Saturday, November 16, 2024

Evacuee: World has 'abandoned' Afghanistan's new generation

MADRID (AP) — Until last week, Shabeer Ahmadi was busy covering the news in Afghanistan. But after a hasty and excruciating decision to leave his Taliban-controlled country for an uncertain future in Spain, he’s helplessly glued to news feeds on his cellphone, following every twist in the dramatic end of …
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 2 MONTHS AGO

Evacuee: World has 'abandoned' Afghanistan's new generation

MADRID (AP) — Until last week, Shabeer Ahmadi was busy covering the news in Afghanistan. But after a hasty and excruciating decision to leave his Taliban-controlled country for an uncertain future in Spain, he’s helplessly glued to news feeds on his cellphone, following every twist in the dramatic end of …
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 2 MONTHS AGO

Evacuee: World has 'abandoned' Afghanistan's new generation

MADRID (AP) — Until last week, Shabeer Ahmadi was busy covering the news in Afghanistan. But after a hasty and excruciating decision to leave his Taliban-controlled country for an uncertain future in Spain, he’s helplessly glued to news feeds on his cellphone, following every twist in the dramatic end of …
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 2 MONTHS AGO

Evacuee: World has 'abandoned' Afghanistan's new generation

MADRID (AP) — Until last week, Shabeer Ahmadi was busy covering the news in Afghanistan. But after a hasty and excruciating decision to leave his Taliban-controlled country for an uncertain future in Spain, he’s helplessly glued to news feeds on his cellphone, following every twist in the dramatic end of …
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 2 MONTHS AGO

Spain judge nixes backup site for disputed Hawaii telescope

MADRID (AP) — A Spanish judge in a decision cheered by environmentalists has put a halt to backup plans for the construction of a giant telescope in the Canary Islands — eliminating at least for now the primary alternative location to the preferred spot in Hawaii, where there have been …
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 2 MONTHS AGO

Spain judge nixes backup site for disputed Hawaii telescope

MADRID (AP) — A Spanish judge in a decision cheered by environmentalists has put a halt to backup plans for the construction of a giant telescope in the Canary Islands — eliminating at least for now the primary alternative location to the preferred spot in Hawaii, where there have been …
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 2 MONTHS AGO

Spain judge nixes backup site for disputed Hawaii telescope

MADRID (AP) — A Spanish judge in a decision cheered by environmentalists has put a halt to backup plans for the construction of a giant telescope in the Canary Islands — eliminating at least for now the primary alternative location to the preferred spot in Hawaii, where there have been …
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 2 MONTHS AGO

Spain restricts nightlife as virus surges among the young

MADRID (AP) — Faced with soaring numbers of new coronavirus infections among unvaccinated young people, some Spanish regions are reinstating curbs on nightlife only weeks after dropping them.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 4 MONTHS AGO

Spain restricts nightlife as virus surges among the young

MADRID (AP) — Faced with soaring numbers of new coronavirus infections among unvaccinated young people, some Spanish regions are reinstating curbs on nightlife only weeks after dropping them.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 4 MONTHS AGO

Spain restricts nightlife as virus surges among the young

MADRID (AP) — Faced with soaring numbers of new coronavirus infections among unvaccinated young people, some Spanish regions are reinstating curbs on nightlife only weeks after dropping them.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 4 MONTHS AGO

Spain restricts nightlife as virus surges among the young

MADRID (AP) — Faced with soaring numbers of new coronavirus infections among unvaccinated young people, some Spanish regions are reinstating curbs on nightlife only weeks after dropping them.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 4 MONTHS AGO

Spain restricts some nightlife as virus surges among young

MADRID (AP) — Faced with soaring numbers of new coronavirus infections among unvaccinated young people, some Spanish regions are rolling back curbs on nightlife only weeks after dropping them.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 4 MONTHS AGO

Catalan separatists eye freedom after Spain's Cabinet pardon

MADRID (AP) — Nine Catalan separatist leaders jailed for sedition were eyeing freedom, after Spain’s Cabinet pardoned them Tuesday in the hope of starting what Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez called a much-needed reconciliation in the country’s restive northeast.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 4 MONTHS AGO

Catalan separatists eye freedom after Spain's Cabinet pardon

MADRID (AP) — Nine Catalan separatist leaders jailed for sedition were eyeing freedom, after Spain’s Cabinet pardoned them Tuesday in the hope of starting what Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez called a much-needed reconciliation in the country’s restive northeast.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 4 MONTHS AGO

