The tyranny of the mobile phone, also for dating: Generation Z needs constant communication

The tyranny of the mobile phone, also for dating: Generation Z needs constant communication

Work emails, family chats, groups of friends organizing trips, birthdays, gatherings. To that hodgepodge of interactions that force one to look at the mobile screen is added, especially for young people, another tie to the digital world: keeping an actively stimulating conversation, exuding enough charisma and charm, to seduce —or show interest in— the person one wants to approach. Dating in these times, for many, represents another type of virtual slavery.

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Morocco shows control at the border with Ceuta by blocking hundreds of sub-Saharan immigrants

Morocco shows control at the border with Ceuta by blocking hundreds of sub-Saharan immigrants

Morocco is demonstrating its control at the border with Spain by blocking the passage of hundreds of sub-Saharan Africans trying to approach the El Tarajal breakwater, through which more than 70,000 people entered two weeks ago with the permissiveness, at that time, of Rabat. Police sources tell La Vanguardia that this time the Alaouite kingdom is cooperating to prevent the new attempt at a mass crossing, encouraged in recent days on social networks, from succeeding. Ceuta, which has not yet returned to normal, is holding its breath with the fear that the avalanche will repeat, seeing how the autonomous city woke up this holiday August 15 with an unprecedented police deployment.

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The witnesses say that the Sant Roc gunman shot the minors

The witnesses say that the Sant Roc gunman shot the minors

A deathly silence has taken over the Sant Roc neighborhood of Badalona. On Sunday afternoon, a vehicle stopped without turning off the engine at number 19 Còrdova Street, next to a square where drug buying and selling is common. An individual armed with an automatic pistol emptied the magazine, eight shots, aiming, according to some witnesses, at the place where two minors were playing. A ten-year-old girl received a clean shot in the elbow, with an entry and exit wound, and a bone fracture.

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The dismissed former Defense Minister Fédorov challenges Zelenski and calls for elections in Ukraine

The political crisis that erupted a month ago in Ukraine over the dismissal of the popular Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov has not yet ended. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky tried on Tuesday to resolve it once and for all by finally appointing the new minister. But hours later Fedorov challenged Zelensky by calling for presidential elections to be held without waiting for the end of the war.

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The Plus Ultra plot made payments to “ladies”: “we have to take care of judges, police officers, and officials”

The Plus Ultra plot made payments to “ladies”: “we have to take care of judges, police officers, and officials”

The details of the case affecting the airline Plus Ultra for allegedly having paid for influence to secure a bailout of 53 million euros reveal their ways of proceeding. In a conversation found on the phone of one of the investigated, there is talk of paying ladies in cash, after having received 50,000 euros in cash. “We have to take care of the judges, police, and officials hehe,” they boast in messages sent on New Year’s Eve 2020.

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Sánchez celebrates the disappearance of the Gibraltar fence: “Today the last wall of continental Europe falls”

Sánchez celebrates the disappearance of the Gibraltar fence: “Today the last wall of continental Europe falls”

“Today the last wall of continental Europe falls,” celebrated Pedro Sánchez this Wednesday, after attending in La Línea de la Concepción (Cádiz) the symbolic act of dismantling the Gibraltar fence ten years after Brexit, with the entry into force of the agreement sealed the day before between the European Union and the United Kingdom.

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Jordi Roca denounces the identity theft of El Celler de Can Roca again

Jordi Roca denounces the identity theft of El Celler de Can Roca again

The renowned chef Jordi Roca has publicly denounced the identity theft of ‘El Celler de Can Roca’ (Girona), through a video on his official Instagram account. It is not the first time. This statement adds to the official communication issued by the restaurant itself on May 5, which warned precisely about the existence of a website that, posing as the establishment, offered reservations in exchange for advance payments.

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The battle for literary prescription adds new fronts

The battle for literary prescription adds new fronts

Reading is at its peak. 70% of Spaniards over 14 years old read books. And 66.2% choose them for leisure, according to the latest Reading and Book Buying Habits Barometer in Spain from the Ministry of Culture. An interest that is evident on social media, where content about books has multiplied. The most common format there is now video reviews of new releases, with young adult romance being the most popular genre, with two million mentions on Instagram and TikTok: reviews generated by profiles that do not necessarily belong to literary figures, but to ordinary citizens – generally young women – who share the latest titles that have thrilled them.

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