This election campaign has so far been a balm for the president of the Junta and candidate for re-election for the PP, Juanma Moreno. Until tonight’s debate broadcast by Televisión Española and directed by Xabier Fortes and Laura Clavero.
President Donald Trump has never been a fan of the Pulitzer Prizes. Not long ago, he demanded that those awards be withdrawn from the media that investigated his Russian connections. This year’s edition, announced this Monday, also does not put him in a good light, and much of the awarded information, reports, and opinions expose the alleged corruption and his authoritarian policy, especially against opponents and immigrants, which have marked his first year back in the White House.
A Ukrainian drone struck a residential building in Moscow for the first time in several years this Monday, just ten kilometers from the Kremlin, according to the mayor of the Russian capital, Sergey Sobyanin. The attack in the capital adds to other drones that Ukraine had launched against the oil terminal at the port of Primorsk, one of Russia’s main export ports with the capacity to handle one million barrels of oil per day, in the Baltic Sea, and two tankers from the Russian ghost fleet in waters near the entrance to the Russian port of Novorossiysk, in the Black Sea.
Since the Govern’s intention to introduce mossos d’esquadra in some high schools to reduce conflict and promote coexistence became known, controversy has continued to arise. The majority of the educational community has opposed the proposal. And now it is the mossos d’esquadra themselves who oppose the idea of being present in the high schools without being armed. This was expressed by the Uspac union, the majority among the rank-and-file officers.
The text has been kept in the drawer for months and, it seems, its time has finally come. The Council of Ministers is expected to approve today the expansion of the Comprehensive Protection Law for Children and Adolescents against Violence (LOPIVI), promoted by the Ministry of Youth and Childhood, which among other things, removes the 12-year age limit for minors to be heard obligatorily in processes that affect them.
Two people died and at least another twenty were injured, two of them seriously, in a multiple hit-and-run this Monday in the German city of Leipzig, in the east of the country, according to police. Around 4:45 p.m., a gray Volkswagen SUV sped into a central pedestrian area around Augustusplatz and drove 500 meters running over people. The driver was arrested at the scene.
Uncertainty has settled in the Strait of Hormuz after a series of bombings by Iran against ships flying the flags of the United States, the UAE, and South Korea, as well as against an oil complex in the United Arab Emirates throughout Monday, casting doubt on Donald Trump’s initiative to “guide” the ships trapped in the maritime route. The ceasefire between Washington and Tehran is faltering as peace negotiations, mediated by Pakistan, continue to yield no results two months after the start of the war.
Carlos Garaikoetxea, the first lehendakari after Francoism (1980-1985) and a key figure in the recovery of Basque self-government, has died at the age of 87 due to a heart attack, according to the Basque public television portal Orain.
The authorities of Fujairah, in the United Arab Emirates, have reported a fire in the Fujairah Oil Industrial Zone following what they described as a drone attack from Iran. According to the Fujairah press office, civil defense teams were immediately deployed to contain the fire.
The National Police arrested a 26-year-old man this Monday in Valencia as the alleged perpetrator of a homicide, after allegedly fatally stabbing another man. Police sources explained that the events occurred around 2:00 p.m. when officers responded, after receiving a call, to a commercial establishment located in the Russafa district, where a man had suffered an attack with a bladed weapon, causing his death.
