All news on the topic: Spain

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European universities keep ties with Israeli defence-linked research projects
At the start of the academic year last September, the rector of the University of Granada sent a message to students and faculty members. Professor Pedro Mercado Pacheco stressed that the university must continue to be “a space for dialogue...
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Spanish intelligence warned of 72,000-migrant Ceuta border invasion
Spanish intelligence warned of the looming Ceuta migrant invasion, despite Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s claim the flood of over 70,000 migrants was a surprise.
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Lionel Messi set to take control of Spanish club Eldense
Lionel Messi has agreed in principle to take control of Spanish second-division club Eldense as the football icon continues to build an expanding ownership empire.
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Spain dismantles "Dubai Bank" cocaine network after tracking millions through cryptocurrency
The massive international probe, sparked by the intentional sinking of a cocaine-laden ship in 2021, took down a high-value Europol target and crippled an underground financial network used to fund global drug shipments.
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EU loses €13bn a year as illegal tobacco trade surges across the bloc
Bloc losing €13bn in revenue with one in 10 cigarettes illegal, watchdog reports
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21-year-old man charged with murder after 19-year-old woman shot dead in London home
A 21-years-old man has been charged with murder after a woman, 19, was shot and killed at a home in London.
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Trump administration quietly closes criminal probe into Venezuela businessman amid oil deal
For a decade, Venezuelan businessman Alejandro Betancourt has been ensnared in the tentacles of a sprawling Justice Department probe into a sophisticated billion-dollar money laundering scheme that US prosecutors allege embezzled funds from Venezuela’s state-owned oil company known as PDVSA.
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Illegal migrants in Ceuta triumphantly hold baby dolphin aloft after ‘whacking it over the head’ in horror attack
A group of migrants in Ceuta were filmed holding a a baby dolphin aloft around a beach on the Spanish exclave.
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British tourist, 75, dies after disappearing from view while swimming in Lanzarote
A British man has died in a suspected drowning after his wife “lost sight of him” on the beach in the Spanish island of Lanzarote.
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Thousands protest across Spain demanding Pedro Sánchez resign over Ceuta migrant crisis
Thousands of protesters have spilled onto the streets of cities across Spain amid fury at Pedro Sanchez’s handling of the Ceuta migrant catastrophe.
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More than 80 dead after migrant canoe drifts to Canary Islands with just 45 survivors
More than 80 people have died, including one baby, after a canoe was found adrift at sea near the Canary Islands.
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London couple die in Spanish jacuzzi tragedy as father becomes trapped trying to save his life
Police probing the deaths of an Irish couple who were found unresponsive in a Spanish hot tub have revealed that the pair became trapped in the jacuzzi’s suction system.
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Pedro Sánchez takes swipe at King Felipe VI over failure to visit migrant-hit Ceuta
The prime minister pointedly contrasted his government’s hands-on handling of the surge of migrants in the North African city with the monarch’s absence.
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Germany’s most wanted drug trafficker arrested in Spain after high-tech manhunt
Spanish police, working with German authorities, have arrested Germany’s most wanted drug trafficker in the southern city of Málaga, the National Police announced Monday.
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Lionel Messi retires from Argentina duty after 21-year international career
Argentina captain Lionel Messi has announced his retirement from international football in a statement on Instagram.
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Ceuta residents torch migrant camp as fury erupts after mass border crossing
Furious residents in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta have torched a makeshift migrant camp as tensions continue to erupt after more than 70,000 people stormed the border from Morocco.
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German tourist stabbed to death with 20 wounds at Spanish holiday resort
A tourist has been stabbed to death in the same Spanish holiday resort where a pregnant woman and child were shot dead two weeks ago.
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"Shot twice": Man found dead in Marbella after suspected hit-and-run attack
A man has been found dead in a Brit holiday hotspot after being shot in the stomach in an alleged hit-and-run attack.
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Joanna Williams warns of "telling silence" over surge in sexual assaults after Ceuta migrant influx
Author Joanna Williams has slammed the “telling silence” over a rise in sexual abuse cases following the migrant invasion in the Spanish city of Ceuta.
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Spain seizes nearly 13 tonnes of laughing gas in major Tenerife crackdown
Spain’s Civil Guard dismantled an alleged criminal organization accused of illegally importing and distributing nitrous oxide, commonly known as laughing gas, in Tenerife, seizing nearly 13 tons of the substance in what authorities called Europe’s second-largest haul.
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15 sexual assault cases investigated in Ceuta as migrant border crisis intensifies
Spanish cops are investigating 15 alleged sexual assaults in Ceuta, including one against a girl aged 10, as border tensions spiral out of control.
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Europe’s wildfire crisis deepens as nearly 500 arrested in France
Almost 500 people have been arrested on suspicion of starting wildfires in France since the start of the summer, authorities have said, as firefighters in half a dozen European countries tackle ferocious blazes amid a record-breaking heatwave.
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Spain’s security ally Morocco accused of spying on Guardia Civil officers it trained
Leaked documents and insider testimonies reveal that Morocco used Pegasus to spy on a senior Guardia Civil intelligence officer while secretly monitoring Spanish officers training its intelligence service.
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Britain abandoned £5.5bn HMS Sussex treasure hunt to avoid confrontation with Spain
Britain walked away from a potential £5.5billion treasure recovery mission near Gibraltar rather than risk a confrontation with Spain over the territory.
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Ivoninskys built a vast business empire around Mirage cinemas and proxy companies
As investigative journalists have found out, the St. Petersburg cinema magnates and film pirates the Ivoninskys (who own the Mirage cinema chain) have built a true empire of companies registered to proxy figures.