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AT least one thousand protestors are marching through the streets of Málaga today to demand safe, healthy and affordable housing. The marchers join thousands in cities all over Spain, who are demanding housing is treated as a right of the human being and not as a business. Rallied together by the local organisation Málaga Para Vivir, the protestors paraded under …

Is America on the rise or in freefall? Credit: Shutterstock:Rokas Tenys The introduction of tariffs, as announced by President Donald Trump on April 2, has caused investors to go into a tailspin, resulting in losses of an incredible $4 trillion (€3.6 trillion) in market value. This is compared with the peak of the S&P 500 just under a month ago …

Passengers traveling through London Gatwick airport will no longer be required to remove their electronic devices or liquids from plastic bags. The multi-million-pound security upgrade includes the installation of new ‘state-of-the-art’ 3D technology into all 19 security lanes, an airport spokesperson said. You can take liquids through security in containers up to 100ml volume, which is a more efficient and …

Valencia has intercepted 21 high-end cars and vans that were stolen from the United States. The Guardia Civil, Spain’s Tax Agency and US Container Security Initiative recovered the vehicles in collaboration with CSI. The shipment was headed to various African locations. READ MORE VEHICLE DISCOVERIES All the vehicles had been confirmed as being stolen, and they were transported in shipping …

GIBRALTAR Customs arrested a suspected fuel smuggler after a dramatic chase at high speed near Catalan Bay on Friday evening. The suspect was located in the Catalan Bay reclamation site shortly before midnight, March 28, wearing waterproof clothes and smelling strongly like petrol.  HM Customs Officers at the Outfield Station caught him as he tried to evade them. READ MORE …

Next week, rain will return to some parts of Spain when the clocks advance ahead of Tuesday’s start of April. In eight days, after a rainy March that saw some areas of the country hit by storms and flooding, a new front will arrive. The storm is expected to bring more rain and wind. READ MORE RAINY Day (Cordon Press …

13 PEOPLE have been arrested in Spain as part of a major international operation targeting Ireland’s ‘The Family’ drug gang. ‘The Family’ is regarded as Ireland’s largest organised criminal organisation with police acting in simultaneous raids coordinated by Europol. Five arrests were made by the Irish police on Monday. The leader of the gang, one of three brothers arrested, is …

According to the National Statistics Institute, Marbella is bursting into 2025, with a historic landmark. The city recorded its highest hotel occupancy rate ever in February at 61.10 percent. This figure is a huge leap over the 52.02 percent of last year and beats even the 56.20 percent in 2020 before the pandemic disrupted travel around the world. This is …

There are no weather warnings in effect for Spain tomorrow. No province, city, or town has been warned about adverse weather conditions for Tuesday or Wednesday, the first time this week. Four named storms, Jana Konrad Laurence Martinho, have hit the country in just 12 days. The rainy weather is still affecting Mallorca today. Aemet is the state weather agency. …

Experts have predicted that the wet, windy weather which has been affecting Spain’s skies for several weeks is finally ending. The Meteorologists at El Tiempo, the rains will begin to subside from Monday thanks to an anticyclone that will ‘act as a shield against new Atlantic storms.’ The last storm Martinho will pass through this weekend, with heavy showers predicted …