The Plus Ultra plot made payments to “ladies”: “we have to take care of judges, police officers, and officials”

The Plus Ultra plot made payments to “ladies”: “we have to take care of judges, police officers, and officials”

The details of the case affecting the airline Plus Ultra for allegedly having paid for influence to secure a bailout of 53 million euros reveal their ways of proceeding. In a conversation found on the phone of one of the investigated, there is talk of paying ladies in cash, after having received 50,000 euros in cash. “We have to take care of the judges, police, and officials hehe,” they boast in messages sent on New Year’s Eve 2020.

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Careful, 'runners': a British study points out that knee injuries in young people have doubled in five years

Careful, ‘runners’: a British study points out that knee injuries in young people have doubled in five years

If a mountaineering enthusiast or professional aims to climb a 7,000-meter peak, there are options to choose from. The same goes for an 8,000-meter peak. If they want to climb a 9,000-meter peak, they can fool themselves with Everest. But if they want to climb a 10,000-meter peak, simply put, they cannot: no mountain on Earth measures 10,000 meters in height.

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The other commission of Montero

The other commission of Montero

To be the leader of the PSOE, it is necessary to have the support of the membership in Andalusia and Catalonia. Due to their weight in members, they constitute the two key strongholds to control the party. As long as Salvador Illa holds the presidency of the Generalitat and has the absolute backing of the PSC, Sánchez will have that flank more than covered. But Andalusia has long been the most complicated and decisive territory in the party congresses. And that is where María Jesús Montero comes into play, the president of the Government’s go-to person.

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Preventive detention without bail for Cole Allen, the accused of attempting to assassinate Trump

Preventive detention without bail for Cole Allen, the accused of attempting to assassinate Trump

The accused of attempted assassination of the President of the United States, Cole Allen, has accepted this Thursday, in his second hearing in a Washington court, the precautionary measure requested by the Prosecutor’s Office against him to remain detained in preventive custody until the trial is held. His lawyer, Moxila Upadhyaya, has confirmed to the judge that she will not challenge the Government’s attempt to keep him under federal custody.

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Brussels gives the green light to a millionaire blackout prevention mechanism for Spain

Brussels gives the green light to a millionaire blackout prevention mechanism for Spain

The European Commission gave the green light this Friday for Spain to implement a multi-million euro anti-blackout mechanism to strengthen the electricity supply and prevent episodes like the one in April last year, when much of the Iberian Peninsula was left in the dark. The figures are enormous: the system approved under the EU state aid rules will have a cost of 900 million annually, that is, 9 billion for the 10 years it is expected to last.

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Maradona's autopsy images break the tenth hearing of the trial

Maradona’s autopsy images break the tenth hearing of the trial

Argentina has been holding the second trial for the death of Diego Armando Maradona since April 14, the same trial that was declared null last year following the scandal involving former judge Julieta Makintach, who was found participating in a documentary about the case while presiding over the court. Now, judges Alberto Gaig, Alberto Ortolani, and Pablo Rolón of the Oral Criminal Court No. 7 of San Isidro are conducting a process that has already had ten hearings without institutional upheavals, though not without drama. The defenses have gained prominence in this new trial since prosecutors Cosme Iribarren and Patricio Ferrari revealed much of their strategy in the annulled trial and have lost the element of surprise. Overall, the emerging picture from the courtroom is that of a man abandoned to his fate by those who had the obligation to care for him.

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Health says that no Spanish passenger on the hantavirus cruise has expressed opposition to the quarantine

Health says that no Spanish passenger on the hantavirus cruise has expressed opposition to the quarantine

The Secretary of State for Health, Javier Padilla, assured today that none of the passengers of the MV Hondius ship, where a hantavirus outbreak has broken out, have expressed opposition to undergoing quarantine when they are evacuated to the Gómez Ulla Military Hospital in Madrid from the port of Granadilla de Abona in Tenerife, where the technical team from the Ministry of Health will also be deployed tomorrow.

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