Tag: Spain

• Saturday, October 12th 2019 - 09:55 UTC

  As Brexit countdown approaches, Galicia fishing industry concern increases

  

  No Galician fishing vessel operating in the Falkland Islands will have access to European funds specially earmarked for those temporarily inactive, whether they fly the red ensign of the Spanish flag.

• Monday, October 7th 2019 - 09:28 UTC

  Barça withdraws medals awarded to Franco in 1951, 1971, and 1974

  

  Barcelona's football club members have voted overwhelmingly to withdraw medals awarded to Francisco Franco, finally ending the much-maligned distinctions the Catalan club granted to Spain's dictator.

• Saturday, September 28th 2019 - 09:25 UTC

  Spanish company working for the CIA spied on Assange inside the Ecuadorian embassy in London

  

  A Spanish private security firm, which is under investigation in Madrid, spied on Wikileaks founder Julian Assange on behalf of the CIA while he was inside the Ecuadorian embassy in London, El Pais daily reported Friday.

• Wednesday, September 18th 2019 - 13:56 UTC

  Spanish King calls for new elections Nov. 10 after no deal with political leaders

  

  After a meeting Tuesday with Acting Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez and other political leaders, Spain's King Philip VI realised no negotiated solution was available to form a government and chose to call for general elections to be held November 10, it was announced. Spain is the fourth-largest economy in the euro currency zone.

• Tuesday, September 17th 2019 - 09:39 UTC

  UN apologizes to Spain: Nazis bombed Guernica, not the Republican forces

  

  The United Nations has apologized to Spain for having mistakenly attributed the devastating 1937 bombing of the town of Guernica to Spanish Republican forces, a spokesman said on Monday.

• Tuesday, September 17th 2019 - 08:52 UTC

  Spain's High Court rules against extraditing to the US ex Venezuelan intelligence chief

  

  Spain's High Court ruled on Monday that the government should refuse a request from the United States to extradite Venezuela's former military intelligence chief.

• Saturday, September 14th 2019 - 10:39 UTC

  Argentina/Spain, Sunday's basketball World Cup final in China

  

  Power forward Luis Scola scored a game-high 28 points and grabbed 13 rebounds as Argentina breezed past France 80-66 to book their place in Sunday's basketball World Cup final against Spain.

• Friday, September 6th 2019 - 09:58 UTC

  Alberto Fernandez pledges to honor debts as long as it doesn't harm Argentines

  

  Argentina's likely next president, opposition front-runner Alberto Fernandez, laid out his populist credentials during a visit to Madrid on Thursday, saying local Argentine interests would trump those of creditors and energy investors.

• Tuesday, September 3rd 2019 - 09:47 UTC

  Argentine opposition candidate Fernandez visiting Spain and Portugal

  

  The leader of the Argentine opposition and favorite to become the next president in October's election is currently spending time in Spain and Portugal where he has an academic, political and rest and recover agenda, which begins this Tuesday at the Camilo Cela José University with a conference on politics and voters, “a perspective from the electoral campaigns”.

• Thursday, August 29th 2019 - 06:42 UTC

  Medicine mix-up in Spain develops into “werewolf syndrome” children

  

  At least 17 children developed so-called “werewolf syndrome” in a major medicine mix-up in Spain, the health ministry said on Wednesday. They are suffering from the rare condition known as hypertrichosis that causes abnormal hair growth.