2+ hour, 36+ min ago  (379+ words) MADRID, May 19 (Reuters) " Former Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero is being investigated for alleged influence peddling and related crimes, the country's High Court said on Tuesday. Zapatero's office in Madrid "was being searched along with three other premises,…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago  (350+ words) MADRID, May 18 (Reuters) " Spain's High Court has acquitted Colombian pop star Shakira of tax fraud and overturned the 55 million euro ($64 million) fine imposed in 2021 by the Spanish "tax agency, according to a court document seen by Reuters "on Monday. Acting…...

6+ day, 9+ hour ago  (41+ words) By David Latona MADRID, May 13 (Reuters) - Spain will push ahead with new rules to make social networks and AI safer despite intense lobbying from the tech industry, its digital transformation "minister Oscar Lopez told Reuters. "The profit of four tec....

6+ day, 19+ hour ago  (201+ words) PARIS, May 12 (Reuters) " French Health Minister Stephanie Rist said on Tuesday that it wasn't certain whether the "hantavirus strain involved in the "outbreak on the MV Hondius cruise ship may have mutated, although officials were "rather reassured." "There are things…...

1+ week, 14+ hour ago  (346+ words) SAO PAULO, May 11 (Reuters) " Brazilian activist Thiago Avila returned to Sao Paulo on Monday following his detention and deportation from Israel, where he alleged he was tortured "and witnessed abuses of Palestinian prisoners during 10 days in "custody. Avila and Spanish…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (598+ words) By Corina Pons and Victoria Waldersee TENERIFE/MADRID, May 10 (Reuters) " Groups of passengers and crew disembarked from a cruise ship hit by a hantavirus outbreak on Sunday to be evacuated to their respective countries in a process overseen by global…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (37+ words) MADRID, May 10 (Reuters) - British paratroopers have dropped onto Britain's most remote overseas territory, Tristan da Cunha, along with medics and medical supplies, after a case of suspected hantavirus was confirmed there. A "team of six paratroopers. .....

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (199+ words) May 10 (Reuters) " Israel deported two activists, Saif Abu Keshek, a Spanish national, and Brazilian Thiago Avila, on "Sunday after arresting them aboard "a Gaza-bound flotilla in international waters, the foreign ministry said. The activists were part of a second Global…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (387+ words) MADRID, May 9 (Reuters) " Germany, France, Belgium, Ireland, and the Netherlands will send planes to evacuate their citizens aboard the Tenerife-bound cruise ship hit by a deadly hantavirus outbreak, Spain's interior minister said "in Madrid on Saturday. The European Union is…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (879+ words) By Jennifer Rigby and Bart H. Meijer AMSTERDAM, May 8 (Reuters) " Two new suspected cases of hantavirus were reported on Friday, one in Spain and the other on the remote South Atlantic island of Tristan da Cunha, as experts race to contain…...