The professional association Unión de Militares de Tropa (UMT) has reported in a statement that at least 14 soldiers deployed in Ceuta have suffered an outbreak of scabies. The UMT directly points to the “poor conditions in which the personnel were housed last Saturday, August 15” in some old military facilities.
According to most indicators, China’s manufacturing sector is the largest in the world and has grown faster than that of any other major economy in the past 25 years. The manufacturing sector has generated a total of about 5 trillion dollars in value added; and in 2024 it employed about 70 million workers in manufacturing enterprises above a certain size. China’s share in the global manufacturing industry has experienced strong increases: it went from 6% in 2000 to 26% in 2015; and, despite the ups and downs of some years, it approached 30% in 2024.
An investigation started in 2010, carried out in 2012 with the arrest of a criminal organization of Chinese origin. It was the first major operation against the so-called Chinese mafia, led in Spain by the businessman Gao Ping. Chinese citizens, Spanish businessmen, bankers, and even a porn actor, Nacho Vidal, and his sister were charged.
It had been only a few weeks since the war between Ukraine and Russia had broken out, and the editor of La Vanguardia, Javier Godó, was considering the creation of a format that would allow for in-depth reflection on the consequences of the most important armed conflict on European soil since World War II. The idea was to involve the human and technical potential of the group’s media, both La Vanguardia and RAC1, to offer subscribers, readers, and listeners a cross-sectional view of a conflagration that, even in those days, was evident would mark the history of Europe and international relations. With this vocation, Foros de Vanguardia was born on April 7, 2022. The debut was a debate with correspondents from La Vanguardia and RAC1 who had been or were still on the front lines in Ukraine or neighboring borders. The Eyes of the War was the title, and the auditorium of the Círculo Ecuestre was packed to capacity to hear the experiences of María Paz López, Félix Flores, Plàcid Garcia Planas, Jordi Armenteras, and Joaquín Luna. It was a resounding success. So much so that a month later, we repeated with a special guest, the Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares. Since then, approaching five years of existence and fifty editions, the Forums have expanded the range of topics and, in the process, have become fully integrated into Barcelona’s agenda, becoming one of the city’s essential events.
A person is in serious condition at the Hospital del Mar in Barcelona after falling from a boat on the coast this Saturday afternoon and being rescued by the Mossos d’Esquadra along with their companion.
From filling New York’s Ed Sullivan Theater for 11 years with his The Late Show after replacing the icon David Letterman to hosting Only in Monroe, a program on Michigan’s public access community television, along with guests like Jeff Daniels, Steve Buscemi, or Eminem and with Jack White as volunteer musical director.
There are few sports as tough as swimming and gymnastics, whether in its artistic or rhythmic form. Thousands of hours in the pool in the first case, feeling the effort, the pressure, the pain in arms and legs, and the loneliness, do not forget the loneliness, as few specialties…
Amid great anticipation, in true American style, including a speech by the mayor and a marching band, the Spanish national team’s expedition landed on Friday night in Chattanooga, a beautiful town located in the southeast of the state of Tennessee, where Luis de la Fuente and his team will establish their base camp throughout the first phase of the World Cup. “A team takes off. A country flies”, read the personalized Airbus 350-Next that transported ‘La Roja’ from Rosalía de Castro airport, in Santiago de Compostela, to Chattanooga, after a stopover in Nashville.
Smiling and confident, President Juanma Moreno’s face betrayed on Friday morning at his first campaign event in a neighborhood in the East district of Seville – middle class with a pool in the block – his conviction that tomorrow Sunday things are going to go from good to very good for him.
Welcome, Mister Lincoln! Pattaya, the world mecca of sex tourism, has been waiting for the arrival of the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln by its side for over a week. Its five thousand marines, mostly in their twenties, had been on a tough mission at sea for 286 days, not too close nor too far from Iran. D-Day, the landing in Thailand, finally arrived this Wednesday morning. Its entertainment industry – of all kinds – welcomes them with open arms and welcome signs at its hottest spots. From the living forces to the lively ones, in a parody of Welcome Mr. Marshall.