Spain's Socialists and Podemos reach preliminary coalition deal: source
Spain's Socialists have reached a preliminary agreement with the far-left Podemos party to form a coalition government following Sunday's election, a senior Socialist source said Tuesday. The election — the country's fourth in four years — left Spain's parliament even more fragmented than a previous ...
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 ...
Socialists win in Spain election, but far-right surge suggests no end to political stalemate
Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez's Socialists won Spain's national election Sunday but large gains by the upstart far-right Vox party appear certain to widen the political deadlock in the European Union's fifth-largest economy. After a fourth national ballot in as many years and the second in ...
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 ...
Spain to host COP25 climate talks in December after Chile cancels due to riots
Spain will host U.N. climate change talks in December after Chile withdrew, the United Nations said on Friday, a last-minute switch that raises big logistical challenges and has left activist Greta Thunberg stranded on the wrong side of the Atlantic. The U.N. climate change talks, ...
In Spanish town, Pokemon Go keeps senior citizens fit and staves off isolation
At first, when she retired from a lifelong career in nursing in her native Spain, Joanna Perez Osuna struggled with a lack of purpose. Then she found solace in a virtual world populated by "Pikachus," "Weedles" and "Smeargles." Perez started playing Pokemon Go, the augmented-reality ...
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 ...
Spanish authorities will remove Francisco Franco's remains from a state mausoleum on Thursday, seeking to exorcise the ghost of a dictator whose legacy still divides the country more than four decades after his death. Amid tight security and in virtual secrecy, his coffin will be ...
Women soccer players in Spain plan to go on strike after failing to reach a deal with clubs over working hours and minimum wages. Around 200 players met in Madrid late Tuesday and voted in favor of the strike, which is expected to begin in ...
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 ...
