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Vox hopes that its success in the Castilla y León elections will silence the voices of dissidents | Elections in Castilla y León

This Sunday’s elections in Castilla y León will have an internal reading in the space of the extreme right: they will serve as a plebiscite on the leadership of Santiago Abascal. And not only because, as in Extremadura and Aragón, the president of Vox has been the undisputed protagonist of its electoral campaign, relegating the candidate to the background, but also because the campaign has been marked by the purge of some of the party’s best-known figures, such as the still spokesperson in the Madrid City Council, Javier Ortega Smith, or its former leader in Murcia, José Ángel Antelo.Vox sources…

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Disruption live: AI specialists also have to go – Human Resources

“I have made the extremely difficult decision to reduce our team by approximately 10 percent.” This announcement comes from Mike Cannon-Brookes, co-founder and CEO of Australian-American software company Atlassian. According to Cannon-Brookes, around 1,600 employees will be affected by the workforce reductions. Is this wave of layoffs due to AI? Cannon-Brookes is evasive in his statement. “Our approach is not ‘AI replaces people’. However, it would be disingenuous to pretend that AI will not change the mix of skills needed or the number of jobs needed in specific areas. It does,” he wrote in the announcement. Of the laid-off employees,…

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A 102-year-old man dies in an attic fire in the San Antón neighborhood of Murcia | Spain

Another person has been seriously injured and the causes of the accident are still being investigated.Neighbors of a burned-out property in the Murcia neighborhood of San Antón, this Friday after the incident.Marcial Guillen (EFE)A 102-year-old man died this Friday night in the fire of an attic located on Las Palmas Street in the Murcia neighborhood of San Antón, which started shortly after 8:00 p.m. for reasons that are still unknown. As confirmed by EFE, four fire engines from the Murcia park and as many ambulances have been mobilized by the Emergency Coordination Center in this fire, along with local police…

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A man kidnaps a taxi driver at gunpoint in Madrid to take him to a town in Burgos | Spain

A 34-year-old man who had kidnapped a taxi driver in Madrid and forced him to take him to the small Burgos town of Villoruebo, which is more than 260 kilometers from the capital, was arrested this Friday by the Civil Guard after spending hours barricaded in a home in the town. The suspect forced the driver to take him to the municipality at gunpoint and, once there, released him. The driver is in good health, but the perpetrator has remained barricaded for several hours.The Civil Guard has sent a negotiator to the town of Sierra de la Demanda to mediate…

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Three hours of care a day: This is how HR can relieve the burden on employees

Three hours a day. This is the average time that millions of people in this country spend caring for their relatives – alongside their job. According to a recently published study by the German Economic Institute IW, in 2022 (the year the data from the underlying socio-economic panel comes from) almost six million people supported their relatives with care activities. In addition to care in the narrower sense, this also includes, for example, help in the household or the care of residents in nursing homes. The vast majority of people who provide such help are employed – three out of…

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Madrid is left without its April Fair: the organizers suspend the event “due to technical and administrative circumstances” | Madrid News

Madrid will no longer have its own April Fair. Or at least not this year. The organizers of Madrilucía, the great Andalusian fair that would be held in the capital from May 20 to 31 at the Iberdrola Music venue, have announced that they are canceling the celebration “due to certain technical and administrative circumstances unrelated to the project,” according to a statement released on the event’s social networks. However, they assure that those who want to put on a flamenco dress, rent booths or ride a horse in pure Andalusian style but without leaving the capital, will be able…

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Financial stress is growing more intense for those in debt, data shows

Ahead of Debt Awareness Week, 16 to 22 March, Money Wellness has published research showing that the emotional and personal cost of debt is rising, even as the overall proportion of people affected across all areas of life has fallen slightly. The findings come from a survey of 5,000 customers. Of those, 81% say money is their biggest source of stress, compared with 72% in 2024. The proportion saying they feel stressed most of the time stands at 87%, and 85% say poor mental health has had a direct impact on their financial situation. Despite a small drop in…

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