Óscar López, the Minister for Digital Transformation and Public Function, has outlined the effectiveness of the government’s Plan against telephone and SMS scams. Since the implementation of the first measures on seventh March twenty twenty-five, telecommunications operators have successfully blocked a staggering forty-seven million nine hundred seventy-one thousand four hundred calls and two million two hundred twelve thousand nine hundred fifty SMS messages. The daily average of blocked communications has […]

Félix Bolaños, Spain's Minister of the Presidency, has lodged a formal complaint against Judge Juan Carlos Peinado after a strained interrogation related to the Begoña Gómez case. The complaint follows Peinado's questioning of Bolaños on the sixteenth of April at Moncloa, concerning the hiring of Cristina Álvarez, an adviser to the wife of the Prime Minister. During the interrogation, Bolaños felt the judge's responses were evasive, leading to a confrontational […]

The National Police have apprehended four individuals, accused of stealing eight tonnes of copper wiring from various businesses and petrol stations in Madrid and Oviedo. The thefts led to significant disruptions, leaving numerous shops without electricity and inflicting economic damages exceeding seventy thousand euros, as reported by the Madrid High Police Headquarters. The investigation commenced in June, following a notable rise in copper wire thefts in the region. The suspects […]

In a tragic incident on the waters off Mallorca, one man has died, and three others are reported missing following the capsizing of a migrant boat. The vessel, carrying over twenty individuals, encountered difficulties and left its passengers adrift for six days. Emergency services mobilised at around three-thirty in the afternoon, successfully rescuing nineteen people, one of whom had been recovered earlier by a private boat. The rescue effort was […]

Wildfires have ravaged northwestern Spain throughout the first half of August, causing an unprecedented increase in carbon emissions this year. According to the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service, although early in the month emissions were below seasonal averages, a sudden surge in fires in regions such as Castilla y León and Galicia has pushed total wildfire emissions to the highest annual level in twenty-three years of recorded data. Monitoring from the […]

The Spanish airline, Air Europa, has officially accepted a three hundred million euro investment offer from Turkish Airlines. This agreement comes as Air Europa seeks to manage a considerable debt of four hundred and seventy-five million euros, which was incurred during the pandemic through a loan provided by the State Industrial Participation Company. Air Europa's president, Juan José Hidalgo, has signed the acceptance letter earlier this week. In January, Air […]

Spain has recorded an impressive sixty-three point seven million international air passengers between January and July two thousand twenty-five. This figure marks a six percent increase compared to the same period in two thousand twenty-four, as reported by Turespaña on Tuesday. In July alone, international travellers exceeded eleven point seven million, reflecting a four point three percent increase from the previous year. Notably, arrivals surged from key originating markets, with […]

As Spain encounters extreme heat this summer, a seventy-year-old man has died in Plasencia, Cáceres, making him the third heat-related fatality in the region. He reportedly suffered a heat stroke while fishing. Previously, a sixty-seven-year-old man and an eighty-five-year-old man also lost their lives due to heat-related illness in the same area. In La Rambla, Córdoba, another man succumbed to the scorching temperatures while walking on a local path. The […]