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New Straits Times @NST_Online  ·  51m 51 minutes ago

Ten killed in #Greek #F-16 fighter plane crash in #Spain http://www.nst.com.my/node/71022 

MADRID: Ten people were killed and 19 injured when a Greek fighter plane crashed during NATO training in Spain on Monday, the defence ministry said.

The F-16 crashed at about 3:20 p.m. (1420 GMT) shortly after taking off at a training centre in Albacete, 260 km (160 miles) southeast of the capital Madrid.

France’s defence ministry said that one Frenchman was killed and five seriously injured.

“The plane, part of the Tactical Leadership Programme of NATO was carrying out a (training) exercise when during take-off the plane lost power, crashing into the parking area for planes, crashing into various planes that were parked there,” the defence ministry said in a statement.
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Two pilots on board were among the dead, according to Spanish media reports. Other pilots and mechanics were underneath the plane in the parking area in French Mirage and Italian Alpha Jet planes, said the defence ministry.

http://www.nst.com.my/node/71022
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Valladolid is a city in Spain and the de facto capital of the autonomous region of Castile and Leon. It has a population of 309,714 people (2013).

MAYOR OF VALLADOLID IN CENTRAL SPAIN WITH THE OFFENSIVE MOUTH APOLOGIZES.

Sexist mayor shocks Spain with rape gaffe: Another Spanish politician has got himself into hot water after… http://dlvr.it/6hPJVh

Another Spanish politician has got himself into hot water after voicing his opinions on the Interior Ministry’s controversial anti-rape guidelines and the shelved case of an alleged group rape in Malaga.

Javier León de la Riva, mayor of the Spanish city of Valladolid, told national radio station Onda Cero that rape allegations should be scrutinized and that he would “feel uneasy” about being alone with a woman in a lift in case she wrongly accused him of rape.

“Imagine you get into a lift and there’s a girl trying to get it on with you. She gets in the lift with you, takes off her bra and skirt, and then runs out screaming that you’ve tried to assault her,” León de la Riva told listeners.

“So watch out, it’s a double-edged sword. There are two sides to the story.”

Valladolid’s mayor was referring to two rape-related news stories that have made headlines in Spain this week.

In one of those instances, the country’s Interior Ministry came under fire for “retrograde” anti-rape measures for women, which included advice for women such as not to share lifts with men they didn’t know.

In the second story, a judge dropped a case against five young men arrested over an alleged rape after it emerged the supposed victim may have lied about the event.

León de la Riva, who is a gynaecologist by training (he treated Madrid mayor Ana Botella), has since apologized in a tweet via his town hall saying his comments had been misconstrued.

http://www.thelocal.es/20140822/mayor-valladolid-rape-lift-comments-

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