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Europe stands firm against Trump and refuses to send a mission to the Strait of Hormuz

Gerard Fageda and Núria Orriols

Iran's weapon to cut off ship traffic

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Israel is beginning to admit that the end of the war in Iran is uncertain.

Teachers' strike: road closures in Barcelona and thousands of protesters on the first day of demonstrations

Felipe VI acknowledges that there were "abuses" in the conquest of America

N.O.G.

The Valencian High Court rejects indicting Mazón and asks the judge to continue investigating

Daniel Martín Fernández

PP and Vox agree to eliminate the Catalan language requirement for teachers in hard-to-fill positions in the Balearic Islands

Anna Mascaró

The military's features cause a neighborhood conflict in Sant Climent Sescebes

Aniol Costa-Pau

Plunging necklines and feathers: the best dresses from the Oscars

Alejandra Palés

Jessie Buckley, and the Oscar for a wild and intense actress

María Adell Carmona

Cava, cigars and Gaslight: that was the dream ending to Laporta's party

Martí Molina

"We are not ruling out a clause to make Barça players learn Catalan"

Toni Padilla

"The university has to pay me 23,000 euros": first victory in the courts for the María Zambrano researchers in Catalonia

Cristina Sáez

Periodisme lliure i compromès

16/03/2026

Trump doesn't like how the war is being portrayed

Videos

Teachers demonstrating in front of the PSC headquarters in Barcelona

Teachers demonstrating in front of the PSC headquarters in Barcelona

"There are no rats in Moncloa; I have seen them in Downing Street and the Élysée Palace."

Quim Aranda

Carles Rebassa:

“Since I was 13, I’ve been attacked for not switching to Spanish.”

Cati Moyà

The great Mediterranean all-you-can-eat buffet for groups in the center of Barcelona

Rosa Rodon

Abascal warns the PP that he wants to govern in Castile and León, Extremadura and Aragon

Andrea Zamorano and Martí Odriozola i Marcé

How much do presidents get paid?

Ivan Sànchez Clivillé

The Generalitat obtained a record collection of its own and ceded taxes in 2025

Agustí Sala

Silvia Orriols threatens a new vote of confidence

Xavi Tedó

The prosecution requests that the lawsuit against the judge in the DANA case be dismissed.

Daniel Martín Fernández

Oil holds above $100 despite easing this morning's gains

Roger Hernández Pujol

The Spanish government will approve extraordinary measures on Friday regarding the war with Iran.

Núria Orriols

Amec believes that the situation in the Middle East is "temporary" and that the "structural" problem is Chinese competition.

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From Iran to your monthly mortgage payment

Andrei Boar

Financial sector

UniCredit launches a €35 billion takeover bid for Commerzbank

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The Kremlin tests a total disconnection of Russia by cutting off internet access in central Moscow

Albert Sort

Why is Catalonia still trapped in the “valley of death” of innovation?

Emilio Palomares i Xavier López

A 34-year-old worker dies at a meat processing plant in Sant Miquel de Balenyà

Mònica Bernabé

Agreement to accelerate the rehabilitation of apartments with aluminosis in Besòs-Maresme

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Landlords see the seasonal rental law as unconstitutional: "It legalizes homelessness"

Albert Rigol

Catalonia prepares to protect itself from post-quantum era hackers

Diana Silva

First day of commuter rail works in Garraf: "I've already gotten used to the bus"

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Weather

Sun and calm tomorrow too, with small changes throughout the week

Albada this Monday in Begur, in Baix Empordà.

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Towards a Catalonia of 9 million?

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Where are the cheapest gas stations?

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Catalans who aren't Barça fans

Opinió

There's no need to cut back on small, everyday expenses.

"I have more in common with someone from Alcalá de Henares than with someone from Paseo de Gracia."

Jordi Martorell and Noemí Balà: “At Aortyx we do real and responsible innovation, listening to the patient and the doctor”

They work in Ibiza hotels, but live in caravans: now they are being evicted before the season.

ARA Balears

A telegenic literature?

