Former King Juan Carlos to retire from public life (at a bullfight)
Spain’s King Emeritus Juan Carlos I, aged 81, has announced he will be retiring from public life next month. The former monarch’s announcement that he would retire...
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Jailed Jordi Sànchez seeks meeting with Felipe VI
The lawyer of the jailed Catalan pro-independence leader and suspended Spanish MP Jordi Sànchez – currently one of the 12 defendants in the Catalan Trial –...
Mexico demands apology from Spain for colonial ‘abuses’
Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has written to Spain’s King Felipe VI and Pope Francis demanding an apology for the ‘abuses’ of colonialism and the...
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,...
Felipe VI inflammable statue sparks art fair row
Want to burn a statue of Spain’s King Felipe VI? For 200,000 euros, it’s a deal – a contractual obligation, even – at Madrid’s ARCO contemporary...
Protests against Felipe VI before MWC inauguration
Hundreds took to the streets in Barcelona late on Sunday to protest against the visit of Spain’s king, Felipe VI, who was inaugurating the Mobile...
Felipe VI: ‘democracy not above respecting the law’
Spain’s King Felipe VI has said democracy is not above respecting the law, in unusually outspoken comments widely interpreted as refuting claims by Catalan independence leaders...
King of Spain visits Iraq, first in 40 years
Spain’s King Felipe VI has arrived in Iraq for the first visit there by a Spanish monarch in four decades. The king, whose country is...
Spain grieves toddler found dead in well
Spain grieved on Saturday after a toddler who fell down a well was found dead in a tragic end to an intense 13-day rescue operation...
Rescuers recover body of toddler in well
Rescuers early on Saturday found the body of a two-year-old boy who fell into a deep well nearly two weeks ago in southern Spain, triggering...
