U.S. Secretary of Labor, Lori Chavez-DeRemer, will leave the Donald Trump Administration after the controversy generated by her accusations of workplace misconduct. White House communications director, Steven Cheung, announced in a statement that she is leaving “to take on a role in the private sector” and praised “her phenomenal work in her role protecting American workers.”
Russia has asked Ukrainians to evacuate Kyiv on Saturday, May 9, Victory Day in Russia, due to the possibility of launching a major attack on the city.
Just over 24 hours before a vote considered lost in Congress, the Minister of Social Rights, Pablo Bustinduy, has opened a crack for negotiation. He assured this Monday that he still sees an agreement with Junts as “possible” and “viable” to validate the rental decree, despite the repeated rejection by Catalan separatists in recent days, which seems to condemn the norm to a new parliamentary defeat; a refusal that they maintained this very Monday with no room for maneuver.
The President of the Generalitat, Salvador Illa, accompanied singer Bad Bunny this Sunday at the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, with whom he immortalized the moment with a selfie photo that the head of the Government has published on his official Instagram account.
As Hansi Flick must have already suspected, Lamine Yamal’s gesture of waving the Palestinian flag on Barça’s street has caused a stir. The Israeli Defense Minister accused him of “inciting against Israel and fostering hatred,” and President Sánchez, always intuitive in the art of…
Four people, two of them minors, died by drowning yesterday Saturday at Aigua Morta beach, in the municipality of Oliva, reports Levante and has been confirmed by the Information and Emergency Coordination Center (CICU). The deceased minors were 11 and 14 years old. The deceased adults are a 52-year-old woman and a man whose age has not been determined.
The Catalan company faces a historic opportunity. The increase in defense spending opens the doors to growth in dual-use technologies, those with both civilian and military applications, leveraging the strength and experience of the local industry in other areas. The leap would allow it to put itself on the defense map, where it has traditionally not been very visible. With notable challenges, stability and returns once inside serve as incentives.
Surrender or die. Last Saturday, the fewer than 400 Russian soldiers defending the military base in Kidal, the symbolic city of the Tuareg in northern Mali, had to choose between life or a retreat smelling of failure. They chose to live.
According to most indicators, China’s manufacturing sector is the largest in the world and has grown faster than that of any other major economy in the past 25 years. The manufacturing sector has generated a total of about 5 trillion dollars in value added; and in 2024 it employed about 70 million workers in manufacturing enterprises above a certain size. China’s share in the global manufacturing industry has experienced strong increases: it went from 6% in 2000 to 26% in 2015; and, despite the ups and downs of some years, it approached 30% in 2024.
The Pyramid of Khufu (or Cheops) is the oldest pyramid built in Giza (Cairo). More than two million carefully carved and placed stone blocks were raised about 4,600 years ago from a base of 230 meters per side to reach a height of 146 meters on the northwest part of the plateau.