High-speed train services between Girona and Barcelona have been interrupted this Saturday due to a train breakdown near La Sagrera station, according to reports from Protección Civil and Adif around seven in the evening.
The unions Ustec, CGT, CNT, COS and Intersindical, meeting urgently this afternoon, have decided that they will call a strike for next Tuesday, the 9th, coinciding with the Pope’s visit to Barcelona, as some of these organizations already announced yesterday. However, for now, no further strike days will be proposed.
Primavera Sound faces this Saturday, June 6, its last main day at Parc del Fòrum with a program headlined by Gorillaz (1.15 h), The xx (23.40) and My Bloody Valentine (22.05), three of the most anticipated names of an edition that has brought together some of the most influential figures in contemporary music. To these, we must add a last-minute surprise, announced by the artist herself and later confirmed by the festival. It is Olivia Rodrigo, the American singer whose concert will take place at 22.15.
In the Roussillon plain, 50 kilometers north of the Franco-Spanish border, the Rivesaltes camp stands on dry and windy land. Converted into a Memorial in 2015 and recently renovated, the barracks of the former internment camp that operated here between 1941 and 1964 are still visible. Spanish refugees who fled Franco’s troops in 1939 were the first to be confined in Rivesaltes, a supposed “reception center” that was very similar to a concentration camp, surrounded by barbed wire and guarded by the French army. Conditions were precarious, but in the improvised camps on the beaches of Argelès, it was even worse. Although the policy of interning “undesirable foreigners” began in the 1930s, it was the authoritarian and pro-Nazi Vichy regime that truly boosted it from 1940 onwards.
The United States Central Command (Centcom) reported late this Friday that its forces shot down four Iranian drones launched towards the Strait of Hormuz, considering they represented an immediate threat to commercial navigation in the area.
The political and diplomatic friendship between Spain and France could suffer a serious deterioration in the coming weeks. What happens when a country’s Parliament rejects twice the validation of a new friendship treaty with its main neighboring country? That is what could happen in the coming weeks between France and Spain. There is a possibility that the Congress of Deputies will reject for the second time the official ratification of the new treaty of friendship and cooperation with France signed on January 19, 2023, in Montjuïc, under the title Treaty of Barcelona.
The unusual image of the Central Operative Unit (UCO) of the Guardia Civil entering, under the orders of Lieutenant Colonel Antonio Balas, the force’s headquarters to request documentation of confidential information has created great commotion, and enormous discomfort, internally.
On the flight bringing him to Madrid from Rome, Pope Leo XIV was asked by journalists if he preferred Real Madrid or Barcelona, a classic question. The Pontiff had no qualms about answering: “This is easy…The Pope belongs to everyone, but Prevost is a Real Madrid fan.” Robert Francis Prevost is the 267th Pope of the Catholic Church.
The Pope has already arrived in Madrid. Around 10:30 AM, his plane landed at Adolfo Suárez Madrid -Barajas airport, where he was awaited by the King and Queen of Spain and other authorities, such as the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, the Minister of Defense, Margarita Robles, the President of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, the Mayor of the capital, José Luis Martínez Almeida, the Government Delegate, Francisco Martín, and the highest authorities of the Church, led by Cardinal José Cobo.
Barcelona aspires to play in the first division of global monumental tourism. And if it has those aspirations, it’s because last February, the Sagrada Família crowned the 172.5-meter Jesus tower, the tallest of the temple that Antoni Gaudí began to build in 1882 and which, one hundred years after his death, has become one of Barcelona’s great economic and cultural drivers. “I don’t know if we are fully aware, but we now have a global icon on par with the Eiffel Tower, the Taj Mahal, or the pyramids of Egypt,” reflects the director of Turisme de Barcelona, Mateu Hernández.