Wearing headlamps and equipped with secateurs, workers at a Barcelona winery light up the vineyards before dawn and start picking grapes at 3 am, as the Catalonia region marks its earliest grape harvest on record due to the scorching summer heat. #News #Reuters #Newsfeed #barcelona #spain #catalonia #vineyard Read the story here: https://reut.rs/4wQcQUP
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Members of Barcelona’s Bangladeshi community celebrated after Spain approved a mass amnesty program aimed at regularizing over 500,000 undocumented migrants as part of Prime Minister Sanchez’s push to harness migration’s economic benefits. #News #Reuters #Newsfeed #bangladesh #spainimmigrants #spain #pedrosánchez Read the story here: https://reut.rs/3QlGsJd
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Spain’s government launched a mass amnesty program in April for undocumented migrants, aiming to address labor shortages in agriculture and regularize thousands of workers in the Almeria province’s greenhouses. #News #Reuters #Newsfeed #spain #agriculture #migrants #workers Read the story here: https://reut.rs/4utbzlx
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Spain plans to fast-track legal status for half a million undocumented migrants, but lawyers and union leaders say the system isn’t ready. #News #Reuters #Newsfeed #spain #migration #amnesty Read the story here: https://reut.rs/4aG22jB
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Barcelona residents protesting against high rents clashed with police outside a real estate fair and government office. (September 25 2024) Catalan regional police charged at housing rights protesters attempting to enter an international real estate fair in Barcelona on Wednesday. The protesters threw coloured powder at the Mossos d’Esquadra regional police before folding back into a nearby subway station. The demonstration to place outside “The District” real estate fair, an international event for investors. Barcelona, like other major touristic destinations in Spain, is facing a housing crisis that has triggered anti-tourism protests as locals blame the rise in housing costs on the proliferation of tourist apartments available on platforms such as AirBnb and Booking.com.
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In response to widespread robberies and looting following deadly floods in Paiporta, Spain, locals took to the streets for vigilante patrols on the night of November 4. The floods, which have left at least 217 dead and caused significant destruction, have sparked public outrage over the perceived slow response from authorities. With many streets still dark and hazardous, residents expressed frustration and stepped in where they felt police were lacking. While the national police reported 20 arrests related to thefts, locals emphasized that their intent was not to physically confront thieves but to protect their community. Production by Horaci Garcia, David Latona #Paiporta #SpainFloods #VigilantePatrols #CommunityAction #PublicSafety #CrimePrevention #DisasterRecovery #LocalResponse #FloodRelief
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BARCELONA, Nov 17 (Reuters) – Boasting names like “Femina Morte” and “Mad, Mad Chica,” the skaters of Barcelona’s Steel Groin (Ingles de Acero) roller derby team are as tough as their names sound. The fast-paced, full-contact sport played on quad skates and divided into two 30-minutes halves of “jams”, each lasting up to two minutes, is growing in popularity around the world and drawing players with its LGBT+ friendly and inclusive ethos.
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TARRAGONA, Oct 2 (Reuters) – Spain’s biggest human towers competition took place on Sunday, with some 11,000 spectators packing the bullring in the northeastern city of Tarragona to watch the daring Catalan tradition. Human towers, or ‘castells’, were added to UNESCO’s list of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2010 as an “integral part of (Catalan) cultural identity”. The tradition dates back to the 18th century, when people first started building human towers in the Catalan town of Valls. (…) Complete story for Reuters https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/catalans-compete-build-biggest-human-towers-spain-2022-10-02/
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A second edit from a story I produced for Reuters in Kyiv, June 2022. Changing perceptions, Ukraine’s ‘unicorn’ LGBTQ soldiers head for war By Horaci Garcia KYIV (Reuters) – As volunteer fighters Oleksandr Zhuhan and Antonina Romanova pack for a return to active duty, they contemplate the unicorn insignia that gives their uniform a rare distinction – a symbol of their status as an LGBTQ couple who are Ukrainian soldiers. Members of Ukraine’s LGBTQ community who sign up for the war have taken to sewing the image of the mythical beast into their standard-issue epaulettes just below the national flag. The practice harks back to the 2014 conflict when Russia invaded then annexed the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine, “when lots of people said there are no gay people in the army,” actor, director and drama teacher Zhuhan told Reuters as he and Romanova dressed in their apartment for their second three-month combat rotation. “So they (the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer community) chose the unicorn because it is like a fantastic ‘non-existent’ creature.” Zhuhan and Romanova, who identifies as a non-binary person with she/her pronouns and moved to the capital from Crimea after being displaced in 2014, met through their […]
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On guard: the Senegal jail teaching teenagers to use swords September 20, 2019 THIES, Senegal (Reuters) – Teaching inmates how to handle swords may seem an unlikely approach to prison rehabilitation, but advocates believe the discipline it brings can help improve Senegal’s overloaded youth penal system. At Thies prison, the country’s second-largest, Adama and a handful of other young people move to the rhythm of their fencing coaches’ instructions, the clicking of foils against one another the only sounds piercing the silence. Armed prison guards watch the training hall from a safe distance as the teenagers learn to position their wrists for an attack, sweat dripping down their masks. In a couple of hours, the sportsmates will be inmates again. The weekly fencing school is part of an experiment to help young offenders learn discipline and respect for rules, aiming to smooth their reintegration into society. So far 300 girls and boys have undergone the training. “Before doing fencing, I used to get angry really quickly.” said 17-year-old Adama, whose name has been changed to protect his identity. “In fencing, if you get angry easily, you won’t get to stay.” Adama says he’s angry about the fact he’s spent two […]
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Youssou N’Dour records song for peace in Central Africa. Senegalese music icon Youssou N’Dour recorded a song dedicated to peace in the Central African Republic with one of its rising stars. CAR has been torn apart by inter-religious violence. Footage and soundbites from N’dour at the studio were filmed and delivered to Agence France Press in January 2014.
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Police and rioters clashed in the streets of Dakar after the Constitutional Court ruled that then-President Abdoulaye Wade, 85, could seek a third term in office. Rushes from 23 June 2012 sold to Agence France Press.
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After enduring months of intimidation from rebel fighters, radio presenters are back on air in Gao, spreading a message of reconciliation following the ousting of Islamist militants. A short reportage for Agence France-Presse just a few days after Gao was freed from Islamist insurgents.
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