Bob James’ Spanish News Headlines – Visual format – Dateline: 07/02/25 – Latest

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Bob James’ Spanish News Headlines – Visual format – Dateline: 07/02/25 – Latest

 

A violent British inmate’s five months on the run after a mass Portuguese prison escape has come to an end with police intercepting him in a Porsche on the Costa Blanca.

Mark Roscaleer vanished after scaling a 20ft wall with a ladder at a Prison near Lisbon last September – nearly five years after a previous foiled jail break when he smothered his body in oil to squeeze through bars.

He was recaptured yesterday with another of the four men who escaped with him – a convicted Argentinian bank robber and suspected child kidnapper .. in a black Porsche at a petrol station near Alicante.

Passenger Roscaleer, who had been serving nine years for kidnap and robbery, is said to have resisted arrest and left several officers injured. The Cheshire-born criminal is now facing extradition back to Portugal.

Local reports yesterday said the pair, regarded as the brains behind the September 7 prison escape, had been working together in the same criminal gang since. Spanish and Portuguese police are set to offer more information about the arrests at a press conference later today.

 

King Felipe criticized the administration of US President Donald Trump yesterday for its decision to eliminate Spanish from the White House’s official communications, website and social networks.

Speaking at an event in Madrid organized by the Cervantes Institute, he described the move as “striking.”

Saying there are five centers of the Cervantes Institute across the US, he noted that Spanish far surpasses other languages ​​in secondary and university education in the country.

He also highlighted that the number of Spanish speakers in the US will reach 100 million by 2050.

The king said he hoped the decision is temporary because Spanish will become the second most spoken language and will continue to consolidate as a language of influence in the country.

 

Leading figures from the far-right Patriots for Europe, including Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and France’s Marine le Pen, will meet in Madrid today and tomorrow for a summit organised by Vox to discuss Donald Trump’s recent comments about ‘taking over’ Gaza and relocating nearly two million Palestinians to neighbouring countries.

Although not on the official agenda, the Gaza issue is likely to be on the table, especially after Israel suggested yesterday that the last three countries to recognise Palestinian statehood – Spain, Ireland and Norway – should take in Palestinians who want to leave Gaza voluntarily.

The ‘proposal’ was flatly rejected by the foreign minister José Manuel Albares yesterday who considered it an interference in national politics.

 

That’s the latest from TRE, I’m Bob James.

 

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