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The best places for a birdwatching trip in EuropeThe Week Recommends It’s time to grab your binoculars and head for the continent
By Will Barker, The Week UK Published
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Rape, paralysis and euthanasia: the case convulsing SpainIn the Spotlight Noelia Castillo, the 25-year-old who was granted assisted death after a prolonged legal battle, has become a symbol of social failure
By The Week UK Published
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Sirât: ‘ovation-worthy’ desert survival thrillerThe Week Recommends Tipped for an Oscar, film contains ‘gobsmacking’ set pieces and a ‘jaw-dropping plot swerve’
By The Week UK Published
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France deploys carrier in Iran war as Spain balksspeed read Conflict continues to spread in the Middle East
By Rafi Schwartz, The Week US Published
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Between The Rock and a hard place: Gibraltar’s new post-Brexit rulesThe Explainer The UK government will hope that relaxing the land border between Gibraltar and Spain will clear up the ‘last major unresolved issue from Brexit’
By Will Barker, The Week UK Published
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Where to go for the 2027 total solar eclipseThe Week Recommends Look to the skies in Egypt, Spain and Morocco
By Catherine Garcia, The Week US Published
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Spain’s deadly high-speed train crashThe Explainer The country experienced its worst rail accident since 2013, with the death toll of 39 ‘not yet final’
By Will Barker, The Week UK Published
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The olive oil renaissanceThe Week Recommends Gourmet bottles of premium extra-virgin olive oil are having something of a moment
By Will Barker, The Week UK Published
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The Iberian Peninsula is rotating clockwiseUnder the radar We won’t feel it in our lifetime
By Devika Rao, The Week US Published
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Revisionism and division: Franco’s legacy five decades onIn The Spotlight Events to mark 50 years since Franco’s death designed to break young people’s growing fascination with the Spanish dictator
By Chas Newkey-Burden, The Week UK Published
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A wild Canary Island’s creative waveThe Week Recommends Fuerteventura is ‘year-round balmy’ and now home to ‘bright-eyed, bohemian’ designers and makers
By The Week UK Published
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Daylight Saving Time: a Spanish controversyUnder the Radar Spain’s prime minister has called on the EU to remove biannual clock changes in Europe
By Will Barker, The Week UK Published
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Spaniards seeing red over bullfightingUnder the Radar Shock resignation of top matador is latest blow in culture war over tradition that increasingly divides Spain
By Harriet Marsden, The Week UK Published
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The Week Unwrapped: Can bullfighting win over young SpaniardsPodcast Plus, is online fandom inherently unhealthy? And is Putin’s economy running out of gas?
By The Week UK Published
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