The PNV spokesperson in Congress, Maribel Vaquero, announced this Tuesday that her group will abstain this afternoon in the plenary vote on the decree-law extending rental contracts.
One gram of methamphetamine in Japan or Australia sells for 400 euros. Yes, yes, you read that right. That is precisely the market that interests the Mexican drug cartels that are practically capitalizing on the export of narcotic substances around the world. This Wednesday, the National Police provided details of a new operation against drugs, this time against synthetic drugs. The investigators of the Central Narcotics Brigade have dismantled a methamphetamine laboratory that had the capacity to produce 300 kilos of this dangerous drug in just three days.
Good news in the labor market is terrible for investors. This was confirmed this Friday on Wall Street where the three indices suffered severe drops, led especially by the Nasdaq (down 4%) due to a massive sell-off of AI-related stocks once the good job creation results were announced.
A few weeks ago, I was talking to an informed, intelligent, and politically influential person here in Spain about the global battle that defines our times, democracy versus authoritarianism. His/Her summary of the situation: “The lefts must unite.” No
The ‘Neue Nationalgalerie’ in Berlin currently houses an interactive installation by American artist Beeple (Mike Winkelmann). The work features robot dogs equipped with hyper-realistic silicone heads of figures such as Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Andy Warhol, and Pablo Picasso.
U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance’s trip to Islamabad (Pakistan) for his second round of dialogue with Iran has been suspended, though not canceled, as the two-week ceasefire between the two warring countries is about to expire. President Donald Trump lied on Monday when announcing that Vance was already flying and would arrive in the early hours. The White House later said that the expectation was for him to depart this morning, but he remains in Washington and, according to U.S. media reports, will stay in the capital until Trump sees honest negotiating will from Tehran.
Radio Caroline, a local radio station in southeast England, apologized this Wednesday after mistakenly broadcasting the death of monarch Charles III, attributing the incident to a computer error. “The ‘Monarch’ protocol, which all British radio stations have prepared in the hope of never having to use it, was mistakenly activated on Tuesday afternoon, erroneously announcing the death of His Majesty the King,” wrote Peter Moore, the station’s director, on Facebook.
“Will we wake up to air raid sirens tonight?” asks a Jerusalemite to his friend in a café in downtown Jerusalem. “I’ve already made plans. If war comes, let it come; I try not to worry too much,” replies the other, without looking up from his coffee. The scene sums up the mood of a population that no longer reacts to Donald Trump’s threats against Iran: they have heard them too many times.
Alberto Núñez Feijóo insisted this Thursday on calling for elections due to the corruption cases surrounding the Government and Pedro Sánchez’s PSOE, but he also warned that he will do “everything possible” to change the Government: “When I say everything, I mean everything.” Feijóo, in any case, avoided explicitly mentioning the motion of no confidence as a tool to change the Government, although he again appealed for the partners to take action.
The journalist from La Vanguardia specialized in science and health, Josep Corbella, shares with readers the status of the evolution of hantavirus cases detected on the MV Hondius cruise ship. As he emphasizes, this is a virus “that has great difficulty transmitting between people,” so “we can be calm, because there is no risk that hantavirus will spread uncontrollably around the world.”