The shareholder meeting of entertainment giant Warner Bros Discovery approved on Thursday the acquisition by fellow US company Paramount Skydance for 110 billion dollars. Despite strong opposition to the deal in Hollywood, it went ahead with overwhelming support from its owners.
Donald Trump’s schedule indicated that this Tuesday morning he had “executive time” and “two political meetings,” all closed to the press. But it is clear that the vocation of real estate promoter is part of the genetic code of the President of the United States, so he found time to take journalists on a tour of the construction of his ballroom.
Secretary of the Navy John Phelan was fired, a source close to the matter said Wednesday. This is another wartime reorganization at the Pentagon, just weeks after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth fired Chief of Staff Randy George.
What happened at Leipzig-Halle airport on August 5 has acted as a shock to the German security services and their NATO allies. The failed attack by a drone carrying the powerful plastic explosive Semtex against a Ukrainian cargo plane, the huge Antonov AN-124, has been interpreted as a very disturbing qualitative leap, the possible beginning of another dimension of Russia’s hybrid war against Europe, the shift from indirect harassment to direct confrontation.
A worker has died and another has been injured this Tuesday while cleaning a septic tank located in the premises of the Central Market of Tarragona, according to sources familiar with the facts confirmed to La Vanguardia.
The Slovenian referee Slavko Vincic will officiate the World Cup final between Spain and Argentina on Sunday at the New York-New Jersey Stadium.
Observe the world to know oneself. Minor White, considered one of the essential names of the 20th century for understanding the evolution of modern photography, reminds us that this discipline is a way to explore and reflect our inner self. The poetry that emanates from his images is one of the keys to his work, and the public who visit the KBr center of Fundación Mapfre in Barcelona will be able to see it with the most comprehensive retrospective of the artist in Europe.
In view of the speech he gave yesterday at the Cercle d’Economia, it would seem that Salvador Illa simply wanted to paint a radiant picture of current economic growth and a bright future but without talking about the problems. New budgets and future model of…
La Oficina Antifrau de Catalunya (OAC) has opened a file against the mayor of Ripoll (Girona), Sílvia Orriols, for alleged irregularities in the hiring of her daughter as a local police officer. The procedure at the OAC responds to a complaint, which has been accepted for processing and now moves to an investigation phase (preliminary evaluation phase of plausibility).
We all do it even knowing that we are wasting our time. We try to convince someone who holds opposing views to ours that they are wrong, that we are right. But no one ever changes their mind. In the best case, as my mother used to say, we end up…
