Tag: Spain
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Police officer killed by bomb-explosion in Oviedo, Spain
A Spanish National Police officer has been killed and another seriously injured after a bomb hidden inside a backpack exploded in the northern Spanish city of Oviedo. The explosion occurred on Tuesday morning in the Villafría neighbourhood, after police officers were called to a residential property following reports of a shooting linked to a dispute…
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Protestors in Madrid demand accountability for the second deadliest train crash in recent European history
Protesters clashed with police yesterday evening during demonstrations outside the Ministry of Transport in Madrid, following a high-speed train collision that killed at least 68 people near Urda, in Spain’s Toledo province. The accident occurred on the Madrid–Andalusia high-speed line when a Renfe AVE train travelling from Madrid to Seville struck an Iryo train that…
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UPDATED: Death-toll in high-speed train accident in Spain rises to 68
UPDATED 17:34HRS. The death toll has risen to at least 68 after a collision between two high-speed trains near Urda, in Spain’s Toledo. A further 58 people have required hospital treatment, while emergency services continue to search the wreckage. Spain’s Transport Minister Oscar Puente has pointed to a serious failure in railway traffic management following…
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Protests continue across in Europe: students in Rome storm the Colosseum
Protests have continued across Europe, turning violent once again in multiple cities, including Paris, Barcelona and Rome. Many protests led by students turned violent once again with rioters looting shops and damaging public buildings. In Italy, demonstrations continued on as of early this morning, with clashes taking place in several cities. In Rome, a group…
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Libyan businessman holding Haftar’s assets in Malta investigated over terrorism financing in Sudan
A Libyan businessman who is serving as a business-front for the regime of Khalifa Haftar in Benghazi, Libya, is currently being investigated by multiple foreign entities over his potential involvement in the financing of terrorism and genocide in Sudan. Businessman Ahmed Gadalla runs an international business empire, using multiple countries including Malta to hold and…
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Spanish Prime Minister calls for snap elections after housing tenancy law fails vote in Parliament
Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has called snap elections on November 29th after losing a vote in Parliament on his government’s emergency housing reforms on Friday last week. Large protests erupted in Spain following the vote across multiple cities stretching throughout the weekend with thousands of Spaniards calling for decent housing, and the expropriation of…
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Spanish Prime Minister reiterates that Spain has good relations with Morocco: laments again about lack of European solidarity
Interviewed yesterday in New York on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly by Christiane Amanpour of CNN, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said that Spain retains good relations with Morocco and described the two countries as strategic partners. Prime Minister Sánchez nevertheless acknowledged that Morocco’s border-control mechanism had failed during the mass crossing…
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Ceuta migrant-invasion was coordinated while Moroccan Army was busy with Day of the Throne: Spanish declassified documents
The Spanish government has declassified a cache of documents on the Ceuta mass-migration incident including documents by the Spanish Police, Army and Intelligence Services. Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said that the documents show that no one could have foreseen the escalation of crossings and that the authorities acted on time when the events started occurring.…
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Morocco gets its way as EU to pay another €190 million to Morocco over border-control blackmail
EuroNews is reporting that the EU is set to fund up to an additional €190 million to the Moroccan government for up the 2027 for border-control following renegotiations. This is an additional to €220 million in funds already disbursed to Morocco over previous border-security agreements. The new deal has also been confirmed by Morocco’s state…
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Morocco wants Ceuta: EU still providing Morocco with funds to supposedly control its border
Moroccan Justice Minister Abdellatif Ouahbi has made controversial comments on Moroccan television announcing that Morocco seeks to annex the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla. The Justice Minister made this comments as he was discussing the Ceuta migrant crisis on Saudi-television Asharq News last Tuesday. The Minister said that the Moroccan government engages in regularly…
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Malta cadet table tennis team secure fifth-place play-off against Spain
Malta’s cadet national table tennis team produced an impressive performance, winning five of their six matches to earn a place in the 5th-6th position play-off against Spain at a tournament featuring 32 teams. The result sees Malta finish ahead of several established table tennis nations, including Hungary, Serbia, Sardegna and Sicilia. Both Maltese players were…
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Spain imposes border controls on arrivals from Italy until the end of August in tit-for-tat border dispute
The Italian government instituted border checks on non-EU nationals arriving from Spain following the Ceuta crisis, but the Spanish government has responded by introducing border checks on all Italian passengers arriving in Spain until the end of August. The tit-for-tat border dispute began after the Italian government raised the alarm over the border incident in…