Giraffe-Killing Danes Anger Jews and Muslims With New Animal Cruelty Law
A new Danish law ordering that all animals must be stunned before slaughter effectively bans production of kosher and halal meat
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Did Marius the Giraffe Have to Die?
The Copenhagen Zoo explains its decision to euthanize the healthy 2-year-old beast
Spain’s Abortion Battle Pits Conservative Prime Minister Against Public Opinion
Conservative Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy is pushing legislation that would curb abortion, even when the majority in deeply Catholic Spain are in favor of it
Rock of the Rages: Gibraltar Border Spat Gets Spain and U.K. PMs Involved
It happens every year about this time, like blockbuster releases or a bad algae bloom. As the temperature heats up, so too does the rhetoric seeping from the southern end of the Iberian Peninsula. But this year’s incarnation …
How Spain’s Train Tragedy Is a Blow to Spanish National Pride
Already living with mass unemployment and an economy and society in the grips of austerity, Spaniards suffered another blow to their morale when a high-speed train derailed last week.
Spanish Train Crash Mystery: Why Didn’t Automated Brakes Stop the Disaster?
“I should be going 80 [kmh] and I’m going 190 [kmh],” the driver of the train that crashed in Santiago de Compostela in northwestern Spain on July 24 reportedly told his company’s emergency service on the phone after the …
The Pope of the Poor: Francis Makes Brazil’s Favelas His First Stop
Pope Francis visits Brazil, once a stronghold of Catholicism but now a country where the faith is very much at a crossroads
Hold The Onions: Spanish Beer Ad Stirs Up A Paella Controversy
As beer commercials go, it hardly seems controversial. There are no disembodied male arms reaching for the bottle that rests in the small of a prostrate woman’s naked back (thanks, Guinness), and no catfight between scantily-clad women over whether Miller Lite really does taste great or is less filling. Yet this year’s traditional …
Spain: Deportation Case Casts Light on Push for Catalan Independence
On Thursday, Barcelona police arrested a Moroccan-born man and informed him that he was being deported from the country where he has legally lived and worked for the past 14 years. They say he is a spy. He denies it
The Reign of Spain: Can Roca Ousts Noma as World’s Best Restaurant
The king is dead; long live the king. Just when it seem that the food world had moved definitively beyond the high-wire pyrotechnics of modern Spanish cooking to embrace the less adorned lichen and sea buckthorn of new Nordic …