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☆ Sanchez Vicario blames ex-husband as fraud trial starts
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-12 | by ( Horaci Garcia | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

I trusted my husband," she told the court in Barcelona, sobbing at times. Sanchez Vicario was the first Spanish player to reach the top of women's tennis rankings. "I just expect the truth to be told and this to be over," Santacana told reporters outside the court, where he is yet to be heard. Sanchez Vicario was ordered in 2009 by the Supreme Court to pay a 5.2 million euros fine for tax fraud. In a civil suit in 2014, a Spanish court ruled in favour of the bank but the money was never paid, so the bank resorted to the criminal courts.

Persons: Arantxa Sanchez Vicario, Sanchez Vicario, Josep Santacana, Santacana, Sanchez, delcined, Fernando Kallas, Emma Pinedo, Horaci Garcia, Andrei Khalip, Angus MacSwan Organizations: Banque de Luxembourg, U.S, El Pais, La Vanguardia, Thomson Locations: BARCELONA, Spanish, Barcelona, Spain, Andorra

CNN —Spain’s National Court has admitted the complaint made against former soccer chief Luis Rubiales for “the crimes of sexual assault and coercion” by Spanish prosecutors, according to a court press release issued on Monday. The admittance of the prosecutor’s complaint – part of the Spanish legal process – allows the court to begin gathering evidence, which could lead to possible charges against Rubiales, who resigned from his position as president of country’s soccer federation (RFEF) on Sunday. Jenni Hermoso filed an official complaint with Spanish prosecutors last week, which has now been accepted by the National Court. The unwanted kiss on Hermoso sparked condemnation in Spain and led to widespread calls for Rubiales to resign from his role as RFEF president. Jorge Vilda was fired as head coach of the Spanish women's team in a series of "regeneration" changes being made by RFEF.

Persons: CNN —, Luis Rubiales, “, ”, Jennifer Hermoso, Rubiales, El, Jenni Hermoso, ” Rubiales, Hermoso, –, Jorge Vilda, RFEF, Juan Manuel Serrano Arce, Pedro Rocha, Montse Tomé, Rocha, Víctor, Verónica Boquete, Vilda, ” Boquete Organizations: CNN, Diario AS, Vanguardia, Spanish, Hermoso, National Court, FIFA, Getty, High Council of Sport, Nations League, Sweden, Cadena COPE Locations: Spanish, ”, Spain, RFEF

☆ Fact Check-False claim misidentifying George Floyd victim recirculates
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-14 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

A July 11, 2023, tweet with the false claim amassed nearly 25,000 likes (archive.ph/wdZuT)As previously addressed by a Reuters Fact Check article in June 2020 (here), the woman in the photograph was assaulted in Madrid in 2018 and has no connection to Floyd. Her case was reported at the time by Spanish newspaper El País (here) and La Vanguardia ( here)News reports documenting Floyd’s criminal charges can be seen: ( here) (here)VERDICTFalse. The photographed woman was a victim of sexual assault in Spain and has no connection to the late George Floyd. This article was produced by the Reuters Fact Check team. Read more about our fact-checking work (here ).

Persons: George Floyd, Floyd, El, Read Organizations: Spanish, Reuters Locations: Spain, Minneapolis, Madrid

☆ Conservative Feijoo emerges as winner from debate ahead of Spanish election
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-11 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

MADRID, July 11 (Reuters) - Spanish opposition leader Alberto Nunez Feijoo, leader of the conservative People's Party (PP), won an ill-tempered televised debate on Monday night ahead of an election later this month, a poll published by El Mundo newspaper indicated on Tuesday. With Feijoo leading in polls before the July 23 election, the onus was on Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, a Socialist, to go on the attack. About 54% of voters thought Feijoo won the debate compared to 46% for Sanchez, according to the Sigma Dos survey for El Mundo. It found that 22% of people who voted for the Socialists in the past election felt Feijoo had won the debate while only 6% of PP voters assigned the victory to Sanchez. The expectation is that the election at the height of the summer holiday season will also suffer from a lack of engagement.

