Children spending the holidays in a hospital in Barcelona get a much-needed boost from a firefighter dressed as Santa Claus, who greets them from outside a hospital window while hanging from a climbing rope outside the building, due to strict pandemic rules restricting visitors. Source Views: 0
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Santa Claus climbs down building to visit children in a Spanish hospital
Democrats riled by Spanish-language radio attacks on Kamala Harris
“The fact that I’m having to raise this alarm, that it’s not coming directly from a Democratic organization or even the folks out of Washington, I think is a sign of concern,” said Fernand Amandi, a political strategist who helped Barack Obama win the state in 2008 and 2012. Amandi said that the calls struck […]
Spanish volcano breaks local record after erupting for 85 days
The volcano La Cumbre Veja on the Canary Island of La Palma marked 85 days of continuous activity, the longest time a volcano has been erupting on the island since records began. The volcano began spewing out lava and toxic gas on September 19th, severely disrupting life on the small Atlantic enclave. More than 1200 […]
Spanish Investigation Finds Vaccine Passports Have No Impact on Infection Rates
Details of the study, carried out by Spain’s inter-regional Covid committee, were obtained by El Pais and reported on by the Telegraph. Looking at how the scheme has been implemented in other European countries, the experts found that mandating people show proof of vaccination to enter venues like bars, restaurants and cinemas “is not reducing levels […]
Spanish police protest plan to reform unconstitutional “gag law”
Tens of thousands of Spanish police officers and their supporters marched in Madrid on Saturday to protest against government plans to reform a controversial security law known by critics as the “gag law.” Critics of the Citizens Security Law passed by the previous conservative government in 2015 have for years said that it gave too […]
Spanish Divers Discover the World’s 108th Ancient Astrolabe
In 2012, a team of divers in Spain discovered two 16th century cannons, and that was huge news. But nobody could have dreamed that an ancient astronomical compass, known as an astrolabe, would accompany this ancient pair of weapons. The Viveiro Estuary in Galicia where the ancient astrolabe and cannons were discovered. ( Jano.Calvo / Adobe […]
Haunting Photos Show Cemeteries, Homes Buried In Ash From Spanish Volcano
CUMBRE VIEJA EXCLUSION ZONE, Canary Islands (AP) — A child’s swing. A fountain in a courtyard. A tray of glasses abandoned under the duress of escape. All will disappear as a blizzard of dark ash blows from a volcano on La Palma island and drifts to the ground inch by inch, foot by foot. Inside […]
Hundreds More Evacuated As Lava From Spanish Volcano Flows Further Into Town
MADRID (AP) — Hundreds of people were evacuated during the night on the Spanish island of La Palma as a river of molten rock crept deeper into a coastal town during a protracted volcanic eruption, authorities said Thursday. Emergency services helped some 500 people leave their homes, the mayor of Tazacorte, Juan Miguel Rodríguez, told […]
‘Lava Tsunami’ Flows From Spanish Volcano As Island Rattled By Yet Another Earthquake
MADRID (AP) — The second 4.5 magnitude earthquake in two days rattled the Spanish island of La Palma on Friday, officials said, as scientists described a gushing river of molten rock from an erupting volcano as “a true lava tsunami.” The two quakes were the strongest to hit La Palma, part of the Canary Islands […]
Spanish Island Shaken By Strongest Earthquake Since Volcano Erupted
MADRID (AP) — A 4.5-magnitude earthquake shook La Palma in Spain’s Canary Islands in what was the strongest recorded temblor since volcanic eruptions began 26 days ago, authorities said Thursday. The quake was one of around 60 recorded overnight, Spain’s National Geographic Institute said, as the Cumbre Vieja volcano continued to spew fiery rivers of […]
Another 800 Evacuated As New River Of Lava Flows From Erupting Spanish Volcano
LOS LLANOS DE ARIDANE, Canary Islands (AP) — Hundreds of people on La Palma in Spain’s Canary Islands woke up Wednesday fearing for their homes and property after a new river of lava from an erupting volcano threatened to engulf another neighborhood on its way toward the Atlantic Ocean. Island authorities ordered the evacuation of […]
8 Earthquakes Recorded As New Fissure Blows Open On Erupting Spanish Volcano
MADRID (AP) — An erupting volcano on a Spanish island off northwest Africa blew open another fissure on its hillside Friday as authorities recorded eight new earthquakes up to magnitude 3.5. The new fissure is the third to crack open since the Cumbre Vieja crater erupted on La Palma island on Sept. 19. The prompt […]
Lava From Spanish Volcano Eruption Reaches Atlantic Ocean
LOS LLANOS DE ARIDANE, Canary Islands (AP) — A bright red river of lava from the volcano on Spain’s La Palma island finally tumbled over a cliff and into the Atlantic Ocean, setting off huge plumes of steam and possibly toxic gases that required local residents outside the evacuation zone to remain indoors on Wednesday. […]
Divers Find Huge 1,500-Year-Old Roman Coin Hoard off The Spanish Coast
Two amateur divers cleaning trash from the seabed of Alicante while holidaying off the coast of Spain have uncovered a cache of 1,500-year-old gold Roman coins. Numbering 53 in total, the gold coins are in a ‘perfect state of conservation’ and are dated to the late 4th and early 5th century. The stash was found […]
Lava From Spanish Volcano Slows Down, Sparking Fears Of Further Devastation
TODOQUE, Canary Islands (AP) — The advance of lava from a volcanic eruption in Spain’s Canary Islands has slowed significantly, raising doubts Thursday about whether it will fan out across the land and destroy more homes instead of flowing into the sea. A giant river of lava slowed to four meters (13 feet) per hour […]
40-Foot Wall Of Lava Bears Down On Spanish Village After Volcano Eruption
TODOQUE, Canary Islands (AP) — A wall of lava up to 12 meters (40 feet) high bore down on a Spanish village Wednesday as islanders scrambled to save what they could before the molten rock swallowed up their homes following a volcanic eruption. The lava still spewing from Sunday’s eruption in the Canary Islands off […]
Spanish Hospital Baby Switch Discovered Two Decades Later
MADRID (AP) — Health authorities in Spain are blaming human error for the switching of two baby girls in a maternity ward almost 20 years ago, after one of them discovered by chance through a DNA test as a teenager that she wasn’t the daughter of her presumed parents. “It was a human error and […]
New Seattle Church Launched By Up-And-Coming Spanish-American Pastor Marco Driscolito
New Seattle Church Launched By Up-And-Coming Spanish-American Pastor Marco Driscolito SEATTLE, WA—Move aside, small-church pastors in the greater Seattle area! A hot new megachurch is hitting the city, and it’s being helmed by a rising star in the Christian celebrity world: Spanish-American preacher Marco Driscolito, a formerly little-known pastor who’s gaining popularity for his “en […]