Two people died in Michigan due to the parasite that causes severe diarrhea and has already sickened thousands of people in the U.S., according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Monday.
After the humanitarian crisis experienced in Ceuta, it has gone viral on social media that the United States Congress recently approved “transferring Ceuta and Melilla to Morocco,” a measure that would have facilitated the events of last Thursday. One of the most viral messages was posted by Congressman Thomas Massie, from the liberal wing of the Republican Party, and several Spanish accounts have circulated it: “Two weeks ago, the House of Representatives passed a law that gave the green light to the transfer of [Ceuta and Melilla] to Morocco. All Republicans, except me, voted in favor, and now they act surprised by the invasion.” It is MISLEADING.
The European Union aims to be a smoke-free generation by 2040. To achieve this, Ursula von der Leyen’s government considers that taxes play a key role. They rely on a study that estimates a 40% impact of cigarette taxes on reducing tobacco consumption. However, the European Parliament does not yet have a position that allows progress on a tax increase that has not been updated since 2011.
The Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office has entered the scene in the case of the former Direcció General d’Atenció a la Infància i l’Adolescència (known as Dgaia, now renamed as Dgppia). According to information obtained by La Vanguardia, this specialized body of the Public Prosecutor’s Office will be the one to determine, in the first instance, whether any breach occurred in the payment of aid to young people formerly under guardianship by the Generalitat.
Five people died and 41 others are still being searched for this Sunday in Indonesia after a fire broke out on a ferry with more than 200 passengers in the middle of the sea in the East Java province, about 700 kilometers east of Jakarta, authorities from the archipelago reported.
Pope Leo XIV hoped this Sunday that “solutions of peace, stability, and justice” can be found in the face of the migratory crisis in Ceuta, as he said in Spanish in the appeals following the Sunday Angelus prayer in St. Peter’s Square.
Each passing day, medicine is closer to winning the battle against cancer. Oncology care has undergone an extraordinary transformation over the last decade. Advances in prevention, early diagnosis, genetics, precision medicine, immunotherapy, radiotherapy, and targeted therapies now allow for more effective, more personalized treatments with a lower impact on patients’ quality of life.
If the writer Dan Brown were to visit the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) again, the setting of one of the passages in his novel Origin, where he invented the existence of a quantum computer one floor above the chapel of the Torre Girona – which housed the first four versions of the MareNostrum supercomputer – he would be surprised to see that they have taken his idea seriously. On Thursday, the third quantum computer of the facilities was inaugurated. All created by a Barcelona startup, Qilimanjaro Quantum Tech, led by Marta Estarellas.
The new law of the Community of Madrid, which recognizes the conceived unborn as an additional member of the family unit to access certain public aids, has once again brought to the table what the legal recognition of the unborn (nasciturus) is in Spain. The question takes on special relevance in extreme situations, such as when a woman loses the pregnancy due to a traffic accident or a terrorist attack. In those cases, the legal treatment of that loss is not always the same and varies depending on the area of Law.
Heat is starting to change social habits. Faced with rising temperatures, which seem to lead us to a cyclical situation of heat waves, many people are beginning to change their routines as a self-regulation measure, consciously or unconsciously. Going out at 1 p.m. to do the shopping or going for a run early in the afternoon are unthinkable activities during the hours of greatest sun exposure. Especially in the streets of cities that, in the best case, have some trees that prevent the asphalt from radiating temperatures of 40 degrees to their pedestrians.