Netanyahu rejects US Gaza roadmap as army pulls back to Yellow Line Iran installs IRGC veterans as Hormuz stays shut Deaths on both sides as Russia and Ukraine trade overnight strikes Houthis strike Aramco refinery and hit al-Makha port twice Typhoon Dolphin hits Zhejiang as Hong Kong sets heat record Syria and Russia turn Hmeimim and Tartus into joint training centres Congo puts Ebola toll at 1,887 as outbreak becomes its largest Rhine nears split in two as heat and drought grip Europe Ankara says Mecca defence pact could widen to Egypt Oil climbs as doubts grow over Hormuz reopening Taiwan plans record 16 percent rise in defence spending China's inflation cools as its trade gap with Germany widens Zelensky says North Korea to send up to 50,000 troops to Russia Spain turns back travellers from Italy as Ceuta row deepens Germany widens drone defences after sightings over Patriot base Pentagon presses arms makers for faster deliveries as interceptor stocks thin Israeli army seals off Christian village Taybeh after settler attacks Apple tests Chinese memory chips for iPhones and MacBooks Chinese model Kimi K3 escapes containment in test World's seas hit hottest July on record as El Niño strengthens Ottawa approves federal aid as 102 wildfires burn in British Columbia Nagasaki marks 81 years as Takaichi leaves non-nuclear pledge open Moore Threads plans Hong Kong listing as China steers capital into AI BOJ debates faster rate hikes as weak yen lifts import costs US and Israel target Hezbollah's finances Pope Leo XIV calls for ceasefire and humanitarian corridors in Sudan Thai police say school shooter had viewed violent content online Costa Rican diplomat emerges as front-runner to lead the UN Australia widens curbs on Chinese rare-earth investors as US buys into miner US conditions could sink Saudi civil nuclear deal Vucic threatens to cut water to Kosovo's largest hydropower plant Turkey resumes Black Sea transits as shipowner prepares case against Ukraine Cheap Chinese open-weight models reshape the global AI market Myanmar's junta rejects ASEAN call to free Aung San Suu Kyi Sony and TSMC to invest $6.3bn in Kumamoto image-sensor plant North Korean hacking group builds AI tools for cyberattacks, report says Alleged crime boss Kinahan charged in Dublin after extradition from Dubai Data-centre backlash spreads from British towns to the Texas oil patch Lake Mead falls to its lowest recorded level Chinese provinces push deeper into African agriculture and mining Turkish parliament to pass Kurdish settlement law before summer recess DR Congo hands 15 prisoners to rebel alliance under Doha framework Iran resumes public executions UN expert says no one should be deported to Haiti Study links early social media use to weaker school results California city takes network offline after cyberattack halts 911 dispatch China's Xuelong 2 begins first ice station survey in central Arctic Moody's warns AI race leaves banks dependent on tech suppliers Up to 20,000 seafarers stranded in the Gulf by US-Iran war Dollar near two-month low as US inflation data looms US and Israeli physicists hail China's glueball evidence as triumph FIFA rejects calls for Infantino to resign as Tebas declares his era over Biden's cancer is spreading and very painful, his son says Netanyahu rejects US Gaza roadmap as army pulls back to Yellow Line Iran installs IRGC veterans as Hormuz stays shut Deaths on both sides as Russia and Ukraine trade overnight strikes Houthis strike Aramco refinery and hit al-Makha port twice Typhoon Dolphin hits Zhejiang as Hong Kong sets heat record Syria and Russia turn Hmeimim and Tartus into joint training centres Congo puts Ebola toll at 1,887 as outbreak becomes its largest Rhine nears split in two as heat and drought grip Europe Ankara says Mecca defence pact could widen to Egypt Oil climbs as doubts grow over Hormuz reopening Taiwan plans record 16 percent rise in defence spending China's inflation cools as its trade gap with Germany widens Zelensky says North Korea to send up to 50,000 troops to Russia Spain turns back travellers from Italy as Ceuta row deepens Germany widens drone defences after sightings over Patriot base Pentagon presses arms makers for faster deliveries as interceptor stocks thin Israeli army seals off Christian village Taybeh after settler attacks Apple tests Chinese memory chips for iPhones and MacBooks Chinese model Kimi K3 escapes containment in test World's seas hit hottest July on record as El Niño strengthens Ottawa approves federal aid as 102 wildfires burn in British Columbia Nagasaki marks 81 years as Takaichi leaves non-nuclear pledge open Moore Threads plans Hong Kong listing as China steers capital into AI BOJ debates faster rate hikes as weak yen lifts import costs US and Israel target Hezbollah's finances Pope Leo XIV calls for ceasefire and humanitarian corridors in Sudan Thai police say school shooter had viewed violent content online Costa Rican diplomat emerges as front-runner to lead the UN Australia widens curbs on Chinese rare-earth investors as US buys into miner US conditions could sink Saudi civil nuclear deal Vucic threatens to cut water to Kosovo's largest hydropower plant Turkey resumes Black Sea transits as shipowner prepares case against Ukraine Cheap Chinese open-weight models reshape the global AI market Myanmar's junta rejects ASEAN call to free Aung San Suu Kyi Sony and TSMC to invest $6.3bn in Kumamoto image-sensor plant North Korean hacking group builds AI tools for cyberattacks, report says Alleged crime boss Kinahan charged in Dublin after extradition from Dubai Data-centre backlash spreads from British towns to the Texas oil patch Lake Mead falls to its lowest recorded level Chinese provinces push deeper into African agriculture and mining Turkish parliament to pass Kurdish settlement law before summer recess DR Congo hands 15 prisoners to rebel alliance under Doha framework Iran resumes public executions UN expert says no one should be deported to Haiti Study links early social media use to weaker school results California city takes network offline after cyberattack halts 911 dispatch China's Xuelong 2 begins first ice station survey in central Arctic Moody's warns AI race leaves banks dependent on tech suppliers Up to 20,000 seafarers stranded in the Gulf by US-Iran war Dollar near two-month low as US inflation data looms US and Israeli physicists hail China's glueball evidence as triumph FIFA rejects calls for Infantino to resign as Tebas declares his era over Biden's cancer is spreading and very painful, his son says

Symbolic image: Spain turns back travellers from Italy as Ceuta row deepens

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Spain turns back travellers from Italy as Ceuta row deepens

9 sources

Spain checked 199 arrivals from Italy at its six largest airports on Saturday, the first day of retaliatory controls. Rome calls the step unacceptable and keeps its own checks.

Madrid's interior ministry said on Sunday, 9 August that officers screened passengers from twelve flights arriving from Italy, and, according to Handelsblatt, refused entry to ten people. An order signed by interior minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska cites a "serious, real and current threat to public order and internal security"; the checks run to 7 September, longer than Italy's, which started on 1 August and last at least until 15 August.

Rome and Madrid trade accusations

Italy's foreign minister Antonio Tajani told La Stampa on Sunday that Spain's reaction was "incomprehensible and completely unacceptable". Spain's José Manuel Albares called the scenes at Italian airports "intolerable" and "a torpedo fired at the hull of European unity".

Up to 11,000 still in Ceuta

Ceuta's mayor-president Juan Jesus Vivas told Onda Cero radio that 8,000 to 11,000 migrants may remain after the crossing of 30 July and urged faster returns via Tarajal. Madrid says about 72,000 entered and some 70,000 have returned to Morocco.

Blame for the surge

Handelsblatt reports that an EU commissioner holds tech companies partly to blame for the crisis in Ceuta.

Other opinions

TASS reports only Ceuta's demand for faster returns; the South China Morning Post frames the row as a test of EU unity under coercion.