“A man always ends up facing what he fears the most,” they said in a Jim Jarmusch samurai code movie. If you are afraid of poverty, you will end up dealing with it. If what you fear most is loneliness, you will end your life alone. You cannot escape the monster because…
Exactly one year ago, in Anchorage (Alaska), Donald Trump welcomed Vladimir Putin with a red carpet in an attempt to stop the war in Ukraine. Six months earlier, on February 28, 2025, in an unusual reprimand broadcast live from the Oval Office of the White House, the US president had insisted to Volodymyr Zelensky that he had to accept a ceasefire, under draconian conditions imposed by Moscow. “You are not in a good position, you don’t have the cards,” Trump repeated to him again and again. A tense scene that history will remember.
One of the legends of trip hop, the British producer Adrian Thaws, breaks his recording silence as such after six years since Fall to pieces (although it has been a period of time he has invested in exploring different projects and even parallel identities, such as Lonely guest or Theis thaws). A wait that, as the cliché goes but is true, has been worth it, since the 14 tracks that bring the brand new album to life invite you to enter its interior. One of the pillars in his day of British trip hop – it has already been 31 years since the release of the iconic and fundamental album Maxinquaye –, if anything has always characterized the work of the Bristol producer, it is his ease in changing styles and genres without causing cataclysms.
“Europe needs to change.” This is the premise of the opinion piece published this Tuesday by the Cercle d’Economia, which will mark the central theme of its upcoming Annual Meeting, organized next week. This year’s sessions will analyze the strategic autonomy of the European Union (EU) in the face of geopolitical and technological changes that threaten its welfare model. The text highlights that the community space must overcome its internal fragmentation, truly building the European single market, especially in key sectors such as telecommunications, energy, or finance.
The PP has reacted immediately to the ruling of the Court of Justice of the European Union on the Amnesty Law by showing “absolute respect.” “The PP does not interpret rulings based on whether they like them more or less,” sources from the Popular Party say. However, the PP leadership warns that this is not the “end of the debate” because now the Spanish courts have the power to directly apply the Amnesty Law. Additionally, the PP maintains its rejection of “criminal privileges” for the separatists.
While awaiting the harsh sanction that Real Zaragoza goalkeeper, Esteban Andrada, will face for the brutal punch he dealt to SD Huesca player, Jorge Pulido, which has gone viral worldwide, the Aragonese club also wanted to express this Monday its “absolute disagreement” with the refereeing performance of official Dámaso Arcediano, “especially due to the disparate criteria” in decisions made in both areas. “It clearly and directly conditioned the result,” they add in a statement.
The Ministry of Health reported this Thursday the detection of an imported case of Andes strain hantavirus in a French-Argentine citizen who is currently in Galicia, after traveling through several European countries.
The Generalitat of Catalonia has agreed to restrict mobility this Wednesday, implement teleworking, and suspend outdoor educational and sports activities between 7 a.m. and 5 p.m. in the Baix Llobregat, Vallès Occidental, Garraf, Alt Penedès, and Baix Penedès regions due to the forecast of heavy rains. This was announced yesterday by the Minister of the Interior, Núria Parlon, at a press conference where she justified these restrictive measures due to the red alert of intensity five out of six for the risk of heavy rains in these five regions.
The Mossos d’Esquadra are investigating the death of two 11-year-old twin brothers who are believed to have drowned in the Ter River in Manlleu (Osona).
Just two years shy of reaching its centenary, the massive festival of the Hogueras de San Juan spreads across all districts of the city of Alicante. There are 92 existing committees, but some neighborhoods still maintain a calm during the celebration of the great ceremony of gunpowder and fire that keeps them isolated from the festive bustle, among them, La Albufereta.
