MADRID, Spain - Spanish police and customs officials on Friday announced the seizure of nearly 9.5 tonnes of cocaine from Ecuador, saying it marked Spain's biggest seizure to date. Spanish National Police and Customs officers hold some packages of cocaine totalizing 9,436 kilos, that were...
ARAFO, Spain - Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said Monday he hoped a wildfire that has forced thousands of people to evacuate on the holiday island of Tenerife will be stabilised "in the coming days." The blaze broke out late Tuesday in a mountainous northeastern area, quickly morphing into...
SYDNEY (AFP)--Spain won the Women's World Cup for the first time in their history with skipper Olga Carmona sweeping in the only goal for a deserved 1-0 victory over England in Sunday's final. Spain's players celebrate after winning the Australia and New Zealand 2023 Women's World Cup final...
President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. has decided to retain seasoned diplomat Philippe Lhuillier as the country's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Kingdom of Spain, the Presidential Communications Office (PCO) bared. *File photo of President Marcos and Philippine Ambassador to...
Flag of Spain (Unsplash) Commission on Appointments (CA) Assistant Minority Leader, Surigao del Sur 2nd district Rep. Johnny Pimentel has confirmed Malacañang's nomination of Philippe Jones Lhuillier for his second tour of duty as Philippine ambassador to Spain. Lhuillier’s new nomination papers...
MADRID, Spain - Spain has experienced its hottest spring in over 60 years of recordkeeping, with average temperatures almost two degrees Celsius above average, the national weather agency reported Wednesday. The country also saw its second driest-ever spring on record, behind that of 1995, the...
The Popular Party (PP) party's leader Alberto Nunez Feijoo gives a press conference at the party headquarters in Madrid on May 29, 2023 one day after local and regional elections. Pierre-Philippe MARCOU / AFP MADRID, Spain -- In a surprise move, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez called a snap...
It is interesting to note that the Plan of Stabilization that jump started the rise of the Spanish economy from the “sick man of Europe” to the Iberian tiger actively targeted a major inflow of foreign capital into Spain by facilitating foreign investments in the country and by granting...
President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. congratulated Filipino rising star Bianca Bustamante, paying tribute to the teen racer for successfully carrying the country’s colors to the world of motorsport. Filipina racer Bianca Bustamante of the PREMA Racing. (Photo from President Marcos'...
MADRID, Spain- One person died and 25 others were hurt, seven seriously, when a bus carrying Moroccan seasonal workers overturned early on Monday in southern Spain, the emergency services said. The accident, which took place just before sunrise on a road around 50 kilometres (30 miles) from the...
MADRID, Spain- Spain will invest 1.3 billion euros ($1.43 billion) in vocational training to fight youth unemployment, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said Saturday. The measure will create 824 new training centres for digital skills, 45,000 vocational training places and 1,500 classrooms for...
MADRID, Spain -- An unusually early heatwave in drought-hit Spain is set to peak on Thursday and Friday with temperatures expected to break April records in the south of the country. Since Monday, Spain has been enveloped by a mass of warm, dry air from North Africa that has driven up temperatures...
