Puigdemont keeps Sánchez waiting on investiture deal
The bid by Spain’s acting socialist (PSOE) Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, to form a new government needs the backing of the former Catalan president, Carles Puigdemont, who...
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Winds from Storm Ciarán stoke a wildfire in Valencia, with 850 evacuated
A wildfire stoked by storm winds in the Valencia region has burned some 2,000 hectares of land and forced the evacuation of over 850 people from...
Woman dies in Madrid from fallen tree, as Storm Ciarán sweeps across Western Europe
With Storm Ciarán sweeping across Western Europe and battering parts of Spain with heavy rains and gale force winds of up to 150kmh, emergency services in...
PSOE preparing draft Catalan amnesty bill ahead of Sánchez investiture vote
Spain’s acting Prime Minister, socialist (PSOE) Pedro Sánchez, and the Catalan president, Pere Aragonès of the pro-independence Esquerra Republicana (ERC) party, have agreed on the terms of a...
Spain’s bishops apologise again for sex abuses, yet dispute number of victims
Spain’s Catholic bishops have apologised again for sex abuses committed by church members following a recent report by Spain’s Ombudsman that accused the church of...
Three ministers and five political groups snub Princess Leonor’s allegiance ceremony
Princess Leonor, the heir to the Spanish throne, formally stepped into the spotlight by swearing allegiance to the Spanish Constitution on her 18th birthday on...
FIFA bans Rubiales for 3 years for kiss & misconduct at Women’s World Cup Final
World football’s governing body FIFA has banned the former Spanish football federation president Luis Rubiales from the sport for three years, following his misconduct at the...
Mallorcan rapper returns to Spain from Belgium after years avoiding extradition
A Mallorcan rapper who fled Spain after he was sentenced to jail for praising terrorism in his songs returned to the country on Sunday, after...
Pedro Sánchez: ‘In the interest of Spain, I defend amnesty in Catalonia’
Spain’s acting Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said on Saturday that he supports granting a controversial amnesty to those involved in Catalonia’s failed 2017 independence bid, in...
Up to 440,000 victims of child abuse in Spanish church, Ombudsman reports
Over 200,000 children are estimated to have been sexually abused in Spain by the Roman Catholic clergy since 1940, according to an independent commission published...
