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Two month-long wildfire that burnt protected Las Médulas area finally extinguished, far-right Vox wants to repeal trans law and ‘woke ideology’, weather warning for heavy rain on the Med and more news on Wednesday October 8th.
Spanish Congress postpones vote on Israel arms embargo to avoid October 7th anniversary
The Spanish Congress on Tuesday delayed a vote scheduled on the arms embargo on Israel to avoid the anniversary of the October 7th attack.
Centre-right Catalan party Junts has asked for the vote to be moved as it coincided with the second anniversary of the Hamas attacks. The debate continued, but the vote will now take place on Wednesday.
It is unclear if the embargo bill will even pass. Far-left Podemos could vote against the measure after accusing Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez of approving a “fake” embargo.
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Two month-long wildfire that burnt protected Las Médulas area finally extinguished
A forest fire that started in León back in August has finally been put out, almost two full months later.
The fire in Llamas de Cabrera, which affected the protected UNESCO world heritage site of Las Médulas in El Bierzo, a Unesco World Heritage Site, took a total of 58 days of firefighting to put an end to the blaze.
According to data from the Regional Ministry of the Environment, Housing and Territorial Planning of the Junta de Castilla y León, 1,484 kilometres were scorched by the blaze.
Far-right Vox takes a proposal to Congress to repeal the trans law and ‘woke ideology’
Far-right party Vox on Tuesday lodged a non-legislative proposal with Spain’s Equality Commission calling for the repeal of “all regulations derived from gender ideology and woke” and, among them, Spain’s 2023 Trans Law.
In the text seen by Europa Press, the party rallied against “woke policies” that “have had disastrous consequences in the societies where they have tried to be implemented.”
In Spain, they argue the Trans Law has been “harmful to society as a whole, with a particular impact on women and minors.”
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Weather warning for heavy rain on Mediterranean coast
Spain’s state meteorological agency Aemet has issued a special weather alert due to the heavy rainfall expected in the Mediterranean area from late Wednesday. It had already issued orange warnings for significant risk on the coasts in the provinces of Valencia and Alicante and on the islands of Ibiza and Fomentera.
Aemet reports that on Wednesday 8th an “Atlantic front with an associated cold mass at mid-levels will penetrate the west of the peninsula and advance eastwards to form several wind vortices in its midst over the following days, giving rise to storm Alice.”
Alice is the first storm named by the new Aemet system to classify storms according to severity, naming the strongest.