Persons: Alberto Nunez Feijoo, Feijoo, Pedro Sanchez, Sanchez, Josep Marti Blanch, Vox, Spain's, GAD3, Barlovento Comunicacion, Charlie Devereux, Andrei Khalip, Angus MacSwan Organizations: People's Party, El Mundo, Sigma, Socialists, ABC, Atresmedia, Thomson Locations: MADRID, Spanish, La Vanguardia, Europe, Italy, Spain

☆ Spain's People's Party could win absolute majority with Vox - poll
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-09 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

MADRID, July 9 (Reuters) - Two weeks ahead of Spain's election, the conservative People's Party (PP) opened up its lead over the ruling Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) but would still need the help of the far-right Vox party to govern, according to an opinion poll published by a newspaper on Sunday. The far-left Sumar party would win 13%, just ahead of Vox with 12.6%, the poll found ahead of the election on July 23. Vox - the PP's most likely coalition ally - would win between 32 and 39 seats. If the results of the poll are correct, it means that a right-wing coalition of the PP and Vox would together win up to 180 seats, enough for an absolute majority. All polls have so far predicted that the PP would win the most votes in the elections.

Persons: Ipsos, Vox, Pedro Sanchez, Graham Keeley, Elaine Hardcastle Organizations: People's Party, Socialist Workers ' Party, PSOE, Vox, La Vanguardia, Socialist, Thomson Locations: MADRID, Sumar

☆ Fact Check-Video shows people climbing Spain-Morocco fence, not US-Mexico border
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-05 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

A clip depicting people climbing a high border fence separating the Spanish city of Melilla in North Africa from Morocco traces to March 2022. The footage has been miscaptioned in social media posts claiming it was recorded at the U.S.-Mexico border as a COVID-19 border restriction known as Title 42 is due to end later this month. A video on Instagram features on screen text that says, “This is what the border really looks like. Many Republicans and a few Democrats fear its expiry will result in a rise in immigration to a level border authorities cannot manage. Videos in this clip were recorded in Spain’s Melilla border fence in 2022.

The play “Crystal City 1969,” first staged in 2009 in Dallas, was performed for the first time in San Antonio last weekend at the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center. Student walkout in Crystal City, Texas, on Dec. 20, 1969. Growing up in a Mexican American household, he spoke no English. The effect of that sort of discrimination was to tell Mexican American and Mexican students that their language, their culture, was worthless, valueless and something to be ashamed of, Garcia said. Rodriquez attended one of the performances of "Crystal City 1969" over the weekend.

☆ Spanish judge orders prison on remand for Dani Alves, reports say
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-20 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: 1 min

BARCELONA, Jan 20 (Reuters) - A Spanish judge has ordered that Brazil soccer player Dani Alves be jailed on remand over a sexual assault allegation La Sexta TV and local newspaper La Vanguardia reported on Friday. Court officials contacted by Reuters said they could not immediately confirm the reports. Reporting by Jesus Aguado and Joan Faus, writing by David Latona; Editing by Andrei KhalipOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ Shakira, Pique reach agreement on child custody after break-up
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-08 | by ( Horaci Garcia | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

BARCELONA, Nov 8 (Reuters) - Colombian pop star Shakira has reached an agreement with former partner Gerard Pique over the custody of their two children following the break-up of their 11-year relationship earlier this year, Shakira's representative in Spain said on Tuesday. Shakira Mebarak, 45, and FC Barcelona defender Pique, 35, were together since 2011 but never married. They met shortly before the 2010 World Cup in South Africa when he featured in the music video for Shakira's "Waka Waka (This Time for Africa)", the tournament's official song. The custody agreement was reached one week after Pique announced his imminent retirement from professional football and departure from FC Barcelona. Prosecutors claim she failed to pay up to 14.5 million euros ($14.48 million) in tax on income earned between 2012 and 2014.

