An impressive waterspout entered the Port de Fornells in Menorca this Friday and traveled across the entire water area until it reached land, causing some damage to the facilities in the area. In the video, you can see the waterspout approaching the shore while two small boats quickly move away from the area.
The open crisis within the Mossos d’Esquadra due to the infiltration of two agents in a teachers’ assembly has forced the police director, Josep Lluís Trapero, and the senior officers of the force to meet with the mossos’ unions to calm tensions. Among the workers’ representatives, it was not well received that Trapero announced on Wednesday the opening of a confidential investigation that questioned the agents’ actions, who claim that they comply with current regulations.
The Cannes festival unexpectedly awarded an Honorary Palme d’Or to John Travolta this Friday just before the screening of his directorial debut, Propeller One-way Night Coach (Come Fly with Me). “I can’t believe it, you told me it would be a special night but I didn’t imagine it would be this,” the Hollywood star said visibly emotional and surprised to the Cannes general delegate, Thierry Frémaux, who was in charge of presenting the award. “The movies I have liked the most in my life have always been the Palme d’Or winners. I can’t believe it, this is more than an Oscar,” Travolta stated to the applause of an enthusiastic audience eagerly awaiting the actor’s appearance in the Debussy theater while the chords of You’re the one that I want, the main theme of Grease, played.
The international aftermath of Isabel Díaz Ayuso is far from fading and threatens to overshadow even the San Isidro festival. The Madrid president has accumulated this Friday almost as many political reproaches as carnations have filled the vests and scarves of chulapos and chulapas. The offensive has united the Madrid left, has also crossed the regional perimeter, and has added socialist leaders from other territories with a common reproach. The fact of having turned an institutional mission into a new front of ideological combat on which the regional president has remained silent today.
An Ebola outbreak that threatens to become one of the largest in history has already killed 65 people and affected 246 suspected cases, the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported today.
A protest concert against Israel’s participation in the Eurovision Festival, and a rejection of the music contest itself for “becoming part of a propaganda apparatus that normalizes genocide,” gathered several dozen people this Friday in the center of Vienna.
Representatives of Israel and Lebanon agreed this Friday in Washington to extend the ceasefire declared on April 16 by 45 days, announced the United States Department of State, which acts as mediator.
The future of the Cuban revolution, accustomed to overcoming all crises since it ousted dictator Fulgencio Batista from power in 1959, has been darkened by the Trump administration as much as the darkness of the streets of Havana, affected by continuous blackouts, which in some neighborhoods last more than twenty hours a day.
Donald Trump has invested tens of millions of dollars in the purchase of shares (and bonds) of major American companies in the first quarter of the year, before these experienced spectacular rises in the markets following political decisions, thus fueling controversies about an alleged conflict of interest of the White House occupant.
Donald Trump’s visit to Beijing, rich in symbolism and poor in concrete results, has concluded. On his second and final day, this Friday, the US president entered the gardens of Zhongnanhai, residence of the communist leadership, accompanied by Chinese President Xi Jinping. After a ceremonial tea, both headed to the working lunch with their respective delegations. After this, Trump made his way to the airport, where he was seen off at the foot of the stairs by Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi.