“How strange it is to be young when one is old,” confesses Edgar Morin, and it is very relevant now that he is somewhere in Eternity. A couple of book fairs ago, in Frankfurt, we discovered Seeds of Sagacity, a title we published in March of this year in…
Unable to shoot until the 116th minute. Unable to score. Unable to lead his team to the title. Unable to shine after a World Cup in which he had always walked the edge of the impossible. Don’t cry for him, Argentina, because he has given you everything. Don’t cry for him because he has been the flag of a team that has survived beyond the imaginable. Don’t cry because at 39 years old he leaves the United States World Cup with eight goals, four assists, and a third final in six appearances. Leo Messi, the greatest player of all time, gave in during extra time, as in 2014 at Maracanã against Germany. Not even his incredible longevity managed to beat an unbeatable champion. A Spain that shut down Mbappé and did the same to Messi.
The French government bureaucracy has experienced two years of great stress since the controversial dissolution of the National Assembly in June 2024. However, this should not justify the fact that there have been two suicides and two attempts – in a period of seven months – among the officials working for the current Prime Minister, Sébastien Lecornu. Hence, the Paris prosecutor’s office has opened an investigation, supported by another internal one at the Matignon Palace.
The defense of former president Carles Puigdemont filed two complaints against Spain before European bodies on Monday in response to the refusal of the Court of Accounts to apply the Amnesty Law to the thirty former high-ranking officials of the Catalan administration from whom the expenses of the ‘procés’ are claimed. The auditing body, once the ruling of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) was known, which responded to the preliminary questions it had raised in 2024, reactivated the case and instead of applying penal oblivion, opened a ten-day period for the parties to present arguments and provide documentation proving the origin of the funds allocated to the 1-O referendum and the foreign action of the Generalitat.
A person is in serious condition at the Hospital del Mar in Barcelona after falling from a boat on the coast this Saturday afternoon and being rescued by the Mossos d’Esquadra along with their companion.
Julián Álvarez, Atlético de Madrid player and object of desire for FC Barcelona, is today the epicenter of a harsh battle that has gone beyond a mere negotiation between two clubs to become a tangled matter touching the personal pride of those involved. Above all, that of Miguel Ángel Gil Marín, CEO of the Colchonero club, who accuses Barça of acting with “falseness” and “lack of ethics,” among other niceties.
The Nepal disaster clearly illustrates a problem that climate scientists have been warning about for years. The icy structure of the Himalayas is destabilizing, exposing millions of people to increasingly unpredictable dangers. “Warming can lead to more glacier collapses and more formation of glacial lakes that can collapse,” summarizes Ignacio López-Moreno, researcher at the Pyrenean Institute of Ecology. (CSIC).
A fire at the gates of the Tarajal warehouses, where the immigrants who remain in Ceuta after the mass crossing have set up a settlement, burned down dozens of shacks early this morning. In this part of the autonomous city, mainly Moroccan families with young children camp, but according to initial reports there are no injuries. In the burned area, several witnesses told La Vanguardia that the flames may have been caused by candles, which a group of immigrants had brought from the monument to the fallen in Plaza de África, which has been filled with them since the beginning of the crisis.
It is a mistake to think that we are better. Seeing the world as a competition between good and bad only leads to more political, economic, and military confrontations. That is why I believe it is a mistake to gather a few progressive leaders in Barcelona without including others
El Niño is a meteorological phenomenon capable of causing the most powerful natural climate variability on the planet. It produces an abnormal warming of the tropical Pacific Ocean and can have extreme and unpredictable consequences. This phenomenon, which has been anticipated since 1997, generates climate disruptions especially during the second year from its onset. The last episode was recorded between the years 2023 and 2024.
