The bulls from the Jandilla ranch in Mérida have lived up to their reputation for being fast and dangerous, leaving behind a hectic and dangerous final run of the Sanfermines. The bulls have fallen several times and have charged at the runners.
Leire Díez was appointed in April 2024, by order of the then PSOE organization secretary, Santos Cerdán, to initiate a series of actions to save the PSOE and Pedro Sánchez’s circle from the legal cases that threatened them and to dig up dirt on their political rivals. Now, the Audiencia Nacional has uncovered these dealings and found a large amount of audio material because Díez recorded those clandestine meetings, where she offered agreements with the Prosecutor’s Office and claimed to be the emissary of the PSOE and the Government to “put themselves on the right side of history.”
Nineteen months of investigation into former Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero will presumably be revealed today. The judge of the National Court, in charge of the Plus Ultra case, has lifted the secrecy of the file once the most important procedure, the search of the former leader’s official office, has been carried out. From this Monday, the parties involved in the process, including popular accusations, will have access to the case and it will be inevitable that details of the investigation become known.
Carlos Garaikoetxea, the first lehendakari after Francoism (1980-1985) and a key figure in the recovery of Basque self-government, has died at the age of 87 due to a heart attack, according to the Basque public television portal Orain.
In five months of war in Iran, which according to the Pentagon have cost US taxpayers 37.5 billion dollars and more than 130 billion according to independent analyses, the United States has consumed a significant part of its arsenal. According to an exclusive from Reuters, the Department of Defense has used “practically all” of its long-range precision missiles, official sources have revealed to the US agency.
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.
The searches carried out this morning by the Economic and Fiscal Crime Unit (UDEF) of the National Police by order of the judge of the National Court José Luis Calama focus on three consulting, institutional relations, and business services companies. One of them is Whathefav S.L., the agency of the daughters of the former Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, and the other two are Inteligencia Prospectiva S.L., focused on technological foresight oriented to social projects, and Softgestor, a legal advisory and management firm.
Turn in the trial against David Sánchez. Yesterday, several officials from the Diputación de Badajoz testified that they do not recall any irregularity in the hiring of the Prime Minister’s brother as coordinator of the conservatories in 2017. They also stated that David Sánchez was “very hardworking.” But today the tables have turned with the testimony of Cristina de Frutos, another candidate for that job: “A friend told me three days before the interview that the position was for David Sánchez.”
The private security staff of Lamine Yamal thwarted an attempted robbery early this morning at the house the footballer has in Esplugues de Llobregat, according to sources familiar with the incident confirmed to La Vanguardia. A guard spotted through the security cameras two individuals perched on one of the walls of the property of the Barcelona player, who last night won with the Spanish national team against France in the Football World Cup.
The streets of Gràcia are preparing for a new edition of their main festival, which will offer more than 900 free activities from August 15 to 21.