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€35mil Spanish lottery win in doubt over technicality
4+ hour, 25+ min ago (245+ words) A festival committee in the town had apparently accidentally sold more shares in official tickets with the winning number 79432 than it had previously purchased itself, according to Spanish media reports Friday. Therefore, 45 tickets, equivalent to nine shares and more than…...
Lionesses party with thousands of fans after Euro 2025 triumph
4+ mon, 4+ week ago (714+ words) Sarina Wiegman's team successfully defended their European crown by beating world champions Spain on penalties in the Swiss city of Basel on Sunday, sparking an outpouring of national joy. They flew home on Monday and were immediately whisked to 10 Downing…...
Forest fire blazes in southern France
5+ mon, 2+ week ago (300+ words) The fire, the latest of several in the area in recent days, started on the property of a winery south of the city of Narbonne on Monday afternoon, then spread rapidly due to wind and parched vegetation after a heatwave....
Southern Europe roasts as temperatures soar
5+ mon, 3+ week ago (538+ words) France, Italy, Portugal and Spain have been sweltering for several days as the mercury climbed to 44C in some places. "This is unprecedented," Agnes Pannier-Runacher, France's ecology transition minister said as a record 84 of the nation's 96 mainland departments were placed on…...
Spanish foreign minister calls for weapons embargo on Israel
6+ mon, 1+ week ago (176+ words) MADRID: Spanish foreign minister Jose Manuel Albares called on Tuesday for a weapons embargo on Israel while the war in Gaza lasts and urged the resumption of talks on Iran's nuclear programme. Spain's foreign minister Jose Manuel Albares said the…...
Protesters against overtourism take to the streets of southern Europe
6+ mon, 1+ week ago (332+ words) Your holidays, my misery," protesters chanted in the streets of Barcelona while holding up banners emblazoned with slogans such as mass tourism kills the city" and their greed brings us ruin". Under the umbrella of the SET alliance " Sud d'Europa…...
Ukrainian ex-politician killed outside elite Madrid school
7+ mon, 6+ day ago (237+ words) Andriy Portnov was a top aide to Ukraine's ex-president Viktor Yanukovich, who was ousted in the 2014 Euromaidan revolution. Police received a call about the shooting of a Ukranian citizen at 9.15am (0715 GMT) local time outside the elite American School of Madrid,…...
Spain’s PM wants ‘pressure on Israel to halt the massacre in Gaza’
7+ mon, 1+ week ago (548+ words) UN chief Antonio Guterres told the Baghdad meeting that "we need a permanent ceasefire, now, while Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi urged his US counterpart Donald Trump to "apply all necessary efforts" for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip. The…...
Spain grid operator rules out cyberattack for blackout
7+ mon, 4+ week ago (227+ words) Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez pleaded with people "not to speculate" and avoid spreading "misinformation". Spain grid operator rules out cyberattack for blackout Authorities were still trying to establish the cause of the crisis, with Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez…...
Massive blackout hits Spain and Portugal
7+ mon, 4+ week ago (756+ words) Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said after an emergency government meeting: "we have no conclusive information about the reasons for this outage. He said no hypothesis could be ruled out, warning the public "not to speculate because of the risk…...