BARCELONA (AFP) -- The Spanish football federation urged 39 striking players to return to the women's national team on Monday, Sept. 18, ahead of new coach Montse Tome's first squad announcement. RFEF interim president Pedro Rocha. (AFP) Spain won the Women's World Cup in August but the four weeks...
BARCELONA (AFP) -- Lamine Yamal became Spain's youngest ever player and goalscorer as La Roja thrashed Georgia, 7-1, on Friday, Sept. 8, to get their Euro 2024 qualifying campaign back on track. Spain's Lamine Yamal (left) and Georgia's Georgia's midfielder Luka Gagnidze fight for the ball during...
MADRID, Spain - Two people died and one was missing on Monday after heavy rains lashed Spain, triggering flash floods that forced the closure of Madrid metro lines and high-speed rail links. This photograph shows rubbles on a river bed in the town of Aldea del Fresno, in the Madrid region on...
BARCELONA, Spain (AFP)--FIFA suspended Luis Rubiales as president of Spain's football federation on Saturday for kissing Women's World Cup player Jenni Hermoso on the lips, while even his close friend Jorge Vilda joined the tidal wave of criticism. Spanish football chief Luis Rubiales refused to...
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...
