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The Madrid bear sculpture meant for a Miami roundabout that ended up inside a restaurant instead

7 October 2026 at 15:09

Sometimes people count their chickens before they hatch. That’s what happened to the regional premier of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, in June 2022 during one of her trips to Miami, where she posed beside a large bear sculpture that she said would end up on a public roundabout in the southern Florida city. Meant to represent Madrid, the large, candy-like bear has instead been parked in the hallway of a well-known Miami restaurant, where it serves as a decorative item.

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Left to right: the sculptor Eladio de Mora, Hombres G drummer Javier Molina; Madrid regional premier Isabel Díaz Ayuso; Hombres G frontman David Summers; and the entrepreneur Carlos Galán, on June 26 2022.A bear painted like the Madrid regional flag has become a decorative element at Crazy About You restaurant, in Brickell, Miami's financial district.

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Madrid regional premier Isabel Díaz Ayuso speaking to the press in Miami in June 2022.

From Tinder to running apps: Cellphones become a front for recruitment, spying, and sabotaging the enemy

22 September 2026 at 14:34

The alarms raised by the relationship between a Spanish NATO commander and a woman of Russian origin he met on Tinder, the dating app, are the latest chapter in a new espionage battleground: web applications. Sharing content on social media, posting your morning run, or looking for love online has become a latent risk for militaries around the world.

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A Polish soldier checks his cellphone in Kraków on August 5.
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