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From Puerta del Sol to Maricarmen's house: this is the route of the march

Protesters have walked the streets of Madrid to pay tribute to the 87-year-old woman who has become a symbol of the fight for housing in Spain

Feijóo: “We are not going to allow the attempt to emotionally manipulate citizens”

The leader of the PP, who does not refer to the postal vote controversy again, reorients his speech towards the corruption of the PSOE while urging his supporters to “give everything” in the campaign

Last minute after the death of Maricarmen, live | Feijóo asks that “interested use” not be made of Maricarmen's death

Maricarmen's lawyer: “If the eviction had been suspended, we would not be in this situation today” | The PP vetoes a minute of silence for Maricarmen in the Madrid Assembly | At least a thousand people march to Congress and light candles in his memory shouting “murderers”

Maricarmen changed Spain

The legacy of the hopeless woman in Madrid challenges the entire society

Maricarmen, the woman who ignited the fight against evictions in Spain, dies

The 87-year-old woman died this Wednesday at the Gregorio Marañón Hospital in Madrid, as confirmed by the Tenants' Union in a statement.

Puigdemont maintains the mystery about his return after the Constitutional ruling: “Today nothing is resolved between Catalonia and Spain”

The former president of the Generalitat claims “the political meaning” of his nine years on the run in Belgium and does not clarify when he will return to Spain

The Constitutional Court orders the Supreme Court to amnesty the misappropriation of the 'procés'

With seven votes in favor and five against, the court protects former counselor Dolors Bassa and establishes the doctrine from which the escaped 'former president' benefits

The Supreme Court lifts the arrest warrant for Puigdemont, but the amnesty has not yet been applied to him

Llarena annuls the arrest warrant against the former president, Puig and Comín, but will not decide on the measure of grace until he analyzes the Constitutional ruling.

Panic on board flight FZ1073 bound for Tel Aviv: "We have just neutralized the terrorist. We need help"

One pilot stabs the other and the passengers manage to avoid a disaster. Israel wants to intensify controls on pilots flying to the country after the “attempted jihadist attack”

Visual timeline of the attempted hijacking of the FlyDubai flight to Tel Aviv

From the first turbulence to their landing in Israel, this video reconstructs the moments of tension experienced by the passengers

A passenger on the flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv: “I tied the terrorist's hands with headphones”

A pilot who was on board prevented the aircraft from crashing: “He entered and straightened the trajectory,” says a passenger on the plane from Dubai.

The keys to the housing decrees: stopping evictions and punishing vulture funds

The Government proposes a battery of measures that include bonuses for landlords, aid for tenants and 0% loans for the purchase of the first home

The PP rejects the housing decrees: “They are going to destroy the market even more”

The spokesperson for the popular parties in Congress, Ester Muñoz, calls the negotiation of the Government's partners “vaudeville”

The Government approves protection against evictions until 2030 and the extension of rental contracts until 2028

The Executive takes the automatic renewal of rents to a second decree law, a request from the left that for now does not have a majority. The texts will be voted on Friday

“Until the end, companions”: Sol returns to camp fifteen years after 15-M

The protest over Maricarmen's eviction leads to a camp in Puerta del Sol, where protesters demand that the Government approve a new housing decree

The Alonsos do not want to be called vultures

How extraordinary that they feel more urgent to distance themselves from a name than from the fact of throwing a disabled old woman into the darkness.

Maricarmen forces a turnaround by the Government and its partners on housing

The coalition ministers assume that they must close the pact before Tuesday and Sumar even threatens with a plan in the face of growing social pressure

The 'Begoña Gómez case' enters the post-Peinado era: what deadlines are set for the trial? Will Pedro Sánchez testify?

The defense plans to raise the annulment again in the phase of questions prior to the holding of the oral hearing with a jury.

Trump takes his battles to the United Nations General Assembly

The US president plans to expand sanctions on the International Criminal Court as internal problems and the war in Iran accumulate

Trump, to Mamdani: "I hope he is a great mayor of New York. He has potential"

The Democratic mayor justifies showing up with the Republican president by considering that it is an opportunity to improve the lives of his citizens

The far right soars in the German regional elections and aggravates the CDU crisis

Chancellor Merz takes on the “disaster” in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, where the AfD wins and his party is left without parliamentary representation for the first time. The post-communists of Die Linke win in Berlin

Putin settles an election plagued by irregularities and opens a new chapter of the war

The Kremlin party, United Russia, obtains 57% of the votes at the beginning of the count in elections where only the Government has access to the electronic voting system

Ukraine launches biggest attack on Moscow on final day of Russian elections

“Russia must end its brutal war and opt for peace,” says Zelensky in a message in which he admits the offensive that causes at least three deaths.

Justice will examine the legality of the use of the Port of Ceuta to host migrants

The National Court admits the appeal of a police union for processing and requests the complete file from Transport

Communities governed by PP and Vox continue to welcome migrant minors who arrived in Ceuta before the crisis

Castilla y León, Aragón and Extremadura rehouse children who arrived before July 30 in September and August, but sources from the Ceuta administration assure that it will continue with everyone in the coming weeks

The Prosecutor's Office investigates abuses and humiliations in the juvenile centers of Ceuta

Several migrant minors have fled the centers reporting physical abuse by staff, and the Prosecutor's Office has opened an investigation

Trump announces agreement with Denmark to assume “permanent control of the security” of Greenland

The three-way pact includes a veto for enemy countries, according to the president of the United States. Its signature is scheduled during the United Nations General Assembly

The camps in the port of Ceuta hang the poster in full: “Thousands of migrants have had to sleep outdoors again”

The transfer to the port was marked by moments of tension, with stampedes and shots in the air to contain the crowd.

