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Iran and Ukraine clash in the Caspian

In the first direct clash between the two countries, Zelensky celebrated an attack by his troops on Iranian ships on an essential route for aid to Moscow. Tehran and kyiv try to contain the escalation

Amador puts the two apartments in Chamberí that he shared with Ayuso up for sale for 3.3 million euros

The businessman Alberto González Amador has uploaded the sixth floor apartment and the one above it, the attic, to a real estate portal.

The Rayo squad charges against the Community of Madrid and the club: “We want to continue playing in Vallecas, this could have been avoided”

Óscar Valentín, captain of the Madrid club, and the rest of the team's players issue a statement rejecting the closure of the stadium and the lack of solutions two weeks before the start of the League

The magic continues in the ACB: Ricky Rubio renews for Penya

The legendary point guard from El Masnou will play one more season at Asisa Joventut

An Elon Musk rocket that has been drifting for more than a year will hit the Moon in a few days

The impact of the Falcon 9 next Wednesday, which may be observed from Earth, shows the poor management of trash lost in space

A man arrested in Santander for the murder of his 27-year-old partner

The arrested man, 39 years old, has confessed to the police that he is the author of the crime

Nirmal Purja, the controversial record-breaking Himalayan climber, disappears along with nine other climbers on Broad Peak

Four lifeless bodies have been located after the avalanche that swept the group of the Nepalese mountaineer from the mountain on Thursday, famous for ascending the 14 eight-thousanders in six months, and who had left the base camp looking for the summit a few hours before.

Esther Palomera and Gonzalo Miró will be the new presenters of 'Malas Lenguas' on La 2

Changes begin in RTVE's current affairs magazines, with Jesús Cintora very close to inheriting the role of Javier Ruiz in 'Mañaneros'

Salvador Illa defends the good progress of Catalonia and its Government despite the fiasco of the Pisa report

The president affirms that his priority is to approve the financing model and urges the PP communities to support it and follow the example of the Canary Islands

The fresh unisex cologne that sweeps every summer on Amazon is worth less than 9 euros

A fresh and long-lasting classic, with a clean aroma and an irresistible price

Judge Pedraz authorizes tracking six PSOE accounts in search of payments to Leire Díez and other defendants

The magistrate opens a separate room to store banking information

Madonna's gloves, Shakira's costume in 'Dai Dai' and other items worn by BTS at halftime of the World Cup final, sold for thousands of euros

The auction house Christie's has raised just over half a million euros thanks to the donation of pieces from celebrities such as the K-Pop band, Justin Bieber, Coldplay, David Beckham and Lionel Messi

Sign up for the 41st promotion of the EL PAÍS Master's Degree

The deadline to submit applications ends next September 8

The Vall d'Uixó fire is considered stabilized and the evacuation of all towns is lifted after burning 9,568 hectares

The fire has affected 12% of the surface of the Sierra de Espadán natural park

Franco Baresi, historic Milan captain and Italian football legend, dies

The legendary player, one of the best defenders in history, won a multitude of titles in the 'rossonero' club, as well as the 82 World Cup in Spain with the Azzurra

Anthropic announces that its AI programs also hacked three companies on their own after the OpenAI incident

The company that created Claude has reviewed more than 140,000 sessions and discovered that they escaped from a testing environment like ChatGPT

From housing to the climate threat: this is how the way we protect the things that matter to us has changed

In the last 50 years, the insurance priorities of Spaniards have evolved and companies like Allianz have adapted by taking another step: adapting to the great challenge of anticipating the risks derived from new digital threats and climate change.

When a democracy stops meeting

The sit-in of the 11 communities governed by the PP prevented two different meetings from being held and blocked funds for public universities

Learning doesn't start with letters

Experts from the SEK Schools and the Camilo José Cela University explain why play, autonomy, curiosity and emotional regulation constitute the true learning of the first six years of life

Of kangaroos and centaurs: how to reanimalize a disoriented humanity

In León, the Cerezales Foundation dedicates an exhibition to the French duo Art Orienté Objet, which imagines hybrids, rituals and artifacts to rethink the relationship between humans and animals in the face of ecological collapse

From Y2K excess to restrained elegance: the multiple lives of wedge mules

The shoe that best summed up the exuberance of the 2000s returns with a much more refined identity. From the slingback pump to the 'peep toe' or 'thong' versions, we review the reinterpretations that explain its return

'DTF St. Louis': life in seven chapters

DTF (Down to fuck, translated as where everyone fucks) is seeing yourself through a hole and in a mirror, the stretch marks and butterfly wings on your arms, which still resists the passage of time

Carmen Tur, bookseller: “Formentera is becoming a theme park for the rich”

The owner of the island's emblematic bookstore remembers with nostalgia when everything was “magical and simple”

Ripoll experiences the controversy between Orriols and his daughter coldly: “It is very hard, there is more and more silence”

The mayor and leader of Aliança Catalana hired her first-born daughter as a local police officer after a contest that the opposition oversees

Catalonia's error in the PISA exam affected a large number of centers although it does not invalidate the national comparison

One in four students who passed the test was ultimately left out. On September 8, the global results will be known

A crisis the size of a penthouse with 200 meters of terrace that no one saw coming in the Community of Madrid: “A silly mess”

Ayuso's team believes that the remoteness of the transfer had made them lower their guard regarding the matter and they postponed the discussion until “the end of October or the beginning of November.”

