Final training match with three 20-minute periods to close a week at St George’s Park. That was the decision Hansi Flick made after the suspension of the training match, which was supposed to serve as the last preseason friendly, against Preston at the same facilities.
The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, praised this Monday the “efficient and effective” management of the latest migration crisis in Ceuta by the authorities of Spain and Morocco, while insisting on giving a “common European response,” united and supportive.
Cuba went dark this Sunday after a failure in its electrical grid. In a brief message posted on social media, the state company UNE spoke of “a total disconnection of the National Electric System” to refer to the power outage, which left the 10 million inhabitants of the island without electricity.
Tourism once again represents a strong boost for the Spanish economy, and the spending figures of international tourists prove it. Until June, foreign visitors have left 63.8 billion euros in the country, which is 7% more than in the first half of 2025, according to data from the National Institute of Statistics (INE) published this Monday.
Alberto Núñez Feijóo has taken a further step in his criticisms of Pedro Sánchez over the entry of 50,000 immigrants from the Maghreb country into Ceuta. In this regard, the leader of the PP has reproached the Prime Minister for not having asked Morocco for explanations about the “premeditated occupation” and “the breach of Spain’s territorial integrity.”
The Ministry of the Interior of Morocco shook off any responsibility on Sunday night for the massive entry of migrants last week in Ceuta through the Tarajal breakwater and attributed the crisis to a combination of factors: both to the mafias that traffic in people and to the misinformation on social networks following a Supreme Court ruling from early July.
Bill Galbraith and George Ciampa could never have imagined that the scene of that hell they experienced in June 1944 would be designated, 82 years later, as a World Heritage site. UNESCO had not even been founded yet.
It seemed impossible, and many still have doubts, that an idea as simple as peace would be part of the upcoming legislative elections in Russia on September 20. But supporters of ending the war in Ukraine will have their chance, even if only to express it secretly at the polls and in the end the more than predictable result does not change. No one doubts that the Kremlin party, United Russia, will win comfortably again, despite its popularity crisis.
A high-profile party marked the end of Vinicius Júnior’s vacation, who is expected in Valdebebas (he landed yesterday at Barajas) with open arms after a disappointing World Cup both personally and collectively. Right now, he is the footballer who attracts all the attention due to a renewal that has been delayed over time amid false promises that “everything was going to be fixed”; although, for the moment, with only 11 months left on his contract and becoming a free agent, he remains in limbo. Arsenal is lurking, and from England, they indicate that the option is increasingly solid. On Saturday, Mikel Arteta was asked after the 1-4 against Girona, and his response added more fuel to the fire. “We are very active, trying to improve and evolve the team. We are not going to stand idly by and we are very ambitious about what we want to achieve, we already see our rivals,” he commented. When directly questioned about the Brazilian, he grimaced half-jokingly and left quickly.
Preseason friendly matches are a misleading projection of the future. Sometimes you stumble upon discoveries like Bojan (in 2007, in that match against Egyptian Al-Ahly), but often you have to surrender to the evidence that many preseason football loves are,…
