government already said it would survey the market to see if there was interest in recovering concessions for road networks and metro stations.
A team of 21 Sherpas has finished equipping, this morning, a route through the Khumbu Icefall to Everest Camp 1 which, according to news from Nepal, avoids exposing expedition members to the serac. In this way, the more than 400 people from all over the world, and a similar number of Sherpas, could begin acclimatization rounds in the coming days, ascending to the high camps as they are set up. The news has been received as a balm by the companies and their clients, after days of tension and nervousness due to the threat of the unstable ice mass, in the middle of high season.
The question that is in the air, and that remains after almost nine years, is when Carles Puigdemont will return to Spain and whether he will be free or detained upon arrival. For years he was pursued across Europe to be handed over to the Supreme Court, where he had an open case for rebellion. But after almost a decade, things have changed.