Category: News

Saudi Arabia
The defense committee of Spain’s lower house of parliament yesterday rejected a bill that would suspend arms sales to Saudi Arabia following an international outcry over the disappearance and suspected murder of a journalist at the Middle Eastern kingdom’s consulate in the Turkish capital Istambul.
The proposal was submitted by Podemos and backed by Catalonia’s two nationalist parties – the Republican Left the (ERC) and the Catalan European Democratic Party (PDCat) – while the ruling Socialist Party (PSOE) and the right-wing Popular Party voted the measure down.… Read all the news

Migrants
Morocco said yesterday it would deport 141 migrants arrested on Sunday as they tried to storm a border fence with the Spanish enclave of Melilla.
The Interior Ministry said in a statement that the incursion resulted in “the death of a person after falling from the top of the fence and wounding 22 injured by barbed wire in the fence, were taken to the hospital.”
Twelve members of the security forces were injured and taken to hospital for treatment.
Spanish authorities said about 200 migrants had climbed the fence and were taken to a reception center in Melilla.… Read all the news

Migrants
Spain sent 55 migrants back to Morocco yesterday a day after they forced their way into Melilla during an assault on the border in which two migrants died and 19 were injured.
A total of 208 migrants entered Melilla on Sunday after climbing over two barbed wire fences which separate the territory from northern Morocco.
Another 140 migrants have requested asylum, 10 are recovering from their injuries and three are minors.
One man who took part in the mass storming of the border died shortly after he entered Melilla of a suspected heart attack.… Read all the news

Floods
PARTS of Malaga including Estepona are expected to be declared a disaster area after devastating floods which left one man dead.
The floods claimed the life of a 47-year-old fireman who died when the engine he was driving overturned and ended up in a swollen river.
Some areas received more than half the rain they normally get in a year in just a few hours, with local reports describing the deluge as “historic”.
Alfonso Rodriguez, the Spanish government spokesman for the Andalucia region, said work was now underway to evaluate the damage so parts of Malaga could be declared a disaster zone.… Read all the news

Migration
Authorities say one migrant has died and 200 others entered Spain when a large group of migrants attacked a fence separating the enclave of Melilla from Morocco.
A representative of Spain’s government in Melilla says the migrant appears to have died from a heart attack. Officials are waiting for an autopsy to confirm the cause of death.
The representative says at least three other migrants were injured when some 300 sub-Saharan Africans tried to climb the high border fence yesterday.… Read all the news

Weather
Spain has been hit by another bout of extreme weather, with the east coast and the Balearic Islands battered by torrential rain and flooding. The conditions are the result of the gota fría – or “cold drop,” a term used to describe a sudden drop in temperatures along the east coast caused by the arrival of cold polar air.
The weather event hit yesterday and will continue to escalate today in Aragón, the north of Catalonia and the south of Valencia.… Read all the news

Weather
National Weather agency AEMET counted over 4 thousand lightning bolts on the Costa Del Sol yesterday as weather alerts were raised from yellow to Amber with many towns across the Med coast implementing emergency flood protection plans.
The local emergency control centres recieved many calls for assistance as heavy rain fell asross the region .. there’s more heavy rain forcast this weekend .. especially Saturday.
Missing Mum.
A SPANISH judge who shelved the case against prime suspect Simon Corner in the Lisa Brown murder investigations in April has reopened the case.… Read all the news

Weather
More extreme weather has been forecast just days after tropical storm Leslie swept across the country and flash flooding in the Balearic Islands left 13 people dead in Mallorca.
The national weather service AEMET has issued a special warning for “rain and intense, generalized and persistent storms” for the eastern side of the peninsula and the Balearic Islands. The extreme weather is expected to last until Sunday.
While the gota fría – or “cold drop,” a term used to describe a sudden fall in temperatures along the east coast caused by the arrival of cold polar air – is “typical” of this time of year an AEMET spokesperson said a drop of this intensity has not occurred since October 2008.… Read all the news

Body Found
A MASSIVE search operation has come to an end in Mallorca after the authorities confirmed that they had found a body ‘that could correspond with that of the child’ who disappeared in the flash floods that swept the island last week.
The five-year-old, Arthur Robinson, disappeared after being swept away by the severe floods on the island on October 9.
Last Night a memorial service was be held by the Bishop of Mallorca to pay tribute to those who lost their lives on the island after last week’s severe flooding.… Read all the news

Brexit
The special chapter on Gibraltar to be included in the Brexit deal is nearly ready, but there are still problems with some of the details.
Madrid and London are racing to reach consensus over a series of issues in order to create a more balanced relationship for the transitional period when the UK and its overseas territory withdraw from the EU. And the price of tobacco products has become one of the last stumbling blocks in these talks.
On Sunday, the government of Gibraltar said there will be “a set of practical measures spelled out in separate arrangements with Spain covering tax cooperation, police and customs cooperation, the environment, citizens’ rights and tobacco.”… Read all the news