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Kristalina Georgieva attends to journalists after the press conference, this Wednesday in Washington.Samuel Corum (GETTY)"The credibility problem is not with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), but on the other side of 19th Street." With this reference to the address of the IMF headquarters in Washington, located right in front of the World Bank, Kristalina Georgieva, managing director of the Fund, summarized this Wednesday the soap opera that for a month mortgaged his continuity as head of the IMF for a alleged favorable treatment towards China during her time as CEO of the Bank, between 2017 and 2019.The controversy originated on September 16, after the World Bank announced that it was canceling the publication of its influential report Doing Business for an alleged makeup of data...

Britain is colluding in torture and degrading treatment by refusing to repatriate women and children held indefinitely in Syrian prison camps, according to a report by a human rights watchdog.The Rights and Security International (RSI) assessment accuses the UK and others of turning a blind eye to anarchic and miserable conditions in two camps containing 60,000 women and children, many of them detained since the collapse of the Islamic State.An estimated 15-20 individuals and families who originally came from Britain are among those detained in northeastern Syria, including Shamima Begum and others who have had their citizenship taken away."By refusing to bring these children and women back to the UK when it could, the British government is abandoning people, including its own citizens,...

PABLO PARDO Correspondent Washington Updated Wednesday, October 13, 2021 - 19:00The IMF confirms the inexistence of a fiscal adjustment plan in the medium termPedro Sánchez talks with Nadia Calvio during the government control session.Chema MoyaEFEDespite having prepared its economic forecasts before the Budgets were announced - and even the Government announced measures such as the donation of 400 euros to young people for "cultural activities" - data from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) confirm that Spain does not have a fiscal adjustment plan. This is made clear by the economic forecasts of the institution, published this week.Thus, the IMF puts in black on white that the reduction of Spain's deficit and debt is something merely cyclical. Beyond 2023, when the post-Covi...

A technique has been developed that could revolutionize the treatment of brain cancers and neurodegenerative diseases by temporarily allowing drugs and other substances to cross the blood-brain barrier, a structure that separates the brain's blood vessels from the rest of its tissues.A trial in four women whose breast cancer had spread to the brain showed that magnetic resonance-guided focused ultrasound (MRgFUS) could safely deliver Herceptin antibody therapy to brain tissue, causing the tumors to shrink.The blood-brain barrier is a cell wall designed to prevent substances in the bloodstream, such as toxins or microbes, from entering the brain where they could cause irreparable damage to your tissues.While in the rest of the body there are small spaces between the cells that line the b...

Carlingford Inlet marks the border between Northern Ireland (left) and the Republic of Ireland. Reuters The European Comission is willing to relax and reduce controls sanitary and phytosanitary products to which agricultural and animal products that enter from Great Britain to Northern Ireland are obliged, a British territory that after the Brexit is still part of the customs union and single market. With the new proposals put forward by Brussels, this commitment will mean that 80% of the controls to which most ...

3 Vuse brand products are approved by the FDA. Foto: Oli Scarff / Getty Images This Tuesday, October 12 The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that they were authorizing the use of e-cigarettes for the first time, as well as the products related to them, after They will give their approval to the RJ Reynolds company so that they can market 3 vaping products of the Vuse brand. “While today's action allows tobacco products to be sold in the United States, this does not mean they are safe or FDA approved. All tobacco products are harmful and addictive and those who do not use them should not start (using them), ”the FDA explained in a statement. Similarly, the FDA indicated that RJ Reynolds itself was prohibited from selling 1...

I I was relieved when I finally found the hidden creeps. Sometimes the first post-pandemic Frieze art fair is so relaxing you could fall asleep in one of its elegant halls. So it was good to see Lindsey mendick hoisting the flag in subtle outrage. On the stand of the Carl Freedman Gallery I find his glossy and decaying ceramic vases, whose wounded sides sprout octopus arms. Mendick should be on Turner's shortlist for next year if Tate has any desire to save its dying prize. Then Freedman showed me another detail. Penises protrude from one of the pots like shiny wet worms. Turns out, there is sleaze in the new Adult Frieze after all; you just need a greater attention span to find it.The art world has looked at itself during the pandemic. And it has been discovered that art ha...

The bonfire commissions will have three years from the first effective plantà - it will be 2022 if the pandemic allows it - to change the fence that they place on the perimeter of the monuments, supports where Sponsors are announced to pay up to 15% of the cost of the campfire, in those with the highest budget up to € 10,000. The replacement of the fencing is contemplated in the accessibility plan for the Bonfires promoted by the Alicante City Council and seeks to facilitate the view of the monuments to people in wheelchairs. ...

A health worker administering a vaccine. H.Bilbao / EP State budgets for the Ministry of Health by 2022 they suffer a decrease of almost 10%, going from 7,330 million in 2021 to 6,606 million next year. Although, this reduction is due to the fact that, with more than 87% of the target population vaccinated, the item for the purchase of vials is quantitatively lower. In fact, the European fund for the purchase goes from 2,436 million to 733. Although, the Government will compensate this reduction with 439 million, since it is ...

José María del Nido upon arrival at the Malaga Court at the beginning of the trial for the 'Minutes case'.Sevilla prepares the Extraordinary Shareholders Meeting on October 26 involved in a war for the presidency of the entity. The protagonists are the current president, José Castro, and his allies, and on the other hand José María del Nido, who led the entity between 2002 and 2013. The fight is tight. Taking into account that the parties buy shares continuously, Del Nido is the entity's largest shareholder with 24% of Sevilla's shares, while Castro and his allies, huddled together in Sevillistas of Nervión, plus the percentage of Rafael Carrión, another large shareholder, would control around 35%. Del Nido has the support of a group called as that of The Americans, of the company 77...