The cruise ship ‘Ambition’, affected by an outbreak of gastroenteritis caused by a norovirus, docked this Saturday at the port of A Coruña (Galicia) ahead of schedule, with thirty active cases on board, according to the latest report.
The aid package approved to address the effects of the Iran war has managed to keep inflation in June at 3.2% for the third consecutive month. The outbreak of the conflict caused prices to soar by 3.4% in March, but since then it has remained at this rate of 3.2%, certainly very high, but not skyrocketing.
If the data about Catalonia in the national PISA 2025 report presented today were representative of the school system, it would allow citizens to be proud of the education their children receive. Catalonia would be at the top of Spain and would rank among the fifteen best countries in the world.
Fear of the acceleration of Artificial Intelligence is spreading after a summer of rumors about out-of-control experiments. Programs that would have escaped the laboratory to enter other computer circuits, bypassing all security barriers. Rumors from August that in September have turned into a solemn call from the three main private operators in the United States in favor of a pause and international regulation of AI. President Donald Trump responded angrily, calling them “traitors,” a term that is becoming fashionable this tumultuous season.
The Government and the Generalitat took a new step this Wednesday in the architecture of Catalan self-government. After President Salvador Illa and the leader of ERC, Oriol Junqueras, sealed a key agreement yesterday to steer the Catalan budgets, the institutional machinery responded with unusual speed by holding a new meeting of the State-Generalitat bilateral commission to support the Generalitat’s deployment of powers, strengthen the shared management of infrastructures, and provide political and economic coverage to the pact between socialists and republicans.
The firefighters have declared this afternoon a fire that has caught forest mass in Pontils, in the region of Conca de Barberà, stabilized. The fire started in a stubble area, but soon spread to a nearby wooded area. Twenty-three ground crews and six aerial units have worked on it, and so far it has burned an area of four hectares, according to provisional data from the Agents Rurals.
For just 41 thousandths of a second, a breath, Àlex Márquez maintains dominance in his territory. The Cervera rider won the Sprint of the GP of Catalunya over Pedro Acosta in an intense duel that was decided on the last lap, after 12 laps of battle between the Catalan and the Murcian.
Two women have died this Sunday after trying to pull a three-year-old boy out of the water who was drowning in the dam of the town of Baños de Cerrato, in the municipality of Venta de Baños.
The war in Iran and the energy crisis resulting from the closure of the Strait of Hormuz are already being felt in the pockets of European citizens. The European Commission has lowered the economic forecasts for the eurozone this spring by three tenths, from 2.3% to 0.9% for this year, while inflation rises from 1.9% to 3% due to high fuel prices. This is something that the Economy Commissioner, Valdis Dombrovskis, had already been warning about: the risk of a “stagflation” scenario, with low growth and high inflation, with consumer prices through the roof.
Judge Juan Carlos Peinado has requested Begoña Gómez, wife of the Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, to justify within five days that she used the passport only for the trip that the court itself had authorized, that is, to fly to the United Kingdom for her daughter’s graduation.