Catalan separatists eye freedom after Spain's Cabinet pardon

MADRID (AP) — Nine Catalan separatist leaders jailed for sedition were eyeing freedom, after Spain’s Cabinet pardoned them Tuesday in the hope of starting what Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez called a much-needed reconciliation in the country’s restive northeast.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 4 MONTHS AGO

Spanish Cabinet partially pardons 9 Catalan separatists

MADRID (AP) — The Spanish Cabinet issued pardons on Tuesday for nine imprisoned instigators of Catalonia’s 2017 secession bid in a move that Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez says is needed to bring reconciliation.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 4 MONTHS AGO

Spain's Cabinet aims for a fresh start by pardoning Catalans

MADRID (AP) — The Spanish Cabinet is meeting Tuesday to issue pardons for nine imprisoned Catalans who spearheaded the 2017 effort to establish an independent republic in the affluent northeastern region, a move that Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez says is needed to bring reconciliation.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 4 MONTHS AGO

Spain, Morocco square off after 8,000 migrants arrive by sea

CEUTA, Spain (AP) — Spain deployed its military to the Moroccan border Tuesday and expelled nearly half of the thousands of migrants who jumped fences or swam onto European soil over two days after Rabat loosened border controls amid a deepening diplomatic spat.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO

Spain, Morocco square off after 8,000 migrants arrive by sea

CEUTA, Spain (AP) — Spain deployed its military to the Moroccan border Tuesday and expelled nearly half of the thousands of migrants who jumped fences or swam onto European soil over two days after Rabat loosened border controls amid a deepening diplomatic spat.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO

Spain, Morocco square off after 8,000 migrants arrive by sea

CEUTA, Spain (AP) — Spain deployed its military to the Moroccan border Tuesday and expelled nearly half of the thousands of migrants who jumped fences or swam onto European soil over two days after Rabat loosened border controls amid a deepening diplomatic spat.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO

Spain, Morocco square off after 7,000 migrants arrive by sea

CEUTA, Spain (AP) — Spain deployed its military to the Moroccan border Tuesday as thousands of migrants jumped fences or swam onto European soil for the second day in a row after Rabat loosened border controls amid a deepening diplomatic spat.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO

Spain, Morocco square off after 6,000 migrants arrive by sea

CEUTA, Spain (AP) — Spain deployed its military to the Moroccan border Tuesday as thousands of migrants jumped fences or swam onto European soil for the second day in a row after Rabat loosened border controls amid a deepening diplomatic spat.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO

Madrid's anti-lockdown champion heads to win in election

MADRID (AP) — Madrid's conservative leader, a champion of relaxed measures against the coronavirus and a scourge of the left-wing central government's handling of the pandemic, looked on course for a solid victory in a regional election Tuesday.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO

Madrid election centers on virus response, rise of far right

MADRID (AP) — Madrid residents voted in droves Tuesday for a new regional assembly in an election that tested the depths of resistance to virus lockdown measures and the divide between left-wing and right-wing parties.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO

EXPLAINER: COVID-19, far-right are top themes in Madrid vote

MADRID (AP) — Residents in Madrid, one of Europe's worst-hit regions in the pandemic, are voting Tuesday for a new regional assembly in an election that tests the depths of resistance to lockdown measures.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO

Madrid's champion of soft virus restrictions wins election

MADRID (AP) — Madrid’s conservative leader, a champion of relaxed measures against the coronavirus and a scourge of the left-wing central government’s handling of the pandemic, scored a solid win in a regional election Tuesday.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO

Street parties celebrate end of Spain's state of emergency

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Impromptu street celebrations erupted across Spain as the clock struck midnight on Saturday, when a six-month-long national state of emergency to contain the spread of coronavirus ended and many nighttime curfews were lifted.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO

Madrid election centers on virus response, rise of far right

MADRID (AP) — Madrid residents voted in droves Tuesday for a new regional assembly in an election that tests the depths of resistance to virus lockdown measures and the divide between left-wing and right-wing parties.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO

EXPLAINER: COVID-19, far-right are top themes in Madrid vote

MADRID (AP) — Residents in Madrid, one of Europe's worst-hit regions in the pandemic, are voting Tuesday for a new regional assembly in an election that tests the depths of resistance to lockdown measures.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO

