Guillem Agulló was an 18-year-old Valencian nationalist, anti-fascist, and independentist who was murdered by a gang of Nazis in April 1993 in Montanejos (Alt Millars). His only crime was being known for his ideas by his murderer, Pedro Cuevas. Cuevas stabbed him in the heart. Death was almost instantaneous. The murderer and his gang left the scene singing the Cara al sol. This detail is important because, in the subsequent trial, a witness was forced to sing the well-known fascist anthem, theoretically to prove that it identified him correctly. It is just one of the many surreal elements present in the whole affair.And it is that the crime against Agulló opened the doors to an unspeakable process that masked the facts, excused the assassins and criminalized the Valencian nationalist and anti-fascist movement. All this is what the professor, writer and musician Rafa Xambó has been patiently investigating the professor, writer and musician Rafa Xambó for four long years. The result of this research is The murder of Guillem: lies, fascists and robes, a huge volume of more than 400 pages, with dense lettering, which explains how the Montanejos crime was treated in the precarious and colonized Valencian media ecosystem and what the judicial outcome of all this was.This volume is the culmination of a series of initiatives of different types that have kept the case hot over the last decades. I am talking about the novel Guillem, by Núria Cadenes (Amsterdam Llibres, 2020) or the film La mort de Guillem, by Carlos Marqués-Marcet (2020). This latter title was broadcast by the televisions of Catalonia, Valencian Country, and the Balearic Islands, and achieved figures of more than 600,000 viewers in total.Xambó, however, does not fictionalize. His has been a work of newspaper archives and of looking closely at the judicial summary. His conclusions are unassailable: after the crime, the main local newspaper, Las Provincias, launched a brutal campaign to excuse the assassins, attributing it all to a “youth brawl” (sic). The other media outlets (including Canal 9) also played an incomplete and unprofessional role, but the newspaper from the capital city took the prize.The end of a convulsive transition in the Valencian Country

For those who do not know the history of Las Provincias, it will be necessary to explain that the newspaper founded in 1866 by Teodor Llorente (patriarch of the Valencian Renaixença) was the main agent, since 1979, for the promotion of anti-Catalanism in Valencia and the criminalization of nationalism. Agulló's episode, in reality, was the cherry on a rotten cake that had been poisoning Valencian society for twenty years. At its head, the sadly famous María Consuelo Reyna.In reality, the stab in the heart against Guillem Agulló represents, in a way, the end of the convulsive Transition in the Valencian Country. A period of unpunished crimes (the bombings of Joan Fuster and other intellectuals, aggressions against democratic authorities...) which Xambó takes care to recall so that we are not at all surprised by the ridiculous conviction of Pedro Cuevas with which the trial that took place in Castelló de la Plana was settled.As a sardonic epilogue to this story, it will be necessary to note what Pedro Cuevas did – the kid who claims he killed Agulló for esoteric, juvenile, and testosteronic reasons – after serving the four years in prison to which he was sentenced. He immediately joined the FAS (Antisystem Front) and was implicated in Operation Panzer. In this raid, the Civil Guard dismantled a neo-Nazi cell with weapons and propaganda that was dedicated to the hunt for anti-fascists and immigrants.This is how history is written, undoubtedly...

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First, the president of Extremadura, María Guardiola, had to go through Vox's address book, despite the difficulties; then it was the turn of Jorge Azcón's Aragon and Alfonso Fernández Mañueco's Castilla y León. But the greatest exponent of the PP moderates, the Andalusian president, the "Sorayist Juanma Moreno Bonilla, who will also yield to Vox's demands, as he himself has admitted and as the state leadership wants. The agreement is being finalized, but the only doubt remaining is the timing, that is, whether he will capitulate for this Thursday's investiture session or postpone it further, playing hard to get for public opinion. In any case, according to sources familiar with the negotiations between the PP and Vox consulted by ARA, the dilemma was clear from the start: "Either you accept the conditions or elections," said the Vox negotiating team.

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The 1978 World Cup was held in Argentina during a military dictatorship. Some survivors recounted hearing goals being cheered through the televisions of their torturers or even shouts coming from the Monumental stadium, a few streets away from the epicenter of repression of Jorge Rafael Videla's regime.

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Karla took fifteen years to make the move. Half her life. It was a long time of silence. Also of shame. Even of fear. Hours of psychologists to gradually put the pieces back in place. Until she was ready to report the man who sexually assaulted and tortured her when she was just a fourteen-year-old girl.

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Salvador Illa will reach the midpoint of his term with the political stability he sought. This Thursday, Parliament will definitively approve the budgets that, weeks ago, he agreed upon with Esquerra and Comuns, the two investiture partners who this morning will add their votes to validate the first accounts of the socialist government. However, both formations warned this Wednesday that their support is not a blank check, but rather they demand further steps from the executive to fulfill the investiture agreements. Especially the Republicans, who are awaiting the materialization of their star pact, the new financing model, which at this time depends on the support that the socialists can achieve in Congress, where it must be validated.

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Julia Aceituno first set foot in Girona in 1990. She had grown up in Talanga, a small town of 40,000 inhabitants an hour from the capital of Honduras, Tegucigalpa, and at the time she was 36 years old and had three children. "I came for a holiday during the time of Felipe González," she recalls. At that time in Girona there were only nine of her compatriots: "We all knew each other!". Thirty-six years later, in the urban area of Girona alone, it is estimated that there are about 20,000 people of Honduran origin, and in the entire province, 40,000.

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A customer enters A la Premsa d’Aquell Dia, a fascinating, captivating, essential shop at Joaquim Costa street 44, a Barcelona classic. He asks Àgata if she has any newspaper from June 28, 1957. She consults the volumes, handmade, indecipherable to anyone not from the house, and immediately finds that, from the requested day, they have the Diari de Barcelona, La Vanguardia, and Abc. The customer is unsure if the recipient of the gift will prefer La Vanguardia or Abc, and Àgata offers to show him both copies. We accompany him to the storage room. He climbs the two shelves – from floor to ceiling – where the newspapers should be. And, indeed, he finds them immediately.

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41% of the Spanish population contributes more through taxes and fees than it receives in benefits. The proportion rises to 68% between the ages of 25 and 64, the active stage of citizens, and falls below 10% at the extremes of the life cycle, childhood and old age, which maintains a growing trend. The issue is that formulas must be devised to distribute the costs of population aging "in a more predictable and equitable way between generations" to "avoid them being transferred in a less visible way to future generations through higher levels of debt," according to a study by the economic policy center EsadeEcPol. One of the solutions they propose consists of increasing the proportion of the working population aged 55 to 64, which is below the European average, and which contributes the most in social security contributions and taxes.

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In 2017, five women accused comedian Louis C.K. of sexual harassment. They accused him of masturbating in front of them in a professional context. The stand-up comedian admitted it in a statement and expressed his remorse for the events. From that moment on, the distributor of his new film canceled the premiere of the film and Stephen Colbert canceled the invitation to interview him on his show. HBO removed his stand-up specials and the magnificent sitcomLucky Louie from its catalog.

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I love Barcelona very much, despite the difficulties. That the news in the city now is the resistance of two lifelong bars to change the two old signs on their facades because they are larger than the municipal ordinance stipulates is a joke compared to all the easily observable infringements, such as the disgrace of the tacky signs and the blinding lighting of the 24-hour supermarkets (which, by the way, no one can explain how they manage to pay the rent for a central location), which are an insult to Barcelona, which prides itself on design and good taste. Not to mention the Barcelona that is incapable of enforcing the law that prevents a bar or restaurant from running an electrical cable from the facade to the awnings of the terraces, when the safety regulations prohibit overhead electrical cables, as they pose a clear risk of electrocution, detachment, or fire.

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We explain everything you need to know to enjoy the Tour de France that will cross Catalonia: from mobility impacts to activities organized by the cycling race.

