Spain

Bogotá (EFE).- Spain ended France’s flawless run in the 2026 World Cup with a 2-0 result at the Dallas Stadium on Tuesday. The French side entered the clash as the heavy favorites, boasting a perfect record from the group stages and three consecutive shutouts in the knockout rounds against Sweden,...

​International Desk, Jul 6 (EFE).- Mikel Merino scored in stoppage time, securing Spain’s passage to the World Cup quarter-finals with a 1-0 victory. ​Spain’s victory sent Portugal home from the tournament and marked the conclusion of Cristiano Ronaldo’s World Cup career. ​Merino was brought down, and a foul was called....

​International Desk, Jul 2 (EFE).- Spain beat Austria 3-0 in the knockout round of the World Cup on Thursday, and they’re through to the round of 16. Two goals by Mikel Oyarzabal and one by Pedro Porro secured the Spanish national team’s first victory in a knockout round since 2010....

​Madrid, June 24 (EFE).- A new police report alleged that former Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero (2004-2011) lobbied Bolivian authorities to benefit “the interests” of the Peruvian business group Gloria in exchange for a 200,000 euros payment. ​The Spanish Police’s Central Unit for Economic and Fiscal Crime (UDEF)...

​Madrid, Jun 22 (EFE).- The 24-year and three-month prison sentence handed down by Spain’s Supreme Court to José Luis Ábalos, former Minister of Transportation of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s government, shook Spain’s turbulent political scene on Monday, sparking calls for elections and a purge within the Socialist Party. ​Ábalos, who...

​Madrid, Jun 7 (EFE).- Pope Leo XIV gathered over 1.2 million people in Madrid on Sunday for a Mass in Plaza de Cibeles during his second day in Spain. During the mass, the Pope urged people to move beyond “selfishness,” commit to the “common good,” and ensure that religion “is...

Mexico City, Jun 2 (EFE).- Mexico and Spain committed on Tuesday to work toward doubling bilateral trade and increasing investment by at least 50% by 2030, marking a new phase in their economic relationship supported by the modernized agreement between Mexico and the European Union. Minister of Economy, Trade and...

Madrid (EFE).- Spain’s Supreme Court rejected on Friday the suspension of the government’s extraordinary migrant regularization program, as requested by the Community of Madrid government, the far-right party Vox, and other plaintiffs. The Spanish royal decree for mass regularization took effect on Apr. 16, aiming to grant residency and work...

Mexico City, May 7 (EFE).- Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum published on Thursday an edict from the Spanish King Charles I, dated 1548 in the city of Valladolid, in which, in her opinion, the «atrocities» of Hernán Cortés were discussed. This move comes amid the controversy surrounding the recent defense of...

Mexico City (EFE).- Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum lashed out on Tuesday against the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, and her defense of the Spanish conquest and the figure of Hernán Cortés during an event held the previous day in Mexico City. “To those who revive the...

Madrid (EFE).- Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado called from Spain on Friday for the displacement of the Venezuelan regime, represented by interim president Delcy Rodríguez. Machado, currently on a European tour, spent the first day of her official agenda in Madrid in intense meetings...

Madrid, (EFE).- Noelia Castillo, a 25-year-old Spanish woman, passed away on Thursday at the Sant Camil Residential Hospital in Barcelona after receiving euthanasia. Her death concludes a judicial dispute of over a year and a half against her father. Noelia suffered from paraplegia with permanent and irreversible after-effects following a...