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Evacuations set for hantavirus-hit ship | Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
3+ hour, 43+ min ago (738+ words) MADRID -- Spanish authorities on Friday were preparing to receive more than 140 passengers and crew members on board a hantavirus-stricken cruise ship headed for the Canary Islands, where health officials have said they will perform careful evacuations. The vessel is expected…...
2 prominent activists on aid flotilla detained | Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
1+ week, 2+ hour ago (680+ words) BARCELONA, Spain -- Israeli authorities said Friday they were taking two high-profile activists who led an aid flotilla bound for Gaza, and who were captured by Israel in international waters of the Mediterranean Sea, to Israel for questioning. The governments of…...
Flotilla with activists, aid sets sail for Gaza | Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
3+ week, 2+ day ago (530+ words) BARCELONA, Spain -- Dozens of boats carrying activists and aid for Palestinians in Gaza set sail from the northeastern Spanish city of Barcelona on Wednesday. Organizers of the Global Sumud Flotilla say that more than 70 boats and 1, 000 people from around the…...
EDITORIAL: Never been to Spain | Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
1+ week, 5+ day ago (425+ words) Reuters broke the news last week: There's an email floating around the Pentagon that suggests suspending Spain from NATO because of the rift between Washington and Madrid over the Iran war. Our first thought was: Spain is a member of…...
Spanish premier visits China in an effort to strengthen ties | Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
3+ week, 4+ day ago (404+ words) MADRID -- Spanish Prime Minister Pedro S'nchez is in China this week, his fourth trip in just over three years to the world's second-largest economy as Spain seeks to strengthen its political and commercial ties with Beijing. His visit comes at…...
Pope to visit 4 African countries in 2026 | Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (48+ words) ROME -- The Vatican on Wednesday announced a busy and lengthy foreign travel schedule for Pope Leo XIV in the first half of 2026, confirming the pontiff will visit Monaco, Spain and four African nations -- Algeria, Cameroon, Angola and Equatorial Guinea. Pope…...
New lawsuit accuses Benedictine monk at Subiaco of 1978 sexual abuse of female French student
3+ mon, 3+ day ago (33+ words) A former student of a Benedictine monk at the Roman Catholic Subiaco Academy filed a lawsuit Saturday stating she was sexually abused decades ago by a man who later served as public relations. .....
Catholic bishops in Spain OK government say in abuse agreements - Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
4+ mon, 3+ hour ago (13+ words) Catholic bishops in Spain OK government say in abuse agreements'Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette...
Marches in Italy, Spain protest Israel's military campaign in Gaza
7+ mon, 4+ day ago (29+ words) BARCELONA, Spain -- Hundreds of thousands of Italians and Spaniards marched in Rome, Barcelona and Madrid on Saturday against Israel's military campaign in Gaza in a show of growing international. .....
Historic Mosul mosque, destroyed by IS, reopens
8+ mon, 3+ day ago (33+ words) BAGHDAD -- Iraq's prime minister presided over the official reopening of the historic al-Nuri Grand Mosque and its leaning minaret in the heart of Mosul's Old City on Monday, eight years after the. .....