A series of freak storms hammered Spain's Mediterranean coast and the Balearic Islands over the weekend, collapsing a seafront wall onto beachgoers, flooding city streets waist-deep, and triggering mini-tsunamis that swamped harbors across Ibiza and Majorca. In Roda de Bera, a small coastal town about ninety minutes south of Barcelona, eleven people were injured in […] The post Violent storms batter Spain's coast, leaving dozens injured and a tourist region in chaos appeared first on American Almanac .
A series of freak storms hammered Spain's Mediterranean coast and the Balearic Islands over the weekend, collapsing a seafront wall onto beachgoers, flooding city streets waist-deep, and triggering mini-tsunamis that swamped harbors across Ibiza and Majorca. In Roda de Bera, a small coastal town about ninety minutes south of Barcelona, eleven people were injured in the early hours of Saturday morning when violent weather tore through the area. An 18-year-old woman was left fighting for her life after a seafront wall collapsed on top of her and two others. No update on her condition has been released. Hours later, a punishing afternoon storm struck the nearby port city of Tarragona, unleashing torrential rain and large hailstones that…Open
A 23-year-old Honduran man screaming "Allahu Akbar" threw a backpack on the ground at Barcelona's main airport, sending travelers fleeing before security tackled him and bomb experts cleared the bag. The incident unfolded around 7:30 p.m. inside Terminal T2 at El Prat airport, Barcelona's international hub and one of Europe's busiest summer travel gateways. Private […] The post Honduran man screaming jihadist slogans arrested at Barcelona airport after throwing backpack, sparking mass panic appeared first on American Almanac .
A 23-year-old Honduran man screaming "Allahu Akbar" threw a backpack on the ground at Barcelona's main airport, sending travelers fleeing before security tackled him and bomb experts cleared the bag. The incident unfolded around 7:30 p.m. inside Terminal T2 at El Prat airport, Barcelona's international hub and one of Europe's busiest summer travel gateways. Private airport security staff wrestled the man to the ground before police even reached the scene. Spain's Civil Guard arrived shortly after, arrested the suspect, and called in TEDAX, the Guard's elite bomb disposal unit, to examine the abandoned backpack. The bag contained no explosives. At least two bystanders were treated for panic attacks. One other person was allegedly…Open
The pontiff will offer a Mass in Antoni Gaudí’s iconic, unfinished basilica during his Spain trip. But for some Barcelona residents, completing the construction could mean knocking down their homes.
An obscure document from 2010 could be shaping U.S. diplomacy. The post How Brazil’s Left-Wing Leader Might Help Trump End the Iran War appeared first on The American Conservative .
Foreign Affairs How Brazil’s Left-Wing Leader Might Help Trump End the Iran War An obscure document from 2010 could be shaping U.S. diplomacy. (Photo by Iranian Presidency / Handout/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images) Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan flew to Iran in 2010 and persuaded the Islamic Republic to ship 1,200 kilograms of its enriched uranium—which accounted for roughly 70 percent of its stockpile—to Turkey in exchange for fuel rods to be used for a medical research reactor. The terms of that deal, signed by the foreign ministers of Iran,…Open
“GMA” co-anchor Michael Strahan experienced never-before-seen views from the top of the world’s tallest church, which has been under construction for more than a century.
This past weekend, the self-proclaimed leaders of the global Left gathered in Barcelona to complain about Donald Trump and to declare that they are the […] Source
This past weekend, the self-proclaimed leaders of the global Left gathered in Barcelona to complain about Donald Trump and to declare that they are the […] Source