The operational central unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard went this Wednesday early in the morning to the national headquarters of the PSOE, on Ferraz street in Madrid, to request documentation within the framework of the investigation into the so-called Leire case, according to police sources confirmed to La Vanguardia.
More than four hundred years ago, in 1602, the Italian missionary Matteo Ricci, together with the Chinese cartographer Li Zhizao, created the “Map of the Ten Thousand Countries of the Earth” or Kunyu Wanguo Quantu. On that map, the Ming Dynasty empire was located at the center of all known land. That map was on the verge of opening China’s doors to Christianity.
Union disunity worsens this Tuesday in Valencia with tensions over the salary agreement that the Ministry of Education, Culture and Universities reached yesterday with the CSIF and ANPE unions. STEPV, CCOO-PV, and UGT-PV, who did not sign the agreement yesterday, wanted to know if the review according to the CPI agreed for the last salary increase established in the agreement – 50 euros in 2028, after the 75 euros increase in July 2027 and the other 75 euros in January 2027 – and the regional Secretary of Education, Daniel McEvoy, clarified it right at the start of this afternoon’s new negotiating table meeting, making it clear that the 2028 CPI review will be made “on the total of the 200 euros and not on the last 50, thus attending to the request of the trade union organizations.” Now the non-signatories can choose between joining or denouncing the agreement.
Many years ago at a Sant Jordi party at the Alma hotel, Rodrigo Fresán told me about the plot of a book that had not been translated here. It was the story of a policeman who, in the last days before the end of the world, decides to continue doing his police work. It’s
In the world of letters, on the fine line between literature and non-literature, and between reality and fiction, we add authors who, without having book writing as the center of their professional life, will also be at the stands signing books today. This is the case of Natza Farré, one of the attendees at La Vanguardia’s party, who assures that she feels equally strange “in the world of literati, as in the journalistic, as in the media, because I am not part of any group,” but thanks to all those worlds, she assures that she makes a living writing, something that many authors cannot say.
A Russian drone struck in the early hours of this Friday on an apartment building in the Romanian city of Galati, near the Ukrainian border, and triggered a fire that caused two minor injuries and forced the evacuation of about 70 people, according to the Romanian Ministry of Defense. Romania, an EU country and a key NATO member due to its location on the alliance’s eastern flank, shares a 614-kilometer border with Ukraine.
Israeli troops advance inside Lebanese territory after occupying a village, Dibbine, near the town of Marjayoun on a day when, according to several sources, a castle was hit by an Israeli shell. Meanwhile, the two countries debate face to face at the Pentagon a formula to stop the hostilities.
The impact of the DANA on October 29 is measured not only in mud but also in unprecedented economic paralysis. According to reports from the Valencia Chamber of Commerce and the Generalitat, the disaster struck more than 54,000 companies and put the livelihood of over 190,000 workers at risk, affected by ERTEs, reduced working hours, and layoffs. With nearly 10,000 shops and local businesses devastated, the reconstruction of the ground zero area demands a specialized workforce that the current market cannot supply.
Àlex Márquez will be discharged from the hospital this afternoon after successfully undergoing surgery for a fracture of the right clavicle. The Catalan rider suffered a dramatic crash yesterday in Montmeló, where he was thrown through the air during the Catalunya GP race.
The reunion of Pedro Sánchez with Alberto Núñez Feijóo, this Wednesday in the control session in Congress, has resulted in a tense struggle between the two to once again set the framework for the political debate. The leader of the Popular Party has thrown in his face both the corruption scandals affecting the Executive and the problems in public services due to the railway crisis after the Adamuz accident: “The only thing that matches your corruption is your incompetence,” he reproached him. And the President of the Government, in turn, reproached him for the pact sealed by the PP and Vox in Extremadura, which in his opinion “kicks the Constitution, violating the principle of equality among citizens and the principle of non-discrimination,” in the face of the “national priority” defended by the far-right.