Internacional

Green light for minimum wage rise 0
- Internacional
- September 23, 2021
An agreement to increase the minimum wage by 1.58%, to be effective retroactively from the first of this month once confirmed by the Cabinet next week, was sealed by the ministry for work and the UGT and CCOO unions. Full report in tomorrow’s Costa Blanca News – available from supermarkets, tobacconists/newspaper shops and online at
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Parking fright 0
- Internacional
- September 23, 2021
Firefighters were called when a driver smashed into a car park wall, leaving the vehicle hanging over the edge of the building in Calle Sierra Dorada in Benidorm. Full report in Friday’s Costa Blanca News – available from supermarkets, tobacconists/newspaper shops and online at www.costa-news.com Read more in this week’s print edition or go to
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Waiting lists rise ‘due to summer holidays’0
- Internacional
- September 22, 2021
The average wait for an operation in the Valencia region went up from 105 days to 120 days last month. A spokesman for the regional health department noted that the rise was caused by a ‘decrease in activity in surgery due to the holiday period’. Full report in Friday’s Costa Blanca News Read more in
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Fight for fairing funding 0
- Internacional
- September 22, 2021
Political opponents from Valencia and Andalucia presented a united front on Tuesday in their battle to get the national government to change the way that the regions of Spain are funded. The presidents of the two regions – Ximo Puig from the Socialist party (PSOE) and Juanma Moreno from the Partido Popular (PP) – signed
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TUNISIA ELECTIONS (UPDATE, ADDS TEXT) – Tunisians vote for president in run-off between jurist, media tycoon 0
- Internacional
- October 14, 2019
Ultraconservative jurist and law professor Kais Saied won Sunday’s presidential runoff election in a landslide in the second democratic election since the 2011 end of the dictatorship of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, according to an exit poll. According to the exit poll conducted by Emrhod and made public via the Mosaïque FM media outlet,
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TRUMP IMPEACHMENT – Hunter Biden to step down from foreign boards if father wins presidency 0
- Internacional
- October 14, 2019
Hunter Biden, the son of former Vice President – and front-running Democratic presidential contender – Joe Biden, promised on Sunday to step down from his position as a board director for a Chinese investment firm this month and to cut his ties with foreign companies if his father wins the 2020 presidential election amid the
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