The Generalitat’s Civil Protection is keeping the special flood risk plan, Inuncat, on alert this Thursday, due to the forecast of intense rain and storms, up to 60 liters per square meter, which could cause rivers to swell in the regions of Barcelona and Girona.
The journalist from La Vanguardia specialized in science and health, Josep Corbella, shares with readers the status of the evolution of hantavirus cases detected on the MV Hondius cruise ship. As he emphasizes, this is a virus “that has great difficulty transmitting between people,” so “we can be calm, because there is no risk that hantavirus will spread uncontrollably around the world.”
The judge of the National Court José Luis Calama has blocked the accounts of the former Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero while investigating the flow of money that he could have received for his influences among other things so that the Government approved the bailout of the airline Plus Ultra. Specifically, he has agreed to block the balances of his accounts up to the limit of 490,780 euros, which is the amount received from the company Análisis Relevante, whose administrator is his friend and also investigated Julio Martínez Martínez.
Iranian state television reported on Thursday night – already early Friday morning in Tehran – that the Revolutionary Guard had shot down a US fighter jet.
Someone was inhaling butane. Energy experts had long been warning that the war in Iran was causing the biggest oil supply shock in history. The closure of the Strait of Hormuz took 14 million barrels per day of crude off the market. To destroy so much demand, they said, the price of Brent should be more than double the pre-war level, sitting well above $150 per barrel. However, oil market operators seemed drowsy. Until April 17, prices were below $90 per barrel. In the last week, amid rumors of a worsening of the fighting, they have started to react. On April 30, prices exceeded $125.
The European Union resists breaking with Israel and has again ruled out suspending the Association Agreement. Not even partially. The issue, which had been formally requested by the Spanish Government, was the focus of Tuesday’s meeting of foreign ministers in Luxembourg, but the Council refused to make any decision on the matter due to the persistent division among the Twenty-Seven on an issue that remains too delicate for some capitals.
A group of Augustinian friars participate in a massive demonstration in Rome against the deployment of Cruise nuclear missiles (BGM-109G Griphon) at the Comiso military base, a few kilometers from the town of Ragusa, in the southeast of the island of Sicily. October 22,
A French soldier from the UN force deployed in Lebanon (UNIFIL) was killed this Saturday and three other soldiers were injured -two of them very seriously- in an attack recorded in the south of that country which President Emmanuel Macron attributed to Hezbollah. Hours later, this pro-Iranian Shiite militia issued a statement denying any involvement in the ambush against the blue helmet contingent, which sparked all kinds of speculation.
The war in Iran and the energy crisis resulting from the closure of the Strait of Hormuz are already being felt in the pockets of European citizens. The European Commission has lowered the economic forecasts for the eurozone this spring by three tenths, from 2.3% to 0.9% for this year, while inflation rises from 1.9% to 3% due to high fuel prices. This is something that the Economy Commissioner, Valdis Dombrovskis, had already been warning about: the risk of a “stagflation” scenario, with low growth and high inflation, with consumer prices through the roof.
The twelve-month Euribor will close April around 2.742% (with one data point pending to close the month), which represents its highest level since the end of 2024 and confirms the trend change started in March. The indicator rises 0.177 points compared to the previous month and 0.599 points compared to the same period in 2025, when it stood at 2.143%. This increase consolidates a scenario of rising credit costs after months of stability, in a context marked by geopolitical uncertainty and inflation expectations.