☆ Gerard Piqué: Barcelona defender announces retirement at age 35
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-04 | by ( Ben Morse | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —Barcelona defender Gerard Piqué has announced his retirement from football, saying Saturday’s game against Almería will be his last. The defender played 615 games – including 396 in the Spanish league and 126 in the Champions League – with Barcelona, winning eight La Liga title and the Champions League three times. This season, Piqué has fallen down the pecking order as Barcelona attempt to transition to a new era, meaning he’s found his playing time limited. Outside of football, Piqué became the owner of Andorran club, FC Andorra, in 2018. Last season, the club – which plays in the Spanish league system – was promoted to the second tier of Spanish football for the first time in its history.

☆ Woody Allen announces his retirement
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-18 | by ( ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

Woody Allen has announced his retirement from filmmaking. While in Europe to work on his 50th film, Woody Allen told Spanish newspaper La Vanguardia that he intended to retire from making movies and to dedicate more time to writing during his twilight years. What is now set to be his final film is set in Paris and will be shot entirely in French in a couple of weeks. Allen has been shooting more often in Europe as his support in the U.S. has plunged given the abuse accusations against him. In 2020, he opened the San Sebastian Film Festival with “Rifkin’s Festival,” shot in and around the tony city of San Sebastian.

☆ Produsele din plastic de unică folosinţă nu mai pot fi introduse pe pieţele statelor membre UE
▼ + stars: | 2021-07-03 | by ( ) www.jurnal.md time to read: +2 min

Sursa foto: vanguardia.comProdusele din plastic de unică folosinţă nu mai pot fi introduse pe pieţele statelor membre UEUE acţionează împotriva poluării cu plastic iar începând cu 3 iulie 2021, farfuriile, tacâmurile, paiele, tijele pentru baloane şi beţişoarele pentru urechi realizate din plastic de unică folosinţă nu mai pot fi introduse pe pieţele statelor membre ale UE, a anunţat Comisia Europeană. Totodată, aceeaşi măsură se aplică şi în privinţa cănilor, a recipientelor pentru alimente şi băuturi realizate din polistiren expandat, precum şi tuturor produselor din plastic oxo-degradabil, scrie Agerpres. Produsele din plastic de unică folosinţă sunt fabricate integral sau parţial din plastic şi, de obicei, au scopul de a fi utilizate doar o singură dată sau pentru o perioadă scurtă de timp înainte de a fi aruncate. Conform noilor reglementări, sunt interzise anumite produse din plastic care se pot arunca şi pentru care există alternative. Deşi materialele plastice reprezintă un material convenabil, util şi evaluabil, acestea trebuie să fie mai bine utilizate, reutilizate şi reciclate.

Organizations: Europeană Locations: UE, paiele

☆ Barcelona îi ia faţa Realului şi face un transfer uriaş! Laporta, mutare-bombă: Zidane l-a vrut cu disperare
▼ + stars: | 2021-06-21 | by ( ) www.jurnal.md time to read: +2 min

Laporta, mutare-bombă: Zidane l-a vrut cu disperareJoan Laporta a dat startul revoluţiei din noul mandat de la FC Barcelona. Unul dintre numele de pe lista lui Laporta e o surpriză, un transfer-bombă, la care şeful catalanilor lucrează în secret. Diario Gol scrie că Joan Laporta lucrează în continuare la perfecţionarea lotului şi mai vrea încă nu mai puţin de patru jucători. ", a anunţat Joan Laporta într-un interviu acordat La Vanguardia. Potrivit sursei citate, Joan Laporta vrea să profite de interesul lui United pentru Dembele, care rămâne şi el fără contract în 2022, şi să-l utilizeze ca monedă de schimb.