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Iñaki Gabilondo has found himself embroiled in a controversy as the host of the program La gran aventura de la lengua española, on La1, by stating that Spanish was never imposed in Latin America through conquest. It is true that the great Hispanization of these territories came later, when, once they became republics, they opted to promote a state language, and Spanish was the best positioned considering its implementation in structures such as administration, school, or church. I wonder why, of course. Perhaps because from 1550 to 1782, the different kings issued a minimum of 32 decrees that urged education in Spanish for indigenous communities? The will to Hispanize was unequivocal, as a way of imposing religion, even though the harsh reality was that there were not enough personnel to do so, so in the end the priests sent to the New World understood that it was more practical for them to learn the local languages.

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We have been living with this sticky heat for days. That puts us in a bad mood. That makes our children (and teachers, and monitors, and people who work in educational centers) finish the course inside boiling classrooms. The platform has denounced it Classrooms on Fire, and by moving its map of Catalonia you can see high school classrooms that reached 39 degrees. Also a chilling string of classes that have exceeded the legal range, which states that “The temperature of rooms where sedentary work typical of offices or similar is carried out shall be between 17 and 27 degrees”. And the course is already over and it seems we are forgetting about it, but it should not be so.

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To Jonas Vingegaard, two-time winner of the Tour de France, the voice of Jordi Vidal (Barcelona, 1963) will surely sound familiar, as he is the announcer for the Volta Ciclista a Catalunya, which the Dane won this year with a triumph in the general classification and two stage victories. Vingegaard has heard his name every day in the Volta while Jordi Vidal did his job as an announcer in front of the professional cyclists and the public at the roadside during the seven Catalan stages. The Volta has a lot to do with Vidal being the Catalan announcer for the three Tour de France starts in Barcelona, Tarragona, and Granollers this year, thanks to the recommendations of Rubèn Peris, the general director of the Volta. “Friend Peris recommended me to the Tour during my first year as announcer for the Volta in 2016, so that I would be the Catalan announcer for the arrival and departure of stages in Andorra,” Vidal explains to ARA.

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In Madrid, Galician ambiguity doesn't pay, and that's why when Alberto Núñez Feijóo sends messages that can be interpreted as a gesture towards Junts or towards Catalonia (whether or not that is the Galician leader's intention), someone quickly reminds him that this path leads nowhere. This Wednesday, the great mastermind of the Madrid right and its spiritual guide, José María Aznar, has set Feijóo on the course he should follow. Aznar has called for a "national majority" that includes the left and the right to oust Pedro Sánchez. "This majority will be national or it will not be," he reiterated. Translated into political terms, Aznar tells Feijóo that he must forget about Junts and the PNB and, instead, look towards people like Emiliano García-Page and Jordi Sevilla, that is, the Felipe González-era PSOE. Lest there be any doubt, Isabel Díaz Ayuso has cried out against "the constant independence threat".

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The therapy that Jonathan Andic and Isak Andic were undergoing to improve their father-son relationship is one of the elements at the center of the investigation to try to clarify how the founder of Mango died. In the middle of this therapy was a coach, J.L., who practiced a method inspired by Freud and his metaphorical theory of the death of the father. J.L.'s role is key to the point that the judge is investigating whether she was involved in the businessman's death, and this Tuesday she spent two hours and forty minutes testifying, leaving the courts as a witness and not as a suspect.leaving the courts as a witness and not as a suspect.From J.L.'s therapy, reported by this newspaper, the messages from Jonathan to Isak such as "I'm not surprised you thought I was capable of killing you" have emerged. Furthermore, the judge also indicates that the coach allegedly facilitated the founder of Mango giving a living inheritance to his son, with the aim of not losing their relationship. The entire process of handing over this living inheritance, according to the judge, was mediated by J.L. The magistrate also spoke of an "obsession with money" by Jonathan Andic.

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Change at the helm of the Conservatori del Liceu. Maria Serrat, who has been its general director since 1999, hands over the reins to Iñaki Sandoval (Pamplona, 1974), who is currently the dean of the Hong Kong Music School. "I will join the conservatory in December," Sandoval announced at a press conference at the Ca l'Isidre restaurant, in Barcelona's Raval neighborhood. For Sandoval, this new responsibility is like "a return home." "My connection with the Conservatori del Liceu is intimate and foundational. I started my musical studies in Pamplona at the age of 8, but it was a scholarship from the government of Navarra that allowed me, as a young person, to travel to Barcelona. Here I supplemented my higher studies in classical piano at this very institution, and I began my training in jazz at AULA de Música Moderna. Years later, I had the privilege of directing it, of founding the Jazz Department of the Conservatory and of promoting its postgraduate studies. Barcelona is a city I deeply love and where I have experienced some of the happiest moments of my life," explained Sandoval, who has also undertaken academic work in Estonia.

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United States pressure on NATO allies to spend more on defense and do it buying American weapons doesn't stop. Washington's ambassador to the Atlantic Alliance, Matthew Whitaker, has warned that Donald Trump's administration will carry out a new strategy to make its transatlantic partners believe: "It will bring benefits" to governments that spend more on defense and punish those that allocate fewer resources to it.

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When the Saudi operator STC entered Telefónica, the telecom company, then chaired by José María Álvarez-Pallete, argued that the "Spanishness" of the shareholding was not lost. It said so because a core group based in the State was maintained with historical shareholders such as Criteria, BBVA itself, and CaixaBank, which sold its stake in 2024. The State Industrial Shareholdings Corporation (SEPI), the Spanish government's investment arm, would later join them, acquiring 10% of Telefónica's share capital. Today, however, this Spanish core has been diluted. CaixaBank's departure two years ago is now joined by BBVA's reduction, which in the last few hours has gone from controlling 5.007% of the share capital to holding only a 1.965% stake, as confirmed by ARA from market sources.

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With animus refrescandi, while reading ARA online, I stopped at the advertisement for an air-conditioner-that-isn't-quite-an-air-conditioner called Epi-cooler. Since they don't sell it in fan shops (which are having a great summer and July) but only sell it online, they tell you all sorts of things that make it irresistible if you're one of those people who still want to go to the shop. It has "a wall bracket included with plugs and screws" and a standard plug (down with droughts) of the brand or perhaps the Schuko model (1.8 m). And I was just about to order it without specifically asking for divine intervention, when I read that it also has a "Manual in Spanish (also understandable for people over 70)".

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José María Aznar must always be listened to. Beyond the occasional strident declaration or the catchy soundbite that makes headlines, what he says usually reflects in depth the thinking of the dominant right-wing in Madrid. Not always coincident with what, by intuition, the Galician Alberto Nuñez Feijóo might think.

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One of the words economists use most is “it depends.” Perhaps we like to sound interesting or to split hairs, but mostly it’s because reality is complex and the questions we ask are difficult to answer with a simple yes or no. This is what I believe is happening with the question in the title: it depends on how we look at it.

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Among the reasons for President Donald Trump to offer a memorandum of understanding to the Shiite Totalitarian Theocracy of Iran (STTI) were: saving the Soccer World Cup in the United States (he did not want to disturb this great business with the sound of missiles), lowering fuel prices before the November mid-term elections, and finding a dignified way out of the quagmireof the Persian Gulf after failing to overthrow the regime as an electoral asset.

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The consortium behind the project for Móra la Nova (Ribera d'Ebre) and San Fernando de Henares (Madrid) to host one of Europe's artificial intelligence (AI) gigafactories boasts unanimity. This Wednesday, Pedro Sánchez's government convened in Moncloa the representatives of who, for now, forms part of the consortium that has sponsored the project's candidacy for its first official family photo. For the Spanish government, the company that has been established for this technological project to become a reality in the State is an example of the "importance" of public-private collaboration, and it takes on even more "relevance" when considering that the companies that make up the consortium, and which hold the majority, are "leaders in their sectors," Moncloa highlighted in a statement.

