News from El Punt Avui

health

Pioneering operation on pancreatic cancer

A team of surgeons from Vall d’Hebron Hospital has operated on patients with locally advanced pancreatic adenocarcinoma - one of the cancers with the worst prognosis and which until now could not be...

Two records on first day of World Championships

The Hangzhou short-range World Championships in China got off to a good start with two world records broken on the first day of competition. The first was by the Japanese swimmer Daiya Seto, who won the...

society

Young Catalans now tolerate corruption

Young Catalans now accept cases of corruption occurring in everyday life as normal. This includes copying in an exam, falsifying residency to enrol a child at a preferred school, a public worker receiving...

Calvo clarifies 155 not an option

global economy

IMF sees a debilitated world in face of upcoming crisis

Police restructure shelved

Health care defenders demand shorter waits

The Marea Blanca, a platform defending public health in Catalonia, yesterday addressed a letter to the government demanding shorter waiting lists and the cessation of the commercialization of health care....

Italy

Loss of memory and loss of human rights

politics

Six months of protests in Tarragona

It’s six months today since the silence against repression initiative began holding daily demonstrations (Monday to Friday) in front of the Tarragona courts at the entrance of the parish of Sant Pau...

united kingdom

May postpones vote on Brexit to avoid defeat

Yesterday afternoon Theresa May announced that the House of Commons vote on Brexit that was supposed to take place today will be postponed. Hours later the president of the European Council, Donald Tusk,...