A black and white drawing went viral on social media at the end of 2025, due to recent protests in Iran over the country’s growing economic crisis. It was a girl dancing as if there were no tomorrow while dreaming of the end of the dictatorship. Today this drawing has returned to the profiles of many users but for a different reason: the death of its author, Marjane Satrapi, at the age of 56.
The slow digestion of the Amnesty law has received a European tonic this week, an herbal liqueur from Luxembourg. An unequivocal ruling from the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has endorsed the law approved by the Congress of Deputies on May 20, 2024, and sealed by the Spanish Constitutional Court on June 26, 2025.
Days ago, in a talk about city and tourism at the CCCB, the issue of the Sagrada Família arose and the long shadow it is beginning to cast over Barcelona. The room where the event was held is known as the Mirador, located on the highest part of the complex,
France displayed military power during the parade on the Champs-Élysées on the occasion of the July 14th celebration. Just hours later, in Dallas, “the fire front” (as the press has dubbed it) was neutralized, without gunpowder, by “the Spanish Armada” (front page of Le Parisien), plunging the country, so prone to exaggerated self-esteem, into a new phase of collective depression.
The Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported this Monday that rescue teams have located the bodies of four Italian divers who are believed to have been inside an underwater cave in a Maldivian atoll.
The MV Hondius cruise ship is at the center of a hantavirus outbreak declared between April and May 2026. Of the 147 passengers on board, from 23 different nationalities, 9 cases have been reported —6 confirmed and 3 suspected—, 3 of them fatal. Among those affected are 14 Spaniards: 13 passengers and one crew member.
As soon as she stood in front of the microphone, in the middle of the courtroom of the Audiencia Nacional where Operation Kitchen is being tried, Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría recalled the string of positions she accumulated during Mariano Rajoy’s time in Moncloa: sole Vice President of the Government, Government spokesperson, and Minister of the Presidency, from which the National Intelligence Center (CNI) depended. Despite this accumulation of power, Sáenz de Santamaría has “no knowledge” —not even “no recollection”— of the operation, allegedly orchestrated from the Ministry of Interior, to steal documentation from the former treasurer of the Popular Party, Luis Bárcenas.
The price of Brent crude oil has exceeded $125 early this Thursday after negotiations between the United States and Iran stalled, increasing uncertainty about the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz and pushing away the possible definitive end of the war.
The strike by forest firefighters in the Community of Madrid is causing the units of the 22 fire stations to have fewer personnel. Before, there was a unit with a truck and two or three forest firefighters in 19 stations. Now, none.
The Trump administration will impose new tariffs of 10% and 12.5% on Friday on 60 trading partners, including the European Union, due to accusations of lax enforcement of forced labor bans, just as a temporary global tariff of 10% expires, senior government officials said Thursday.