https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Spain in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Spanish police have released a video showing an explosive device found underwater which forced the evacuation of a beach in Barcelona on Sunday. https://www.thelocal.es/20190826/barcelonetta-beach-evacuated-after-discovery-of-unexploded-civil-war-bomb Mon, 26 Aug 2019 15:45:27 +0200 barcelonetta-beach-evacuated-after-discovery-of-unexploded-civil-war-bomb A Spanish woman on her honeymoon was killed in an explosion on a Bali tourist boat that left another foreigner dead and about 20 injured, officials said on Friday. https://www.thelocal.es/20160916/honeymooning-spaniard-killed-in-bali-boat-blast Fri, 16 Sep 2016 16:01:20 +0200 honeymooning-spaniard-killed-in-bali-boat-blast A Spanish university professor’s search for fossils took an unexpected turn this week when he came across an undetonated shell from the Civil War. https://www.thelocal.es/20160916/spanish-man-digs-up-civil-war-bomb-on-fossil-hunt Fri, 16 Sep 2016 14:41:40 +0200 spanish-man-digs-up-civil-war-bomb-on-fossil-hunt Holidaymakers in the Catalan beach resort of Platja d’Aro thought they were caught up in a terrorist attack on Tuesday evening after a group of German women staged a flashmob. https://www.thelocal.es/20160803/flashmob-prank-sparks-terror-attack-panic-in-costa-brava-resort Wed, 03 Aug 2016 12:02:14 +0200 flashmob-prank-sparks-terror-attack-panic-in-costa-brava-resort An unemployed man who drove a car loaded with a home-made bomb into the Madrid headquarters of Spain's ruling Popular Party (PP) has been sentenced to five years in jail, a court said on Monday. https://www.thelocal.es/20160530/man-jailed-for-driving-bomb-loaded-car-into-political-party-hq Mon, 30 May 2016 17:21:47 +0200 man-jailed-for-driving-bomb-loaded-car-into-political-party-hq A bomb exploded outside Spain's embassy in the Libyan capital on Monday night without causing injuries, a security source told AFP, an attack later claimed by the Islamic State (IS) group. https://www.thelocal.es/20150421/bomb-explodes-outside-spanish-embassy-in-libya Tue, 21 Apr 2015 10:46:33 +0200 bomb-explodes-outside-spanish-embassy-in-libya A package containing "a suspicious white substance" led to the evacuation of a Madrid post office on Saturday. Emergency services said 23 people underwent decontamination as a safety precaution. https://www.thelocal.es/20150329/post-office-evacuated-due-to-suspicious-package Sun, 29 Mar 2015 14:08:18 +0200 post-office-evacuated-due-to-suspicious-package Spanish police in Elche have arrested the 36-year-old ex-partner of a woman who was hospitalized on Monday when a homemade bomb detonated in the headrest of her car seat. https://www.thelocal.es/20141111/police-arrest-man-after-headrest-bomb-explodes Tue, 11 Nov 2014 11:04:00 +0100 police-arrest-man-after-headrest-bomb-explodes An explosive device is thought to be the cause of a blast which occurred in the early hours of Wednesday morning in a town hall in north-western Spain. https://www.thelocal.es/20141001/explosive-destroys-spanish-town-hall-baralla-blast-spain Wed, 01 Oct 2014 11:53:00 +0200 explosive-destroys-spanish-town-hall-baralla-blast-spain A police bomb squad in Spain's Aragon region has defused more than 100 explosive devices from the country's Civil War in recent months, with one of them having hung in a tree for 75 years before being discovered. https://www.thelocal.es/20140711/civil-war-bomb-stuck-in-pine-tree-for-75-years Fri, 11 Jul 2014 14:41:00 +0200 civil-war-bomb-stuck-in-pine-tree-for-75-years Declassified documents from 1960 have shown that radiation from France's atomic bomb tests in the Algerian Sahara desert reached as far as the south coast of Spain. https://www.thelocal.es/20140214/france-reveals-atomic-bomb-risk-to-spain Fri, 14 Feb 2014 15:21:00 +0100 france-reveals-atomic-bomb-risk-to-spain A German Shepherd dog who works with a Spanish Guardia Civil squad charged with protecting the King is to receive a prestigious international prize for saving lives during a 2009 attack by the Basque terrorist group Eta. https://www.thelocal.es/20130611/spanish-bomb-dog-nabs-top-uk-bravery-award Tue, 11 Jun 2013 13:16:16 +0200 spanish-bomb-dog-nabs-top-uk-bravery-award