Puigdemont forms new platform: Crida Nacional
A year after threatening the unity of Spain with an attempt to declare independence, the former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont launched a new party on...
Pedro Sánchez
Focus: one year after Catalan independence bid
Catalonia‘s separatist movement appears split a year after the region’s fruitless declaration of independence from Spain, with some pressing ahead on an idealist path to...
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...
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...
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...
Spain’s elite shaken by ‘blackmailer’ cop, Villarejo
He may be behind bars, but a former police chief still strikes fear into the highest levels of the Spanish state thanks to his covert...
Spanish royals visit Mallorca after deadly floods
Spain’s King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia visited a flood-ravaged area of the holiday island of Mallorca on Friday, offering encouragement to locals who lost...
National Day rally demands prison sentences for Catalan leaders
A rally held in central Barcelona on Thursday in support of Spain’s National Day, the Dia de la Hispanidad (or Hispanic Day) was attended by some...
Spain threatens ‘legal measures’ over Catalan Parliament vote
The Spanish government threatened ‘legal measures’ on Thursday after the Catalan Parliament passed a motion condemning the role of King Felipe VI in the independence bid,...
Opera star Montserrat Caballé laid to rest
Spain’s world-famous opera singer Montserrat Caballé was laid to rest on Monday at a funeral in Barcelona where tenor Jose Carreras hailed her as ‘the greatest soprano...
