Catalonia marks feast day of patron saint of animals
This coming 17 January is the feast day of Sant Antoni Abad, who is celebrated in Catalonia as the patron saint of animals. Many towns
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Gibraltar rebuffs talk of joint sovereignty
Gibraltar’s Chief Minister Fabian Picardo on Monday rejected talk of Spain sharing sovereignty of the tiny territory with Britain after Brexit, saying the concept was
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
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
Madrid’s ‘Inverfest’ Winter Festival returns
Returning for its fifth edition in 2019, Inverfest is Madrid’s winter cultural festival and features concerts, film screenings and poetry across almost a month from
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
The main Three Kings parades in Madrid, Barcelona and Bilbao
The most magical and exciting night of the year for many in Spain is almost here, with the imminent arrival of the Three Kings on