Macro-operation by the Mossos d’Esquadra in Girona against drug trafficking. The Catalan police have deployed 600 agents in at least a dozen operations to dismantle a criminal organization based in the province of Girona dedicated to indoor marijuana cultivation and drug distribution. The organization is also being investigated for possession of weapons and money laundering.
Someone was inhaling butane. Energy experts had long been warning that the war in Iran was causing the biggest oil supply shock in history. The closure of the Strait of Hormuz took 14 million barrels per day of crude off the market. To destroy so much demand, they said, the price of Brent should be more than double the pre-war level, sitting well above $150 per barrel. However, oil market operators seemed drowsy. Until April 17, prices were below $90 per barrel. In the last week, amid rumors of a worsening of the fighting, they have started to react. On April 30, prices exceeded $125.
In the midst of World Cup fever, the luxury industry finds in the world of football a place to take shelter and to connect with. This was evidenced this Tuesday by the Spanish brand Loewe when announcing its collaboration as an official partner of the Spanish national football teams.
The Hondius cruise ship will enter, as planned, the Canary Islands next Sunday, at the industrial port of Granadilla but will not dock on land. The Government of Spain has responded to the request made by the Canary Islands from the first day it was known that the cruise ship was going to be diverted to the islands and it will remain anchored, moreover not for long.
The PSOE has increased from 15,612 euros to 44,859 euros the payments that the socialist formation in Cantabria paid for communication consultancy to Leire Díez, investigated by the National Court in an alleged plot “to destabilize” judicial processes against Ferraz. In a document sent to the Madrid court that initiated the investigations, the party details the periods in which the so-called plumber of the PSOE provided her services as a freelancer and the amount of the corresponding invoices “in the interest of full cooperation” with justice. The document was sent on May 14, just over ten days before the Central Operative Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard entered the party’s national headquarters to request information under the orders of the National Court.
The Spanish political landscape is always shifting, but the vibration is special these days. There are pieces that may fall to the ground. In this context, La Vanguardia interviews Arnaldo Otegi, leader of EH Bildu, the most stable and silent ally of President Pedro Sánchez.
The case against Vito Quiles for assaulting the president’s wife, Begoña Gómez, has been dismissed as it could not be proven that there are “facts of criminal relevance” in the recordings that the far-right agitator shared on his social media.
If we ask Arthur Fils (21) what he thinks, how he sees himself a month from now, now that the silhouette of Roland Garros looms on the horizon and the French are in need of myths, then the man, the new RCTB champion, covers his face with his hands, shakes his head and answers:
For ten years, Bandy Lee, a forensic and social psychiatrist, has been investigating the conduct of President Donald Trump. A former researcher and professor of Law and Psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine, affiliated with Harvard’s psychiatry program, she directs the World Mental Health Coalition, which investigates the psychological capacity of politicians. Not without controversy, her book The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump, published in 2017 during his first term, compiled essays from 27 psychiatrists, psychologists, and other experts on the president’s mental health, an issue that is once again coming to the forefront.
Electric car sales are soaring worldwide, but the one that truly benefits from this growth is China. Chinese producers supplied 60% of the electric cars sold globally in 2025, while European and North American manufacturers were each responsible for approximately 15% of global sales, according to a report on the global electric vehicle market by the International Energy Agency (IEA). This market share distribution occurs as global electric car sales grew by 20%, reaching 22 million units. A quarter of all new cars sold worldwide last year were electric.