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Paco Gento, legend of Real Madrid and Spanish football, dies

18Jan

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Paco Gento, legend of Real Madrid and Spanish football, dies

Francis Gento, former player of Real Madrid and Spanish international, died this Tuesday at the age of 88, as reported by the Madrid club. "Real Madrid, its president and its Board of Directors deeply regret the death of Francisco Gento, honorary president of Real Madrid and one of the greatest legends of our club and of world football," Real Madrid said in a statement. Real Madrid legend Born in the Cantabrian town of Garnish, Paco Gento, a pure left winger, he played 600 games for the Madrid club, in which he scored 182 goals, and was capped 43 t...

‘We live and die for it’: Climate crisis threatens Bangladesh’s Sundarbans | overall development

18Jan

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‘We live and die for it’: Climate crisis threatens Bangladesh’s Sundarbans | overall development

TOAs he leaves the mosque on the banks of the Kholpetua River, Mohammed Sabud Ali sees a sight he has seen several times a day for most of his life. But never before had the sprawling mangrove forest of the Sundarbans felt so important to him.The vast Sundarbans have always sheltered the coastal communities of Bangladesh from the violent cyclones that hit regularly from the Bay of Bengal, and have always harvested their resources. But now, as the climate crisis progresses, people are becoming even more dependent on the forest.Ali lives on the island of Gabura, at the entrance to the Sundarbans. Gabura is so exposed to the weather that it is best known for the number of people who have abandoned it. Rarely a year goes by without cyclones breaching the embankments, causing saltwater f...

Anti-abortion MEP Roberta Metsola, favorite for the presidency of the European Parliament

18Jan

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Europe

Anti-abortion MEP Roberta Metsola, favorite for the presidency of the European Parliament

Anti-abortion MEP Roberta Metsola is the favorite to succeed David Sassoli as president of the European Parliament. Metsola, a member of Malta's right-wing EPP group, is among the four candidates for the post, along with Spain's Sira Rego (Radical Left), Poland's Kosma Zlotowski (ECR, Eurosceptics) and Sweden's Alice Bah Kuhnke (Greens). .Each will present their case to their fellow MEPs in Strasbourg on Tuesday to succeed Sassoli, who died on January 11 and whose term expired this week.Metsola has been an MEP since 2013 and Vice President of Parliament since 2020. The Conservative MP recently gained visibility by taking over from Sassoli, who was absent from the Chamber for several weeks due to illness.But the mother of four has also drawn criticism from some of her colleagues for her ...

Baleària presents at Fitur what will be its first boat powered by electricity

18Jan

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Baleària presents at Fitur what will be its first boat powered by electricity

Baleària is once again present at the International Tourism Fair 2022 (FEATURE), with a space open to the public located in the hall 10 (stand 10, D10) of IFEMA Madrid from this Wednesday. The shipping company reaches a new edition with the aim of sharing with the different interest groups its commitment to a fleet that combines two strategic concepts: the innovation at customer service and sustainability for the benefit of the planet. Thus, the most outstanding event will be on Wednesday at the shipping company's stand, where Baleària will present the construction of the primer ferry electric with 0 emissions in approaches and during stays in the port of Spain and with experimental use of hydrogen, destined for the route Ibiza-Formentera. ...

How much longer will we continue with the mask on the street?

18Jan

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How much longer will we continue with the mask on the street?

In the midst of a debate about the 'flu' of the pandemic, with some autonomous communities timidly throwing hopeful data indicating a decrease in the number of positives for coronavirus, the use of the mask outdoors is once again on the table. Until when will the Government maintain the obligation to wear protection outdoors? For now, the Ministry of Health has progressed to be maintained the time that is essential as long as the impact of the sixth wave does not subside. The experts consulted by El Periódico de España They consider that, for the time being, still needed. Right now, in "a record wave of infections", It is when you have to keep the use of the mask and the distances as long as possible. This ...

Sánchez Galán appears as accused in the National Court for the orders to Villarejo

18Jan

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Sánchez Galán appears as accused in the National Court for the orders to Villarejo

The president of Iberdrola, Ignacio Sánchez Galán, appears this Tuesday at the National High Court to testify as accused for the successive assignments that for years would have been made to the now retired commissioner José Manuel Villarejo, and he will have to do so by physically going to the judicial headquarters, after about what the investigating judge refused to enable a videoconference before the rebound in infections by Ómicron. The head of the Central Court of Instruction Number 6, Manuel García-Castellón, icharged Sánchez Galán in June for alleged crimes of active bribery, against privacy and falsity in a commercial document, but it was not until December, once the Criminal Chamber resolved a series o...

400 weather stations on Earth broke heat records in 2021

18Jan

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400 weather stations on Earth broke heat records in 2021

The fact that 2021 was the sixth warmest year on record is confirmed by the upward trend in global warming. The global average temperature of the Earth's surface in 2021 tied with that of 2018 as the sixth warmest on record, according to independent analyzes by the US agencies NASA and NOAA. Taken together, the past eight years are the warmest since modern records began in 1880. These annual temperature data make up the global temperature record, telling scientists that the planet is getting warmer. According to the NASA temperature record, Earth in 2021 was about 1.1 degrees C...

Recovery: The Lost Art of Convalescence by Dr. Gavin Francis Review: The Art of Getting Better | Health, mind and body books.

18Jan

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Recovery: The Lost Art of Convalescence by Dr. Gavin Francis Review: The Art of Getting Better | Health, mind and body books.

GRAMLearning better is rarely something that happens all the time. Whether we have been seriously ill or injured, we all have to experience the complexities of recovery as a result. Aftermath is an old agricultural term meaning “a second crop” that grows unexpectedly in the space left by the main crop and can involve difficult decisions about what to do with these remnants.Recovery can feel like a second harvest, something that is appreciated because we have survived, but a new unpredictable and strange phase in our healing. The medical professionals who have guided us through the harvest of treatment are usually gone, replaced by different types of responders to changes in our health. We find that our questions about what is happening to us are answered more slowly, with what seems...

New York and other northeastern US states see rapid drop in Covid cases | Coronavirus

18Jan

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New York and other northeastern US states see rapid drop in Covid cases | Coronavirus

New York City and some northeastern US states appear to be seeing a rapid decline in the number of Covid-19 cases in recent days, raising the possibility that Omicron's wave has already reached its peak. peak in some parts of the United States.In New York City, the seven-day rolling average of new cases was less than 28,000 per day on January 16, down from an average of more than 40,000 on January 9.Similar patterns were seen across the state and in other nearby regions.“The Covid forecast is getting better… the Covid clouds are parting,” New York Governor Kathy Hochul said in a statement Sunday after releasing figures showing positivity rates in the state are falling sharply. . "Overall, the outlook, the outlook, for Covid is much brighter than it has been before."Some 400,000 tests w...

China forced 2,500 ‘fugitives’ to return from abroad during pandemic: report | China

18Jan

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China forced 2,500 ‘fugitives’ to return from abroad during pandemic: report | China

Chinese authorities captured more than 2,500 "fugitives" from abroad and brought them back to China during the pandemic, under a program that uses methods ranging from family intimidation to "state-sanctioned kidnapping," according to a new report. .The human rights group Safeguard Defenders estimates in its report released Tuesday that ongoing repatriations now total more than 10,000 since Beijing launched Operation Fox Hunt in 2014, followed by Sky Net in 2015.During the pandemic, at least 1,421 people were forcibly returned to China in 2020 and 1,114 in 2021, according to government figures, despite international lockdowns and travel restrictions. The figures only include those arrested for alleged economic crimes or crimes related to their official duties.In December 2021, the Cent...