The MV Hondius cruise ship is at the center of a hantavirus outbreak declared between April and May 2026. Of the 147 passengers on board, from 23 different nationalities, 9 cases have been reported —6 confirmed and 3 suspected—, 3 of them fatal. Among those affected are 14 Spaniards: 13 passengers and one crew member.
A Louisiana father shot and killed eight children, including seven of his own, in an attack on his family Sunday morning that spanned two homes in a Shreveport neighborhood shocked by one of the country’s deadliest mass shootings in recent years, police said. Two women, including the attacker’s wife —the children’s mother—, were also seriously injured, according to Chris Bordelon, a spokesperson for the Shreveport Police Department. Authorities noted that the children —all killed in the same house— were between 3 and 11 years old. The attacker, identified as 31-year-old Shamar Elkins, died after a police chase that ended when officers opened fire on him, according to Bordelon.
The delay in obtaining major construction permits in Alicante has been a constant in recent times, which developers and professionals in the construction sector denounce wherever they find interlocutors. This happened at a recent technical conference organized by the Colleges of Architects and Technical Architects together with representatives from the Urban Planning Department. The aim was to bring together those who draft the technical documents with those who supervise and approve them, in order to streamline procedures and administrative processes.
The traditional saying blesses the goodness of everything that comes “like May rain,” but it does not clarify what happens when the water arrives in the form of snow. And that is what has happened in the Vall d’Aran, which this advanced spring Friday has woken up under a white blanket.
A 67-year-old woman has drowned in Felanitx (Mallorca) after being trapped under a car during a heavy downpour. The woman slipped and became immobilized under the vehicle at a time when it was raining heavily. The water was over two palms deep and the woman was immobilized at a time when there was a strong water current due to the intense rains. Some neighbors who passed by the area shortly after found the woman’s body and could do nothing to help her.
Around 13,600 residents of the town of Wilhelmshaven, in northern Germany, will be evacuated this Tuesday following the discovery of an unexploded American bomb from World War II. The bomb, weighing 250 kilograms and equipped with two fuzes, was found during construction work at the city’s naval arsenal, and its deactivation requires an evacuation within a one-kilometer radius, according to the Police.
If the Santiago Bernabéu were a confessional, this August all the Real Madrid footballers have purged their sins. Three matches, three victories, ten goals for and two against, two thrashings at the white stadium with confidence and moments of good play, those of verticality and individual talent that provoke the delight of the fans. But, above all, the feeling of a team offered by Mourinho’s men excites the people: everyone runs, everyone plays, everyone dribbles, everyone hugs… The Portuguese’s influence, for now, is a miracle cure. Right now the dressing room is a calm sea when before it was a boiling pot.
Catalonia has been carrying a deficit in the execution of state investment of almost 13 billion euros since 2009, a burden that, according to the construction sector, explains much of the accumulated delay in infrastructure. The Cambra de Contractistes d’Obres de Catalunya (CCOC) warns that the State only executed 57.4% of the budgeted investments last year, while calling for doubling the volume of public works to recover lost ground.
The instructions to get a copy signed by Nobel laureate Han Kang were clear: she was only going to do one signing session, at La Central del Raval, and would sign one hundred copies, one per reader. The monumental queue that formed on Tuesday at the CCCB, where the author held a Sant Jordi Dialogue, foreshadowed that it would not be easy.
A woman, considered the first contact in Catalonia of a fatal victim of the ‘Hondius’ hantavirus, will remain in quarantine at the Hospital Clínic de Barcelona for between three and six weeks. She is a resident of Barcelona who coincided for a few minutes, on April 25, on the plane covering the Johannesburg-Amsterdam route with the cruise passenger who ended up dying in the South African capital. She is around 40 years old, sources from the Departament de Salut told this newspaper.