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Silence from high politics and technological power before the papal encyclical on AI
Silence from high politics and technological power before the papal encyclical on AI
On May 27, two days before Jonathan Andic’s defense showed on RAC1 a document with the record of calls and messages that Isak Andic’s eldest son made during his lightning trip to Ecuador, the judge of Martorell investigating him for the father’s homicide ordered Vodafone to provide the call traffic of that terminal, as reported this Wednesday by El País and confirmed by this newspaper. The order from Judge Raquel Nieto responded to a request from the Mossos d’Esquadra, prior to the arrest of the son of the founder of Mango. The son of the founder of Mango arrived in Quito on March 24, 2025, and returned two days later, on the 26th, on a lightning work trip.
After the 2026 World Cup in the United States, Mexico, and Canada, the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) has announced the list of players who can be chosen by fans to be part of the tournament’s best eleven. The most notable aspect of the list published by FIFA is that only six Spaniards are candidates to be part of the best eleven, which is surprising considering that Spain is the team that has been crowned champion.
The American billionaire James Cox ‘Fergie’ Chambers Jr., heir to one of the largest fortunes in the United States and known for his far-left political activism, remains in the Eivissa prison after the duty judge ordered his provisional detention while an extradition request filed by the US authorities is processed.
The President of the United States, Donald Trump, has just announced, in his words, “the greatest oil deal in history” between his country and Venezuela. But what exactly does it consist of? Who benefits from this pact?
The Government’s parliamentary partners are expressing increasing concern and alarm following the judicial indictment of former president José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero for several alleged corruption offenses linked to the multimillion-dollar economic bailout of the airline Plus Ultra during the pandemic crisis. However, at least for now, the Executive does not see this parliamentary support at risk to keep afloat a legislature that Pedro Sánchez intends to complete within a year, by July 2027.
Last week, the European Political Community (EPC) summit held in Armenia had a special guest. It was Mark Carney, the Canadian Prime Minister, who became the first non-European leader to attend a meeting of this intergovernmental forum that since 2022 brings together about fifty countries from the continent.
At least one person has died and five have been injured, some seriously, in a shooting that occurred in the early hours of this Sunday at the Schachen racetrack in the Swiss city of Aarau. The incident took place during the celebration of an electronic music party known as “Aarauer Rave.” According to information from the Argovia cantonal police, in northern Switzerland, the shots were fired shortly before three in the morning, in the midst of an event that had gathered several thousand attendees since Saturday afternoon. The perpetrator managed to flee the racetrack where the party was being held.
When the Congress of Deputies approved the Amnesty law in May 2024, we wrote, with candid innocence in this same section, that history would forget the noise generated by the entire debate of this regulation and that the common sense of normalization would prevail…
The PSOE would win the general elections if they were held now and would do so with the maximum support of the entire legislature, an estimated 36.4% of the vote, according to the April barometer from the Centre for Sociological Research (CIS), released this Monday, which places the PP thirteen points behind the socialists, with 23.6% -a result similar to that of recent months-, and portrays Vox in free fall, with 14.7%, four points less than in February.