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Mudejar Ruins in Spain: Brickwork on the Edge

At 8:00 on Monday morning, a wall of the Church of Our Lady of the Assumption in Muriel de Zapardiel collapsed, sending 12th-century Romanesque-Mudejar brick crashing onto the ground and turning a quiet Valladolid village into the latest symbol of Spain's heritage crisis.

Spain’s Hunting Accidents Rise: Public Land as Private Shooting Range

Hunting accidents in Spain are rising again, forcing an uncomfortable question: how much risk should the public accept so that a minority can keep its favourite rural pastime?

LaLiga’s Internet Blackouts: Football Controls the Web

LaLiga’s piracy fight now blocks shared IPs, taking down lawful sites and sparking debate over private power in governing Europe’s internet.

Southern Europe Drying: How Real Is the Water Crisis?

Warnings about a drying Southern Europe appear regularly, yet the scale becomes clear only when agriculture and cities begin feeling the strain.

Spain Removes Francoist Symbols: History’s Place in Public Space

Spain's plan to catalogue and remove remaining Francoist symbols has reopened a deeper debate about what a society should preserve and what it must release.

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Europe’s Nuclear Turn Carries a French Accent

Finland's vote to allow nuclear weapons and Switzerland's push for new reactors both trace back to a familiar French ambition to lead Europe's atomic future.

Iran is Splitting the West Like Ukraine Did

Iran's US-brokered peace deal is laying bare severe fractures across Western diplomacy, as America's transactional alliance calculus finds its second major victim.

Russia Still Wants a Red Sea Anchor

Russia's quest for a Red Sea naval base has fallen silent again, the pause manifesting Sudan's bargaining instincts and Moscow's enduring strategic patience alike.

War Killed Mona Khalil and Erased Decades of Conservation

When a conservationist dies in a conflict zone, the loss is ecological as well as human, and the species she protected have no replacement for her.

What Starmer’s Exit Means for Europe and the Middle East

Keir Starmer's resignation hands Andy Burnham a fragile inheritance, as Britain's standing in Brussels and across the Gulf hinges on what changes next.