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2026 FIFA World Cup: groups, schedule and stars including Messi, Ronaldo and Neymar

The 2026 FIFA World Cup, hosted by the United States, Mexico and Canada, will begin on 11 June with the opening match at the Estadio Azteca and end on 19 July with the final at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey, featuring 48 national teams. Leo Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo will compete in their sixth World Cup, while Neymar Jr has been included in Brazil's 26-man squad despite coach Ancelotti having excluded him from all previous squad lists. Spain is in Group H alongside Cape Verde, Saudi Arabia and Uruguay.

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Shooting at a community festival in Toledo, Ohio: multiple victims

Toledo Police (Ohio) has reported a shooting with multiple victims at a community festival. Authorities have not clarified the number of those affected, whether they are alive, or the identity of the attacker.

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Fènix Report: up to 35% of the Catalan economy is subsidised and productivity stagnates

The Fènix Report presents a diagnosis of the Catalan economy indicating that, despite sustained GDP growth since 2000, Catalonia has lost ground in per capita GDP relative to Europe and shows stagnation in productivity. The report sets the threshold between productive and subsidised sectors at 30,000 euros annually at 2026 prices and estimates that up to 35% of the Catalan economy is subsidised.

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World Inequality Lab's Global Justice Report: billionaire wealth grows 16% in 2025

The World Inequality Lab, directed by Thomas Piketty, has presented the Global Justice Report, elaborated by 45 authors based on the work of more than 200 researchers. Oxfam reports that global billionaire wealth grew by more than 16% during 2025 to reach 18.3 trillion dollars, while the number of billionaires exceeds 3,000 and nearly half the world's population continues to live in poverty or economic vulnerability.

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Denmark forms coalition government under Frederiksen and defends Greenland's self-determination

Denmark has reached a coalition government agreement between social democrats, liberals and greens with external support from left-wing minorities. Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has defended Greenland's right to self-determination and called for a united European military defence.

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Generalitat authorises first conversion of a wind farm into a hybrid wind-solar plant in Catalonia

The Generalitat de Catalunya has granted the first authorisation to convert the Monclues wind farm, built in 2012 and owned by Engie, into a hybrid wind-solar power plant. The government's renewable energy committee has granted environmental approval to the project, which still requires approval from the Urban Planning Commission.

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Music and AI: the music industry demands licences from artificial intelligence platforms

The music industry is demanding licences from artificial intelligence platforms for the use of copyrighted works. Anthropic and OpenAI are accused of allegedly fraudulent use of copyrighted material in training their models.

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Generalitat 2026 budget: agreement with ERC and els Comuns includes Walter Benjamin Memorial Space in Portbou

The Generalitat's draft budget for 2026, agreed by the Illa government with ERC and els Comuns, includes an allocation for the rehabilitation of the former town hall and former schools in Portbou to create the Walter Benjamin Memorial Space, intended for the preservation, dissemination and research of democratic memory and cultural heritage. Additional provision 27 of the draft governs measures on cooperation with local authorities.

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Rent in Girona: residents spend 55% of gross salary, among the ten most expensive provinces in Spain

Residents in the province of Girona spent 55% of their gross salary on rent for an 80 m² flat in 2025, above the Spanish average of 50%. Girona ranks among the ten Spanish provinces where rent weighs most heavily on income.

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Cosco and PTP present management of Tarragona's Moll d'Andalusia multipurpose terminal

The joint venture led by Cosco with PTP as a minority partner has presented the concession project for the multipurpose terminal at Tarragona's Moll d'Andalusia. The director-general of Argentine logistics group PTP, Guillermo Misiano, has stated that Tarragona will be the European reference for Cosco and PTP.

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TSJC sentences a man to six years in prison for sexual assault in Lleida

The Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia has confirmed the Lleida Court's sentence and condemned a man to six years in prison for sexual assault, rejecting the defence's appeal. The court declared that the victim's statement is corroborated by other evidence and that the acts constitute sexual assault through the use of violence, in line with Supreme Court jurisprudence.

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Bitcoin loses 25% of its value in one month and falls to lowest levels since 2024

Bitcoin is trading at 61,000 dollars after losing 25% of its value in one month, reaching its lowest levels since 2024, before Donald Trump arrived at the White House. The price had previously reached a peak of 126,000 dollars.

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Religiosity in Catalonia and Spain: CEO barometer data coinciding with papal visit

The Generalitat's Centre d'Estudis d'Opinió has published a religiosity barometer showing that 56.8% of the Catalan population identifies as Catholic but nearly 57% never attends acts of worship, and Catalonia is the second autonomous community with the least religious consciousness in Spain. Confessional marriages have fallen from 77.3% to 16.4% between 1994 and 2024, while civil marriages have risen from 22.7% to 83.6%. In Spain, practising religious believers have dropped from 59% to 33% over 25 years, and more than half of young people aged 18–34 do not consider themselves believers.

