Two Pakistanis were arrested, accused of having murdered four day laborers, three Afghans and one Pakistani, by setting fire to the car they were traveling in, in which they died burned to death in the Calabria region, in southern Italy, in a terrible event that has once again put the spotlight on the exploitation of migrants in the fields.
The Generalitat’s Civil Protection is keeping the special flood risk plan, Inuncat, on alert this Thursday, due to the forecast of intense rain and storms, up to 60 liters per square meter, which could cause rivers to swell in the regions of Barcelona and Girona.
End of an era for Atrápalo. The Ávoris group, owned by Barceló, announced this Thursday an agreement to buy 100% of the online travel and leisure platform. The operation is subject to approval by the National Commission for Markets and Competition (CNMC) and is part of the hotel company’s growth strategy to strengthen its position in the online travel agency business. Neither party has made the purchase amount public.
The protesters gather every night, until the early hours of the morning: “No to the Trump family resort.” For some time now, Jared Kushner and his wife Ivanka Trump have set their sights —and money— on a stretch of Albanian coastline, a lagoon with flamingos, seals, and nesting areas, to transform it into a huge luxury complex. All of this in a protected area that many Albanians want to protect precisely from the Trump family.
For the first time in history, Germany failed to be elected as a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council in the general assembly vote on Wednesday in New York, “a real disappointment, a bitter defeat,” according to its Foreign Minister, Johann Wadephul, who attributed the harsh setback to an adverse campaign by Russia. Portugal and Austria were chosen to fill the two European seats for the 2027-2028 period.
No one expected high-altitude guide Hillary Dawa Sherpa to appear alive after he went missing last May 29 above Camp 3 of Everest, at over 7,300 meters of altitude, in the death zone. The best and surprising news arrived this morning when it was confirmed that the Nepalese high-altitude guide “was found crawling towards base camp by a team from the Sagarmatha Pollution Control Committee (SPCC, in its English acronym),” as confirmed to AFP agency by Pemba Sherpa, from 8K, the company that had started his search this week. The veteran Sherpa, over 50 years old, has been transferred to a hospital in Kathmandu with frostbite, but his life is not believed to be in danger.
The European Commission on Thursday extended the infringement procedure it opened last July against Spain over the laws used by Pedro Sánchez’s government to hinder BBVA’s hostile takeover bid for Sabadell. Despite the failure of the operation after BBVA failed to acquire even 26% of the entity’s capital, Brussels left the file open against Spain, and the Commission recalls that it was not initiated by the operation itself, but by the laws used to obstruct it.
“This can only be unlocked from Catalonia,” Alberto Núñez Feijóo told Josep Sánchez-Llibre, the president of the large Catalan employers’ association Foment del Treball, after his speech at the annual conferences of the Cercle d’Economia. That phrase, directed at whom it was directed, was full of intent. Sánchez-Llibre is one of the few representatives of Catalan civil society with notable interlocution and capacity for influence over the leader of Junts, Carles Puigdemont. So Feijóo was seeking help to convince the former president of the convenience of favoring a no-confidence motion that would unseat Pedro Sánchez. Both the socialist and the popular leader sent messages to Waterloo, but in very different tones and content. Junts has made it clear from the beginning that their votes are in exchange for demands, so it’s about knowing what Sánchez and Feijóo offer to potential allies. Well, both have made it quite clear this week in Barcelona.
A black and white drawing went viral on social media at the end of 2025, due to recent protests in Iran over the country’s growing economic crisis. It was a girl dancing as if there were no tomorrow while dreaming of the end of the dictatorship. Today this drawing has returned to the profiles of many users but for a different reason: the death of its author, Marjane Satrapi, at the age of 56.
David Sánchez’s statement this morning at the Badajoz Court has surprised due to its brevity and its complete lack of references to his hiring as coordinator of conservatories at the Badajoz Provincial Council in 2017. David Sánchez only answered his lawyer’s questions, which were limited to two issues: his change of position in 2022 when he became director of the Office of Performing Arts, and the hiring in 2023, also by the Badajoz Provincial Council, of his friend Luis Carrero as coordinator of cross-border centers and activities.