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This year's is the World Cup of blurred borders and that of the diasporas. Almost 25% of the 1,248 players who compete in it defend the jersey of a national team different from their country of birth. The most paradigmatic case is Curaçao, which only has one player originally from the Caribbean island. The rest are from the Netherlands, the territory of which Curaçao depends on, which is not an independent state. In the World Cup there are up to 67 Dutch footballers, a figure that only France, which has 98, surpasses.

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Tatxo Benet definitively separates from Mediapro after reaching an agreement whereby he has sold the 5% of shares he still held in Southwind, the audiovisual company's main shareholder. In this way, the group's co-founder ceases to have any relationship with the company, and in a statement he pointed out that the operation "means the total and definitive separation" of the entrepreneur from Lleida.

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Temperatures have dropped this first day of July thanks to the entry of cooler winds from the north, with full summer heat but more moderate in the middle of the day. Most values have ranged between 30 and 35°C, nothing like the almost 40°C yesterday. But the exception has been the coast of Tarragona, where the reheated wind has caused a warm spike. The 36.4°C reached in the city of Tarragona stand out.

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The thirty or so Catalan practices participating in the UIA architects' congress, most as speakers, others as moderators, reveal the character of the new generations: rooted and at the same time with international ambition. Many of these architects entered the market in the midst of a crisis and had to diversify to get by. And all are more aware than ever of the sector's great social and environmental challenges. "The selection of practices is not a matter of individuals, but of contexts. There are certain practices that are at a professional moment of introducing new parameters that have marked a turning point," says Albert Bajet, the congress curator along with Maria Giramé, Carmen Torres, Pau Sarquella, Tomeu Ramis, and Mariona Benedito. "While forty years ago we talked about the autonomy of architecture and its undeniable capacity to transform spaces and the city, the practices represented at the congress, both Catalan and international, make us realize that there is a great diversity of phenomena and disciplines that interact with space." Previous generations, those of the architects who built Olympic Barcelona, are also represented at the congress, but on routes organized by the congress itself. "There is no tabula rasa; rather, the younger ones collect, with more or less significant transformations, built, geological, cultural legacies...", says Bajet.

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Plataforma per la Llengua has filed a complaint with the Labour Inspectorate against the office and co-working space company Aticco "for having dismissed a worker for habitually speaking Catalan at work, in Barcelona", they explain in a statement. The entity hopes that an investigation will be opened into the Catalan company "to investigate whether it has imposed Spanish as the mandatory language of communication and has limited the use of Catalan" and, if appropriate, for corrective and sanctioning measures to be adopted. Plataforma will also take the case to the Síndic de Greuges of Barcelona and will report Aticco to the new Office for the Protection of Linguistic Rights of the Generalitat de Catalunya, as the signs and fixed information in the premises must be displayed, at least, in Catalan.

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The Generalitat's flagship housing plan —and arguably one of the most significant of the legislature— is to add 50,000 protected homes to the public stock by 2030. Salvador Illa's strategy involves identifying plots of land ready for construction and then offering them to municipalities and developers. This Wednesday, the Government has put out to tender 16 of the 59 plots with capacity for fewer than 20 homes each that the executive has included in its plan. As ARA has learned, this week it will release 8 more of the same type, bringing the total to 24 plots.

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Vito Quiles assures that he will not surrender "to Pedro Sánchez's government" after the arrest order issued by a judge this afternoon. He announced this in a video posted on social media, where he accused the Spanish government of carrying out a "judicial and media hunt" against him since, months ago, he accosted the wife of the Spanish prime minister, Begoña Gómez. Initially, Quiles planned to go to a police station tomorrow to clarify the matter, according to sources from the firm representing Quiles, Ospina Abogados.

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Alberto Núñez Feijóo has decided that if the democratic game doesn't favor him enough, the rules must be changed. If he doesn't win, the problem is the system, not him. And some of the citizens who have the right to vote recognized. He fiddlesby crossing the dangerous red line of instilling distrust and suspicion in the guarantees of the process itself. If the difficulties many residents abroad face in getting their vote from where they live are well known, now the leader of the Popular Party intends to put obstacles in the way of a specific type of Spaniards living outside state territory: the grandchildren and descendants of exiles and emigrants who were forced to leave the country, let's say, due to force majeure. Feijóo hasn't even ruffled his hair questioning the validity of a law that aims to repair in the present the consequences of the fierce repression of the war and the dictatorship. Both he and part of the PP and, of course, Vox, seem to want to continue humiliating the victims of the Civil War and the dictatorship ninety years after the "alzamiento" (which was not national at all, "national" was the Republic). As if the executions, prison, and exile of all those who committed no greater crime than defending themselves from fascism were not enough, as if the violence of the past were not enough, now it seems they want to continue perpetuating it in the present. If Franco wanted to exterminate all the elements he considered impure and subversive, and turned Spaniards who were not as he believed they should be into enemies, now the aim is to eliminate the vestiges, memories, and narrative of those who come directly from the horror and are the fruit of the barbarism that began that July of '36. Later they will say that it is the left that digs up the Civil War dead and they will complain about being considered heirs of the dictatorship, but when they attack the losers they show whose sons and grandsons they are. 

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The Tàpies Museum has presented the third edition of the Extramurs project, which this year will feature the artist Dora García (Valladolid, 1965). She will present Timelines / resurrection, a proposal that will occupy public space with performances, public debate, memory walks, posters, films, and an intervention on the museum's facade. García, who lives between Oslo and Barcelona, aims to reinterpret the concept of resurrection by turning it into a political and critical tool. All this, to give voice to silenced people and rethink issues related to gender, violence, or memory in a collective action of struggle and resistance.

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Manuel Arjona, one of the four founders of the dance, glam and electronic pop music groupLocomía, has died suddenly in Viladecans, the city where he had lived for a long time, at the age of 58. "Today Manuel's light has risen to heaven, but his memory lives on with us," assured Luis Font, a group mate, on Instagram, along with Xavier Font – his brother – and Gard Passchier.

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Summer means holidays, traveling and enjoying moments with your loved ones that daily rush often doesn't allow. But the company with whom we spend this time of leisure and pleasure can vary over the years. While children normally spend their holidays with their family, there comes a time when, as adolescents, they start looking elsewhere. There's always that first summer when they propose to their parents their desire to go on a trip with friends, away from the family. Although it's a totally normal situation, sometimes it's not perceived that way by parents, who have to learn to manage a role change in their relationship with their children.

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Agents of the Mossos d'Esquadra and the Guardia Civil again searched the IRTA-CReSA facilities yesterday as part of the investigation into the origin of the African swine fever (ASF) outbreak, as reported by El País and confirmed by police sources to ARA. According to a statement released this Wednesday afternoon by the center itself, "new judicial proceedings" ordered by the court handling the case – number 2 of the Cerdanyola del Vallès Court of First Instance – have been carried out to try to clarify the origin of the ASF outbreak in Catalonia. The search at IRTA on Tuesday lasted more than ten hours.

