Category: News

Migrants
At least 17 migrants have died in the past 24 hours while trying to cross the sea from North Africa
and rescuers picked up more than 100 others.
Two rafts were found in the Western Mediterranean between the Iberian peninsula and Morocco
with 80 people aboard and 13 dead. They were taken to Melilla, the coast guard said yesterday
They also found four bodies and rescued 22 men in the Atlantic off Cadiz.
Spain has now become the main destination for undocumented migrants and refugees from Africa
and the Middle East trying to reach Europe.… Read all the news

Resignation
Maria Dolores de Cospedal, an influential figure from the Popular Party resigned yesterday as a member of the conservative group”s executive, after a scandal over some recordings in which she asked to investigate political opponents.
In a statement, De Cospedal explained that she was leaving the National Executive Committee to prevent multiple attacks due to her conversations with the former police commissioner Jose Villarejo from affecting the party.
The former Minister of Defense and general secretary of the PP will keep her seat in the Congress of Deputies.… Read all the news

Fire
A CHILD and a parent died in a house fire this morning in Malaga province.
Emergency services were called out to the town of Arriate, near Ronda in the early hours after a fire broke out in a two-storey house.
Six people were reportedly trapped on the top floor of the building according to the emergency services.
The provincial fire service the Guardia Civil, Local Police and ambulance crews raced to the scene.
But emergency services reported that two of the six inhabitants died in the fire, a child and an adult.… Read all the news

Suicide
Images captured the moment security guards wrestled a teenage girl to the ground in a bid to stop
her plunging 65ft to her death in an apparent suicide pact.
A security guard hurled himself on top of the 14-year-old when she experienced a ‘moment’s
doubt’ after her school friend fell from the roof of the of El Corte Ingles shopping centre in Puerto
Banus
Moments earlier her friend, who has been named locally as 16-year-old Richard Fitzsimons, died
after he ‘jumped’ from the top of the building.… Read all the news

Catalunia
The Solicitor General, who represents the Spanish state in the courts, will not accuse Catalan secessionist leaders of rebellion. Instead, the written accusation due to be filed today will focus on the crimes of sedition and misuse of public funds in connection with the unauthorized referendum last october and the unilateral independence declaration that followed.
The Solicitor General’s Office has ruled out the rebellion charge against nine separatist leaders who are in pretrial detention. Rebellion was the most serious of all the accusations against them, and it underpinned the Supreme Court’s criminal inquiry into the unilateral independence push.… Read all the news

Missing
The search is on for a 12 year old girl from Palma de Majorca after her School phoned her parents on Wednesday afternoon to say the girl had not arrived for lessons.
But 12 hours later, the family of Josefa Sanchez Cortes found a message on her Instagram, which is accessible via her brother’s iPad.
AS much as you go to the police, you will not find her… no matter how much you look for her, you will never see her again.”… Read all the news

Safe Refuge
A Christian woman who escaped hanging when her conviction for blasphemy was overturned is preparing to flee Pakistan, as huge crowds of Islamist protesters launched a second day of protests against her acquittal.
Asia Bibi’s brother said she would leave Pakistan after her formal release, a day after she was cleared of insulting the Prophet Muhammad in a row over a cup of water.
Today protesters took to the streets again, calling for her to be executed, demanding the judges who freed her be killed and burning tyres on major roads across the country.… Read all the news

Safe Refuge
A Christian woman who escaped hanging when her conviction for blasphemy was overturned is preparing to flee Pakistan, as huge crowds of Islamist protesters launched a second day of protests against her acquittal.
Asia Bibi’s brother said she would leave Pakistan after her formal release, a day after she was cleared of insulting the Prophet Muhammad in a row over a cup of water.
Today protesters took to the streets again, calling for her to be executed, demanding the judges who freed her be killed and burning tyres on major roads across the country.… Read all the news

Prostitution
Fifteen young Brazilian transsexuals were threatened with black magic as they were pimped to clients in Murcia.
Spanish police said yesterday that they rescued the victims and arrested 13 people throughout the country accused of running the sex trafficking ring.
The criminal bosses used beatings, drugs and black magic ‘to coerce’ the prostitutes.
In addition authorities seized three apartments in Murcia where they found items relating to black magic and the ritualistic Santeria religion.
The police said: ‘The criminal group was headed by a Brazilian national, who ..… Read all the news

Catalan Separatism
The separatist government of Quim Torra has inaugurated ‘The Council of the Republic in exile”, an organization headed by fugitive former president Carles Puigdemont. It aims to promote the Catalan cause abroad after the failed independence declaration last year. The idea was announced last week after the two main pro-independence parties managed to overcome their differences over who will be in charge of the organization and how it should operate.

Collision
Barcelona authorities say a cargo ship has collided with a loading crane in the city’s port, causing a fire.… Read all the news