Gibraltar

Gibraltar's monkeys find clever way to avoid junk food bellyache

Researchers said the monkeys have been observed eating soil more frequently, a behavior that may help them avoid stomach upset from consuming human snacks.

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MACAQUES HOLD food while an infant sits between them at the Rock in the British overseas territory of Gibraltar, July 27, 2019.
Houthi fighters open the door of the cockpit on the ship's deck in the Red Sea in this photo released November 20, 2023.

Maersk to pause Red Sea shipping amid Houthi threat to ships

Maersk said the company was deeply concerned about the highly escalated security situation in the southern Red Sea and Gulf of Aden.

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Oil leaks from cargo ship OS 35 which remains half sunken in Catalan Bay after its collision with an LNG tanker off Gibraltar, September 1, 2022.

Divers seal tank vents leaking oil from bulk carrier off Gibraltar

The Gibraltar Port Authority is ramping up efforts to start pumping the fuel oil, diesel and lube oil from the vessel.

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The Rock of the British overseas territory of Gibraltar is seen from the Spanish side of the border near La Linea de la Concepcion

40,000-year-old sealed cavern in Gibraltar gives new insight into Neanderthal life

Vanguard Cave is one of four caves that make up the famous Rock of Gibraltar and a nine-year-excavation project led researchers to a sealed chamber with evidence of long-gone Neanderthal life inside.

|BySHIRA SILKOFF

Jewish MP targeted by antisemitic dual loyalty claims in Gibraltar

"Love not hate. Unity not division. Acceptance not discrimination. These are values by which I was raised #Gibraltar."

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020ByTZVI JOFFRE
Gibraltar parliament building

Gibraltar: Solid as a rock

Gibraltar is a self-governing and self-financing parliamentary democracy within the European Union and a British Overseas Territory.

OCTOBER 14, 2019ByMOE COHEN
Gibraltar

Jerusalem's 'foreign minister' Fleur Hassan-Nahoum: Jews are one tribe

#44: Fleur Hassan-Nahoum

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019ByPEGGY CIDOR
Hassan-Nahoum Fleur

The great Iran tanker hunt is still on - analysis

Greece denies Iran tanker - released from Gibraltar - entrance to its waters en route to Syria; US pulling throttle toward "maximum pressure.”

AUGUST 22, 2019BySETH J. FRANTZMAN
A crew member raises the Iranian flag on Iranian oil tanker Adrian Darya 1, previously named Grace 1, as it sits anchored after the Supreme Court of the British territory lifted its detention order, in the Strait of Gibraltar

U.S. issues warrant to seize Iranian tanker off Gibraltar

The Grace 1 was seized by British Royal Marines at the western mouth of the Mediterranean on July 4 on suspicion of violating European Union sanctions by taking oil to Syria.

AUGUST 17, 2019ByREUTERS
A Spanish Civil Guard boat sails past Iranian oil tanker Grace 1 as it sits anchored after it was seized in July by British Royal Marines off the coast of the British Mediterranean territory on suspicion of violating sanctions against Syria, in the Strait of Gibraltar, southern Spain August 13, 2019

Iran tanker in Gibraltar can leave when ready, U.S. legal block looms

An Iranian tanker detained in Gibraltar for breaching EU sanctions could be allowed to leave on Friday, though a last minute U.S. legal bid to halt it could yet end up back in court

AUGUST 16, 2019ByREUTERS
THE NIMITZ-CLASS aircraft carrier ‘USS Abraham Lincoln’ transits the Strait of Gibraltar, entering the Mediterranean Sea in April