News from El Punt Avui

The United Nations has demanded access to the “re-education camps” in Xinjiang province, where more than one million Uyghur Muslims are imprisoned. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet,...

At peace talks between the government of Yemen and Houthi rebels, a prisoner exchange was agreed. Martin Griffiths, UN Peace Envoy, spoke of “optimism” about the war which is “the worst humanitarian...

The 90-day truce in the Chinese-US trade war, agreed by both countries’ presidents at the G20 summit, seemed fragile at the time, but the detention yesterday of one of the highest executives of Huawei...

The Catalan institute of notaries held the ceremony for the tenth Puig Salellas prize, which this year has been awarded to Alegría Borrás Rodríguez (Barcelona, 1943) the night before last. The event...

The Catalan government’s minister of agriculture, livestock, fisheries and food, Teresa Jordà, alongside Catalan agricultural and livestock organizations are opposing the new proposal for a common agricultural...

At some three kings parades Balthazar is still represented by a white person painting their face black. Of the Catalan cities with more than 75,000 inhabitants last year this still happened in two, Girona...

The French president, Emmanuel Macron tries, without success, to calm the outrage of the ’yellow vests’. Macron made “a call for calm” when confronted with another day of demonstrations called...