SPAIN: Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez denied corruption allegations against his wife but vowed to consider resigning after the launch of a judicial probe into a right-wing legal platform’s claims that she had used her position to influence business deals.

Mr Sanchez posted on X that he was cancelling his public agenda until Monday, when he will announce his decision.

“I need to stop and reflect [whether] it is worth it to continue, given the mud pit the right and far right have made out of our politics,” he wrote.

POLAND: Pegasus spyware was used to snoop on hundreds of people under the former government, among them elected officials, prosecutor-general Adam Bodnar has told MPs.

Mr Bodnar, who is also the justice minister, presented data showing that Pegasus had been used in the cases of 578 people from 2017 to 2022 and that it was used by three separate government agencies: the Central Anti-corruption Bureau, the Military Counterintelligence Service and the Internal Security Agency.

BOTSWANA: The British government asked the southern African country to take refugees off its hands, Foreign Minister Lemogang Kwape has said.

“We did not accede to their request,” Mr Kwape told South African television, hours after the Rwanda scheme had been approved by MPs at Westminster.

“We have enough problems that we are dealing with, especially immigration problems in our neighbourhood,” he said, adding that to have agreed would have been “unfair to Botswana.”

CHINA: Visiting US Secretary of State Antony Blinken brought up what Washington claims are Beijing’s unfair trade practices yesterday during his first full day of meetings with local government officials in the financial hub of Shanghai.

Mr Blinken met local Communist Party secretary Chen Jining and “raised concerns about trade policies and non-market economic practices,” the US State Department said in a statement.