News Archive for July 2017

Here you can find articles published in July 2017. Return to full archive here

01 July
- Party and security: Madrid dances to WorldPride rhythm
- Spain detains Danish man suspected of fighting with Isis
03 July
- Spanish waters reach record high temperatures
- Dutch man kidnapped and held for 11 days in Spain
04 July
- Jail term for King Felipe's brother-in-law could rise to ten years
- Danish jihadist arrested in Spain wanted to buy weapons there
- Mexico finds dwelling for Aztec survivors of Spanish conquest
- Catalonia to declare immediate independence if 'yes' wins referendum
- 13 sex-slaves freed in Marbella prostition ring bust
05 July
- Some 50 migrants lost at sea off Spain after rubber boat sinks
- Major art collection loaned to Spain for 15 years
- Thirteen arrested as Barcelona police swoop on Italian mafia
- Rajoy calls for calm in face of 'authoritan delusions' in separatist Catalonia
- Bye-bye locals: Tourists are taking over Europe's city centres
06 July
- One million people expected in Pamplona for bull run
- DNA test confirms Julio Iglesias has secret son
- Spanish energy firm lands huge wind turbine contract in Netherlands
- "Milestone" treasure of ancient Roman coins found at mining site
- Messi and Torres sign contract extensions
- Government to create up to 20,000 public sector jobs
- Spain hit by deadly bacteria threatening olive trees
07 July
- 'Mummified' body of woman missing for years found in apartment
- We want the British to stay here, says UK ambassador to Spain
- Nearly half of Europe's top 10 tourist sites are in Spain
- Union of street hawkers launches its own clothes brand
- Three gored in first Pamplona bull run
- Police arrest gang that specialised in exploding ATMs
- Italian missing for six years found barefoot and speechless in Madrid
08 July
- Football: Messi tax fraud sentence reduced to fine
- Ten hurt in Spanish bull running fest
09 July
- Spanish acrobat dies in Madrid festival fall
- Migrants once again drawn to deadly Spanish route to Europe
10 July
- A 10th century water rights tribunal in Spain just won heritage protection
- WATCH: Holidaymakers told how how to survive terrorist attack
- Police stop Italians from doing a runner at San Fermin…and make them leave a tip
11 July
- Iberia airline fined for insisting new employees take pregnancy tests
- Spain set to swelter as another heatwave hits
- UK government announces crackdown on bogus holiday sickness claims
12 July
- Spain's King and Queen start state visit to UK amid Brexit tensions
- Swedish crime novelist Ekbäck writes women back into history
- Spanish beach resort bans ball games, nudity, and peeing in the sea
- In pics: Spanish royals on parade during state visit to London
- WATCH: Spain's King Felipe VI calls for Gibraltar dialogue in speech to UK parliament
13 July
- Queen speaks of 'resilient spirit of cooperation and goodwill' between UK and Spain
- WATCH: Two gored in seventh bull run of Pamplona
- Spanish party islands call for ban on booze on flights
- Barcelona and Airbnb reach deal after months of conflict
- Hot hot hot! Heatwave reaches peak with record temperatures.
- Salvador Dali to be exhumed July 20th for paternity test
- Second time lucky: Spain's royal Ferraris finally get buyers
14 July
- Brexit brings uncertainty to Spanish businesses and citizens, says King Felipe
- Road worker dies of heatstroke as Spain swelters in record breaking heatwave
- Trump administration goes after Spanish olive imports
- Catalonia govt hit by resignations in pre-referendum crisis
- Treasure hunters wanted: to retrieve sunken gold from 18thC Spanish galleon
15 July
- 13 hurt in year's final Pamplona bull run
16 July
- Sexual assault arrests mar Spain's bull running fiesta
- Moroccans eye Spanish enclave across tiny border
- 33 hurt as rollercoaster cars crash at Spanish park
17 July
- Spanish police smash Europe-wide dodgy horsemeat racket
- Five Spanish authors you should read this summer
- Two dead in ‘igloo-sauna’ collapse at Spanish hippy commune
- Spain's top ten best beaches for summer 2017
- Passengers on Barcelona flight stage protest against deportation of migrant
18 July
- Cooking with a conscience: Colombian chef wins top culinary prize
- Spanish football federation chief held in fraud probe
- IMF raises 2017 growth forecast for Spain to 3.1 percent
19 July
- Disgraced banker found dead on country estate after shooting himself with hunting rifle
- Spain's La Liga draw postponed after fraud arrests
20 July
- Seven surreal facts about Spain's Salvador Dalí
- Are you my surreal dad? Dalí to be exhumed in paternity case
- Couple drown after ignoring red flag on beach in Alicante
- Spanish police recover three stolen Francis Bacon paintings
- Autopsy confirms convicted Spanish banker committed suicide
21 July
- Dalí exhumation: 'His moustache remains intact - pointing in the ten-past-ten position'
- Carry on kissing? Spain's Vuelta cycling race looks for lip service
- Top ten: Spain's best natural swimming spots
22 July
- US gives up on extraditing 'London Whale' traders from France and Spain
- Spain threatens to cut Catalonia funds over referendum
- Did Neymar signal move from Barcelona to Paris Saint-Germain with pensive Instagram pose?
- Spain extradites first foreigner to face US terror charges under Trump
24 July
- Football: England sink Spain to close in on quarters
- Bear chases flock of 209 sheep off a cliff to their death in Pyrenees
- How I went from clueless guiri to Madrid music sensation in just one year
- Balearic Islands ban blood and death in the bullring
25 July
- Spain's PM gears up for corruption trial testimony
- VIDEO: Man shouting 'Allahu Akbar' attacks police on Morocco-Spain border
- Ten real Game of Thrones locations to visit this summer in Spain
- And the most beautiful plaza in Spain is...?
- 'Citizens are our top priority in Brexit negotiations': Open letter from British ambassador to Spain Simon Manley
26 July
- Spanish football chief Villar banned amid graft probe
- Protests outside court as Spanish PM takes stand in corruption trial
- Rajoy: 'I never dealt with party financial matters'
27 July
- Catalan MPs vote disputed reform to pave way for referendum
- Three-year-old girl found dead on train tracks after parents lose sight of her during dinner
- Friday rail strike promises chaos for holidaymakers in Spain
- Booming tourism helps put Spaniards back to work
28 July
- Commuter train slams into Barcelona platform injuring 54 people
- Three-year-old Lucía died after falling asleep on tracks and being hit by a train
- Spain's economy has nearly recovered to pre-crisis levels
29 July
- Spain files legal challenge to Catalan referendum move
- After France and Portugal, Spain battles forest fire
30 July
- Over 22,000 evacuated as fire hits Spain music festival
- Plight of mother-of-two 'abuse victim' shakes Spain
- Spain's hotels fight back against fake food poisoning claims from Brits
31 July
- What recovery? Economic rebound bypasses Spain's poorest neighbourhoods
- Wildfires are raging in the Mediterranean. What can we learn?
- Ten of the most epic bike rides in Spain
- Eight football greats who have fallen foul of the Spanish taxman
- Cristiano Ronaldo denies tax fraud at court hearing