Resilience fills in March

'Battle After Battle' triumphs at an Oscars ceremony that lacks political commentary, leaving 'Sirat' without an award

Xavi Serra

Who is Michael B. Jordan, the Oscar winner for best leading actor?

Eulàlia Iglesias

"From Bardem's 'No to war' to Streisand's tribute to Robert Redford": the best moments of the Oscars gala

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Ildefons Cerdà, from Eixample to be a world reference

Antoni Ribas Tur

Performing Arts

A major production of 'The Threepenny Opera' to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Grec and the Lliure

Núria Juanico Llumà

"I felt love at first sight when I met the chef Jordi Vilà"

Trinitat Gilbert Martínez

A grand concert for peace will open the 2026-27 season at the Palau de la Música

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Deception marks the new season of 'Crims' on TV3

Àlex Gutiérrez

Joan Laporta wins a resounding victory in the Barça elections

Pol Casaponsa Sarabia and Albert Nadal

Jordi Pujol, just another guest at Joan Laporta's party

Martí Molina

Football - La Liga

Barça rediscover Raphinha's brilliance and thrash Sevilla

Albert Nadal

Couples who share a profession: "We understand and support each other"

Bàrbara Julbe

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SOS: Montseny is drowning

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Why has Mongolia become the preferred destination for millennials?

Lauren Jackson

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Who are the great Catalan families of Passeig de Gràcia?

Elisenda Forés Català

25 years since the Balandrau tragedy: "I thought my eyes would freeze"

Arnau Segura

Magazines

The dream that Garrotxa puts on the plate: “We produce vegetables and mental well-being”

Rosa Rodon

A can of cod liver.

Cod liver, the snack that's making a comeback in cans (and that nutritionists recommend as an occasional treat)

Trinitat Gilbert Martínez

The interior courtyard of the Seventy Hotel, where you can have breakfast, lunch and dinner

The olive grove in the middle of Barcelona where you can eat ossobuco cannelloni and stuffed rigatoni

Trinitat Gilbert Martínez

Les Cosines: the new place to have vermouth in the Gràcia neighborhood of Barcelona where you will be served in Catalan

10 places to eat in Gràcia without making a mistake: traditional wineries and restaurants with character

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Màrius Serra

Entrevista Màrius Carol:

"Drinking orange juice with certain dishes is one of the most disappointing things that has ever happened to me."

Elena García Dalmau

A bikini being ironed

The bikini, the new attraction to draw tourists to Barcelona

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Interview Georgina Dalmau:

"Many children play at having WhatsApp groups before they are ready to manage them."

Francesc Orteu

Schoolyard in Vic

What weapon does the school have against hate?

Pau Gaitán

Elementary school class.

The 'surprising' questions families ask when choosing a school

Magda Minguet

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Neither footballers nor YouTubers: children who want to be farmers

Albert González Farran

Parents with their children.

Everything you need to know about the €200 child allowance

Elisabet Escriche

Eva Medina

Entrevista Eva Medina:

"I've found it difficult to set limits for my son because I don't consider them necessary."

Francesc Orteu

"If you are born to a couple who truly love each other, you already have a victory in your hand."

Núria Juanico Llumà

Closing ceremony of the second edition of Cap Butaca Buida, last year at the Time Out Market

The theater of my life

Núria Juanico Llumà

A scene from 'Shop'

Judit Colomer and Pau Vinyals: couple's 'striptease'

Santi Fondevila

Carles Rebassa, 66th Sant Jordi award

Carles Rebassa wins the Sant Jordi prize with the dangerous infatuation of a waiter

Núria Juanico Llumà

Gemma Cuervo JAVIER BARBANCHO / REUTERS

Actress Gemma Cuervo, grande dame of television comedy, dies

Xavi Serra

Jürgen Habermas during an academic event, in an archive image.

Jürgen Habermas, one of the great thinkers of the 20th century, dies

Núria Juanico Llumà and Xavi Serra

From Iran to your monthly mortgage payment

Andrei Boar

The headquarters of Mediaset Spain

Former minister Garmendia leaves Mediaset

Xavier Grau del Cerro

Saiz during his speech at the Circle of Economy

Elma Saiz and the dribbling technique with immigration

Agustí Sala

Oat milk cartons at the Vegetable Smoothies plant in Camprodon.

