The 7 news you need to know this Thursday morning, October 19

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Oliver Thansan
Oliver Thansan
18 October 2023 Wednesday 11:20
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The 7 news you need to know this Thursday morning, October 19

Hello good morning!

What may happen in Israel and Gaza after Biden's lightning visit is expected. Peace, of course, does not even seem to be contemplated. Closer, in Spain, doubts about the final destination of public money demand attention. It is not for less.

The spent. Today it is time to highlight a surprising fact: up to nine communities have not spent the extra money from the Government for dependency. The contribution has been used for other purposes, despite the waiting lists.

The earned. Anticorruption investigates a plot that affects the Ministry of Finance from the time of the popular Montoro. It is being investigated whether specific companies benefited from legislative changes and the Tax Agency.

What was suspected. The judge charges Laporta, president of FC Barcelona, ​​with bribery since the Negreira Case instructor considers that the payments to the refereeing director cover his first term. He would have consequences in the competition.

Biden, visiting Israel, has aligned himself with Tel Aviv and is leaving without diplomatic results in the tension in the Middle East, although it is announced that water and food will reach Gaza in a limited way through Egypt. The Arab street burns.

Aragonès goes to the Senate today, but after his intervention, he will leave and will not listen to the presidents of the PP. He leads to the conclusion that he seeks more prominence from ERC towards the investiture. (Footnote: Maragall already passed by and “it was a sad session.”)

40… or 32 working hours? Time management experts are calling for working hours to be reduced across Europe. The objective is to make gradual cuts until reaching 32 hours per week in 2032. Utopia or necessity? It is debated.

The European energy future does not stop being discussed. Good news: the H2Med project, a corridor that seeks to bring green hydrogen from the Iberian Peninsula to Germany, gains new momentum with the entry of the German operator OGE. EU funding is expected.

Alberto Fernández Liria, psychiatrist. “Psychiatry is in crisis.” Read it here.

Silicon Valley is hiring poets and writers – be careful – to develop its artificial intelligence projects. The most cutting-edge technology companies thus admit that to see a “more human” AI, chatbox writing is essential.

What you eat is central to health, so much so that it can increase or decrease the risk of breast cancer. That is why questions like: Is there any spice that, consumed in large quantities, is harmful? Better to know that yes.

The past, present. With the one that falls into the global context, the past returns, although adapted. For example, there is the resurgence of the active non-aligned movement. Furthermore, the global reaction against climate policies seems to have begun.

José Linhardt, doctor in Sociological Medicine. “I shook the hand of John Fitzgerald Kennedy in Berlin.” Read it here.

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