Emergency services say a chemical emergency alert has been activated in northeastern Spain following a big explosion in an industrial zone near Tarragona. A tweet by emergency services for the Catalonia region called the blast a "chemical accident" and advised residents to refrain from going ...
Fugitive Catalan Carles Puigdemont arrives for work at EU Parliament
Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont arrived for his first session as a member of the European Parliament on Monday despite facing an arrest warrant against him in Spain. The former Catalan president and new EU legislator is bent on using the parliament to continue his political ...
Spain's Pedro Sanchez, seeking to form new government, pledges dialogue with Catalan separatists
Spain's acting prime minister Pedro Sanchez, seeking parliament's backing to form a government, pledged to resolve the Catalan dispute through dialogue as he received renewed support from separatists in the restive region. As Sanchez set out his priorities on Saturday in an attempt to end ...
Catalan President Quim Torra disqualified from holding seat in regional parliament
Spain's electoral board on Friday disqualified the regional president of Catalonia from holding a seat in the regional parliament and ruled that another leading separatist imprisoned for sedition is ineligible to take a European Parliament seat he was elected to last year. Both decisions could ...
Catalan independence protesters block major Spain-France road link
Hundreds of Catalan pro-independence protesters blocked a border point on the AP-7 highway that connects Catalonia with France on Monday, stopping traffic in both directions the day after a parliamentary election in Spain. Since around 0800 GMT, the highway — an important truck route from ...
Hard-line stance on sensitive issues boosts Spain's far-right party Vox
With its hard line against Catalan separatism, immigration and feminism, far-right party Vox was the big winner of Spain's repeat general election Sunday, surging into third place. The party won 52 seats — more than doubling the 24 it took during its April parliamentary debut ...
Catalan separatists protest in Barcelona as Spain's king visits
Several thousand Catalan protesters massed in Barcelona on Monday seeking to disrupt a visit by King Felipe VI as the country barreled toward another election under the shadow of the separatist crisis. After weeks of soaring tensions in Spain's protest-hit northeast region, triggered by the ...
Around 350,000 people rallied in downtown Barcelona on Saturday, turning the streets into a sea of independence flags in the latest mass protest against Spain's jailing of nine separatist leaders. The turnout figure was given by the local police as vast crowds packed into a ...
After exhumation from mausoleum, Spain reburies dictator Franco in discreet tomb
Spain exhumed the body of Francisco Franco from a grandiose state mausoleum on Thursday, reburying it in more discreet grave in a country still conflicted over the dictator's decades-long regime. The carefully choreographed operation, which began inside an imposing basilica in the Valley of the ...
From blocking airports to using encrypted messaging apps, Catalan separatists demonstrating against the jailing of nine of their leaders are openly copying tactics devised by pro-democracy protestors in Hong Kong. Shortly after Spain's Supreme Court on Monday sentenced nine Catalan leaders to prison terms of ...
Thousands gather in Barcelona for fourth day of protests for separate Catalonia
Thousands gathered in Barcelona in a fourth day of protests that have led to the worst sustained street violence in Spain in decades after Catalan leaders were sentenced to lengthy prison sentences for their roles in a 2017 bid for independence. Protesters draped in the ...
Cars burn in Barcelona as pro-Catalan independence protesters snub calls for calm
Protesters clashed with police in the Spanish region of Catalonia on Wednesday, with some setting cars ablaze on the third day of disturbances caused by convictions handed down to leaders of a failed bid to declare an independent state. Divisions over the secession drive that ...
