Hello good morning!
When in a war the sides say that they seek peace with it – something that, as strange as it may sound, happens more times than one thinks –, it is worth asking: what does peace mean? The doubt continues in the Middle East. In Spain a new minimum wage is approaching.
The UN: the intensity of the bombing in Gaza is unprecedented since World War II. Almost nothing when in parallel there is the war in Ukraine. Numbers: the strip loses 60% of its homes, there are thousands of dead, 1.7 million displaced.
Israel, in any case, continued yesterday with the exchange of prisoners for hostages. But the truce has ended. He escalates the diplomatic conflict with Spain and withdraws the ambassador from her. Sánchez questions whether Tel Aviv respects international law in Gaza.
Hamas, for its part, accepts yesterday's attack in Jerusalem but says – sic – that it wants the truce to continue. The New York Times also reveals a document according to which Israel had its October 7 attack plan a year ago but discarded it as unrealizable.
A warning: a solar storm is arriving on Earth today. It can cause communication problems. And, classified as 'strong', it can activate auroras in unusual places.
Raising the minimum wage by 4% is what the Ministry of Labor negotiates with unions and employers. The first meeting concludes without an agreement, but with close positions.
The S-81 is the submersible with which Spain enters the select club of the only ten countries in the world capable of building one. Furthermore, all their equipment is made in Spain. A milestone. It has just been delivered in the absence of its ultra-silent propulsion system.
COP28, the great climate summit, held in Dubai, achieves its first impact in the form of a rescue fund for climate damage. The small print? The contribution is voluntary. There are promises.
Tow. “We are two inoperable conjoined twins.” Read it here.
Friday premieres at the cinema where there is everything. An Argentine mutant film stands out, The Delinquents, while at the same time it is time to highlight this interview with Santiago Segura, who confesses: “I switched to family cinema when I saw that my daughters could not see my films.”
Southern Africa is in fashion. Sailing on a cruise through the south of the African continent is consolidating itself as an exotic destination and a new object of desire for the best shipping companies. They are looking for alternatives to the Caribbean.
The death of Henry Kissinger yesterday at the age of 100 brings back to the table the life of an always controversial US statesman who was the architect of both war and peace. To cite every thread he pulled is to chart the defining moments of the 20th century.
Chris Miller, technology geostrategist. “The world will be divided into an authoritarian internet and a democratic one.” Read it here.
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