It was supposed to be barely two hours, but Luis Bárcenas had to eat a sandwich in the hallway of the Audiencia Nacional because his statement lasted five hours. It was one of the most anticipated appointments of the Kitchen plot trial, one of the biggest scandals in a country too accustomed to corruption. And it did not disappoint.
Perhaps waiting for the best moment to call elections, Pedro Sánchez missed the opportunity. That remains to be seen. The only certainty is that the leader of the PSOE has not seen a favorable moment since last year, when the Government arrived besieged and exhausted in the summer. The avalanche…
Although it later turned out to be a mistake by the character, who confused one island with another, the Icelanders jumped when, in his speech in Davos last January, Donald Trump mentioned Iceland as a target of his expansionist appetites. The President of the United States meant Greenland, so the alarm passed quickly, but anyway his harassment of the neighboring Arctic island has struck a chord in Icelandic society and politics.
The images recorded by the cameras of the Iryo train that crashed in Adamuz (Córdoba), collected in a new report by the Railway Accident Investigation Commission (CIAF), support the hypothesis of a rail break on the Seville-Madrid high-speed line as the cause of the derailment and subsequent collision with an Alvia, which caused the death of 46 people. From the analysis of the videos, it is “not evident”, as stated in the report accessed by La Vanguardia, that there were “anomalies” in any of the trains involved before 19:43:22 on January 18, when Iryo’s car 6 was circulating at the height “of the breaking point”.
The constant technological transformations and advances in digitalization are providing endless new opportunities for companies to consolidate increasingly innovative, efficient, and sustainable models. This is precisely what the Expo Foodtech will highlight in its sixth edition, the great technological fair of the food industry, which will return once again to Bilbao on May 27 and 28. Under the motto Optimize Everything, Accelerate Success, this important event will focus especially on various key tools, such as automation and food processing solutions, designed to optimize processes and improve the production and distribution of their products.
Ukrainian drones continue to punish the Russian rear. Their attacks reached two refineries located hundreds of kilometers from the border and the battlefront this Thursday, assured the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky. Russian authorities confirmed a fire at one of the two facilities. It was one of the largest waves of drones against Russian territory in a war that has already lasted almost four and a half years.
The Government does not have illusions. The downfall of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, whether or not he is ultimately convicted, marks a turning point in the hopes of renewing a left-wing administration. As if that were not enough, they do not expect this to be the last onslaught…
The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, will finally appear before the Plenary of the Congress on September 3 to report on the Government’s management of the migration crisis in Ceuta, following the serious incidents recorded since July 30. The setting of the date culminates an undisguised standoff in the Board of Spokespersons, where the initial intention of La Moncloa — which requested to set the appearance for the 9th — clashed with the pressure from several parliamentary groups, led by the PNV. Jeltzale sources have demanded that the meeting be “immediate” and “without the need to reschedule already planned appearances,” once the “situation of interest for national security” in the autonomous city was declared.
In the last two years, Real Madrid has become accustomed to bad legal news that entailed a loss of scheduled future income. First, the famous noise from the Bernabéu that led to the ban on organizing concerts. Florentino Pérez, the club president, explained that the earnings were 1% of the budget (about 12 million annually). And, second and last, the ban on the use of the underground parking lot that the City Council granted to the club only in exchange for six million in fees. Madrid would take care of the construction and commercialization, and had already finalized an agreement to earn 326 million in 40 years, three times the amount invested, according to SER at the time. However, now, thanks to a decision by the Madrid City Council, the white entity can compensate for those losses in a few years at the mercy of the reclassification of the Valdebebas land.
France has felt victimized for years by the Russian hybrid war, which includes everything from typical disinformation actions on social networks to bizarre and crude destabilization operations such as placing empty coffins in front of the Eiffel Tower or pig heads in mosques.