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Demonstrations are being held across Spain as people call for an increase in wages and pensions to match rising inflation, with the Foreign Office warning of potential “violence” and “unrest” The Foreign Office has warned Brits travelling to Spain of potential “violence” and “unrest” in the country. Demonstrations are being held across Spain as people call for an increase in wages and pensions to match rising inflation. In a demonstration in Barcelona on Thursday, pro-independence activists blocked the city’s airport and major roads. The Foreign Office issued an alert on Friday warning Brits to be vigilant and avoid areas where…

Oxane Taub, the purported former life partner of David DePape — the man who allegedly attacked Paul Pelosi inside his California home — says DePape has “been mentally ill for a long time.”Taub is a jailed nudist activist in California who goes by the name Gypsy. She is currently locked up in the Californian Institution for Women after being convicted on abduction charges in 2021, according to ABC7. “Hello this is Gypsy Taub. I am the ex-life partner of David DePape and the mother of his children,” Oxane Taub told the outlet.”He is mentally ill. He has been mentally ill for…

The U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) and two Good Samaritans rescued 13 people off the coast of Virginia on Friday after their fishing vessel collided with a 1,000-foot container ship and began to sink, officials said.The crew of the Tremont, a 115-foot commercial fishing vessel, sent out a mayday call around 2 a.m. from approximately 63 miles southeast of the offshore island Chincoteague, the USCG said.The crew said their vessel collided with the 1000-foot Panamanian-flagged container vessel, MSC Rita, and were abandoning the sinking ship.USCG boat and helicopter crews responded to the area, along with two Good Samaritan vessels, the research…

Editor’s Note: Sign up to get this weekly column as a newsletter. We’re looking back at the strongest, smartest opinion takes of the week from CNN and other outlets. CNN  —  It was the rematch the Powell family had been awaiting for six years. In 2016, then-Vice President Joe Biden raced his 1967 Corvette Stingray – a wedding gift from his father – against former Secretary of State Colin Powell, who drove the 2015 model given to him by his children, on the CNBC show “Jay Leno’s Garage.” In this year’s season finale, which aired last week, the late general’s…

Thousands of German industrial workers walked out for several hours over the weekend in an escalating pay dispute as leaders of Germany’s powerful IG Metall union warned of more strikes to come if employers failed to improve their offer. Europe’s largest industrial union is demanding an 8 per cent wage increase for 3.9mn employees in Germany’s automotive, metal and electrical industries to compensate for surging inflation. The pay demand is the highest since 2008. The sector is the backbone of Germany’s wider economy and a bellwether for wage agreements in other sectors. Employer representatives have offered a one-off payment of…

CNN  —  In an ordinary Boston courtroom in April 2015, lawyers and activists at the first hearing of a challenge to race-based admissions practices at Harvard knew they would see each other again, eventually at the US Supreme Court. Attending that preliminary session before US District Judge Allison Burroughs were lawyers from the Consovoy McCarthy law firm and, on the Harvard team, former US solicitor general Seth Waxman. They had been hired at the outset for their expertise as Supreme Court litigators. Sizing up the affirmative action controversy destined to affect campus diversity nationwide, Burroughs said: “It is the sort…

SEOUL: Shocked family members collected bodies, parents searched for children and a country sought answers on Sunday (Oct 30) after at least 153 people were crushed to death when a crowd in South Korea surged in an alleyway during Halloween festivities. President Yoon Suk-yeol declared a period of national mourning and designated Seoul’s popular Itaewon district a disaster zone after the Saturday night disaster. “This news came like a bolt from the blue sky,” said a father who burst into tears as he collected his daughter’s body from a morgue in the nation’s capital. A huge crowd celebrating in Itaewon…

The writer is the director and CEO of the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP)When German chancellor Olaf Scholz arrives in Beijing this week, he will be the first G7 leader to visit China since the start of the pandemic. This trip has sparked controversy both at home and in the rest of Europe. The critics argue that it is time to break with Angela Merkel’s example: instead of deepening economic ties with authoritarian regimes, Germany and the EU should decouple from them. This, they say, is one lesson from Berlin’s dependence on Russian gas, which has now become a…

Even as his $44bn buyout came down to the wire, Elon Musk kept Twitter guessing. Normally, lawyers and advisers on each side of a corporate transaction work closely together to ensure a smooth closing. But as the clock ticked down towards a court-imposed October 28 deadline for the takeover to close, Musk’s camp mostly worked in isolation, leaving Twitter on the sidelines with their fingers crossed.“We didn’t know when we would close on Thursday night until 15 minutes before it happened,” said one Twitter adviser. After word came through that the deal was done, those with skin in the game…

Billionaire industrialist Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter sent shockwaves throughout the media last week, igniting a larger conversation among voters about how his ownership of the influential platform could have an effect on the upcoming midterm elections in the United States.In an effort to better understand whether Musk’s Twitter takeover could have an impact on the looming elections, Fox News Digital reached out to political insiders from across the spectrum and asked them whether they believe Musk’s recent acquirement of the social media platform is the October surprise many Americans have been waiting for.October surprises — typically identified as events…