The private security staff of Lamine Yamal thwarted an attempted robbery early this morning at the house the footballer has in Esplugues de Llobregat, according to sources familiar with the incident confirmed to La Vanguardia. A guard spotted through the security cameras two individuals perched on one of the walls of the property of the Barcelona player, who last night won with the Spanish national team against France in the Football World Cup.
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.
“On Saturday around half past one in the morning, I started receiving messages from citizens who thought their houses were burning, we also had to start evacuating the nursing home and make more difficult decisions; literally, I thought the whole city was on fire.” This is how Tania Baños, mayor of La Vall d’Uixó, describes the most tense moments experienced after the hellish fire broke out, forcing thousands of residents of the Castellón town to evacuate, who have spent several days on edge facing the threat of fire over their homes.
Thousands of the more than 40,000 immigrants who entered Ceuta irregularly yesterday, due to Morocco’s permissiveness, have begun returning to their country throughout the morning of this Friday, after realizing that the autonomous city, completely overwhelmed, does not have the capacity to respond to them. The same point where they arrived by swimming or on foot, the El Tarajal border breakwater, has become an open entry gate, because the flow of entries does not stop despite the military deployment, and an exit, through which to leave Spain, once it has been confirmed that they have nowhere to eat or sleep.
In Washington, thousands of journalists work, but there is one who seems to get almost all the exclusives: Barak Ravid.
A man dressed in a pilot uniform was detained this Monday at El Dorado International Airport in Bogotá, when he tried to leave the country bound for Spain with ten kilos of cocaine hidden on his body, the Police reported.
The parliamentary group of Vox in the Valencian Parliament has registered a Non-Legislative Proposal (PNL) with the aim of establishing the principle of “national priority” in the management of public services. The initiative proposes that Spanish citizens have preference in access to social aid, housing, and public benefits, in what the party defines as a reorientation of the current welfare model. The initiative by the far-right party now forces the PP, and its leader Juanfran Pérez Llorca, to comment on this initiative in the Valencian chamber.
The capital of Saxony-Anhalt, an eastern German state that is holding regional elections this Sunday which literally have the whole country on edge, has until now been mostly known for a famous scientific experiment: the Magdeburg hemispheres. In 1656, its mayor, the physicist Otto von Guericke, demonstrated the tremendous force of atmospheric pressure by joining two metal hemispheres and extracting the air from inside them using a vacuum pump he invented himself. He then hitched two teams of sixteen horses, eight on each side, to try to pull them apart, but they could not. After opening a valve and allowing air to enter, both hemispheres separated without much effort.
The Ibex 35 tries this Tuesday to hold on to 20,000 points after four consecutive sessions of declines and on a day again marked by tension between the United States and Iran. The Spanish benchmark started practically flat, with a slight advance of 0.02%, up to 19,985 points, after having lost 0.87% yesterday and saying goodbye to the historic closing high of 20,300 points that it reached just at the beginning of this August.
The Trump administration has taken a further step in its decision to reduce the number of U.S. troops in Europe and has canceled the deployment of 4,000 soldiers to Poland as part of a more ambitious plan to cut its military presence on the continent.