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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.

Behind this exhibition is a proper name: Alfredo Calles, collector and devotee of Star Wars since the saga was called Star Wars. For years he has gathered one of the most complete private collections in Europe dedicated to this universe and now shares it with the public: until September 22, CASA CUPRA Raval hosts “Rebels Beyond the Galaxy,” a free admission exhibition that pays tribute to the icons, stories, and original objects that shaped one of the most influential sagas in film history.

The evolution of the main forest fires in Spain improves this Saturday on several fronts, although monitoring, cooling, and finishing work continue in Zamora, Madrid, and Castellón, where Vall d’Uixó remains affected by a fire that is still active and not yet stabilized.

A few days ago, Cecilia (a fictitious name) was attacked by her partner. As on other occasions, he became nervous and hit her in the eye and mouth, causing a bruise on the right side of her face. After assaulting her, the man forcibly took her away – to ensure that no one saw her injuries – and threatened to kill her and bury her in a hole. It was not the first time Cecilia felt that her life was in danger, so she gathered courage and requested a protection order at the police station, which was granted hours later at the City of Justice in Barcelona. While the woman waits for her gender violence complaint to be resolved, the aggressor is prohibited from approaching her within a thousand meters and from communicating by any means.