The Israeli flag already flies atop Beaufort Castle, the main lookout of southern Lebanon. The fortress, built 900 years ago during the Crusaders’ advance towards Jerusalem, is a symbolic but also strategic conquest for the Israeli Army, which is already advancing into Lebanese territory beyond the Litani River.
The president of Ceuta, Juan Jesús Vivas, has described the migratory pressure situation that the autonomous city has been experiencing in recent days as a “national emergency.” “It must be addressed from that perspective, as a national emergency through a decisive, energetic, proportional, forceful, immediate action that is coordinated through a single command” of the Government, he emphasized, adding later that in the last week “1,500 people have entered,” which “means the equivalent of almost 2% of the entire population of Ceuta.”
If there is something that writers habitually do, more or less consciously, it is to be aware of what is happening around them. It doesn’t matter if they write historical or contemporary fiction: what they see and experience in the present ends up permeating their texts. That is why it is not surprising that in recent times several books have been published in which aesthetic pressure and terms like botox, skincare, preventive aging, or wellness permeate their pages.
The incidence of African swine fever that has been affecting the Collserola park for months puts the route of the second stage of the Tour de France at risk. In fact, sources from the Generalitat of Catalonia explained to this newspaper that they have asked the Tour de France organization for a route change so that the race does not pass through the area currently under restrictions. The Generalitat proposes this change “out of responsibility and rigor in managing the outbreak affecting Catalonia since November.” At the same time, the final report from the technicians of the Government’s Department of Agriculture is awaited.
Donald Trump sought to exit the war with Iran with a pact before the midterm elections, but his unruly ally, Israel, threatens to blow the agreement to pieces. Benjamin Netanyahu announced early Sunday a new wave of bombings in the southern neighborhoods of Beirut, one of the red lines that the United States had set in the ceasefire signed between the Lebanese and Israeli governments last April 17.
The New York auction house Sotheby’s has witnessed the most expensive purchase ever recorded for a Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton. The fossil “Gus” was sold for a value of 50.1 million euros, the highest ever offered for a dinosaur to date. The T-Rex was already the most valued dinosaur before the bidding started, with an approximate value between 20 and 30 million euros. After just ten minutes, an anonymous buyer ended up acquiring the dinosaur and broke the world record.
UEFA has decided to modify the national team calendar starting from the 2028-2029 season, that is, at the end of the Euro, in a new and revolutionary model that will resemble the current Champions League. That is, the qualifying phases for the Nations League and for World Cups and Euros will be played in longer single groups with only one match against an opponent, either away or at home, not two as has been the case for a long time in the group stage.
Few terms are as terrifying in this country as that of the bubble, whether it be the dot-com, the real estate, or now the festival bubble in a time that boasts having a thousand of them spread across the entire geography. The trickle of cancellations in recent months, crowned by the disappearance of the massive Reggaeton Beach Festival, which gathered 600,000 people in 12 cities, has inflated the debate at the same time that solo artist tours are increasing and residencies are arriving, such as those of Shakira or Bad Bunny, both in Madrid.
Last Friday, a passenger on a Ryanair flight between Thessaloniki (Greece) and Memmingen (Germany) was sucked out of the airplane window after it came loose during the flight. The passenger, a 61-year-old Serbian man, was saved by the seatbelt and the efforts of other passengers to prevent him from being thrown into the void. The plane was flying at 6,000 meters altitude.
In a world that seems dominated by so-called influencers and artificial intelligence, Leonor has claimed the value of the “natural intelligents.” The princess, in the speech at the Princesa de Girona awards ceremony held at the Liceu, confessed that her favorite influencers, the people who inspire and influence her “are not characters considered successful or famous or glamorous, nor do they have the official label of aspirational nor measure their worth by certain achievements they post on their networks,” but rather those who “fall in love with problems with the intention of solving them; who tell something important with talent and accompany their craziness with rigor, discipline, and critical thinking.”