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Former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont is a candidate for a seat in the European Parliament. He is the party leader for his party Junts per Catalunya (JxCat).

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...

An innocent night out, turned out to be a great adventure for the 19-year-old Tara and Jack. The two best friends went to eat something at the McDonald's at the London airport after dancing...

The retired man who insulted a dark woman during a Ryanair flight is not being prosecuted in his homeland.

The folding of telephones will become the norm in the coming years, that is what Korean and Chinese phone makers expect. A few days after Samsung unveiled the Galaxy Fold in London,...

The European porn-filmmakers have largely halted recordings now that the Spanish star Nacho Vidal has leaked possibly HIV.

Spain has to go back to the polls after the leftist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez did not get his budget through parliament. He will announce a date for early elections tomorrow.

A passenger train near Barcelona is derailed. One person is overrun and several people have been injured, local media report.

The Spanish David Aguilar has made his own artificial arm, from Lego. The 19-year-old bioengineering student at the University of Barcelona was born without a right forearm due to a...

More than a hundred agents are in action in Barcelona and 45 kilometers away in Igualada against what the police call a group of jihadists who would like to commit an attack. There are already several...

In a fire in an apartment complex in a city near Barcelona, ​​three people were killed. Three others were seriously injured, including a baby. All injured are urgent...

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...

The Spanish police are looking for a 40-year-old Moroccan driver of a bus that would want to make an attack in Barcelona around Christmas. As a precaution, extra safety measures are required...

Catalonia was again the scene of intense riots yesterday. At various places in Barcelona, ​​separatist demonstrators collided with the Spanish and Catalan police. Throughout the region...

The Spanish cabinet of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez meets in the Catalan capital of Barcelona. It is the second time that the Spanish government is meeting there and the fifteenth time since 1975 that the...

Hundreds of expats in Barcelona spent the night at the airport- including dozens of Dutch people. Today they fly back to their families and friends for the holidays. Because of...

Policemen have handed out brochures to tourists at the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona on Wednesday to make it clear that they have too little manpower to guarantee the safety of the city's visitors. The folders contain tips for tourists to prevent the theft of their property.

The derailment of a train Tuesday morning at Barcelona caused a death and six people were seriously injured. The newspaper El Periódico reported that the derailment was the result of a landslide.

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.

The deposed Catalan vice president Oriol Junqueras will be tried in the coming months together with seventeen other separatist Catalan leaders for his role in last year's unsuccessful attempt at retaliation.

The German intelligence service warns, according to the German newspaper Bild, in a secret report for a new migrant flow from Morocco to European territory, via Spain. German experts warn that the new generation of 'boza' ('victory') would cost anything to land in Europe.

Spain's most sought-after drug criminal, Franciso Tejón has surrendered to the Spanish police. Tejón and his lawyer entered the police station of the southern La Linea de Concepción.

Queen Sofia of Spain attended Monday the funeral of the saturday opera singer Montserrat Caballé. The farewell ceremony took place in a funeral home in the Les Corts district in Barcelona.

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.

Hundreds of Catalan separatists have blocked traffic arteries in several places, including the track of the high-speed train AVE in Gerona. In Barcelona, ​​among others, the central Via Laietana is blocked. A railway is also blocked at Tarragona.

Two days before the anniversary of the illegal Catalan independence referendum, riots broke out in Barcelona. Separatist demonstrators got into trouble with the Catalan police when they were on their way to a protest march of the national police and Guardia Civil, elsewhere in the city center.

The ex-premier of France Manuel Valls wants to succeed his left-wing kindred spirit Ada Colau as mayor of Barcelona. The 56-year-old socialist spoke out this ambition at a press conference Tuesday, first in Catalan and then in Spanish. There has been speculation about his candidacy for months. The election is on May 26, 2019.

On the 'national' holiday of Catalonia, hundreds of thousands of separatists met in Barcelona in a 6-kilometer parade.

The defense of Judge Pablo Llarena of the Supreme Court before the Belgian court costs the Spanish state more than half a million euros. The former Catalan regional president Carles Puigdemont sues him in a civil case. Puigdemont accuses Llarena of 'bias' and violating his personal rights.