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Javier AnsorenaFOLLOW, CONTINUESpecial envoy to Houston (Texas, USA) Updated:05/27/2022 10:20 p.m. Save Related newsJust five hours of highway, flat fields of cultivated fields and signs of fast food restaurants separate Uvalde, Texas, from Houston, the main city of the state. There were the crosses planted in the Plaza del Ayuntamiento, with the names of the 19 children and his two teachers who died in the massacre last Tuesday, covered in flowers, memories and messages. "I will never forget you, sister," said one, in childish handwriting.Here in Houston, in a glittering convention center, it was holding its annual conclave National Rifle Association (NRA, its acronym in English), the great 'lobby' of weapons in the US. It has only been th...

A grin spreads across Rodrygo’s face. Standing by the training pitch at Valdebebas, he is discussing his Real Madrid teammate Karim Benzema, the four-times European Cup winner 13 years his senior who “always talks to me before games” and “helps us a lot, on and off the pitch”, someone “I always try to listen to”, when he is asked: So what’s the best advice he has ever given you? The answer is immediate. “To play the ball to him,” Rodrygo replies. There is laughter, but it is sound advice. “Every time I give him the ball, it works out,” he says.In the 96th minute of the semi-final against Manchester City, Rodrygo played the ball for Benzema, delivering the cross from which Real Madrid got the penalty that could put them in the Champions League final and secure another absurd comeback. Th...

‘Wow!” Trent Alexander-Arnold exclaims before, slowly, he repeats the question out loud. “When was the last time I was genuinely nervous?” His eyes open wide as if this simple query might be one of the most probing he has heard in a long time. Alexander-Arnold falls silent as he dredges through a memory which is pin-prick sharp when recalling intricate details from Liverpool games or describing his past emotions.We have talked for 40 minutes, with Alexander-Arnold offering riveting company, and he has spoken incisively about much more complex subjects. He has discussed the mentality of Michael Jordan and the same “ache” he feels in his desire to improve and keep winning. We have considered the lessons of defeat and the way in which Alexander-Arnold believes that, on the pitch, “I can se...

Felipe Alfonso and Nacho Goma on the bus, minutes before leaving for Alicante. / Merida ADPromotion to First RFEFThe Mérida is already in La Nucía, where tomorrow it awaits the 500 Merida residents who will travel to help climb the last stepPR Merida Friday, May 27, 2022, 9:57 p.m. If Juanma Barrero smells it in the locker room, the fans smell it in the city. «In the semifinal last Saturday, I smelled that the team was loose. And when you smell it, you already have less fear and more confidence, ”confessed the Mérida coach in this last preview. And anyone who goes out on the streets these days smells nothing oth...

Tether previously claimed its stablecoin was backed 1-to-1 by US dollars.Justin Tallis | Afp | Getty ImagesThis week, backers of the failed cryptocurrency project Terra voted to revive the initiative, with a new luna blockchain and token – and without its controversial algorithmic stablecoin, TerraUSD.The founders had been seeking the next step forward for the project that crashed as quickly as it took off. The collapse of the Terra project led to combined losses of about $60 billion between the stablecoin, also known as UST, and its sister cryptocurrency luna. Earlier this month, UST plummeted below its $1 peg, which prompted a cryptocurrency sell-off. Like many stablecoins, UST was pegged at a 1-to-1 ratio with the dollar. Minting one new UST required "burning," or destroying, on...

Javier Martinez-BrocalFOLLOW, CONTINUECorrespondent in the Vatican Updated:05/27/2022 9:34 p.m. Save RELATED NEWSThe bishops of the transalpine country have launched the "Italian way" to take charge of the scope of the phenomenon of abuses committed in the ecclesial sphere. Has been the first big decision of the new president of his episcopal conference, the Archbishop of Bologna, Matteo Zuppi. «We owe it to the victims, their pain is the priority. And we also owe it to Holy Mother Church," Zuppi explained during his first appearance before journalists.The "Italian way" consists of five points. The two main ones are the elaboration of a report on the crimes committed by clerics in Italy that have been addressed in the Vatican from the year...