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Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA), chairman of the House Foreign Affairs subcommittee on Europe, Eurasia, and Emerging Threats, declared last week that he supports the secession of Catalonia from Spain.

Spain’s maritime rescue says it has rescued 125 migrants trying to make nighttime crossings from Africa in three smuggling boats.

MADRID (AFP) — Troublemakers sparked panic sparked at Seville’s nighttime Good Friday processions, famed for their religious floats, hooded penitents and crowds of spectators, seriously injuring one person, Spanish authorities said. Emergency services said eight people were detained in connection with

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Spanish rescue ships saved 73 migrants, including one pregnant woman, from five different smuggling boats trying to cross the sea from Africa to Europe during the previous 24 hours.

TEL AVIV – A 267-kilogram shipment of cocaine hidden in bags of coal and bound for Israel was intercepted by Spanish authorities on Tuesday.

MADRID (AP) — An alleged Russian hacker has been detained in Spain at the request of American authorities, an arrest that set cybersecurity circles abuzz after a Russian broadcaster raised the possibility it was linked to the U.S. presidential election.

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The eurozone’s top official said “fatigue may have played a role” for comments he made last month that unleashed a storm of criticism across southern Europe. In an interview with Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant, published

MADRID (AFP) – Gibraltar on Wednesday accused Spain of causing long traffic jams with tightened border controls, saying it was “clearly a response” to rising political tensions over the British territory.

MADRID (AP) — Spain’s Constitutional Court has provisionally blocked plans by the Catalan regional government to finance an independence referendum this year, following a legal challenge by the Spanish government.

The Gibraltar government have restated their position that they are not to be a bargaining chip in Britain’s Brexit negotiations, and are certain they wish to remain part of the Kingdom, as the row over Spain’s posturing over the rock continues to ruffle feathers.

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Spain’s top diplomat said Sunday that his government is urging the European Union to side with Madrid on the future of the British territory of Gibraltar, which lies at the southern tip of the Iberian Peninsula

On the 35th anniversary of the Argentine invasion of the Falkland Islands, Senior members of Britain’s ruling Conservative party hit back at the European Union and Spain after Britain’s ownership of the Gibraltar territory was seized as a bargaining chip

The Chief Minister of Gibraltar has given a series of interviews expressing disgust at the European Council accepting a Spanish veto over its EU relations in the upcoming Brexit negotiations, vowing that the Rock will be “even more British” after Brexit.

Several thousand people, many waving Spanish and Catalan flags, rallied in Barcelona on Sunday to oppose a push by the regional government of Catalonia to break away from the rest of Spain.

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) – Police in eastern Spain opened an investigation into a suspected human trafficking route after discovering two trucks carrying Iraqi migrants in less than a month. A civil guard spokeswoman told The Associated Press Sunday that an

MADRID (AFP) – Eight Iraqis, including four children, were found crammed inside a refrigerated truck in a service area in eastern Spain, police said Saturday, adding that they had been trying to reach Britain.

Attempts by migrants to break through the border into the Spanish exclaves of Ceuta and Melilla are becoming increasingly violent, the country’s security minister has warned.

Hundreds of posters displayed in a migrant-dominated part of Barcelona are urging Muslim men to marry Spanish women in a bid to spread Islam, and inviting members of the community to an “information meeting”.

MADRID (AP) — Spanish police say they have arrested 24 members of a Colombian drug ring seeking to establish a network for the wholesale distribution of cocaine.

The president of a conservative group in Spain has vowed to fight on after a judge impounded a bus that was due to tour the country protesting transgender ideology.

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Border violations at Ceuta and Melilla, autonomous port cities on the North African coast which have been Spanish for hundreds of years, have tripled over the past month following Moroccan threats to terminate security co-operation.

A large bus protesting the rise of gender ideology is touring Spain, infuriating left wing campaigners. The bus is emblazoned with the slogan “Boys have penises. Girls have vaginas. Don’t be fooled.”

The Spanish coast guard rescued 257 migrants trying to cross the Mediterranean to Europe from Morocco in inflatable dinghies in an “intense weekend,” they said Monday.

BARCELONA (AFP) – A Swede who took police on a high-speed chase through Barcelona at the wheel of a stolen truck full of gas cylinders had partied hard the previous night, local authorities said Wednesday.

Police in Barcelona fired gunshots Tuesday to stop a man who stole a butane gas truck and drove it at high speed against traffic on a city highway, ramming several cars along the way, a police spokeswoman said. Authorities ruled out terrorism as a motive.

Some 300 migrants stormed the border between Morocco and Spain at Ceuta on Monday, authorities said, days after hundreds more forced their way over the frontier.

Thousands of protesters marched Saturday in Barcelona to demand that Spain’s conservative-led government increase its efforts to take in refugees from war-torn countries like Syria.

A total of 15 police officers were injured as around 500 immigrants stormed through the border between Morocco and the Spanish territory of Ceuta.

MADRID (AP) – The local Red Cross says an emergency team is assisting more than 300 migrants who crossed the fence surrounding Spain’s enclave of Ceuta in North Africa early Friday.

Spain’s Interior Ministry said two separate arrests have been made in connection with Islamic extremism, bringing to 188 the number of people accused of jihadi links in Spain since 2015.

The Spanish government has released a new report claiming members of Islamic State could be targeting coastal resort towns to carry out large-scale massacres of tourists.

TEL AVIV – Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions activists in Spain will be tried in court for the harassing Jewish American singer Matisyahu and for calling for his performance at an international reggae festival to be cancelled in August 2015, a Spanish court ruled.

Spain’s Prime Minister has attracted criticism for declaring he is opposed to national borders, in an attack on U.S. President Donald Trump.

Victory at the polls later this year for Alternative for Germany (AfD), or Marine Le Pen in France would be a “disaster” that would “destroy Europe”, Spain’s Prime Minister said on Thursday.

Spain’s foreign minister Alfonso Dastis is the second senior European political figure to break ranks with the European Union (EU) this week by saying he backs early trade talks and rejects imposing “punitive” Brexit arrangements.