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While UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has bemoaned the bureaucratic obstacles blocking significant progress at the COP25 climate summit in Madrid, the EU has launched a serious climate project of its own. Just 11 days into her presidency, th
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...someone who is affected," said the ambassador, who also shared links for associations in Burgos, Santiago de Compostela, Salamanca (where he worked as a young man) and the national organisation. "It's the least we can do for Lourdes," he said. No bike
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Reactions in Spain to the majority acheived by the Conservative Party and its leader Boris Johnson in the UK elections have focused on what this means for Britain's exit from the EU and relations between the two countries. Congratulations from Sánc
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The Interior ministry has put out to tender a contract for facial recognition border control technology. The government is offering 4.1 million euros for the design and running of the Spanish version of the Entry/Exit System (EES), under new EU rul
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As the UK went to the polls on Thursday, not only were Britons living in Spain watching closely, but also Spanish citizens residing in the UK. The UK media claimed the 2019 General Election was "the most important in a generation" and news was comi
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...accused of spreading the video on WhatsApp. More arrests are expected in the coming weeks. Last week the Cybercrime unit of the National Police passed on a detailed report of the offence to the duty court in Malaga and the prosecutor gave the go-ahead
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JOSÉ LUIS PIEDRA
The president of the Junta de Andalucía, Juanma Moreno, said this week that the regional government is completely committed to preserving the Doñana National Park and will be investing 17.5 million euros in it this year. He also proposed that a ... celebrations to mark its 50th anniversary as a National Park. They approved the move towards guaranteeing the park's future, so it can continue to be a worldwide icon and a benchmark for sustainable development. The next step will be for the Andalusian ... executive to officially propose a specific clause regarding the importance of the park and the need to preserve it in the next modification to the Statute of Autonomy. This would give it the same level of protection as the other National Park in the region,
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Fifty-eight migrants were known to have drowned, and 40 more were missing on Thursday, after the boat they were in overturned on a reef off Mauritania. The vessel was en route to the Canaries. 83 were rescued, with only those who knew how to swim
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ALFONSO TORICES
...distance behind the national average. In 2009 there was a difference of 19 points for science, which reduced to ten points in 2012, rose again to 20 in 2015 and is now still 12 points lower. With regard to maths, the marks for pupils in Andalucía were ... very similar to 2009 and have always been around 20 points behind the national average. The 2018 PISA tests were taken by 2,100 students from 53 schools in the region, including 400 pupils from 10 schools in Malaga province.
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2019 will be the second or third hottest year since records began, capping off the hottest decade on record, according to the World Meteorological Organisation. Petteri Taalas, the organisation's general secretary, explained that "Heatwaves and flo