A Michelin-starred restaurant in Valencia is temporarily closed after eighteen guests have become ill a day after dinner and a 48-year-old woman even died. The suspected culprits are poisonous...
Ecuador will no longer mediate with the British government in favor of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who has spent six years in the Ecuadorian embassy in London. 'We are neither Mr. Assange's lawyers nor representatives of the British government,' Foreign Minister José Valencia told Reuters on Tuesday. 'Ecuador has no responsibility whatsoever to take further steps.'
After a day of rest tomorrow the heavy weather breaks loose in Spain with great intensity. In Valencia, fellow countrymen are preparing for even more water. 'We have packed enough food.'
In Brussels, a solution is being worked behind the scenes for the refugees aboard the rescue ship Aquarius. According to a spokeswoman for the European Commission, the EU administration is 'in contact with a number of member states' that the committee 'approached' about the matter. She did not want to say which countries are involved.
After halting for weeks, the ship Aquarius has rescued 141 migrants from boats in the Mediterranean. About 25 nautical miles from the coast of Libya, 25 migrants were first taken from a small wooden boat. In the same area the crew of the Aquarius later took another 116 people on board.
France has decided to include 78 refugees who were on the rescue ship Aquarius. That was what the French Ministry of Home Affairs announced. The ship brought the refugees to the Spanish Valencia at the beginning of this month, after it had been refused by Italy.
The Spanish government has again granted permission to a rescue ship to bring migrants into a Spanish port. The Spanish aid organization Proactiva announced Sunday morning that its ship the Open Arms is welcome in the port of Barcelona.
Spain is prepared to provide Malta with humanitarian aid for a boat sailing with more than 200 migrants on board in the vicinity of the island state. That is what a government spokeswoman in Madrid announced after the Cabinet meeting.
The third ship with migrants was also moored at 13.15 in the Spanish port of Valencia on Sunday. There are about 250 migrants on board the Italian navy ship.
The rescue ship Aquarius has also arrived in the Spanish port city of Valencia. There are 106 migrants on board.
A ship of the Italian coast guard arrived on Sunday morning just before 7 am in the Spanish port city of Valencia. On board are 274 migrants who were rescued from the Mediterranean a week ago by the crew of the rescue ship Aquarius.
Three ships with migrants, including the rescue ship Aquarius, are expected Saturday night in the port of Valencia. This was reported by aid organization SOS Méditérranée. The time of arrival depends on the conditions at sea.
The Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte has reacted angrily to the French criticism of the way his government deals with rescue ship Aquarius. The recently appointed Italian head of government blamed Paris hypocrisy.
An American naval ship has rescued 41 refugees from a sinking dinghy off the coast of Libya. For twelve passengers, the help came too late. Their bodies are salvaged. This was reported by the German aid organization Sea Watch with which the captain of the USS Trenton contacted the radio for assistance.
The rescue ship Aquarius, which has more than six hundred migrants on board, is allowed to moor in the Spanish city of Valencia. That is what Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez announces, Spanish media reports.
The widow and son of Pablo Escobar, the world's most famous drug lord, have been officially charged with laundering drug money in Argentina.
A fire in a police station in Venezuela killed 68 people. That is what the authorities have announced. An investigation has started.
The Spanish police arrested a man in Valencia who offered the head of an Iberian lynx for sale on the internet. The Iberian lynx is one of the rarest felines in the world. According to the Spanish news agency Europa Press, the 79-year-old man asked 400 euros for the head.
The Venezuelan government has held a military uprising in the center of the Venezuelan city of Valencia on Sunday. Twenty-one commanders led by an old captain tried to oppose the government of President Nicolás Maduro. The uprising failed.
Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy stressed Wednesday in a court hearing not to know anything about tampering with money by party mates. Rajoy has witnessed a trial on large-scale corruption and fraud in the regions of Madrid and Valencia, where members of his People's Party (PP) would have been involved. The PP campaign box would have benefited from the creation of malversations.
A Venezuelan protester died on Friday (local time) after shooting a day earlier in his head. That happened during the fighting between security forces and demonstrators in the city of Valencia, the authorities reported.
Spanish police and tax authorities found 17 kilos of cocaine intercepted who was hidden among bunches of bananas. The drugs were packaged in counterfeit banana peels and flaps of the cardboard boxes in which they were transported. Two men were arrested Sunday, the police said. In a third suspect under investigation.
The Spanish public prosecutor will appeal four to eight years imprisonment additional claims against Inaki Urdangarin, the brother of the Spanish king. Also against the former partner Diego Torres demanded a more severe penalty.
Hundreds of people in eastern Spain by extreme winter weather with their vehicles stuck in snow and ice. Spanish media reported that just forced into the Community of Valencia 1600 cars were stopping on roads made impassable by snow. Some were from Thursday afternoon to Friday morning in the snow.
European police investigation in Spain has given an enormous godsend to illicit arms trafficking, Spanish media report Monday. The police confiscated 12,000 weapons seized, including weapons ' a plane could take down '. The estimated value of the find on the black market is about 10 million.
The storm on Spain's east coast has claimed a third victim. The forty-year man died in Los Alcázares in Murcia, one of the hardest hit areas Monday.
Eastern Spain has been hit by severe storms and flooding. Which has sat at an elderly man killed. He was in La Cala de Finestrat swept away by the sudden mass of water. His body was recovered about half an hour after the accident.
Spanish police have broken up a gang that had specialized in robbing tourists. The criminals posed as agents. They kept their victims standing and for example asked for identification or told to investigate stolen money, jewelry and other valuables. Then they robbed the tourists of exactly that kind of stuff.
A Spanish animal protector is in Spain for big commotion by attacking a seriously ill boy over Facebook because of his fondness for the bullfight. 'Let him die, and as soon as possible,' the woman wrote.
Probably thousands of tourists and Spaniards have been evacuated because of a large fire on the Spanish Costa Blanca.
