- Workers reported the explosion of a Bauxilum calciner in Guayana. The G7 demanded the release of all political prisoners in Venezuela. The world’s oldest man died at 112 years of age. The founder of the Meliá hotels has died
This Tuesday, November 26, workers at the bauxite extraction company Bauxilum in the state of Bolívar reported an explosion in an industry calciner. On the other hand, the G7 foreign ministers demanded the release of all political prisoners in Venezuela.
John Tinniswood, the world’s oldest man, died at 112 years of age. The Spanish businessman and founder of the Meliá hotels, Gabriel Escarrer Julià, died at the age of 89.
The technology company Huawei presented its new line of smartphones with its own operating system.
Below are the most notable news from Tuesday, November 26:
This Tuesday, November 26, workers at the bauxite extraction company Bauxilum in Ciudad Guayana, Bolívar state, reported an explosion in an industry calciner.
The journalist Francesca Díaz shared the workers’ complaint on her X account. In addition, he explained that calciner 102, the one that caught fire, was the only operational one of the four belonging to the company.
“According to testimonies, the equipment exploded due to lack of maintenance and gas leaks that had been affecting it for some time,” Díaz wrote in Guyana was filled with a white powder, later identified as aluminum oxide.
The G7 Foreign Ministers demanded this Tuesday, November 26, the release in Venezuela of all unjustly detained political prisoners and announced that they will continue to support the efforts of regional partners for an eventual democratic transition.
“On July 28, the Venezuelan people expressed themselves clearly at the polls, voting for democratic change and supporting Edmundo González Urrutia with a significant majority,” reads the final declaration of a G7 summit held in Italy.
The group, made up of Germany, Canada, the United States, France, Italy, Japan and the United Kingdom, indicated that they will continue to support the “efforts of regional partners to facilitate a democratic and peaceful transition with Venezuelan guidance that guarantees respect for the will of the voters.”
This Tuesday, November 26, the Guinness World Records organization (GWR) confirmed the death of John Tinniswood at the age of 112, who was known as the oldest man in the world.
“His last day was surrounded by music and love,” Tinniswood’s family told GWR in a statement. The organization reported that the man died on Monday, November 25, in a nursing home in Southport, England.
John Tinniswood had the record for the world’s oldest living man since April 2024, when Venezuelan Juan Vicente Pérez, aged 114, died.
4.Gabriel Escarrer Julià, founder of the Meliá hotel chain, passed away
The Spanish businessman Gabriel Escarrer Julià, founder of the Meliá Hotels International hotel chain, with accommodations in Caribbean countries, died on November 26 in the city of Palma, at the age of 89. This was confirmed by sources close to the family.
In June 2023, he resigned from the non-executive presidency of the board of directors of the hotel group, which he founded on the Spanish island of Mallorca in 1956, and was unanimously appointed honorary president.
The Spanish Minister of Industry and Tourism, Jordi Hereu, regretted the death and said of him that he was a “visionary” who “transformed the hotel industry and brought Spanish tourism excellence to the world.”
The Chinese technology company Huawei presented this Tuesday, November 26, the Mate 70, its new line of high-end smartphones, the first with its own operating system independent of Android, HarmonyOS Next. This was developed as a result of the sanctions imposed by the US in 2019 against the company.
The Mate 70, which will be priced starting at 5,499 yuan (757 dollars, 722 euros), has already exceeded 3 million reservations in China since last November 18, when its pre-sale began.
Company executive Richard Yu assured that the new independent operating system, presented this October and nicknamed “pureblood” in China, will allow the Mate 70 to show performance up to 40% higher than previous models.
In The Diary We present you a news summary with the most notable information of the day, which you should know at the national and international level.
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