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Spain provides vaccine, food convoys after snowstorm affects life

Editorial Bureau January 10, 2021

MADRID (SPAIN) – The Spanish government will send convoys carrying the COVID-19 vaccine and food supplies on Sunday to areas cut off by Storm Filomena which brought the heaviest snowfall in decades across central Spain and killed four people. In the Madrid area, rescuers reached 1,500

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Blizzard in Spain claims 2 lives, flights cancelled

Editorial Bureau January 9, 2021

MADRID (SPAIN) – As many as two people died in a blizzard in Spain as troops scrambled to rescue motorists trapped by snow caused by Storm Filomena across the country. Madrid is witnessing the heaviest snowing in decades. A woman lost her life after she was trapped in her vehicle when a river burst its […]

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Spain deploys troops to rescue motorists stranded in blizzard

Editorial Bureau January 9, 2021

MADRID (SPANISH) – Spain deployed troops to rescue trapped drivers from their vehicles on Saturday following heavy snowfall caused by Storm Filomena, which resulted in travel disruption across the country. Madrid airport, too, remained closed. “Owing to the forecast of snow and for security, Madrid Barajas airport will remain closed throughout Saturday,”

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Official says Spain’s average unemployment rate in 2020 likely was less than 16%

Editorial Bureau January 5, 2021

MADRID (SPAIN) – The average unemployment rate in Spain in 2020 was likely below 16%, Secretary of State for Employment Joaquin Perez Rey told a news conference on Tuesday. He estimated the unemployment rate after the labour ministry said the number of people registered as jobless had risen to 3.89 million in 2020, the first […]

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Spain agrees upon an initial agreement with Britain on Gibraltar

Editorial Bureau December 31, 2020

MADRID (SPAIN) – Spain has reached an initial agreement with Britain over Gibraltar’s post-Brexit status, Spanish Foreign Minister Arancha Gonzalez Laya said on Thursday. As part of the agreement, the British Overseas Territory located on the southern tip of the Iberian peninsula will remain part of European Union agreements such as the Shengen area, Gonzalez

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Santa goes virtual amid pandemic in Spain

Editorial Bureau December 19, 2020

MADRID (SPAIN) – An enterprising Santa Claus has given himself the mission of saving Christmas in Spain by sending video messages to children who are unable to meet the man himself this year because of the coronavirus pandemic. “We thought of doing Zoom, Skype and using new technologies since Santa cannot visit the children’s homes,” […]

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Spain’s Supreme Court orders investigation into deaths reported in nursing home due to COVID-19

Editorial Bureau December 18, 2020

MADRID (SPAIN) – Spain’s Supreme Court on Friday ordered an investigation into the deaths of elderly people in nursing homes during the COVID-19 pandemic and the lack of protective gear for health workers. Magistrates were asked to find out if deaths at nursing homes “were associated with political, administrative or management decisions and whether those

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Spanish Cava wine’s pandemic punch comes milder than expected

Editorial Bureau December 15, 2020

BARCELONA (SPAIN) – Spain’s 1.2 billion-euro ($1.46 billion) Cava wine sector is bracing for a devastating year as bars and restaurants in many parts of the country remaining shut for months and tourism shrivelling because of lack of visitors due to the pandemic. However, earlier predictions of an up to 40% dip in sales have […]

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Spain’s health workers voice concerns against health service cuts

Editorial Bureau November 29, 2020

MADRID (SPAIN) – Dancing and banging drums in the street, doctors and nurses protested in Madrid on Sunday against cuts which they say have left them struggling to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic. Singing “less flags and more nurses”, about 4,000 protesters marched through the Spanish capital, the region hit hardest by the coronavirus. “They […]

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Eight dead after migrant boat capsizes near Canary Islands

Editorial Bureau November 25, 2020

LANZAROTE (SPAIN) – At least eight people were drowned after a boat carrying more than 35 migrants from the Maghreb region of North Africa and heading towards the Canary Islands capsized on Tuesday, emergency services said on Wednesday. Four people were found dead late on Tuesday and another four bodies were rescued on Wednesday morning. […]