Grifols is making a show of the proposal to take its biopharmaceutical business in the United States public. The company's non-executive chairwoman, Anne-Catherine Berner, has championed the initiative presented by the board of directors in March as a move to "highlight the extraordinary value" of its North American operations. In her address at the annual shareholders' meeting, held this Wednesday at the multinational's headquarters in Sant Cugat, Berner denied that the future market jump of Biopharma would involve "separating value from Grifols." "It consists of allowing the market to recognize this value more clearly," she stated.

Criticism of the preliminary agreement signed between the United States and Iran has escalated since the pact became known, opening a rift not only between supporters of Israel, but also within the Republican Party. With the aim of curbing these attacks, the White House decided to share the text of the document, but this has not been enough. This Thursday, US Vice President J.D. Vance held a press conference in which he defended his government's work in Iran, called for listening to the opinions of the Gulf countries, and tried to convince that Tehran must maintain a certain capacity to defend itself.

Amid rumors about what the memorandum of understanding announced between Washington and Tehran includes to extend the truce by 60 days and open a negotiation period, a senior US official read the text's content on Wednesday during a call with journalists. For now, there is no graphic evidence, but Iran's official news agency (IRNA) has also released details.

This Tuesday's statements from Tehran and Washington show that the battle to interpret the agreement between the United States and Iran has only just begun. While the official signing of the memorandum of understanding remains scheduled for next Friday in Geneva, the Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Abbas Araghchi, has increased pressure on Israel by stating that the end of the war in Lebanon constitutes an inseparable condition for the end of the conflict with Iran.

"Ships of the world, start your engines. Let the oil flow!", the American president wrote this Sunday on his network, Truth Social. On his 80th birthday, Donald Trump celebrated that the agreement with Iran had been "completed", congratulated all those involved and boasted of having gone much further than any other leader of the United States.

Tired and weary, the Iranian players circled the Los Angeles stadium pitch, applauding the fans. In the stands, thousands of Iranian-American citizens were cheering them on while displaying monarchist flags. That is, symbols banned in present-day Iran. But for a moment, if only for a moment, it seemed that all Iranians could walk side-by-side, united. Iran's national team debuted at the World Cup by drawing 2-2 in a beautiful match against a combative New Zealand that surprised with its daring. It was a day when football triumphed, with goals and spectacle, even though in the preceding days, the talk, as expected, had only been about politics. A country's anthem doesn't always play on the territory of the country that has bombed it.

Donald Trump celebrated his 80th birthday with the White House gardens transformed into a Roman circus with martial arts fighters and seven fights to honor the emperor. A birthday rounded off, moreover, with a preliminary agreement in Iran, which Israel's bombings of Lebanon made falter until the last minute.

The memorandum that the United States and Iran have virtually signed and plan to formalize this Friday in Switzerland is presented as an attempt to extinguish several fires simultaneously in the Middle East. It is not a definitive treaty, but a framework of understanding that opens sixty days of negotiation and seeks, above all, to avoid a new regional escalation.

The week begins under the sign of good news, apparently, which is the peace agreement between the United States and Iran. I say "apparently" because it is an announced but not signed agreement, and on top of that it is threatened by a friend of Trump, Netanyahu, who says he will not withdraw from southern Lebanon. Of all the times it seemed the war was coming to an end, this is the most plausible, but what do you want me to tell you, at this point, about the reliability of Trump and an Israeli prime minister who is running forward to save his skin by killing thousands of people in Gaza and Lebanon?

There is a certain left that views an Iranian nuclear Islamism favorably as a counterbalance to Israeli military power. Does this argument make sense? Let's recap. It was in 2002 that moles from the opposition People's Mujahedin Organization revealed the existence of the secret nuclear weapons program of the Shiite Totalitarian Theocracy (TTXI) in Natanz. Then came the economic sanctions from the UN, the US, and the European Union against Iran, as well as the first cyberwar in history – the sending of the Stuxnet virus to the same nuclear power plant, organized by Barack Obama and Benjamin Netanyahu in 2010 – as well as the assassination of the regime's nuclear scientists, attacks, and sabotage, which continue to this day. Allah did not inform his envoys in Iran that the eyes of American satellites were observing every step of their “hidden” nuclear activities, without Washington having any intention of overthrowing them at the time. With a corrupt and exacerbated neoliberal capitalism and a medieval persecution against the true Iranian anti-imperialist forces, the TTXI had contributed to turning what had been the most relevant power in the region into an outcast and isolated state, known worldwide for beating, year after year, its own execution record and for persecuting rebellious Iranian teenage girls who had brought it to its knees – more so than Mossad spies dressed in cassocks and turbans.