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That the Supreme Court now allows itself to question the regularization of immigrants carried out by the current government of Spain (the deadline to apply for it ended this Tuesday) tells us several things. The main one, that the high court, with a majority of magistrates from the PP and Vox, is not only well decided to continue the fight for the salvation of Spain through the persecution of left-wing corrupt individuals, or suspects, or those pointed out (“they must have done something”), but has also decided to challenge the policies of a democratically elected government. This is nothing new, but rather —we said yesterday— we have known this at least since the Constitutional Court's ruling against the Statute of Catalonia. Now, however, with Catalan independence movement undone, scattered and poisoned with discourses of hatred and supremacism/racism (defeated, therefore), they no longer need to deal with what the magistrates would call “territorial issues”. Instead, they now prefer to intervene in immigration policy: at every moment, their debate.The Supreme Court's “doubts” regarding the immigrant regularization process are raised by the requests submitted by two autonomous communities, Aragon and the Valencian Community, governed by the PP and Vox, or by the PP with the support of Vox. These are communities with rulers who maintain — they also say this in the Balearic Islands, for example — that the regularization of immigrants will cause employment and housing problems for Spaniards. It seems that mass tourism and uncontrolled speculation do not cause these kinds of problems; on the other hand, giving legal recognition to people who already live here — subjected to labor exploitation and immersed in the underground economy — does cause problems. Or perhaps it is that these parties have also realized that anti-immigration, hate, and racism/supremacism discourses indeed have a great following nowadays and they stubbornly embrace them. And with the legal certainty of the Supreme Court, which gladly accompanies them on this journey.To do so, the Supreme Court looks, and this is new, towards Europe. Traditionally, Spanish justice distrusts and speaks ill of European courts, and has blamed, insulted, and ridiculed them every time they have ruled in favor of separatists or exiled rappers. Now, however, they seek complicity and shelter under the protection of the EU's Migration and Asylum Pact, which came into force on June 12 and is one of the most shameful documents the Union has produced in its entire history. It can be attempted to justify with whatever subterfuges one wishes, but it is the EU giving itself the green light to create detention camps where immigrants will be abandoned to an uncertain and often fatal fate; yes: in non-EU countries, so that it is not seen so much. The Supreme Court uses this to deepen the drift of the Spanish state, according to which the courts take the reins of government as and when they see fit. The Migration and Asylum Pact (the name is already a sarcasm) is, for its part, a giant step for the EU towards its self-destruction.

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Family-work balance takes precedence over salary as a factor that workers consider when choosing a job, or at least that is the conclusion of a report by Foment del Treball presented this Wednesday, which analyzes the challenges of the Spanish labor market. Specifically, work-life balance has positioned itself as the "top priority" among those looking for a job or having to choose a job offer to pursue. It is the main criterion (36.2%), ahead of salary (26.8%) and flexible hours or workplace (23.6%), according to the report. And it is a particularly relevant element for workers between 30 and 35 years old, but not for young people who have just entered the labor market: although work-life balance has grown as a criterion, salary continues to gain ground.

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Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill conceived The Threepenny Opera in a specific context, Victorian London, and in a determined physical space, the underbelly of Soho, inhabited by traitors, murderers, prostitutes, and exploiters. The versions we have known among us — Mario Gas's, premiered at the Romea Theatre in 1984, and Calixto Bieito's, premiered precisely at the Grec Festival in 2002 — varied the context but maintained the physical space. Above all, they maintained the characteristics that define the characters (from stage presence to costume) and the brutality of the capitalist society they describe and satirize.

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For the second consecutive year, and with the aim of it becoming a tradition, Girona kicks off the summer with a habaneras singing session overlooking the cathedral and Sant Fèlix. While on the Costa Brava the event is marked by the first Saturday of July in Calella de Palafrugell, in the capital of Girona it is brought forward to Thursday. The evening, organized by the cultural foundation El Foment, also includes a wide gastronomic offering of Catalan products and seeks to re-signify the Plaça Catalunya space.

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Gas stations seeking to increase profits by taking advantage of state aid and tax breaks approved by the Spanish government to address the consequences of the war in Iran will be publicly exposed and identified on a public list so that consumers can make claims.

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Catalonia has closed the month of June with more than 200 deaths attributable to heat, according to estimates of mortality attributable to heat from the Daily Mortality Monitoring System (MoMo) of the Carlos III Health Institute. It is the highest figure in a June since records began. MoMo is the only tool that allows us to map deaths that occur daily in the State almost in real time, which are calculated using the excess mortality indicator; that is, how many deaths that occur [observed] exceed those that were expected [estimated] in a given territory and period.

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The testimony of those responsible for the covid vaccination of National Police and Civil Guard agents in Catalonia has been a cold shower for police unions that accuse former heads of the Health department of having "discriminated" against them compared to the Mossos d'Esquadra. The second day of the trial of former councilors Alba Vergés and Josep Maria Argimon focused on the statements of the commanders of these two forces who organized the vaccination of their agents stationed in Catalonia, and both stressed that they spoke daily with their interlocutor at Health, Xavier Rodríguez Guasch, about whom they said he always had a good disposition for coordination.

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Almost a decade after the ambitious project to convert the central nave of the Can Batlló industrial complex into a large agora open to neighbors and the sole headquarters of all Barcelona's archives was presented, the municipal government has taken a step forward to unblock a long-claimed infrastructure. "With this announcement, what we have had to wait for so many years, we make it happen. Work begins in the first quarter of next year," highlighted the mayor of Barcelona, Jaume Collboni.

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The National Markets and Competition Commission (CNMC) is investigating whether a group of brokers has agreed to fix mortgage prices and commercial conditions and, consequently, has infringed free competition in the market. Competition suspects that the alleged fraudulent practices took place within the framework of "an association of companies dedicated to mortgage intermediation", but does not specify which one.

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The National Art Museum of Catalonia communicated by letter this Tuesday to the Aragonese government that the transfer of the profane works from Sixena will begin on Monday, July 6, and will be completed this month, according to Efe. Unlike the murals in the chapter house, the profane works have less delicate conservation conditions and easier-to-move supports, so the MNAC has always stated to the judge that it could "deliver them immediately".

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This Friday, July 3rd, arrives in theaters Magellan, the new film by Filipino Lav Diaz, one of the most radical directors of contemporary auteur cinema. The film, starring Mexican actor Gael García Bernal, narrates, from the perspective of the colonized peoples, the adventures of the Spanish expedition to the East that the Portuguese navigator Fernão de Magalhães led in 1519. It is an international co-production, winner of the Seminci of Valladolid in 2025, which has the participation of the producer by Albert Serra, Andergraun Films.

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Joan Laporta is once again president of Barça. As the Blaugrana statutes dictate, the Barcelona lawyer took office this July 1st after winning the elections held in March, and he did so with an inaugural speech in which he called for the "unity of Barça followers" and promised an "exciting" future with the consolidation of the project his board began in 2021. His term ends on June 30, 2031.

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In 2026, the 40th anniversary of Spain’s – and therefore Catalonia’s – accession to the European Union (EU) will be commemorated, a milestone that has decisively contributed to the country’s democratic, institutional, economic, and social progress. Accession was crucial for the consolidation of democracy and the adoption of values such as human dignity, freedom, justice, equality, and the rule of law. At the same time, Catalonia opened up to the world and has since undergone significant economic, demographic, and quality of life transformations.

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At least five people have died this Wednesday and sixteen more have been injured in a fire in an apartment building in the city of Antwerp, Belgium. According to the Belgian police, more than 200 people lived in the building, which has now been evacuated, although it is not known how many people were inside at the time the fire broke out. The mayor, Els Van Doesburg, specified that the lives of none of the injured are in danger. The local fire department received the alert at 9:53 a.m., reporting a fire of "high intensity" in a ten-story apartment building located in the Linkeroever neighborhood.

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There is now a popular verdict. The Barcelona City Council made public this Wednesday at noon the results of the citizen votes to choose the future ombudsman of the Catalan capital, in which 2,707 people participated. David Bondia won with 2,064 votes (76%), ahead of Gemma Calvet, who obtained 643 (24%). Regarding entity adhesions, Bondia had the endorsement of 25 (81%) and Calvet that of six (19%).

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"Even if our sole concern were national economic growth, we would have to protect humanistic education." This is stated by the American philosopher Martha C. Nussbaum (New York, 1947), according to whom, in schools and universities worldwide, the exact opposite is happening: the humanities (literature, history, philosophy, etc.), as well as the arts, are increasingly scorned, if not directly eliminated. What is happening to us? Nussbaum is in no way against hard sciences or technological knowledge. But she warns against the error of despising humanistic knowledge and the critical thinking associated with it. And she warns that, at the same time as the curriculum is being stripped of humanistic elements, the pedagogy of memorization is being reimposed (obviously, this does not mean she rejects all memorization).

