Tennis match-fixing gang dismantled in Spain
Spain’s Guardia Civil have dismantled a gang that allegedly fixed professional tennis competitions, detaining 15 people and probing 68 others including tennis players, one of...
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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...
Sánchez to meet Torra today, as protests gear up
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez will hold a cabinet meeting in Barcelona on Friday amid tight security as Catalan pro-independence groups plan to hold protests...
Guardia Civil break up migrant smuggling ring
Spain’s Guardia Civil said Monday they have smashed an alleged people trafficking network which ‘operated like a travel agency’ and smuggled around 600 Moroccans into...
Spanish government raises tone against Catalonia
As anger rises over Catalonia’s continued push to secede from Spain, the Socialist (PSOE) government in Madrid has dropped its conciliatory tone towards the pro-independence...
Madrid threatens to send national police to Catalonia
The Spanish government has warned authorities in Catalonia that it could take over responsibility for law and order in the region after radical activists blocked...
Comedian in court for blowing nose on national flag
A Spanish comedian appeared in court on Monday for having blown his nose on the national flag in a television sketch, the latest case to...
Greenpeace activists board ship off Spain
Greenpeace said on Saturday that six of its activists had boarded a tanker off Spain loaded with ‘dirty’ palm oil, in a protest against a...
Spanish artist defaces Franco tomb
A Spanish artist, Enrique Terneiro, painted a red dove and the slogan ‘For Freedom‘ on Francisco Franco’s tomb on Wednesday, at the vast mausoleum near Madrid where...
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...
