If it weren’t because it’s real, because that happens in the Oval Office of the White House, in the so-called Resolution Desk (the resolution desk, where orders to bomb anyone are signed), the image illustrating this article would seem taken from one of those screwball comedies with canned laughter so typical of American television.
The Romanian Minister of Defense, Radu Miruta, reported this Sunday that two Spanish fighter jets deployed on the NATO mission intercepted an unidentified drone after it violated Romanian airspace during a surveillance patrol.
Spain has a certain tendency towards atypical borders. The municipality of Llívia or the border by turns — six months French, six Spanish — of the Island of the Pheasants, between Irún and Hendaye are two good examples. In this line, Spanish geography has the curious honor of hosting the shortest border in the world. It is barely 85 meters of sand that separate Spain and Morocco on African land due to the Spanish possession of the Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera.
In the August 12 edition, the main European headlines included a full-page advertisement with the slogan “Good things happen in Spain.” The dazzling astronomical eclipse that crossed the Peninsula from west to east that day tried to cast its shadow over the other serious humanitarian and geopolitical eclipse of Ceuta, the Spanish city in Africa occupied between July 30 and 31 by more than seventy thousand people mostly coming from neighboring Morocco.
Fifteen days after 80,000 young people swam across the border separating Morocco from Ceuta, the origin of the incident remains shrouded in the fog that defines the relations between Spain and the African neighbor. Jean Raspail published The Camp of the Saints in 1973. In the novel, a…
The Government began early in the week to take seriously, following alerts from intelligence services that had managed to camouflage themselves in social media groups, the possibility of a mass crossing attempt in Ceuta, which Morocco ended up stopping yesterday. The various ministries affected by the migration issue set the machinery in motion to send the message, knowing full well that it is impossible to fulfill, that anyone who enters Spain irregularly will be expelled. An intense week, with a carousel of ministers visiting Ceuta, in which Moncloa has raised its tone on migration matters, juggling not to upset Morocco. The objectives of the plan, summarized in five points: that the avalanche of late July does not repeat (achieved yesterday) and that the largest number of immigrants remaining in Ceuta leave (still to be achieved).
Netflix has just released its contemporary version of The Odyssey, a three-part documentary that narrates the feats and adventures, the glories and hardships of José Mourinho, culminating with the hero’s return to his Ithaca, Real Madrid, and to his patient Penelope,…
The new assault on the Ceuta border had been announced so far in advance that everything suggested that what had happened other times would occur: that more journalists than immigrants would gather there. And yet, it did not happen exactly like that. Morocco made a show of force and…
50 kilometers from Zaragoza, the town of Tauste, with 6,800 inhabitants, is known in the region for its Mudéjar heritage, its livestock industry, and traditions such as the dance, which is celebrated every April 21. But in the last week, its name has become famous for the murder in their home of Javier Sánchez (67 years old) and Esther Latorre (66), a well-known couple of agricultural unionists deeply committed to social causes. To the initial, profound, and painful impact, the arrest of their daughter Carlota (40) and her partner, Luis Carlos R. (31), as suspects was soon added; they have been in provisional detention since Thursday.
At least two women have died and two minors are injured as a result of a flood and a landslide recorded this Saturday in the towns of Manzanedo de Valdueza and Bouzas, belonging to the Leonese municipality of Ponferrada, sources from the Government Subdelegation and municipal authorities have informed EFE.