Amnesty calls on Spain to release migrant rescue ships
Amnesty International has called on the Spanish government to take steps to allow two vessels confined to the ports of Barcelona and Pasaia (in the Basque
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Thousands rally in Madrid against Catalan trial
Thousands of people rallied in Madrid on Saturday afternoon against the Catalan independence trial. More than 50 Catalan pro-independence groups and political parties called on
Franco’s remains to be exhumed in June
Spain has said that the remains of the late dictator Francisco Franco will be moved from the opulent Valley of the Fallen mausoleum to a state-run pantheon
Catalan Trial: Day 17 summary
On the 17th day of the Catalan trial, government officials who were allegedly in charge of the campaign to advertise the 2017 independence referendum, deemed
Torra claims ‘freedom of speech’, rejects yellow ribbons ban
Catalan president Quim Torra has announced he will keep yellow ribbons on the façades of public buildings, thus defying orders from Spain’s electoral authority deeming
Madrid to take ‘monarchy investigation committee’ to court
The Spanish government is to take the Catalan parliament committee formed to investigate the monarchy to the Constitutional Court. The chamber, the seat of which is in Barcelona,
Catalan Trial: Day 16 summary
Day 16 of the independence trial started at 10am with the testimony of Jaume Mestre, the man in charge of the Catalan government’s public information department
UK Parliament rejects Theresa May’s Brexit deal – again
The UK Parliament has overwhelmingly rejected Prime Minister Theresa May‘s Brexit deal for a second time, just 17 days before it is due to split from the
Catalan Trial: Day 15 summary
‘I never saw the material, it was sealed,’ Rosa María Sans, from the Artyplan graphic design company, told the Supreme Court on Tuesday, as the
Madrid train bombings remembered, 15 years on
Monday was the 15th anniversary of the Madrid train bombings, the deadliest terror attack in the history of Spain, in which Al Qaeda terrorists attacked
