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You are confident that you understand your abilities. café con leche You can also find out more about your cortado? You are in for an amazing treat. Spain has been named as one of the best countries in the world to enjoy a hearty brew – and four spots are ranked among the globe’s best. That’s according to the prestigious …

Alicante is the province with the highest overseas share, just below 43%. The Association of Registrars reported 178,270 sales in the United States, an increase of 3.31% on a year-over-year basis. Foreign sales accounted for 13.52% of total. The UK still leads the overseas market despite a decline of 10.74% annually, followed by buyers in the Netherlands, France, and Germany. …

In a nationwide raid against an international criminal ring, Black Axe, the Policia Nacional arrested 34 individuals. The arrests, carried out in conjunction with Europol, focused on allegations of fraud and money laundering as well as document forgery. Black Axe began in Nigeria, as a student-confraternity during the late 1970s. The group has strict code of conduct and practices spirituality, …

The expansion of a CATALUNYA lab could lead to the outbreaks of swine flu in Spain. This week, the country declared an emergency due to an infection that causes animals’ internal bleeding. There is no vaccine or cure for the virus, but it does not usually cause death in humans. READ MORE WILD BOAR In Bellaterra, in the province of …

After investigators discovered alleged links with a narco group that used corrupt police to smuggle illegal drugs into Spain, a probe into dodgy Covid contract in Andalucia turned into a full-blown storm of corruption.  The mayor of Fines Rodrigo Sanchez and Javier Aureliano Garcia of the Almeria Provincial Council, as well as its vice-president Fernando Gimenez, were arrested last week …

A BRITISH pilot, who killed his Spanish lover during a drug-fueled sex session, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison. Aaron Rainbow was sentenced to the maximum penalty in Spanish law for stabbing Oscar Tornero six times, following a crystal meth-induced binge, in 2023. Rainbow, a Surrey man, said he acted in self defence after he became paranoid and …

A MAN and a woman have been arrested in the Barcelona area after committing ‘love hug’ robberies on the Valencia region coast. The couple, of unknown nationality and age 26, moved about different areas in the Costa Blanca province and Valencia to make it hard to find them. In the street, the two were mainly targeting elderly people and giving …

La Liga’s decision to backtrack on plans to play a league game in the United States has vindicated angry football fans in Spain. The Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF), which had originally scheduled the match for Villarreal’s Estadio de la Ceramica on 21 December, has now approved the game to take place in Miami. This decision was made in August …

Do you feel secure in Spain? The answer you give will probably depend on where you live – and fresh crime data from the National Statistics Institute (INE) has shone a light on a startling disparity between the country’s cities. Taking the unwanted crown for most dangerous city is – perhaps unsurprisingly – Barcelona, a thriving metropolis known as much …

Interpol led an international campaign to identify a woman whose body had been discovered in Barcelona, Spain more than 20 YEARS AGO. On Thursday, an international policing organization announced that Liudmila zavada, 31, was the woman. Previously known as ‘the woman in pink’, the female’s body was found on July 2, 2005 in Viladecans, near to the busy Barcelona El-Prat …