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Spain is looking to amend its Customer Service Law to block unwelcome cold-calling from businesses, something which the government promised to implement months ago. 

Under the reform companies will have to use a specific digital code/prefix when calling customers, allowing telecom operators to block any unauthorised calls from companies without the code. 

Minister of Social Rights, Pablo Bustinduy said that blocking unsolicited calls would protect “the well-being and privacy of consumers.” 

Bustinduy said the measures would be introduced via amendments to the consumer rights bill which will be debated in parliament “in the coming weeks”.

According to a 2023 study carried out in 39 countries by US security company Hiya, 42% of calls in Spain in the third quarter were spam, the second-highest percentage in Europe.
 
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As an Olympic gold medalist and Champions League winner, Almuth Schult was one of the top goalkeepers in women’s soccer, but she believes her career ended early because clubs were reluctant to sign a player with children.
The 34-year-old announced her retirement in March, three months after her contract ended with the Kansas City Current in the National Women’s Soccer League in the US. 
In an interview published by Germany’s Kicker magazine on Tuesday, she said she felt she could have played another “one, two years at the highest level” and that she believes being a mother was “the main reason” talks didn’t work out.
 
Schult gave birth to twins in 2020 and a third child in 2023.
 
“I was already out of contract after my second pregnancy,” said Schult, who played 66 times for the German national team. “No club believed I could still help, even though I had already proven it after my first pregnancy.”
 
Reporting by AP.
 
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Conservative justices on the U.S. Supreme Court appeared open to allowing a Catholic virtual school in Oklahoma to operate as a publicly funded charter school. ⁠
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The proposed school, St. Isidore of Seville, would be the first religious charter school in the country. A lower court previously blocked its creation, citing the First Amendment’s establishment clause. ⁠
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Justice Sonia Sotomayor challenged the legality of public funds going to religious instruction, saying, “We’re not going to pay religious leaders to teach their religion.”⁠
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The case pits the Constitution’s two religion clauses against each other. Lawyers for the state and for St. Isidore argued that blocking the school violated the free exercise clause, noting the school is privately organized and not an extension of the government. ⁠
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Oklahoma’s top court had ruled the school would act as a state surrogate, and thus could not incorporate religious teaching while receiving public funds.⁠
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Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch questioned whether excluding the school would constitute religious discrimination, while Chief Justice ⁠
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John Roberts pointed to prior rulings allowing religious groups to participate in public services. The court’s ruling, expected by June, could reshape how states handle religion in publicly funded education.⁠
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Same-sex female couples who use IVF abroad can now both be legally recognised as parents in Italy, even if one is not the biological mother.

The case was brought by a court in the Tuscan city of Lucca, which questioned the legality of denying "full dual parenthood" in a case involving a lesbian couple.
Reporting by Reuters.

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