The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps of Iran claimed that it attacked three oil tankers in “unauthorized routes” in the Strait of Hormuz and three vessels linked to the U.S. in “other areas,” according to the Iranian agency Fars.
Mapi León will not continue at FC Barcelona. As reported by the program Tot Costa on Catalunya Ràdio and confirmed by this newspaper, the Aragonese center-back will put an end to nine seasons as a blaugrana, also being one of the undisputed starters in the heart of the defense. According to sources familiar with the operation, the defender will move to the London City Lionesses, owned by Michele Kang.
The group that was formed in April 2024 to disrupt judicial processes – and those who led them – with little success consisted of nine people, although not all with the same role. There may be more, but now, Judge Santiago Pedraz limits it to them, assigning them the roles of leader, his second-in-command, financiers, and executors. All of them have been caught, as always happens, by new facts that have appeared in another case. Now they will have to provide explanations. Who are they, what connects them, what drives them?
A consultant joke. One of them comes home and says to their partner: “After several years prescribing to clients how to reduce costs through AI, my job has successfully concluded. They have reduced costs through AI and have fired me.” Without going to these extremes or dark humor, this is the premonition hovering around one of the businesses that for decades has supplied companies with ideas and talent. Consulting firms have gone from being the prescribers of the technological revolution to finding that AI is turning their own business upside down. Major clients have started to tighten the screws and demand a share of the productivity that the new tools provide, capable of getting much more work done in less time. The sector does not talk about crisis, but about reinvention.
An insufficient injection of concrete into the cavity is emerging as the cause of the sinkhole in the works of L9 of the metro in Putxet that forced the indefinite evacuation of the residents of eight buildings in the area. This was pointed out today by the Minister of Territory, Sílvia Paneque, in an interview on the program Els matins de TV3, in which she indicated that the events are still under investigation.
The reception of migrant minors was the cause of the breakdown of the regional governments of PP and Vox in July 2024, and the entry into Ceuta of more than 70,000 immigrants from Morocco – including minors among them – could put the alliance between the two parties to the test in four territories – Extremadura, Aragón, Castilla y León, and Andalusia. For now, PP and Vox have avoided confrontation and have focused on targeting Pedro Sánchez’s government for its management.
The Government of Catalonia has approved in this Tuesday’s Executive Council the awarding of the Gold Medal of the Generalitat to chef Ferran Adrià (L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, 1962) and to the physicist and director of the ALBA Synchrotron Caterina Biscari (Sicily, 1957). With this award, Salvador Illa’s Executive wants to recognize two “extraordinary” careers that have “projected Catalonia into the world” in the fields of gastronomy, innovation, and science.
The Slovenian referee Slavko Vincic will officiate the World Cup final between Spain and Argentina on Sunday at the New York-New Jersey Stadium.
A 1,000-square-meter children’s amusement park next to Barça Café, on the esplanade of the Spotify Camp Nou, and an agreement with Ohana Real Estate Development to create a real estate project in Dubai inspired by the Barça brand. These are two of the projects that began to be created at the end of 2025 and that the club will now take to the assembly on September 19 for the members to decide.
Repsol obtained a net profit of 2,201 million euros in the first half of the year, which represents an increase of 265% compared to the 603 million euros of the same period of the previous year. The geopolitical environment derived from the war in Iran and the escalation of crude oil prices have boosted the value of its inventories, which has had a positive equity effect of 823 million euros, according to the information the company submitted this Thursday to the National Securities Market Commission (CNMV).