The attacks in Madrid in 2014 remain the largest jihadist attack in Europe. Al-Qaeda had a small finger in the porridge. The involvement of the terrorist group only became years after the massacre...
International Women's Day is 'celebrated' in Spain with numerous strike actions among women. There are also demonstrations in many places on the street. In Barcelona, the police were hard at work...
The Spanish police are investigating a mysterious incident at the embassy of North Korea in Madrid. According to the newspaper El Confidencial, a group of men would have invaded the embassy on Friday and...
Spain is shocked by a bizarre family drama. A 26-year-old Spaniard who looks like a decent young man has been caught by the police on cannibalism- in the middle of Madrid. He was his...
French President Emmanuel Macron is entering a French national day for the commemoration of the victims of terrorism. The memorial day will be held for the first time in 2020. The Elysée...
Tens of thousands of Spaniards demonstrated in the center of Madrid on Sunday against the government's indulgent attitude towards Catalans who strive for independence. Also…
The left-wing Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez wants to go down in history as the man who had former dictator Franco excavated from the monumental mausoleum in the Valley of the Fallen, at 50 kilometers...
She was beaten, abused, saw the blood in the eye and did nothing- as a final attempt- like she was dead. When she opened her eyes, she was raped. Now the 27-year-old Andrea has a...
A Spanish warship has provoked the British authorities on Tuesday by entering the territorial waters of Gibraltar and letting the Spanish national anthem blow through the speakers on deck. A small boat from the British navy escorted the Spanish frigate on its challenging trip along the rock.
A mother and her daughter died in a gruesome way at Madrid. They were attacked by dogs. That attack turned out to be fatal. The drama occurred in the home of one of the two victims.
(ANP) Spain threatens to block the Brexit deal if the EU does not support Madrid in the Gibraltar issue.
The Catholic Church in Spain has publicly admitted that priests and other clergy were sexually abusing minors. 'The Church publicly recognizes abuses of different kinds and is determined to eradicate them,' said Ricardo Blázquez, President of the Spanish Bishops' Conference, at the opening of the 112th plenary session of bishops in Madrid.
The party of the French President Emmanuel Macron, La République and Marche, wants to cooperate with the liberal ALDE group in the European Parliament, which includes the VVD and D66. Astrid Panosyan, a confidant of Macron, said Friday that he would like to work together at the party conference of the ALDE in Madrid 'for a better Europe.'
The Spanish police have, in their own words, prevented an assassination attempt against Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez. The police in Catalonia announced Thursday that the suspect is a 63-year-old man. He would have wanted to kill the 46-year-old socialist prime minister because the government has plans to move the body of former dictator Franco, who died in 1975. His remains are in a large mausoleum near Madrid.
It is the nightmare of many football fans in a stadium. Miss a goal while you just pay a visit to the toilet. At Real Madrid that will soon be a thing of the past, because the wealthy Spanish top club has decided to place TV screens in the urinals. That reports the Spanish sports newspaper AS.
A number of suspects identified by Turkey in the case of the missing Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi comes from the immediate surroundings of the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. The New York Times writes this on the basis of facial recognition, social network profiles, media reports and leaked Saudi government documents.
Catalans marched massively on Monday evening in Barcelona to underline that separatism is still alive in Catalonia. The police estimated the turnout to 180,000 people according to Spanish media. The largest banner read: 'Self-determination is a human right.'
The police in Spain met with Catalan demonstrators in Barcelona Monday evening. The demonstrators, who want independent Catalonia, tried to take the regional parliament in Barcelona but were eventually swept away by the Marechaussee.
The Cuban government wants to get more clarity next week in the corridors of the General Assembly of the United Nations by the new Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez about a state visit by King Felipe and Queen Letizia to Cuba.
US President Donald Trump has suggested stopping migrants by building a wall in the Sahara. This was told by the Spanish minister Josep Borrell (Foreign Affairs), who immediately made it clear that he was not enthusiastic about the proposal. The desert has a length of thousands of kilometers.
On the 'national' holiday of Catalonia, hundreds of thousands of separatists met in Barcelona in a 6-kilometer parade.
In a traffic accident with a bus in the north of Spain, at least six people were killed and about 25 wounded. The bus crashed on a motorway in Avilés where roadworks were taking place, in a pillar of a viaduct, local media reported.
For the duel between Dinamo Kiev and Ajax, the police of the capital of Ukraine arrested nine supporters. They were involved in a fight around a café.
Spain wants to excavate and remove the body of former dictator Francisco Franco from his own mausoleum in the Valley of the Fallen near Madrid. That could happen soon- perhaps within two months. 'Spain can not afford symbols that divide the Spaniards,' says Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez.
The carlists, the Spanish movement that Prince Carlos, born and living in the Netherlands, regards as the rightful occupier of the Spanish throne, will remember Friday during a mass in the San Fermin de los Navarros church in Madrid on the death in August 2010 of 'king Carlos Hugo '.
The Spanish government of Social Democratic Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez will move the remains of dictator and general Francisco Franco (1892-1975). Deputy Prime Minister Carmen Calvo has announced on Friday that a decree has been issued and that the procedure has been initiated.
In collaboration with Europol, the Spanish police rolled up a gang that smuggled immigrants into the European Union. The police arrested six suspects in the Spanish Basque Country and one in Madrid, according to the police against the Spanish news agency Europa Press.
This Monday the leaders of Spain and Catalonia met in an attempt to pull the Catalan crisis out of the doldrums. Last week, some of the Catalan leaders who were in prison from Madrid came to prisons in Catalonia. Among them 'the two Jordis'. Txell Bonet is the partner of Jordi Cuixart, the president of the Catalan cultural and political societies Òmnium. She says: 'We do not want a transfer, we want release!'
France and Spain want the refugee centers that are closed in the EU. The migrants in these centers must be informed as quickly as possible whether or not their asylum application is being honored.
Spain is prepared to provide Malta with humanitarian aid for a boat sailing with more than 200 migrants on board in the vicinity of the island state. That is what a government spokeswoman in Madrid announced after the Cabinet meeting.
