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NOWHERE TO HIDE: Spanish PM Pedro Sanchez wants to end online anonymity and put Zuckerberg and Musk in the firing line

SPANISH PM Pedro Sanchez has launched a blistering attack on social media. Speaking at the Davos summit, the leader of the PSOE socialist party demanded

24 Jan, 2025 @ 11:51

Business & Finance·Lead

Spain’s Karla Sofia Gascon becomes first trans actress to get an Oscar nomination

KARLA Sofia Gascon has become only the second Spanish actress to get a Best Actress nomination for the Oscars as well as the first transgender

23 Jan, 2025 @ 18:15

Entertainment·La Cultura·Lead

Judge rejects €2.2m compensation claim against Alicante area care home where 15 residents died from Covid-19

Judge rejects €2.2m compensation claim against Alicante area care home where over half the residents died from Covid-19 in just two months

A JUDGE has thrown out a €2.2 million compensation bid from families of 15 people who died from Covid-19 in 2020 at an Alicante province

23 Jan, 2025 @ 17:12

Alicante·Coronavirus·Lead

British villa looted with hundreds of pounds taken during burglary spree in popular expat area of Costa Blanca

A BRITISH-owned villa was among a string of properties burgled by four men in Calpe on the northern Costa Blanca. The 25-year-old ringleader was remanded

23 Jan, 2025 @ 16:17

Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead

Pedro Sanchez returns to flood-hit Valencia to meet mayors after staying away for 81 days

Pedro Sanchez returns to flood-hit Valencia for first time following mud-pelting incidents

PRIME Minister Pedro Sanchez made his first visit to Valencia since November 3 when he was pelted with mud by Paiporta residents- angry with the

23 Jan, 2025 @ 15:00

Lead·Valencia

Man commits three violent robberies within minutes- threatening victims with fake gun in Spain’s Mar Menor area

A MAN has been arrested over three violent robberies in the Mar Menor area where victims were threatened by a fake gun. The Guardia Civil

23 Jan, 2025 @ 14:00

Crime & Law·Lead·Mar Menor

AI in the US will soon use more energy than all of Italy or the UK: Will Spain’s power grid be able to cope with influx of new data centres?

THE explosive growth of Artificial Intelligence could devour electricity equivalent to an entire country’s annual consumption, according to a new US Department of Energy report.

23 Jan, 2025 @ 13:00

Environment·Lead·Technology

Abandoned narco-sub breaks into two when fishing boat tries to tow it to port in Spain

Abandoned narco-sub breaks into two as fishing boat tries to tow it to port in Spain

THE Guardia Civil says a suspected narco-submarine capable of smuggling drugs broke in two as a fishing boat was towing it to a port in

23 Jan, 2025 @ 12:00

Crime & Law·Galicia·Lead

Real Madrid becomes world’s first football club to get €1 billion into its coffers during a single year

REAL Madrid has become the world’s first football club to earn over €1 billion of revenue in a single year. After winning La Liga and

23 Jan, 2025 @ 11:10

Lead·Madrid·Sport

Sabadell Bank to leave Alicante HQ and return home to Barcelona amidst hostile takeover battle with BBVA

SABADELL Bank will move its headquarters back to Barcelona, seven years after setting up shop in Alicante due to Catalunya’s illegal independence referendum. The bank

22 Jan, 2025 @ 18:00

Alicante·Barcelona·Lead

BBC soap set on Spain’s Costa del Sol set for re-run

A BBC soap set in Spain will return to screens 31 years after it was taken off air. Eldorado was released in 1992 as the

22 Jan, 2025 @ 17:00

Costa del Sol·La Cultura·Lead

King and Queen of Spain visit major international tourism fair in Madrid with 156 countries represented

King and Queen of Spain open major international tourism fair as hundreds of thousands pour into Madrid

THE King and Queen of Spain officially opened the country’s prestigious tourism fair (Fitur) in Madrid on Wednesday. It’s the 45th staging of the event

22 Jan, 2025 @ 17:00

Lead·Madrid·National News

Bungee jump instructor is criticised for pushing frightened woman off a bridge in Spain

Bungee jump instructor slammed for pushing terrified woman off bridge in Spain

A SEVILLA bungee jump instructor has been criticised after a video showed him pushing a scared woman off a bridge. Cristina Amaro Priego became fearful

22 Jan, 2025 @ 16:00

Andalucia·Lead·Sevilla

Revealed: The most popular cultural leisure activities enjoyed by people in Spain

