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Jailed Catalan politician Oriol Junqueras was released from prison yesterday morning so that he could teach at the Vic University in Manresa, Barcelona province. The leader of the Catalan Republican Left (ERC) party is currently serving a 13-year sentence for his role in the 2017 independence drive in the northeastern Spanish region. Junqueras was given the prison sentence last year by the Supreme Court but on Thursday, received notification that […]

Heart transplants are being performed for the first time ever in the Canary Islands. Previously, heart transplant patients had to move to the Spanish mainland for the operation and three heart transplants have already been carried out at the University Hospital of Gran Canaria.

Spanish banks could face billions of euros in compensation claims if the European Union’s highest court delivers an unfavorable verdict on how they’ve been setting mortgage rates. The EU’s Court of Justice is expected to decide today whether banks were sufficiently transparent with customers about why they were sold mortgages with interest rates based on a Spanish central bank index rather than the more widely used Euribor, which often resulted […]

British Airways, Ryanair and Lufthansa have cancelled hundreds of flights to Europe and Asia over the ongoing coronavirus outbreak. The BA cancellations consist of flights between London Heathrow and Italy, France, Austria, Belgium, Germany, Ireland, Switzerland and New York’s JKF. Meanwhile, the British carrier also cancelled flights between Gatwick and Italy, France and Albania and London City connections to Italy and Germany. Ryanair is cancelling up to 25% of flights […]

The number of confirmed coronavirus infections in Spain passed the 115 mark yesterday. While the majority have been found in patients who had traveled abroad, there are five groups where the origin is as yet unknown. This situation is currently worrying Spanish health authorities, who are trying to find the root of the contagion, identify their contacts and stop short any further possible transmissions. The Health Ministry is looking closely […]

Life expectancy in Spain rose by 1.17 years on average in the last decade, according to the ministry of health and the National Institute of Statistics (INE). Women live on average to age 85 years and nearly 11 months, and men to 80 years and just under six months, women who live the longest are in Madrid, reaching 87 years and nearly two months and Navarra, at 86 years and […]

Tens of thousands of Catalan independence supporters gathered in Perpignan, southern France, on Saturday at a rally in support of exiled former Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont, who called on the crowd to prepare for the “definitive struggle” for independence. At around 30km from the Spanish border, it is the closest Puigdemont has been to Spain since he fled the country in October 2017 after calling a referendum on independence. Puigdemont, […]

Divers have found the body of 38 year old Commander Eduardo Fermín Garvalena, the pilot who crashed his training jet into the Mediterranean close to La Manga on Thursday afternoon. He was was found still strapped into his seat, inside the cockpit of the C101 aircraft that is still largely intact.