A report from the European Environment Agency has named Spain as the third European country with the worst quality water in bathing areas. Only Netherlands and Latvia are worst for bathing water quality. Cleanest waters can be found in Cyprus, Croatia, Malta and Greece. With 2,152 classified bathing areas, Spain is the fourth country in [...]
12 international fugitives have been arrested by the National Police in different cities across Spain over the past month and a half, between January 23 and March 8 this year. Six assassins, two murderers, two sexual abusers, a kidnapper and a violent attacker who were all living in Spain. The murders were carried out in [...]
Iran has announced it is suspending its petrol exports to Spain and five other countries, France, Portugal, Italy, Greece and Netherlands. The Mahmud Ahmadineyad regime will cut or revise the contracts in answer to the recently imposed EU embargo on Iranian crude and the energy and banking sectors. Tehran has already called all the ambassador’s [...]
A Dutchman was caught attempting to steal the Spanish flag from a 30-metre pole from a public building in the centre of Granada as ‘revenge’ for the latter’s World Cup win against Holland last year. The accused, 25, was seen climbing the mast and untying the flag just after midnight in the early hours of [...]
An orca which was rescued off the northern coast of Holland last year left the Netherlands on Tuesday for a new home in the Canary Islands. Now weighing almost 1.5 tons and around three years old, Morgan has been living in a dolphinarium in Harderwijk, in the eastern Netherlands, since she was found. But the [...]
16 people have been arrested in Spain, along with two in Belgium and two in the Netherlands against a gang of cocaine traffickers who used babies to introduce the drug via airports. 11 kilos of cocaine was recovered in the operation from the National Police with the collaboration of the police in Belgium and Holland. [...]
39% of Spaniards have hired the services of a prostitute at one time or another, making Spain the biggest European consumer of prostitution, way ahead of countries like Switzerland (19%), Austria (15%), Netherlands (14%) or Sweden (13%) . So says a guide published by the Association for the Reintegration of Women in Prostitution (APRAMP) on [...]
Amsterdam (AP).- A young orca whale rescued last year off the Netherlands’ northern coast is heading to a Spanish zoo and amusement park. Two months ago a court blocked plans to move the killer whale, called Morgan, after an appeal by an animal rights coalition that drew up a plan to gradually reintroduce her to [...]
A tourist missing for 19 days while on a walking holiday in Spain has been found alive at the bottom of a ravine in what rescuers described as “a true miracle”. Mary-Anne Goossens, a 48-year-old Dutch mother of two, was spotted by a group of hikers on Wednesday nearly three weeks after she set off [...]
Civil Guard have broken up an international drug trafficking ring in an operation in which 34 people were arrested and two tonnes of cocaine were confiscated. The arrested people had engaged in violence in Colombia, Spain and other countries of the European Union. The network also dealt in money laundering, extortion and kidnapping for ransom, [...]