Four Moroccan migrants, who were involved in the mass entry into the city on July 30, have been expelled to Morocco by court order after being detained in the city for assaulting three Civil Guard officers who requested their identification.
This Sunday, masses were held in all churches in Norway in memory of King Harald. King Haakon, accompanied by his mother, the Queen Dowager Sonja, and his children, Ingrid Alexandra and Sverre Magnus, attended one of these ceremonies held at the parish closest to the Skaugum palace, the current official residence of the crown princes, located in Asker, twenty kilometers from Oslo. The notable absentee was Queen Mette-Marit who, still recovering from her lung transplant, is conserving her strength to attend the State funeral and burial of her late father-in-law, a date that has not yet been set by the Norwegian court.
At least one person has died and five have been injured, some seriously, in a shooting that occurred in the early hours of this Sunday at the Schachen racetrack in the Swiss city of Aarau. The incident took place during the celebration of an electronic music party known as “Aarauer Rave.” According to information from the Argovia cantonal police, in northern Switzerland, the shots were fired shortly before three in the morning, in the midst of an event that had gathered several thousand attendees since Saturday afternoon. The perpetrator managed to flee the racetrack where the party was being held.
Fatal drownings along the 280 kilometers of beaches in Catalonia, from north to south, occur throughout the bathing season, from mid-June to the end of September. Despite the resources invested in prevention, self-protection campaigns, lifeguarding, surveillance, and rescues, the mortality rate on beaches due to drownings in the sea has become chronic. Between 20 and 25 bathers drown each summer. In the last six bathing seasons (2021-2026), a total of 129 people went for a swim on a Catalan beach but never returned.
Teachers will continue with the protests they ended last school year with, during which they accumulated 23 days of strike. After the summer break, and to leave no doubt about their determination in their fight to improve the conditions of public education, they have called a strike on September 8, the first day of the school year.
An investigation started in 2010, carried out in 2012 with the arrest of a criminal organization of Chinese origin. It was the first major operation against the so-called Chinese mafia, led in Spain by the businessman Gao Ping. Chinese citizens, Spanish businessmen, bankers, and even a porn actor, Nacho Vidal, and his sister were charged.
Long and heavy the summer of this 2026. In Spain, the level of political tension has continued to rise, reaching a paroxysm thanks to the Ceuta episode. An unexpected and adverse scenario for Pedro Sánchez and his latest major bet on the mass regularization of immigrants. The key points…
In the month of July, at the height of the arrival of visitors to Spain, the tourism sector reached nearly 3.1 million jobs. 110,000 more workers were registered with Social Security, 3.1% more than last year. Employment in this industry continues to grow fueled by the latest records of international tourists, which increased by 5% in the first half of the year, reaching 46.6 million. Even so, the unions remind that these figures still hide a high turnover in the workforce and difficulties in attracting and retaining workers, who often end up opting for other jobs with better salaries and greater possibilities for work-life balance.
Donald Trump does not lie. Yes, I know. Everyone has said it. Me too. The Washington Post counted more than 30,000 lies from him during his first presidential term. But –I apologize on my behalf and on behalf of so many other commentators– it is a serious misdiagnosis…
In the calm waters of the fishing harbor of Hafnarfjördur, on the southwest coast of Iceland, the blue of the sky and the white of the clouds are reflected, creating a beautiful postcard-like effect. From here, boats set sail to fish for cod, haddock, and other species in the prized Icelandic fishing grounds, which from August of last year to this July provided a combined catch of one million tons of fish.