Iceland ice cave collapses, at least one person dead, two missing Two people are still missing and one person has been hospitalised after the ice cave collapsed on Sunday. Al Jazeera · Aug 26, 2024
Tenzirt, a village wiped off the map by Morocco’s earthquake The earthquake killed 22 and injured 24 residents in the small village of Tenzirt. Al Jazeera · Sep 14, 2023
Crowds gather at French town halls to show solidarity as protests ease People turn out across the country to support local government after arrests on Sunday fell to 49 from 719 on Saturday The Guardian - UK · Jul 3, 2023
‘Stop rioting, stop destroying’: victim’s grandmother calls for calm in France Grandmother of Nahel M makes plea as 45,000 police and gendarmes deployed in fifth night of rioting The Guardian - UK · Jul 2, 2023
Spain's swimming pools feel the heat as water supplies dwindle Many people were drawn to the town of Vacarisses near Barcelona in the 1970s by the suburban dream of homes with large gardens and swimming pools to provide respite during long, hot summers. Reuters · May 10, 2023
Church tower reemerges from parched reservoir in drought-hit Spain Spain is in the grip of a long-term drought after 36 months of below-average rainfall, with some parts so parched that officials have asked people to cut water use and meteorologists warn of worse to come. Reuters · Mar 17, 2023
Elderly brothers eke out life among ruins of Ukraine war The two houses in what had been no-man's land between Russian and Ukrainian forces are badly damaged by shelling, there is no central power or heating and the surrounding fields are heavily mined, making them unworkable. Reuters · Feb 14, 2023
Britain's former PM Boris Johnson visits Kyiv, pledges help Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson visited Kyiv on a surprise trip on Sunday, meeting President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and pledging that Britain would "stick by Ukraine as long as it takes". Reuters · Jan 22, 2023
Tearful Zelenskiy honours top Ukrainian officials killed in helicopter crash A tearful Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy attended a memorial service on Saturday to commemorate seven senior officials killed in a helicopter crash, a fresh blow to a nation already grieving its many war dead. Reuters · Jan 21, 2023
High power prices drive some patients in Spain into poverty Jose Maria Casais's 2,700 euros-a-month income from a pension and incapacity benefits ought to leave him better off than most of his fellow Spaniards. Reuters · Jan 18, 2023
Commuter trains collision in Spain lightly injures dozens Two commuter trains collided on Wednesday morning at a station in Spain's northeastern Catalonia region leaving 155 passengers lightly injured, local emergency services said. Reuters · Dec 7, 2022
Spain briefly shuts part of airspace as Chinese rocket debris flies over Spain briefly closed the airspace over the northeastern region of Catalonia and three other regions on Friday, causing delays to around 300 flights, as remnants of a Chinese rocket passed by before hitting the ocean off Mexico's coast, authorities said. Reuters · Nov 4, 2022
Protesters delay opening of Barcelona real estate fair Hundreds of activists delayed the opening of an international real estate fair in the northeastern Spanish city of Barcelona on Wednesday as they protested against what they called a hotbed of speculation exacerbating a widening cost of living crisis. Reuters · Oct 19, 2022
Kyiv urges travel ban on Russians as Moscow steps up assault in eastern Ukraine Ukraine's president called on the West to impose a blanket travel ban on Russians, an idea that has found support among some European states but angered Moscow, which pressed on with a fierce military offensive in eastern Ukraine. Reuters · Aug 9, 2022
Reuters · Aug 2, 2022 World shrinks to a basement in Ukraine for grandmother, 92 After surviving World War Two, Maria Nikolaevna lived a busy and fulfilling life, raising two children, working as an engineer in the Soviet aerospace industry and cultivating a beautiful garden at the family home in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv.
Reuters · Jul 18, 2022 Zelenskiy sidelines close allies in Kyiv's biggest purge of war President Volodymyr Zelenskiy sidelined his childhood friend as head of Ukraine's security service and another close ally as top prosecutor in Kyiv's biggest internal purge of the war, citing their failure to root out Russian spies.
Reuters · Jul 15, 2022 In Kharkiv suburb, return of Soviet-era trams is a step towards normalcy In Saltivka, a working class suburb of Kharkiv in eastern Ukraine, the trams are running again.
Reuters · Jul 12, 2022 Ukrainian rockets hit Russian-held area as Kyiv readies southern counter-attack Ukraine said on Tuesday it had carried out a long-range rocket strike against Russian forces and military equipment in southern Ukraine, territory it says it is planning to retake in a counter-offensive using hundreds of thousands of troops.
Reuters · Jun 26, 2022 Thousands protest in Madrid against NATO summit Carrying the hammer and sickle flags of the former Soviet Union, thousands protested in Madrid on Sunday against a NATO summit which will take place in the Spanish capital next week.
Reuters · May 13, 2022 Royal Society names climate scientist first Brazilian member since 1800s The Royal Society scientific academy has elected climate scientist Carlos Nobre, a leading researcher studying the Amazon rainforest, as its first Brazilian member since the country's Emperor Dom Pedro II joined the group in the 1800s.
Reuters · May 5, 2022 Spain's tourist arrivals jump 8-fold in March, edge toward pre-COVID levels Spain received 4 million tourists in March, more than eight times as many as in the same month last year, after most pandemic-related restrictions were lifted, data from the National Institute of Statistics (INE) showed on Thursday.
Reuters · Mar 29, 2022 Russian rocket blasts hole in Mykolaiv administration building in southern Ukraine A Russian rocket hit the regional administration building in the southern Ukrainian port city of Mykolaiv on Tuesday, trapping 11 people under the rubble, the local governor Vitaliy Kim said.
Reuters · Feb 2, 2022 Foreign tourism to Spain soars in 2021, but far below pre-pandemic level Foreign tourism to Spain rebounded 64% last year from 2020's historic coronavirus crash but failed to reach half its pre-pandemic levels, data showed on Wednesday, as shifting travel restrictions and ongoing outbreaks put off many visitors.