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☆ Spain to invest 1.3 billion euros in vocational training
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-29 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

MADRID, April 29 (Reuters) - Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on Saturday announced the government would invest 1.3 billion euros ($1.43 billion) in vocational training. The measure will be approved at next week's cabinet meeting and will create 45,000 bilingual vocational training places, 824 new training centres and more than 1,500 classrooms for applied technology and entrepreneurship. "It is the biggest commitment to vocational training that any government has ever made," Sanchez said during a Socialist Party event in Pamplona. "We are creating more and better jobs... and the best tool is to bet on quality vocational training, like the most advanced countries in Europe," he said. The new investment joins the 6.6 billion the government has already invested, Sanchez said.

☆ Obama, Spielberg and Springsteen delight Barcelona restaurant staff
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-28 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

The trio were in Barcelona to attend a concert by pal Bruce Springsteen at Barcelona's Lluis Companys Olympic Stadium on Friday night. Obama, Spielberg and Springsteen dined at the Amar restaurant in the Palace Hotel on Thursday. Staff member Pol Perello uploaded a photo of them posing with wait staff and chefs to Instagram with the comment "the pleasure this job brings you!." Spanish news outlets showed the former president and first lady walking hand in hand through central Barcelona surrounded by a large group of security guards. Obama and Springsteen first met on the presidential campaign trail in 2008.

☆ Spain announces law promoting gender parity in politics and business
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-04 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

MADRID, March 4 (Reuters) - Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on Saturday announced a gender equality law that will require more equal representation of women and men in politics, business and other spheres of public life. The Equal Representation Law will apply gender parity measures to electoral lists, the boards of directors of big companies and governing boards of professional associations. He said the government was "not only taking a step in favour of feminism, but in favour of Spanish society as a whole". The Equal Representation law will require women to make up 40% of the management of any listed company with more than 250 workers and an annual turnover of 50 million euros ($53 million). In politics, the law will require parties to offer equal numbers of male and female candidates during elections, with the aim of increasing gender parity in parliament.

☆ Thousands protest against animal rights bill in Spain for excluding hunting dogs
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-05 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

[1/2] Demonstrators take part in a protest against hunting amidst amendment proposals that seek to leave hunting dogs and other animals involved in traditional rural activities out of the country's proposed animal welfare bill, in Madrid, Spain, February 5, 2023. REUTERS/Violeta Santos MouraMADRID, Feb 5 (Reuters) - Thousands of people marched through central Madrid on Sunday to protest against a bill aimed at strengthening animal rights for excluding hunting dogs which opponents say are being exploited. The protest comes four days before parliament is due to vote on the new animal rights bill proposed by the ruling Socialist part. The party submitted a last-minute amendment to exclude hunting dogs and other animals involved in traditional rural activities. In Spain, dogs are used to track or catch animals such as deer, wild boar and rabbits.

☆ Gibraltar accuses Spain of 'gross violation of sovereignty' over customs operation
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-03 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

MADRID, Feb 3 (Reuters) - Gibraltar on Friday accused Spain of a "gross violation of British sovereignty" after two customs officials entered the British overseas territory during an anti-smuggling operation. Early on Thursday, two Spanish customs agents were injured after rocks were thrown at them on a Gibraltar beach. In a video of the incident on Spanish daily El Pais' website, the smugglers are seen shouting "This is Gibraltar. The incident comes as Britain and Gibraltar seek to negotiate a treaty to settle Gibraltar's post-Brexit status and how to police the border with Spain. In 2002, 99% of voters in Gibraltar rejected the idea of Britain sharing sovereignty with Spain.

☆ ‘Sopranos’ actor John Ventimiglia’s daughter Odele dies at 25
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-27 | by ( Drew Weisholtz | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +1 min

Odele Cape Ventimiglia, the 25-year-old daughter of “Sopranos” star John Ventimiglia, has died, her mother announced. “Heartbroken to have to post our darling Odele’s funeral notice,” Brenda Cape wrote on Facebook Jan. 21, while revealing the funeral was scheduled for Jan. 26. “Her sister Lucinda and I have been overwhelmed by the messages of support and love we have received, and your remembrances of how cherished Odele was to so many. Odele was greatly loved, and leaves a huge hole in our lives. Odele is survived by her sister, Lucinda Ventimiglia, mother, Belinda Cape, father John Ventimiglia, and her beloved daughter Shiloh.”Cape wrote that she died on Jan. 12.

☆ How to use intuitive eating to develop your own guilt-free relationship with food, from a registered dietician
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-24 | by ( Renée Onque | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Everyone's relationship with food is different, which is not a bad thing — depending on what that relationship looks like. If you find you have a difficult or challenging relationship with food, you might want to consider a way of eating that is guided by your personal experience, rather than outside influence, like intuitive eating, according to Wendy Lopez, a registered dietitian. "With intuitive eating, instead of focusing on external food roles to guide your eating choices, one of the goals is to cultivate trust in yourself when it comes to food and the innate instincts that you have," she says. Lopez, who co-hosts nutrition podcast "Food Heaven" with Jessica Jones, is promoting a new partnership with Take Root Organics. "Intuitive eating kind of helps quiet the noise, and you're able to tune into what [eating] habits work best for you," Lopez says.

