2023-12-28 INTERNATIONAL
Death toll rises to 155 from attacks by armed individuals in Nigeria
The death toll from attacks by armed individuals carried out from last Saturday night to Monday in the state of Plateau, in central Nigeria, has increased from 113 to 155, local authorities reported. "Our people are still in the countryside looking for ...
2023-12-27 ECONOMY
Discounts on transportation, VAT on electricity and gas and taxes on banks and energy companies: keys to the anti-crisis decree that is approved today
The Government will approve this Wednesday the new decree to alleviate the economic and social consequences of the war in Ukraine. He will do it on the horn, since the current one expires on December 31. In fact, PSOE and Sumar are still negotiating the package at this time, in ...
2023-12-27 ECONOMY
The fixed term of the electricity bill will become more expensive in 2024 between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. and 6 and 10 p.m. from Monday to Friday
The fixed part of the cost of electricity for homes and small businesses will be slightly more expensive from January 1 in the central hours of the day, between 10 in the morning and two in the afternoon and between six and ten in the afternoon. at night because in that section ...
2023-12-27 ECONOMY
The little brother of self-consumption tries to make its way in Spain: the EU invites its countries to promote plug-in plates
In the last two years, solar panels have multiplied on the roofs of Spanish single-family homes but collective self-consumption, for example, for blocks of flats, has not yet taken off.. An alternative to this difficulty could be a new type of self-consumption that is trying to ...
2023-12-27 INTERNATIONAL
Christmas with the artist Helene Fischer that Chancellor Scholz missed
Who. The queen of German Christmas entertainment, born 39 years ago in Siberia, is the highest-earning non-Eng ...
2023-12-27 INTERNATIONAL
Rats, ferrets and pacts: how Belgians seek consensus even with pests
Who. He is a municipal employee in the Brussels municipality of Etterbeek who is responsible for ratification, ...
2023-12-27 ECONOMY
Consumer loans resist the general fall in credit and grow 6.5% until September
The rate increase of the last year and a half has hit the credit demand of households and companies, but not all. Consumer credit resists almost immune to the increase in the price of money dictated by the European Central Bank (ECB) and is mainly responsible for the 4.3% growth that the non-ban ...
2023-12-27 ECONOMY
Hyperloop One, the alternative to the high-speed train designed by Elon Musk, closes
Elon Musk's dream of creating a transportation system faster than a high-speed train has been derailed. Hyperloop One, one of the few companies that was still trying to make the magnate's vision a reality, has announced that it will liquidate all its assets, close its offices and lay o ...
2023-12-27 INTERNATIONAL
Turkey takes the first step to approve Sweden's entry into NATO
This Tuesday, the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Turkish Parliament gave its approval to Sweden's entry into NATO, a step prior to the vote in plenary session, scheduled for January 16, necessary to ratify accession. The proposal to admit Sweden ...
2023-12-27 INTERNATIONAL
The Netherlands now discovers that its authorities spied on Dutch Jews who survived the Nazis
When World War II broke out, 140,000 Jews lived in the Netherlands.. Only 35,000 of the total survived the terrible war and Nazi persecution.. 102,000 of the 107,000 who were deported to extermination camps were murdered; 57,000 died at Auschwitz. All o ...
2023-12-27 INTERNATIONAL
Israel claims to be fighting a war on "seven fronts" in the Middle East
Almost three months after Hamas attacked Israel, the fighting does not stop. This Tuesday, the Israeli authorities took stock of the situation and assured that they are fighting a "war on multiple fronts", as confirmed by Yoav Gallant, the Israeli Minister of Defense.
2023-12-27 INTERNATIONAL
Israel will stop granting automatic visas to UN workers: "The organization is a complicit partner of Hamas"
Israel announced this Tuesday that it will stop automatically granting visas to United Nations employees, considering that the organization is being a "complicit partner" of Hamas by not condemning the tactics that the Palestinian militia is allegedly using during the conflict. ...
2023-12-27 INTERNATIONAL
The movie 'Home Alone' comes true: a 6-year-old boy lands in another city after getting on the wrong plane
A mistake made by the American low-cost airline Spirit Airlines has caused a 6-year-old boy to become Macaulay Culkin (Home Alone) for a few hours.. According to the New York Post, the company put an unaccompanied minor under 6 years old on the wrong plane. The boy was supposed ...
2023-12-26 HEALTH
Influenza A viruses and the new Covid strain threaten Christmas: "There are more cases than are recorded"
Masks are back. In reality, they never completely left, they stayed in a drawer waiting for a new virus. If you look around you will find more than one face half covered. Has Covid returned? No, this time it is influenza A and some preventive behaviors against the coronavirus did catch on. "We a ...
2023-12-26 HEALTH
Death among the flowers: countdown to the extinction of butterflies, grasshoppers and beetles
If these days you happen to go out into the field, and you find a butterfly, a beetle or a grasshopper, take a good look at it, because it might not happen to you again.. The so-called common insects, those that have never caught our attention due to their frequency, and with which we have been ...
2023-12-26 HEALTH
What is 'Candida parapsilosis'? The super resistant fungus that has appeared in some Spanish hospitals
A super-resistant fungus is detected in seven hospitals of the Madrid Health Service (Sermas), according to the Madrid Society of Clinical Microbiology (SMMC). This is Candida parapsilosis, an emerging pathogen associated with more difficult treatment and the appearance of outbreaks. Its ...
2023-12-26 HEALTH
This is the MareNostrum 5, the most powerful supercomputer in Spain: "Frontier science cannot advance today without large computers"
Imagine what 380,000 upper-mid-range laptops could do together. All this calculation capacity is available in a single machine that has just become the most powerful supercomputer in Spain. An early Christmas gift arrives today at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center - National Computing C ...
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