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Spain's Sanchez gambles on snap election after regional ballot rout

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez called a snap election on Monday, in an apparent attempt to wrong-foot his conservative opponents and give his flagging Socialist party the best chance of retaining power before its support weakens further.

Reuters · May 29, 2023

Spain's conservative PP elbows Socialists out in regional elections

Spain's ruling Socialists suffered heavy losses to opposition conservatives in Sunday's local election, with around 95% of the votes counted, showing their electoral vulnerability ahead of an end-of-year general election.

Reuters · May 28, 2023

Analysis-NATO struggles in the shadows to find new leader

The race to be the next NATO boss is heating up. But it is a race run largely in the dark, with no sign of a winner yet.

Reuters · May 26, 2023

U.S. to add 2 destroyer ships in southern Spain

The United States will increase its destroyers based in southern Spain to six from four under an agreement to strengthen their bilateral strategic relationship, the countries said on Monday.

Reuters · May 8, 2023

Colombian leader says Spain to study removing ELN from EU's terrorism list

Colombian President Gustavo Petro said on Thursday Spain will look at removing the left-wing Colombian guerrilla group known as the National Liberation Army (ELN) from the European Union's list of designated terrorist organisations during the upcoming Spanish presidency of the EU Council.

Reuters · May 4, 2023

Israelis rally in Tel Aviv against judicial reform ahead of parliament session

Tens of thousands of Israelis protested judicial overhaul proposals Saturday in the 17th weekly rally against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's governing coalition.

France 24 · Apr 29, 2023

Israelis rally for 17th week against judicial overhaul plans

Tens of thousands of Israelis are protesting judicial overhaul proposals in the 17th weekly rally against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s governing coalition

The Independent UK · Apr 29, 2023

Spain to invest 1.3 billion euros in vocational training

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on Saturday announced the government would invest 1.3 billion euros ($1.43 billion) in vocational training.

Reuters · Apr 29, 2023

Brazil's Lula: 'anything could be discussed' once Russia, Ukraine sit down to talk peace

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Wednesday called again for a "peace group" to broker an agreement between Russia and Ukraine, saying anything could be discussed once the nations sat down to talk peace.

Reuters · Apr 26, 2023

Spain to build 20,000 social houses on defence ministry land

The Spanish government will build 20,000 homes for social housing on land owned by the defence ministry, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Tuesday.

Reuters · Apr 25, 2023