The son of a Belgian man who died in the fires questions the authorities’ claims that his father and other victims ignored official recommendations to shelter in their homes, and asserts that emergency services gave them no guidance.
At the advanced command post in Turre, located just a few kilometers from the serious fire that has been threatening the province of Almería since last Thursday, the atmosphere on Sunday was somewhat different compared to the previous days, something that was confirmed around 11:00 a.m. when the president of the Junta de Andalucía, Juanma Moreno, announced that the fire had been declared stabilized.
Pope Leo XIV asked this Sunday, during the Corpus Christi Mass, that religiosity not be “a museum of the past to visit” and stressed that Christians are “called to be present in the situations and challenges of society” and in the “construction of the common good.” “No one can kneel before the Lord and despise their brother,” he declared during the homily.
Massive Attack is music, but it is also politics. Robert del Nadja, co-founder of the trip-hop group, has positioned himself throughout his career against authoritarianism, war, injustice, and climate vandalism. Now, in its new phase, Massive Attack has…
The music industry has raised alarms over the alleged fraudulent use of copyrights by artificial intelligence platforms. Large groups like Anthropic or OpenAI generate millions of songs daily, inspired –or perhaps copied– from the works of flesh-and-blood artists. While it is true that musical plagiarism has existed forever, in this case, the technological advance is of such magnitude that record labels and artists believe they are losing millions daily.
In FIFA, it is already customary to choose pariah countries as World Cup hosts. The 2018 one was in Russia. The 2022 one in Qatar. The 2026 one in the United States. Compassion? Or, the usual, bribes? I want to think that it is a benevolent impulse on the part of the capo di tutti…
Authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have raised the number of confirmed cases in the Ebola outbreak declared in the east of the country on May 15 to 488, including 86 deaths, and warned of “rapid and continued community transmission.”
At least eleven people have died after a drone airstrike on a market in central Sudan, where the escalation of airstrikes raises the death toll in one of the planet’s worst humanitarian crises.
Pope Leo XIV’s first day in Spain served as an initial contact with Madrid, a devoted city that had been decorated and preparing for the visit for days. After landing at 10:12 AM at Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas airport, he traveled to the Royal Palace in a closed car, and despite this, he could already feel the warm welcome from the people of Madrid, who stood along the margins of the A-2 highway that leads into Madrid to greet him.
Politicians were the first to approach the Pope due to his status as head of state, but when Robert Prevost freed himself from obligations and protocol, escorted at all times by the Archbishop of Madrid, Cardinal José Cobo, he opted for the poor and the young as the first recipients of a message he assures is for everyone. For believers, especially, but also for society in general, he pointed out early on the papal flight.