Black candidate challenges political status quo in Spain

MADRID (AP) — Two young Senegalese men met on a Europe-bound migrant boat in 2006, a year that saw a record influx of Africans to Spain's Canary Islands.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO

EXPLAINER: COVID-19, far-right are top themes in Madrid vote

MADRID (AP) — Residents in Madrid, one of Europe's worst-hit regions in the pandemic, are voting Tuesday for a new regional assembly in an election that tests the depths of resistance to lockdown measures.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO

Black candidate challenges political status quo in Spain

MADRID (AP) — Two young Senegalese men met on a Europe-bound migrant boat in 2006, a year that saw a record influx of Africans to Spain's Canary Islands.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO

Black candidate challenges political status quo in Spain

MADRID (AP) — Two young Senegalese men met on a Europe-bound migrant boat in 2006, a year that saw a record influx of Africans to Spain's Canary Islands.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO

Spanish resorts languish while Madrid hosts Europe's parties

MADRID (AP) — In Madrid, the real party starts at 11 p.m. after the bars close — and curfew kicks in.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO

Spanish resorts languish while Madrid hosts Europe's parties

MADRID (AP) — In Madrid, the real party starts at 11 p.m. after the bars close — and curfew kicks in.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO

Spurred by lockdown, Spain gives 4-day week a try

MADRID (AP) — After years of waiting tables, Danae De Vries is one step closer to achieving her lifetime dream of becoming a theater coach.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO

Spanish resorts languish while Madrid hosts Europe's parties

MADRID (AP) — In Madrid, the real party starts at 11 p.m. after the bars close — and curfew kicks in.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO

Spurred by lockdown, Spain gives 4-day week a try

MADRID (AP) — After years of waiting tables, Danae De Vries is one step closer to achieving her lifetime dream of becoming a theater coach.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO

Spurred by lockdown, Spain gives 4-day week a try

MADRID (AP) — After years of waiting tables, Danae De Vries is one step closer to achieving her lifetime dream of becoming a theater coach.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO

Spurred by lockdown, Spain gives 4-day week a try

MADRID (AP) — After years of waiting tables, Danae De Vries is one step closer to achieving her lifetime dream of becoming a theater coach.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO

Gibraltar, a vaccine champion, launches 'Operation Freedom'

GIBRALTAR (AP) — Maskless parents pick up smiling Cinderellas, Harry Potters and hedgehogs from schools that reopened after a two-month hiatus just in time for World Book Day’s costume display. Following weeks under lockdown, a soccer team resumes training at the stadium. Coffee shops and pubs have finally raised their …
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO

Gibraltar, a vaccine champion, launches 'Operation Freedom'

GIBRALTAR (AP) — Maskless parents pick up smiling Cinderellas, Harry Potters and hedgehogs from schools that reopened after a two-month hiatus just in time for World Book Day’s costume display. Following weeks under lockdown, a soccer team resumes training at the stadium. Coffee shops and pubs have finally raised their …
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO

Gibraltar, a vaccine champion, launches 'Operation Freedom'

GIBRALTAR (AP) — Maskless parents pick up smiling Cinderellas, Harry Potters and hedgehogs from schools that reopened after a two-month hiatus just in time for World Book Day’s costume display. Following weeks under lockdown, a soccer team resumes training at the stadium. Coffee shops and pubs have finally raised their …
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO

Europe-bound migrants found amid broken glass, toxic ash

MADRID (AP) — Something seemed wrong to the guard inspecting sealed bags of toxic ash in the port of Melilla, one of Spain’s two small territories in North Africa. So he pulled a knife, cut the bag open and found a motionless leg, confirming his suspicion that a person was …
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO

Spain's rising cases give pandemic hospital a second chance

MADRID (AP) — As soon as the lifeless body is silently pushed away on a stretcher, a cleaning battalion moves into the intensive care box. In a matter of minutes, the bed where the 72-year-old woman fought for over two weeks for another breath gets rubbed clean, the walls of …
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO

Spain's rising cases give pandemic hospital a second chance

MADRID (AP) — As soon as the lifeless body is silently pushed away on a stretcher, a cleaning battalion moves into the intensive care box. In a matter of minutes, the bed where the 72-year-old woman fought for over two weeks for another breath gets rubbed clean, the walls of …
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO

Cold snap brings Spain lowest temperatures in 20 years

MADRID (AP) — Much of Spain struggled Tuesday in the aftermath of a massive snowfall that hardened into ice amid a record cold snap that turned streets and roads into safety hazards in areas unaccustomed to extreme winters.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO

