The Government enters a new phase in managing the Ceuta crisis, where humanitarian care for the people who entered irregularly in a rush becomes a priority over the threat at the border, once Morocco has demonstrated its firm control of the line.
The U.S. Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, Elbridge Colby, was blunt last week: “America is not disengaging from Asia. We are not leaving; in fact, we are digging in.”
With a slight delay from the scheduled time, past eight in the evening, Rodri landed at El Prat airport amid great media anticipation. The player, unlike on other occasions and as had already happened in the morning with Cancelo, had no problem posing for photographers and making brief statements before heading to a city hotel to dine with FC Barcelona officials before being presented as a new blaugrana player in the coming hours. His initial message was emphatic: “These have been very intense days but I am very happy, playing for Barça is a dream and I am already eager to meet my teammates, some of whom I already know, and to get to work. The Champions League? I come to win everything that lies ahead.”
Student apartments are becoming a very attractive asset for investors, as reflected in the price increase in the market. Only Barcelona is containing the prices of rooms for university students compared to last year, according to a study by the consultancy specialized in these rentals Live4Life, with an average of 600 euros both at the start of the 2025-2026 academic year and in the current 2026-2027 year.
The seismic episode affecting Granada and its metropolitan area, which had its maximum impact with the very shallow earthquake of magnitude 4.8 that occurred on Saturday, August 15, has already recorded 348 tremors since Friday, most of low magnitude (less than 2) and all at very shallow depths (less than 10 kilometers). Of these, 37 have been felt by the population.
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 United States Supreme Court once again refuses, and it seems definitively, to erase the serious stain on President Donald Trump’s reputation, whose image will be legally associated with the sexual abuse of writer E. Jean Carroll.
The President of the United States, Donald Trump, threatened this morning to bomb Oman, a traditional ally, if it “interferes” in the talks with Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. The president issued the warning during an interview with Fox News, the same day the ceasefire signed two months ago with Iran expired, under which both countries gave themselves 60 days to seek a definitive end to the war.
Cruises continue to rise in Barcelona and 2026 is already progressing above the record levels reached last year, in a year also marked by an international situation that has strengthened the weight of the Mediterranean – and of the Catalan capital – within the programming of the major shipping companies. This is evidenced by the finalized figures for the month of July: between January and July, the Port of Barcelona recorded 3.23 million passenger movements, 5.3% more than in the same period of 2025. Of these, 2.3 million corresponded to cruise passengers, 7.3% more, while 929,540 were ferry users.
At the European Central Bank (ECB), they do not talk about a bubble around AI, but they are already hinting at the term and beginning to imagine such a scenario. A group of economists from the institution has just published an article measuring the eurozone’s exposure to the “AI boom” and describing the different transmission channels to the European economy in case of a market crash. They estimate that only households in the eurozone have invested, often unknowingly, more than 440 billion euros in the uncertain business battle around this technology, but the total figure for all European investors is much higher.