Donald Trump’s schedule indicated that this Tuesday morning he had “executive time” and “two political meetings,” all closed to the press. But it is clear that the vocation of real estate promoter is part of the genetic code of the President of the United States, so he found time to take journalists on a tour of the construction of his ballroom.
February 1972. First official trip of a President of the United States of America to the People’s Republic of China. Richard Nixon lands in a China still immersed in the turbulences of the so-called Cultural Revolution; an agrarian-based country with a very precarious industrial infrastructure, internationally isolated, at odds with the USSR since Stalin’s death in 1953. A collectivized country where almost everyone rides a bicycle. A poor economy that barely represents 9% of the volume of the United States.
The two people murdered last night in a house in Oviedo are the sister and brother-in-law of the detainee, according to the Government delegate in Asturias, Adriana Lastra, who confirmed this on Tuesday.
Ultra fast fashion, the ephemeral fashion that generates textile waste at dizzying speeds, is also conquering markets in developing countries. The result of this global production model designed for use and discard is the saturation of destination markets, and for this reason, it is closing the doors to the export of second-hand garments selectively collected here.
Pedro Sánchez will not participate this Friday in the multiple demonstrations that, on the occasion of May Day, are held throughout Spain and in which a good part of the members of the Government and the PSOE will be deployed. But the head of the Executive has wanted to participate in this Labor Day with a video in which he claims that in Spain “there is more employment and rights than ever,” despite those who he has criticized for announcing the apocalypse for years, referring to the Popular Party and the far-right Vox.
The Director-General of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, addressed the population of Tenerife this Saturday to deliver a message of reassurance regarding the arrival of the cruise ship Hondius, affected by a hantavirus outbreak that has claimed three lives.
El Govern de Salvador Illa will have its first budgets and Catalonia will have validated accounts, something that had not happened since 2023. The Catalan Executive will be able to approve the budget project in July after securing the 68 votes necessary for it. After closing the pact with Esquerra Republicana last Tuesday, it remained to regain the six votes from Comuns, who had requested to update the agreement they sealed in February because they consider these will be the only budgets of the legislature.
The Ministry of Health reported on Tuesday night that the cruise ship ‘Hondius’, where up to seven hantavirus infections may have occurred – three of them unconfirmed – will dock in the Canary Islands after the evacuation of the three people still on board who show symptoms.
The President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, received very good news from Brussels this Wednesday. Hungary has formally withdrawn the veto it had maintained for the past two years on Kyiv’s request to join the EU, which will allow the opening of the first chapter of negotiations in a key breakthrough that occurred unexpectedly during a routine meeting of ambassadors in the community capital.
Former government president Mariano Rajoy and his right-hand woman in the Popular Party, María Dolores de Cospedal, are sticking to their guns. For them, the party’s former treasurer Luis Bárcenas was the traitor, who hid millions of euros in Switzerland and who deceived to make people believe he had compromising papers that he didn’t actually have. For both, the PP’s finance man is lying, and that’s why the so-called Operation Kitchen is an invention. There was “no illegal operation, political or police” against Bárcenas, much less one mounted by one of their own, former Interior Minister Jorge Fernández Díaz, whom Cospedal defined as a “straightforward and upright person who has suffered a lot.”