In some patients, mechanical thrombectomy, which is the standard treatment, may not be sufficient to ensure a good recovery after an ischemic stroke. A new strategy based on research from the Clínic Hospital of Barcelona improves outcomes.
“Welcome to Cannes!” said the head of the prestigious French festival, Thierry Frémaux, yesterday to Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo as they climbed the steps of the Palais. Shortly after, Los Javis excitedly took the stage to receive the award for best direction for La bola negra, a distinction they shared with the Polish Pawel Pawlikowski, author of Fatherland, a beautiful and harsh black-and-white portrait of Germany after World War II through the figure of the writer Thomas Mann and his daughter Erika.
Last week’s alarms due to recent incursions into the airspace have further frightened the Baltic countries, on the front line against the Russian threat. The Kremlin is weakened on the Ukrainian battlefront, but the recent episodes in Latvia and Lithuania, which had to declare a country-wide alert following new drone appearances, have put the spotlight on these three small nations on the EU’s eastern flank, which are preparing for more buzzes of modern warfare in their airspace and are calling for Brussels’ involvement to put a stop to it. The message is that the Baltic border is also the EU’s border and, therefore, must be treated as a community matter.
50 kilometers from Zaragoza, the town of Tauste, with 6,800 inhabitants, is known in the region for its Mudéjar heritage, its livestock industry, and traditions such as the dance, which is celebrated every April 21. But in the last week, its name has become famous for the murder in their home of Javier Sánchez (67 years old) and Esther Latorre (66), a well-known couple of agricultural unionists deeply committed to social causes. To the initial, profound, and painful impact, the arrest of their daughter Carlota (40) and her partner, Luis Carlos R. (31), as suspects was soon added; they have been in provisional detention since Thursday.
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.
The Portuguese Parliament rejected this Tuesday the motion of no confidence from the far-right Chega with 104 votes against, 60 in favor, and 62 abstentions, including the decisive ones from the socialist deputies who, for the sake of stability, thus saved the government of conservative Luís Montenegro. However, the most revealing figure of a debate whose outcome was clear from the very presentation of the motion was not generated by parliamentary arithmetic, but by political dynamics. It concerns the maximum amount of the additional extra payment of 1,611.13 euros that Portuguese pensioners will receive in December. It is part, along with tax reductions for the lowest incomes, of the package of measures announced by a besieged Montenegro, in response to the scandals that have his Interior Minister, Luís Neves, on the ropes, and the growing social unrest due to a much higher fuel cost than in Spain, with more than 30 cents difference on both sides of the border.
The spokesperson for the Canarian Coalition in Congress, Cristina Valido, has declared the current legislature presided over by Pedro Sánchez finished and has argued that “the logical thing” would be to call elections this year to “wipe the slate clean” in 2027 and start working with a new government.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is starting to claim its first victims in the stock market. And they are not companies nostalgic for the past. On the contrary. For months, global leaders in the software, cybersecurity, and consulting industries have been experiencing an unprecedented debacle in years. The most alarmist have dubbed the situation “SaaS-pocalypse,” something akin to a software apocalypse.
The data revealed yesterday in the PISA report on the abilities of Valencian students in reading, mathematics, and science should set off all alarms in the political, institutional, and educational system. Data that adds to others such as the high level of…
El Govern has expanded this Friday the scope of its loan program for young people aimed at financing the down payment for the purchase of a home. Support to break one of the critical points in access to real estate, which grants financing of up to 50,000 euros without interest, a long grace period, and now extends to new types of property.
