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Are infiltrations by Mossos d'Esquadra (Catalan police) common? This is how they have tried to regulate them in recent years.

Cesc Maideu

The ex-convict, considered at high risk of reoffending, was arrested a month later.

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Putin is convinced that Ukraine's defeat is imminent.

Albert Sort

Trump claims that the number two of the Islamic State has been eliminated

EFE

"China is trying to corner the US because of its own mistakes"

Núria Sala Ventura

Israel and Lebanon extend virtual ceasefire for 45 days

Catherine Carey

Budget agreement close: ERC convenes national council to give the green light

Mireia Esteve

"The country is bleeding dry": a harsh report criticizes the current Catalan economic model

Leandre Ibar Penaba

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The invasive snake that is wiping out an iconic species

Cristina Sáez

Tarragona, key to preventing planes from getting stuck on the ground

Jordi Mumbrú

Francesc Magrinyà:

"Cerdà would propose extending the green corridors throughout the city"

Gerard Pruna

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Virginia Torrecilla's 'carpe diem': "Alexia has been fundamental in my life"

Raúl Zambrano Lozano

"We are the true social engine of the town": the Barça fan clubs that bring life to Catalan towns

Toni Padilla

An extreme race to the point of delirium: "One day I found my three-year-old son alone on the road"

Arnau Segura

Periodisme lliure i compromès

Antoni Bassas analysis

Parlon's apologies help Niubó's negotiation

Parlon's apology helps Niubó's negotiations

Weather

Cold nights, little warmth during the day and the weather is not entirely clear on the weekend

Cold nights, little heat during the day and the weather is not clear at the weekend

Periodisme lliure i compromès

No more complexes: Catalonia protects its comic book heritage

Sílvia Marimon Molas

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The Comic Book Daily

Catalina Serra

How an "impossible" idea led to a breakthrough in pancreatic cancer

Gina Kolata i Rebecca Robbins / The New York Times

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Interview Alberto Gadel:

"Barcelona destroyed me. It was a mental short circuit."

Elena García Dalmau

Half-speed and with doubts among businesses: Bizum arrives in stores and restaurants

Albert Cadanet Vilà

The Generalitat claims 790,000 euros in Aragon for the Sijena artifacts returned in 2017

Antoni Ribas Tur

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'Mail clubs': the trend that is reviving postal correspondence among young people

Sara Roqueta

Meetings with tutors: what can we ask beyond the grades

Olga Vallejo

Who's at stake? The guide to navigating the Andalusian elections

Andrea Zamorano

Ayuso: "Mexico did not exist until the Spanish arrived"

ARA

"I've met many women in my life": that's how the six months of the Pujol case trial have gone

Martí Odriozola i Marcé

The bilateral State-Generalitat commission to sign the budget agreement will meet on Wednesday in Madrid.

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Jordi Martí informs the Junts leadership that he will launch an internal battle to be a candidate for Barcelona

Roger Palós and Núria Orriols Guiu

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More people displaced by wars than by natural disasters for the first time in 30 years

Núria Vila Masclans

Trump tunes the war music in Cuba

Antònia Crespí Ferrer

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The United States faces another sudden surge in food prices

The Economist

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Trump leaves China with announcements of "fantastic deals" but without concrete results

Dolors Rodríguez Puerto

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Digits and doodads

This is what artificial intelligence factories look like.

Albert Cuesta

Salvador Illa concludes his trip to California with the budgets almost in his pocket

Mireia Esteve

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Prosecutors are seeking a 27-year prison sentence for a waiter accused of deceiving, raping, and abusing a young woman with a disability.

Laia Galià

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Collboni saves with Junts the plan to regulate commerce in Ciutat Vella

Gerard Pruna

The neighborhood is preparing for the arrival of 30,000 new residents.

Carla Pérez Brichs

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A teacher in Barcelona has been arrested for sexual harassment and supplying drugs to students.

Cesc Maideu

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Oil prices soar again as the war in Iran reaches a stalemate

Alberto Prieto

The Labor Inspectorate imposes record fines of 53.5 million euros

Roger Hernández Pujol

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The Bank of Spain downplays the urgency of limiting mortgage lending despite rising prices

Núria Rius Montaner

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López defends the Spanish government's regulations on technology: "We are not dystopian"

Alberto Prieto

Ramon Alsina will succeed his father as president of BonÀrea

Alberto Prieto

Opinió

Towards a Catalonia of 9 million?

