Spain

Police in Spain, Morocco dismantle terror cell

Sep 06, 2017 12:24

Police in Spain and Morocco have dismantled a suspected terror cell that was planning "large-scale attacks" in the two countries.
Spain: Catalan MPs agree to vote on independence bill

Sep 06, 2017 12:15

Catalonia is expected to pass a law Wednesday laying the groundwork for an independence referendum on October 1 which is fiercely opposed by Madrid, setting a course for Spain's deepest political crisis in decades.
Spain: Catalonia leader urges opposition to suspension of his duties

Sep 03, 2017 12:27

Leader of Spain’s Catalonia region has reiterated that he and other officials would resist efforts by Madrid to hamper a planned referendum on independence, saying pushing him out of office ahead of the vote was something out of speculation.
Police nab 14, including Brits, over drug trafficking in Spain’s Mallorca

Sep 03, 2017 08:18

Spanish police have arrested 14 people, including 12 British nationals, in an operation to bust a drug trafficking ring in a resort town on the Mediterranean island of Mallorca.
Spanish archaeologists dig up more civil war dead from mass graves

Aug 30, 2017 13:37

Archaeologists in Spain have unearthed more bodies from mass graves dating back to the 1936-1939 civil war and the ensuing dictatorship of General Francisco Franco, including some still wearing rotting leather boots.
Man linked to Spain attacks arrested in Morocco

Aug 30, 2017 04:27

Authorities in Morocco have arrested a man suspected of supplying gas canisters to a terrorist cell that carried out twin attacks in Spain earlier this month.
Almost half a million march in Barcelona to condemn terror

Aug 27, 2017 02:07

Almost half a million people have taken to the streets in the Spanish city of Barcelona to condemn violence following recent terrorist attacks in Spain.
Mob attacks hijab-wearing woman in Spain in ‘Islamophobic’ assault

Aug 26, 2017 07:45

A mob in Spain has brutally assaulted a hijab-wearing Muslim woman in the country’s capital of Madrid, in what police describe as an “Islamophobic” attack.
‘Planned huge bombings’ in Spain

Aug 23, 2017 08:28

A member of a now-disbanded terror cell that carried out a pair of deadly vehicular attacks in Spain last week has told a Spanish court that the group planned major bombings in the center of Barcelona.
Four suspects in Spain terror attacks appear in Madrid court

Aug 22, 2017 08:09

Four men accused of being members of a terror cell responsible for last week’s twin attacks in the northern Spanish city of Barcelona and the seaside resort of Cambrils have appeared in court.