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Nine Catalan separatist leaders jailed for their involvement in the 2017 independence bid may be granted greater freedom if a decision by three prison assessment boards is ratified by the Catalan regional government. The justice department in Catalunya says that three assessment boards have unanimously agreed to pass the inmates’ request to be placed in a Grade-3 regime, which is the least restrictive of Spain’s three-tiered prison system. Under this […]

Former top Mexican oil executive Emilio Lozoya will not contest extradition from Spain to face charges over the vast Odebrecht corruption scandal. Lozoya presented himself to Spanish magistrates on Monday and gave his “express consent to be handed over to the Mexican authorities offering his collaboration to establish and clarify the facts in the charges against him.” Lozoya, chief executive of the PEMEX state oil company from 2012-2016, is the […]

A British man has been arrested in Tenerife on suspicion of stabbing his father to death. Spanish police say the victim, who is also British, is alleged to have been knifed between 30 and 40 times at a home yesterday morning. The son, said to be in his 30s and believed to be an expat, was arrested at about 10am in the southern municipality of Granadilla de Abona.

Spain’s Foreign Affairs Ministry has called for the end to the blockade on oil production in Libya. International talks are currently ongoing to end the blockade of the country’s oilfields by forces loyal to the Libyan warlord Khalifa Haftar. Losses from the closure of Libya's oil wells and the current blockades imposed by Haftar's militia have added up to nearly $6 billion over the last five months.