Tag: Spain

• 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.

• Thursday, August 22nd 2019 - 08:39 UTC

  
Spanish police net compulsive “upskirter”, who recorded underwear videos of over 500 women

  

  Spanish police said on Wednesday they have arrested a man suspected of secretly recording videos of the underwear of over 500 women, some of them minors, on public transit and supermarkets.

• Thursday, August 22nd 2019 - 08:36 UTC

  In peak tourist season Spain issues international alert on the country's listerosis outbreak

  

  Spain's health ministry issued an international alert over the country's biggest-ever listeriosis outbreak on Wednesday as the number of people affected rose to 150, including one fatality.

• Wednesday, August 21st 2019 - 08:54 UTC

  Spain closer to having to call another election in September

  

  Spain's Socialist party rejected a re-worked offer on Tuesday to form a coalition government with the far-left Unidas Podemos that could have mapped a way out of a four-month political hiatus that began with an inconclusive national election.

• Wednesday, July 31st 2019 - 13:58 UTC

  IAATO announces 2019 Antarctica Fellows: Martina (Argentina) and Daniela (Spain)

  

  The International Association of Antarctica Tour Operators (IAATO) and the Council of Managers of National Antarctic Programs (COMNAP), meeting at Plovdiv, Bulgaria have announced the recipients of this year's IAATO Antarctic Fellowship, funded by IAATO.