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Spain Arrests Alleged Leader of GXC Team Cybercrime Network
Spanish authorities have arrested a 25-year-old Brazilian national accused of leading the “GXC Team” – a Crime-as-a-Service (CaaS) operation that sold phishing kits, Android malware and AI-based tools to cybercriminals worldwide. The Guardia Civil...

Spanish broadcaster apologises after calling evangelical Church growth ‘dangerous’
Spanish broadcaster apologises after calling evangelical Church growth ‘dangerous’ Spain’s national broadcaster RTVE has apologised after one of its programs described the growth of evangelical Churches as “worrying” and “dangerous”, following a...

Spanish teams Manresa, Tenerife to host Jerusalem, Herzliya with no crowds
Spanish basketball clubs Manresa and Tenerife will host Israeli teams this week in European competition, but both matches will be played behind closed doors. Manresa, which faces Hapoel Jerusalem in the EuroCup on Wednesday at 9:45 p.m., and...

Spain marks National Day, highlights strong relations with Kuwait
KUWAIT: The Embassy of Spain in Kuwait celebrated the Spanish National Day on Sunday, in the presence of the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sheikh Jarrah Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, and the Undersecretary of the Ministry of Defense, Sheikh Dr...

Spain to cut medicine prices, saving millions
The government estimates that the revision will result in a total annual saving of more than €287 million. Photo credit: Prostooleh/Freepik Spain’s Ministry of Health has announced a sweeping review of the prices of more than 17,000 medicines...

Spain’s cheapest regions for expats & remote workers
Inland towns and smaller cities offer rents as low as €4–6 per square metre. Photo credit: margouillat photo/Shutterstock As Spain’s major cities become increasingly expensive, remote workers and expatriates are seeking more affordable...

Verdalia Bioenergy secures €671m to boost biomethane growth in Spain and Italy
Verdalia Bioenergy. Credit: Linkedin Verdalia Bioenergy, backed by Goldman Sachs Alternatives, has closed a €671 million corporate financing to accelerate its biomethane portfolio across Spain and Italy – one of the largest deals in Europe’s...

T&T finance minister says CAL spent millions of dollars on audits without submitting a 'single audited statement'
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Trinidad's Finance Minister Davendranath Tancoo on Monday said that the state-owned Caribbean Airlines (CAL) had spent more than TT$60 million on audits, but had failed to submit "a single audited financial statement...

WashU–Fudan Tops Financial Times 2025 Global EMBA Ranking For The First Time
The Washington University-Fudan University Executive MBA has taken the No. 1 spot in the world in the Financial Times 2025 Executive MBA ranking, climbing two places from last year to unseat CEIBS at the top. It is the first time the St....

Desert Financial invests $300K to empower Latinos in Arizona
Desert Financial Credit Union announced a three-year, $300,000 commitment to support two Arizona nonprofit organizations that help lift up Latinos: Empowering Latina Leaders in Arizona (E.L.L.A.) and ALL In Education. Each nonprofit will receive...

ESCP Business School’s Executive MBA ranks 1st in Europe and 3rd worldwide in Financial Times 2025 ranking
ESCP Business School’s Executive MBA programme has once again been recognised among the very best in the world, ranking #1 in Europe and #3 worldwide in the 2025 Financial Times ranking of the top 100 Executive MBA programmes. For the 3rd year in...

Freelancers in Spain could face monthly fee hike of up to €200
Freelancers in Spain could see their monthly fees rise by up to €200. Credit : mapo_japan, Shutterstock Spain’s Social Security Ministry has unveiled a proposal that could hit freelancers hard – with monthly contributions set to rise between €10...

Goldman Sachs Spain and Portugal co-head Alvaro del Castaño retires after 30 years
Alvaro del Castaño. Credit: Linkedin Goldman Sachs Group Inc. announced that Alvaro del Castaño, its co-head for Spain and Portugal and head of private wealth management, will retire after more than three decades at the bank. According to Reuters,...

Christmas Creep: Spanish supermarkets already stocking festive foods
Mercadona already stocking up for Christmas. Credit: @_VicSwift X As we pass through October and 22ºC nighttime temperatures remind us to take out the duvets, supermarkets in Spain like Aldi, Lidl and Mercadona are already stocking traditional...

Spanish TV Shows Resilience, Partnering With Streamers, Launching Co-Pros and Still Making Global Hits
Spain’s is rocking with its local TV fiction boom, but that is running mostly on one engine: the streaming services — far more than anywhere else in Europe. Yet the market is proving ever more flexible as players test new formulas to finance,...

Spanish Unscripted Surges, Powered by the Mediapro Studio, RTVE, Regional Nets and Streaming Services
Spain’s unscripted sector has found a new reality. Once a secondary player in the unscripted arena, the country now boasts formats that dominate primetime and travel abroad. Two forces explain the momentum: The Mediapro Studio’s leap into global...

Spain’s FCC sells stake in Enviro arm to Canada for €1bn
Spain’s FCC Construcción has announced it will sell a further 25% of its environmental arm to Canadian state private-equity company CPP Investments for €1bn. FCC will continue to hold a 50.01% majority interest in FCC Enviro, with CPP Investments’...

Kuwaiti-Spanish ties spiraling towards new heights: Ambassador Gamallo
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Sheikh Jarrah Jaber Al-Ahmad and the Spanish Ambassador Manuel Hernández Gamallo cutting the cake. KUWAIT CITY, Oct 13: Ambassador of the Kingdom of Spain to the State of Kuwait Manuel Hernández Gamallo confirmed...

EU Entry-Exit System to be implemented at Spanish ports by 2026
Posted on October 13, 2025 Madrid, Spain (Ports Europe) October 13, 2025 – Puertos del Estado, under the Ministry of Transport and Sustainable Mobility, will invest 65 million euros to enhance EU Entry-Exit System border security across Spain’s...

Spain’s Nude Project Lands Stateside: First Pop-Up Launches in Miami
Nude Project crosses the pond. The streetwear fashion company continues its path of international expansion with the opening of its first store outside Europe. Miami Design District is home to the brand’s first temporary store in the United...