“Don't come near me!”, Ilia Topuria shouted at the North American Justin Gaethje on Friday in front of thousands of people. "Why, are you going to hit me? Come on, do it! I'm quite close!" Before he knew it, the lightweight champion had already given his opponent a surprise shove. It was during the presentation of the fight that the two fighters staged this Sunday at the White House, which coincided with Donald Trump's 80th birthday.

The United States and Iran have finally closed a deal that provides for the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz and the cessation of military operations in the region. The first to announce the pact was Pakistan, which is acting as mediator, and then it was confirmed by the US President, Donald Trump, and the Iranian regime.

"Kenya is not a colony of the United States!", "Our country is not a dump!", "We reject Ebola". These cries have been heard in various demonstrations that in recent days have been repeated in the Kenyan city of Nanyuki, the center of a controversy unleashed by the government of Donald Trump. The United States has decided to locate a field hospital here to isolate American citizens who have been exposed to the Ebola outbreak that continues ravaging the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo,, with the aim of keeping them away from North American territory.

Iran and the United States are on the verge of signing an agreement that would essentially allow the resumption of cargo ship traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, a key passage for global hydrocarbon transport. Messages sent by both sides indicate that the two parties have agreed on the text, but the final ratification by the leaders of both countries has not yet occurred, and contradictions persist regarding when it might happen. Both from Washington and Islamabad, the main negotiator of the process, optimistic messages were repeated this Saturday, stating that the signing could be made official in the coming hours, although Tehran has cooled expectations.

From threatening to erase Iran from the map to announcing an agreement within hours… which then doesn't materialize. From stating (about 40 times) that the war is about to end to assuring that he is in no hurry to end the conflict. And from making rising prices his main campaign objective to saying he "loves" inflation and that the latest figures don't worry him; in fact, they are "great".

The US president, Donald Trump, announced this Friday night the death of Héctor Guerrero Flores, better known as El Niño Guerrero, the leader of the Venezuelan cartel Tren de Aragua, considered by Washington a terrorist organization. Venezuela has also confirmed the death, which occurred in the state of Bolívar, in southeastern Venezuela.

Despite the cross-attacks of recent days, the United States and Iran have already agreed "the text of the peace agreement", as reported on social media by the Prime Minister of Pakistan, Shehbaz Sharif, who is acting as mediator between the two parties. However, for the moment the parties have not yet given their final approval.

A few months ago, this March, Donald Trump received a delegation from the North American Football Federation and asked the coach, the Argentine Mauricio Pochettino, if the United States can win the World Cup. "I told him that we can win it," said the former Espanyol player. Pochettino has a challenge ahead: achieve good results and get the team to excite a country that arrives very divided at the event. The debut will be against the Paraguay team on Saturday at three in the morning.

Donald Trump's plot twists in his war against Iran are constant, and this Thursday he offered one of the clearest examples. After a second night of crossfire, the President of the United States had threatened more bombings and had even raised the possibility of invading the Iranian island of Kharg, the country's main oil hub. A few hours later, however, he assured that he had canceled the planned attacks, announced a "great deal," and declared the war over. But Tehran has denied that the pact is closed, in a dynamic of affirmations and denials that has already become habitual.

Billionaire Bill Gates told the U.S. Congress on Wednesday that he made “a serious mistake” by maintaining a years-long relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. "I should never have met with Epstein," he said, adding that he never witnessed or had "any indication" that the convicted pedophile was involved in "criminal conduct." He also said that Epstein knew about his infidelities and “was prepared” to use them to pressure him.