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The Catalan regional parliament is preparing to strip the president troubled region of his seat because he disobeyed Spain's strict rules on election propaganda. The expected move is likely to fuel anger among die-hard pro-independence supporters, who see in the decision by the governing body of Catalonia's parliament yet another grievance with Spanish judicial decisions. Parliament officials announced the decision to strip Quim Torra of his seat yesterday, but it […]

Parts of a fishing boat missing since Wednesday with six fishermen on board, have been found. The ‘Rua Mar’, based in Algeciras in the Cadiz region, disappeared in Moroccan waters in the early hours. The crew were thinking of returning at night, because the weather was bad” but maritime rescue contacted the shipowner to say that a distress signal had been detected, shortly after it lost contact with the vessel. […]

The body of missing Briton Kenny McPherson has been found over 200km from where the 62-year-old set out kayaking last November. The Guardia Civil in Ibiza have confirmed the body washed up on Formentera, is that of the Scottish-born McPherson. His body had been at sea for two months after he went missing from Torrevieja’s Marina on November 23 in a kayak. He had flown to Spain in early November […]

Boxes floating in the ocean spotted by tourists aboard an Estonian sailboat off the island of Tenerife turned out to contain almost half a ton of hashish. The neatly packed boxes with letters and numbers printed on them were seen floating in the ocean by people on the boatthat was on a regular dolphin sighting trip off Tenerife 1.5 nautical miles from the port of San Miguel. Only 90 kilometers […]

Spanish police have arrested a gang of Polish drug traffickers with 'military training' who used high-end vehicles stolen from Britain and smuggled their narcotics into the UK. Detectives said five of the 11 luxury vehicles they were using had been reported stolen in the UK last October and November. The leader of the gang, described by police on Saturday as a 'dangerous organisation specialising in the production and genetic modification […]

Juan Guaidó, the man who a year ago launched a bid to oust Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, arrived in Spain on Saturday, where a thriving community of Venezuelans and a storm among Spanish political parties awaited him. Guaidó, Venezuela's main opposition leader, is on an international tour to bolster support for his U.S.-backed effort to remove Maduro from power and lead the country until a presidential election deemed to be […]

The Spanish Health Ministry says that two people in the country were under observation for symptoms of the coronavirus. Both of them had recently arrived in Spain from the center of the current outbreak, the Chinese city of Wuhan. But tests on them came back negative, the Spanish government is not currently planning on taking any special measures at the country’s airports, given that there are no direct flights from […]

Spain’s coalition government is planning on reforming the country’s criminal code to lower the sentence for sedition, a crime that came to the spotlight following last year’s Supreme Court ruling on the Catalan separatist leaders, involved with the 2017 breakaway bid in the northeastern region. Spain’s top court found nine of the defendants guilty of offences including sedition and handed down lengthy prison sentences, sparking mass protests and disturbances in […]