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The presidency has become Donald Trump's most profitable asset, as reflected in his latest financial disclosure. During the first year of his second term, the Republican earned over 1.4 billion dollars thanks to cryptocurrency businesses. In total, Trump has raked in over 2.2 billion dollars since taking office on January 20, 2025. The sum far exceeds the at least 622 million dollars his companies generated during 2024. Currently, the Republican's fortune is estimated at 6.5 billion dollars. Before stepping back into the Oval Office and winning the 2024 election, the figure was more modest: Forbes estimated it at around 2.3 billion dollars.One of the catalysts for the wealth that Trump has accumulated this past year is the World Liberty Financial platform, founded in 2024 by his three sons and the son of special envoy Steve Witkoff, Zach Witkoff. In early January 2025, before the inauguration, an Emirati fund linked to the royal family of Abu Dhabi bought 49% of the business's shares. Shortly after, Trump decided to dedicate his return's first presidential trip to the Gulf petrostates, instead of following the tradition of visiting one of the neighboring countries, Canada or Mexico. Also, shortly after the entry of Emirati capital, the White House reached an agreement with Abu Dhabi to export artificial intelligence-powered chips to them, despite reservations from some national security officials.But this Wednesday, White House spokeswoman Anna Kelly again denied the existence of a conflict of interest following the publication of her boss's financial disclosure. “All actions by President Trump and his administration are taken in the best interest of the American people, and anyone calling themselves a “reporter” who pushes otherwise is recycling the same tired, false narrative that Democrats and mainstream media have been pushing for a decade,” she assured. GENIUS Act

World Liberty's plans, however, are even more ambitious: the company launched a dollar-pegged stablecoin last March, dubbed USD1, and has the backing of the U.S. Treasury. Although the president always excuses himself by saying he knows nothing about family businesses and that his children manage everything, very conveniently last year he signed the GENIUS Act. This is a law that creates the first legal framework for stablecoins like the USD1 launched by World Liberty. The rule establishes a series of protections for buyers of stablecoins to foster trust and use among consumers. A few months before signing the law, the Department of Justice dismantled the unit dedicated to investigating crypto-scams and crypto-crimes. The man who at the time scorned the cryptocurrency business as a scam, now signs regulations to promote its use while fattening a good part of his fortune thanks to this world. World Liberty Financial does not solely hold the title of the golden goose. The memecoin that the president launched shortly before his inauguration, $TRUMP, has resulted in the president pocketing 635 million dollars during 2025. No one overlooks the exclusive dinner that the president organized when he launched the coin, where the condition for attending was to be one of the main 220 buyers. The opportunity to dine behind closed doors with a President of the United States translated into a collection of 148 million dollars. Cryptocurrencies have transformed the president's fortune in a very short time. While during his first term, a large part of his fortune (then estimated between 2.3 million and 2.5 million dollars) was based on real estate, golf courses, and the classic businesses of the Trump clan. These sources of income continue to generate profits for the president and his family, but not at the same pace as cryptocurrencies.The release of the financial disclosure comes shortly after the Republican managed to get his own administration would reach an out-of-court settlement to grant him tax immunity for himself, his family, and the Trump Organization. In a statement signed by the current acting attorney general and former president's lawyer, Todd Blanche, the U.S. Tax Agency agreed that it was "forever prohibited" examine or prosecute "any" tax claim against Trump, his children and the Trump Organization.

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Although José María Aznar proclaimed the famous "whoever can, let them do it" against Pedro Sánchez, the former Spanish president is not pressuring Alberto Núñez Feijóo to register a motion of no confidence, unlike Vox. The former PP leader has warned his party that Junts cannot be counted on to bring down the head of the executive, no matter how much Carles Puigdemont's party gives their occasional supportto parliamentary initiatives, of a symbolic nature, against Sánchez's continuity. "Congress cannot manage a constructive no-confidence motion", lamented Aznar, who attributed it to the fact that the allies of the socialist leader's investiture want "to be able to consummate their plundering of the State". The former Spanish president and leader of the PP criticized that Moncloa has ended up being "a Madrid delegation of secessionism".

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The American singer and songwriter Victor Willis (Dallas, 1951), leader of the group Village People, died this Tuesday at the age of 74 after a "brief but aggressive illness," as reported by the band on their Facebook page. Willis was the singer and co-author of some of the group's greatest hits such as YMCA, Go West, Macho Man, and In the navy. The musician embodied characters such as the policeman and the Navy officer within the group's visual aesthetic, based on interpreting male archetypes on stage. Willis's role was fundamental to the configuration of the sound and image with which Village People became an international phenomenon during the 70s and a symbol of queer culture.

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Yesterday, the extraordinary regularization process for immigrants opened by the Spanish socialist government ended, and all forecasts have been exceeded: one million two hundred thousand requests have been submitted. If we do a rule of three with the initial forecasts, around 300,000 applications from people who already live here without papers may have been submitted in Catalonia.For Pedro Sánchez, the overflow of the figure shows that the idea was good, because it was necessary. But the Supreme Court has opened the door to taking this regularization of immigrants to European justice so that it clarifies whether European law is respected, as the processing of more than one million applications could not comply with the European migratory pact. The Supreme Court has gotten involved because the Valencian and Aragonese governments, both from the PP, have asked it to. But, as I was saying, yesterday Sánchez puffed out his chest and at an event to present an integration plan he said that without immigrants Spain would lose 19% of its wealth creation in the next 25 years. The slogan of the plan caught my attention: “Where do they come from? They come from building the country”. A slogan that emphasizes the most economic aspect of immigration. Without immigration there are no caregivers, or bricklayers, or bus drivers… and they are essential because they are jobs that keep the country running every day. But building a country is something more. It has to do with rights and duties, and in our case, with integration into a culture and a language that do not have the maximum protection of the State (in fact, they rather have the maximum aggression from some parties and State bodies). And here is where the slogan of making country, so Pujol-like, is a mockery. I read in the chronicle of ARA: “Regarding Catalan, sources from the Sánchez government indicate that knowledge of the language will not have special value”. It is devastating. And at the same time, it is not new; it is coherent with the state in which we live, where only Spanish is mandatory. The lack of ambition of the Illa government on this issue, with the interested appeasement of business sectors, is regrettable. Much effort to fight the battle (or so they said) so that Catalan can be spoken in the European Parliament, but no step to do something as normal as requiring people who come to a country to know the language. It is a harm to the language and to coexistence. And without the Catalan language, immigrants cannot build a nation in Catalonia. Immigration is used to instill fear and win elections with messages of hate. Look at what is happening in South Africa, with demonstrations against immigrants, blaming them for unemployment, crime, and the deterioration of public services. Sánchez, in the role of going it alone against the world on immigration, gives speeches of the type “in the face of hate, humanity,” but with humanitarian appeals we already know that we will not stop the hate speeches of the far-right. And demonstrating political leadership in immigration in Catalonia means that Catalan should be for everyone, especially for the newest Catalans.Good morning.

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The European Union launched this Tuesday the new tax of 3 euros per product on low-cost packages from outside the community bloc, a measure that directly impacts platforms such as Shein, Temu, and AliExpress. The decision, which marks a change in the model of massive online purchases of small value, is part of a reform of customs controls with which Brussels aims to respond to the explosion of international e-commerce. According to data from the European Commission, last year the EU received nearly 5.9 billion packages of this type, four times more than three years ago. The vast majority, 90%, come from China.

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The new era of Teatre del Raval under the direction of Pep Tosar and Evelyn Arévalo is based on the premise of artistic excellence and humanistic commitment. This was evident in the magnificent inaugural show about Federico García Lorca, which just ended its run last Friday and has been succeeded by L’enterrador (The Gravedigger). It is a monologue written by Gerard Vázquez and performed by Pepe Zapata that has toured much of Spain and speaks of the Francoist mass graves through the true story of Leonci Badia Navarro, better known as the gravedigger of Paterna.

