Yesterday’s approval of the tobacco bill by the Council of Ministers is causing a stir. Especially among the restaurant and nightlife sectors. In this regard, Fecasarm, the Catalan employers’ association for restaurants and nightlife, and Spain Nightlife, the national employers’ association for nightlife, have issued a statement to show their rejection of the bill.
The French Parliament definitively approved on Tuesday the law prohibiting access to social networks for minors under 15, a measure that makes France the first country in Europe to establish a general restriction of this type and which the Government aims to apply from the start of the next school year.
Cyclosporiasis, a gastrointestinal illness caused by ingesting a microscopic parasite, has infected more than 10,000 people in 34 U.S. states, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and two months after the origin of this “explosive diarrhea” outbreak was declared, it continues to grow and eludes the efforts of the country’s health authorities.
The Mossos d’Esquadra have today arrested a second person for the shooting death of a 15-year-old minor on July 2nd in Barcelona’s Pegaso park, as announced by the Minister of Interior, Núria Parlon.
Four women have died violently in the State in the last 24 hours. At least three of these cases are currently being investigated as alleged crimes of gender violence.
It is a complex reform, as is everything related to medicines and health products, due to its enormous economic implications for the system (more than 32,000 million euros per year), for the industry, innovation, and especially for what it means for the health of citizens.
The fire declared last week in the municipality of La Mierla (Guadalajara) has stopped its advance to Soria, as indicated by the regional president, Emiliano García-Page, who said that they are beginning to “see the light beyond the smoke” and stated that the flames have already devastated 29,000 hectares.
Every summer, the road changes the everyday map of Spain: families heading to the coast, groups of friends chaining kilometers, drivers returning on a Sunday afternoon, and travelers adjusting the journey to the heat, fatigue, or unforeseen events. The departure operation retains its symbolic strength, but the road trip is no longer understood solely as the time that separates the origin from the destination. Increasingly, it is also built in those intermediate moments when one decides to stop, rest, reorganize the car, or simply regain energy before continuing.
A woman was murdered this Tuesday with a bladed weapon by her partner, a 48-year-old man, who has been arrested by the Civil Guard in the town of Alameda de la Sagra in Toledo.
The forest fire that started in La Mierla, which has already ravaged more than 26,000 hectares in the Sierra Norte of Guadalajara, is not only leaving behind a scorched landscape and a long list of confined or evacuated municipalities. It also threatens to destroy the way of life of dozens of farming families who watch helplessly as the fire devours the pastures, forces the displacement of hundreds of livestock, and puts the work of entire generations at risk.