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TOP Spanish film director Pedro Almodovar has come out to bat for embattled prime minister Pedro Sanchez, describing allegations of rampant corruption in government ranks as an ‘orgy of fake news’.   The Academy Award and Goya Award-winning filmmaker joined almost a hundred public figures in signing a letter which rallied against the ‘conservative offensive’ against Sanchez, whose Socialist-led government is …

ONE of Spain’s ‘Most Wanted’ criminals has been arrested- just days before the statute of limitations kicked in on July 31- after hiding in a Madrid area shed for five years, without the owners knowing he was there. Alvaro PasquIn Mora, 32, was nicknamed as the ‘tattoo fugitive’ due to the large amount of ink on his body. He was …

Ballard. Credit: Instagram @ballardonprime Ballard, Season One Ballard This is a sharply-written, smart crime series which manages to be fresh. Maggie Q plays Detective Renée Ballard, leading an underfunded cold case unit buried in the LAPD basement. She is tough, introspective and doesn’t play politics. Although the cases are complicated and satisfyingly twisty in nature, it is the characters that …