Journalism

Esther Vera, director of ARA, National Communication Award

Premium Club

ARA Premium Club members discover the taste and roots of peasant wine

Diario ARA

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Reader's Advocate

To publish or not to publish, that is the question

Opinió

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

Business leaders analyze the Messi phenomenon in Cornellà: "It could change the socio-economic reality of the city"

The Sagarra family: a history of Catalan theatre criticism

Cori Calero: "90% of effective climate policies are made at the local level"

“After 55 years in Gràcia, we only ask the Bishopric for a dignified exit.”

Joan Socies

What has become of those flowers?

Why does Barcelona have the only bookstore in the world dedicated to the Palestinian conflict?

Laura Serra

Hamaguchi signs the first masterpiece of Cannes 2026

Xavi Serra

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Steve McCurry fills the Palau Martorell with icons of a world in conflict

Antoni Ribas Tur

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'Life waits', a comic by Paco Roca and Rodrigo Terrasa

Paco Roca i Rodrigo Terrasa

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Montse and Julia's cuttlefish with peas: "Making traditional recipes, yes. Cooking like they did a hundred years ago, no need."

Empar Moliner

"A country of people earning around €1,000 a month cannot prosper."

Alejandra Palés

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"It's important to laugh and take off the mask of functional adults."

Xavi Serra

Investigació |

The Catalan clothing brand that took money from footballers and then didn't pay it back

Xavi Hernández Navarro

An unapologetically Catalan Barça

Pol Ferré

Israel criticizes Lamine Yamal over the Palestinian flag

ARA

Arbeloa-Mbappé: A new war erupts in the Real Madrid dressing room

Toni Padilla and Martí Molina

Why it's (almost) impossible to beat Florentino at the polls

Martí Molina

"I'm twenty years old, but they won't let me leave the house alone unless I'm with my brother, who is nine."

Mònica Bernabé

The secret to having great sex at 77

Selena Soro

Walden 7: This is what life is like fifty years later

Catalina Serra

Frida Kahlo, Virginia Woolf or Kandinsky: did their talent stem from suffering?

Laura Saula

Why is the whole world becoming nearsighted?

Anabel Herrera

Magazines

Which cities have the most expensive summer camps?

Elisabet Escriche and Lara Bonilla

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Children of colonies

Why are teachers who have done free colonies for decades now saying enough?

David Altimir

Sandra Monge Palladino

Sandra Monge Palladino: "You were born in Catalonia, but I chose to come here"

Albert González Farran

Antonio Ayuso

"If you are from science, you cannot be from humanities; it is ridiculous"

Francesc Orteu

Reconciled brothers.

Why forcing a child to apologize can be counterproductive?

Bàrbara Julbe

Ramon Miravet as a child.

Ramon Mirabet: "My parents separated in a very nice way"

Bea Cabezas

The house that looks out over old dairy farms

Cristina Ros

A young woman waiting on the street, dressed for her high school graduation

Are five hours of queue needed for a graduation dress?

Sílvia Rosés

When is your half birthday?

Mònica Planas Callol

20260423 Two women dressed as flamenco dancers, at the April Fair, in Seville

The flamenco dress: folklore or costume?

Sílvia Rosés

Anna Wintour at the King's Trust Global Gala held at Christie's on April 29, 2026, in New York

The devil who wears Prada is no longer scary

Sílvia Rosés

Flowers for men

Mònica Planas Callol

Gaudí's stained glass windows, like the inconsolable weeping of first love

Toni Vall

The public of the Tívoli Theatre in an archive image

Cultural policy must think more about demand

Andreu Arenas

A pack of Snickers, from Mars.

Mars, the discreet family empire of chocolate that invoices some €47,000M

Marc Amat

The general shareholders' meeting of Sabadell.

De Guindos will collaborate with IESE and the mobile sector is shaken

Xavier Grau del Cerro

Diners.

Money is worth less and less

Andrei Boar

Marc Puig at the shareholders' meeting

Will there be a merger of Puig and Estée Lauder?

Agustí Sala

Not a day at home

The story of a restaurateur who continues to serve passion, dish by dish.

Ivan Díez , Carles Domènech and Adrià Albets

The hotel Cala del Pi, with the restaurant of the same name, is located in the town Platja d'Aro

Rigatoni stuffed with oxtail with langoustines eaten in a restaurant overlooking the cove of Pi in Costa Brava

Trinitat Gilbert Martínez

The confectioner Josep Maria Tornés, from Tornés pastry shop, won this year the contest for the best xuixo in the world

Neither chocolate nor mango nor pistachio: Girona's xuixo wants to legally shield itself against substitutes

Trinitat Gilbert Martínez

The Santos, from Bar Cortijo.

