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The National Court has convicted 11 members of the youth gang Dominican Don’t Play (DDP) for their membership in the criminal organization and two of them, in addition, for the crime of currency counterfeiting. All of them belong to the group that the gang had in Seseña (Toledo) and that had been involved in numerous violent episodes in Madrid. Among them, a homicide in February 2022 of which the accused gang member has been acquitted, because the court has not considered the identification of a witness sufficient. It was the first time that a youth band has been tried in…
At least 13 people died last weekend from drowning in Spain. Ten of them have died on different beaches on the Iberian Peninsula – while the other three deaths have occurred in a river, in a pool and in a swamp, respectively – and at least six were over 70 years old. This is the balance of three especially tragic days at the start of the summer season and in a year that until this Monday totaled 124 drowned people, according to data from the Royal Spanish Rescue and First Aid Federation, which prepares the National Drowning Report each year.Continue…
US President Donald Trump is annoyed by the allegedly poor treatment of American companies in Europe, especially in France. He now wants to counter the digital tax with a 100 percent tariff on wine and champagne.
For many recruiters in Germany, finding suitable candidates is becoming more and more of a challenge. According to a recent LinkedIn survey of 750 HR managers in Germany, 53 percent cited the lack of qualified applicants as their biggest problem. At the same time, however, there is a structural deficit in the selection process: 73 percent only discover relevant skills after a deeper screening and almost one in two can hardly distinguish between candidates purely based on CVs. Where classic recruiting processes reach their limits Resumes, job titles and career paths have long been considered reliable indicators of qualifications. However,…
The Ministry of Equality, led by Ana Redondo (PSOE), has commissioned a legal report on the distribution system used by the Community of Madrid, chaired by Isabel Díaz Ayuso (PP), for the funds of the Co-Responsible Plan. The central Executive considers “atypical, in relation to the rest of the communities”, that these state aid managed by the regions to promote the equitable distribution of care are distributed through personal income tax. And it has not gone unnoticed that an entity linked to the Legionaries of Christ has been among the beneficiaries in Madrid. “The Ministry will review all the activities…
Washington and Tehran have agreed on a declaration of intent to end their war. Both sides want to sign on Friday – only then, according to US President Trump, will the Strait of Hormuz be opened.
Baltasar Garzón (Torres, Jaén, 70 years old) says that he was silent for a long time while he was a magistrate, and now, in his role as a lawyer, since he was disqualified in 2012 due to wiretapping. Gürtel casehe doesn’t want to do it anymore. His latest book, Democracy threatened (Planet), is “a torn cry in the face of so much lies, cowardice, passivity and indifference.” Almost 400 pages to denounce the elements that, in his opinion, are contributing to the degradation of coexistence.Continue reading
The Generalitat Firefighters worked this Sunday from 2:47 p.m. on a forest vegetation fire in Cervià de les Garrigues (Lleida) with around thirty crews, 22 ground and 8 air (five helicopters and three small planes). The Mossos d’Esquadra have evacuated eight residents from their homes as a precaution and have established courts in L’Albi and Cervíà and between this municipality and Borges. This is the second fire that has been recorded this weekend in the province of Lleida after the one declared in Sanaüja on Saturday.Continue reading
A statement by TV expert Jürgen Klopp about national coach Julian Nagelsmann is causing dissatisfaction among former national players. And: A farmer from Bangladesh unfurls a kilometer-long German flag. Everything you need to know about the World Cup.
I am Catalan, Muslim and the son of immigrants, and the visit of Pope Leo XIV has challenged me in a way that I did not expect. I don’t say this from faith, but from that impact that beauty produces when people and places align for a common purpose. Especially now that we live in a fractured world. And it is precisely in that moral crack where there is something subversive about the fact that a papal visit is capable of summoning, without distinction, the devout and the agnostic, the lifelong Spaniard and the one who arrived a couple of…