The Icelandic government has summoned the US ambassador after President Donald Trump posted on social media an image with a map in which Mexico, Canada, Greenland, Iceland, and the Caribbean islands appear covered by the colors of the US flag. “It was made clear in the meeting that the post was completely unacceptable,” said Icelandic Foreign Minister Þorgerður Katrín Gunnarsdóttir to the public television RÚV.
The fire that has been burning since this noon in the Gobla de Puyol Pujol, one of the three canals that connect the lake of l’Albufera with the Mediterranean Sea, has already forced the preventive evacuation of the town of El Saler and the campsites in the area. This measure was taken at the Cecopal meeting, where, in addition, the mobilization of EMT buses for the transfer of residents was approved.
“Aquel verano del 26”. It is very likely that in a few years the summer of 2026 will be remembered for two extreme events: the human avalanche in Ceuta, with 150 people dead, most of them drowned while trying to reach the coast, on July 30 and 31, and the gigantic flood in Nepal, on August 26, as a result of the massive collapse of a glacier, which has caused more than a thousand missing. In both cases, the images are impressive, terrible. We live in times of extreme events whose fury is measured by the impact of videocapsules spread through social networks.
Platja de Palma, in Mallorca, had an unfortunate visitor that caused moments of tension among bathers this past Friday. It was a horseshoe snake, an specimen with a great capacity for swimming in the sea and that caused several people to move away from its path.
Without demonstrations in the streets, avoiding direct criticism of the leader and without questioning the policies of the Kremlin or the military intervention in Ukraine. Russians have let Vladimir Putin know that they are not at all happy with the blocking of the internet and social media, making a video recorded for the Russian president by a popular blogger and TV presenter, Victoria Bonya, who currently lives outside Russia, tremendously viral.
Minister Ángel Víctor Torres (Arucas, 1966) has been responsible since last August 25 for the unified command to manage the Ceuta crisis. With experience in migration emergencies during his time leading the Canary Islands Government, he advocates collaboration with Morocco, trusts in restoring normality as soon as possible, and accuses the PP of “turning their back” on Ceuta.
The public affordable rental portal is now available. The Government has presented today the tool from Casa 47, the state public company, where citizens interested in accessing public housing under a low-rent lease can consult the available offer, with images, and submit the application to become tenants. The portal starts with 638 properties, although the head of the Executive, Pedro Sánchez, has announced that “soon” 1,500 more properties will be added.
The judge in Madrid who will try Alberto González Amador, partner of the Madrid president Isabel Díaz Ayuso, for tax fraud has communicated that given the “overload and circumstances weighing on the Court” the date for the trial is still pending, once the opening of the oral trial was already agreed upon for September 2025.
The fire declared in the municipality of Segorbe (Castellón), which during the afternoon of this Friday forced the evacuation of the Valencian town of Gátova, remains out of control and already affects part of the Sierra Calderona Natural Park. The fire has temporarily burned 423 hectares and has generated a perimeter of 11.4 kilometers, according to data provided by the Minister of Emergencies and Interior, Juan Carlos Valderrama, after the meeting of the Integrated Operational Coordination Center (Cecopi).
The couple took the elevator on the fourth second and went down to the parking lot. Once there, the woman felt her pockets.
