India calls it Haifa Day. The regiments that get the credit are the lancers of Jodhpur, Hyderabad and Mysore — cavalry units raised not by Britain directly, but by India’s semi-autonomous princely states, which supplied their own troops to the British war effort. Grouped into the 15th Cavalry Brigade and led into the final charge […]
Cada 23 de septiembre se celebra en Nueva Delhi y Jaipur un curioso evento histórico-militar: el Día de Haifa, en el que el ejército indio conmemora su protagonismo en la batalla homónima de la Primera Guerra Mundial, cuando los regimientos de lanceros de Jodhpur, Hyderabad y Mysore, integrados en la 15ª Brigada de Caballería y […]
Spanish public railway company Renfe on Friday said it had suffered a cyberattack that compromised some user data, with media reporting that criminals used AI in a first for Spain.
After recent regional election breakthroughs by the Alternative for Germany (AfD), here is an overview of radical, nationalist and far- and hard-right parties' positions across Europe in recent years.
Thousands of people rallied in Madrid on Saturday to protest the Spanish government's handling of a recent migrant influx into Ceuta, accusing it of failing to protect the country's borders and calling for an early general election.
A modest Roman bathhouse on Turkey’s southern coast spent its retirement very differently from how it began. Constructed in the late 2nd or early 3rd century CE, it stopped functioning as a bath sometime after an invasion in the 260s CE and was never used for bathing again. Centuries later, someone gutted much of its […]
Un equipo de investigadores ha publicado el hallazgo de una instalación de procesamiento agrícola construida dentro del llamado Baño Pequeño de Antioquía del Crago (Antioquia ad Cragum), en la región histórica de Cilicia Áspera, en la actual Turquía. El estudio, firmado por Emlyn Dodd (Universidad de Adelaida), Leticia R. Rodriguez (Universidad de Houston) y otros […]
In this week's Inside Spain, we look at how 87-year-old Maricarmen's eviction is just one of many abuses being carried out against renters in Spain, and how Spanish politicians are failing millions of people with limp law-making.
Spain's main tenants' unions on Friday urged the government to pass a new law to tackle the country's housing crisis after an 87-year-old was evicted from her Madrid home, sparking nationwide protests.
The Spanish city of Lleida on Friday approved a ban on full-face coverings in most public spaces in a rare step targeting the Muslim burqa and niqab in the country.
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El Ministerio de Turismo y Antigüedades egipcio ha anunciado el hallazgo de una tumba de época romana con una arquitectura que, según el propio Consejo Supremo de Antigüedades, no tiene paralelo exacto en el resto de la necrópolis donde apareció. Se encuentra en Bir El-Shaghala, un yacimiento del oasis de Dajla, a unos 750 kilómetros […]
En los años setenta, el pequeño núcleo de Stein, en la Baja Austria, estuvo a punto de convertirse en el emplazamiento de la segunda central nuclear del país. El proyecto se abandonó y el lugar quedó como una franja más de tierra de labor junto al Danubio. Medio siglo después, esos mismos campos han revelado […]
Hace unos 315.000 años un grupo de humanos primitivos vivía en lo que hoy es Marruecos. Sus restos, descubiertos en el yacimiento de Jebel Irhoud, son los fósiles más antiguos jamás atribuidos a nuestra especie, el Homo sapiens. Ahora, un equipo internacional de investigadores ha reconstruido su rostro a partir de un cráneo compuesto digitalmente, […]
Entre el 5 % y el 10 % de las personas enterradas en cada una de las comunidades griegas de la Edad del Bronce que se han analizado no se había criado en el lugar donde murió. Es uno de los resultados de un trabajo publicado en la revista PLOS One por un equipo del […]
Un equipo de investigadores ha publicado en la revista PLoS One los resultados del estudio de los dos primeros enterramientos completos descubiertos en Göbekli Tepe, un yacimiento arqueológico del Neolítico Precerámico situado en el sureste de Turquía. El trabajo, firmado por Julia Gresky y Lee Clare, ofrece por primera vez una explicación plausible al enigma […]
Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities has announced the discovery of a Roman-period tomb whose architecture, according to the country’s Supreme Council of Antiquities, has no exact parallel elsewhere in the cemetery where it was found. The tomb sits at Bir al-Shaghala, a site in the Dakhla Oasis, about 750 kilometers (roughly 465 miles) southwest […]
Britain's new Prime Minister Andy Burnham met with his Spanish counterpart Pedro Sánchez this week, two of the only centre-left leaders remaining in Europe. What's in store for British nationals in Spain, the re-join campaign and UK-Spain relations?
In the 1970s, the small settlement of Stein, in Lower Austria, came close to becoming the site of the country’s second nuclear power plant. The project was scrapped, and the land went back to being another stretch of farmland beside the Danube. Half a century later, those same fields have revealed what they’d been hiding […]
How do households in Europe and the United States spend their money? Official statistics reveal key and perhaps surprising differences when it comes to food and housing.
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