Sardinia is struggling to keep its inhabitants. Thus, the village of Ollolai has lost half of its population in 50 years. To put an end to it, the town hall offers houses for rent 1 euro, provided you stay all year round.
Nuoro, in Sardinia, is one of the regions of Italy that has lost the most inhabitants in recent years. (more…)
The occupation authorities evoke both the evacuation of troops and the desire to defend the city. Ukrainian forces expect fierce street fighting, without giving up hope of retaking the city before winter.
Ukrainian artillery at work in the Kherson region, November 5, 2022. (METIN AKTAS / ANADOLU AGENCY / AFP)
No ferry now connects the two banks of the Dnipro. Occupation authorities in the Kherson region of southern Ukraine announced the end of evacuation shuttles from the city on Tuesday (November 8th). (more…)
In Spain, producers and investors are getting into pistachios. In ten years, pistachio plants have grown from 3,000 to 60,000 hectares.
In the Toledo region of Spain, fields spread out. A new green gold is grown there: pistachio trees. Between his fields of vines and olive trees, Isidro Diaz Del Campo planted 40 hectares of them six years ago. (more…)
Like every day, the todaynewspost evening news takes a tour of the news broadcast by European television channels. It’s Eurozapping on Monday, October 24.
Emmanuel Macron met the pope in Rome for the third time and made the front page of Rai. They notably discussed the war in Ukraine and the end of life in France. In Norway, a man has been exonerated after more than twenty years in prison. (more…)
Friday, October 21, the “Weekly Photo” section of the 20 Hours newscast goes to the rice fields of Bangladesh, but also to the heart of the Canadian forest and to a Scottish university.
In an air show in the Alpine pastures, the Swiss army suspended eight soldiers from a helicopter. At 2,000 meters above sea level, the public could enjoy and hear the show. At the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao (Spain), a sculpture impresses. (more…)
In two decades, the capital has become the 4th “power” for the production of this theatrical genre, behind New York, London and Hamburg. Tourists from Latin America, in particular, appreciate these shows in the Spanish language.
The musical The Lion King, a great success in Madrid, performed here at the Folies Bergeres theater in Paris, in 2008. Photo illustration. (CHRISTOPHE PETIT TESSON / MAXPPP)
If the musical has known an unstoppable rise in the Spanish capital for twenty years, it was not easy at first. (more…)
Traditionally an exporter of electricity, France finds itself importing it because of the historical weakness of its nuclear production. Every day, the equivalent of several reactors crosses the border.
The Baixas converter station, on the French side, where the Spanish current arrives before it is injected into the French electricity network. (GREGOIRE LECALOT / RADIO FRANCE)
No pylon, no high voltage cable would indicate to hikers that they are passing next to a 320,000 volt power line. Yet, a few steps from the peak of Canigou, near Perpignan, is an eight-kilometre-long concrete tunnel. (more…)
A new bill to ban bullfighting was tabled on Tuesday in France. In other countries where bullfighting is a tradition, such as Spain, Colombia and Mexico, similar laws have already been passed.
The bullfighter Vincente Soler with a bull during a bullfight in Castellon de la Plana, Spain, in 2019. (DOMENECH CASTELL? / EFE)
A new anti-bullfighting bill was tabled in the National Assembly on Tuesday, September 20, by 96 Nupes deputies. This text carried by the animalist deputy Aymeric Caron will be discussed on November 24 in the hemicycle. (more…)
Electricity prices are exploding everywhere in Europe, except in Spain and Portugal. The two countries have obtained a derogation from the European Union to leave the European energy market and find themselves with prices much lower than elsewhere. A difficult model for France to follow.
While electricity prices are soaring all over Europe, Spain and Portugal are spared. Since June, the two countries have obtained a derogation from the European Union. For a year, they leave the European system (more…)
In Madrid, the Prado Museum is embarking on a “transparency operation”. He wants to draw up a list of his works of art looted during the civil war.
The main building of the Prado in Madrid (Spain). (ROSINE MAZIN / MAZIN ROSINE)
The Prado wants to know precisely which paintings from its collection were seized as spoils of war during the Civil War or Franco’s dictatorship, between 1936 and 1975. It undertakes to then return them to their owners – provided of course that they are identified. (more…)