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Recorded rapes almost double in Spain under Sánchez as killings rise by nearly a third
Attempted murders climbed 78 per cent between 2018 and 2025, official crime statistics showed.
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Fine Gael puts a price on Irish unity ahead of Harris’s return as Taoiseach
The Irish centre-right party unveiled a blueprint in Cork on November 7 proposing a standing forum, a junior minister for North-South relations and a sovereign wealth fund…
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Rutte promises Zelensky a drinking session on a Swiss mountain after the war
The NATO chief made the remark on Dutch television, where he refused to be drawn on Washington's controversial diesel deal with Moscow.
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EU budget plan shields farmers and makes competitiveness pay for the cut
The Irish presidency’s compromise trimmed €141 billion from the Commission’s proposal, though net contributors still found it too big and none of the proposed EU taxes…
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Felipe VI casts Ibero-American summits as counterweight to rivalries in a multipolar world
The Spanish King opened the XXX Ibero-American Summit in Madrid with a call on the 22 member countries to keep backing a forum he described as proof that political dialogue…
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Vance blames Iran war for Republican midterm rout
The US Vice President said Republican voters turned out on November 3 but switched to the Democrats over the conflict, the cost of living and Washington's relationship with…
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Republicans lose Congress and the governorships of Texas and Ohio in midterm rout
Democrats won Senate seats in Kansas, Iowa and South Carolina that forecasters had rated as leaning Republican, as Trump's base showed signs of staying at home.
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Puente’s exit hands Sánchez a slogan as Urda crash dents Socialist polls
Spain's transport minister stepped down on November 3 after two fatal crashes on the same line, with post-crash surveys putting the Socialists close to 100 seats.
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Brussels takes crisis preparedness into primary schools and revives 72-hour kits
The European Commission unveiled four non-binding guidelines on November 3 and proposed an annual EU Preparedness Day from 2027.
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US midterms put Texas and Alaska in play as Republicans fight to hold Congress
Forecasters rate Democrats strong favourites to take the House of Representatives, while the Senate hinges on states Donald Trump carried comfortably in 2024.
Spanish Socialists slump in polls after latest rail disaster
A survey carried out in the two days after the high-speed crash puts the ruling party on course to drop below 100 seats, with the Right heading for a comfortable majority…
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Spanish left-wing MP mocks Pope’s death and jokes about arming Hamas in leaked chats
The MP, second on the Frente Amplio list in Madrid for Spain's November 29 general election, also faces internal complaints of abusive treatment from three former advisers.
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EU and Canada meet in Montreal as capitals rein in von der Leyen’s ‘associate membership’ plan
Member states led by Germany stripped the label from the summit declaration, replacing it with a pledge of “ever closer association” short of membership.
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Spain tops world toll for high-speed rail deaths after Urda crash
The collision near Urda, added to January's Adamuz disaster, pushed Spain past the toll of Germany's 1998 Eschede derailment on a network that was until this year a source…
Spain suffers second high-speed rail disaster this year
A Renfe AVE ran into the back of an Iryo service near Urda, in Toledo province, nine months after the Adamuz disaster on the same route.
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Netanyahu rules out the 18 seats that would hand him a majority
Arab-led parties won their best result on record, and each of the three combinations that reaches 61 required somebody to abandon a position taken in public during the campaign.
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Eurozone mortgage demand slumps as ECB rate rises bite
Lenders forecast an even steeper drop in the final quarter, as EU housing ministers prepared for another meeting on a crisis Brussels can only watch.
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Vox quits six Senate races to bring the Constitutional Court within the Right’s reach
Twenty Vox-linked names joined Partido Popular lists for the upper house under a swap that also kept the PP off the ballot in three provinces.
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Brazil is a warning for Spain that Sánchez turns into a promise
As Spain approaches its November 29 elections, Sánchez promises a comeback akin to Brazil's recent contested vote, raising concerns over electoral integrity and democratic…
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Bolsonaro takes his run-off defeat to the court that ran the vote
The Superior Electoral Court said no extension of voting hours like the one ordered on October 25 had ever occurred in its history, though it insisted the count was sound.
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Washington pushes Orbán for UN secretary-general
Viktor Orbán is said to be interested in the job though unwilling to run a race he cannot win, with Britain and France holding a veto over any bid.
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Germany weighs forcing social media to fill a fifth of recommendations with approved content
The stated aim is diversity, though public broadcasters would enter the favoured pool almost automatically while private outlets would have to apply to regulators.
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Europe hosts more immigrants than any other region of the world
United Nations figures showed the number of foreign-born residents in Europe had nearly doubled since 1990, with a handful of countries accounting for most of the rise.
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Milei calls Sánchez a ‘dictator’ in Madrid
The Argentine President accused the Spanish Government of encouraging the invasion of Ceuta, five weeks before a general election.
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Pensions and benefits outweigh wages in hundreds of Spanish municipalities
Tax records compiled by the national statistics office placed Asturian and León coalfield towns at the top of the dependency scale, five weeks before Spain votes.
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Vance says Ukraine is not an ally and should stay out of NATO
The US Vice-President also tied the riots in France to immigration and declined to follow Donald Trump in backing Benjamin Netanyahu.
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Trump says Paris will soon be a ‘Muslim city’ as France counts the cost of riots
The US President blamed immigration for the worst disorder France has seen in decades and said he had warned his French counterpart years ago to close the borders.
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Bardella calls Macron’s riot address ‘cowardly’ as France counts the cost
The National Rally president said the French Government had nothing left to offer voters after the worst disorder in years.
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Looters return to Paris after riots leave 1,000 police injured
Officers made 108 fresh arrests in the capital on a second night of disorder, as the French Government held crisis talks and resisted calls for a state of emergency.
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ECB policymakers lose patience with Lagarde’s silence on early exit
Frustration inside the central bank has grown as the president weighs the chairmanship of the World Economic Forum and prepares to launch her memoirs.