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🚨 HOLY SMOKES. President Trump is now considering withdrawing troops from SPAIN and ITALY — on top of GERMANY "Why SHOULDN'T I?" "Italy hasn't been any help…Spain has been HORRIBLE." "When we needed them, they WERE NOT THERE." Trump is DONE with useless allies 🔥 pic.twitter.com/USoiPpg3gt — Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) April 30, 2026 Trump said …
Nato says there is no provision for member states to be suspended or expelled from the military alliance after a report said the US could seek to suspend Spain over its Iran war stance. Reuters quoted a US official who said an internal Pentagon email had suggested measures for the US to punish allies it …
Strike action in Spain set to hit 14 airports across the country bringing travel chaos https://t.co/QjuzJ7kwZC — Daily Mail (@DailyMail) April 8, 2026 Airports across Spain the popular holiday destination are set to be impacted by strike action later this month. A whopping 14 hubs in Spain and the Canary Islands will be hit by …
BREAKING: Iran says any European country is welcome to make a deal to transit through Hormuz Strait. pic.twitter.com/khIlYE97M1 — Iran News 24 (@IRanMediaco) April 2, 2026 🚨🇮🇷🇺🇸 Markets spiked moments ago on reports that Iran and Oman are developing a joint maritime protocol for safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz in the post-war period, …
BREAKING NEWS: France joins Spain and Italy in blocking US aircraft movements over its territory. pic.twitter.com/o7Sw14pujg — Iran News 24 (@IRanMediaco) March 31, 2026 Trump Hits Out at France For Closing Airspace to US Military Mar 31, 2026 at 09:16 AM EDT By Ellie Cook and Toby Meyjes President Donald Trump has said France refused …
A message from Iran pic.twitter.com/Q2wmEjsh1p — Hamad Mansoor (@drhammmad) March 17, 2026 European Nations Pull Their 'Anti-ISIS' Mission Troops Out Of Iraq https://t.co/p1zDrNOtgY — zerohedge (@zerohedge) March 17, 2026 Spain’s withdrawal follows a deadly drone strike Thursday on a French military base near Erbil that killed Chief Warrant Officer Arnaud Frion and wounded several other …
BREAKING: Trump says he's given instructions to cut off all trade with Spain, citing Madrid's announcement that US can't use its bases — Insider Paper (@TheInsiderPaper) March 3, 2026 Godfuckingdammit! pic.twitter.com/B4JwEX9NJW — Michael Bento (@MichaelPBento) March 3, 2026 Nearly a dozen KC-135R/T Stratotankers with the U.S. Air Force have departed air bases tonight in Spain …
Olive trees can live and continue growing for centuries. It takes decades for an olive tree to become productive. In Spain, they are being cut down by the Eco Taliban to install solar panels. The damage they are doing will take generations to reverse. pic.twitter.com/5UBSOD7Lcw — BowTiedMara (@BowTiedMara) March 2, 2026 This is Spain… Where …
When George Soros’ son congratulates Spain’s leadership… You know the country is doomed. https://t.co/u0ulNECZLw pic.twitter.com/hw1JE1RyBc — Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) February 6, 2026 Yolanda Díaz, Spain's Deputy Prime Minister under Pedro Sánchez, says that Spain intends to impose massive fines and regulations on Elon Musk and X until he learns to obey They are very upset …
Catastrophic flooding in Portugal from Storm Leonardo shown in drone footage Dramatic footage captured widespread flooding across southwestern Portugal on Wednesday, February 4, after the region was slammed by Storm Leonardo. “Severe flooding” in Alcacer do Sal, with numerous roads, homes, and businesses left underwater. According to Portuguese news reports citing officials, 89 people were …
Spain is moving against the European tide with a plan to offer a chance at residency status to hundreds of thousands of undocumented migrants. The move has exposed a deep political divide for the minority government. Spain’s left-wing government on Tuesday said it had approved a fast-track plan to allow up to 500,000 undocumented migrants …
Spain to Grant Extraordinary Regularisation to Over 500,000 Irregular Migrants In a move that will reshape Spain’s immigration landscape, the coalition government of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has reached a last-minute agreement with its left-wing partner Podemos to launch the country’s first mass regularisation programme in two decades. According to details confirmed on Monday, 26 …
Spain sees fourth train crash in five days https://t.co/ZaMBbE2dRD — Sky News (@SkyNews) January 22, 2026 A commuter train has crashed into a construction crane in southeastern Spain, the fourth rail incident in the space of a week. Emergency services in the Murcia region said four people suffered minor injuries as a result of the …
Tankers massing toward Morón is classic pre positioning. 🇺🇸U.S. AIR FORCE TANKERS ARE HAULING ASS ACROSS THE ATLANTIC RIGHT NOW A bunch of KC-135R Stratotankers just reportedly blasted off from California and Maine, streaking east over the ocean. Trackers show several heading straight for Morón Air Base in Spain. Source:… pic.twitter.com/9tQzGvJvZ6 — Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) …