Vegetable Smoothies, the Catalan face of the oat milk boom

Leandre Ibar Penaba

Price panel at a gas station.

The war with Iran is now reaching SMEs

Carles Mas

Mar Vallverdú

Mar Vallverdú: "I wrote to a lawyer because I didn't want to go to jail"

Júlia Riera Rovira

What do the colors mean?

Esther Utrilla and Maria Labró

Sensitive topography (2)

Sensitive topography (2)

Margalida Vinyes

Why did Ryan Gosling and Eva Mendes have to hide from the cameras?

Mònica Planas Callol

A burning fault in an archive image

Las Fallas: almost 300 years of history of a festival that those in power have tried to tame

Daniel Martín Fernández

María del Carmen Banús

Maria del Carme Banús:

"I'm a matchmaker because I didn't want people to have as much trouble finding a partner as I did."

Alejandra Palés

The FC Barcelona first team at the Comunal Stadium in the summer of 1986, before a preseason match against FC Andorra

The era when Maradona, Kubala, or Urruti went to Andorra to train

Iker Mons

Super gasoline

Who benefits from the rise in fuel prices?

Ferran Vital

YangWang U9

BYD is considering entering Formula 1

Ferran Vital

Volkswagen EcoRacer 1

Volkswagen EcoRacer, when diesel was the future

Ferran Vital

Carlos Mazón, this Tuesday in the Valencian Parliament

The Valencian High Court of Justice rejects charging Mazón now

Felipe VI recognizes that there have been "abuses" in the conquest of America

Has the far-right wave reached its peak?

Soldiers at Arctic Basic Training managed by Arctic Command, in Kangerlussuaq, Greenland, on February 20, 2026.

The debate over nuclear weapons is shaking the Nordic countries

Municipal elections in France: the far right is gaining ground but the left is holding firm in Paris

Fifteen years since Fukushima: from catastrophe to a paradigm of modernity

The teachers' demonstration in Barcelona last month

A week of strikes in education begins: how will it affect you?

The wind leaves thousands of homes without power in the Girona region

A quadriplegic's battle to sign with his fingertip

Sociologist Isabelle Ferreras, during the presentation of the report.

Isabelle Ferreras: "The workers know the business better than someone who participates in a board meeting once a month."

What are shoplifters looking for in the supermarket? Goodbye to 'hunger' shoplifting

From the gas station to the mortgage: the impact of the war in the Middle East on our wallets

Amanda Villavieja, Laia Casanovas and Yasmina Pradera, the sound team of 'Sirat'.

"Some people attack me when they find out I worked on 'Sirat'"

The RCR, from an impossible lighthouse in the complete dream of La Vila

A grandmother's story of dignity

Joan Laporta surrounded by microphones and cameras celebrating his victory.

The best news of Laporta's victory

Fotyen Tesfay achieves the second fastest women's time of all time in the Barcelona Marathon

Initial reactions after the polls

The leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, with the president of Castilla y León, Alfonso Fernández Mañueco, at an event in Avila

Feijóo effect is sought, it will be rewarded

The most fearful Oscars and the shadow of you-know-who

How to avoid falling for food 'disinfluencers'

Elle Fanning on the red carpet

The Oscars red carpet: sequins so as not to offend power

Why do narcissists always get their way?

Who were the two Soviets who revolutionized Manhattan in the 1950s?

Rosalía

Rosalia apologizes for her words about Picasso: "I was not aware that there were real cases of mistreatment"

Britney Spears' DUI was not the DUI you would expect

"The most beautiful mass I have attended": Georgina Rodríguez leaves the Valley of Cuelgamuros delighted

Science and Technology

A total solar eclipse from Mazatlán, Mexico, on April 8, 2024.

A total solar eclipse will leave Catalonia in shadow: when and how to see it

Eva Miranda: "A man advised me to read Miranda's work: I had to tell him that Miranda was me."

J. Doyne Farmer, physicist: "I like doing things that people think are impossible"