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June began in Parliament with a heated control session in which the opposition tried to surround the President of the Generalitat, Salvador Illa, for the cases of alleged corruption affecting the PSOE and Pedro Sánchez's circle. And the first control session of this July has started the same way, with one more step from the Junts politicians. The president of the Junts group in the Catalan chamber, Mònica Sales, demanded this Wednesday that Illa ask for "forgiveness" for the judicial cases and stop "hiding himself". "When Catalonia has a problem, you disappear; when the PSOE has one, you are always there," she said. "This weekend you had the opportunity to ask for forgiveness on behalf of your party," she retorted, referring to the PSOE federal committee, in which the president said that socialists have "no fear" of anything. Illa, in turn, reiterated that he fears nothing and that he has already given the necessary "explanations".

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Grifols reorganizes the structure of its biopharmaceutical business, which contributes the most to the company's revenue. As announced in a statement, it will create "differentiated organizations" for biopharma for the United States, the Catalan company's main market, and for the rest of the world. According to the pharmaceutical company, this move serves to "further strengthen the operational and financial independence of the subsidiaries." In this way, plasma collected in the United States will be used to cover the country's market, while that extracted in the rest of the world will go to the European market and other environments where the company operates.

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The name of Julán Álvarez is on everyone's lips, including the president of Barça, Joan Laporta, who spoke about him on the day he was sworn in again as the club's top official. In an impromptu press conference after the swearing-in ceremony, Laporta assured that the offer made by Barça about a month ago remains firm, but that "it is not unlimited in time".

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After the big presentations in June and learning what the future of video games will offer, we look at the shorter term and review the most imminent releases. Action, rhythm, nostalgia and fantastic creatures: there's something for everyone! And we haven't forgotten about the frantic trains of Denshattack!, by the Catalan developers Undercoders, which were supposed to arrive in June, but have suffered delays until this July 15.

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Ferran's boulevard in Lleida has become this Wednesday the scene of one of the most serious traffic accidents ever remembered in the city. A bus with 55 passengers, which covered the route between Lleida and La Granja d'Escarp, lost control shortly before a quarter to eight in the morning and ended up crashing against the facade of the Diputació de Lleida for reasons that are still being investigated.

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The new round of the World Cup round of 32 has once again confirmed that France is one of the main candidates to lift the title. Didier Deschamps' team authoritatively defeated Sweden (3-0) and signed another demonstration of offensive potential, with Mbappé as the absolute reference of the squad, well supported by Olise and Barcola. The French imposed their rhythm from start to finish and did not suffer at any moment.

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The workers of the third social sector are called this Wednesday to a 24-hour strike –called by the majority unions CCOO and UGT– to demand that wage parity with staff hired by public administration be applied. The protest is the first act of mobilization, as 15-minute partial stoppages are planned at workplaces on Wednesdays, July 15 and 29.

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The geroscience aims to understand the processes associated with human aging in order to design mechanisms to circumvent the senescence of cells and organs. Aging is a normal physiological process, but if we could unravel the mechanisms that regulate it, perhaps we could extend our lives. This is an attractive principle that receives public but especially private investment, as people with many resources wish to live for many years.

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“Fifteen days earlier I was sitting at a table where decisions affecting an entire country were being made. Fifteen days later, I was alone, in nine square meters, trying to understand how I had gotten there”. When it has been exactly one year since he entered prison, Santos Cerdán has published La caída. Poder, relato y destrucción en la era del juicio político, the book in which he breaks his silence. Throughout 164 self-published pages, he recounts his experiences during the almost five months he was in Soto del Real, explains how he lived the days that led to his downfall, and offers a long philosophical dissertation on Justice and the media. He complains, for example, that public opinion is a “permanent tribunal without guarantees” that has imposed on him an “anticipated social condemnation” and attributes the investigation into him to “something that was not seeking the truth”.

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The final stretch of the extraordinary regularization process for migrants promoted by the Spanish government is coming to an end with an open judicial front. Given the doubts raised by the Supreme Court about the measure's compatibility with European law, experts consulted by ARA agree that it is unlikely to have immediate effects on the applications submitted. While the legal world points to possible shortcomings in the processing, organizations and groups that have helped migrants with paperwork – often fighting against misinformation and lack of resources and suffering from administrative collapse– are now focusing all their efforts on ensuring that applicants can complete the procedures before the deadline expires this Tuesday.

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Four generations of Batlló lived on the third floor of Casa Batlló, this modernist gem on Barcelona's Passeig de Gràcia designed by architect Antoni Gaudí that amazes everyone who visits it. The descendants of the Batlló family had lived in this apartment for more than a hundred years, until 2019, which is why had been preserved with an "exceptional authenticity" and now, the property has been opened to the public and you can have a meal there, after a meticulous renovation, in which all the original elements have been respected and restored – even a previously unknown handle designed by Gaudí has been discovered–. In the renovation, the talent of Italian architect and designer Paola Navone, from OTTO Studio, was chosen to make a proposal that was respectful of the place where it is located, but at the same time revised, as in the green mosaic counter that welcomes you.

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For some time now, the regime of Vladimir Putin has initiated a hybrid war against European partners. Disinformation campaigns, support for destabilizing political movements, computer hacks, and, lately, especially incursions with drones into the airspace of the European Union and NATO countries. Faced with this type of attack, which is becoming increasingly frequent, European allies are accelerating the development and industrialization of unmanned aircraft.

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In one of the industrial estates of Essen, in northern Germany, there is a street named Max Keith. It is the way the city has found to remember the man who, in the midst of World War II, had to solve an unexpected problem: German Coca-Cola factories could no longer make Coca-Cola. The trade blockade had cut off the arrival of the concentrate that the company sent from the United States and without that secret syrup, the plants could not operate. Keith, who managed the multinational's German subsidiary, had to find a way to get by.

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Ireland is a friendly country to the cause, but it cannot force the issue and has little hope. The Irish government is one of those that has always been most openly in favour of the official status of Catalan, Galician and Basque in the European Union, and was the last member state to achieve recognition of its own language in the EU institutions. Despite this, the lack of support from the other European partners means that, at least for now, Ireland sees it as complicated to push the initiative during the rotating presidency of the Council of the EU – the body representing member states – in the second half of this year, which begins this Wednesday.

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Messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines managed to reverse the worst health crisis of the 21st century: COVID-19. In recent years, billions of doses have been administered worldwide to prevent this disease. Despite the efforts of the scientific community to inform about the safety and efficacy of the technology used to develop them in record time, an anti-vaccine movement has emerged that has constantly questioned them with misinformation and fake news. Now, researchers from the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver (Canada) have conducted an exhaustive review of the scientific evidence on these vaccines and have concluded that they are "safe and highly effective" in preventing infectious diseases. This review, published in the prestigious scientific journal The Lancet, shows that this type of vaccine has the potential to develop new treatments against the flu, certain types of cancer, and some autoimmune disorders, among others.

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Machismo, racism, xenophobia, aporophobia, anti-gypsyism, ableism, LGTBI-phobia and ageism are rooted in our society with hate speech that integrates into our daily lives. The campaign #ItHate is powered by the Table of entities of the Social Third Sector of Catalonia and aims to raise awareness of the effects of increasing polarization and the rise of discriminatory messages against vulnerable groups, less than a year before the municipal elections.

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Barça has presented the new jersey for the upcoming season with an event at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona (MACBA), where dance and music were the protagonists under the slogan "Blaugrana heartbeat. The passion that moves us". A daring proposal, where the jersey maintains the iconic vertical blue and garnet stripes, reinterpreted through a chromatic gradation. In addition, it debuts a new typography for names and numbers.