Spain no longer rules out school lockdowns due to the flu epidemic "Emergency rooms overwhelmed, health centers at capacity, and an explosive increase in infections among children"https://t.co/kscItEZhjC — CoronaHeadsUp (@CoronaHeadsUp) December 13, 2025 Brits heading for Spain may soon have to wear a face mask again due to the huge surge in flu and Covid …
🇪🇸🇺🇦 Spain's Ministry of Foreign Affairs will hold a kind of secret and closed summit of the "Decision Makers Coalition" next Tuesday, November 4. 📍 The closed meeting of the "Decision Makers Coalition," consisting of 35 countries, will take place in Madrid, where new ways to… pic.twitter.com/sLM88wzI1E — Visioner (@visionergeo) November 1, 2025 The talks …
INDONESIA SAY THEY ARE DONE WITH WORDS AND COMMIT TO 20,000 BOOTS ON THE GROUND IN GAZA‼️ pic.twitter.com/Xl5rMVyoxa — Earth Hippy 🌎🕊️💚 (@hippyygoat) September 23, 2025 “Indonesia’s leader on Tuesday offered to send at least 20,000 troops as peacekeepers to Gaza to safeguard any future peace deal. Addressing the UN General Assembly, President Prabowo Subianto …
Tesla just flipped the switch in Europe. After five straight months of bleeding market share, June came in hot. The Model Y is back in volume, and the numbers are loud. UK registrations jumped 224% month over month. Spain tripled. In the Netherlands, Tesla didn’t just top EVs. It became the best-selling brand across all …
NATO allies will meet in The Hague next week and are expected to agree to significantly boost military expenditure, but Madrid is reluctant. Spain wants a carve-out from NATO’s likely future defense spending goal of 5 percent of GDP, the country’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said ahead of next week’s high-stakes alliance summit in The …
https://twitter.com/_/status/1924741862461739146 No hard facts yet on what triggered Spain’s latest telecom blackout, and officials haven’t nailed down an exact timeline for full recovery. Carriers are scrambling with boilerplate statements about “investigations” and “resilience,” but public trust is running on fumes after a… — Alva (@AlvaApp) May 20, 2025 Spain has been plunged into chaos after …
by Michael Without the Earth’s magnetic field, our way of life could not exist. In fact, without it life on our planet could not exist at all. The magnetosphere is essentially a shield that protects us from the charged particles from the Sun that are constantly bombarding us. Unfortunately, that protective shield is steadily getting …
The United Kingdom’s electricity network experienced unusual disruptions just hours before a major blackout struck Spain and Portugal. The National Grid ESO, which oversees the flow of electricity across the U.K., said it was investigating a series of unexpected frequency shifts that occurred on Sunday, shortly before widespread outages in the Iberian Peninsula. Why It …
Electricity in Spain is up 450% . Spaniards had to live with the consequences of a 12h blackout. And now, we have to pay for it. This is ridiculous. — Ada Lluch (@AdaLluch) May 1, 2025 After the blackout in Spain that lasted throughout Monday and a big part of Tuesday morning in some areas, …
This is truly bananas: all of Europe appears to have been seconds away a continent-wide blackout. The grid frequency across continental Europe plunged to 49.85 hertz — just a hair above the red-line collapse threshold. The normal operating frequency for Europe’s power grid is 50.00 Hz, kept with an extremely tight margin of ±0.1 Hz. …
JUST IN – Portugal's grid operator blames a "rare atmospheric phenomenon" for widespread power outages — Sky — Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) April 28, 2025 Portugal's electrical grid operator states that the widespread blackout affecting Portugal, Spain, and France resulted from a malfunction in Spain's electricity grid, triggered by an unusual atmospheric event. pic.twitter.com/lqqEK3o8Gr — Ian Miles …
BREAKING: A New York banker who disappeared while on vacation in Spain has been found dead after his body washed up on a beach. pic.twitter.com/SYP002UcPE — The General (@GeneralMCNews) April 15, 2025 The body of a New York City banker washed up on a beach in Spain — but his family continued searching for him …
Spain is pushing for an EU pivot to Chinahttps://t.co/lRBlfcqdx4 pic.twitter.com/BOziDWm5wj — David Ingles (@DavidInglesTV) April 9, 2025
This week, the municipality of Lorca in Murcia, Spain, has been hit by a series of severe floods, following torrential rains that led to widespread damage, road closures, and multiple emergency rescues. The situation has prompted authorities to raise the alert level and consider requesting official disaster relief.
People are simply exhausted from pouring endless resources into a conflict that seems to drag on with no clear end in sight. While Trump and Vance’s childish antics may cause a brief stir, the EU will soon be forced to confront the harsh reality: a compromise is necessary. There is widespread Ukraine fatigue in France, …
“The Spanish State Meteorological Agency, AEMET, had already three or four years ago officially recognized and admitted that not only Spain possesses and uses geoengineering technologies regularly, but that at least 50 countries around the world have technologies to more or lesser extent sophisticated which they use regularly. A professor of the technical university in …