Moldova and Luxembourg denounce the illegal presence of drones amid escalating tensions with Russia
Europe continues to add episodes that fuel the idea of an intensification of hybrid warfare by Russia.
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“In the kidnapping, I didn’t know that my family had been killed, I survived because of them”
The life of Eli Sharabi changed forever on October 7, 2023, when a Hamas commando stormed the Be’eri kibbutz and took him hostage to the nearby Gaza Strip, where he remained for 491 days hoping to reunite with his wife and daughters, unaware that they had been killed that very day. That traumatic experience is what he recounts in Rehén (Nagrela Editores), a testimony of his struggle for survival under inhuman conditions.
Rajoy now appeals to “good humor” after stating that the French team plays “without French players”
Spain is just one match away from lifting the World Cup for the second time in its history after defeating France with overwhelming superiority in the semifinals. When the national team plays, there is an opinion column by Mariano Rajoy, and this time the attention to the words of the former Prime Minister was at its highest after he caused a great political stir in the previous one by talking about a French team that plays “without French players.”
Sánchez supports Marlaska and Robles and tries to overcome their disagreements
“They are two people of his utmost trust and for whom he bets equally,” they warn at Moncloa. They take it for granted that Pedro Sánchez, now in the final stretch of his current term, will not do without Margarita Robles or Fernando Grande-Marlaska, despite the constant disagreements between them since, more than eight years ago, the two magistrates coincided in the Council of Ministers. Discrepancies that escalated this week with the declassification of the reports on the Ceuta crisis.
The impact of birds may have caused the helicopter accident where a Catalan family died
The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) reported this Thursday that it found evidence of a bird strike before the tourist helicopter carrying a Catalan family (a couple and their three children) crashed into the Hudson River in New York City in April 2025, causing the death of all six people on board (the family and the aircraft pilot).
The barn of the world, in danger
Hostilities between Russia and Ukraine are once again worrying the world, and not just Europe, because they are intensifying in the Black Sea, a vital area for grain exports. This has become in recent weeks the latest battlefield in a conflict that has lasted almost four and a half years, with both sides trying to destroy the economic base of their enemy.
A prisoner from Quatre Camins prison kills his cellmate
An inmate of the Quatre Camins prison (Barcelona) died this Thursday following an alleged assault by his cellmate, which is being investigated by the Mossos d’Esquadra and the Penitentiary Services of the Generalitat.
Trump announces tariffs against 60 countries, including Spain, after the temporary 10% ones expire
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.
Sánchez calls to combat “fear with more democracy and inequality with more justice”
The IV Meeting in Defense of Democracy began this Saturday in Barcelona with a clear purpose: to present to the world strategic principles for combating the far-right wave that questions multilateralism and democracy, a current embodied by the US president, Donald Trump, whom no one mentions in this conclave but whose political action is very present. Led by the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, the meeting began with his intervention, in which he advocated for a “concerted action” by all progressive governments in the world in favor of “strengthening the alliance” that convenes them today, and combating “fear with more democracy, and inequality with more justice”. In the background of this commitment is the joint proposal to reform the UN due to its ineffectiveness in facing global challenges and acting in the face of the proliferation of international conflicts.
Ali Smith: “Books are so powerful they enrage tyrants!”
“Books are so powerful because they enrage tyrants! Tyrants and demagogues hate all arts, because the arts are more powerful than they will ever be.” Scottish author Ali Smith is the Sant Jordi guest speaker and talks about her early love for books, how she was shaped by that love, her mother’s concern that she would become a “bookworm” (although when her mother died, she discovered a book at the back of the wardrobe, hidden among her shoes), that “when we open a book, we open ourselves” and that over the years (she is 63) she has come to the conclusion that, like everyone else, she is made of 75% water and suspects that she is at least another 75% books.”