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Italy 2 Belgium 1 Switzerland 1 (1)  Spain 1 (3) London, UK | THE INDEPENDENT | The dream continues. Roberto Mancini’s Italy are into the semi-finals after eliminating the top-ranked team in world football. Mancini has again demonstrated that his team can handle any opponent, and the Azzurri go on to …

Croatia 3 Spain 5 (AET) France 3 (4) Switzerland 3 (5) (AET) Bucharest, Hungary | THE INDEPENDENT | What a night – well, what a day of EURO football. And it ends with the world champions, two goals ahead with nine minutes to go, knocked out on penalties by Switzerland. …

Spain 🇪🇸 1  Poland 🇵🇱  1  Seville, Spain | THE INDEPNDENT |  Poland kept themselves in UEFA EURO 2020 contention with a battling draw against Spain, Robert Lewandowski cancelling out Álvaro Morata’s tap-in before Gerard Moreno missed a penalty for the home side in Seville. Spain had been frustrated by Sweden …

Rabat, Morocco | XINHUA | The ongoing diplomatic rift between Morocco and Spain, beginning with issues of illegal immigration, has now widened into the agricultural sector. In mid-May, around 9,000 illegal immigrants, many of whom were thought to be minors, crossed from Morocco into Ceuta, a Spanish enclave bordered by …

Madrid, Spain | XINHUA |  Spain on Monday ended restrictions on travelers from outside of the European Union (EU) and the Schengen travel area who have a certificate to prove they have fully completed their vaccination procedure 14 days before travel. This follows the country’s earlier decision to lift restrictions …

Madrid, Spain | XINHUA |    Adama Traore had to make a choice after receiving call-ups from both Mali and Spain for the current international break. The player, who was born in the outskirts of Barcelona 24 years ago, decided to join Spain rather than his parents’ homeland and made his …

Madrid, Spain | XINHUA | Former Spain and Real Madrid goalkeeper Iker Casillas officially announced his retirement on Tuesday, after 725 games for Real Madrid, 156 for Porto and a record 167 caps for the Spanish national team. The 39-year-old confirmed in an open letter that he had hung up his …

Madrid, Spain | AFP | Masks became mandatory on public transport Monday as Spain took its first tentative steps towards a commercial reopening with small businesses accepting customers by appointment and restaurants prepping food for takeaway. Spain’s population of nearly 47 million have been confined to their homes for more than …

Madrid, Spain | AFP | Spain declared Monday a fourth consecutive drop in the number of coronavirus-related deaths with 637 over the past 24 hours, the lowest number in nearly two weeks. Fatalities, which were sharply down on the record 950 on Thursday, brought the total deaths in the country to 13,055, second only to …

  Paris, France | AFP | A British man managed to pass on the coronavirus to at least 11 other people without ever setting foot in the epicentre of the outbreak in China, in an infectious journey that shows how the deadly virus can spread rapidly around a globalised world. …