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Daniel Silva

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AFP correspondent based in Madrid. Portuguese-Canadian who has lived in Lisbon, Riga, Amsterdam, Toronto.

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Spanish police said Monday they have dismantled a criminal network suspected of smuggling mainly Yemeni migrants into Britain and Canada with fake passports. arabnews.com/node/2610586/w…

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Spanish airline Iberia has opened an investigation after a passenger who requested a kosher meal received his food tray with the words "Free Palestine" written on the packaging english.alarabiya.net/News/world/202…

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A wooden boat packed with 38 people, including seven children, landed in southern Portugal, officials said Saturday, a rare arrival destination among migrant routes from North Africa to Europe arabnews.com/node/2611231/w…

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Spanish police said Monday that they had dismantled a group accused of running a “spiritual retreat” that offered hallucinogenic drugs to clients from around the world. uk.news.yahoo.com/spanish-police…

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Two men died and thousands were forced from their homes on Tuesday as wildfires fuelled by a heatwave scorched southern Europe sg.news.yahoo.com/man-killed-spa… via @yahoosg

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As helicopters dump water over burning ridges and smoke billows across the mountains of northern Spain, residents from wildfire-stricken areas say they feel abandoned by the politicians meant to protect them by ⁦Alfons Luna⁩ uk.news.yahoo.com/spains-deadly-…

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A firefighter killed in Portugal while battling a wildfire has become the fourth fatality in the emergency the country has faced this summer rte.ie/news/world/202…

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A 16-day heatwave Spain suffered this month was “the most intense on record”, the country’s state meteorological agency (AEMET) has said theguardian.com/world/2025/aug…

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The biggest fear for senior citizens taking refuge in Benavente, a town in a zone ravaged by vast wildfires in Spain, is that "everything they own could burn" f24.my/BNxf.X via Alfons Luna

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From above, it looks as if a giant lifted the pumpkin-shaped boulder and fitted the triangular chapel just underneath it aleteia.org/2025/08/24/por…

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Portugal created an alternative justice system that coercively diverts addicts into rehab instead of jail. That users are not criminally charged does not mean they are not held accountable city-journal.org/article/oregon…

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Nearly 1,000 firefighters remained mobilised Monday in central Portugal to prevent flare-ups of what authorities said was the biggest forest fire the country has seen -- ravaging an area more than 10 times bigger than Manhattan island yahoo.com/news/articles/…

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Police in Spain dismantled an illegal animal trafficking ring, including endangered or protected species such as lemurs and meerkats. cbsnews.com/news/spain-ani… via CBS News