Tag: Spain

Moments ago, Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero announced the dissolution of the parliament after his coalition, which comprises the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) and Unidas Podemos suffered preliminary losses in regional elections today. The opposition conservative People's Party (PP) and the far-right Vox, and the liberal Citizens (CS),...

At approximately 0700 EST, reports began to emerge of a crash during an air exhibition practice at Zaragoza Air Base in Spain. By 0800 EST, reports confirmed that a Spanish EF-18 had crashed and the pilot had safely ejected. https://twitter.com/zgzdenuncia/status/1659871997696851968?s=46&t=fwloThPnqgTH71QlDeR_hA By 0800 EST, the Spanish Air Force had also confirmed that...

The body of Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera was on Monday exhumed for the fourth time, and buried for the fifth time. Rivera was the founder of the Spanish Falange party, one of the primary fascist movements in Spain, and was executed by Republican forces in 1936, soon after...

On Wednesday night, Spanish police were investigating the death of a man who was attacked with a machete in a church in Algeciras. The man, who was a priest at the church of La Palma, was killed following an earlier attack in a different church in the city where...

Members of Spain's Policía Nacional have arrested a suspect in connection with a string of attempted letter bomb attacks that lasted from late November to early December. On Wednesday, the Policía Nacional shared footage of an arrest in the city of Miranda de Ebro. https://twitter.com/policia/status/1618236333272567808 The Spanish authorities did not directly identify...

In the last twenty-four hours, at least five incendiary letters and package bombs have been sent to several institutions in Spain that seem to be connected to the war effort in Ukraine. The first instance was a letter bomb mailed to the Ukrainian Embassy yesterday which injured one embassy...