The annual Tomatina festival in Bunol, Spain, brought together thousands of people from around the world for a messy hour of tossing overripe tomatoes. Revellers squished and hurled an astonishing one hundred and twenty tons of the fruit, transforming the central streets into a vibrant scene of laughter and chaos. The event, which drew an estimated twenty thousand participants, was marked by screams of joy as everyone joined in the fun, despite the chaotic and messy nature of the fight. […]

The Council of Ministers of Spain has recently approved a comprehensive national plan to combat corruption, prompted by the involvement of former Spanish Socialist Workers' Party officials, José Luis Ábalos and Santos Cerdán, in the Koldo case. This initiative was announced by President Pedro Sánchez during a session in Congress on the ninth of July. At a press conference following the first Council meeting after the summer break, government spokesperson Pilar Alegría outlined that the plan integrates recommendations from the […]

Two soldiers from the Spanish Army have sustained serious injuries in a traffic accident while they were involved in firefighting efforts in Galicia. The incident occurred at around eleven twenty in the morning on the A fifty-two motorway, near Trasmiras, Ourense. Their military vehicle collided with a livestock truck, resulting in one soldier being evacuated by helicopter due to critical injuries, while the other was transported to hospital via ambulance. Emergency services, including the Galician Emergency Service and local firefighters, […]

In a significant move, the Spanish government has approved the declaration of areas severely affected by wildfires and heavy rains as civil protection emergency zones. This decision, made during the first Council of Ministers meeting post-summer, aims to assist those impacted by the climate disasters recorded from June twenty-third to August twenty-fifth. Among the one hundred and eighteen emergencies, one hundred and thirteen were due to wildfires. The fires have ravaged approximately four hundred and eighteen thousand hectares in Spain, […]

The secretary general of Junts per Catalunya, Jordi Turull, has ruled out negotiating the Catalonian budget with the Partit Socialista de Catalunya for the year twenty twenty-six. In an interview, Turull argued that the commitments made with Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya and Comuns during Salvador Illa's investiture are incompatible with the vision of Junts for a thriving middle class in Catalonia. Turull further accused Illa of representing the 'de-nationalisation' of Catalan institutions and has made it clear that his party […]