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The earthquake catastrophe in Venezuela has turned the news into a loop of very distressing epic rescue operations. Also of scenes of heartbreaking pain from people who know they will not find their relatives alive or who have found them too late. How many rescues are considered necessary to show in a single newscast for the viewer to understand the dimension of the tragedy? One of the differentiating factors between private and public channels is the ability to broaden the perspective. In a context of chaos, ordering information and offering a narrative that portrays reality with the complexity it deserves is what the newscasts of TV3 and TVE are doing, where correspondents and special envoys specify locations and show circumstances tangential to the disaster: the situation in hospitals, the functioning of emergency services, the saturation of cemeteries or neighborhood initiatives to offer solutions in the face of a lack of food or communication systems. Private channels, on the other hand, emphasize the most emotional aspects, especially related to the suffering associated with the countdown to find survivors under the rubble. It is symptomatic how these images are offered to the audience: always with the ambient sound of the scene, with many shouts, noise of machines and sirens in the background. These are videos recorded in a context of great tension and anguish, and therefore, they have a morbid component due to the alarm they arouse.

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The American comedian and journalist Bill Maher managed to get the Vice President of the United States, J.D. Vance, on his show. I say he managed to get him on because Maher hosts and presents a show where Donald Trump started as a laughable clown and is now the personification of the greatest national catastrophe, and he's no longer funny, only scary. In this situation, what did Maher ask Vance? Only one thing. Fair play on election day: “With Trump, for you there will only be two possible outcomes: either we win or they cheated. This shit has to end. And you or Marco [Rubio; one of the two will succeed Trump in the candidacy] will have to do it. Can you tell me that you will do it, that you will bring the whole country to common ground, at least on this, and that you will recognize the other's victory if you lose?”

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While Washington on Tuesday fueled expectations of a new diplomatic breakthrough with Iran, Doha strove to lower the tone. "It could be an important meeting. We will know later," stated the President of the United States, Donald Trump, before assuring that the United States is making "very good progress" in its efforts to dismantle Iran's nuclear program. Hours later, Tehran specified that there are no direct negotiations with Washington and that any contact is being conducted through Qatar's mediation. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs did not deny the movements or the continuity of contacts, but insisted that there are no direct talks between both parties.

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Art historian and cultural manager Maribel López (Barcelona, 1973) has been chosen to direct the Fundació Joan Miró in Barcelona through an international competition. Having served as director of the Arco art fair in Madrid for the past eight years, she will return to her hometown, where she took her first professional steps. Maribel López will thus succeed Marko Daniel, who has been director of the foundation for eight years, until this past June, after the board announced four months ago, surprisingly, his end of stage just one month after renewing his contract for three years. López's name is a departure from the trajectory of the center's directors, who had always been experts in Miró and the avant-garde (Francesc Vicens, Rosa Maria Malet, and Marko Daniel), whereas his profile is more linked to management. López will have a four-year contract, extendable by two more, and a salary of 115,000 euros annually.

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As if the Spanish government didn't have enough open fronts with the justice system, another unexpected one has now opened in the administrative chamber of the Supreme Court against the extraordinary regularization of immigrants, which ends this very 30th and has already exceeded one million applications. The Supreme Court, responding to the appeals filed by the Valencian and Aragonese governments, both from the PP, now questions the legality of the regularization based on European regulations. This new judicial blow to the Sánchez government is signed by Carlos Lesmes, a conservative magistrate who was president of the CGPJ and the TS for 5 years; Wenceslao Olea, who was a member of the CGPJ at the proposal of the PP, and Fernando Román García, who was Secretary of State for Justice under Mariano Rajoy.

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In one of the first scenes of Normal, characters joke about the disaster that could happen if the rifles decorating the walls of a rustic restaurant were loaded. At that precise moment, the viewer understands that the film tacitly commits to making this bloody desire a reality, and one only needs to try to guess in what context the massacre will occur. This is the dynamic that keeps the film going: anticipating the arrival of violence while looking for unexpected ways to make it explode. The person in charge of orchestrating it is Ben Wheatley, a British filmmaker who over the past decade earned a reputation for the joy with which he violated the physical integrity of his characters. The interest in contemplating the consequences that weapons (blades or firearms) have on the human body is, in fact, the most recognizable staging gesture we can detect in Normal, which has its authentic creative strength in the tandem formed by Bob Odenkirk's anti-star charisma and the writing of Derek Kolstad, author of the John Wick screenplay. Both had previously worked together on Nobody (2021), where Odenkirk clashed his ordinary aura with extreme beatings. Normal prolongs their alliance by lowering the dose of pure action in favor of a farce steeped in black humor that, if it surprises for anything, it is for the understanding permissiveness it applies to the moral opacity embraced by those who feel scorned by the system.

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Catalan teachers already know which school or institute they will be working in next academic year. This Tuesday, the Department of Education published the definitive destinations for teaching staff for the 2026-2027 academic year, known as the summer assignments. The publication of the position each teacher and professor will fill has been made one month earlier than previously done and after last year there was a major upheaval when a "deliberate" error by one of the department's employees forced the entire process to be repeated and its results to be delayed.

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Ansu Fati was baptized as the heir because he was considered the natural successor to Leo Messi. Fast, skillful, cunning, a goalscorer... he had all the qualities to be Barça's new star. So much so that, with the departure of the Rosario forward, Ansu went on to wear the number 10 on his shirt. He seemed like a natural successor. But this fairy tale began to go wrong on November 7, 2020, when he tore his meniscus in a league match against Betis. A ordeal began that would lead him to undergo surgery up to four times and a slow and unsatisfactory recovery. Ansu would never be the same again. This June 30, he has ceased to be a Barça player for all intents and purposes.

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The Catalan executives Àngel Simón and Josep Maria Recasens made their debut this Tuesday as non-executive chairman of Indra and CEO of the same company, respectively, before their shareholders. The technology and defense company, which aims to be the "champion" of the sector in Spain, held its general shareholders' meeting this Tuesday, the first with these two executives working in tandem at the helm. But also the first meeting after months marked by internal turmoil over the exit of the Escribano brothers from the company – in May they divested 14.3% of Indra's share capital after the possible integration between Indra and their family business, Escribano Mechanical & Engineering (EM&E), failed – as well as the departure of José Vicente de los Mozos, CEO of the company until very recently. in May they divested 14.3% of Indra's share capital after the possible integration between Indra and their family business, Escribano Mechanical & Engineering (EM&E), failed–, as well as the departure of José Vicente de los Mozos, CEO of the company until very recently.

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The government of the Generalitat, presided over by Salvador Illa, is made up of sixteen departments, nine of which are occupied by women. A parity celebrated by those who advocate for equality in decision-making spaces. But in recent months, political and social criticism does not seem to be distributed equally. Parliamentary pressure has concentrated in a surprisingly asymmetric way on the female flank of the executive: reprimands for Sílvia Paneque and Núria Parlon, calls for the resignation of Esther Niubó and Olga Pané, and demands for the dismissal of Mònica Martínez from social entities, unions, and citizen platforms.

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The Mossos d'Esquadra have arrested five men for paying money in exchange for sex with three minors under 15 years old. As sources close to the investigation have explained to ARA, the payments in exchange for sex were not occasional, but habitual. The same sources add that, initially, there is no relationship between the men involved, but rather the link would be between the girls, who knew each other. The arrestees are between 31 and 46 years old, and three of them have been remanded in custody for these facts.

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As agreed on June 18, this Tuesday the workers of TV3 and Catalunya Ràdio have carried out a partial strike to denounce that the management of public media is not complying with the agreement, among other issues. As a form of protest, the workers have decided to stop for ten minutes at the beginning of Telenotícies in the case of television (from 2:30 p.m. to 2:40 p.m., and from 9 p.m. to 9:10 p.m.) and at the beginning of Catalunya migdia (from 2 p.m. to 2:10 p.m.) and Tot Costa (from 7 p.m. to 7:10 p.m.) on Catalunya Ràdio.

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It has been more than six weeks since the Andalusian elections that linked the popular Juanma Moreno Bonilla to Vox. The acting president of Andalusia, one of the barons of the PP most reluctant to agree with the far-right, has been forced to negotiate with them because fell two seats short of an absolute majority. However, the talks have not yet reached a satisfactory conclusion. This was confirmed this Tuesday afternoon in the first investiture attempt in the Andalusian Parliament. Santiago Abascal's party voted against making Moreno Bonilla president, arguing that they have not yet closed a programmatic agreement with the PP. The far-right party has blamed the baron popular for having arrived too late –Moreno Bonilla waited more than three weeks after the elections to sit down and talk for the first time–.

