Storm Herminia hits Spain
The most adverse effects of Storm Herminia will be felt in Spain on Monday, with very strong gusts of wind in much of the peninsula and the Balearic Islands and very persistent rainfall in many places.
In total, 16 regions are on alert (all of Spain except the Canaries), especially Galicia, at extreme risk due to coastal phenomena.
Already on Sunday, there were cancelled flights at airports in northern Spain as a result of 160km/winds.
According to Spain’s State Meteorological Agency (Aemet), Herminia will last until Tuesday, but on Wednesday onwards, another storm could arrive, with snow and more bad weather.
Spain set to launch most important satellite in its history
SpainSat NG I, a groundbreaking satellite that will add value to Spain’s military communications and place the country in the select club of nations capable of offering this service to NATO, is two days away from being launched from Cape Canaveral (Florida).
It will be propelled into space on a Space X Falcon 9 rocket on Jan 29th.
This is the most important project in the Spanish space sector to date, both in terms of its budget and its size, the innovation it incorporates and the broad participation of the Spanish industry.
Furthermore, it is the most advanced secure communications satellite ever built in Europe.
Spanish police detain fugitive wanted over 2023 Brussels 'terrorist attack'
Spanish police have arrested a man wanted in Belgium over his suspected role in an October 2023 "terrorist attack" in Brussels which claimed the lives of two Swedes.
The man is suspected of having provided the attacker with the gun which he used to shoot at people in central Brussels before a football match between Belgium and Sweden was about to start, police said in a statement, adding that he had been arrested at Málaga airport on Friday as he tried to leave Spain.
"The fugitive could face a life sentence as he is wanted by the Belgian authorities for the crimes of terrorist attack, murder and grievous bodily harm," it added.
Row over Paris mansion owned by the Nazis that Basque nationalists now claim
A palazzo in central Paris confiscated by the Gestapo in 1940, handed over to Franco's Spain after the fall of the Nazis, and claimed since then by the Basque Nationalist Party (PNV), has become the centre of a political battle in Spain.
Spain’s Socialist PM Pedro Sánchez has heeded to the historical demands of the PNV, a faithful parliamentary ally of the PSOE, and transferred ownership of the building at 11 Marceau Avenue to it, in a decision included in a decree published on December 24th.
However, Spain’s Congress, where the Socialists lack an absolute majority, has refused to validate this decree, which included many other measures such as the increase in pensions or aid for public transport.
The PNV is refusing to accept that the parliamentary rejection invalidates the mansion’s transfer to them, arguing that this transaction has already been completed and that the building has “historical links” to the party, as the PNV bought it in 1936 to house the exiled Basque Nationalist Party.
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