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 rescue services said Tuesday they had plucked nearly 500 migrants from the Mediterranean in a single day who were trying to reach the country's coast. https://www.thelocal.es/20180725/spain-rescues-nearly-500-migrants-at-sea-in-a-single-day Wed, 25 Jul 2018 12:41:44 +0200 spain-rescues-nearly-500-migrants-at-sea-in-a-single-day Spanish authorities said on Saturday they rescued over 250 migrants, including children, who were making the perilous Mediterranean crossing to Europe. https://www.thelocal.es/20171112/spain-rescues-250-migrants-in-mediterranean Sun, 12 Nov 2017 10:07:58 +0100 spain-rescues-250-migrants-in-mediterranean Three migrants from sub-Saharan Africa drowned off Spain when their boat capsized in the Mediterranean but thirty others on board were rescued. https://www.thelocal.es/20170412/three-migrants-drown-and-39-others-rescued-off-spain Wed, 12 Apr 2017 18:19:46 +0200 three-migrants-drown-and-39-others-rescued-off-spain Dozens of tourists were evacuated by helicopter on Thursday from shelters at the top of a volcano on Spain's Tenerife island where they spent the night after being plucked from two cable cars that stopped mid-air. https://www.thelocal.es/20170316/more-than-100-evacuated-from-top-of-spanish-volcano-after-cable-cars-stall-mid-air Thu, 16 Mar 2017 14:45:05 +0100 more-than-100-evacuated-from-top-of-spanish-volcano-after-cable-cars-stall-mid-air A team of firefighters came to the rescue of a five-year-old girl who was clinging to the window sill of her seventh floor flat in Alicante after being left home alone. https://www.thelocal.es/20170302/watch-firemen-rescue-five-year-old-girl-clinging-to-seventh-floor-window Thu, 02 Mar 2017 14:02:16 +0100 watch-firemen-rescue-five-year-old-girl-clinging-to-seventh-floor-window The Guardia Civil helped a group of former members of the terror group Eta, which is responsible for killing more than 200 officers on the Spanish force. https://www.thelocal.es/20160303/spanish-police-unwittingly-rescue-former-terrorist-group-members-from-snow Thu, 03 Mar 2016 14:06:22 +0100 spanish-police-unwittingly-rescue-former-terrorist-group-members-from-snow Firefighters on the Costa Blanca were called to an unusual rescue last week when they had to use specialist cutting tools to free a 36-year-old man’s member. https://www.thelocal.es/20160209/hapless-man-has-four-steel-rings-cut-off-penis Tue, 09 Feb 2016 16:05:59 +0100 hapless-man-has-four-steel-rings-cut-off-penis Spain's coastguard said it rescued 15 migrants from a boat that was sinking off the coast of Morocco on Thursday, but 39 others who are onboard were missing. https://www.thelocal.es/20151029/spanish-coastguard-searches-for-39-migrants-missing-from-stricken-boat Thu, 29 Oct 2015 19:01:38 +0100 spanish-coastguard-searches-for-39-migrants-missing-from-stricken-boat UPDATED: Rescue teams found the bodies of two British women who were swept away in stormy seas while night swimming in Lloret de Mar. https://www.thelocal.es/20151001/two-british-women-swept-away-in-stormy-seas-after-midnight-swim Thu, 01 Oct 2015 12:32:01 +0200 two-british-women-swept-away-in-stormy-seas-after-midnight-swim Police have arrested the mother of a newborn baby who was found alive on Wednesday after being dumped in a rubbish bin in Madrid. https://www.thelocal.es/20150716/mother-of-rubbish-bin-baby-arrested Thu, 16 Jul 2015 13:13:09 +0200 mother-of-rubbish-bin-baby-arrested Eighty percent of drowning victims in Spain are male, with the biggest risk to men aged over sixty, a new report shows. https://www.thelocal.es/20150611/more-than-400-die-annually-spain-of-drowning Thu, 11 Jun 2015 14:04:57 +0200 more-than-400-die-annually-spain-of-drowning A Spanish caver trapped for days in a ravine in Morocco, along with two companions who died there, flew home Tuesday as Spain's government faced calls to explain why the climbers were not rescued sooner. https://www.thelocal.es/20150408/survivor-of-morocco-caving-tragedy-returns-home Wed, 08 Apr 2015 10:55:05 +0200 survivor-of-morocco-caving-tragedy-returns-home Family and friends of two Spanish cavers who died after being trapped for days in a deep ravine in Morocco criticised Rabat on Monday over the rescue effort, while the sole survivor was said to be in good condition. https://www.thelocal.es/20150407/morocco-rescue-effort-slammed-after-cavers-deaths Tue, 07 Apr 2015 10:33:41 +0200 morocco-rescue-effort-slammed-after-cavers-deaths The sole survivor among three Spanish cavers trapped for days at the bottom of a deep ravine in Morocco's High Atlas mountains was freed Sunday after a complicated rescue operation, officials said. https://www.thelocal.es/20150406/sole-survivor-rescued-from-atlas-mountains-two-dead Mon, 06 Apr 2015 10:25:59 +0200 sole-survivor-rescued-from-atlas-mountains-two-dead Spain announced on Friday it will make a confidence-boosting early start to repaying a €41-billion ($56 billion) banking rescue loan from the eurozone. https://www.thelocal.es/20140606/bullish-spain-starts-repaying-eu-bailout-debt Fri, 06 Jun 2014 16:24:00 +0200 bullish-spain-starts-repaying-eu-bailout-debt Spain decided Thursday to follow Ireland's lead and exit its bank bailout without seeking a precautionary credit line in reserve, eurozone finance ministers said. https://www.thelocal.es/20131115/spains-bank-rescue-to-finish-in-january-eu Fri, 15 Nov 2013 09:58:10 +0100 spains-bank-rescue-to-finish-in-january-eu Spain's economy minister on Sunday said the eurozone's fourth-largest economy last year narrowly escaped a full state rescue thanks to an EU bailout of its ailing banking sector. https://www.thelocal.es/20130715/spains-recession-is-over-economy-minister Mon, 15 Jul 2013 11:22:03 +0200 spains-recession-is-over-economy-minister An 'uncooperative' Spanish family of five stranded on a yacht amid gale-force winds in the Aegean Sea was rescued by the Greek coastguard on Sunday after an operation including a helicopter airlift and a speedboat. https://www.thelocal.es/20130708/spanish-yacht-family-rescued-in-greece Mon, 08 Jul 2013 11:18:00 +0200 spanish-yacht-family-rescued-in-greece Medics in Ibiza were forced to enlist the help of buzz saw-wielding fire-fighters on Wednesday to free a German tourist from the clutches of a steel sex toy. https://www.thelocal.es/20130705/buzzsaw-rescue-for-sex-armour-man Fri, 05 Jul 2013 19:53:00 +0200 buzzsaw-rescue-for-sex-armour-man