The teachers’ conflict is getting on track. The street protests continue and the risks of not reaching an agreement remain, but the truth is that the administration and unions have sat down together at a table again and have agreed to meet again next Tuesday.
Five Italian divers have died in the Maldives. The news, initially reported by local media, was later confirmed by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The circumstances of the tragedy are not yet entirely clear, but according to initial reconstructions, the group was participating in a dive to explore several caves at a depth of 50 meters near the Vaavu Atoll.
“This is the cross I have been given” or “marriage is a lottery and it is for life.” These phrases, still repeated today by older women, reflect one of the less visible realities of sexist violence: resignation and learned helplessness. In this population group, the ‘culture of endurance’ lasts for decades, in many cases within a context of control, humiliation, and abuse normalized by the generational culture to which they belong.
La DANA of Valencia on October 29, 2024 left a deep psychological impact on many minors. This impact has forced schools to implement therapeutic actions to manage trauma in the classrooms. Care that has been carried out alongside the reconstruction of the facilities damaged by the flooding.
For more than 30 years, hantavirus has been present in Chile, the second country with the most infections after Argentina. In 2025, 44 cases were reported and this year there are 39 accumulated, with 13 deaths. Ricardo Fritz Garrido (Concepción, Chile, 1978), pulmonologist at the National Thorax Institute of Chile, the national reference center for this virus and where all patients who develop cardiopulmonary syndrome from hantavirus, the most severe form of the infection, are treated, is one of the main specialists and leads the ECMO teams (extracorporeal respiration for critical patients) at the center.
No agreement and a new meeting next Tuesday. The sectoral table meeting between the Minister of Education and Vocational Training of the Generalitat, Esther Niubó, and the unions -Ustec·Stes, Aspepc·Sps, CC.OO. Educació, CGT Ensenyament, and UGT, with Intersindical added- ended without agreement but with the commitment to resume talks next Tuesday. The meeting was supposed to address issues such as resources for inclusive schooling and teachers’ salaries.
If the Lefebvrians go ahead with the ordination of new bishops, they will incur a charge of schism. The dialogue between the Vatican and the so-called Priestly Fraternity of Saint Pius X has reached a point of rupture that is hardly reversible
An 18-year-old young man, Mäel Le Lagadec, from the French department of Tarn-et-Garonne, has posted a video on the Internet in which he details the ascent to Aneto to place a cross, which he carved himself, after the disappearance of the original piece, placed at the summit in 1951 to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Centre Excursionista de Catalunya (CEC). The news was reported by the French newspaper La Dépêche, which details that the young man made the cross from walnut wood and inscribed his initials on it.
The health status of the Spanish citizen with hantavirus who is admitted to the Gómez Ulla hospital remains stable. This description is considered by experts as something “positive,” because it reveals that the 70-year-old passenger from the Hondius is responding to the care provided by the medical team treating him. And indeed, once symptoms appear (fever, stomach problems, respiratory issues…), deterioration is rapid in some of the infected. In this case, the patient, who presented low-grade fever and respiratory dysfunctions, has responded to the oxygen he is receiving, health sources indicate.
Twelve employees of the Radboudumc university hospital in Nijmegen, in the eastern Netherlands, have been placed under preventive quarantine for six weeks after potentially being exposed to the hantavirus while treating an infected patient from the Hondius cruise ship.