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(Eagle News) – Two Filipinos have been injured in the deadly van attack in Barcelona, according to the country’s Consul General in Spain. Dr. Emmanuel Fernandez, the Deputy Chief of Mission and Consul General on the Philippines in Spain, did not identify the two Filipinos who were injured but said that they were a Filipino father and his child who just visited Barcelona, with the rest of their family. Fernandez however stressed that there […]
Police authorities from Spain’s Catalonia region said it has arrested a man in the Barcelona van attack and is “treating him as a terrorist”, denying earlier reports that the police has a suspect cornered in a local bar. This came about as the Islamist State’s Amaq news agency claimed the attack that killed at least 13 people. Spain’s royal palace has condemned the deadly van attack in Barcelona, calling the perpetrators “assassins, simply […]
BARCELONA, United States (AFP) — Spanish and world leaders on Thursday condemned the Barcelona van attack, expressing outrage and solidarity with the victims. Spain The Spanish royal family issued an unusually strongly-worded statement: They are assassins, criminals who won’t terrorize us. All of Spain is Barcelona.” FC Barcelona said it was “deeply saddened” by the tragedy and the team’s talismanic striker Lionel Messi said separately that people must reject “any act of violence.” “There are […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — President Donald Trump appeared Thursday to endorse the idea of mass executions for Islamist extremists, as he alluded to a widely debunked account of summary punishment by a US general in the Philippines in the early 1900s. It was another provocative tweet from an increasingly isolated leader who uses Twitter to take shots at perceived opponents — and even announce big policy changes. Thursday’s tweet also suggested Trump actually believes […]
BARCELONA, Spain (AFP) — The driver of a van that mowed into a packed street in Barcelona, killing at least 13 people, is still on the run, Spanish police said Thursday. Josep Lluis Trapero of the regional police of Catalonia, where the popular seaside city is located, told reporters that two other people suspected of being involved in Thursday’s terror attack had been arrested — a Spaniard and a Moroccan. © Agence France-Presse
TENERIFE, Spain (AFP) — Microalgae blooms proliferating in hot weather in Spain’s Canary Islands are irritating beachgoers, who should avoid direct contact with them, local authorities said Monday. Tenerife in particular is awash with visitors at this time of year but some of those having an Atlantic dip have come out scratching themselves after brushing up against the tiny algae. The spreading algae have produced a greenish brown hue in the waters off some beaches […]
by Josep Lago with Diego Urdaneta in Madrid Agence France Presse BARCELONA, Spain (AFP) — A commuter train slammed into the end of the platform during the morning rush hour at a busy station in the Spanish city of Barcelona on Friday, leaving 54 people injured, emergency services said. One person was seriously injured, 19 were injured “less seriously” including the driver and 34 were lightly injured, local emergency services said on Twitter. The regional […]
BARCELONA, Spain (AFP) — At least 20 people were injured Friday in a train accident at a station in the center of the Spanish city of Barcelona, civil protection services said. The regional train was arriving at the busy Francia station from Sant Vicenc de Calders, a spokesperson for the civil protection services said. “No one was killed but there are 20 injured, we don’t know how seriously.” Regional authorities said there were at […]
MADRID, Spain (AFP) — Spain baked in a record-breaking heatwave on Thursday which was blamed for the death of a road crew worker and is suspected of leaving another man in critical condition. The 54-year-old male victim died of suspected heatstroke late Wednesday while laying asphalt near the town of Moron de la Frontera in the southwestern province of Seville, emergency services said. Temperatures reached 43 degrees Celsius (109 Fahrenheit) in Moron de la Frontera […]
MADRID, Spain (AFP) — Six suspected members of the Islamic State group were arrested in Spain, Britain and Germany on Wednesday in an operation led by Spanish authorities investigating a jihadist recruiting network, the Spanish interior ministry said. Raids were continuing Wednesday morning targeting the group, based on the island of Majorca and led by an Islamist imam, who was arrested in Britain, the ministry said in a statement. The imam, 44, was the target […]
VALENCIA, Spain (Reuters) — A young industrial designer says her newly designed bracelet, which is activated by a unique ‘panic grip,’ could replace unwieldy panic buttons used by the elderly in their homes. Hanne Pålsson developed the bracelet as her Master’s thesis project at Lund University in southern Sweden. The bracelet includes a built-in mobile phone and GPS system and doesn’t require a base station. The user can program it with up to seven phone […]
MOGUER, Spain (Reuters) – Hundreds of firefighters worked through the night from Sunday (June 25) to Monday (June 26) to contain major forest fires in southern Spain that forced the evacuation of more than 1,500 people from homes, campsites and hotels. The blaze was spotted on Saturday night in the Moguer region near Huelva and was being treated as a level 1 – or maximum threat – by emergency services. Authorities on Monday said the […]