Chaos and shots in the air: the relocation operation ends with thousands of immigrants returning to the beaches

The police transfer some 1,700 immigrants to the new facilities amid strong tension marked by a stampede, shots in the air and several injuries

An internal report from the Ayuso Government states that the commitment to the penthouse was not “sufficiently” explained

The Community agreed on a rent of 3,000 euros per month with Planifica Madrid before deciding to sell it, as stated in the transaction file.

The Ayuso Government now recognizes that the 6.3 million penthouse was going to be used for “occasional accommodation of Community authorities”

No one has submitted offers to buy the property, so Planifica Madrid will put it back on the market this Friday

Ayuso ignores the documents that prove the manipulation of the Ramón y Cajal waiting lists and insists on the “hoax”

The advisor to the Presidency will explain the purchase of the luxury penthouse

Code red in AI: vertigo paralyzes technology companies and OpenAI suspends IPO

After several worrying incidents, Altman and Amodei advocate reducing the pace of model development. Trump responds by minimizing the risks and warns that the real danger is China

The mathematics elite fears that they will be left empty of meaning in the face of advances in AI

Twenty-five Fields Medals and some of the world's most important mathematicians vindicate the importance of the human process of discovery beyond the results

The methods that AI can use to kill us

The revelation last week by a former Anthropic worker about the risks that artificial intelligence could annihilate humanity is the latest warning about the dangers of this technology

Judge Peinado summons Begoña Gómez this Tuesday to a preliminary hearing before opening oral proceedings

The magistrate, who communicated his decision this Monday, scheduled the appearance just 24 hours later and refused to question a witness proposed by the defense

The National Court assumes the investigation into the massive entry of migrants to Ceuta for “seriously attacking the territorial integrity of Spain”

The judge sees evidence of “criminal conduct allegedly committed abroad”: “Clear and undoubted management of the process has been evident from the Kingdom of Morocco”

The former president of Plus Ultra reiterates that he paid a 1% commission to the businessman friend of Zapatero to achieve the rescue

Julio Martínez Sola points out that he does not know what steps the former president took, nor did he follow up on them because his only interest was the “success” of the operation.

Sánchez exonerates Morocco for the Ceuta crisis and advances that the King will visit it for the first time with this Government

The president points to Russia, Israel and the “far-right international” for spreading the hoaxes that caused the massive entry

Last minute of the entry of immigrants to Ceuta, live | The Minister of Equality highlights the need to protect women and girls: “In the face of sexual violence, there is no room for political calculations”

Rego assures that the minors of Ceuta “are not invaders, but victims” and asks for time for their return | Torres assures that nearly 800 migrants have been transferred to authorized spaces

The PP reproaches Sánchez for pointing the finger at everyone except Morocco for the Ceuta crisis: “He needs to blame Franco”

The popular ones affirm that if Feijóo were governing “he would be about to go” with the King to Ceuta

Sánchez, about Ayuso's apartment: “This lady wanted to buy a great apartment with the money of the people of Madrid to live in it”

The head of the Government criticizes the PP for not demanding responsibilities from the Madrid president

War of versions between Marlaska and Robles about the reports made by the CNI to advance the Ceuta crisis

The head of Defense says in Congress that the Intelligence services notified the Government, but the Minister of the Interior is blunt: “There was no report from either the CNI or any center in a friendly country.”

Robles apologizes in Congress and recognizes that the Government acted badly and arrived late to Ceuta

The Minister of Defense does not clarify the authorship of the crisis nor offer data on the balance as demanded by the opposition and allies

The Government toughens immigration and asylum laws in line with the European pact in the midst of the Ceuta crisis

The rule, which will take months to approve, will speed up the procedures to deny applications and proceed to a possible expulsion

Ceuta doubles efforts to temper spirits and locate migrants

The proximity of the school year forces the search for shelter places to be accelerated, which causes suspicion among neighbors. The fear that the tension will explode hovers over

Migration crisis: Spanish politics is installed in the favorable framework for the extreme right

Twenty years of research links the prominence of immigration in public debate, especially linked to problems and conflicts, with the rise of xenophobic populism in Europe

The Supreme Court rejects forcing the appearances of the ministers in the Senate in August as requested by the PP

The court considers that “the special urgency has not been proven” to address the request without first hearing the Government, which will have ten days to present allegations.

The Government is working on the urgent transfer of 500 migrant girls from Ceuta to the Peninsula

The autonomous city accepts the Executive's plan as an “extraordinary measure” and demands the return of all foreigners who entered irregularly

Last minute of the entry of immigrants to Ceuta, live | Ceuta accepts the Government's plan to transfer 500 migrant girls to the Peninsula as an “extraordinary measure”

The PP, on the transfer of 500 migrant girls from Ceuta: “The best interest of the minor will be to be with their family” | The popular ones ask for the disapproval of five ministers for the management of the migration crisis in Ceuta