The Iris Tió phenomenon

The Iris Tió phenomenon

At the Yeomju Gymnasium in the remote Gwangju of South Korea, next to the football stadium where Gamal al Ghandour’s most famous refereeing took place, the Iris Tió phenomenon emerged. It was July 2019 and the Barcelonan, barely 16 years old, attended as the youngest member of the team coached by Mayuko Fujiki, which had the undisputed star Ona Carbonell, who at those World Championships achieved the record for the most medals by a woman (22). Beside her, Tió, just a shy teenager with a wonderful future predicted. In the midst of that whirlwind that the mixed zone becomes, improvised next to the locker rooms in that inhospitable place, Andrea Fuentes appeared, who at that time was beginning her journey with the United States.

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Andy Burnham ignores criticism from the right and goes on vacation

Andy Burnham ignores criticism from the right and goes on vacation

Going on vacation in August if you are the British Prime Minister carries considerable risk if one pays attention to precedents, and one must be prepared to interrupt or cancel them at the slightest sign of trouble. Keir Starmer – who was a bit unlucky, to be fair – had to give up his plans in 2024, shortly after winning the elections, due to the riots sparked across the country by the murder of some girls in Southport, and last year he was forced to cut them short to meet with Donald Trump in Scotland and talk about Ukraine.

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The missing persons of Ceuta

The missing persons of Ceuta

Five days, with their long sleepless nights, without knowing anything about them. Families who have no news of their young people who went to Ceuta, following the call that the border to Spain was open, are flooding social networks with photographs of the missing. There is one of Mohamed Afasi, in swim trunks, with a towel around his neck: he disappeared in the sea at the age of nine while trying to swim around the breakwater with his mother. There is another of the teenager Nada-AlShiba, who was lost track of in the early hours of the mass jump through which 72,000 people entered at once.

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DJ Pedro Sánchez

DJ Pedro Sánchez

El azar ha querido que, coincidiendo con la tragedia de Ceuta, el presidente Pedro Sánchez haya hecho pública una PlayList como recomendación de verano. Hacer recomendaciones (libros, música) forma parte de una estrategia que confirma que, como otros personajes públicos, Sánchez…

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The Government will amend the rule against speculative buying due to unconstitutionality

The Government will amend the rule against speculative buying due to unconstitutionality

The Government of the Generalitat assured yesterday that it will seek “legal measures” to protect the right to housing in Catalonia and opened the door to substantial modifications in the law against speculative buying after the setback from the Consell de Garanties Estatutàries, which deeply questioned the regulation and emphasized that it violates the Constitution. The Comuns’ bill, agreed with the PSC Government, aims to restrict speculative buying and selling of homes in stressed areas as long as it is not for residential use.

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Offensive against the increase in drug sales and consumption in Barcelona

Offensive against the increase in drug sales and consumption in Barcelona

112 received this first semester of the year in the city of Barcelona, 3,500 calls alerting about incidents related to drugs. A thousand more than the first six months of last year. Those complaints from citizens are just the tip of the iceberg of a problem that the Catalan capital suffers: drugs. Barcelona is a setting where drugs are cultivated, manufactured in laboratories, are within anyone’s reach, and their consumption is protected in cannabis clubs. A vicious circle that generates coexistence, social, security, and public health problems, hence the response cannot be only police-based, it must be transversal. Intensifying the pursuit of dealing and consumption in public spaces will become a priority for the Urban Guard. Yesterday, its leaders presented a new and ambitious anti-drug strategy: plan Druida.

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