A Muslim migrant in Spain has gone on trial, accused of murdering with a “religious motivation” six Christian migrants, including a pastor, on a voyage across the Mediterranean from Africa to Europe.
(AFP) – Hundreds of thousands of Catalans took to the streets on Sunday to demand their region break away from Spain, pressuring pro-independence leaders to unite and iron out differences over their secession plan. Crowds waved red and yellow striped
At least three people have died and a “high number” have been injured after a train derailed in northern Spain this morning. Local media reports that the accident happened as the local train approached the station in the town of
President Obama, Secretary Clinton, and Jeb Bush (remember him?) have declared with one voice: America doesn’t need border walls. Meanwhile, around the rest of the Western world, walls are springing up in order to defend the sovereignty of nation states.
The chief intelligence correspondent for Fox News reported Tuesday that Hillary R. Clinton’s team that they successfully planted questions with Sen. Robert Menendez (D.-N.J.), the acting Senate Foreign Relations chairman for the committee’s Jan. 23, 2013 hearing.
ACOM, an Israel lobby group working to combat BDS in Spain, successfully overturned a boycott decision passed by the city council of Vélez-Málaga in the Costa del Sol region this week.
A municipality in the renowned Spanish holiday island of Ibiza has passed a resolution endorsing the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement.
A Franciscan missionary was assaulted by an Arab who repeatedly threatened to kill him, in what the victim described as an ideological attack driven by Christianophobia.
ACOM, an Israel lobby group working to combat BDS in Spain, won legal victories against three municipalities this week.
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During his recent press conference with Spain’s President, Barack Obama insisted that America’s police will be “a lot safer” if they bow to the Black Lives Matter claim that they are the “problem.”
Like the songs says: mas dinero, mas problemas.
Spain is enjoying a surge in tourism in part as fears over terrorism drive travellers away from destinations in North Africa and Turkey.
MADRID (AP) — Spain’s Interior Ministry says police have arrested three Pakistani men suspected of promoting terrorism and spreading Islamic extremist propaganda via social media networks. A ministry statement said the three were arrested Friday in the northeastern city of
Actress Meryl Streep and First Lady Michelle Obama joined Princess Lalla Salma in Morocco on Tuesday night for a traditional dinner to break the fast of Ramadan, after the three spent the afternoon speaking with local high school girls about the importance of female education and empowerment.
AFP – Spain’s acting premier Mariano Rajoy said on Wednesday that Madrid would oppose any separate talks with Scotland on its future in the European Union after Britain voted to leave the bloc. Spain has consistently opposed Scottish independence for
The House Select Committee on Benghazi was sabotaged by the Democrats on the committee, said committee member Rep. Michael Pompeo (R.-Kansas), a graduate of West Point and Harvard Law School, who has joined with another committee member to issue a scathing minority report on the administration’s responsibility for the US defeat on Sept. 11, 2012.
AFP – Spain’s incumbent conservatives stole the show away from a far-left coalition led by Podemos Sunday, finishing stronger in repeat elections with more seats than in December polls though still falling short of a majority. Acting Prime Minister Mariano
Actresses Meryl Streep and Frieda Pinto are set to join First Lady Michelle Obama and First Daughters Sasha and Malia Obama for a trip to Liberia and Morocco in late June to promote the White House’s “Let Girls Learn” female education initiative.
On Tuesday, the Provincial Prosecutor’s Office of Valencia initiated criminal proceedings against the Archbishop of Valencia, Cardinal Antonio Cañizares, who has been charged with inciting “hate crimes,” after the prelate spoke out in a homily against a reigning “gay empire,” criticized radical feminist groups, and decried Europe’s open-door policy toward migrants.
TEL AVIV – In a major blow to the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement, this week saw reports emerge that four Spanish municipalities ditched support for boycotts of the Jewish state, while in the U.S., members of the American Anthropological
TEL AVIV – A Spanish constitutional tribunal recommended annulling a municipality’s motion calling for a boycott against Israel and declaring itself “a space free of Israeli apartheid,” The Times of Israel reported.