The casseroles from bar Cortijo that feed a working-class neighborhood in Tarragona

Rosa Rodon

Quim from La Boqueria, at his stall in the Barcelona market

The fricandó from La Boqueria which has been spoken of for days with euphoria

Trinitat Gilbert Martínez

One of the specimens, the Grouper (epinephelus marginatus).

What is ciguatera, a new food poisoning that has already arrived in the Canary Islands

Rosa Rodon

Marta Pessarrodona:

"The only thing I'm afraid of is Alzheimer's."

Jordi Nopca

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THE DROUGHT OF THE CENTURY A historic drought, the most significant in 80 years, affected the region surrounding Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, last autumn.

And if a computer virus allowed us to access the digital files of a deceased loved one?

Anna Carreras Aubets

Panoramic view of Barcelona buildings

Why in Barcelona can we not stop talking about the place where we live

Clàudia Rius

Gillian Anderson, director Jane Schoenbrun and Hannah Einbinder during the photocall of the film Teenage Sex And Death At Camp Miasma at the Cannes Film Festival.

Reaching orgasm thanks to Gillian Anderson and a psychopathic killer

Xavi Serra

Marc Soler and Aina Clotet in 'Viva'.

Aina Clotet: "Desire and sex are part of life and we must claim it"

Xavi Serra

Pere Arquillué and Imma Colomer in 'Denmark'

Pere Arquillué and Imma Colomer premiere Lluïsa Cunillé's 'Hamlet'

Núria Juanico Llumà

ABT CUPRA VZ5 Front 635

Cupra Formentor VZ 635: Darwin was right

Ferran Vital

Taycan GT Turbo Weissach

Porsche shows its muscle in the electric sports car war

Ferran Vital

Bugatti W16 Mistral

The Volkswagen group sells Bugatti

Ferran Vital

Jordi Pujol Ferrusola arriving at the National Court on the last day of the trial

The Pujol case is ready for sentencing fourteen years after the proceedings began

The two Catalans who are candidates to be judges in the Strasbourg Court

Chaos in the Sun, the annual Nazi gathering on the Catalan coast

The Russian president, Vladimir Putin.

An uncertain future hangs over Putin

Westminster and farce: is the UK an ungovernable country?

A new Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo leaves at least 65 dead

Ferrocarriles de la Generalitat.

Why do FGC trains sound their horn?

Javier Padilla: "The US has left the WHO, but has benefited from the organization to remove its citizens from the cruise ship"

Three days and three nights in the emergency room of the Hospital del Mar: incommunicado and patients in the corridor

Fuel dispensers at a gas station.

The cost of living moderates the rise in April thanks to the cheapening of electricity and gas

Zara dethrones Nike and crowns itself the world's most valuable fashion brand

Tecnotramit will enter into creditors' proceedings after a scandal for alleged undue withholding of funds

The cover of ARA the comic and an illustration by Apa.

The ARA of the comic returns with a cover by Paco Roca and the entire newspaper illustrated by Catalan classics

Paco Roca: Paco Roca: "Fascism is like energy: it is neither created nor destroyed, it is transformed"

Take note of this name: Julie Roset

Mireia Porta, during the Sports Tomorrow Congress.

The invisible gasoline of Barça players

Cristhian Stuani makes the impossible possible and Girona believes in permanence

The mystery of Cata Coll's official jersey

Eduardo Casanova and Jordi Évole.

The blunder of 'Sidosa'

Four overtakes La Sexta, thirteen years later

Put a paparazzo on someone who wants to die

In Girona it is Temps de Flors until Sunday, May 18

What can you do this weekend? Flowers, gastronomy, music and other proposals

"Screens, sugar and 'scroll': this is how they hack our brains with superstimuli"

Time for terraces, from Paris to Barcelona

Doctor Bonaventura Clotet with the presenters of the event and the musical guests

Barcelona dresses in red in solidarity with the People in Red Gala

First concert of return of La Oreja de Van Gogh: between euphoria and suffering

The starry sky of the Met Gala, ever darker

Science and Technology

A child plays with soap bubbles

Playing and discovering leave a mark on children's brains

Do octopuses dream like humans?

Birds with shorter wings or crabs in yogurt pots: human activity forces species to evolve