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Anger over soaring rents spreads across Iberia: Protest camps in Portugal and demonstrations in Spain
Hundreds of protesters continue their occupations in Lisbon and Porto over unaffordable housing costs – Activists call for protests across the Iberian Peninsula and a general strike on 11 November
Alexander Aslani: Who was the famous plastic surgeon to influencers murdered in cold blood in Spain? Patients travelled from 40 countries to see him
He specialised in BBLs and had performed more than 14,000 procedures – “He was very friendly, always smiling, much more than just a doctor,” one of his patients says
‘We will never forget you’: Spaniards bid farewell to Maricarmen with candles, flowers and a march in her memory
Spaniards gathered in Madrid's Puerta del Sol with candles and flowers to honour the 87-year-old woman whose eviction sparked nationwide protests and a political crisis, ahead of a memorial march planned for tonight
Pedro Sánchez announces snap elections in Spain for 29 November
The announcement follows Parliament’s rejection of decrees on the housing crisis, against the backdrop of the eviction case involving 87-year-old Maricarmen Abascal — “We faced a divided parliament and the worst opposition in history,” he said in his address — Remarks targeting “tyrants, techno-oligarchs and regimes committing genocides”
Spain’s parliament rejects rent and eviction decrees as housing protests swell
Junts joined the conservative and far-right opposition to defeat both measures, leaving Sánchez with no majority on housing and fuelling talk of an early election, while protesters keep camping in Madrid's Puerta del Sol square
The Spanish government announced a suspension of evictions until 2030 and the automatic renewal of rental contracts
The package of measures is included in the so-called “Maricarmen Decree,” named after the 87-year-old woman who was evicted last Wednesday from the home where she had lived for 70 years in Madrid after it was purchased by a real estate company
Government spokesperson in Ceuta resigns two months after migration crisis erupted
The crisis erupted in late July when more than 72,000 illegal immigrants invaded in Ceuta
OpenAI agent hacks Australian Medicare portal in first known AI breach of a government system
OpenAI disclosed the June incident only in September, by email to a public inbox, as Canberra investigates whether three further government websites were affected and the company insists that no patient medical records were accessed
