Cuba went dark this Sunday after a failure in its electrical grid. In a brief message posted on social media, the state company UNE spoke of “a total disconnection of the National Electric System” to refer to the power outage, which left the 10 million inhabitants of the island without electricity.
The approach of summer boosts the labor market. If in the Spanish economy May is always a good month for employment, this year’s has been even better than usual. An increase of 232,000 affiliates, which is the second-best May in the historical series and leads to a new record in the total number of contributors, who have already exceeded 22.3 million. And a significant fact: practically half of the increase in contributors in May comes from foreign workers, with 111,000 new affiliates. Among Spaniards, the employment growth rate is clearly lower.
Extraordinary minors and the drop in interest rates penalized Banc Sabadell in the first quarter of the year, with profits falling by 29.1%, down to 347 million euros. In the results for the January-March period, TSB continued to contribute dividends to the bank, and it will not be until the second quarter that the extraordinary profit (capital gain) of 300 million from the sale of that British subsidiary to Santander will be recorded.
It doesn’t happen every day, but often enough to raise suspicion of a pattern. And it doesn’t only happen in Spain: there are records in the Azores, Iceland, Ireland, Great Britain, Portugal, France, Norway… It has been occurring since 2014 and the origin is clear today but not defined. But if while walking on one of the beaches of Western Europe the reader comes across an HP brand printer cartridge, be aware that you have in your hands the relic of a shipwreck.
The United States and Iran agreed on a principle pact to reduce and continue negotiating the war in the Middle East, and to end the Iranian blockade of the Strait of Hormuz.
He changed club music in Spain, worked for major record labels, and even produced the Azúcar Moreno track that represented Spain in Eurovision. He is Raúl Orellana, and his hunger for music has not diminished one bit in half a century of activity. He recalls the spark of curiosity for the DJ profession — “back then it was still called pinchadiscos” — from a very young age. “I didn’t go to dance at clubs like most people; what I did was stand next to the booth.”
2001 marks the peak moment of the United States’ hegemony in the world. After the Cold War, following the collapse of the Soviet Union and the triumph of the capitalist bloc, the turn of the century brought with it a unipolar world led by the U.S. as the hegemonic power, accompanied by a sense of stability that left behind a century marked by wars. Peace was abruptly shattered in the most traumatic way possible: for the first time, the leading power was shown to be vulnerable to an external attack.
The Government of Giorgia Meloni has rejected this afternoon Pedro Sánchez’s demand to remove border controls with Spain that Italy reintroduced on August 1 due to the massive and irregular entry of immigrants in Ceuta on July 30. In a note from the Chigi Palace, the Italian Executive assures that Italy “does not accept ultimatums or impositions from abroad” on matters of national security.
If anything was clear on Saturday, it is that border control by Morocco makes an avalanche like the one Ceuta experienced on July 30 impossible. From the call to try again on the 15th for the massive entry into Spain, and therefore into Europe, only images remain of the…
“The services have continued to be the great engine of the Catalan economy.” That is one of the conclusions of the Annual Report on the Catalan Economy 2025 presented this Thursday at the Palau de la Generalitat. With a “gradual recovery of the agricultural sector,” the Catalan economy shows that new face in which the industry has not quite regained the brilliance of previous years. “The weakest increase has been recorded in the industrial sector,” the report states.