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Migrants storm Morocco-Spain border, police injured

AFP23rd August 2018

23rd August 20183229

Over 100 African migrants forced their way into the Spanish territory of Ceuta on Wednesday after storming a barbed-wire border fence with Morocco and attacking...

Spanish police smash Europe’s ‘biggest’ illegal turtle farm

AFP23rd August 201820th November 2018

23rd August 201820th November 20182793

Spanish police said Wednesday they had dismantled Europe’s biggest illegal turtle and tortoise farm, seizing over 1,100 of the animals, including several highly endangered species....

Rapper Valtonyc extradition decision postponed

Catalan News ACN21st August 201811th February 2021

21st August 201811th February 20212810

Rapper Valtonyc will have to wait to find out whether Belgium will extradite him to Spain. A judge in Flanders decided to postpone the decision...

Spain knife attacker was ‘gay and suicidal’

Tim Parfitt / Agencies21st August 201821st August 2018

21st August 201821st August 20182946

A man shot dead as he tried to attack a Mossos d’Esquadra police station had come out as gay and wanted to commit suicide, a...

Anonymous hackers target Spain sites

News Desk21st August 201820th November 2018

21st August 201820th November 20183641

Hackers from the collective known as ‘Anonymous‘ claimed responsibility for bringing down government websites in Spain on Monday in a protest against Madrid’s efforts to block...

Political row over yellow ribbons

Catalan News ACN21st August 201813th August 2020

21st August 201813th August 20203267

A group of activists was caught this weekend removing yellow ribbons, which has become the symbol showing solidarity with the political leaders jailed around Catalonia....

Knifeman killed in Mossos police attack

Tim Parfitt / Agencies20th August 20184th June 2020

20th August 20184th June 20203235

A police officer of the Catalonia regional police, the Mossos d’Esquadra, shot dead a man armed with a knife as he tried to attack a police station...

Quim Torra: ‘democracy always defeats terror’

Catalan News ACN18th August 2018

18th August 20182503

Catalan President Quim Torra praised the official event on Friday in Barcelona honoring the victims of the 17 August terror attacks last year, calling the...