The Spanish government lifted its coronavirus-related state of emergency at midnight on Sunday. The state of emergency allowed the government to ban non-essential travel between regions, and required citizens to stay at home between 11pm and 6am. Spain was recording around 20,000 daily cases of Covid-19 when the curfew was …
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“We urge the government of Israel to reverse its decision to advance the construction of 540 settlement units in the Har Homa E area of the occupied West Bank, and to cease its policy of settlement expansion across the Occupied Palestinian Territories,” the European countries said in a statement on …
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The death of a cinereous vulture – which is classed as a near-threatened species by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) – was confirmed this week to be the first recorded case in Europe of an animal being poisoned by diclofenac, after feasting on the carcass of livestock. …
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Health Minister Carolina Darias said on Wednesday evening that going forward, the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine will only be administered to people aged 60 and over. The decision was made after a virtual meeting of regional health ministers, following the announcement by the European Medicines Agency (EMA) and an EU ministerial meeting …
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Both sets of players left the pitch with little more than half an hour gone after visiting defender Diakhaby appeared to furiously accuse Cala, who had opened the scoring for hosts Cadiz, of making a racist remark. The French defender had to be restrained by players from both sides before speaking …
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The idea of a four-day working week has been a long-held fantasy of the Left but now it looks like Spain will be the first European country to trial the idea while the rest of us stand back and watch the economy tank. The government of Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez …
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Spanish health officials said on Monday night that they would halt vaccinations for the AstraZeneca inoculation for at least two weeks, pending a safety review, a decision mirrored in France, Portugal, Cyprus and Slovenia on the same day. All pointed to recent reports of blood clotting and several deaths among …
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The Sidereus Nuncius, or ‘Starry Message’, originally published by father of modern science and astronomy Galileo Galilei on March 13, 1610, was the first systematic and published scientific study based on observations made through a telescope. The astronomical treatise was completed using Galileo’s first telescopes, which had 8x to 10x …
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Riots that played out across Spain for the third night in a row over the jailing of rapper Pablo Hasél show a growing appetite for dissent, and are further proof that the shadow of former dictator Francisco Franco – dead for nearly 50 years now – has cast a long shadow. …
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Valencia saw some of the worst violence on Thursday, where demonstrators could be seen clashing with riot police in footage posted to social media, while a helicopter appeared to be monitoring the protests from above. Multiple injuries were reported amid the clashes in the eastern Spanish city, while some protesters …
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