Former rail safety director pleads innocence in trial of 2013 train crash
The former head of safety for Spain’s state-owned rail infrastructure company, ADIF, told a court on Thursday that he was not responsible for the 2013...
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Spain starts trial of 2013 train crash in Galicia that killed 80 and injured over 140
A major trial opens on Wednesday in Spain to determine responsibility for the country’s worst rail disaster in nearly eight decades. The accident happened on...
Batet and Cruz confirmed as Congress and Senate speakers
The Catalan Socialist (PSC) party’s most senior MP in Madrid Meritxell Batet has been voted speaker of Spain’s congress, while University of Barcelona professor Manuel...
‘Fascist’ and spitting accusations in Congress
The speaker of Spain’s Congress, Ana Pastor, expelled Catalan MP Gabriel Rufián from the chamber on Wednesday after his confrontation with the Spanish Foreign Minister Josep Borrell....
Ana Pastor invites Catalan president to Congress
The Spanish parliament speaker, Ana Pastor, unexpectedly invited Quim Torra to the lower chamber in Madrid for him to be able to ‘defend his political...
Catalonia-Spain divisions in homage to attack victims
A year after a jihadist rampage in Catalonia killed 16 people, Spain paid homage to the victims on Friday without managing to set aside bitter...
