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Muere el escritor peruano Alfredo Bryce Echenique a los 87 años Autor de ‘Un mundo para Julius’ o ‘Reo de nocturnidad’, es una de la figuras clave de las letras latinoamericanas

Descanse en paz.
elpais.com/cultura/2026...

Motorists also forget that it is other cars that cause traffic jams, take up parking space, etc., not bikes.

We aren't the problem, all too often they are.

Of course we can be helpful but sadly many motorists refuse to even obey the law and wilfully endanger riders' lives by overtaking against oncoming riders, not keeping a distance of 1.5 m while overtaking, not giving way, harassing riders, etc.

Baixa Pombalina.

Rest assured I meant no offence. You were correct to assume that I didn't speak German because very few Spaniards do.
FYI the last coal mines in ES were closed in 2018. The video I posted was filmed in a museum.

That's OK, I can understand basic German.

Santa Barbara- Coro Minero de Turón YouTube video by dcbrothersasturias

Wow, you learn something every day! There's a similar miners' song here in Spain about a disaster in 1918 , and tears well up in my eyes every time I hear it. youtu.be/kP5aj4C82Zs?...

Unbeknownst to many motorists, Spanish law does allow cyclists to ride two abreast as long as visibility isn't reduced. See rule 20: www.dgt.es/comunicacion...

They have come a long way since I first rode in Mallorca in 1979! Back then the roads were like goat tracks while the Guardia Civil were downright nasty and had yet to acquire democratic habits.

I have no experience of riding in DK but can affirm bike paths here in ES are often poorly designed and built, while many cyclists here admire reports of how it is done in DK, especially in Copenhagen.

Thank you for that, Mark, that is a very interesting story indeed.
FYI, over the years I've often heard the jibe that Repsol is an oil major but without the oil.

I have asked UK family and friends to stop posting me gifts for this reason, even modest ones.

"On Auschwitz" (7): the fate of Roma and Sinti in Auschwitz YouTube video by Auschwitz Memorial / Miejsce Pamięci Auschwitz

10 March 1943 | A German Sinti boy, Josef Böhmer, was born in Berlin.

In the #Zigeunerlager (Gypsy camp) from 24 March 1943.
No. Z-5035
He perished in the camp on 6 April 1943. He was 27 days old.
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The fate of the Roma and Sinti in Auschwitz:
🎧 https://bit.ly/4pIRyEJ
📖 https://bit.ly/44EVuxY

A Roman marble sculpture of four puppies, all curled up asleep together. Unearthed from the ruins of the House of the Faun in Pompeii, 1st century BCE, now housed at the National Archaeological Museum of Naples, Italy

As with Spain and others, it's a sovereign decision in support of a fellow EU member state and may even be a first step towards a genuinely independent EU defence policy.

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Museums looted of priceless artifacts as Sudan counts the cost of a deadly conflict Once containing treasures from the Stone Age to the arrival of Islam, Sudan's National Museum now lies mostly bare, looted amid a yearslong conflict consuming the country.

Museums looted of priceless artifacts as Sudan counts the cost of a deadly conflict

Once containing treasures from the Stone Age to the arrival of Islam, Sudan's National Museum now lies mostly bare, looted amid a yearslong conflict consuming the country.

www.nbcnews.com/world/africa...

RIP and yet another wake up call about global warming, IMHO.

Self-abasement is all very well, Aafke, but only great powers start wars like this.

It could have been any oil company! I haven't owned a car for 26 years and have never looked back, while trembling over global warming.

El error Von der leyen La presidenta de la Comisión Europea comete un error garrafal con esa renuncia al orden global, la razón de ser de la UE

Spain's newspaper of record: "The EU president is making a big mistake by giving up on the world order, the very reason the EU exists"
elpais.com/internaciona...

Coin used as Leeds bus fare was 2,000‑year‑old currency The coin was handed down to Peter Edwards from his grandfather in the 1950s.

This is the sort of thing a cashless society robs us of, the opportunity to try to get away with paying the bus fare in Carthaginian currency www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This might explain why a low-flying police helicopter woke me up before dawn in Madrid.

Indeed, I'm still wondering when (or if) Starmer will publish the Russia Report in full.

I have lived and worked in the USA twice over, and never once did I meet anyone there who had so much as heard of it while the very idea that foreigners could or should influence U.S. policy in any way is inconceivable to the average U.S. voter. The rest of us are expected to know our place.

Mahsa Mohebali: “Los europeos no entienden la situación de los iraníes” La escritora perseguida desea el fin de los ayatolás pero teme que su país acabe destrozado como Irak

Mahsa Mohebali: "Europeans don't understand the situation in Iran" Persecuted writer wants the Ayatollahs out but fears Iran will be destroyed like Iraq. elpais.com/podcasts/hoy...

Liverpool and Manchester United complain to X about 'sickening' Grok posts The UK government says it is

The posts were generated "strictly because users prompted me [grok] explicitly for vulgar roasts" on specific topics, adding: "I follow prompts to deliver without added censorship."🙆🏼
www.bbc.com/sport/footba...

Oh I dare say they've been itching to do so since 1979, to try and succeed where Carter failed in 1980. Great powers have fragile egos.

Sadly there is the recent precedent of the U.S. sinking unarmed fishing boats in international waters.