News from El Punt Avui

POINT MADE

Banning Spring

All these pedantic defenders of legality don’t know what to get het up about anymore, after Quim Torra (and many ajuntaments who were also required to do so) did what the Electoral Commission required...

CULTURE

New president for Miró Foundation

BRAZIL

Brazilian police detain ex-President

Brazilian federal police arrested former President Michel Temer yesterday in the Lava Jato case, the largest anti-corruption case in the country’s history. His arrest was ordered by a judge who also...

ISRAEL

Trump to recognise Golan Heights as Israel

US President Donald Trump announced his intention to formally recognise the Golan Heights as a sovereign territory of Israel. The area, in Syria, was occupied in the 1967 Six Day War, and annexed in 1981,...

No incriminating mail found

Documentary about the life of Peret in cinemas tomorrow

economy

Cabify wants to start multimodal platform

Kazakhstan

Capital re-named in honour of former president

Kazakhstan yesterday renamed its capital Astana. The capital’s new name, Nursultan, has been chosen to honour Kazakhstan’s former president, Nursultan Nazarbayev, who resigned on Tuesday after three...

Italy

Driver of bus carrying 51 sets fire to it in Milan

The driver of a bus, a 47-year-old man, was arrested yesterday for arson and kidnapping. According to the local press the man shouted: “Nobody gets off here alive” at the 51 students on the bus, he...

Netherlands

Another suspect arrested for Utrecht shooting

On Tuesday night a special intervention force unit arrested a new suspect in relation to Monday’s Utrecht shooting . According to a statement made by the Dutch prosecutor’s office, the new suspect...