A simple yellow ribbon: almost eleven months after the independence referendum, it has become an important symbol in Catalonia- where fights are being fought for and against: by politicians, but also by people on the streets.
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 Algerian man who attacked a Catalan agent with a knife had recently told his wife that he was a homosexual. The man saw that according to sources around the investigation as a sin. He would therefore have looked for a kind of religious salvation, the El País newspaper reports.
The Spanish police are dealing with an attack on a Catalan police station as terrorism. A man attacked a cop with a big knife. The police shot him dead.
The Barcelona police shot a man on Monday morning who wanted to attack officers with a knife. This happened in the reception room of the Mossos d \u0026 # x27; Esquadra office in the Cornellà de Llobregat district.
The Ramblas in Barcelona are again full of roses, lights, notes, photos and hugs. Friday commemorates the city that a year ago the white bus of terrorist Younes Abouyaaqoub from Ripoll zigzagged over the pedestrian boulevard, causing thirteen fatalities and dozens of wounded. In total, sixteen people died in the attacks of Barcelona and Cambrils. The wounds are still far from healed.
Action groups that encourage bales of mass tourism in Barcelona to jump from the balcony.
Spanish football can be viewed free of charge via Facebook on the Indian subcontinent from Friday. LaLiga and Facebook have signed a contract for this. All 380 LaLiga matches are available this season for free for viewers in India, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, the Maldives, Sri Lanka and Pakistan.
A rescue ship with 87 migrants on board has arrived in Spain. The vessel Open Arms arrived Thursday morning in the southern port city of Algeciras (Andalucia), reported aid organization Proactiva. The migrants, including 12 minors from Sudan and Gambia, were rescued from Libya more than a week ago.
The heat has certainly claimed three lives in Spain in recent days. In Barcelona, passers-by found a man in the street in whom the blood ran out of his mouth. He was taken to the hospital in critical condition. It turned out that the man was overcome by the heat.
At Samsung they keep working through during the summer. Today the Korean technology giant introduced two new tablets: the Galaxy Tab A 10.5 for the whole family and the productivity-oriented Galaxy Tab S4.
Bleeding hands, bruises, burns and respiratory problems: 132 migrants and 22 cops were wounded on Thursday after a group of more than 700 migrants stormed the Spanish enclave of Ceuta this morning. It was one of the most massive and violent storms of the Spanish enclaves in Morocco in recent years, and also illustrative of the youngest problem area in Europe.
The Catalan separatist leader Carles Puigdemont may be extradited to Spain for misappropriation of public funds but not for rebellion. The court in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein has determined this.
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!'
By eating two hands of nuts a day, men can significantly improve the quality of their semen. This is shown by research by the Universitat Rovira i Virgili in Spain.
Police services in several EU countries have seized tens of millions of euros in cultural heritage. This happened during a major international campaign against a gang that deals with the excavation and trading of historical objects, reports Europol.
The Spanish government has again granted permission to a rescue ship to bring migrants into a Spanish port. The Spanish aid organization Proactiva announced Sunday morning that its ship the Open Arms is welcome in the port of Barcelona.
A new success for the Spanish police in the fight against 'Los Castañas', the drugs clan in Southern Spain and master of the hash trade. This morning two members of the clan were arrested, including the second man in the organization. Samuel Crespo had been fugitive for four months.
He played the murdered innocence in the courtroom yesterday: Eduardo Vela, a doctor of 85 who is on trial in a historic lawsuit about the tens of thousands of babies that were stolen at the time of Franco's rule.
It is not given to everyone, but Iñaki Urdangarin, the brother-in-law of the Spanish king Felipe VI, was allowed to choose his own prison. He chose one where he is the only male inmate between 162 women.
Drug gangs in the south of Spain are becoming increasingly powerful and violent. Residents of the port city of Algeciras are fed up and have demonstrated on several occasions in the village square against the increasing drug violence.
Fifteen Kosovars have been arrested in Catalonia because they have robbed hundreds of tourists in recent years. In the last six months alone, they would have stolen at least 150,000 euros worth of stuff. It is not known whether the Dutch are also among the victims.
Penelope Cruz has urged the American authorities to re-examine the Woody Allen abuse case so that the case can be finally terminated. The case revolves around Dylan Farrow, who accuses her father Woody Allen of having sexually abused her.
The separatists have regained control in the regional parliament of Catalonia on Saturday with the swearing in of a new government. This puts an end to the direct domination by the Spanish government from Madrid.
The Spanish socialist leader Pedro Sanchez almost certainly experiences his finest hour tomorrow. His vote of no confidence in the Spanish parliament is voted, with which almost certainly an end is put to the minority government of his opponent: Mariano Rajoy.
Absolute crisis for the Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy: today or tomorrow it is definitely over and over for his minority government that has been in a shaky position since taking office in 2016.
On the orders of the judge, the police in Barcelona this week are busy with house searches and raids in connection with subsidy money that would have been channeled to finance the independence of Catalonia. Some 10 million euros would be involved in the corruption scandal.
The Catalonia region still remains under Spanish curatorship. Article 155 is not lifted, as the new President Quim Torra, in the eyes of Prime Minister Rajoy, again seeks the confrontation with Madrid.
The dispute between the Spanish central government and the separatists in Catalonia has flared up again after the last decisions of the new regional Prime Minister Quim Torra. He had appointed several separatist ministers on Saturday in his cabinet in custody or leaving the country after the forbidden referendum on independence in October 2017.
'Long live a free Catalonia!' Were the first words of the new Catalan regional president, the separatist Quim Torra, put forward by the deposed Carles Puigdemont. Torra was chosen yesterday in a second round of voting with a very narrow majority as the successor of Puigdemont, ending a five-month political impasse in Catalonia.
