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SPAIN’S prime minister Pedro Sanchez has doubled down on his support for the thousands of pro-Palestine protesters who forced the cancellation of the final stage of the Vuelta a España – Spain’s equivalent of the Tour de France. Sanchez, speaking the day following the abandonment of the Vuelta’s grand finale midway after an estimated 100 000 people invaded Madrid and …

A senior government minister has warned Spain that it could withdraw from 2026 Eurovision Song Contest, if Israel was allowed to participate. Speaking to TVE, culture minister Ernest Urtasun called on the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) – the producers and organisers of Eurovision – to expel Israel over its ongoing military offensive in Gaza, and raised the possibility that next …