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A fire has engulfed two residential buildings in the eastern Spanish city of Valencia, injuring at least 13 people and sending fleeing residents onto balconies to be rescued.

The elegant Queen Letizia of Spain, 51, debuted a beautiful new haircut as she stepped out with King Felipe to receive the President of Paraguay and his wife for lunch in Madrid on Wednesday, February 28.The latest appearance came just hours after royal couple were pictured at St George's Chapel, Windsor with members of the British and Greek Royal Families to celebrate the life of the late King Constantine II who died in Athens on January 10, 2023. Letizia had clearly wasted no time since since returning to Spain as she debuted a sleek new cropped hairdo outside the Zarzuela Palace, after booking an appointment with her personal hairdresser Luz Valero.

A huge fire has torn through two blocks of flats in the eastern Spanish city of Valencia, injuring at least 13 people, officials have confirmed.

EXCLUSIVE: There’s a famous line from the Spanish poet Antonio Machado that is familiar to most Spaniards: “Caminante, no hay camino. Se hace camino al andar,” which translates as “Traveler, there is no path. The path is made by walking.” 

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent Just after Spaniard J.A. Bayona’s Oscar-shortlisted “Society of the Snow” opened on Netflix to a massive 55.8 million hours watched over Jan. 4-7 – the second best bow ever in watching time for a non-English Netflix movie – ICEX Spain Trade & Investment, the country’s powerful export and inward investment board, has unveiled a new deal with Parrot Analytics.

Spain Film Commission is partnering with Olsberg•SPI to draw up a first ever in-depth study on the economic impact of international shoots in Spain. Profilm, Spain’s association of line producers, will also participate in the venture, its members supplying data for the report. “We have an agreement and vocation for collaboration,“ said SFC president Carlos Rosado.

The president of the Spanish football federation has refused to resign despite an uproar after he kissed a player on the lips without her consent after the Women’s World Cup final.

country’s new progressive transgender laws. “It is easier to change your legal gender than to get a driving licence,” said Alberto Núñez Feijóo, tipped to become Spain’s next prime minister after his Popular Party (PP) scored a series of victories in last month’s local and regional elections. The results prompted Left-wing prime minister Pedro Sánchez to dissolve parliament.

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent In April 2018, Netflix announced that Spanish heist thriller “Money Heist” (“La Casa de Papel”) had become the U.S. streaming service’s most-watched non-English series ever. With a Spanish series crowned as the first foreign-language blockbuster at the company that has transformed entertainment worldwide, Spain’s expansion — long nurtured by hits such as “The Red Band Society,” “Grand Hotel” and “Locked Up” — well and truly lifted off. Building on that success, in March 2021, Spanish prime minister Pedro Sánchez unveiled the AVS Hub Plan, which would invest €1.6 billion ($1.8 billion) into Spain’s audiovisual sector.

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent MALAGA, Spain — It’s not over yet. In March 2021, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez announced the government would plow €1.6 billion ($1.9 billion) into a Spain AVS Hub plan designed to turn Spain into one of the foremost film and TV hubs in Europe. Supported by Spain’s E.U-backed Recuperation, Transformation and Resilience push for post COVID-19 recovery, the Spain AVS Hub plan has been co-financed by part of a €806.9 billion ($866.5 billion) NextGenerationEU stimulus package for the whole of the European Union, which is a temporary instrument.  As that package ends, Spain’s government will look to negotiate funding from alternative sources to ensure that Spain AVS Hub initiatives are more than a flash in the pan, a broad cross-section of governmental authorities told an audience Tuesday at a Malaga Spanish Screening Content conference.

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent The latest series from Alex de la Iglesia and “Veneno” creators Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo feature at a first-look Next from Spain Showcase which marks a massive step-up in the country’s presence at the Berlinale Series Market. Running Feb. 20-22, the showcase also unveils “Rapa” Season 2, with its first season proving Movistar+’s biggest 2022 bow, and “This Is Not Sweden,” a pioneering Spanish co-production with Scandinavia and Germany.  The Showcase titles are joined by Isaki Lacuesta’s “The Chauffeur’s Son,” a Co-Pro Series project from “Elite’s” Zeta Studios, and “Selftape,” a Filmin Original from Filmax and a Series Market Screening.

Spanish Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez on Thursday announced a $2.9 billion package in new subsidies to help people weather high gas and electricity prices exacerbated by Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The measures include set gas price rates for collective residential heating systems until the end of 2023 and more electricity and heating subsidies for low income households.

