Jordi Pujol i Soley will be condemned by history or time, but not by the courts. The Audiencia Nacional decided this morning that the former president of the Generalitat, 95 years old, is not in a condition to be tried, given the cognitive deterioration he suffers.
Microsoft has presented its new quantum chip, Majorana 2, which is 1,000 times more reliable than its first version, presented in February 2025. The company has announced that the material architecture of this chip multiplies the reliability of its qubits, the minimum unit of information in a quantum computer, by 1,000. The qubits of Majorana 2 have an average lifetime of 20 seconds and peaks reaching one minute compared to the microseconds of conventional quantum chips. After the chip presentation, the company sets its goal to build a scalable quantum computer by 2029, halving the initial target timeline.
Fifteen days after 80,000 young people swam across the border separating Morocco from Ceuta, the origin of the incident remains shrouded in the fog that defines the relations between Spain and the African neighbor. Jean Raspail published The Camp of the Saints in 1973. In the novel, a…
La Casa del Rey has made an unprecedented gesture with Ceuta on the day of the autonomous city amid the very serious migratory crisis it has been suffering since July 30. On its X account, the Zarzuela Palace has published an image of the flags of Ceuta, Spain, and the European Union in the audience hall of the headquarters of the Head of State.
The Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office wants to know if the meetings at the State Attorney General’s Office with Leire Díez, known as the PSOE’s “plumber,” are true. In a document submitted in the case investigating a plot to torpedo judicial cases affecting the Socialist Party or the environment of the President of the Government, the prosecutors demand that the instructor request the visitor log at the Ministry’s headquarters on Fortuny Street, between April 2024 and June 2025, for a series of people.
The Los Gallardos fire in Almería has not only forced the deployment of the largest firefighting operation in recent years in Andalusia, but it has also caused the first political friction between the partners of the new Andalusian Government. Just a few hours after Juanma Moreno appeared alongside Pedro Sánchez in Turre to warn that forest fires are “increasingly dramatic” in a context marked by climate change, Vox publicly came out to correct that narrative. “Climate change cannot be an excuse to shirk responsibilities,” said the party’s spokesperson in Congress, Pepa Millán, on Tuesday.
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.
In January 1937, when he accepts the commission from the Spanish Republic to create a large mural for the International Exhibition in Paris, Picasso is living what he would later recall as “the worst time of my life.” The painter is 54 years old and his previously carefree polygamy is showing its teeth: the divorce from Olga Koklova has become a nightmare; Marie-Thérèse Walter, the lover with whom he had started a relationship when she was still underage, has made him a father again (Maya) and he has fallen in love again with the artist and photographer Dora Maar.
The strategy to curb common crime, but above all the armed groups that increasingly control more territory, will likely be what tips the balance in the second round of elections in Colombia. It will also be the greatest challenge for the next four years of government for whoever wins the contest.
The municipal government of Valladolid, formed by the coalition between the Popular Party and Vox, has excluded victims of gender-based violence as beneficiaries of social rental housing. The measure, which was announced in May and also increased the minimum years of registration, seeks to extend the criterion reserved for victims of sexist violence to all those who have suffered violence in the family environment.