It has been more than twenty years since England and Argentina have played on the same field. It has been 7,914 days since they last faced each other, on November 11, 2005. It is normal that Leo Messi has never faced the English, but Ayala, Samuel, and Aimar, three members of Lionel Scaloni’s coaching staff, have.
Brussels has no evidence of an alleged Russian involvement in a disinformation campaign that would have caused the migration crisis in Ceuta, as claimed by Pedro Sánchez’s government, but it does believe that it is trying to “take advantage” of the complicated situation in which the autonomous city finds itself after the massive crossing it experienced at the end of July.
Pope Leo XIV will meet with the President of the Generalitat, Salvador Illa, on Tuesday, June 9 in the afternoon, at 4:15 PM. It was a meeting that was not on the public agenda of the Pontiff and was already planned, since between the midday prayer at the Barcelona cathedral and the event at the Lluís Companys stadium there were several free hours which, according to the trip organizers, were for private meetings of the Pontiff.
A passenger on the Mv Hondius, the cruise ship where three people have died from a possible hantavirus outbreak and which will remain in quarantine for two weeks, has explained what the situation is like on board. Jack Rosmarin, a travel influencer with more than 30,000 followers on TikTok, tearfully explained how the approximately 150 souls traveling on the ship are feeling. “We are not stories, we are not headlines,” is his headline.
The Ustec union registered a strike call from June 8 to 12 on Thursday night and an indefinite CGT strike starting on the 8th. The registration of the dates took place after failing to reach an agreement on salary and resource improvements in education following hours of negotiation. This same Friday, amid the exchange of accusations between Educació and unions, the Ustec spokesperson has already warned that if no agreement is reached, they do not rule out coming out with a strengthened schedule of mobilizations.
The President of the United States, Donald Trump, reiterated this Saturday that he believes the war with Iran will end after the midterm elections, which the United States will hold next November 3 and in which the Republican candidates will compete for the conservative majorities in the House of Representatives and the Senate.
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero sold to the businessman Julio Martínez Martínez, located at the center of the plot investigated by judge José Luis Calama, a house in Almería in 2011, the last year of his term as President of the Government, according to the report from the National Office for Fraud Investigation (ONIF) submitted to the case file, which does not specify the exact date of the transaction.
The sexist murder of the civil guard Laura Cruz at the Llanes barracks has reopened the debate about protection mechanisms within the Armed Institute. Although the alleged aggressor, Dámaso Fernández, also a civil guard, had his service weapon withdrawn and had recently been expelled from the Corps following a final conviction for gender-based violence, he managed to access the barracks, steal a colleague’s weapon in Zamora, and shoot his partner to death.
The European Commission has today imposed a fine of 550 million euros on AliExpress for the Chinese platform’s failure to control risks related to the sale in the European Union of illegal, unsafe, or counterfeit products on its electronic marketplace. This includes everything from toys to dangerous cosmetics that circulated freely on the platform and, in many cases, remained online for weeks after being detected until they were removed. The company intends to appeal what it calls a “disproportionate” sanction, Reuters reports.
In the August 12 edition, the main European headlines included a full-page advertisement with the slogan “Good things happen in Spain.” The dazzling astronomical eclipse that crossed the Peninsula from west to east that day tried to cast its shadow over the other serious humanitarian and geopolitical eclipse of Ceuta, the Spanish city in Africa occupied between July 30 and 31 by more than seventy thousand people mostly coming from neighboring Morocco.
