Spanish language

Spanish police have detained a man who carried out attacks with cold weapons in several churches in Algeciras in the south of the country, "El Pais" reported.

At the moment it is known that one person was killed and several were injured ("El Mundo" reports of four).

Spanish writer Javier Marias, whose work has been translated into more than 40 languages in nearly 60 countries, died on Sept. 11 in Madrid at the age of 70 after suffering from pneumonia, his publisher said.

A 33-year-old Mexican artist Maria Portilla. Photo: Private archive

Portilla is also a co-founder of the Mexican street paper Mi Valedor, an independent magazine sold by people in socially vulnerable positions in Mexico City and which is a part of the International Network of Street Papers.

Personalities representing the diplomatic and cultural life of the Spanish speaking countries in Bucharest, alongside the Spanish writer Care Santos, will read from the work of Miguel de Cervantes and several other great Spanish authors to the Romanian audience, on the International Book Day, informs a press release of the Cervantes Institute sent to AGERPRES.

The third Festival of Contemporary Spanish Theater will take place this weekend at the Anna and Maria Kalouta Municipal Cultural Center. Shows on both days start at 5 p.m. The festival is dedicated to women playwrights, including Yolanda Altabert, Ana Diaz Velasco, Carmen Vinolo, Eva Alarte and many more, and presents a panorama of recent trends and themes in the Spanish theater.

Gunmen with rifles and pistols killed three people on Sept.14  and injured at least seven in a tourist plaza in downtown Mexico City, police said, adding that they were chasing three men dressed as mariachi musicians who fled on motorbikes.

Spain's influential El Pais newspaper approved on June 8 the appointment of its first woman editor, the daily's owner said Friday, a day after a new Spanish government was sworn in with women holding the majority of ministerial posts.

Bulgaria's capital Sofia on Saturday will be part of worldwide events marking the Spanish Language Day (Día E).

Spanish and Latin American music, but also books, theater plays and cuisine from several Spanish-speaking states will dominate the events in and outside the Cervantes Institute building in downtown Sofia (3, Sveta Sofia Str).

According to official statistics released on Wednesday, the number of Spanish citizens living outside the Iberian nation’s borders increased dramatically in 2014 by 6.1%, namely, 2.2 million.

New emigrants included people who lost their jobs and sought a better future elsewhere.

Spanish media group Prisa, publisher of the country's most widely-read newspaper El Pais, evacuated its Madrid headquarters on Jan. 7 after receiving a suspect package, a company spokesman said.