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Today is one of those days when little fits… The announced truce in Gaza that is intended to continue fighting is delayed; Putin calls for peace without giving signs of peace over Ukraine; The amnesty in Spain is being fought in Brussels… And what remains.
In Gaza, Israel and Hamas agreed to respect a four-day ceasefire and exchange hostages starting today. Let’s see. Yesterday the violence did not stop. Now it is announced that it is delayed until tomorrow. If there are no changes, Sánchez meets today with Netanyahu and Abas.
Ukraine seems to have come out of the spotlight, and even though it sees new developments (although you have to believe them…): Putin admits the “tragedy” of Ukraine and that we must think about how to end it. Important: winter is coming.
USA The explosion yesterday of a vehicle coming from Canada on the American side of a bridge that serves as the border set off all the alarms. Finally the FBI sees no signs of terrorism. The scare remains.
Brussels evades pressure from the European PP and takes a stand on the amnesty. For now, the Commission limits itself to stating that it will be “attentive” to the law; It is known as a battlefield. The far right, meanwhile, wins in the Netherlands, according to the first results.
The forgiveness of the regional debt after the investiture agreements is another of the fronts that are expected in the coming months and figures are already given: it will be between 58,000 and 88,000 million. The negotiation for the new minimum wage is also gaining momentum.
The Clínic is the reference hospital center in Barcelona for the care of sexual assaults and, today, cares for an average of two victims a day. It is worrying: there are more and the cases are more violent. Quite a thermometer.
OpenAI and the changes in its leadership with the departure and return in just days of Sam Altman (difficult to imagine even for a dramatic screenwriter), leaves this sector upside down as Microsoft strengthens its control over artificial intelligence.
Oliver Stone, film director and screenwriter. “USA. “It has become a very barbaric country, it has forgotten the word peace.” Read it here.
“Alicante is the province of Christmas,” it is stated, and this is explained either by a legend about Santa Claus’s first port, his nougats, the toy-making legacy of Ibi as well as various local traditions. The best excuse to rediscover it right now.
Symptoms of dementia? You don’t have to be a hypochondriac to recognize that an older society is followed by new concerns, as reflected in that question. Specialists remember that you should watch out for five signs starting at age 50.
“We left everything to knit.” This is how one of the protagonists of the impulse experienced by new generation artisans, especially in the textile field, expresses himself in La Vanguardia. The reaction against overproduction and homogenization unites them.
Timothy Garton Ash, Professor of European Studies at Oxford. “Patriotism is loving your country; “Nationalism is hating others.” Read it here.
LOUÍS AMIGUET