Republican dissent in Congress grows and vexes Trump on Ukraine, Iran, and his ballroom
The Republican Party is increasingly resembling a hornet’s nest.
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Enjoy live today’s Primavera Sound: The Cure, Addison Rae and Skrillex, live
Primavera Sound is closer to reaching the glory of streaming its concerts and positioning itself at Coachella’s level in terms of live viewings. For the first time, the three days of performances at the Fòrum –from June 4 to 6– that can be followed worldwide will include all the headliners of this edition, with the exception of My Bloody Valentine who, for reasons that have not been disclosed, have decided not to participate. The broadcast can be followed for the first time on ‘La Vanguardia’s website, as well as Twitch and Amazon Prime.
Israel launched attacks against Iran from secret bases installed in Azerbaijan
The Israeli military deployment during the war with Iran was not limited to its own borders. According to a CNN exclusive, Tel Aviv covertly deployed troops and intelligence equipment in southern Azerbaijan. According to sources cited by the American media, the soldiers were mobilized near the Iranian border, less than 100 kilometers from the Persian city of Tabriz, which was heavily bombed during the month and a half of conflict.
What I will tell the Pope is a secret, but I already have it written
The Vatican flag has been flying since Thursday in Brians 1, the penitentiary center of Sant Esteve Sesrovires that will receive Leo XIV on Wednesday, becoming the first Pope to visit a Spanish prison. A brigade of bricklayers works tirelessly tidying up the auditorium that will host the Pontiff’s meeting with eighty inmates and twenty prison officials. The walls are immaculately white and smell of fresh paint.
They carve up a building in Barcelona into illegal 20m2 tourist flats: “I’ve never been in a shabbier place”
Inspectors from Barcelona City Council uncovered a complex of at least 31 illegal tourist flats set up at number 441 Travessera de Gràcia, just a few meters from the modernist complex of Sant Pau hospital. “Ours, if we’re lucky, is twenty square meters – a few customers explained this Friday at the building’s entrance –. The truth is, it’s the shabbiest place I’ve ever stayed.” “Are they illegal apartments? I’m not surprised! – others added – we thought we were booking a kind of apart-hotel, but apart from the cleaning staff, there’s no one here to take care of anything.” “We made the reservation through Booking, and then they wanted to charge us some very strange surcharges.”
Firefighters are working with 15 units on a warehouse fire in Santa Perpètua
Bombers de la Generalitat is working with seventeen units on a fire in an industrial warehouse in Santa Perpètua de Mogoda (Barcelona), which has forced the evacuation of all personnel, although no injuries have been reported, and is causing a large column of smoke visible throughout the area.
NASA puts International Space Station astronauts on evacuation alert due to air leak in Russian section
NASA reported this Friday that it has ordered astronauts aboard the International Space Station to take shelter in their spacecraft and prepare for a possible evacuation, while a Russian crew attempts to repair an increasingly serious air leak in their part of the orbital laboratory.
Families ask the Government to promote an agreement on education outside the union table
The federation of family associations of Catalonia (aFFaC) asks the Department of Education to promote a major agreement on public education outside the union negotiation table, an agreement in which families participate. They interpret the rejection of the pre-agreement in Thursday’s consultation by teachers as a lack of vision from the Government and unions to understand the teachers’ demands.
The apocalyptic turn of American capitalism
“Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds” (1841), by Charles Mackay, is scorned by historians and revered among stock traders. The book is best known for its vivid accounts of the 17th-century tulip mania and the 18th-century South Sea Bubble. However, those who want to understand the business world in the 21st century should rather look at Mackay’s chapter on “the epidemic terror of the end of the world.”
Kyiv acknowledges that an out-of-control Ukrainian drone caused the explosion in Romania
The Ukrainian navy, in a statement on the Facebook network, has acknowledged that the naval drone that exploded this morning around 10:30 a.m., local time, in the port of Constanta (Romania) belonged to its arsenal. The Romanian Ministry of Defense reported that the detonation caused no injuries, but did cause damage to infrastructure.