Supreme Court orders trial of Catalan leaders
Spain’s Supreme Court on Thursday ordered 18 former Catalan leaders to stand trial over their role in last year’s declaration of independence. The trial is
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Police seize cocaine haul in banana cargo
Spanish police said Thursday they had seized over six tonnes of cocaine hidden in a shipment of bananas and arrested 16 suspects, some of them
Rodrigo Rato starts jail term in Spain
Rodrigo Rato, Spain’s former deputy prime minister and ex-head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), entered jail on Thursday in Madrid, after being sentenced to four
Spain PM defends selling arms to Saudi
Spain’s Socialist prime minister defended Wednesday arms deliveries to Saudi Arabia despite an outcry over the murder of a Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, saying it
Council of the Republic to launch on 30 Oct
The Council of the Republic, the private body led by former president Carles Puigdemont to make the case for Catalan independence from abroad, will be
Focus: UK bids adios to Spanish nurses ‘betrayed’ by Brexit
Keeping a watchful eye over one patient for a 12-hour shift at the hospital where he learned his trade, Manuel Gala says Brexit has forced many
O2 flotation delayed over Brexit fears
Spain’s telecoms giant Telefonica has postponed its planned introduction of the UK mobile operator O2 to the London Stock Exchange until after Brexit, news reports
One dead as 200 migrants reach Melilla
A migrant died Sunday and 19 others were hurt after around 200 people scaled a fence to enter Spain’s Melilla enclave from northern Morocco, local
Podemos leader Iglesias to visit Junqueras in prison
The head of Spain’s leftwing Podemos party, Pablo Iglesias, has said he will visit the former Catalan vice president, Oriol Junqueras, in prison on Friday