Spain: Cold snap plummets temperatures to lowest in 20 years

MADRID (AP) — Much of Spain is struggling to return to normality three days after a 30-hour-long record snowfall that was then hardened by record-low temperatures, turning streets and roads into dangerous ice sheets in areas not used to extreme winters.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO

Snow and ice disrupt lives, vaccine rollout in Spain

MADRID (AP) — The Spanish capital of Madrid was still trying to get back on its feet Monday after a 50-year record snowfall that paralyzed large parts of central Spain and hampered the delivery of coronavirus vaccines.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO

Snow and ice disrupt lives, vaccine rollout in Spain

MADRID (AP) — The Spanish capital of Madrid was still trying to get back on its feet Monday after a 50-year record snowfall that paralyzed large parts of central Spain and hampered the delivery of coronavirus vaccines.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO

Snow, and now ice, disrupt Spaniards' lives, vaccine rollout

MADRID (AP) — The Spanish capital of Madrid was still trying to get back on its feet Monday after a 50-year record snowfall that paralyzed large parts of central Spain and was hampering the delivery of coronavirus vaccines.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO

Unusual snow kills 4, brings much of Spain to a standstill

MADRID (AP) — A persistent blizzard blanketed large parts of Spain with an unusual amount of snow on Saturday, killing at least four people and leaving thousands trapped in cars or at train stations and airports that suspended all services.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO

Snow blizzard kills 4, brings much of Spain to a standstill

MADRID (AP) — A persistent blizzard has blanketed large parts of Spain with 50-year record levels of snow, killing at least four people and leaving thousands trapped in cars or in train stations and airports that had suspended all services as the snow kept falling on Saturday.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO

Blizzard covers Spain in white, brings Madrid to standstill

MADRID (AP) — A persistent blizzard has blanketed large parts of Spain with 50-year record levels of snow, halting traffic and leaving thousands trapped in cars or in train stations and airports that had suspended all services as the snow kept falling on Saturday.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO

Storm ‘Filomena’ blankets Spain with snow, disrupts traffic

MADRID (AP) — Spain was on high alert Friday as a cold snap covered much of the country with record levels of snow that is disrupting road, rail, sea and air traffic, while authorities warned that worse might be in store over the weekend.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO

Storm ‘Filomena’ blankets Spain with snow, disrupts traffic

MADRID (AP) — Spain was on high alert Friday as a cold snap covered much of the country with record levels of snow that is disrupting road, rail, sea and air traffic, while authorities warned that worse might be in store over the weekend.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO

Britons flying home to Spain caught in post-Brexit red tape

MADRID (AP) — Blame COVID-19 travel restrictions or Brexit but whatever the cause, some British citizens trying to return to their homes in several European countries this weekend have been barred from boarding flights.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO

Virus, more than Brexit fallout, worry in and near Gibraltar

LA LÍNEA DE LA CONCEPCIÓN, Spain (AP) — Fears of disruptions following Britain’s departure from the European Union were replaced by coronavirus-related restrictions on border traffic between Spain and Gibraltar on Monday, the first working day at the United Kingdom’s only land border with the European mainland.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO

Virus, more than Brexit fallout, worry in and near Gibraltar

LA LÍNEA DE LA CONCEPCIÓN, Spain (AP) — Fears of disruptions following Britain’s departure from the European Union were replaced by coronavirus-related restrictions on border traffic between Spain and Gibraltar on Monday, the first working day at the United Kingdom’s only land border with the European mainland.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO

Britons flying home to Spain caught in post-Brexit red tape

MADRID (AP) — Blame COVID-19 travel restrictions or Brexit but whatever the cause, some British citizens trying to return to their homes in several European countries this weekend have been barred from boarding flights.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO

Britons flying home to Spain caught in post-Brexit red tape

MADRID (AP) — Blame COVID-19 travel restrictions or Brexit but whatever the cause, some British citizens trying to return to their homes in several European countries this weekend have been barred from boarding flights.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO

A pandemic atlas: Spanish system fails, and the elderly die

MADRID (AP) — Patiently lining up, distanced, to buy bread. Watching grandchildren grow via screens. Cheering for a soccer team miles away from the stadium. Gathering for dinner, in reduced groups, at 7 p.m. — early enough so the party can be wrapped before curfew hits.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO

A pandemic atlas: Spanish system fails, and the elderly die

MADRID (AP) — Patiently lining up, distanced, to buy bread. Watching grandchildren grow via screens. Cheering for a soccer team miles away from the stadium. Gathering for dinner, in reduced groups, at 7 p.m. — early enough so the party can be wrapped before curfew hits.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO

Inferno in large squat for migrants kills 3 in Spain

BADALONA, Spain (AP) — Mamadou Dieye was talking to his family back in Senegal when he heard shouts of distress downstairs. Smoke quickly followed the screams, and in the ensuing panic Dieye watched in horror as several fellow squatters plummeted from three stories high to escape the fire billowing below.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO

Spain: 3 dead in inferno of building occupied by squatters

BADALONA, Spain (AP) — Firefighters in northeastern Spain found three bodies in an abandoned industrial complex occupied by migrants and other squatters that caught fire and partially collapsed, while ongoing emergency work assisted by sniffer dogs and drones on Thursday tried to assess if more people were trapped inside.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO

Europe battles surge in coronavirus deaths in nursing homes

MADRID (AP) — As the two mortuary workers pushed a stretcher with a bagged corpse out of the room, the elderly man in the adjacent bed briefly awakened from his dementia. “Is he dead?” he muttered, extending his arm, trying to touch his roommate for the last time.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO

Without patients or staff, Madrid opens new $119M hospital

MADRID (AP) — Authorities in Spain's capital on Tuesday held a ceremony to open part of a 1,000-bed emergency hospital for COVID-19 patients that critics say is no more than a vanity project, a building with beds not ready to receive patients and unnecessary now that the virus resurgence and …
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO

Without patients or staff, Madrid opens new $119M hospital

MADRID (AP) — Authorities in Spain's capital on Tuesday held a ceremony to open part of a 1,000-bed emergency hospital for COVID-19 patients that critics say is no more than a vanity project, a building with beds not ready to receive patients and unnecessary now that the virus resurgence and …
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO

A migrant's odyssey from boat to COVID nursing job in Spain

BILBAO, Spain (AP) — The six migrants listen attentively to Mbaye Babacar Diouf, whose own journey across the Atlantic to a job nursing COVID-19 patients in Spain and giving back to the community through his own nonprofit would seem to scream success.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO

A migrant's odyssey from boat to COVID nursing job in Spain

BILBAO, Spain (AP) — The six migrants listen attentively to Mbaye Babacar Diouf, whose own journey across the Atlantic to a job nursing COVID-19 patients in Spain and giving back to the community through his own nonprofit would seem to scream success.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO

Spain in diplomatic push over migrant flow to Canary Islands

MADRID (AP) — The Spanish government is ratcheting up its response to the steady build-up of migrant arrivals to the Canary Islands from Africa, including a fresh diplomatic offensive.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 12 MONTHS AGO

Migrant arrivals putting pressure on Spain's Canary Islands

MADRID (AP) — Spanish rescue services have located 1,300 migrants in four days in the Atlantic Ocean and transferred them to the southern Canary Islands, further straining local emergency response capabilities as makeshift military camps for the newcomers were being readied.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO

In Spain, coronavirus puts the poor at the back of the line

MADRID (AP) — Erika Oliva spends at least three hours a week standing in line at a soup kitchen.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO

In Spain, coronavirus puts the poor at the back of the line

MADRID (AP) — Erika Oliva spends at least three hours a week standing in line at a soup kitchen.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO

In Spain, coronavirus puts the poor at the back of the line

MADRID (AP) — Erika Oliva spends at least three hours a week standing in line at a soup kitchen.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO

Merkel warns of 'difficult winter' as virus surges in Europe

BERLIN (AP) — Chancellor Angela Merkel told Germans to expect a “difficult winter” as the number of newly reported coronavirus cases in the country hit a new high Thursday, neighboring France prepared to resume life under a new lockdown and some experts urged the Spanish government to take more aggressive …
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO

From Spain, top dissident vows to fight for free Venezuela

MADRID (AP) — Leopoldo López, the Venezuelan politician who for years has led some of the biggest challenges to the government of Nicolás Maduro, pledged Tuesday from his self-imposed exile in Spain to continue fighting to “free” his homeland.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO

From Spain, top dissident vows to fight for free Venezuela

MADRID (AP) — Leopoldo López, the Venezuelan politician who for years has led some of the biggest challenges to the government of Nicolás Maduro, pledged Tuesday from his self-imposed exile in Spain to continue fighting to “free” his homeland.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO

