2024-03-02 Ukraine war
Alexei Navalny funeral: multiple mourners detained; crowds in Moscow chant ‘Putin is a murderer’ and ‘Russia without Putin’ – as it happened
18.36 CETMultiple Navalny mourners detained across RussiaMultiple mourners of Alexei Navalny have been detained by Russian authorities on Friday, according to OVD-Info, an independent Russian human rights defense g ...
2024-03-01 ECONOMY
Inflation moderates six tenths in February and drops to 2.8% due to the lower price of electricity
Prices have returned to the path of moderation in February after the rebound in the January slope. According to provisional data released this Thursday by the National Institute of Statistics (INE), inflation has slowed in the second month of the year to an interannual rate of ...
2024-03-01 ECONOMY
The minimum vital income reaches almost one million people: a third live in Andalusia and 41% are minors
In Spain there are 964,787 people who currently benefit in some way from the minimum vital income (IMV), the subsistence income that the Government introduced in 2020 to guarantee a minimum income to the most vulnerable households.. This population is divided into almost 400,00 ...
2024-03-01 ECONOMY
Spain is the sixth country in the EU with the lowest hourly gender pay gap, but the rate skyrockets in part-time jobs
Spain is the sixth country in the European Union (EU) with the smallest difference between what women and men earn per hour in full-time jobs. Note, however, the second worst data in part-time jobs. The latest Eurostat figures put the gender pay gap in Spain at 8.7% in 2022 (13 ...
2024-03-01 ECONOMY
The Euribor rises to 3.67% in February after three months of falls, but the average mortgage will barely notice it
The Euribor has taken a break from the decline that began in November of last year and rose again in February to stand at 3.67% on average for the month. Of course, the rise in the indicator with which practically all variable rate mortgages in Spain are reviewed is rather symb ...
2024-03-01 ECONOMY
The unequal distribution of recovery funds: 42% of the money granted to entities is taken by 150 companies
Private companies are the main recipient of European recovery funds. Most of the money that the Spanish administrations have managed to execute and has already reached the real economy has gone to the private sector. Furthermore, with a very unequal distribution. Of the half a ...
2024-03-01 INTERNATIONAL
The Latvian minister who wants to prosecute Russians who go to the embassy to vote
Latvia, like its Baltic neighbors, has been one of Ukraine's strongest supporters since Russia launched its full-scale invasion more than two years ago.. It has also become a refuge for many Russians who have fled war or the draft.. But even in exile there ar ...
2024-03-01 INTERNATIONAL
Tusk calls for increasing European military potential to counter the Russian after Putin's threats
The threat from Russian President Vladimir Putin to NATO countries in the event that they send ground troops to Ukraine is real for countries like Poland that were part of its territories of influence until the expansion of the Alliance to the East in 1997.. This ...
2024-03-01 INTERNATIONAL
Two Israelis shot dead by a Palestinian at a gas station in the West Bank
Two Israelis have died in a Palestinian armed attack in the West Bank while the war between Israel and the fundamentalist group Hamas continues in the Gaza Strip without a truce agreement being seen in the coming days as US President Joe Biden had predicted.
2024-03-01 INTERNATIONAL
Ukraine, the biggest challenge for the European Union
The European Union has experience in integrating countries from the socialist orbit and even former Soviet countries, such as the Baltic countries.. But it has no choice in doing so with a country that is suffering the worst armed invasion since the Second World W ...
2024-03-01 ECONOMY
Social Security now denies the objectives that Escrivá set for the Minimum Income
"The Minimum Living Income (IMV) will lift more than a million people out of extreme poverty". With this phrase, without the slightest doubt, José Luis Escrivá, the former Minister of Social Security, presented the star measure of his Ministry in June 2020. It had ...
2024-03-01 ECONOMY
The Treasury will create a chat to assist citizens with debts with the Tax Agency
The Treasury will create a new chat so that citizens with debts with the Tax Agency can deal with the Administration in a more agile and intuitive way, since the measure will be accompanied by greater information about the procedures carried out by the Entity. ...
2024-03-01 ECONOMY
These are the five most profitable accounts in March 2024
March, third month of the year and with it come changes: season, time, wardrobe.... And financial planning? The truth is that, given the possibility that the European Central Bank (ECB) will lower interest rates, the profitability of deposits has turned downwards. ...
2024-03-01 INTERNATIONAL
At least 43 dead and 20 injured in fire at commercial building in Bangladesh
At least 43 people have died in a fire in a multi-storey commercial building in the Bailey Road area of Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. According to the Dhaka Tribune, the fire department has rescued about 70 people, 42 of them unconscious, who were o ...
2024-03-01 INTERNATIONAL
Brazil exceeds one million cases of dengue, 390% more than a year ago
This Thursday, Brazil surpassed the barrier of one million dengue cases so far this year, 390% more than in the months of January and February 2023, according to updated data from the Ministry of Health. The country has recorded 207 deaths and another 687 suspects attributed to ...
2024-03-01 INTERNATIONAL
A US judge suspends the controversial Texas law that authorizes police to expel migrants
A US judge this Thursday suspended the entry into force of a controversial Texas law that allows police authorities to detain and expel migrants whom they suspect of having entered the United States illegally, the plaintiffs reported. The law, which was ...
2024-03-01 INTERNATIONAL
An "extremely rare" species of plants that look like glass is discovered in Japan
Fairy lanterns, or Thismiaceae as they are known in botany, are a type of plants that do not have green leaves or carry out photosynthesis.. They are tiny oddities of nature that feed on fungi and look like glass lanterns, hence their fairy-tale name. T ...
2024-03-01 INTERNATIONAL
A province in Argentina begins to charge foreigners for health care
The Government of the Argentine province of Salta, bordering Bolivia, Paraguay and Chile, decided to start charging for health care for foreigners with certain categories of temporary residence, who until this decision received free assistance in northern Argentina, reported th ...
2024-02-29 Ukraine war
Russia-Ukraine war live: Ukrainian special forces die in Kherson assault
53m ago09.46 CETUkrainian forces have pushed back Russian troops from the village of Orlivka, west of Avdiivka, but the situation on the eastern front remains difficult, Ukrainian a ...
2024-02-29 Ukraine war
Russia-Ukraine war: Yulia Navalnaya urges European lawmakers to investigate Putin’s financial links to west – as it happened
12.50 CETYulia Navalnaya urges European lawmakers to investigate financial flows in the west linked to PutinYulia Navalnaya, wife of late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, on Wednesday urged European politi ...
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