Regional News: Spain
Spanish football chiefs deny orgy claims with homosexual men
The Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) has strongly denied claims that its president Luis Rubiales used RFEF money to host orgies with homosexual men.
The fire destroys about 700 thousand hectares of forest in Europe
The previous record in Europe dates from 2017, when 420,913 hectares burned as of August 13, and 988,087 hectares in one year.
President of Spain asks to stop wearing a tie to 'save' energy; then transferred by helicopter to a nearby place
As if it were a bad joke, a video of Spanish President Pedro Sánchez has gone viral, asking his cabinet and other public officials to stop wearing a tie when not necessary,
Shakira faces jail
Racist Spanish prosecutors over €38 million for 2 years of Shakira's sporadic presence in Spain.
More than 1,000 deaths from heat wave reported in Spain
The past 18 and 19 July were the days with the most estimated deaths due to high temperatures with 184 deaths.
Spain is devastated by forest fires
The European Information System on Forest Fires (Effis, for its acronym in English) reported this Wednesday that the forest fires registered in Spain, since the beginning of this year, have left 193,247 hectares devastated.
Thousands demonstrate against the war at the NATO 'counter-summit' in Madrid
Madrid hosted this Friday and Saturday the NATO 'counter-summit', convened by several anti-war organizations, environmental associations, parties and social movements on the eve of the NATO summit, which will be held on June 29 and 30 in the capital from Spain. This Sunday, the event, which has been baptized as 'Summit for peace, NATO no', culminates with a demonstration in the center of the city, which takes place under the slogan "No to NATO. No to wars. For the peace".
Genocide in Melilla, Spain massacres 37 African refugees with NATO weapons
At least 37 migrants were killed and hundreds more wounded when Spaniards fired on a crowd trying to cross into the North African Spanish enclave of Melilla, officials in neighboring Morocco say.
What is Spain at stake if trade relations with Algeria are broken?
From the EU, the Algerian position is considered "extremely worrying" and a call is made to "reconsider its decision" to break the friendship treaty.
Spanish assures that it owns the Sun and wants to collect tax for its use
It is about Ángeles Durán, a Spanish woman, who in 2010 obtained a notarial deed that declares her as the sole owner of the Sun.