The protesters gather every night, until the early hours of the morning: “No to the Trump family resort.” For some time now, Jared Kushner and his wife Ivanka Trump have set their sights —and money— on a stretch of Albanian coastline, a lagoon with flamingos, seals, and nesting areas, to transform it into a huge luxury complex. All of this in a protected area that many Albanians want to protect precisely from the Trump family.
A total of 92,000 visitors have walked through the Comic Barcelona fair from Friday until today, Sunday. A figure slightly lower than the 110,000 of the previous edition, partly due to the change of pavilion because of construction work inside Fira Montjuïc. That does not take away from Meritxell Puig, director of Ficomic, the organizing entity of this event, feeling “satisfaction” with how things have gone this year and with the sweet moment that comics are experiencing. “More families than ever have come,” she told La Vanguardia while recalling that this 2026 is the year they have had the most authors, both national and international, and the most publishers from different parts of the world, who “have been able to see the talent that is cultivated here, which is no small thing.”
Arteta’s Arsenal, which seemed on the ropes seven days ago, crowns its fantastic week with an almost definitive step towards winning the Premier League due to Manchester City’s stumble and with a ticket to the Champions League final in Budapest (Saturday, May 30) after a suffocating tie against Atlético, who will end the season empty-handed. Simeone’s gamble to put everything into the Cup, a final they lost on penalties to Real Sociedad, and the European competition, in which they performed at a superlative level, did not pay off perfectly, but they were knocked out by details against the ‘gunners’, who had more composure and squad depth, victorious in the delicate moments in both matches.
It is about “toppling a government, not at the polls but with other tricks,” warned Minister Óscar Puente yesterday, in the face of the flood of legal cases pressuring Pedro Sánchez. “The PSOE will not tolerate it, we will not bow to anyone’s attempts to disturb our democracy through methods that are not democratic,” warned the Minister of Transport from Congress.
The match between the Spaniard Rafael Jódar and the Italian Luciano Darderi, belonging to the quarterfinals of the Rome Masters 1,000, was momentarily interrupted due to a technical problem with the system used by the referees to record the score and the hawk-eye.
The U.S. administration is having great difficulties advancing the Peace Plan for Gaza. After two days of on-the-ground talks, the special envoy of the U.S. president, his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, only secured a vague commitment from the Israeli prime minister to “move forward.” Benjamin Netanyahu insisted that Israel will not withdraw its army from the Gaza Strip until Hamas has been completely disarmed, a position he has not changed for weeks. In his meeting with Kushner, which was described as “extensive, deep, and very productive” in a statement from the Peace Board, Netanyahu requested that a U.S. general oversee the delivery of weapons by the Palestinian group.
The campus of the Carlos III University of Madrid, in Getafe, woke up this morning with the particular bustle of the first days of the school year. In the cafeteria, it smelled of freshly made toast and grilled croissants, and several waiters were busy serving coffee to professors and veteran students, while the newcomers looked around what, at times, will be an extension of the classrooms during this year. On everyone’s faces, there was excitement and curiosity, as well as some confusion among those who were new to the university. But both those starting and those who have been walking these halls for several years know that this year will be different because Princess Leonor will also be among them. The eldest daughter of the Kings must have noticed that expectation as soon as she arrived, when on the way to the campus she passed by a bus shelter where a well-known online graphic design platform installed days ago the message “Welcome to the uni, Princess.”
Chief inspector with professional ID 81.067 is not just another police officer among the line of uniformed officers who have testified—or will testify—as witnesses in the National Court room where the Kitchen Operation trial is taking place. So far, some—assuming their testimony will be brief—have answered questions standing about their knowledge of the parapolice device used to monitor the former treasurer of the Popular Party, Luis Bárcenas. Others have preferred to sit down and get comfortable, uncertain about how long the interrogation will last. Agent 81.067 went further: he used a side table to carefully arrange stacks of reports and a laptop on which he could consult data down to the last detail. All this under the incredulous gaze of the court, which had to remind him that the oral hearing “favors spontaneity,” “what memory allows to recall.” The meticulous police officer is Manuel Morocho, the lead investigator of the Gürtel case, who struck at the defenses’ weak point by confirming that there was a parallel investigation into Bárcenas without judicial permission.
As the days go by, the resources to describe a situation that has been repeated since more than 70,000 people irregularly entered Ceuta from Morocco through the El Tarajal beach on July 30 are running out.
An excited Montserrat Torrent made her way this Monday through the half a thousand people who filled the Oratorio Sant Felip Neri after having realized the dream of her life: the musical baptism of the instrument that bears her name and whose construction has been delayed for six decades. “It has been extraordinary,” she said after offering a concert in dialogue with the poem that Narcís Comadira has dedicated to the new Montserrat Torrent organ. Surrounded by the performers who premiered the organ made by Albert Blancafort with her, the centenarian artist added: “There will be many concerts. There will be many joys.”