Persons: Zidane, Joan Laporta, Sergio aguero, Eric Garcia, Emerson, Paul Pogba, Pogba Organizations: Barcelona, FC Barcelona, Nou, Manchester United, Trafford, United, Old, Europa League, Ligii Angliei Locations: Memphis, Barcelona, Vanguardia, Old Trafford, Europa

☆ Cum l-a afectat pandemia pe un asistent medical spaniol. Pozele, făcute la un an distanță
▼ + stars: | 2021-04-08 | by ( Publika.Md - Aici Sunt Știrile | ) www.publika.md time to read: +1 min

Un asistent medical de la Spitalul „Gregorio Marañón” din Madrid a arătat cât de mult l-a afectat pandemia postând pe Twitter două fotografii făcute la un intreval de un an, la începutul crizei și acum, scrie digi24.ro. Víctor Aparicio arată foarte diferit în cele două imagini, deteriorarea fizică arătând cam cât de mult a suferit în această perioadă. În fotografia din stânga, are părul și barba negre, iar în cea din dreapta acestea sunt complet încărunțite. „Sunt asistent medical. Nu vă puteți imagina ce este pe interior”, este mesajul care însoțește pe Twitter colajul cu cele două fotografii.

Persons: Víctor Aparicio, Víctor Locations: Madrid

☆ Вреден ли Wi-fi для здоровья
▼ + stars: | 2020-12-17 | by ( Mld Media Srl | ) noi.md time to read: +2 min

"Ряд специалистов и некоторые общественные организации требуют усилить предосторожности при использовании wi-fi и новых технологий, особенно в общественных местах типа школ и больниц", - говорится в статье. Фонд Vivo Sano подсчитал: ребенок, который ходит в детский сад и школу с 3 до 16 лет, будет более 10 тыс. Что касается сетей wi-fi, то они воздействуют на мозг еще слабее, чем телефоны, уверяет Элизабет Кардис из Центра исследований эпидемиологии окружающей среды. Размещать точку доступа к wi-fi не ближе чем в 1 м от мест, где человек проводит много времени (кровать, стол, диван, места для игр);3. В общественных местах лучше установить одну сеть wi-fi для всех устройств либо вернуться к проводному Интернету.

Persons: Sano, Ракель Келарт, Элизабет Кардис Organizations: DECT, ВОЗ, Центр исследований эпидемиологии окружающей среды Locations: La Vanguardia, ЕС

☆ Cine ar putea să-l înlocuiască pe Johnny Depp în „Fantastic Beasts 3”
▼ + stars: | 2020-11-14 | by ( Sensmedia Srl | Ia Legătura Cu Autorul | ) tv8.md time to read: +2 min

Actorul danez Mads Mikkelsen se prefigurează ca înlocuitor al lui Johnny Depp în rolul tenebrosului vrăjitor Gellert Grindelwald în viitorul lungmetraj din franciza „Fantastic Beasts 3” (Animale fantastice 3), relatează ziarul spaniol La Vanguardia în ediţia online, citat de Agerpres. Tabloidul criticase totodată distribuirea starului hollywoodian în franciza cinematografică „Fantastic Beasts”. Deşi a părăsit franciza, Johnny Depp va primi integral onorariul de 10 milioane de dolari pe care urma să-l încaseze interpretând rolul lui Grindelwald. Potrivit publicaţiilor Variety şi Deadline, David Yates, regizorul viitorului film „Fantastic Beasts 3”, îl vrea pe Mikkelsen în rolul vrăjitorului Grindelwald. Deocamdată, filmările la „Fantastic Beasts 3” continuă în Marea Britanie cu Eddie Redmayne şi Jude Law în fruntea distribuţiei şi cu data de lansare pe marile ecrane prevăzută pentru vara anului 2022.

Persons: Mads, Johnny Depp, vrăjitor, Amber, Deşi, Grindelwald, Depp, Harry Potter . Mikkelsen, Hannibal, Hunt, Thomas Vinterberg, David Yates, Eddie Redmayne, Jude Law Organizations: Sun, de Film Europene Locations: Vanguardia, Amber Heard, Londra, Britanie

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