‘Extreme event’: warm January weather breaks records across Europe
At least eight countries experience record high temperatures of ‘almost unheard of’ heat, say meteorologists Weather records have been falling across Europe at a disconcerting...
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China bridles as EU states prepare to scale up Covid monitoring
France joins Spain and Italy in requiring arrivals to show a negative result with the UK to follow suit European countries are preparing to scale...
Iranian chess player ‘moving to Spain’ after competing without headscarf
Sara Khadem and family plan to set up residence in an unnamed Spanish city, according to reports One of Iran’s top-ranked female chess players is...
Bus in Spain plunges off bridge into river, killing six people – video
Six people died after a passenger bus careened off a bridge and plunged into an overflowing river in north-western Spain on Christmas Eve. Rescuers rushed to...
Spanish police arrest New Zealander on FBI’s most wanted list
Michael James Pratt, given life sentence in US for sexual assault and producing child sexual abuse images, was staying in Madrid Spanish police have arrested...
Women lose landmark challenge to sexual abuse in Spanish meat industry
Two workers in an abattoir in Catalonia alleged to have suffered unwanted sexual advances and are now appealing court decision A court in Spain has...
Report into Melilla deaths criticises ‘widespread use of unlawful force’
Amnesty accuses Morocco and Spain of also failing to offer first aid after crush in which at least 37 died The “widespread use of unlawful...
Migrants travel from Nigeria to Canary Islands balanced on ship’s rudder
The three stowaways were rescued by the Spanish Coastguard in Las Palmas on Monday after an 11-day voyage The Spanish coastguard has rescued three migrants...
30 tonnes of cocaine seized in raids against European ‘super cartel’
Arrests made in Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Spain and Dubai, including one ‘extremely big fish’ A “super-cartel” that controlled one-third of the cocaine trade in...
Hand of Irulegi: ancient Spanish artefact rewrites history of Basque language
The Vascones, an Iron Age tribe from whose language modern Basque is thought to descend, were previously viewed as largely illiterate More than 2,000 years...
