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Spanish protesters throng streets over soaring prices

Mar 20, 2022 10:38

Thousands of people have taken to the streets across Spain, staging anti-government protests triggered by soaring prices.
Over 4,000 migrants died trying to reach Spain in 2021: NGO

Jan 04, 2022 04:40

Over 4,000 migrants died or disappeared trying to reach Spain by sea in 2021, twice as many as in the previous year, a migrant rights group says.
Striking metalworkers in southern Spain clash with police on ninth day of mass walkout

Nov 24, 2021 14:06

Striking metalworkers in the southern Spanish city of Cadiz have clashed with police on the ninth day of a mass walkout over a pay dispute involving tens of thousands of employees.
Catalan separatist leader Puigdemont arrested in Italy

Sep 24, 2021 11:24

Exiled former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont has been arrested in Italy on Thursday, his lawyer and an aide say, four years after fleeing following an independence referendum that Madrid ruled unconstitutional.
Spain, Catalonia resume talks, admit divisions on Catalan independence

Sep 16, 2021 02:27

The Spanish government and the Catalonia region have resumed talks aimed at sewing up their rifts over the northeastern region’s separatist ambitions.
Catalonia's separatists back on streets ahead of Madrid talks

Sep 12, 2021 04:38

Tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets in Catalonia in the first major independence rally this year, as leaders of the wealthy northeastern region are set to hold talks with the Spanish central government in the coming days.
Nicaragua rebukes Spain over interference, US-like imperial posture

Jun 27, 2021 09:31

The Nicaraguan Foreign Ministry has blasted Spain over interference in the Central American country’s domestic affairs, consistent with Washington's hostile stance toward the nation.
Spanish right rallies against plans to pardon Catalan separatists

Jun 16, 2021 14:48

Tens of thousands of people, including the leaders of the three parties on Spain’s right, have rallied in Madrid to protest against the government’s deeply divisive moves to pardon the 12 Catalan independence leaders convicted over their parts in the failed secession attempt almost four years ago.
Western Sahara independence leader lands in Algiers amid diplomatic row between Morocco, Spain

Jun 02, 2021 11:37

Brahim Ghali, the leader of the Western Saharan independence movement has arrived in Algeria, amid an escalation of tensions between Morocco and Spain over his reception for medical treatment by the latter.
Workers mark May Day with protest rallies in France, Spain, Germany

May 02, 2021 03:10

Protests erupted in a number of European countries on May Day as demonstrators called for better working protections in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic and the attributed economic crisis.