Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez was forced to interrupt a press conference at a NATO airbase in Lithuania on Thursday when jets there were scrambled to intercept Russian warplanes. Sanchez and Lithuania’s President Gitanas Nauseda were speaking to reporters at the Siauliai air force base, which hosts air policing fighter jets from various NATO member […]
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Italy beat Spain on penalties to set up Euro 2020 final with England or Denmark
Italy beat Spain 4-2 on penalties after a 1-1 draw in a magnificent Euro 2020 semi-final at Wembley on Tuesday, as Jorginho converted the decisive kick to take the Azzurri through to the final where they will face either England or Denmark. Italy were not always on top though, with Spain the better side for […]
Two dead on migrant boat off Spain’s Canary Islands
Two people have been found dead in a migrant boat intercepted overnight off the coast of Spain’s Canary Islands, local authorities said on Monday. The boat, which was carrying 37 people, was intercepted off the southwestern coast of Gran Canaria island after setting off from Africa, emergency services tweeted. “Two people were found dead and […]
As pandemic eases, fatal gender violence worsens in Europe
As life gradually returns to normal in Europe, there has been a resurgence of deadly violence against women as abusers experience a “loss of the control” they enjoyed throughout the coronavirus lockdowns. And their faces are making the headlines. Like Chahinez, a French woman who was burnt alive by her estranged husband, or the five […]
Three MSF aid workers killed in Ethiopia’s Tigray
One Spanish and two Ethiopian employees of the medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) have been “brutally murdered” in Ethiopia’s war-torn northern Tigray region, the organisation said Friday. The trio “were travelling yesterday afternoon when we lost contact with them. This morning, their vehicle was found empty and a few metres away, their lifeless bodies,” […]
Spain to pardon jailed Catalan separatists
Spain will pardon the jailed Catalan separatists behind a failed 2017 independence bid, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said Monday, in a move that could turn the page on a years-long political impasse over the region’s separatist drive. The Socialist premier said his government had “opted for reconciliation” and believes the controversial pardon — which will […]
Spanish man jailed for 15 years for killing, eating mum
A Spanish court on Tuesday sentenced a man to 15 years and five months in prison after finding him guilty of strangling his mother and then eating her. The court ruled Albert S.G. — dubbed the “cannibal of Ventas” after the district where the crime took place — was sane at the time of the […]
Body of girl snatched by father found off Spanish island
The body of a six-year-old girl has been found off Tenerife island six weeks after she and her sister were snatched by their father in a discovery that has shocked Spain. Olivia and her one-year-old sister Anna were reported missing in the Canary Islands on April 27 after their father made a phone call “with […]
2,700 migrants reach Spain’s Ceuta enclave in one day
At least 2,700 migrants, about a thousand of them minors, reached Spain’s North African enclave of Ceuta on Monday, Spanish officials said, a record in a single day. A spokesman for the Spanish government delegation in Ceuta said the numbers arriving Monday were unprecedented. The migrants had reached the enclave by swimming or walking at […]
A new government to be formed by Catalan separatist parties
Catalonia’s two main separatist parties said Monday they had reached an agreement on forming a new coalition government, more than two months since a regional election. The wealthy northeastern region of Spain has since 2015 been governed by a coalition made up of the leftist ERC and the more hardline “Together for Catalonia”. In a […]