Dining out in Gibraltar.
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Gibraltarians have their own unique sense of Britishness, but in many ways it’s a recent development.
A civil guard informs people of an ongoing raid as part of a corruption probe in Torrejon de Ardoz near Madrid, Spain.
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Can Spain learn from a decade marked by high-profile political corruption scandals involving money embezzled from regional governments and mismanagement in urban planning and construction?
With the likes of Pablo Iglesias and Ada Colau coming to power in Spain, we are witnessing the rise of the ‘post-representatives’.
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Spain has been transformed into a democratic laboratory, where the participation and use of new communication strategies are ready for experimentation and innovation.
Time’s up on the sunshine?
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The worst case scenario could put pressure on the NHS.
A good life on the Costa del Sol.
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Spiralling living costs on a diminshed pension has come with uncertainty about the future.
Karan Jain
With Spain spying an opportunity and major questions about economic stability, Brexit is causing sleepless nights on the Rock.
Pro-statehood supporters at the seaside Capitol in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
AP Photo/Danica Coto
Over the years, Puerto Ricans have in fact been granted three different types of U.S. citizenship, but questions about their rights and equal treatment as citizens still remain.
Protesters in New York ahead of inauguration.
EPA
The people who voted for the new American president may not be as hard for the Left to reach as it may appear.
Podemos must reconsider who is above and who is below – who are the people and who are the people’s enemy.
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Podemos positioned itself as leading a revolt by the people against the political system. Now, as Spain’s third-largest party, it is part of that system and has some difficult decisions to make.
Mariano Rajoy is sworn in as prime minister.
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After two elections and months of deadlock, a minority administration has been agreed. But the situation is far from stable.
Peter Graham: Wandering Shadows (1878).
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The Catalans have no trouble telling their story of oppression through culture. The Scots find it trickier.
My kingdom for a duvet …
Dundanim
As life gets faster and working hours get longer, it’s tempting to think the Sandman is paying us ever shorter visits.
Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte.
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Why would the Philippine president risk alienating an important and generous ally?
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With two votes failing to produce a government, caretaker PM Mariano Rajoy is running out of options.
The Lincoln Brigade Memorial in San Francisco.
Tom Hilton
For many contemporary observers, the Spanish Civil War was seen as very much of a piece with the war against Hitler and Mussolini. But then things changed. Why?
Not alone.
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Lionel Messi is not the first footballer to break financial laws and he probably won’t be the last.
Tapa the morning.
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Madrid may hold the key to Scotland’s future – for several reasons.
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Islamic State lost ground, Colombia got a chance at lasting peace, and the Pope sounded a liberated note on homosexuality.
Sweet “victory”.
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Spain couldn’t form a government after its last election, so it had to try again. And it looks like the radicals are shut out.
Xiquinho Silva
Spain is already calling for joint sovereignty but Gibraltarians are unlikely to stand for that.