WITH the new water year underway, a period that runs from October 1st to September 30th of the following year, the past 365 days has been far too dry across much of Spain and unfortunately Malaga begins the new water year with a drier autumn than usual forecast. According to Jesus Riesco, director of the […]
SPAIN and Portugal’s football associations have confirmed that Ukraine has been added to their joint bid to host the 2030 World Cup. The three nations announced their collaborative bid at a media conference at UEFA’s headquarters in Nyon on Wednesday. Ukraine intends to host one of the groups if the joint bid is successful. The
SPEAKING today in Congress during a debate with the opposition, and holding up the latest edition of The Economist newspaper, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez today cited Liz Truss’s actions as the way “not to run a country”. The moment of political theatre came during a question and answer session in the lower house of
HEALTH bosses in Gibraltar have kicked off a campaign to collect unused medicines from former patients to help save cash and prevent poisoning. The Gibraltar Health Authority (GHA) is asking residents to drop off their leftover pills and other prescriptions at special green bins at pharmacies or health centres in the British territory. It comes
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POLICE intercepted a thieving Murcia region care giver as she was about to flee the country, having stolen €18,000 from her client’s bank account. The Policia Nacional stopped the carer from boarding an Almeria ferry bound for her native Morocco. Her boyfriend was also arrested with officers discovering €4,000 in cash on him. He had
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SPAIN’S Queen Letizia on Wednesday called for people to talk more about mental health issues, especially those concerning young people, arguing that doing so is “important and affects everyone”. The former journalist and newsreader was speaking at an event in Madrid ahead of World Mental Health Day, which is celebrated on October 10. “Working on
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THE German ambassador to Spain, María Margarete Gosse, has stated that there are conversations between the two countries to create a European missile shield. The claim, which was made during an interview on the Cadena SER radio network, came just a day before Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez was due to meet with his opposite
THE trial of two men who are accused of being responsible for the death of 80 people in the 2013 Santiago de Compostela train disaster began in Santiago on Wednesday. 145 people were also injured when the high-speed Alvia train went off the track on a bend and hit a wall before bursting into flames.
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PORT tugs watched over the shipwreck on the Gibraltar coast during a weekend of stormy weather that released some more oil into the sea. The Captain of the Port John Ghio reported to the government’s recovery coordination group that ‘only some light sheening’ came out from the stricken OS 35. After the storm, tugs replaced
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FABIAN Picardo, Chief Minister of Gibraltar, stated to the UN that its people would ‘simply not accept’ any discussion of its British sovereignty without their consent. He outlined self-determination as the main driving force of Gibraltar’s argument for decolonisation at UN General Assembly while recalling the desire to negotiate over the EU treaty. Picardo pointed
