Overview
- Peru’s Senamhi warns that low winds and stable conditions could trap pollutants if fireworks are widely used, citing 2024 REMCA data showing PM2.5 peaks in Puente Piedra (99.0 µg/m³, +23%) and San Juan de Lurigancho (80.7 µg/m³, +18%).
- Madrid adjusts Christmas Eve service: Metro ends at 22:00 (last departures 21:30), daytime EMT buses finish around 20:30–20:45, and night routes operate on special schedules through early Christmas morning.
- Valencia enforces a holiday ‘bando’ with afternoon-evening traffic cuts on set dates through early January, authorizing Local Police to impose closures and diversions and prompting EMT route changes in crowded zones.
- Badajoz deploys an extraordinary device to deter street drinking on Dec 24, Dec 31 and Jan 5, with permanent Local Police presence and alcohol and drug checkpoints across the city.
- Lima police investigate two lethal attacks before Christmas: a man shot and dumped from a moving car on avenida La Cultura in Santa Anita, and a 45-year-old mototaxi driver fatally stabbed by two fake passengers in Rímac, with CCTV and forensic work underway.