Ukraine has been striking Russia’s oil industry daily in August. Ukrainian long-range drones are hitting refineries and hydrocarbon distribution centers hundreds of miles from the border. This is not ...

Photos: A tour of Nayib Bukele’s mega-prison Behind the bars of the Terrorism Confinement Center (Cecot) are El Salvador’s most dangerous inmates: hitmen who have committed dozens of murders and are ...

The last remains of the Spanish empire Spain continues to hold on to isolated islets and crags with no strategic value off the coast of North Africa ...

Mexico City’s lucrative real estate scams A network of lawyers, public notaries and government officials have expropriated more than 4,000 properties in a single year to sell at below-market prices ...

Orwell was right: The dystopia of ‘1984’ is already here In a new documentary presented at the Cannes Film Festival, director Raoul Peck uses the British writer’s thoughts to analyze a present marked ...

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Spain battles dozens of wildfires amid heatwave The fires have scorched thousands of hectares, forced residents from homes in multiple regions, and claimed one life near Madrid ...

New inheritance mechanism unrelated to DNA is discovered by chance A study originally focusing on cancer has shown that amyloids — proteins typically linked to neurodegenerative diseases like ...

The forgotten Spanish diaspora in the US Between the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th, tens of thousands of Spaniards migrated to the US. They worked in tobacco companies, ...

Why does Spain continue to lead Europe in unemployment? The Spanish jobless rate is almost double the European average. Experts suggest a series of reasons for the stubbornly high figure, but admit ...

The enduring myths around Spain’s Historical Memory Law On the 80th anniversary of the end of the Spanish Civil War, the recollection of what happened in the following decades continues to be at the ...

The return: A new face of migration in Latin America The region’s migration policies continue to mobilize people, some of them returning to their countries of origin. The European Union, together with ...