Security guard wins back job after watching porn on company mobile phone in Spain

A SECURITY guard who was fired for watching pornography on a works mobile phone was unfairly sacked, according to the Basque Country Supreme Court. The

22 Jan, 2025 @ 15:00

Basque Country·Lead

Oldest person in Spain- aged 111- reveals there’s no great or special secret to her long life

SPAIN’S oldest person has revealed there’s no big secret about her living a long life. She admitted though to enjoying a simple breakfast of a

22 Jan, 2025 @ 14:00

Barcelona·Lead·National News

Back to basics: Churros, calamari sarnies and zarajos; why Madrid is a lot more than Michelin stars. Jon Clarke picks over some of its true culinary institutions

WELL Madrid has finally become one of Europe’s dining capitals. Fact. Having long been overshadowed by Barcelona and San Sebastian, it is at last bearing

22 Jan, 2025 @ 13:24

For Foodies·Lead·Madrid·Olive Press Travel

Non-stop ‘drug market staffed by two teenage girls who accepted stolen TVs as payment’ shut down on Spain’s Costa del Sol

A 24 hour ‘drug market’ has been taken down by Fuengirola police, with four traffickers arrested. The ‘takeaway’ drug operation was found in two ‘narcoflats’

22 Jan, 2025 @ 13:23

Crime & Law·Lead·Malaga

Germans and Dutch dominate Spain’s luxury property market – but which areas will be hit in Pedro Sanchez’s ban on non-EU buyers?

PRIME Minister Pedro Sanchez’s plans to shut non-EU-non-resident buyers out of the Spanish property market could affect a number of areas popular with Brits and

22 Jan, 2025 @ 13:00

Costa del Sol·Lead·Property

John George breakthrough: Two suspects are arrested in Portugal over murder of Northern Irish father in Spain

John George: International arrest warrant issued for prime suspect in his murder on Spain’s Costa Blanca as family ask for second autopsy

AN INTERNATIONAL arrest warrant has been issued by a Torrevieja judge for the suspected killer of Belfast man John George. Meanwhile his family have requested

22 Jan, 2025 @ 11:23

Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead

Mallorca's former top anti-drug cop arrested in money laundering probe linked to Ibiza cocaine pipeline

American tourist, 80, ‘murdered in Malaga tourist apartment’ after neighbours hear ‘screams of agony’

AN American tourist has been found dead with signs of violence in a holiday apartment in Malaga’s historic centre. He had reportedly just arrived in

22 Jan, 2025 @ 11:04

Crime & Law·Lead·Malaga

Marbella clinic named Spain’s best paediatric centre

A MARBELLA clinic has been named the best paediatric clinic in Spain. German Clinic has long been a respected health facility on the Costa del

22 Jan, 2025 @ 10:37

Health·Lead

Spain-Morocco tunnel latest: Hopes dashed that it will be completed in time for 2030 World Cup amid reports of 'decade-long' delay

German tunnelling specialists ‘awarded contract to assess feasibility of Spain to Morocco underwater train’ – reports

AN underwater tunnel between Spain and Morocco is reported to be one step closer to fruition after a firm was selected to conduct a feasibility

21 Jan, 2025 @ 19:00

Cadiz·Gibraltar·Lead

British teenager with rare genetic condition faces weeks in hospital after falling seriously ill during family holiday on Costa Blanca

A BRITISH teenage girl with a rare genetic condition had to be placed on a ventilator at Alicante’s General Hospital after her lungs filled with

21 Jan, 2025 @ 18:00

Alicante·Costa Blanca·Lead

Trump fires Spanish chef Jose Andres from the White House for ‘not being aligned with MAGA’

TRUMP has dismissed Spanish chef Jose Andres from the White House. He is just one of over a thousand fired as Trump ‘removes those not

21 Jan, 2025 @ 17:00

Lead·Politics

Why are kids in Spain’s Malaga off in February? Just what is ‘Semana Blanca’ anyway?

IF you have children who are attending a school in the province of Málaga (or if you’re a school student yourself), Semana Blanca is almost

21 Jan, 2025 @ 16:38

Andalucia·Lead·Malaga

Explosion at Barcelona Port: Industrial accident kills one and injure four

ONE person has died and four injured – one critically – in an explosion at Barcelona port. The incident occurred at approximately 10.10am this morning

21 Jan, 2025 @ 16:31

Barcelona·Catalunya·Lead

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