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Pedro Almodóvar to receive 2024 San Sebastian Donostia Career Achievement Award

News Desk14th August 202428th August 2024

14th August 202428th August 2024526

Spain’s most internationally famous film director, screenwriter and producer, Pedro Almodóvar, is to receive a Donostia Career Achievement Award at the prestigious 72nd San Sebastian Film

Five dead, three missing as ‘storm Dana’ brings torrential rain across Spain

News Desk4th September 202311th September 2023

4th September 202311th September 20233685

#UPDATED on 6 Sept 2023 at 9am The death toll from the heavy rains that lashed Spain on Sunday have increased to five as emergency

Spotlight: learn Spanish and the joys of volunteering at Instituto Hemingway

Features4th September 202311th September 2023

4th September 202311th September 20232040

Instituto Hemingway invites adventurous spirits from around the world to come and learn Spanish while experiencing the joys of volunteering! At Instituto Hemingway Bilbao we

Political storm as 44 convicted ETA members to run in Basque elections

News Desk11th May 202319th May 2023

11th May 202319th May 20232277

A political storm has broken out after EH Bildu, a Basque nationalist party, presented its candidate lists for the forthcoming local and regional elections that

Spanish girl, aged 8, wins top acting award at Berlinale film festival

News Desk27th February 20236th March 2023

27th February 20236th March 20232423

The Berlinale Film Festival has awarded its best acting award to an eight-year-old Spanish girl, Sofía Otero, for her performance in 20,000 Species of Bees, the youngest

Words on 2,100-year-old bronze hand may rewrite history of Basque language

News Desk17th November 202221st November 2022

17th November 202221st November 20223303

The discovery of five words inscribed on a 2,100-year-old bronze hand that archaeologists unearthed last year may help rewrite the history of the Basque language,

Unseasonal warm weather continues, as drought forces shutdown of power plant

News Desk2nd November 20228th November 2022

2nd November 20228th November 20222341

Spain has been experiencing unusually warm autumn weather, with the national weather agency AEMET predicting that the country has just seen the hottest October at least

Police in Bilbao arrest woman suspected of kidnapping baby

News Desk20th October 202226th October 2022

20th October 202226th October 20221760

Police in Bilbao on Thursday found a newborn baby who was snatched from a hospital hours earlier, and also arrested a woman who allegedly took the

Spain rules Franco regime ‘illegal’ with new ‘Democratic Memory Law’

News Desk15th July 202219th July 2022

15th July 202219th July 20223944

The Spanish Congress has approved a new ‘Democratic Memory Law’ that declares illegal the regime of former dictator Francisco Franco and makes the central government

Spanish judge summons three former ETA chiefs for 1997 murder of local politician

News Desk8th July 202212th July 2022

8th July 202212th July 20221741

Spain’s National High Court judge, Manuel García Castellón, has agreed to summon three former ETA chiefs, who were members of the executive committee of the

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