Tag: Spain

• Thursday, June 27th 2019 - 15:11 UTC

  Crew member of Brazilian presidential aircraft caught with 39 kg of cocaine in Spain

  

  Spanish police have arrested a member of the Brazilian Air Force who carried three bags full of cocaine on a military plane to Seville hours before President Jair Bolsonaro’s was scheduled to take a stopover there, police and officials said on Wednesday.

• Thursday, June 27th 2019 - 08:35 UTC

  
Spanish and Portuguese vessels overfishing sharks in the North Atlantic, claims Greenpeace

  

  Thousands of endangered sharks are killed each year in the North Atlantic due to a lack of protection against overfishing in international waters, Greenpeace said on Thursday .

• Tuesday, June 11th 2019 - 19:56 UTC

  Madrid ignores Trump's warnings: Huawei 5G service network for Spanish cities

  

  Chinese telecoms giant Huawei is set to roll out its 5G service in several Spanish cities on Saturday, making it one of the first European countries with the ultrafast mobile phone network.

• Monday, June 10th 2019 - 08:50 UTC

  Finally Barcelona City extends permit to finish Gaudi's Sagrada Familia Cathedral

  

  Construction of Barcelona's Sagrada Familia basilica may have started 137 years ago, but the emblematic monument got a building permit only last Friday. The Spanish seaside city council awarded the license to a committee in charge of finishing construction of the Catholic church for €4.6 million (S$7.1 million), Ms Janet Sanz, in charge of urban planning, told reporters.

• Friday, May 31st 2019 - 22:25 UTC

  Gibraltar celebrates 50 years of the 1969 Constitution

  

  Today marks 50 years from the day Gibraltar’s 1969 Constitution was commenced on 30 May 1969. The Constitution had come about following a Constitutional Conference in 1968 between the United Kingdom Government, Gibraltar’s Elected Members and the Integration with Britain Party.

• Friday, May 24th 2019 - 09:05 UTC

  No Parallels between Falklands and Chagos

  

  In a move that will no doubt be greeted favorably in Buenos Aires, the United Nations General Assembly overwhelmingly demanded on Wednesday that Britain give up control over the Chagos Islands.

• Saturday, May 11th 2019 - 09:06 UTC

  UNWTO says Spain has some of the best beaches and marina resorts for this European summer

  

  The World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) has announced this week the beaches, ports and sustainable boat tour operators in Europe for 2019. Spain boasts 669 Blue Flag awards including 566 Spanish beaches, 98 marina resorts and 5 sustainable tourist boat operators.

• Friday, May 3rd 2019 - 09:59 UTC

  A defiant Maduro appears with the military at an army base in Caracas and calls to defeat coup plotters

  

  Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro appeared on Thursday flanked by soldiers at an army base in Caracas, in a show of defiance towards his opponents. Maduro called on the armed forces to defeat “any coup plotter”, following two days of clashes between opposition and pro-government forces.

• Monday, April 29th 2019 - 09:59 UTC

  Socialists win the most votes in Spain but now must try and work a coalition

  

  Spain’s Socialist leader Pedro Sanchez, fresh from a win for his party in national elections on Sunday, said the only conditions he would place on forming a coalition government would be respecting the constitution and promoting social justice.  

• Saturday, April 27th 2019 - 09:44 UTC

  Spain votes on Sunday with no clear winner and a possible hung parliament

  

  The leaders of all of Spain's main political parties invited their supporters on Friday night to prepare for power, as campaigning for one of the tightest national elections in decades drew to a close. No single party will get an overall majority in Sunday's ballot, and opinion polls suggest all five leading contenders have a realistic chance of playing a role in government.