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Madrid (EFE).- The Prosecutor General’s Office considers that Spanish courts, specifically the National Court, have jurisdiction to investigate the 2021 sexual harassment and assault complaint filed by two former employees against singer Julio Iglesias in the Dominican Republic and the Bahamas. According to elDiario.es, and confirmed by sources within the...
Washington, Oct. 14 (EFE).- The United States Federal Maritime Commission proposed on Wednesday imposing fees of 200,000 dollars per voyage on Spanish-flagged ships and restricting imports from Spain, such as oils, perfumes, ceramics, beauty products, and confectionery. The FMC justified the decision on an investigation that “found conclusive evidence that...
Madrid (EFE).- Maricarmen Abascal, the 87-year-old woman whose eviction sparked housing protests in Spain, died on Wednesday after spending 15 days in the hospital, according to a statement released by the Tenants’ Union. Maricarmen’s fight alongside the Tenants’ Union to avoid eviction from her rental apartment, where she had lived...
Madrid (EFE).- The Spanish Congress rejected the two housing decrees approved by the coalition government, raising the possibility of bringing forward the elections scheduled for 2027, just 10 days after Maricarmen’s eviction, which sparked a wave of citizen protests. In just over a week, the eviction of 87-year-old Maricarmen Abascal...
Madrid, Sep 28 (EFE).- Hundreds of people camped out in Madrid’s central Puerta del Sol square, as many others joined in demonstrations in other cities on Monday, to protest the housing crisis in Spain, as they await a vote by the Council of Ministers on a housing decree that has...
Rabat (EFE).- «The Kingdom of Morocco refuses to be used as a pre-election political pawn, nor will it accept being the scapegoat in political score-settling» in Spain, warned the Moroccan Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Tuesday. Rabat made this statement in an official declaration regarding relations with Spain, lamenting that...
Madrid, Sep 10 (EFE).-The Spanish Congress approved a law on Thursday allowing those born in Western Sahara before 1977 and their descendants to become Spanish citizens, a move most political parties and Sahrawi representatives who attended the debate called “historic.” The law, which Sahrawi groups estimate could benefit between 80,000...
Madrid, Sep 8 (EFE).- The Spanish Supreme Court suspended registrations to the Electoral Roll of Absent Residents (CERA) related to the Law on Democratic Memory until consulates verify that those naturalized through this process meet the requirement of being descendants of exiled Spaniards. The Supreme Court has partially granted the...
Madrid, Aug 22 (EFE).- The Spanish government conveyed to Morocco on Friday its “categorical rejection” of that country’s claims to the autonomous Spanish cities in North Africa, Ceuta and Melilla. The rejection was confirmed by sources at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs hours after Moroccan Justice Minister Abdellatif Ouahbi reaffirmed...
Ceuta, Spain, Aug 9 (EFE).- Thousands of Ceuta residents took to the streets of the Spanish North African city on Sunday in a massive demonstration to demand a response to the serious situation following the massive influx of migrants on July 30. Over 10,000 people, according to the organizers, and...
By Mar Marín Castillejos, Morocco, Aug 1 (EFE).- Jobs, better wages, and a chance for the future. These were the reasons that drove many young Moroccans to risk their lives in the country’s worst migration crisis, in a nation where one in three people under 29 is neither studying nor...
Rome, Jul 31 (EFE).- Italy temporarily suspended the Schengen Agreement with Spain in response to the migration crisis in Ceuta, and announced random checks at airports and seaports on non-European Union citizens arriving from Spain. Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said on X it “is an extraordinary measure, adopted to...
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