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Today is about numbers. And there are alarming numbers, such as those of violence committed by minors. Others, in the economy, due to Riyadh's access to Telefónica, generate more doubts. In politics, meanwhile, the first representative with Down syndrome agrees.
14.7% and 116% more. There is an alert due to the increase in homicides and rapes, respectively, committed by minors. This is revealed by the annual report of the Prosecutor's Office. There is concern about the youth of the perpetrators of violent crimes.
Having 9.9% of Telefónica is the objective that Saudi Arabia hopes to achieve by circumventing the Government's veto. The operation, carried out in secret, involves a strategic company and now legal doubts regarding its access to the board of directors stand out.
2023. Only now, after four decades of elections in democracy, a Spanish parliament, the Valencian one, will have a first female representative with Down syndrome. Mar Galcerán: “I don't want people to see only our disability when they look at us.”
The Supreme Court joins the voices that express its rejection of an amnesty, the key that Junts places before Pedro Sánchez for his investiture. The Court warns of the discredit of justice if it occurs. What's more, in a week he will study the pardons of the process.
'Mamma mia!' The film, a smash hit, put the two islands where its first part was filmed on the radar of global tourism, Skiathos and Skópelos, in Greece. Today a muddy mess due to an intense DANA, thousands of tourists are trapped in them. This is how you suffer in its streets.
Beijing knows that its influence abroad is often more in the economy than in politics and being the country with the most kilometers of high-speed train, its railway engineering lacked exports. Not anymore. Indonesia is at the forefront.
What happens when you lose speech? Imagining it is one thing, living it is another, and two recently published novels investigate this. What is concluded is sometimes surprising: “Language is slippery, it always makes us fail…”
Pau Gascó, chef. “The problem in this country is not the bosses, but the ass-licking managers.” Read it here.
The exhibition season is also getting underway these days and there is plenty to come... The power of women will take center stage. Also Berlanga. Here part of the highlights.
Friday: time for film criticism. And among the premieres, experts identify several “very good” films awaiting their audiences. The topics? Anatomy of a trauma; a monumental nonsense; a woman trapped...
The League pre and post foreigners. Summer of 1973: Spanish football breaks its autarky and accepts the incorporation of two foreigners per team. 50 years have passed since a change that revolutionized the competition with Cruyff, Sotil, Ratón Ayala, Diarte, Keita...
Sebastià Serrano, professor of Linguistics and essayist. “When reading, the brain interconnects sight, smell, taste, touch…” Read it here.
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