Spanish police have raided the home of a 25-year-old Moroccan man held over the machete attacks at two Catholic churches the previous day that left a church officer dead and a priest injured in the southern city of Algeciras.

Gibraltar says it hopes to partially reopen its port after removing most of the oil from a stricken ship that collided in its bay area last week.

Gibraltar says some heavy fuel continues to seep from a damaged and partly sunken bulk carrier ship off its shore.

Gibraltar authorities say they have beached a cargo ship to prevent it from sinking after it collided with a liquefied natural gas carrier in the Bay of Gibraltar.

Voters in Gibraltar have endorsed legislative changes that will ease the British territory’s current ban on abortion.

Gibraltar is holding a referendum on whether to introduce exceptions to the British territory’s ban on abortion.

People enjoy a meal in a restaurant in Gibraltar, UK on Thursday March 25, 2021. (AP Photo/Javier Fergo)With its hospital free of COVID-19 patients and only one new coronavirus infection reported in a full week, the tiny British overseas territory of Gibraltar is allowing itself some prudent celebration. The territory of 33,000, located in the southern tip of the Iberian Peninsula, is ending a night-time curfew imposed three months ago to contain a surge of infections. Gibraltar's midnight-to-5 a.m. curfew ends Thursday, allowing bars and restaurants to stay open until 2 a.m. Gibraltar was hardest hit by the pandemic around Christmas, in a wave that caused most of its total tally of 4,271 cases and 94 deaths.

People cross the Gibraltar airport runway towards the border crossing with Spain, backdropped by the Gibraltar rock, in Gibraltar, Friday, March 5, 2021. But the recent easing of restrictions, in what authorities have christened Operation Freedom, leaves Gibraltar with the challenge of reopening to a globalized world with unequal access to coronavirus jabs. The narrow British overseas territory stretching between Spain and the mouth of the Mediterranean Sea is emerging from a devastating virus surge. Finding that balance can be tricky for a territory linked to both Spain and the U.K. As a British territory, Gibraltar has received five vaccine consignments from London, mostly the Pfizer-BioNTech jab. In Spain, restrictions have tamed an end-of-the-year coronavirus surge that strained public hospitals.