The seismic episode affecting Granada and its metropolitan area, which had its maximum impact with the very shallow earthquake of magnitude 4.8 that occurred on Saturday, August 15, has already recorded 348 tremors since Friday, most of low magnitude (less than 2) and all at very shallow depths (less than 10 kilometers). Of these, 37 have been felt by the population.
The U.S. administration is having great difficulties advancing the Peace Plan for Gaza. After two days of on-the-ground talks, the special envoy of the U.S. president, his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, only secured a vague commitment from the Israeli prime minister to “move forward.” Benjamin Netanyahu insisted that Israel will not withdraw its army from the Gaza Strip until Hamas has been completely disarmed, a position he has not changed for weeks. In his meeting with Kushner, which was described as “extensive, deep, and very productive” in a statement from the Peace Board, Netanyahu requested that a U.S. general oversee the delivery of weapons by the Palestinian group.
The United States Supreme Court once again refuses, and it seems definitively, to erase the serious stain on President Donald Trump’s reputation, whose image will be legally associated with the sexual abuse of writer E. Jean Carroll.
The President of the United States, Donald Trump, threatened this morning to bomb Oman, a traditional ally, if it “interferes” in the talks with Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. The president issued the warning during an interview with Fox News, the same day the ceasefire signed two months ago with Iran expired, under which both countries gave themselves 60 days to seek a definitive end to the war.
Cruises continue to rise in Barcelona and 2026 is already progressing above the record levels reached last year, in a year also marked by an international situation that has strengthened the weight of the Mediterranean – and of the Catalan capital – within the programming of the major shipping companies. This is evidenced by the finalized figures for the month of July: between January and July, the Port of Barcelona recorded 3.23 million passenger movements, 5.3% more than in the same period of 2025. Of these, 2.3 million corresponded to cruise passengers, 7.3% more, while 929,540 were ferry users.
At the European Central Bank (ECB), they do not talk about a bubble around AI, but they are already hinting at the term and beginning to imagine such a scenario. A group of economists from the institution has just published an article measuring the eurozone’s exposure to the “AI boom” and describing the different transmission channels to the European economy in case of a market crash. They estimate that only households in the eurozone have invested, often unknowingly, more than 440 billion euros in the uncertain business battle around this technology, but the total figure for all European investors is much higher.
The Partido Popular took a new step this Monday in its offensive against the Government’s management of the Ceuta crisis. The Deputy Secretary of Institutional Regeneration, Cuca Gamarra, has announced the submission to Congress of a non-legislative proposal (PNL) with eleven measures to “restore normality” in the autonomous city, including the activation of the National Security Law and the establishment of a single State command to assume coordination of the response.
In the eye of the hurricane due to the failed acquisition of a luxury penthouse through a regional public company of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso starred this Monday in a new attempt to regain control of the agenda. She did so in the vineyards of the Las Moradas de San Martín winery, in San Martín de Valdeiglesias, where she traveled to stage the region’s recovery after the devastating fires suffered in July. Although the president did not hesitate to sideline regional issues to resort, once again, to her best-known formula: shifting the focus of the controversies of her own management towards Pedro Sánchez.
The Minister of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration, Elma Saiz, announced after an in-person meeting with the President of Ceuta, Juan Jesús Vivas, that this Monday four new humanitarian care centers will be deployed on a “temporary and extraordinary” basis to provide services to immigrants who have been in the autonomous city since the end of July. The Government spokesperson also specified that the opening of these spaces will allow for housing 1,500 migrants.
Four people have died and another has been seriously injured in a traffic accident that occurred this Monday on the N-122, between the towns of Bulbuente and Maleján in Zaragoza, following a head-on collision between a car and a truck.
