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August 28, 2024. Immigrants who arrived by canoe are registered by Spanish Police and Civil Guard officers at Arguineguín airport in Las Palmas in the Canary Islands. Canary4stock/Shutterstock

‘We have to regularise them’: Europe’s deportation‑first border policy, as told by the judges and police who enforce it

The border agents we interviewed objected to detaining and forcibly returning irregular migrants.
Firefighters at the scene of a fire in La Culebra, in the Zamora province of Castille and León. RTVE

Spain wildfires: decades of rural decline made the blazes worse, but robust local economies can prevent further destruction – here’s how

Proper forest management can boost rural economies, and prevents fires from starting in the first place.
A tequila factory in Jalisco, Mexico, the hub of the world’s tequila production. Gabriel Trujillo/Picture Alliance via Getty Images

Filipino sailors dock in Mexico … and help invent tequila?

Crew aboard Spanish trading ships departing from Manila may have introduced techniques for distilling coconut sap – helping to shape what would become Mexico’s national spirit.
The new fossil found in Atapuerca, Spain (left face fragment), with mirror reconstruction of the right side using imaging techniques. CENIEH/ Nature

Western Europe’s oldest human face discovered in Spain

The bone fragments belong to an extinct species of human who lived 1.4 million years ago.

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