The victim from Manresa mediated hours before his death between two groups that were fighting

The victim from Manresa mediated hours before his death between two groups that were fighting

The juvenile judge on duty in Barcelona ordered yesterday the detention in a closed regime of the two teenagers aged 15 and 16 arrested in the early hours of Tuesday for the stabbing death of Carles Vilajosana, 45 years old, in Manresa. The crime has shocked the Bages region, where the victim was actively involved in cultural and social life. Hours before dying, he had been with his two twin sons at the correfoc that marked the end of a major festival that had taken place without incidents.

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Mbappé breaks the sound meter of a grumpy Bernabéu

Mbappé breaks the sound meter of a grumpy Bernabéu

There are matches that last a sneeze; others, on the other hand, are as long as a night watching over a baby. The Madrid-Oviedo (2-0) with nothing at stake falls squarely into the second category. What is the point of the game of a team whose motto is only to win when it can no longer do so? That is what the white footballers who took to the pitch would have thought, whistled at by their fans during the warm-up, then victims of a sepulchral silence in a half-empty Bernabéu. It is more interesting to spend the San Isidro holiday elsewhere than watching Camavinga lose balls in his season to forget, the icing on the cake being that, hours before the match, it was made official that he would miss the World Cup. “I understand that he is pissed off,” said the eloquent Didier Deschamps.

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The Mediterranean surpasses the Canary Islands as the entry point for irregular migrants in small boats

The Mediterranean surpasses the Canary Islands as the entry point for irregular migrants in small boats

The Mediterranean route is now the main entry point for irregular immigration by sea in Spain, a reversal of the situation in the Canary Islands that reflects the growing increase of the Algerian route. Until August 15, the peninsular coasts had recorded 5,152 arrivals by sea, compared to 4,808 registered in the Canary Islands. That is 344 more people, when just a year ago the situation was radically different: the Canary archipelago accumulated 11,883 arrivals compared to 3,928 on the Peninsula, according to the official statistics from the Ministry of the Interior.

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Consumer credit before the holidays reaches a 20-year high

Consumer credit before the holidays reaches a 20-year high

The financial health of Spanish consumers suffers some setbacks when summer arrives. Consumer loans taken out in the months prior to the holiday period have grown strongly this year and have reached their highest level in two decades, only comparable to the times of the real estate bubble. The trend is an indication that a larger part of consumption is sustained by debt, despite the rise in interest rates.

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“We have more talent than we think”: Rosa Tous and Roberto Verino champion Spanish fashion

“We have more talent than we think”: Rosa Tous and Roberto Verino champion Spanish fashion

As if they were two travelers coinciding on the same flight, and in adjacent seats, Rosa Tous Oriol and Roberto Verino settle into their chairs prepared to have one of those endless chats between two possible soulmates. In this case, belonging to the universe of Spanish fashion. After an initial exchange of impressions –the Galician designer asks about the jeweler’s parents, the popular Rosa Oriol and Salvador Tous, now retired–, the conversation unfolds with a connection and affection that only two people with the same way of approaching their profession can share: with passion, enthusiasm, and respect for the client.

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Blow in PISA: Spanish youth lose one school year in reading and almost another in mathematics

Blow in PISA: Spanish youth lose one school year in reading and almost another in mathematics

The PISA 2025 report (Programme for International Student Assessment, in English), released this morning, indicates that Spain is below the OECD and EU averages in the three competencies analyzed (mathematics, reading, and science) and plummets compared to its own 2022 data where a sharp decline had already occurred. It is the worst result in its historical series since the year 2000.

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