The presiding judge of Courtroom number 3 of the Civil and Instruction Section of the Trial Court of Catarroja has issued an order this Monday in which the official number of fatalities caused by the Valencia storm on October 29, 2024, is raised to 231.
A 60-year-old man died early Monday morning when he fell from a fourth floor while fleeing the flames that started in his home. The fire began around four in the morning, for unknown reasons, inside the apartment at number 102 Comte Borrell Street in the Eixample district of Barcelona. The victim jumped into the void and despite the efforts of the medical personnel who tried to revive him with cardiopulmonary resuscitation, he died at the scene.
Long before the Earth existed and the first living beings began to populate it, the universe was already capable of producing some of the molecules that, billions of years later, would become part of the chemistry of life on our planet. This is the main conclusion of an international study led by the Center for Astrobiology (CAB-CSIC/INTA), in Torrejón de Ardoz, with extensive participation from Spanish institutions and collaboration from research centers in the Netherlands, Italy, Germany, and the United States.
Despite everything, Bárbara Sanz remains calm and in good spirits. And it is not easy. The family of this 35-year-old image consultant, married and with three children, including a little girl barely two years old, is going through an ordeal in their own home, in the center of Sabadell. The house of their dreams, a magnificent renovated home that has preserved many of the elements of the original from two centuries ago, was hiding a secret that is disrupting them. A few months ago, they discovered that behind the partition wall of one of the walls in the master bedroom, a colony of bats had taken hold and is growing day by day, with the inconveniences that this entails. Bats are protected animals, and that is why the Generalitat of Catalonia offers them as the only solution to “move house” until the breeding season of the animals ends and they can be safely removed.
The legal conflict over the use of languages in Catalan schools remains alive, resulting in a continuous trickle of rulings with little impact on the schools. At least, for now, and until the Constitutional Court rules on linguistic immersion.
The former socialist mayor of Sant Feliu de Guíxols, Pere Albó, was arrested yesterday afternoon for masturbating in public at a hotel in Santa Susanna (Maresme), according to Cadena Ser. The former Junts deputy in the Parliament has been accused of exhibitionism after entering the premises without authorization, where there were about fifty people, many of them minors.
Judge Juan Carlos Peinado has requested Begoña Gómez, wife of the Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, to justify within five days that she used the passport only for the trip that the court itself had authorized, that is, to fly to the United Kingdom for her daughter’s graduation.
The President of the United States, Donald Trump, stated this Monday that the United States will probably take control of the Strait of Hormuz and should be compensated financially for ensuring the security of that strategic maritime route. “We are going to hold the strait and probably manage it. We will become the guardians of the strait. We are going to protect it. And they will pay us to protect it. A lot of money,” Trump assured.
Reagrupement National, party of the French far-right leader Marine Le Pen, labeled former Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy as “racist” this Monday for his comments that the French national football team has “a very high level, that is true, without French players,” emphasizing that these are comments that “everyone should condemn.”
The PP has downplayed Mariano Rajoy’s words about the French national football team, which will face Spain this Tuesday in the World Cup. The former Prime Minister said on Friday that France has “a very high-level squad,” but “without French players,” words that the PP relativizes because they were written in a column in El Debate in a “sarcastic” way and “without bad intentions.”