Spain's unemployment rises as job creation slows

The national news roundup also covers the PP-Vox Senate pact, a request to release intelligence documents on Ceuta and proposals to expand Frontex.

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0:08Israel votes on Netanyahu's future; Brazil investigates Bolsonaro's whereabouts, while Argentina says it received no asylum request.
1:26US proposals address Venezuela's judicial and electoral renewal; Serbian public television later apologizes for biased coverage.
3:25EU proposals would expand Frontex; a Spanish judge separately seeks intelligence documents about the Ceuta migration crisis.
5:49Spain's third-quarter unemployment rises and job creation slows, with the jobless rate reaching 10.2%.
6:37Feijóo defends the PP-Vox Senate agreement, while Socialist and Compromís representatives condemn it.
8:21An official-gifts inquiry precedes reports of damage and arrests following disturbances in Bilbao and Barcelona.

Spain's labor market weakened in the third quarter, with unemployment rising by roughly 96,000 people and the jobless rate reaching 10.2%, according to figures presented by Spain's public broadcaster, Radio Televisión Española, on its RTVE Noticias channel. Employment creation slowed rather than stopped, a distinction at the center of the bulletin's economic update.

The October 27 roundup, titled "Las noticias del martes 27 de octubre en 10 minutos | RTVE Noticias" ("The news for Tuesday 27 October in 10 minutes"), moves from international elections to disputes over Spanish institutions and public order.

At home, opposition leader Alberto Núñez Feijóo defends a tactical agreement between his People's Party (PP) and the far-right Vox to secure Senate majorities. The report shows regional PP leaders offering different emphases: Aragón's Jorge Azcón calls it a counterattack, while Andalusia's Juanma Moreno stresses that the two remain distinct parties. Socialist parliamentary spokesman Patxi López and Compromís lawmaker Alberto Ibáñez criticize the arrangement.

Border policy supplies another thread. The European Union is considering expanding the personnel and powers of Frontex, its border agency, including monitoring networks and responding rapidly. Separately, a National Court judge has requested the declassification of documents from Spain's CNI intelligence service concerning the migration crisis in Ceuta, the Spanish enclave on North Africa's coast.

The international opening covers Israel's election and Benjamin Netanyahu's political future. It then reports Brazilian Federal Police reinforcing borders amid concern that defeated presidential candidate Flávio Bolsonaro might leave the country. Argentina's presidential spokesman Manuel Adorni says no asylum request has been received. Those passages capture the situation described in this bulletin, before the separate follow-up reporting on Bolsonaro's journey to the United States.

Venezuela's segment examines negotiations and US proposals for judicial and electoral reform ahead of elections, with opposition leader María Corina Machado and Delcy Rodríguez appearing. In Serbia, the bulletin shows a public television channel apologizing on air for years of biased news coverage.

The final domestic items include an official-gifts inquiry: the national heritage body submitted a list to the National Court that, the report says, did not include the jewelry under investigation. The bulletin closes with the aftermath of violent disturbances in Bilbao and Barcelona, including damage and arrests.