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Parental donations to children for housing rise 20% in Tarragona due to housing crisis

Parental donations to children to cover the down payment or financing of a flat have increased by 20% in the past year in the province of Tarragona, in a context of a housing crisis that means many families cannot access a home without family help. Families consulted acknowledge that without their parents they would not have been able to own a home.

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EU Payment Observatory: only 14% of large companies meet agreed payment deadlines

The EU Payment Observatory has reported that only 14% of large companies meet agreed payment deadlines, while 50% of micro-enterprises and 46% of small companies pay on time. Medium-sized companies show a compliance rate of 29%.

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Illegal sale of primates on social media: report warns of alarming increase in 2025

A report by several international organisations warns of an alarming increase in the illegal sale of primates through digital platforms during 2025, with more than 1,600 specimens of various species listed for illegal sale on social media in the United States. Spain has also detected an increase in the illegal sale of primates online.

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Municipalities in Camp de Tarragona with no food retail: at least 23 localities affected

At least 23 municipalities in the Camp de Tarragona area, and possibly up to 25, have no food retail establishments, with a particular concentration in the Conca de Barberà (9 municipalities) and the Baix Camp (6 municipalities). The Generalitat de Catalunya has conducted a survey aimed at the micro-villages in the area to assess the situation.

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Tarragona's Amphitheatre to undergo comprehensive restoration to recover historic sea access

Tarragona's Amphitheatre, part of the UNESCO World Heritage site, will undergo a comprehensive restoration that includes recovering the historic entrance from the sea and a first intervention on access to the arena. The restoration of the Colonia Forum is practically complete.

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Iván Redondo analyses the Spanish and Catalan political landscape in a book and interview

Iván Redondo, former chief of staff to Pedro Sánchez and director of Salvador Illa's electoral campaigns, has published the book 'El Manual' and offered an extensive analysis of the Spanish political landscape. He stated that Pedro Sánchez has lost 700,000 voters to the PP and Vox, that Salvador Illa has a Christian democratic profile, and that there will be no full reconciliation until Carles Puigdemont can return. He defended the amnesty law as constitutional and fully European.

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2027 municipal elections: parties begin designating candidates in Lleida and other municipalities

With municipal elections scheduled for 23 May 2027, the main parties have begun designating candidates. In Lleida, PSC, PP, ERC and Junts have announced their candidates for the mayoralty, while the PSC governs the Generalitat and several mayoralties in the Lleida area in coalition with Unitat d'Aran.

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Girona FC relegated to Segunda División after losing promotion play-off

Girona FC has been relegated to the Segunda División after losing the play-off final against Elx and being eliminated in another tie by Rayo Vallecano. The club had previously beaten Tenerife and Eibar in earlier play-off rounds. The season has been marked by the difficulty of maintaining their top-flight status after a previously outstanding campaign.

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Granollers and Zeballos win the Roland Garros doubles final

Marcel Granollers and Horacio Zeballos have won the Roland Garros doubles final, claiming their second consecutive title in Paris and the third Grand Slam of their career together.

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Surge in waste tax discount applications in Lleida: from 31 to 558 in one year

Applications for waste tax discounts at the Lleida city council have multiplied twentyfold in one year, rising from 31 petitions in 2024 to 558 in the first half of 2025, of which 82% were approved. The information was provided by the council in response to a request from ERC.

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Recovery of the Sénia river mouth: Alcanar council promotes a biodiversity project

Alcanar council will promote a project during 2026 and early 2027 to recover the final stretch of the Sénia river mouth, included in the Catalan Wetlands Inventory. The first phase will include cataloguing biodiversity and a pilot scheme to control invasive species, and the project will be carried out by the Associació l'Aube.

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Sports Administrative Tribunal suspends OK Lliga promotion match between Manlleu and Vilafranca

The Sports Administrative Tribunal (TAD) has issued a precautionary suspension of the return leg of the OK Lliga promotion play-off between Martinelia Manlleu and Vilafranca Capital del Vi, with no new date set, following allegations filed by Manlleu. In parallel, the Competition Committee ruled in favour of Hoquei Lloret in a complaint about the irregular alignment of Mataró goalkeeper Sergi Grané, converting the 4-7 result into a 0-10 and granting Lloret direct promotion to the OK Lliga.

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Marc Márquez takes pole and wins the MotoGP Hungarian GP sprint

MotoGP world champion Marc Márquez took pole position and won the sprint race at the Hungarian Grand Prix, despite competing while not fully recovered from two operations.

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Real Madrid presidential election coinciding with the Pope's visit

Real Madrid members are voting to elect the club's president, in elections that have coincided with Pope Leo XIV's visit to Spain, during which the Pope declared himself a Real Madrid supporter. Riquelme presented a possible signing of Haaland in the context of these elections.

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Insects found in school canteen soup at Ignasi Melé i Farré school

Families from the Ignasi Melé i Farré school have reported that some children found insects in the soup served at the school canteen, and that some pupils told their families at home that there were 'bugs' in the soup.

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