0852 GMT December 15, 2019
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Four refugees have died and up to 16 more are missing after trying to cross into Europe from North Africa on a small raft, Spain's coastguard says.
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Catalan separatists have blocked traffic on a motorway linking Spain and France, in a fresh protest against the sentencing last month of nine of their leaders to lengthy jail terms.
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Spain held its second parliamentary election in just over six months on Sunday, with voters likely to deliver an even more fragmented parliament with no clear winner and a sizeable appearance by the far-right.
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Spain's Supreme Court has reactivated a European arrest warrant for three Catalan leaders who fled Spain after taking part in a failed independence bid in 2017.
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Spain’s far-right Vox Party is set to double the number of its parliamentary seats in the country’s general elections, which are due next week, a new poll suggests.
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Iranian documentary, ‘Lotus,’ directed by Mohammadreza Vatandoust, won two awards at the eighth edition of ForadCamp Nature and Cinema Exhibition in Spain.
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The vast majority of Catalonia's almost 1,000 mayors have urged authorities in Madrid to grant the region the right to determine its own future, as crowds of separatists prepare for a protest march in Barcelona later on Saturday.
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The center-right pro-union Ciudadanos Party, which was born out of opposition to Catalan separatism, holds a rally in front of Catalonia's regional government headquarters in Barcelona run under the slogan "That's enough! Justice and coexistence."
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Pro-independence protesters have staged rallies in Spain’s Catalonia region, blocking a railway and several motorways.
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The jailing of Catalan secessionists for their role in a failed pro-independence bid will only galvanize the Spanish region’s independence movement and another referendum is inevitable, the leader hit by the heaviest jail sentence told Reuters.
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Thousands of angry demonstrators took to the streets of Barcelona and elsewhere on Monday after Spain's Supreme Court sentenced nine Catalan separatist leaders to between nine and 13 years in jail for ‘sedition’ over the failed 2017 independence efforts.
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Spain’s Supreme Court plans to sentence Catalan separatist leaders to a maximum of 15 years in prison over a 2017 bid for independence, a judicial source said on Saturday.
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Spain has summoned the US ambassador in Madrid to express its complete rejection of any new US tariffs on European Union goods and will press for strong countermeasures if they are confirmed, the acting government said.
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Spain's National Court on Monday said it had dismissed a complaint against Barcelona's Lionel Messi filed by a former employee of the Argentine footballer's foundation, who had accused him of fraud, embezzlement and money laundering.
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By Fernando Peinado*
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