MADRID (SPAIN) – The regional authorities of Castile and Leon in central Spain said on Wednesday they have halted the use of COVID-19 AstraZeneca vaccine until the European Medicines Agency (EMA) brings out a report on its safety.
MADRID (SPAIN) – Spain’s starting lineup once had goalkeeper Iker Casillas and 10 others. The former Real Madrid player, in a 16-year international career featured 167 times and won two European Championships plus a World Cup. However, since Casillas left the international scene in 2016, a number of keepers have tried – and failed – […]
MADRID (SPAIN) – After suspending flights for all but Spanish nationals and residents over concerns about the British strain of the coronavirus for past three months, Spain has informed that it is lifting a ban on travel from Britain. Spain however does not expect an immediate revival of tourism from Britain, not least because the […]
MADRID (SPAIN) – The vessel Karim Allah carrying cattle has been drifting for months at a stretch because of concerns over the bovine bluetongue disease. However, the impasse has ended and the vessel would dock in Spain, the government and the ship owner said on Thursday. The ship left the Mediterranean port of Cartagena on […]
ERRIGOITI (SPAIN) – Tension between environmentalists and farmers in Spain is on the rise following a ban on wolf hunting in the rural north. The agriculturists believe that the decision will affect their livestock. The Environment Ministry decided last Thursday to extend the protection for the Iberian wolf in the south to the north of […]
MADRID (SPAIN – Spanish Health Minister Salvador Illa will leave his job on Tuesday to contest in the regional Catalan elections scheduled on February 14, the Prime Minister’s office said on Monday in a statement. The statement said, “Salvador Illa starts today his last 24 hours at the helm of the ministry. Tomorrow Tuesday will […]
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 people trapped in cars, while police broke up a […]
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 […]
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,”
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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