Berlin announced on Wednesday that Russia will suspend the supply of Kazakh oil to a major refinery supplying eastern Germany starting May 1. The suspension comes amid the global energy crisis caused by the war in the Middle East.
The PNV spokesperson in Congress, Maribel Vaquero, announced this Tuesday that her group will abstain this afternoon in the plenary vote on the decree-law extending rental contracts.
At least two people have died and four have gone missing this Tuesday in a fire declared at a construction site in Brussels (Belgium). This has been confirmed by the Labor Prosecutor’s Office, which is investigating the case. It is believed that the missing may be in an elevator of the building, which firefighters are trying to access.
It is now the turn of former Interior Minister Jorge Fernández Díaz to give his explanations about his role in the so-called ‘Operation Kitchen’, a parapolice operation to steal documents about the PP’s slush fund from the party’s former treasurer Luis Bárcenas, who threatened to hand them over to the judge in the Gürtel case.
It was supposed to be barely two hours, but Luis Bárcenas had to eat a sandwich in the hallway of the Audiencia Nacional because his statement lasted five hours. It was one of the most anticipated appointments of the Kitchen plot trial, one of the biggest scandals in a country too accustomed to corruption. And it did not disappoint.
The European Commission continues to take action to tackle the housing crisis in the European continent. In addition to proposing a legal framework to protect public administrations that want to limit temporary tourist rentals and second homes, Brussels accompanies this regulation with a series of non-binding recommendations to member states when fighting against this problem that affects a large part of the cities in the bloc and to increase supply in areas under residential pressure.
For months, it has been necessary to plan a visit to the Sagrada Família well in advance. Tickets to tour the interior of the basilica are sold out twenty days in advance on the official website and, beyond that, you have to adapt to the available schedules. The completion of the Jesus tower and the announcement of the Pope’s visit to bless it on June 10 have multiplied the interest in the tallest church in the world.
The Euribor, a benchmark for variable mortgages, reached 3% in its daily rate this Friday, something that had not happened since September 2024, almost two years ago. Behind the upward trend is the environment of higher inflation and rate hikes that the market anticipates due to the energy tension caused by the war in the Middle East.
More than 40 years after the last official race at the Jarama circuit in 1981, Madrid returns to the world calendar in grand style. Banco Santander also makes its return, the global official sponsor of Formula 1 since 2025. Before that, there were 20 years of sponsorships of teams and drivers. The world’s top motorsport competition returns to the Spanish capital with the Formula 1 Tag Heuer Gran Premio de España. The event will be held from September 11 to 13 at MADRING, an innovative semi-urban circuit designed around IFEMA Madrid and Valdebebas.
It is possible that an artificial intelligence capable of turning the world upside down and causing chaos worldwide is already in the hands of some people. The point is that both Anthropic, for a few weeks now, and OpenAI, for a few days, already have respective models – Claude Mythos in the first case and GPT-5.5 in the second – capable of compromising operating systems and cybersecurity barriers in a way as astonishing as it is dangerous.