More than half of Spain's provinces have been issued a weather warning for "intense heat" as temperatures are expected to rise above 42C.

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentAs Cannes celebrates it first big get-together since 2019 with much of the traditional movie industry business model now being questioned, one thing, at least, has never been stronger: The drive by governments worldwide to lure big movie shoots.Powered by an exponential rise in demand, film and TV shoots are already big business. Total expenditure on shoots in France last year was valued at €2.8 billion ($3 billion), 30% up on 2019, CNC president Dominique Boutonnat announced at the recent Series Mania.Overseas shoot numbers are already rebounding from pandemic, with France’s Tax Rebate for Intl.

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentSince 2018, Spain’s film and TV industries has gone through a revolution. Accustomed to the success of standout movie auteurs – Almodóvar, Amenabar and Trueba – for two decades or more Spain has blown U.S.

Just days after missing the Australian Open and being deported from Australia because he was unvaccinated, Novak Djokovic, found out he may be barred from the next Grand Slam tournament on the tennis calendar, as well.

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentThe devil is in the details. On March 18, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez announced the government will plow €1.6 billion ($1.9 billion) over 2021-25 into a Spain AVS Hub plan –  España Hub Audiovisual de Europa in Spanish.This was aimed, as he explained, to encourage big foreign players to shoot and set up production centers in Spain and also power up Spanish film and TV productionAt the San Sebastian Festival on Wednesday, Sept.

carved a homophobic slur into his buttocks has reportedly recanted his claims.The initial story sent shockwaves through the LGBTQ community in Spain’s capital city of Madrid, after the man said he was cornered in the entrance to his home and attacked last week.He claimed that a mob of eight people wearing face coverings yelled homophobic slurs, before using a knife to cut his lip and carve “faggot” into his buttock.It led to condemnation from Spain’s prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, and protests

El País reports.During the attack, the group called the man “disgusting,” “shiteater,” and “maricón,” the Spanish word for faggot.One member of the group produced a knife and proceeded to threaten the victim, before cutting the man’s lip and ultimately carving maricón into his buttocks.Police in Madrid told El País that the attack was “the first assault of this kind that we have heard of” and that it would be investigated as a hate crime.Related: Three arrested after young gay man beaten to

LOS ANGELES -- The Mexican band Los Bukis are reuniting for a concert tour that will bring them together for the first time in 25 years.Five of its members — Marco Antonio Solis, Jose Javier Solis, Roberto Guadarrama, Eusebio “El Chivo” Cortez, and Pedro Sánchez — attended the announcement made at Los Angeles’ Sofi Stadium Monday, while members Joel Solis and José “Pepe” Guadarrama joined remotely via video.Considered one of Latin music’s most iconic bands, the group will start its three-concert

The Spanish government has unveiled plans to invest $1.9 billion to grow the country's film and TV production sector by 30 percent by 2025. The plans, unveiled by prime minister Pedro Sanchez, will see the bolstering of the country's audio-visual sector, including film, TV series, short films, advertising, video games and animation, and the creation of a production hub aligned with Spanish culture and tourism post-pandemic.

Spain will redouble efforts to establish itself as a European production hub for film and TV content, with the government today announcing a €1.6B ($1.9B) package to further attract foreign investment.

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentSpanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez announced Wednesday the launch of a Spain Audiovisual Hub plan to offer a total €1.6 billion ($1.9 billion) over 2021-25 to power up Spanish film and TV production, and encourage big foreign players to shoot and set up production centers in Spain.One early beneficiary of the scheme, according to Spanish press reports, will be Disney, which on March 26 bows romantic comedy “Besos Al Aire,“ its first Disney Plus

has warned against all but essential travel to Spain’s Balearic and Canary Islands, having already issued the same advice for the mainland.

This also includes the reopening of cinemas and theatres at a third of capacity

MADRID — Spain’s government has drawn up a timetable of phased emergence from COVID-19 lockdown which sets cautiously estimated dates of May 11 and May 26 for the re-authorization of movies and series shoots and cinema theater re-openings respectively.

Spain will begin to 'de-escalate' its nationwide lockdown measures from mid-May, the prime minister has said.

The European box office is set to take a major hit this weekend as cinemas across the continent shut their doors or greatly curtail their operations in response to concerns over the coronavirus. Many of Spain's biggest cinema chains, including Yelmo, Golem, Cinesa and Kinépolis on Friday shuttered after Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez declared a state of emergency in response to the rapid spread of COVID-19, the disease caused by coronavirus.