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Trump, Netanyahu greater threats to world peace than Mojtaba Khamenei, Spaniards believe - poll

Asked to name the leader who most endangers world peace, 81% of respondents indicated that Trump is a significant danger, followed by 79.2% for Putin and 71.2% for Netanyahu.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Donald Trump are seen shaking hands at a press conference in 2025.
A VOTE on the death penalty for terrorists who murder Israeli civilians at the auditorium in the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, March 30, 2026.

'This is apartheid’: International politicians, governments condemn terror death penalty law

Pro-Palestinian protesters demonstrate outside Movistar Arena as Real Madrid face Maccabi Tel Aviv in a EuroLeague basketball game on January 8, 2026, in Madrid, Spain.

Spain at a crossroads: When a government’s words betray its own people

An Easy Jet airline's Airbus A320-214 passenger aircraft, coming from Glasgow, lands at Malaga-Costa del Sol Airport, in Malaga, Spain, June 29, 2024.

Easter getaway chaos at Spain’s flight hubs as ground staff walk out


Steinmeier becomes first German head of state to visit Guernica since 1937 Nazi bombing

The German president laid a wreath at a cemetery housing a mausoleum built in 1973 for hundreds of victims of the bombings.

Spain's King Felipe welcomes German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier during a ceremony at the Royal Palace, in Madrid, Spain, November 26, 2025.

Ancient Spanish skull reveals Roman campaign of intimidation, adds to sparse record of ancient war

The 2020 discovery of the skull was recently published in the Journal of Roman Archaeology, focusing on the Romans’ siege of La Loma.

Archaeologists Ines Morales, Rocio Moron and Veronica Alberto from Tibicena, an archaeology company, analyze a human skull which was found buried in a cave on the island of Gran Canaria, Spain April 24, 2023.

After being lost for centuries, Spanish gold coin from 1609 breaks European auction record

The unique 339-gram piece sold for 2,817,500 Swiss francs ($3.49 million).

The Segovian Centen, the first 100-escudo coin weighing 339.35 grams of gold, struck by King Philip III in 1609, during a preview ahead of its sale starting at 2,000,000 Swiss francs ($2,478,000 USD) in Geneva, Switzerland, November 24, 2025.

Several international airlines cancel their flights in Venezuela after US warning

Several international airlines canceled flights from Venezuela after the US FAA warned of hazardous conditions and heightened military activity in the region.

People line up to board the plane in a terminal at the Simon Bolivar International airport in Maiquetia, La Guaira State, Venezuela June 3, 2024.

Ecuador, Spanish police arrest Los Lobos drug boss Wilmer Barre, tied to 400 murders

Wilmer Geovanny Chavarria Barre, known as "Pipo," helms a powerful group that the US in September designated a foreign terrorist organization.

A police officer stands outside the National Court of Justice during a hearing for the extradition of Ecuadorean gang leader Jose Adolfo Macias, who on Friday accepted the court's request to be extradited to the United States to face drug and gun charges, in Quito, Ecuador, July 11, 2025.

Missing Picasso painting found in Madrid weeks after vanishing

The small framed "Still Life with Guitar" was part of a larger shipment of artworks moved from Madrid to Granada.

Spanish National Police inspect a Picasso painting "Still Life with Guitar", that disappeared during transport on October 10, 2025, in Madrid, Spain October 24, 2025.

One year on, victim of Valencia floods found buried in mud

The man was one of three people still unaccounted for and had already been officially declared dead, said a local court in Catarroja - one of the towns most affected by the floods.

Vehicles are piled up on rail road tracks in the aftermath of floods caused by heavy rains in Alfafar, in Valencia, Spain, November 1, 2024.

Spain investigates steelmaker Sidenor for allegedly selling steel to Israel for weapons

The court said Sidenor sold steel to Israel Military Industries, a subsidiary of Elbit Systems, in a deal allegedly conducted without government authorisation or proper registry.

A van passes the Sidenor steel-making plant in Basauri, Spain, February 4, 2025.

'Moses Maimonides': A Cornell professor’s look at the Rambam - review

Images in the book include a responsum in Maimonides’s own hand, signed “Moshe” by him. It is one of many such documents discovered in the Cairo 'geniza,' a storage of Hebrew and Aramaic documents.

Engraving Maimonides in ‘Thesaurus antiquitatum sacrarum,’ 1744 by Blaisio Ugolino.

Why Israel’s place in Eurovision is worth fighting for

Germany has said it will withdraw if Israel is not allowed to participate, and Austria said that if there is a boycott against Israel, Vienna would not host Eurovision 2026.

Eden Golan resonated in 2024 with ‘Hurricane,’ about losing love amid trauma, in Israel’s first Eurovision appearance since the Hamas massacre.