A sunrise alarm clock, a desktop fan or the viral mascara: the best-selling products among all those we have tested this month of July

Over the past few weeks we have reviewed dozens of beauty, home, kitchen and technology products. This selection brings together the ones that have most convinced our readers.

Cold gilda soup, the most classic banderilla turned into a spoon recipe

We join the rise of the perfect pincho with a cream that is as light as it is nutritious and satiating, perfect for taking a break from the traditional gazpacho

Curry Barker, the director who went from serving coffee to finance his YouTube shorts to becoming a millionaire with his first film

The 26-year-old American actor and filmmaker debuted in theaters with 'Obsession', a phenomenon that has become the seventh highest-grossing horror film in history. He says that the inspiration to create it arose while watching an episode of 'The Simpsons'

Svend Brinkmann, psychologist: “If you put conditions on forgiveness, love or freedom, you have already destroyed them”

The psychologist claims classic values ​​and thinkers against the instrumentalization of the culture of the search for your best version

“Pervert glasses”: Meta no longer knows how to stop the ridicule and suspicion towards its star product

The launch of new models of glasses with integrated cameras has sparked a global campaign to discredit one of the company's great hopes

The BBVA remodeling removes the last directors affected by the Villarejo case

Paul G. Tobin and Juan Asúa, who were accused, and María Jesús Arribas and Domingo Armengol, who testified as witnesses, leave the steering committee.

Trump announces an agreement for the “total disarmament” of Hamas

The US president affirms that the pact “is a crucial step for Gaza to finally be governed by a new Palestinian government”

Kanye West: this could have been a 'reel'

The rapper's concert in Madrid leaves fascinating images for social networks, but difficult to sustain for two hours live

The Government mobilizes the Army deployed in Ceuta and closes the border with Melilla

Spain and Morocco agree to “strengthen coordination.” Pedro Sánchez travels to the autonomous city this Friday

Maximum alert in Ceuta after the uncontrolled crossing of thousands of people from Morocco that leaves at least 18 dead

The Civil Guard and emergency resources, overwhelmed, only deal with the injured

Climate change fuels record fires in the warmest July recorded in Spain

Extreme weather conditions that fueled fires were 20 times more likely due to global warming, study finds

The avalanche of immigrants in Ceuta causes a diplomatic crisis between Spain and Italy

Albares summons the Italian ambassador after Tajani threatens to close the Schengen area with Spain

iPhone and Mac sales boost Apple's profits by 20% in nine months to $101,464 million

The company registers a record of sales of its mobile phone in a third quarter

Carlos Espí leaves Levante and signs for Real Madrid

The Granota club does not give figures for the signing but describes it as the “biggest sale of a footballer trained in the quarry”

National Lottery: check draw for Thursday, July 30

This Thursday, State Lotteries and Betting distributes a first prize of 30,000 euros per tenth with the National Lottery draw

Egypt suffers the first attack of the war in the Middle East when a drone hits gas vessels

The launch of the device, which has not been claimed, increases concern about the possible extension of the conflict to a key route for the transport of Saudi oil.

Ximo Puig hires the nephew of his partner, former counselor Gabriela Bravo, as the driver of his former president's car

The 'DOGV' publishes the appointment of the new advisor to the former leader of the Valencian socialists

Costa Rican Grynspan leads the first informal vote to elect a new UN leader

The 15 members of the Security Council begin the process to replace António Guterres. In second and third place are the Guyanese Rodrigues-Birkett and the Argentine Grossi

Milei orders by decree to expel foreigners who offend Argentines

The ultra president signs the measure within the framework of his complaint about “an anti-Argentine campaign” that originated during the Soccer World Cup.

The cultural manager Natalio Grueso is released from prison after the Government's pardon

The former director of the Niemeyer Center in Avilés receives a measure of grace from the Executive for his delicate state of health

That afternoon with Manolo

He didn't improve the dialogues because he wanted to leave his mark, he improved them because he understood the characters better than anyone else.

The judge of the 'Azud case' files the accusation of the former finance secretary of the PSPV-PSOE due to prescription

Pepe Cataluña was investigated in a derivative of the macro-cause that investigated the collection of commissions and the financing of electoral campaigns

Two mummies from 500 years ago confirm that Europeans brought smallpox to America: “It came from the Old World”

The oldest samples of the virus found on American soil had already completely adapted to humans

Hundreds of immigrants swim to Ceuta, in images

In the early hours of this Thursday, hundreds of people have swum along the coasts of the Ceuta territory, mostly young people, Moroccans and men, but some women have also arrived. In recent days, around 1,500 people have swum around the breakwater that separates the borders between Morocco and Spain