A 2018 military parade in Moscow.Getty Images Being a superpower is not what it used to be. These days, you can do it on a shoestring. A superpower is a country able to project its military power over great distances and, if necessary, fight more than one war at a time – and in different […]
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Spain’s coalition government is planning on reforming the country’s criminal code to lower the sentence for sedition, a crime that came into the spotlight following last year’s Supreme Court ruling on the Catalan separatist leaders involved with the 2017 breakaway bid in the northeastern region. Spain’s top court found nine of the defendants guilty of
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Harold Varmus, one of the first researchers to define cancer as a genetic disease, described it as “a distorted version of ourselves.” Unlike a infection caused by a virus or bacteria, which can be annihilated in order to restore health, tumors are the result of a malfunction by the very same mechanisms that keep us
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Former Mossos chief Josep Lluís Trapero on Day One of the trial.FERNANDO VILLAR This week on our podcast we take a look at the second major trial covering the Catalan independence drive of 2017, which this time puts four figures connected to the regional police force, the Mossos d’Esquadra, in the dock. We also consider
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Students attend a talk on LGBTQ+ rights in Murcia.No te prives It all began with a photo. In April 2018, the then-chief of the education department of Spain’s southeastern Murcia region, Adela Martínez Cachá, of the conservative Popular Party (PP), posed for a press photo at a school with members of No Te Prives (Don’t
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This week saw the start of the second major trial covering the events of the fall of 2017, when pro-independence forces in the northeastern region of Catalonia organized a referendum on secession from Spain, and the Catalan parliament passed a unilateral declaration of independence. Facing trial in the Spanish High Court, the Audiencia Nacional, are
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Pedro Sánchez during the television interview with RTVE. Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez will meet with Catalan premier Quim Torra the first week of February in Barcelona to discuss issues relating to Catalonia. The meeting is part of the agreement the leader of the Socialist Party (PSOE) made with the separatist Catalan Republican Left (ERC)
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The session starts and the 12 participants gather to introduce themselves. One of them is Fernando, 55, who works in a shelter housing program in Ciudad Real and wants “to put his life in order” and improve his feelings about the state of humanity. Franka, 52, is finding it hard to get past her separation
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The policy applies to complementary activities in school hours.C. Ribas A policy from the far-right Spanish political party Vox is causing heated debate over education and the rights of children. Dubbed by Vox as the “parental pin,” the policy gives parents the right to stop their children from attending complementary workshops organized during school hours.
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A four-day week on the same salary has become a reality in Spain as a company in the southern Spanish city of Jaén, Software Delsol, this month reduced the hours of its 181 employees. Staff enjoy free lunches and the company offers scholarships, health insurance and the possibility of working from home The majority of
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