☆ Thousands join rightist rally against Spanish government
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-21 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/4] People protest against the government of Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez at Cibeles Square in Madrid, Spain, January 21, 2023. REUTERS/Susana VeraMADRID, Jan 21 (Reuters) - Thousands of people packed into central Madrid on Saturday to protest against the Socialist government and accuse it of undermining the constitution, in a rally backed by rightist parties. Protesters massed in the Plaza de Cibeles in front of City Hall, waved Spanish flags, called on Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez to resign and shouted out "traitor". Around 200km (120 miles) away in the northwestern city of Valladolid, Sanchez told a Socialist rally that the protesters in Madrid were defending a "uniform" and therefore "discriminatory" Spain. Its recent decision to replace the crime of sedition with a lesser crime was opposed on the right.

Spain fans were dejected to see their team crash out of the tournament. "We go back to Spain crying and we will have to reflect," said Julia Calvet, 21, in a Barcelona bar. In Barcelona, Morocco fans packed into the central Raval neighbourhood to celebrate, lighting flares and singing. "We needed to win so that Moroccans have confidence in themselves in Spain," Anass, a 22-year-old Moroccan cook told Reuters in downtown Barcelona. Spain retained the enclaves of Melilla and Ceuta, which were previously colonial territories, after Morocco gained independence in 1956.

☆ Thousands march in Spain to demand end of violence against women
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-25 | by ( Elena Rodriguez | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/6] A demonstrator with a red paint on her face attends a protest to mark the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women in Madrid, Spain, November 25, 2022. REUTERS/Violeta Santos MouraMADRID, Nov 25 (Reuters) - Thousands of people took to the streets in Madrid and Barcelona on Friday evening in marches to mark the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. Since 2003, when statistics started to officially count fatalities, 1,171 women have died as a result of gender violence in Spain, according to the Ministry of Equality. The law, known as the "only yes means yes" law, classifies any non-consensual sex as rape but also sets lighter minimum sentences for certain sexual crimes. Chants of "only yes means yes" rang through the crowds on Friday evening.

☆ SEAT-VW says to go ahead with Spanish e-car, battery project
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-09 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

MADRID, Nov 9 (Reuters) - Volkswagen's (VOWG_p.DE) Spanish unit SEAT will go ahead with a mega project to make electric vehicles and batteries after overcoming initial reservations about government subsidies, it said on Wednesday. The SEAT-led project, in which 60 other Volkswagen-linked companies will also take part, foresees an investment of 10 billion euros ($10.06 billion) to electrify Spain's auto industry and turn the country into a European hub for e-vehicle and battery production. The government said last month VW-SEAT would receive 397.4 million euros of the 877 million total in the first phase of the electric vehicle financing programme using EU pandemic recovery funds. Although it was the carmaker that received the largest allocation, SEAT initially said the funding was not sufficient. ($1 = 0.9939 euros)Reporting by Andrei Khalip and Jessica JonesOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ Spain's Iberdrola to invest $47 bln in energy transition in 2023-25
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-09 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

Some 17 billion euros of the 47 billion total investment will go on renewables. In its last strategy update, Iberdrola said it planned to invest 75 billion euros in renewable energy, grids and retail operations from 2020-2025. Iberdrola currently has 40 GW of renewables capacity, new chief executive Armando Martinez told the compay's capital markets day in London. Net profit should increase to 5.2-5.4 billion euros by 2025 from an expected 4-4.2 billion euros in 2022, Iberdrola said. It also aims for earnings before interest, taxes depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) of 16.5 billion-17 billion euros by 2025, up from 13 billion euros in 2022 and above analyst consensus of 12.6 billion euros.

☆ Sheep take over Madrid's streets as they head for winter pastures
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-23 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

REUTERS/Violeta Santos MouraMADRID, Oct 23 (Reuters) - Sheep replaced cars on the streets of Madrid on Sunday, as shepherds following ancient herding routes led their flocks through the centre of the Spanish capital to southerly pastures for winter grazing. Locals and tourists lined the route and watched as thousands of sheep walked through the city, the bells around their necks providing a noisy soundtrack. The annual event was revived in 1994 as part of Madrid's annual Fiesta de la Trashumancia, after the Spanish parliament recognised the traditional routes shepherds used to herd their livestock. Onlookers took pictures and videos on their phones, while some children held out tentative hands to stroke the sheep. "It was crazy that there were so many sheep, I've never seen anything like it.

☆ Flights cancelled as storm Hermine hits Spain's Canary Islands
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-25 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

A broken tree lies on a street following a storm in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain in this picture obtained from social media. CECOPALSC/Handout via REUTERSRegister now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com RegisterMADRID, Sept 25 (Reuters) - Flights were cancelled across Spain's Canary Islands on Sunday, airport operator Aena said, as storm Hermine moved in from over the Atlantic, bringing heavy rains to the popular holiday destination. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com RegisterThe regional government has closed schools on Monday as a precaution. Hermine had been expected to strike the Canary Islands as a tropical storm but was downgraded on Sunday to a tropical depression by the U.S. National Hurricane Center. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com RegisterReporting by Jessica Jones Editing by Peter GraffOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ Passive income helps me sustain and grow my business. Here's how I make thousands of dollars in passive income each year, including YouTube and affiliate links.
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-14 | by ( Alexandra York | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Brittani Cunningham launched her travel-inspired candle business and YouTube channel last year. Seven months later, she relaunched the brand after tinkering with the production process and started chronicling her experiences as an entrepreneur on her YouTube channel. In fact, in an effort to compete with TikTok, YouTube launched a fund for those creating "shorts," or 60-second YouTube videos. She told Insider about the importance of building a YouTube community as a small-business owner. CunninghamBefore my candle business, I was interested in travel and had a YouTube channel dedicated to that part of my life.

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