NASA reported this Friday that it has ordered astronauts aboard the International Space Station to take shelter in their spacecraft and prepare for a possible evacuation, while a Russian crew attempts to repair an increasingly serious air leak in their part of the orbital laboratory.
The federation of family associations of Catalonia (aFFaC) asks the Department of Education to promote a major agreement on public education outside the union negotiation table, an agreement in which families participate. They interpret the rejection of the pre-agreement in Thursday’s consultation by teachers as a lack of vision from the Government and unions to understand the teachers’ demands.
“Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds” (1841), by Charles Mackay, is scorned by historians and revered among stock traders. The book is best known for its vivid accounts of the 17th-century tulip mania and the 18th-century South Sea Bubble. However, those who want to understand the business world in the 21st century should rather look at Mackay’s chapter on “the epidemic terror of the end of the world.”
The Ukrainian navy, in a statement on the Facebook network, has acknowledged that the naval drone that exploded this morning around 10:30 a.m., local time, in the port of Constanta (Romania) belonged to its arsenal. The Romanian Ministry of Defense reported that the detonation caused no injuries, but did cause damage to infrastructure.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy insisted on Thursday night on holding a meeting between him and Vladimir Putin to negotiate peace between Ukraine and Russia and end a war that has lasted more than four years. The Ukrainian president’s proposal is not new, but it is the first time he has done so with an open letter to the head of the Kremlin. On previous occasions, Moscow has refused, indicating that such a meeting would only be possible when there is already a firm agreement that both leaders would only have to ratify.
The U.S. House of Representatives approved on Thursday a bill to provide aid to Ukraine and impose new sanctions on Russia, demonstrating that some Republicans are willing to defy their party’s leaders and oppose President Donald Trump.
French entrepreneur Pierre-Édouard Stérin, founder of Smartbox experience gift boxes and one of the country’s biggest fortunes, has opened a new front of debate in France by asking to change inheritance law to exclude his five children from his inheritance and donate his entire estate.
Pope Leo XIV arrives tomorrow in Madrid on his first visit to Spain, which will last until June 12. His journey will take him to Barcelona and end in the Canary Islands. There is interest in knowing what messages the Pope will want to give in Spain and how his speeches will be received from the political sphere.
When a union loses a consultation by 65% of votes against the agreement it has endorsed, one has to wonder to what extent it negotiates on behalf of its congregation, affiliated or not, and what pulse it has of their feelings. This is what happened to Ustec in the teachers’ vote on…
For 720 million euros, perhaps someone would be so kind as to clarify for us exactly what more than 39.500 teachers in Catalunya have voted against. Have they voted against the salary increase of 400 euros per month? Asking shouldn’t bother anyone. If so, what was the figure…