2024-02-22 INTERNATIONAL
China and Taiwan play a dangerous game of cat and mouse around the Kinmen archipelago
From Kinmen, if the day is clear, you can clearly see the imposing skyscrapers of the Chinese city of Xiamen, which is just three kilometers away.. Many of the 127,000 residents of this small archipelago in the South China Sea long for their neighbor's progre ...
2024-02-22 ECONOMY
Has talent become the battlefield for companies?
If something is turning subtly (or not so subtly) in our way of understanding the economy, talent is its fulcrum. Companies are realizing this and are looking almost pleadingly at their Human Resources departments.. Success no longer depends on having the best inf ...
2024-02-22 INTERNATIONAL
The United States makes a withdrawal from occupied Palestine conditional on Israel's "security"
The United States has warned the International Court of Justice (ICJ) this Wednesday that “any movement towards the withdrawal” of Israel from the West Bank and the Gaza Strip requires guaranteeing the “very real security” of the Israeli State, and has insisted that only negoti ...
2024-02-22 INTERNATIONAL
They will call a referendum in Switzerland on the ban on importing animal skins and cruelly obtained foie gras
The Swiss people will vote in a referendum on a proposal to ban the import of foie gras and cruelly obtained animal skins, after federal authorities gave the green light to both animal rights initiatives.. The proposals were launched in 2022 by the Swiss Animal Alliance coaliti ...
2024-02-22 INTERNATIONAL
The London Court postpones the decision on Assange's extradition: the key is whether the crimes he committed are "political"
The High Court of London will decide as soon as possible, on an unspecified date, whether it authorizes Julian Assange to continue appealing in the United Kingdom or whether, instead, his extradition to the United States, approved by the British Government in 2022, can be activ ...
2024-02-22 INTERNATIONAL
The 'Kaan' fighter prototype, developed by Turkey, tests its first flight: "It will have the most powerful air force in the entire region"
The prototype of the fighter-bomber being developed by Turkey, called 'Kaan', carried out its first test flight this Wednesday, reports the Turkish state agency Anadolu.. The flight, carried out before the cameras of several media outlets, took place at the Murted (fo ...
2024-02-22 INTERNATIONAL
The EU agrees on the thirteenth package of sanctions against Russia: it makes access to drones difficult and 2,000 people are already on the 'blacklist'
The EU machinery against Russia remains very active and the bloc agreed this Tuesday on the thirteenth package of sanctions against the Kremlin, just in the week that will mark two years since the invasion of Ukraine.. The final approval has been delayed for a few days due to a ...
2024-02-21 SPORTS
Inter shows more hunger than Atlético in a duel of strategists
In one of the countless and endless conversations about football between Simeone and Inzaghi when they were players at Lazio, both surely dreamed of a similar situation. Coaches of two of the best teams in Europe. Two teams with a similar, intense and aggressive g ...
2024-02-21 SPORTS
Kvaratskhelia, the idol of Naples after the Ukrainian war
His appearance is that of someone apparently clumsy, he plays with low socks and has an exquisite dribble.. Anyone would say Khvicha Kvaratskhelia (Tbilisi, Georgia, February 12, 2001) is a player from another era. Mixing such a concept with Naples leads to an ine ...
2024-02-21 SPORTS
PSV leaves a bad Dortmund alive
It was a bad night for Dortmund, resolved, at least, without serious setbacks. A terrible game that, paradoxically, brings them closer to the quarterfinals. Unforeseen events occurred during the warm-up, when Kobel, their starting goalkeeper, suffered a muscle inj ...
2024-02-21 SPORTS
Vincent Poirier, the moment of the giant "in the shadow of a giant"
Vincent Poirier and his naked torso full of tattoos played with his girl Nola on the Martín Carpena parquet, which after the cup final had become a social gathering for happy Real Madrid fans. Selfies, hugs and talks with the trophy from hand to hand. The MVP was ...
2024-02-21 ECONOMY
The new National Energy Commission will depend on Ribera and will value decarbonization to make decisions
The Council of Ministers will approve this Tuesday the draft bill to recover the National Energy Commission (CNE), the regulatory body for this activity that is currently within the National Markets and Competition Commission (CNMC) since it was integrated. in it in 2013. This ...
2024-02-21 ECONOMY
Teleworking grew by 19% in 2023, although the proportion of employed people who practice it in Spain is almost half that of the EU
The 'puncture' of teleworking after the pandemic stopped in 2023. After almost two years losing steam, the number of people working from home grew by 19.4% at the end of last year compared to the previous year, according to the latest installment of the Employment Opp ...
2024-02-21 ECONOMY
Exonerate fatal acts, more confidentiality: Puente retries to unify the technical investigation of train, ship and plane accidents
The Council of Ministers approved this Tuesday a bill for the creation of an Independent Authority that will bring together the technical investigation into plane, rail and maritime accidents currently carried out by three separate commissions.. The new body will have a degree ...
2024-02-21 INTERNATIONAL
Hitler, Putin, Cudahy and the necessary idiot
Of all the criticisms of Tucker Carlson's recent interview with President Vladimir Putin, I stick with the one that has not been made: the deference of the European warlords to the American press. Carlson was the first journalist to interview the Russian pres ...
2024-02-21 INTERNATIONAL
Prince William calls for end to 'human suffering' in Gaza
Prince William has issued a rare statement expressing his "concern about the human cost" of Israel's offensive in Gaza and calling for an end to the war.. "Sometimes, it is only in the face of the scale of so much human suffering that the importance of perman ...
2024-02-21 INTERNATIONAL
Julian Assange fights his last battle in the British courts to stop his extradition to the US
For two days, Julian Assange fights his last battle before the British courts to stop his extradition to the United States, where he could be sentenced to 175 years in prison for 17 crimes of espionage, conspiracy and computer fraud for his work as founder of Wiki ...
2024-02-21 ECONOMY
Spain suspends recycling: only four out of every 10 waste has a second life
Of the 467 kilograms of garbage that each Spaniard generates annually, only 38.6% acquires a second life. The rest, more than 13 and a half million tons of waste per year, goes directly to the incinerator or, mostly, to the landfill.. Spain is at the bottom of the ...
2024-02-21 ECONOMY
The four keys to choosing the best account without commissions
Uncomfortable, elevated, difficult to justify and understand, annoyingly recurring.... There are several characteristics that are associated with bank account commissions.. Above all, from the customer's perspective. Instead, they are a powerful source of inc ...
2024-02-21 INTERNATIONAL
Dispute over a millionaire Lottery prize: a man claims that he bought it with his partner, but she left him and kept everything
A man and a woman who bought a lottery ticket together, when they were still a couple, are at war. The ticket they acquired was awarded a million pounds sterling and now that they have separated, the administration has given the prize only to her. As re ...
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