Valls attacks literature award winner over ‘political prisoners’
Manuel Valls, a candidate to be mayor of Barcelona, attacked a Catalan literature award winner on Sunday evening after he criticised the imprisonment of pro-independence political...
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Jailed leaders to defend ‘legitimacy’ of referendum
The Catalan political leaders in jail are ready to defend the ‘legitimacy’ of the 1 October 2017 independence referendum and will not hide the fact...
Four arrested over New Year sex assault
Spanish police said Sunday they have arrested four men suspected of a New Year’s Eve sexual assault reminiscent of a 2016 Pamplona bull-running rape case...
Four die in building fires, baby critical
Four people died on Saturday and a baby girl in a critical condition was among those injured, in two separate tower block fires in northeastern Spain, firefighters...
Spain’s PP apologises for PM death tweet
Spain’s People’s Party (PP) was left embarrassed on Saturday after posting a video on Twitter suggesting it wished Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez dead, drawing...
Rise of far-right unsettles Spain’s mainstream right
Spain’s far-right party Vox holds the key to the formation of a right-wing government in the southern region of Andalusia but is proving to be...
Spanish jobless figure drops to 3.2m
Spanish jobless queues were shorter in 2018, even for the worst-affected youth, though the country still counts 3.2 million people as unemployed, the labour ministry...
Migrant deaths in Mediterranean fall by over a quarter
The number of migrants who died or went missing attempting to cross the Mediterranean fell by more than a quarter in 2018 over the previous...
Franco mausoleum’s prior vetoes exhumation
The prior of the mausoleum where Spain’s fascist dictator Francisco Franco is buried has rejected any exhumation of his remains, the Spanish government said on...
Poll: far-right Vox would win 43-45 seats
Spain’s far-right party Vox would enter parliament with 43-45 seats if an election was held today, giving all parties on the right an absolute overall...
