December 5, 2023
It took Javier González a minute to reach the migrants who had been forced from the speedboat off the Spanish coast, but by the time he got there, one of them had already died. ADVERTISEMENT Javier González and his crew were filming a promotional video on the beach at Sancti Petri, on the Spanish coast
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MADRID: Spanish infrastructure giant Ferrovial announced it is offloading its remaining 25 percent stake in London’s Heathrow Airport to a French private equity group and Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund. After owning the UK travel hub for 17 years, Ferrovial said Tuesday it had reached a 2.37 billion pound ($3.01 billion) deal with Paris-based Ardian
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Aitana López seems to have come out of nowhere and taken the modeling industry by storm. The pink-haired, toned 25-year-old from Barcelona has reportedly secured advertising deals worth more than $1,000 per Instagram post, and has more than 100,000 online followers. Her Instagram feed shows her posing in outfits from Guess, Brandy Melville, and Victoria’s Secret, and
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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. German inflation fell more than expected to 2.3 per cent in November, raising questions about whether the European Central Bank may soon need to consider cutting interest rates. The figure — mirroring a similar undershoot
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If Pedro Sánchez were to actually deliver on his word (which is a pretty big “IF”), Spain would become only the second country to recognise Palestinian statehood while being an EU Member State. During a tour of Israel and Palestine last week, Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez did something that most EU leaders dare not:
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Sánchez was reelected prime minister on Thursday with backing from 179 lawmakers in Spain’s 350-seat parliament. His election was opposed by 171 deputies from the centre-right Popular Party and the far-right Vox. ADVERTISEMENT Women will hold 12 of the 22 posts in the new government named Monday by Spain’s recently reelected Socialist Prime Minister Pedro
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Three people were arrested Tuesday in connection with the shooting of a Spanish right-wing politician earlier this month. Alejandro Vidal-Quadras, 78, was shot in the face in broad daylight on a Madrid street on Nov. 9. He remains hospitalized. The National Police force’s press department said two suspects were detained in southern Spain’s city of
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Pedro Sanchez won the backing of Spain’s parliament on Thursday for another term as prime minister, with the country divided over his amnesty for Catalan separatists in exchange for their crucial support in a confidence vote. Sanchez, in office since 2018, won the slim backing of 179 lawmakers, three more than the absolute majority of
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Spanish deputies voted in Sánchez for a second term by 179 votes to 171. Only right-wing opposition lawmakers voted against him. ADVERTISEMENT Socialist leader Pedro Sánchez was re-elected as Spain’s prime minister in a parliamentary vote on Thursday, winning another term in office after a snap election in the summer proved inconclusive. The vote allowed
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Police believe Iran may be linked to the attempted murder of the former head of Spain’s People’s Party in Catalonia. Alejo Vidal-Quadras was shot in the face while in the Salamanca region of Madrid on Thursday around 1:30 p.m. He was later taken to the hospital where he is still recovering. A police source with
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