Russia cannot stop celebrating Victory Day, because it is part of its current DNA, but in next month’s military parade there will be no presence of heavy weaponry and the tanks and combat vehicles will not clatter like on other occasions over the cobblestones of Moscow’s Red Square during the traditional military parade.
In Spain, there are around 450 startups that are developing in one way or another applications or infrastructure related to artificial intelligence (AI). Multiverse Computing, Cala AI, Openchip, and Biorce are four examples leading the sector.
The U.S. National Academy of Sciences has decided to retract from its scientific journal (PNAS) an article published by a group of researchers, including the Spanish Mariano Barbacid, on advances in combating pancreatic cancer, after detecting a “significant” conflict of interest.
Two men have been injured, one of them seriously, by a stabbing during a fight that took place in the early hours of Saturday in the municipality of Arroyomolinos (Madrid).
The Barcelona title celebration will have to wait. At least until next Sunday. Madrid’s victory in Cornellà against Espanyol prevented the league from having its conclusion already. After the white team’s win, Barcelona maintains an eleven-point lead with four matchdays remaining, that is, twelve points in play. Thus, Hansi Flick’s team only needs to secure a draw against Álvaro Arbeloa’s team in the classic at Spotify Camp Nou.
Days ago, in a talk about city and tourism at the CCCB, the issue of the Sagrada Família arose and the long shadow it is beginning to cast over Barcelona. The room where the event was held is known as the Mirador, located on the highest part of the complex,
The demand from ERC regarding the management of the IRPF in Catalonia, which thwarted the previous attempt to approve the budgets of the Salvador Illa Government, has been put on hold for the moment, but, in the meantime, the republicans have tried to negotiate up to the limits of what is possible within the framework of the budget agreement to be announced this week to prepare the ground. Thus, the Catalan Tax Agency (ATC) will receive a clear boost with a specific program contract that will allow it to equip itself within a period of three years (2026-2029) with the human and technical resources necessary to assume all tax functions related to the management of the aforementioned tax for taxpayers in Catalonia.
The Prosecutor’s Office supports the partial pardon for the former Attorney General Álvaro García Ortiz, convicted of a crime of disclosure of documents. The report has been submitted to the Supreme Court, which must now issue its own to be delivered to the Ministry of Justice for evaluation. The deputy prosecutor of the high court argues that the conviction has led the former number 1 of the public ministry to “intense and disproportionate extrapenal consequences.”
After Los domingos, comes La luz, which will light up cinemas next Friday. If the first film, by Alauda Ruiz de Azúa, showed from different points of view the reasons that can push a modern-day teenager to shut herself away in a cloistered monastery, the no less extraordinary film by Fernando Franco, director of great films such as La herida or La consagración de la primavera, tells us about a priest, masterfully played by Alberto San Juan, trapped by his past as a sexual abuser.
Eating is the most important action of each day, and feeding society in a healthy way is a huge responsibility. Even more so when local vegetable production in Catalonia has fallen by 74% in the last 25 years, while exports have tripled: the territory now functions more as a redistribution platform than as a garden.