Tag: Spain

• 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.

• Friday, July 26th 2019 - 09:25 UTC

  Spain's socialist president Sánchez has two months to avoid a new election

  

  Spain's caretaker socialist prime minister Pedro Sanchez lost a crunch post-election vote of confidence on Thursday after coalition talks with the far-left failed, pushing the country closer to repeat polls.

• Friday, July 5th 2019 - 15:09 UTC

  Iran furious with Gibraltar: condemns the illegal interception of one of its oil tankers

  

  Iran on Thursday condemned the “illegal interception” of one of its oil tankers in Gibraltar where authorities said they suspected it was carrying crude to Syria in violation of EU sanctions.

• 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.