La Guardia Civil has arrested in Alicante one of the fugitives included in the international search campaign launched by the United Kingdom against criminals linked to organized crime, coinciding with the presentation of the international campaign ‘Operation Capture’ or ‘Most Wanted’, which was precisely presented today by the British and Spanish authorities at the Meliá Hotel in Alicante.
The clock was approaching 9 p.m. at the Santiago Bernabéu, with a still poor attendance, and the Real Madrid players came out to warm up on the pitch. At that moment, it seemed like the rival team was doing so. The few fans showed from the beginning that they wanted to express their dissatisfaction with whistles over a blank season and all the mess that has happened this course in the locker room: the Tchouaméni-Valverde fight, Mbappé’s shirking and messages, or the situation experienced with the dismissal of Xabi Alonso due to the attitude of the hard core, led by Vinícius and the Uruguayan player himself, captain and still in the infirmary.
“I would have loved to play the classic,” said Kylian Mbappé. The French star came out to the mixed zone to face the music and stand up for himself: “I know there are many people who don’t speak and I have to look at the press to know what they say. I prefer to speak here and face it.”
15 years ago, on a day like today, thousands of people took to the streets in about 50 Spanish cities to make their protest heard against a society they did not like. The demonstration turned into a camp in many public squares for several weeks and the movement gave…
There are matches that last a sneeze; others, on the other hand, are as long as a night watching over a baby. The Madrid-Oviedo (2-0) with nothing at stake falls squarely into the second category. What is the point of the game of a team whose motto is only to win when it can no longer do so? That is what the white footballers who took to the pitch would have thought, whistled at by their fans during the warm-up, then victims of a sepulchral silence in a half-empty Bernabéu. It is more interesting to spend the San Isidro holiday elsewhere than watching Camavinga lose balls in his season to forget, the icing on the cake being that, hours before the match, it was made official that he would miss the World Cup. “I understand that he is pissed off,” said the eloquent Didier Deschamps.
The Govern and Esquerra Republicana are in the final phase of budget negotiations and, to finalize these accounts, both parties will announce next Monday one of the commitments that will facilitate the agreement: the orbital railway line. The talks are advanced to the point that ERC has called its national council, the highest body between congresses, for next Monday at 5:30 p.m. to assess whether the conditions are met to approve the budgets.
The Trump administration has taken a further step in its decision to reduce the number of U.S. troops in Europe and has canceled the deployment of 4,000 soldiers to Poland as part of a more ambitious plan to cut its military presence on the continent.
A group of young Israeli settlers corners an ultra-Orthodox Jew in one of the streets of the Old City of Jerusalem: “traitor, coward, you are a disgrace to this country,” spits a teenager, dressed in loose clothing and the characteristic tzitzit, the four cords tied at the waist traditional of the Jewish religious attire. The crime of his compatriot is wearing one of the purple vests of the Standing Together association, dedicated to the peaceful protection of Palestinians against settler attacks in the West Bank.
With a grand parade of flags waved by children, a military review of the honor guard, a visit to the sacred Temple of Heaven, and an opulent banquet in the Great Hall of the People, Xi Jinping has charmed Donald Trump with a pomp superior to that usually granted to his visiting counterparts. The American leader has returned the hospitality with a level of praise that his European allies, including the kings of the United Kingdom who visited the White House two weeks ago, will hardly hear.
Gabriel García Márquez said that in life “one must be unfaithful, but never disloyal.” And precisely around that supposed disloyalty revolve the reasons that hover over the episode that, a year ago now, turned Brigitte Macron and Emmanuel Macron into involuntary protagonists of one of the most talked-about scenes in international politics, following a controversial slap that the French first lady gave to the president, and also husband, during an official trip to Vietnam.