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I am writing this article when the real magnitude of the two Venezuelan earthquakes is still unknown. For now, the number of fatalities does not align at all with that of the missing persons, which foreshadows a terrible outcome. Each generation usually experiences, near or far, some natural catastrophe that invites reflection, but those that mark us the most are perhaps those contemplated through the eyes of a child. Mine —I was born in 1964— witnessed on the ashen TV of late Francoism the Managua earthquake of 1972. I was eight years old and I remember harrowing images, because at that time there was little concern for hurting or not hurting the sensibilities of the public during children's hours. Somoza's ultra-corrupt dictatorship had built entire neighborhoods with precarious materials, and an earthquake of significant, but not extreme, magnitude —6.2 on the Richter scale— killed between 15,000 and 20,000 people (the real figure was never disclosed) and left about 300,000 homeless. Anastasio Somoza then became a living metaphor for the greed that leads to disaster. A parallel generational evocation related to that country: shortly after, the Nicaraguan singer Carlos Mejía Godoy triumphed in these parts ("Son tus perjúmenes, mujer...").Many generations before mine, in the year 1755, another earthquake, in this case of apocalyptic dimensions, devastated the city of Lisbon. Between 30,000 and 50,000 people lost their lives there. Here the metaphors went beyond the literary description of a tragic event. In the midst of the Age of Enlightenment, this had a great impact on the main European intellectuals, who opened important debates. The catastrophe became an intellectual earthquake as profound as the geological one. The destruction of the city and the death of so many people shook — and this is no sinister play on words — the enlightened confidence in the rational order of the world. In Candide, Voltaire reacted with unprecedented virulence, mocking Leibniz through the character of Pangloss. The catastrophe forced a rethinking of the relationship between God, nature, and history: is evil an accident, a test, or perhaps the realization that the world does not correspond to any moral purpose? The discussion was projected into literature, theology, and politics, anticipating the turn towards an increasingly skeptical sensibility. The Enlightenment ceased to be optimistic and even confident; Voltaire formulated it cruelly: in the face of evil, one should not seek metaphysical consolation, but human responsibility. The old metaphors about progress and the lights of reason underwent notable changes. In general, they darkened.

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Keir Starmer bids farewell to Downing Street by allocating more money for weapons than for fixing roads and promoting energy projects. It is the last major political act of a prime minister on the verge of leaving office, after announcing his resignation nine days ago, cornered by party colleagues who had lost confidence in the man who led them to electoral victory just two years ago.

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Throughout its history, Germany had only missed a single penalty in a World Cup shootout, way back in 1982. In five minutes, they missed three in Boston on the day Paraguay surprised by eliminating Julian Nagelsmann's team. And Orlando Gill (San Lorenzo, Paraguay, 2000) saved two of the penalties. A goalkeeper until recently unknown. A man who, five years ago, when he became a father, even sold the equipment his club gave him to pay for medical treatment for his baby. Five years later, he has become one of the best goalkeepers in the World Cup.

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There are jokes that, besides being grotesque, are revealing. A recent example: Feijóo's claim that the party that wins the legislative elections should have a "bonus" reward in the form of receiving between 20 and 50 additional seats as a gift, which, if they had been voted for, would have been won by other parties. That is, to force an absolute majority by legal imperative, and thus save the winner from having to look for partners and make concessions.

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I'm reading an interview “with a bite”, the kind from Trini Gilbert in the ARA, at the Flash-Flash trout farm, with Karin Leiz, designer and writer, widow of photographer Leopoldo Pomés, who was a co-founder of the restaurant. The mother of the beloved Poldo Pomés says: “I learned to cook by going to the market and listening to what people said”.

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The Platja d'Aro Jazz Nights were born in 1998 as a bold venture, when the major summer music festivals on the Costa Brava had not yet emerged and when jazz in Catalonia was a minority musical genre. Almost thirty years later, this jazz event in Platja d'Aro has consolidated and is among the great summer festivals on the Costa Brava, all characterized by a high-level program performed in unique settings (by the sea, in a historic castle, in charming village squares) and with ticket prices often not affordable for all. The Platja d'Aro Jazz Nights, however, maintain a feature that differentiates it from the rest: all concerts have been and always are free.

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Hannah Murray began her acting career as a teenager, but for the past eight years she has been living completely retired from the world of acting. Between the beginning and the end of her career there are two defining moments: her time on Game of Thrones, which made her known worldwide, and her entry into a cult that led to a mental health crisis. Now the actress, who for many will always be remembered as the wild Gilly, reviews her traumatic experiences in the autobiography The Make-Believe: A memoir of magic and madness. Although Game of Thrones is the most popular title in his filmography, Murray has also participated in other productions such as the risky teen series Skins(2007-2013), she played a young woman with anorexia nervosa, or the musical film "God help the girl (2014), the directorial debut of Stuart Murdoch, leader of the band Belle & Sebastian. In the book, Murray explains how his entry into a cult, which he calls "the organization", coincided with one of the most important projects of his career, the film Detroit (2017), by Kathryn Bigelow, had scenes of great emotional wear. To prepare for them, the actress contacted a coach of interpretation that introduced her to the idea of "opening yourself as much as possible to let something pass through you." The actress describes the process as "almost shamanic."

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Achieving the design of services "good for the whole territory" with the infrastructures we currently have – and those planned in the short term – and doubling the number of users: going from the current 455,000 daily travelers to one million passengers by 2040. This is the premise on which the Generalitat has been working for months and which it made public today with the presentation of the first Railway Services Plan of Catalonia, which should allow the critical situation of the Catalan railway network to be revived. This is how the Minister of Territory, Sílvia Paneque, and the Secretary of Mobility and Infrastructures, Manel Nadal, explained it this Tuesday afternoon. "They always tell us that the most orthodox thing would be to design the services first and then the infrastructures; well, we have done it," said Nadal.

]]> The intense and suffocating heat reached a new peak yesterday, especially in the pre-coastal areas, in Central Catalonia and in the south. Temperatures neared 40 ºC in the Ebro's interior, and even surpassed 38 ºC in the pre-coastal region. Benissanet (Ribera d'Ebre) registered the highest temperature in Catalonia on Tuesday, with 39.7 ºC. Additionally, 39.3 ºC were reached at the Siurana reservoir, 39 ºC in Vinebre (Ribera d'Ebre), 38.7 ºC in Sant Salvador de Guardiola (Bages), and 38.4 ºC in Vacarisses (Vallès Occidental). However, from the evening onwards, the temperature began to drop, and last night was not as oppressive as the previous two. Most tropical minimum temperatures were concentrated in points along the coast and pre-coastal areas, with still some very localized torrid minimums. In much of the interior, temperatures have already dropped below 20 ºC.

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The Swiss city of Écône was the scene this Wednesday of a new schism in the Catholic Church. The Priestly Fraternity of Saint Pius X, known as the Lefebvrians, has defied the Vatican and ordained four bishops without the authorization of the Pope, who has exclusive competence to do so, meaning all four will be excommunicated. Swiss Pascal Schreiber, American Michael Goldade, and Frenchmen Michel Poinsinet de Sivry and Marc Hanappier are the four members of this ultratraditionalist congregation who have been appointed bishops, despite Pope Leo XIV's express request that they not do so.

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Japanese architect Shigeru Ban (Tokyo, 1957) has often been defined as the Robin Hood of contemporary architecture: he has built buildings for the luxury sector, such as a factory for Rolex in Switzerland, but he is also known for his humanitarian work. Since the mid-1990s, Ban has designed emergency shelters and housing during numerous conflicts, from the Rwandan genocide to the War in Ukraine, as well as earthquakes and floods in Japan, Turkey, India, Sri Lanka, China, Haiti, Italy, New Zealand, and the Philippines.

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