Spanish lawmakers squash far-right's attempt to oust PM

MADRID (AP) — Spanish lawmakers on Thursday overwhelmingly rejected a no-confidence motion called by the far-right Vox party against Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez and his left-wing coalition over their handling of the coronavirus pandemic.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO

Spain lawmakers set to reject far-right no-confidence motion

MADRID (AP) — Spanish lawmakers on Thursday were set to reject a no-confidence motion against Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez that was called by far-right party Vox over what it says was the government's poor handling of the coronavirus pandemic.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO

Spanish islands struggle with migration surge amid pandemic

MASPALOMAS, Spain (AP) — Rescues at sea and arrivals of flimsy boats from Africa on Spain’s Canary Islands, where local authorities are already struggling to cope with the pandemic, have strained emergency services and left hundreds of migrants stuck for days in a makeshift harbor camp.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO

Facing terror charges, ETA's last boss apologizes for deaths

PARIS (AP) — A Paris appeals court postponed Monday the first of two back-to-back terrorism trials this week against the last-known chief of ETA, the now-extinct Basque separatist militant group, charges that the defendant deems “absurd” because of his role in ending a conflict that claimed some 850 lives and …
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO

Nursing homes have too few body bags, many uncounted dead

PARIS (AP) — One by one, elderly residents of French nursing homes are going into forced isolation into their rooms. Their caregivers are walling themselves in as well. They are running out of body bags.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO

Virus dead in nursing homes are often its uncounted victims

PARIS (AP) — One by one, elderly residents of French nursing homes are going into forced isolation into their rooms. Their caregivers are walling themselves in as well, against both the known and the unknown. They are running out of body bags.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO

Virus dead in nursing homes are often its uncounted victims

PARIS (AP) — One by one, elderly residents of French nursing homes are going into forced isolation into their rooms. Their caregivers are walling themselves in as well, against both the known and the unknown. They are running out of body bags.
BONNER COUNTY DAILY BEE | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO

With more infections than China, Spain tightens lockdown

MADRID (AP) — Spain enforced even tighter stay-at-home rules Monday for its 47 million people, as the country overtook China as the nation with the third-highest number of reported infections in the world, after the United States and Italy.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO

Virus test results in minutes? Scientists question accuracy

MADRID (AP) — Some political leaders are hailing a potential breakthrough in the fight against COVID-19: simple pin-prick blood tests or nasal swabs that can determine within minutes if someone has, or previously had, the virus.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO

Virus test results in minutes? Scientists question accuracy

MADRID (AP) — Some political leaders are hailing a potential breakthrough in the fight against COVID-19: simple pin-prick blood tests or nasal swabs that can determine within minutes if someone has, or previously had, the virus.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO

Virus test results in minutes? Scientists question accuracy

MADRID (AP) — Some political leaders are hailing a potential breakthrough in the fight against COVID-19: simple pin-prick blood tests or nasal swabs that can determine within minutes if someone has, or previously had, the virus.
BONNER COUNTY DAILY BEE | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO

Virus infections near 500,000 as health systems buckle

MADRID (AP) — The number of coronavirus infections closed in on a half-million worldwide Thursday, with both Italy and the U.S. on track to surpass China, and a record-shattering 3.3 million Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week in a stark demonstration of the damage to the world's biggest economy.
BONNER COUNTY DAILY BEE | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO

Virus infections near 500,000 as health systems buckle

MADRID (AP) — The number of coronavirus infections closed in on a half-million worldwide Thursday, with both Italy and the U.S. on track to surpass China, and a record-shattering 3.3 million Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week in a stark demonstration of the damage to the world's biggest economy.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO

'We are collapsing': Virus pummels medics in Spain and Italy

MADRID (AP) — By the time Patricia Núñez’s cough started, she was already familiar with the dreaded dry hacking sound tormenting patients who had for weeks been filling the Madrid emergency ward where she works.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO

'We are collapsing': Virus pummels medics in Spain and Italy

MADRID (AP) — By the time Patricia Núñez’s cough started, she was already familiar with the dreaded dry hacking sound tormenting patients who had for weeks been filling the Madrid emergency ward where she works.
BONNER COUNTY DAILY BEE | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO

'We are collapsing': Virus pummels medics in Spain and Italy

MADRID (AP) — By the time Patricia Núñez’s cough started, she was already familiar with the dreaded dry hacking sound tormenting patients who had for weeks been filling the Madrid emergency ward where she works.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO

