Tag: Spain

• Friday, June 20th 2025 - 10:13 UTC

  Spanish researchers speak of Gibraltar's “tropicalization”

  

  A study by the Málaga-based Spanish Institute of Oceanography (IEO-CSIC) documents a “tropicalization” process in the Strait of Gibraltar and Alboran Sea, where rising water temperatures, Atlantic connections, exotic species invasions, and high human activity (e.g., maritime traffic and tourism) are driving changes in fish species composition.

• Friday, June 13th 2025 - 10:50 UTC

  Milei leaves Israel before airspace closure and reaches Spain

  

  Argentine President Javier Milei landed safely in Spain Thursday after leaving Israel before the full-scale attack against Iran's military and nuclear targets, which resulted, among other measures, in the closure of Tel Aviv's airspace.

• Thursday, June 5th 2025 - 10:55 UTC

  Can Milei be arrested when he lands in Spain later this month?

  

  Spanish Congressman Víctor Egío of Podemos has called for the arrest of Argentine President Javier Milei when he lands in Madrid later this month to attend an event hosted by his like-minded rightwing party Vox. The Libertarian leader is scheduled to stopover there on his way back to Buenos Aires from an official tour to Rome, Paris, and Tel Aviv to meet local authorities and Pope Leo XIV.

• Wednesday, April 30th 2025 - 10:48 UTC

  Four people die in Spain amid mass blackout

  

  At least four people were reported to have died as a consequence of the mass power outage that hit Spain Monday. In Ourense (Galicia), an elderly couple (81 and 77) and their son (56) died from carbon monoxide poisoning after using a generator to power a respirator during the blackout. In Alzira, a 46-year-old woman with a pulmonary condition died when her artificial respirator lost power. The outage, described as historic by Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, disrupted trains, elevators, traffic lights, and telecommunications. The cause of the blackout remains unknown.

• Friday, November 29th 2024 - 10:18 UTC

  Falklands Argos Group receives freezer trawler to catch squid

  

  Just a few weeks after the delivery of Prion to its Spanish-Falklands joint venture owners, the Nodosa Shipyard in Marín has delivered a second 85-metre freezer trawler designed to catch squid in the South Atlantic.

• Wednesday, October 30th 2024 - 21:38 UTC

  Dozens killed by heavy rains hitting Spain

  

  Local authorities have left behind the rescue efforts and moved on the the body-retrieving and identification phase Wednesday after at least 62 people died in the Spanish Community of Valencia as a consequence of this week's severe flooding caused by the Isolated High-Level Depression (known for its Spanish acronym DANA, depresión aislada en niveles altos). Another person was reported dead in the central region of Castilla-La Mancha.

• Monday, October 21st 2024 - 08:15 UTC

  González Urrutia treated by Venezuelan physician in Spain

  

  Retired Venezuelan diplomat Edmundo González Urrutia, whom many consider to be president-elect after the July 28 polls in which Caracas' National Electoral Committee (CNE) said without producing any corroborating evidence that the incumbent Nicolás Maduro had been the winner for the 2025-2031 period, suffered a fall this past weekend while he was in exile in Spain, for which he was treated by a countryman physician also fleeing the Bolivarian regime.

• Thursday, October 17th 2024 - 10:55 UTC

  María Corina Machado denies Maduro's claims of exile: “I am still in Venezuela”

  

  Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado has categorically denied President Nicolás Maduro’s claims that she has fled the country and sought refuge in Spain. For days, Maduro had been pushing the narrative that Machado had left Venezuela, allegedly following the path of fellow opposition figure Edmundo González Urrutia, who sought asylum in Spain. On Wednesday, however, Machado dispelled these rumors, asserting in a televised interview, “Venezuelans know that I am still here, and Nicolás Maduro knows it too. They are desperate to know where I am, but I am protecting myself and caring for myself. I am not going to give them that pleasure.”

• Tuesday, October 8th 2024 - 10:03 UTC

  Argentine VP meets with Spanish Senate Speaker in Madrid

  

  Argentine Vice President Victoria Villarruel met Monday in Madrid with her Senate Speaker colleague Pedro Rollán on the opening day of her first trip abroad since her inauguration last year.

• Friday, October 4th 2024 - 22:16 UTC

  Edmundo González vows to return to Venezuela “as soon as possible” to restore democracy

  

  Opposition leader Edmundo González, widely recognized by the international community as the winner of Venezuela's July 28 elections, has reaffirmed his commitment to returning to his country before January 10, the date set for the presidential inauguration. Speaking at the La Toja Atlantic Forum in Galicia, González stated, “I will return to Venezuela as soon as possible, when we restore democracy in our country.”