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In broad daylight and in full view of everyone in a busy square in Figueres, a man stabbed his ex-partner to death this Tuesday. The victim, a 33-year-old transgender woman of Honduran origin, received several stab wounds to the chest, injuries that proved fatal. The attacker, 48 years old and of Spanish nationality, had a restraining order against the victim, but he had violated it twice in the last few hours.

The Supreme Court has entered uncharted territory today, on which there was no precedent. The Contentious-Administrative Chamber of the high court has agreed in a vote that sets a precedent, that parents or very close relatives of a person requesting euthanasia can block that right to a dignified death.

In broad daylight and in full view of everyone in a busy square in Figueres, a man stabbed his ex-partner to death this Tuesday. The victim, a 33-year-old transgender woman of Honduran origin, received several stab wounds to the chest, arms, and neck, injuries that proved fatal. The attacker, 48 years old and of Spanish nationality, had a restraining order against the victim but had violated it twice in the past few hours.

La Fundació Vila Casas, founded in 1988 by the Catalan patron of art and health Antoni Vila Casas (1930-2023), is engaged in an ongoing legal dispute with its former general director and manager, Joan Torras Ragué. The entity has filed a criminal complaint attributing to Torras the alleged commission of three crimes: breach of trust, embezzlement, and document falsification. Allegedly, the defendant unlawfully appropriated around 400,000 euros in just a year and a half, according to the complaint obtained by La Vanguardia.

Javier (Calatayud, 1962) has experienced countless depressive episodes. He had his first one at 40 years old, and from the last one – he is now 63 years old – he has just been discharged. However, although he admits that he will live with the condition his whole life, today he is somewhat more optimistic than some time ago. The reason? The recent treatment he received at the resistant depression unit of Parc Sanitari Sant Joan de Déu (SJD), which offers more personalized treatments.

The Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported this Monday that rescue teams have located the bodies of four Italian divers who are believed to have been inside an underwater cave in a Maldivian atoll.

The cruise ship affected by a hantavirus outbreak arrived this morning at the Dutch port of Rotterdam for disinfection, thus putting an end to a journey that alerted international health authorities. On the Hondius are 25 crew members and two medical professionals, after all passengers disembarked on the island of Saint Helena on April 24, and in Tenerife on May 9 and 10. Upon the vessel’s arrival, the occupants could be seen wearing masks on the deck, while the ship was escorted through the port by a tugboat and a Dutch police boat.

The teachers of Barcelona have blocked access to the Sagrada Familia during a new day of teacher strikes in Catalonia, something that has forced the site to close for two hours to ensure the safety of visitors and teachers, sources from the basilica told La Vanguardia. The teachers had “restricted” access to visitors, so the temple could not open at 9 in the morning at its usual time.

An effective and minimally invasive surgery, which facilitates the fastest and least painful recovery possible, is the wish of every patient who has to undergo a surgical intervention. Medicine advances every day, and what years ago was faced with more aggressive procedures is now approached in a way that is more respectful to the body. Also in the safest possible way. In the case of abdominal, colorectal, and digestive surgeries, progress has been especially noticeable in recent years. These are interventions that have evolved from classic open surgery to current minimally invasive techniques.

Israel came close to victory in the world’s most important music contest, boosted by massive popular vote that contrasts with its weakened external image. Neither the thousands of protests against the genocide in Gaza, nor the boycott by five countries — Spain, Ireland, the Netherlands, Slovenia, and Iceland — managed to take away the second place in Eurovision from the Israeli Noam Bettan.