Luigi Mangione is now a convicted criminal. His aura as a hero, which many saw in the action on December 4, 2024, at the door of a hotel in Times Square, is over, an event that caused the death of Brian Thompson, CEO of UnitedHealthcare, the leading health insurer in the United States.
“It is a lack of respect.” The French Clémence Beretta, a podium contender in the half marathon, did not hold back at the official press conference: the debut at the European Championships in Birmingham of the new road race walking distances will not have the most favorable setting for the athletes. A tiny urban circuit, only 1 km long, shaped like a P, through the narrow streets of central Birmingham –Waterloo Street and Colmore Row, next to Victoria Square, the start and finish of the race– are an invitation to chaos.
The forest fire in Las Peñas de Riglos (Huesca) has forced the evacuation of the towns of Anzánigo and Atarés. Train traffic between Ayerbe and Sabiñánigo has also been temporarily suspended, the Government of Aragón reported this Friday.
The forest fire in Niebla (Huelva) declared this past August 6 has already been confirmed as the most severe in the history of Andalusia in terms of the number of hectares affected, alongside the one that took place in Riotinto in 2004. On that occasion, the area reached 34,000 hectares, and in the case of this year, more than 38,000 hectares have already been reported, although the first vice president of the Junta de Andalucía and Minister of Health and Emergencies, Antonio Sanz, has insisted that the finally burned area will be “considerably smaller.”
About twenty ground crews from the Barcelona Fire Department and the Generalitat, as well as aerial resources, are working on a forest fire that broke out early this afternoon on the Sant Pere Màrtir mountain in Collserola. The alert was received at 3:35 p.m. and the fire, which is believed to have started in the Carretera de les Aigües area, is affecting the Sant Pere Màrtir mountain.
The Supreme Court of France has blocked the ban on the use of social networks for under 15s, approved by Parliament last month, which is a setback for President Emmanuel Macron, the main promoter of the bill.
Several images of a girl smiling with a green card in her hand in the name of Farah, where the European flag and the Spanish coat of arms can be seen, are circulating in Arabic groups on Instagram and Facebook that promote the passage from Morocco to Spain through Ceuta. They are accompanied by texts in Arabic celebrating her fate after crossing the border.
The United States Department of State, headed by Marco Rubio, has raised the alert level in its recommendations for U.S. citizens planning to travel to Spain. In an interactive map available on the department’s website, the travel advisory for Spain includes a level 3 risk area — in this case Ceuta, due to the recent migration crisis — while the rest of the territory remains one level below.
The relatives of the former general secretary of UAGA Javier Sánchez and his wife, Esther Latorre, found dead in their home with stab wounds on Saturday in Tauste (Zaragoza), have asked that “in these moments of great pain, their memory and the privacy of the entire family be respected.”
The president of Ceuta, Juan Jesús Vivas, insisted this Friday in his request to the Government of Spain to reject and dismiss asylum applications. Thus, faced with a situation that remains of “maximum risk,” Vivas demands the “immediate” return to Morocco of all the migrants who stormed the border at the end of July and who have since remained in the autonomous city. However, this request clashes with international law, so the Ceutan leader has urged the General Courts to work on a “regulatory body” that provides an “immediate and urgent” response allowing for an “expeditious” action to return migrants when an “invasion or violation of the territorial integrity” of the State occurs.