Open the Editor’s Digest completely free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the feet, chooses her preferred tales in this once a week e-newsletter. Spanish Head Of State Pedro Sánchez has actually decreased to indicate as a witness in a corruption probe right into his partner and submitted a claim versus the investigatory court, rising a months-long lawful conflict. Sánchez on Tuesday …

SPAIN’S Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez exercised his right to not testify before a judge today, as part of an ongoing judicial probe into allegations of corruption and influence peddling levelled against his wife, Begoña Gomez. After the brief face-to-face with Judge Juan Carlos Peinado at La Moncloa prime ministerial palace on Tuesday morning, it emerged that Sanchez was filing …

SPAIN’S Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has discussed the possibility of thrashing out a bilateral youth mobility deal with the UK after a meeting with Sir Keir Starmer, according to reports in The Sunday Telegraph. The idea was suggested by Sanchez at a meeting of European leaders on July 18 at Blenheim Palace, the birthplace and ancestral home of Winston Churchill. …

Alonso’s irritability: Alonso walks the circuit in Imola, Italy. Debt: Jay Hirano Digital Photography/ Shutterstock Fernando Alonso shared his stress with F1’s regulating body, the FIA, after a mistake saw him and his Aston Martin colleague, Lance Walk, incorrectly called right into the pit lane early after a red-flag collision entailing Yuki Tsunoda. Both Aston Martin chauffeurs were the very …

A BRITISH expat and her three children are demanding justice after being kicked out of their Costa del Sol home ‘without any warning’. ‘Devastated’ Lydia Preston Sweeney, 52, was given just 15 minutes to leave her Benahavis house by her landlord and former PSOE mayoral candidate Luis Feito Miragaya. The left-wing politician, who campaigned for housing reform just last year, …

MILLIONS of Spaniards will enjoy a public holiday today as regions across the nation unite to celebrate the Day of Santiago Apostol. Santiago – better known in English as Saint James the Great – was one of Jesus’ twelve apostles and has the honour of being Spain’s patron saint. After the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus, legend dictates that Santiago …

A BRITISH tourist has died while waiting to board his flight home from Spain. The man, aged in his 60s, collapsed in the boarding area of Reus Airport on July 21, it emerged today. The unnamed Brit was waiting to take a Ryanair flight back to Leeds. Paramedics were called to the scene but were unable to revive the passenger. …

FIFTEEN children from Gaza have arrived in Madrid to receive ‘urgent medical care’ as part of a deal to fly hundreds of youngsters injured in the Israeli-Palestine conflict to cities across Europe. According to the Spanish daily El Pais, 13 of the patients have serious trauma injuries, while one has cancer and another is suffering from chronic heart disease. The …

THE Socialist-led Spanish government will take the first step today toward scrapping the country’s ‘golden visa’ scheme, which was introduced in the midst of a financial crisis in Spain in a bid to attract wealthy investors to the country.  Under the scheme, around 15,000 foreigners have secured residency permits in Spain after having invested more than half a million euros …

By Tristan Kirkland • Printed: 24 Jul 2024 • 8:11 • 2 minutes learn Amid one other record-setting yr for top temperatures, during which 80 per cent of Spanish municipalities are below a temperature warning, latest research have illustrated the hyperlink between excessive warmth and cognitive operate. The mind’s warmth sensitivity The mind is a very delicate organ to warmth, and up …