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Catalonia confirms date for referendum
Sep 07, 2017 08:55The regional government in Spain’s prosperous Catalonia region has officially confirmed October 1 as the date for a referendum for independence in open defiance of Madrid.
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Police in Spain, Morocco dismantle terror cell
Sep 06, 2017 12:24Police in Spain and Morocco have dismantled a suspected terror cell that was planning "large-scale attacks" in the two countries.
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Spain: Catalan MPs agree to vote on independence bill
Sep 06, 2017 12:15Catalonia 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.
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Spain: Catalonia leader urges opposition to suspension of his duties
Sep 03, 2017 12:27Leader 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.
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Police nab 14, including Brits, over drug trafficking in Spain’s Mallorca
Sep 03, 2017 08:18Spanish 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.
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Spanish archaeologists dig up more civil war dead from mass graves
Aug 30, 2017 13:37Archaeologists 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.
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Man linked to Spain attacks arrested in Morocco
Aug 30, 2017 04:27Authorities 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.
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Almost half a million march in Barcelona to condemn terror
Aug 27, 2017 02:07Almost half a million people have taken to the streets in the Spanish city of Barcelona to condemn violence following recent terrorist attacks in Spain.
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Mob attacks hijab-wearing woman in Spain in ‘Islamophobic’ assault
Aug 26, 2017 07:45A 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.
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‘Planned huge bombings’ in Spain
Aug 23, 2017 08:28A 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.