There have been many occasions when Barcelona has debated whether to recognize the work and creativity of Salvador Dalí, either by dedicating a street or square to him, or some sculptural work. All have failed. The last time was in 2021. Political motivations aside, the long bureaucracy, the urban complexity of the city, and the prioritization of other criteria in the nomenclature have stopped it.
La Venice Film Festival aims to be a reflection of the major issues of contemporary times, whether war, censorship, or democratic crises. Under this premise, the festival selects those films that, as its artistic director, Alberto Barbera, points out, do not merely act as simple chronicles, but seek to challenge a world marked by conflicts, migrations, social tensions, or the consequences of climate change.
The long list of more than twenty senior Pentagon officials who have resigned or been dismissed in the past year added a new name this Monday: Daniel Driscoll, the United States Army Secretary, has left the position after 18 months in office. The resignation occurs in a context of growing internal tensions in the Department of Defense, both due to the purge initiated by Secretary Pete Hegseth last year and because of the duration and decisions made in the Iran war, which has already lasted more than half a year and has caused shortages in the U.S. arsenal.
A woman, who had a known history of mental illness within the New York Police Department (NYPD), was fatally shot this Monday in Times Square after stabbing two people, one fatally, and confronting officers while violently wielding two kitchen knives and threatening to kill them, the NYPD reported.
On August 29, during a meeting with staff and students at a university in Moscow, Vladimir Putin commented that orcas feed on polar bears. “That is the food chain,” said the Russian president. “Children should be taught this, so they understand what kind of world we live in and why we are carrying out the special military operation,” his expression to refer to Russia’s war against Ukraine.
A dizzying election cycle begins in America and Europe that could change international politics
If any of the three men appearing on this page seem familiar, crossed paths with one, and approached you asking for money claiming to have been robbed, know that if you were suspicious, you avoided being scammed. The Mossos d’Esquadra have arrested two men and are searching for a third, accused of scamming dozens of people who, in good faith, lent them money believing they were in trouble and had no cash to return to their country. The victims number over twenty, and the police suspect there are many more who fell for it.
Errors in the execution of the PISA tests could have been corrected in time because there were up to seven warnings from the Ministry of Education. These were ignored by the coordinators of the Consell Superior d’Avaluació, who did not pass them on to the educational centers to correct the high exclusions, nor to the political leaders to redirect the situation. They never reached the desk of the consellera Esther Niubó, according to her own statement, who learned of the problem a year later. By then, the technical and political leaders were no longer working in the Department of Education.
With great caution to avoid any misstep, as was the publication in the Official State Gazette (BOE) of the list of Ceuta sports centers that could be transformed into reception centers, the Government is moving forward to remove all immigrants who continue to spend the night on the streets a month after the border assault. In the ministries involved in managing the crisis, they perceive that the population has given a truce – largely due to the fear that their legitimate protest might be linked to ultra-violence – so the plan has been accelerated before any spark can once again bring Ceuta to the brink of social unrest. The strategy, which remains firm, involves enabling up to 6,000 beds in various locations around the city, so the transfer of adults to the Peninsula is ruled out at this stage. With it, according to those convinced in Moncloa, three priorities would be achieved: providing a humanitarian response, reducing neighborhood discontent, and speeding up the return processes. It remains to be seen if the time to complete the plan matches the patience of Ceuta. And of the immigrants.
The United States Supreme Court granted President Donald Trump a victory this Monday, deciding to allow him to continue indefinitely with the construction of a ballroom in the White House, a controversial project that the president has persistently advocated for and that had faced legal challenges.
