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The most frequent pathologies for which patients go to the emergency room during the holidays are usually acute-onset external otitis and gastrointestinal problems as the main cause of admission, as stated by Dr. Juan Costell, head of the emergency department of the Quirónsalud Torrevieja hospital. As for otitis, Dr. Costell explains that “otalgia with a history of recent bathing is usually the reason that causes greater care consultation. They are usually secondary external otitis by […]

If you go to Google Maps, and you go to Errekatxiki Street, 5, in the town of Jurimendi, in the Basque Country, until a few days ago, you could find an unusual image. Specifically it was a man doing a 'mooney' to the camera of the Google car that made a route for the Street View service. The photo went viral on social media for the drop of the pedestrian’s […]

The heat wave that Spain has experienced in recent days has begun to abate, but now some of the effects derived from it begin to emerge. The most important of all so far is the arrival of a black fly plague in the country, a consequence of high temperatures. The black fly ('Simuliidae' or 'Simulium erytrocephalum') is not an invasive species in Spain, but a native insect in our ecosystems, […]

The Santa Cruz de Tenerife Examining Court number 2 has issued a warrant for the arrest and presentation of a man of German nationality, who could have travelled to the island with his two children, aged 11 and 10, without the mother’s permission. The National Police has reported that "the investigation began on Tuesday, when this national order came into force, and that all law enforcement agencies are alerted". The […]

The driver of a van flees the Guardia Civil at high speed for 30 kilometers until it ended up colliding. The vehicle was loaded with hashish after a disembarking in Almeria. The driver of the van made evasive maneuvers. The van continued its march preventing the passage of the official vehicle when it was about to overtake. After 30 kilometers at high speed it ended up impacting head-on with the […]

The first plane with Spanish and Afghan evacuees from Kabul landed this Thursday at 04:30 hours at the Torrejón de Ardoz air base in Madrid. They were received by the Minister for Foreign Affairs, the European Union Cooperation, José Manuel Albares, and the Minister for Inclusion, Social Security and Migration of the Government of Spain, José Luis Escrivá, who have avoided giving a specific figure of the total number of […]

The DGT distributed 39 drones for traffic control for the third operation for the end of summer 2021. The DGT estimated that about six million trips would be made, so it chose to implement these devices to ensure the safety of road users. The drones were distributed in all the autonomous communities, except in the Basque Country and Catalonia, since both territories have the competences transferred and it is the […]

The high temperatures, which have reached over 40ºC in the Aridane Valley, together with the constant gusts of wind over 60 kilometers per hour, have become the propitious scenario to unleash a fire in the Canary Island of La Palma. The flames began to burn yesterday in the areas of Padrón and Fátima and in El Paso, until reaching the municipality of Los Llanos de Aridane. The uncontrolled flame has […]

There's criticism against Pedro Sánchez for not appearing publicly to explain the situation of the Spanish delegation in Afghanistan after the coming to power of the Taliban. PP, Ciudadanos and Vox say that he has not appeared before the press or Congress, as Emmanuel Macron or Angela Merkel have done, and has just "dispatched the matter" with a message on a tweet. One of the last voices to join the […]