Trump excludes Spain from G20 prep meetings, Ryanair compensates UK tourist for burns on Spain-bound flight, Spain tells citizens to leave Iran due to deadly protests and more news on Thursday January 15th.
Trump excludes Spain from G20 prep meetings
US President Donald Trump has decided to exclude Spain from all preparatory meetings for the upcoming G20 summit, which the United States will host for the first time in twenty years.
However, Spain will attend the Leaders’ Summit as a “guest country,” as has been the custom since 2008.
This summit will be held on December 14th and 15th 2026 in Miami under the US presidency.
Spain’s omission has not been accompanied by any official explanation, which has fuelled political and diplomatic interpretations about the true scope of this decision.
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Ryanair compensates UK tourist for burns on Spain-bound flight
Irish low-cost airline Ryanair has paid nearly €5,000 in compensation to a tourist who suffered severe burns during a flight to Mallorca.
According to Daily Mail, 63-year-old passenger Denise Elliott was flying from Bournemouth with several friends. When she ordered a coffee, the flight attendant explained that there were no lids left for the cups.
When Elliott placed her cup on the tray table it folded down, and the scalding hot coffee spilled onto her thighs.
As a result, she suffered burns that took eight months to heal completely.
Spanish singer Julio Iglesias prepares defence against abuse allegations
Veteran Spanish singer Julio Iglesias is preparing his defence against sexual abuse and human trafficking allegations by two women ex-employees that have dominated headlines in Spain, celebrity magazine Hola! reported.
The story published late on Wednesday comes after the accusations against one of Spain’s cultural icons were revealed by Spanish newspaper elDiario.es and US television network Univision on Tuesday.
The women — a domestic worker and a physiotherapist — allege they suffered sexual and other forms of abuse while working at Iglesias’s properties in the Dominican Republic and the Bahamas in 2021.
Hola! said it spoke by telephone with Iglesias, who told them the truth would come out and everything would be clarified, but provided no direct quotes from the conversation.
Iglesias is preparing his defence and wishes to clear any doubts about what happened, Hola! wrote, saying it obtained the exclusive interview thanks to a years-long friendship with him.
Spain tells citizens to leave Iran due to deadly protests
Spain’s foreign ministry on Wednesday urged its citizens to leave Iran, where rights groups say a crackdown on mass protests has killed hundreds of people and caused thousands of arrests.
“Spaniards who are in Iran are recommended to leave the country making use of the available means,” the ministry said in an updated travel advisory.
“The situation is unstable in the whole country. Different sources report several deaths and arrests of protesters,” it added.
Rights groups say Iranian authorities are carrying out their most severe repression in years of protests under the cover of a more than five-day internet blackout.
They warn that thousands have been injured and that the toll could be vastly underestimated.
The demonstrations began on economic grounds last month and have escalated to openly challenge the theocratic system that has ruled Iran since the 1979 Islamic revolution.
With additional reporting by AFP.