The London Daily Telegraph reports: Three Spanish journalists kidnapped in Syria some 10 months ago have been freed, the Spanish Press Federation (FAPE) and government said on Saturday.
Spain’s King Felipe dissolved parliament on Tuesday and called a new national election for June 26 after a vote in December left such a fractured political landscape that no government could be formed. The new vote follows four months of
He is best known for “Don Quixote”, but the eventful life of Spain’s revered author Miguel de Cervantes was just as intriguing as any adventures of the delusional wanna-be knight of his famous novel. Cervantes — whose death on April
Late Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chávez poured over seven million euros into the creation of a political party in Spain run by “natural allies of the Bolivarian revolution,” according to a 2008 document appropriating Venezuelan funds to the leftist professors who would become the leaders of Podemos, now Spain’s largest third party.
Spanish schools plan to “tackle extremism” by segregating Muslim students and teaching them more about the Koran and Islam, according to new government guidelines. Critics say the guidelines — which suggest the teaching of many aspects of Islamic doctrine, culture and history —
Following terrorist attacks by Islamists in Brussels, protesters from Hogar Social Madrid (Madrid Social Home) protested terror-linked Madrid mosque, the Islamic Cultural Centre. Occupying an overpass facing the mosque, known locally as the M-30 due to its proximity to the
Young Western Europeans are flocking to the Czech Republic because they feel it is safer than their migrant over-run homelands. In a development that could be seen as amusingly ironic were it not for the backdrop of migrant crime, Czech news site Novinky
Podemos has risen at meteoric speed to become Spain’s third political force in just two years, but rifts and tensions are starting to bruise the far-left party’s image of watertight unity. Led by the charismatic Pablo Iglesias, the grouping has
Spain’s acting Foreign Minister has been criticised after threatening to restart moves to take Gibraltar if Britain votes to leave the European Union (EU). José Maul García-Margallo said in an interview with Radio Nacional de España that “we’ll be talking
(AFP) – Spanish police said Thursday they have seized about 20,000 military uniforms, “enough to equip an entire army”, which were destined for jihadist groups operating in Syria and Iraq. The uniforms were found in three shipping containers seized in
Left-wingers in Spain are angry that barely any of the huge number of migrants who entered Europe last year have chosen to come to their country. Nations along the main migrant route into the continent have been feeling the strain,
Aided by Moroccan police, Spanish counterterrorism units broke up a jihadist cell in North Africa Tuesday, arresting four suspected members of the cell including a former Guantanamo inmate, wanted for recruiting terrorists for the Islamic State. According to separate statements
On the same day that President Obama unveiled his plan to close the Guantánamo Bay prison facility, a former Guantánamo inmate who fought for al-Qaeda in Afghanistan has reportedly been captured by police in a raid against an ISIS terrorist cell in Spain.
MADRID (AP) — Spain’s Interior Ministry says Spanish and Moroccan police have arrested four suspected members of a jihadi cell that sought to recruit members for the Islamic State group. A ministry statement Tuesday said three Spaniards were arrested in
The Jerusalem Post reports: One month after passing a motion supporting a boycott against Israel, the Spanish municipality of Aviles distanced itself from that position and denounced it as discriminatory. The northern city’s council on Saturday nullified its January motion
A Spanish poet may face prosecution for allegedly “attacking religious sentiment” after she recited a rewriting of the Lord’s Prayer in praise of the vagina. Catholics have accused her of blasphemy, a charge she has denied. Dolors Miquel’s recital of
The rogue regime of Cuba has returned an American Hellfire missile that somehow arrived in Havana after NATO operators in Europe shipped it there instead of Florida almost two years ago. American officials have not said whether the missile, a dummy model, shows signs of having been taken apart for study.
On Friday, two puppeteers in Spain were jailed, without bail, for staging a satirical puppet show during the Carnival celebration. The show included both violence deemed inappropriate for children and a message described as “praising terrorism,” which is illegal in Spain.
