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With virus cases rising and the vaccination drive delayed, the campaign opened Sunday for regional elections in the Spanish capital that are likely to cement the right-wing's hold on the country's wealthiest region.
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With virus cases rising and its vaccination drive delayed, Madrid heads into an election campaign Sunday ahead of a vote likely to cement the right-wing's hold on Spain's wealthiest region.
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Before arriving in Madrid, Muhammed, Ayham, Okba and Moussa honed their skills as journalists during Syria's bloody civil war and now they have opened Spain's first refugee-led digital magazine.
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Two former Spanish premiers categorically denied the existence of a slush fund at the right-wing Popular Party Wednesday, as they testified as witnesses in the trial of a former party treasurer.
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She was just two years old and she was from Mali. And her death this weekend after days fighting for her life puts a harrowingly human face on the migrant crisis in the Canary Islands.
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Hundreds of demonstrators on Saturday rallied in cities across Spain, including Madrid and Barcelona, calling for the release of a controversial rapper, jailed in mid-February for tweets criticising the royal family and the security forces.
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Although her face is covered by a black mask, Rita Carrasco still wears bright red lipstick. But her easy smile faltered when she had to join Madrid's "hunger lines" for food aid."It was a hard moment.
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High among the treetops the sound of a chainsaw rings out and a huge branch comes crashing down as Madrid's forestry engineers move from tree to tree, repairing the damage from the record snowfall seen in January.
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Spain's parliament voted through a law legalising euthanasia Thursday, becoming one of the few nations to allow terminally-ill or gravely-injured patients to end their own suffering.
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In 1998 Ramona Maneiro helped her friend Ramon Sampedro, paralysed from the neck down following an accident, to die, a tale told in the Oscar-winning Spanish film "The Sea Inside".
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Police have seized a nine-metre (30-foot) narco submarine in southern Spain in what is believed to be the first such vessel built in Europe, Europol said on Monday.
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Pablo Iglesias, leader of the hard-left party Podemos and a deputy prime minister in Spain's ruling coalition, said Monday he would resign from the government to run as Madrid's regional chief.
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Catalonia's new parliament elected Friday a hardline separatist speaker as its pro-independence lawmakers prepare to form a government in the northeastern region of Spain.
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Spain's government announced Thursday a deal that will recognise riders working for delivery firms such as Deliveroo and UberEats as salaried staff following complaints about their working conditions -- a first in the EU.
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The rightwing leader of Madrid's regional government, Isabel Diaz Ayuso, resigned Wednesday, dissolving its ruling coalition and calling a snap election on May 4 in Spain's wealthiest region.
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An outspoken hardliner and scathing critic of Spain's leftwing government, Isabel Diaz Ayuso is a rising right-wing star owing in large part to the coronavirus pandemic.
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Spain's foreign minister on Tuesday hailed the European Parliament's decision to lift the immunity of three wanted Catalan MEPs, although reactions were divided on the streets of Catalonia.
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The European Parliament on Tuesday lifted the immunity of former Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont and two allies wanted by Spain following Catalonia's independence attempt in 2017.
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Several thousand demonstrators massed in Barcelona on Monday for a socially-distanced International Women's Day march after a day of national rallies except in Madrid, where gatherings were banned over the virus.
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Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on Thursday presided over a ceremony to destroy more than 1,000 guns and other weapons seized over the years from Basque separatist group ETA, which disbanded in 2018.
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Spain's royal family came under fire Wednesday after King Felipe VI's sisters confirmed they were vaccinated for the coronavirus while visiting their father in the UAE, sidestepping Spanish immunisation protocols.
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A police van was torched and looting broke out on Saturday as police and protesters clashed in the latest demonstration in Barcelona, 11 days after the jailing of a Spanish rapper in a highly contentious free speech case.
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Spain's former king Juan Carlos, who moved to the UAE last year under a cloud of scandal, has settled a debt of nearly 4.4 million euros ($5.3 million) with the Spanish tax authorities to try to avoid an embarrassing lawsuit.
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Moroccans in a town bordering a Spanish enclave face a bleak future after a smuggling crackdown plus a border closure over coronavirus fears destroyed their livelihoods.
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Spain's north African enclave of Melilla has removed the country's last public statue of former dictator General Francisco Franco 45 years after his death.
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Spain marked 40 years since a failed military coup Tuesday, but without the presence of former king Juan Carlos whose intervention helped stop the crisis, steering the nation toward democracy.
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At Saturday's protest, a hood covers one young woman's hair, a mask her face.Only her dark eyes can be seen staring out at the latest demonstration in Barcelona against the jailing of Spanish rapper Pablo Hasel.
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Looting broke out as police and demonstrators in Barcelona clashed for a fifth night Saturday, with thousands hitting the streets across Spain in protest against the jailing of a controversial rapper.
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Four more people were arrested following another night of violent protests over the jailing of a rapper for controversial tweets, police said on Saturday.
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In office for just over a year, Spain's leftwing coalition grouping the Socialists and hard-left Podemos is showing signs of strain with constant bickering between the two camps.
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Los Callejones de Las Majadas or Alleys of Stone in Cuenca Province, Spain. Itospuf
Chilimosa Tarifa - vegetarian restaurant and takeaway in Tarifa, Spain.
A Guardia Civil vehicle takes ex-treasurer for the PP, Luis Bárcenas, from the court to jail, without bail. El Pais video
An air-to-air front view of a Spanish AV-8S Matador aircraft in flight over the Spanish aircraft carrier DEDALO (R01). Lieutenant Commander John Leenhouts, US Navy
Annual Feria (fair) in Fuengirola, Spain.
Ankylosaur skeleton was found in an open-pit coal mine in the Spanish municipality of Ariño, in northeast Spain.
The skeleton represents the most well-preserved ankylosaurs ever found in Europe, Spain's Department of Natural Resources reported. Fundación Dinópolis
Views of the countryside near Coin in Andalucia, Southern Spain.
Views of the countryside near Coin in Andalucia, Southern Spain - almond blossoms.
A 23-year-old Ecuadorian man died in a fall from a 2nd floor balcony trying to get a WiFi signal on his mobile phone. Video screengrab
Every April an international fair is held in Fuengirola with offerings of food, dance and goods by the multi-cultural society. Jordan.
Two planes almost collide at Barcelona Airport. YouTube
Baelo Claudia - Roman city from the 2nd Century near Tarifa, Spain - Roman Amphitheater.
Castle Sohail, the bridge over the Fuengirola River and the beach by Paco Camacho
Many evacuees told Spanish media they fled with just the clothes on their backs. PAU BARRENA, AFP
A stroll on the beachfront in Fuengirola, Spain.
Asturias, Spain - 29 March 2012 Julito
Mothers strip for an erotic calendar to raise money for their children's school bus. YouTube
Estepona on the Costa del Sol, Spain
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