On Wednesday, the number of medical personnel infected was nearly 6,500 nationally

MADRID — By the time Patricia Núñez’s cough started, she was already familiar with the dreaded dry hacking sound tormenting patients who had for weeks been filling the Madrid emergency ward where she works.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO

Spain's coronavirus deaths leap; Prince Charles now infected

MADRID (AP) — The death toll in Spain from the coronavirus shot up by more than 700 on Wednesday, surpassing China and is now second only to Italy as the pandemic spread rapidly in Europe, with even Britain's Prince Charles testing positive for the virus.
BONNER COUNTY DAILY BEE | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO

Spain's coronavirus deaths leap; Prince Charles now infected

MADRID (AP) — The death toll in Spain from the coronavirus shot up by more than 700 on Wednesday, surpassing China and is now second only to Italy as the pandemic spread rapidly in Europe, with even Britain's Prince Charles testing positive for the virus.
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Grim find: Bodies of virus victims in Spanish nursing homes

MADRID (AP) — Spanish army troops disinfecting nursing homes have found, to their horror, some residents living in squalor among the infectious bodies of people suspected of dying from the new coronavirus, authorities said Tuesday.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO

Grim find: Bodies of virus victims in Spanish nursing homes

MADRID (AP) — Spanish army troops disinfecting nursing homes have found, to their horror, some residents living in squalor among the infectious bodies of people suspected of dying from the new coronavirus, authorities said Tuesday.
BONNER COUNTY DAILY BEE | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO

Grim find: Bodies of virus victims in Spanish nursing homes

MADRID (AP) — Spanish army troops disinfecting nursing homes have found, to their horror, some residents living in squalor among the infectious bodies of people suspected of dying from the new coronavirus, authorities said Tuesday.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO

"How are we going to eat?" Virus tests Europe's social nets

MADRID (AP) — The morning rush-hour scene at Madrid’s Atocha train station this week perfectly captured the dilemma facing Europe as it confronts the coronavirus.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO

As pandemic spreads, China's ex-epicenter down to 1 new case

MADRID (AP) — The battle to contain the coronavirus reached new urgency, as more governments locked down borders and ordered new closures and restrictions and pleas went out to funnel masks and ventilators to places struggling with soaring numbers of sick patients.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO

As pandemic spreads, China's ex-epicenter down to 1 new case

MADRID (AP) — The battle to contain the coronavirus reached new urgency, as more governments locked down borders and ordered new closures and restrictions and pleas went out to funnel masks and ventilators to places struggling with soaring numbers of sick patients.
BONNER COUNTY DAILY BEE | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO

As pandemic spreads, China's ex-epicenter down to 1 new case

MADRID (AP) — The battle to contain the coronavirus reached new urgency, as more governments locked down borders and ordered new closures and restrictions and pleas went out to funnel masks and ventilators to places struggling with soaring numbers of sick patients.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO

Spain limits movements, closes shops to stem virus spread

MADRID (AP) — Spain’s government announced Saturday that it is placing tight restrictions on movements and closing restaurants and other establishments in the nation of 46 million people as part of a two-week state of emergency to fight the sharp rise in coronavirus infections.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO

On the heels of Italy, Spain to go drastic in battling virus

MADRID (AP) — With Italy already submerged in a national quarantine, Spain took a major step Friday toward a similar lock-down as it struggles to ride the wave of the coronavirus pandemic spawning illness and fear around the globe.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO

On the heels of Italy, Spain to go drastic in battling virus

MADRID (AP) — With Italy already submerged in a national quarantine, Spain took a major step Friday toward a similar lock-down as it struggles to ride the wave of the coronavirus pandemic spawning illness and fear around the globe.
BONNER COUNTY DAILY BEE | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO

On the heels of Italy, Spain to go drastic in battling virus

MADRID (AP) — With Italy already submerged in a national quarantine, Spain took a major step Friday toward a similar lock-down as it struggles to ride the wave of the coronavirus pandemic spawning illness and fear around the globe.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO

Spain eyes trade, defense talks ahead of US state visit

MADRID (AP) — Spain won't use its defense cooperation with the United States as leverage in its push against tariffs on European products, the Spanish foreign minister said on Wednesday ahead of a visit to Washington that aims to end the loss of business by Spanish producers of wine, olives …
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO