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Rioter from Rodea el Congreso 2013 jailed and fined

A MALE participant in the Rodea el Congreso (surround the congress) demonstration held in Madrid in 2013 has been was sentenced to five years in jail and fined €16,000 in a Madrid court on November...Read More

Lithuanian extradited from Gibraltar

ON the morning of November 22, a Lithuanian citizen, 38-year-old Almantas Mekionis, having been arrested by the Royal Gibraltar Police under a European Arrest Warrant earlier in the month, was taken to...Read More

Madonna's Spanish tour will go ahead in Barcelona

JUST before a concert in Stockholm on Saturday, where the singer paid tribute to the victims of the Paris attacks with a cover of the Edith Piaf classic, La Vie en Rose, Madonna vowed to continue her...Read More

Suicide belt found in Paris as hunt for terror suspects continues

POLICE in France found what they believe is an explosives belt outside Paris on Monday, as the hunt for Salah Abdeslam and other suspects continues.
The belt was found in the Montrouge suburb of Paris,...Read More

Russian aircraft shot down by Turkish armed forces

TURKISH authorities have released the news that their armed forces have shot down a Russian military aircraft, identified as a Sukhoi SU-24 attack plane on their border with Syria around Latakia on November...Read More

Wladimir Klitschko faces challenger Tyson Fury in heavyweight clash

ON Saturday November 28 one of the most anticipated heavyweight bouts in recent times will take place in Germany between Tyson Fury and Wladimir Klitschko.
Ahead of the clash Fury has commented on doping...Read More

America wants to place its own armed officers in airports

ARTICLES appearing in the Spanish press and social media have highlighted the fact that that the US Government has requested an extension of the current arrangement which it has with Spain, whereby it...Read More

Muslim teenager offers hugs for unity

Shortly after the Paris attacks on November 16, a 16 year old Muslim teenager Yusuf Pirot stood in the street in Nottingham blindfolded offering hugs with a placard which said “I am a Muslim,...Read More

ISIS video threatens France

A NEW video posted on YouTube on November 23, shows a bearded militant, identified as Abu Tayssir El Faransi, demanding that the people of France should tell their government to withdraw from the war...Read More

Spanish police arrest prisoner for attempting to recruit inmates for ISIS

SPANISH police in Madrid arrested a prisoner in Segovia jail on Monday, who is accused of trying to recruit other inmates to join ISIS.
The man has been named as A Chiaki from Morocco and had been serving...Read More