Travel ban hits Spain PM’s wife as corruption probe heads to trial

Spain’s prime minister Pedro Sánchez’s wife Begona Gómez has been barred from leaving the country and ordered to surrender her passport while she faces trial on charges including embezzlement, influence-peddling and misappropriation tied to a university chair; prosecutors say she used public resources for private gain, a claim Sánchez rejects as political persecution amid other graft probes affecting his allies.