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The Spanish town of Torre Pacheco, in the Murcia region, is experiencing growing unrest after two consecutive nights of violent clashes between far-right groups and young people of Moroccan descent. The spark for the violence was the brutal assault of a 72-year-old Spanish retiree, known as “domingo,”......
Flights to Marseille faced major disruptions on Tuesday after rapidly spreading wildfires in southern France forced the temporary closure of the city’s airport. Authorities halted operations as flames approached dangerously close to runways, grounding travelers and impacting several airlines. Royal......
A Ryanair flight preparing for departure from Palma de Mallorca airport to Manchester was disrupted on Friday evening after a false fire alarm triggered an emergency evacuation, resulting in minor injuries for several passengers. The Irish low-cost carrier confirmed that the alarm, which occurred just......
Liverpool players and staff gathered in Gondomar, a small town in northern Portugal, on Saturday to bid farewell to their teammate, Diogo Jota, following his untimely death in a car crash. The 28-year-old forward and his younger brother, André Silva, lost their lives in an accident in Spain on......
Football meets anti-fascism: Franco's head as the ball Spain’s love for football took an extraordinary twist this week at the experimental "Ex Abrupto" art festival in Moia, near Barcelona. Two teams participated in a symbolic match, using a hyper-realistic replica of dictator Francisco......
Spanish police, in coordination with Moroccan and French authorities, have seized over 15 tons of hashish smuggled from Morocco, hidden within a shipment of watermelons. The truck, which arrived at the port of Almería, was found to contain 13.3 tons of the drug ingeniously concealed among watermelon......
Spanish authorities in Granada have detained two Moroccan nationals accused of orchestrating an irregular migration scheme involving the abandonment of a 17-year-old boy. Among the suspects is the boy's uncle, who reportedly brought him from Morocco by sea with plans to present him as an unaccompanied......
A massive fire broke out on Friday at the Lea cosmetics factory in Vitoria, northern Spain, sending thick plumes of smoke across the city and triggering widespread evacuations. Multiple explosions were reported within the factory, prompting authorities to evacuate employees and nearby industrial units......
The president of Catalonia, Salvador Illa, has unveiled a new initiative aimed at easing the financial burden on young residents seeking to purchase their first home. During the opening of the 5th Foro Catalunya conference, organized by elEconomista.es, Illa announced that the government will provide......
Just six weeks after a massive blackout affected the entire Iberian Peninsula, the Spanish island of La Palma, part of the Canary Islands off the coast of Africa, faced its own power outage lasting nearly three hours on Tuesday. This outage, while significantly shorter than the extensive blackout on......
Spanish Crown Princess Leonor de Borbón is expected to visit the occupied city of Ceuta for the first time in June 2025 as part of her military training program with the Spanish Navy. She will arrive aboard the frigate Blas de Lezo, which will dock in Ceuta for 48 hours from June 21 to June 23. Spanish......
Gunman kills two Scots outside crowded Costa del Sol pub Two Scottish men were shot dead in Fuengirola, Málaga, on Saturday night in what Spanish police are treating as a drug-related execution. The attack took place outside Monaghans, an Irish-themed pub located on the Rey de España......
The Canary Islands are once again to stage a protest against their current tourism model, this time with a march at Teide National Park, signaling that it's not only cities which are affected by mass tourism in Spain. Protest details and objectives The group Canarias tiene un límite (The......
