The main benchmark index of the Spanish stock market, the Ibex, has closed the session marking a new historic high by surpassing the threshold of 20,000 points. The selective index has appreciated 0.21% since yesterday and 14% so far this year. Good corporate results and the drop in oil prices due to the de-escalation of the conflict in Iran are behind this new stock market milestone.
France has felt victimized for years by the Russian hybrid war, which includes everything from typical disinformation actions on social networks to bizarre and crude destabilization operations such as placing empty coffins in front of the Eiffel Tower or pig heads in mosques.
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (Aipac), the largest pro-Israel lobbying group in the United States, has doubled its investment for the November legislative elections compared to the midterms four years ago. According to data from the Federal Election Commission, the organization donated 29.3 million dollars to political campaigns in the 2022 elections, 46 million in the 2024 presidential elections, and has already spent 67 million in the current election cycle.
A Salvadoran immigrant, identified as Edwin López Cornejo, 41 years old, died on August 1 at the notorious federal center of Delaney Hall, in Newark (New Jersey). López thus becomes the 22nd person to die in ICE custody (border agents) so far in 2026, according to data from the agency itself.
Last July in Spain, there were 2,024 deaths attributable to high temperatures, almost double the 1,060 that occurred in July 2025, according to data from the Daily Mortality Monitoring System (MoMo) of the Carlos III Institute. In Catalonia, things have not been different, and during the last month, 544 people have died due to the heat, in this case, more than double the 251 who died in July 2025.
In five months of war in Iran, which according to the Pentagon have cost US taxpayers 37.5 billion dollars and more than 130 billion according to independent analyses, the United States has consumed a significant part of its arsenal. According to an exclusive from Reuters, the Department of Defense has used “practically all” of its long-range precision missiles, official sources have revealed to the US agency.
El Govern de la Generalitat assures that it will seek “legal measures” to protect the right to housing in Catalonia following the opinion of the Consell de Garanties Estatutàries (CGE) which warns that the regulation agreed upon by the Catalan Executive with the commons violates several legal provisions of the Constitution and the Statute, including the right to private property, freedom of enterprise, and the principle of legal certainty.
Manuel Gavira, Vox representative in Andalusia, will assume responsibilities for gender violence in the community in the new government of the Junta, as part of its new Ministry of Tourism, Justice, Deregulation, and Local Administration.
Homeowners and housing developers have seen their opposition to the law to limit home purchases promoted by the Govern and the Comuns endorsed. The report published this Tuesday by the Consell de Garanties Estatutàries (CGE) coincides with much of the private sector’s objections: the regulation being processed by the Catalan Parliament violates the right to private property, freedom of enterprise, and other points of the constitution. It also points out that the acquisition of apartments cannot be restricted through the Urban Planning law, as intended by the Catalan Executive and the party of former mayor Ada Colau.
Five days after the entry of more than 70,000 immigrants into Ceuta from Morocco, there are still consequences. One of them is the management of the migrant minors who have remained in the autonomous city, a circumstance that could end up reopening the regional debate about their reception since both Ceuta and Melilla already have their capacity exceeded. In this regard, the PP has left in the air what it will do, although Miguel Tellado has suggested that they will reject the reception.
