An aircraft with eight people on board was heading from the Russian settlement of Pyramida to Barentsburg on Norway’s Spitsbergen (Svalbard) archipelago when it disappeared from radars on Thursday. Norway’s rescue center reported on Sunday that the wreckage of the helicopter was found near Barentsburg on the ocean floor at ...
Madrid on Saturday dismissed the chief of Catalonia’s regional police, the Mossos d’Esquadra, a day after imposing direct control on the region over a bid to break away from Spain. The firing of Josep Lluis Trapero, Catalonia’s highest-ranking policeman, was published in the official government gazette as Spain perched on ...
