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The prospect of Scottish independence is raising fears in Europe that it could inflame other separatist movements at a time when the continent’s unity and even its borders are under threat, analysts say. While nationalists from Catalonia to Flanders will

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of Catalans energized by Scotland’s upcoming independence referendum protested Thursday for a secession vote aimed at carving out a new Mediterranean nation in what is now northeastern Spain. The events illustrated how the

GUARDAMAR DEL SEGURA, Spain, Sept. 11 (UPI) —A Spanish gravedigger pictured posing next to a long-dead corpse that had been exhumed has been suspended from his duties, officials said. A municipal representative in Guardamar del Segura said the worker, identified

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Separatists in northeastern Spain swarmed into Barcelona by the busload Thursday, waving independence flags as they demanded a secession sentiment vote that the Spanish government insists is illegal. Many sported yellow-and-red shirts with the phrase “Ara

(Reuters) – Hundreds of thousands of Catalans were to pack the streets of Barcelona on Thursday to demand the right to vote on a split from Spain, with hopes fueled by surging support for independence in Scotland. About half a

LONDON (AP) — In for a penny, in for a pound. There’ll be no going back if Scotland votes for independence from the United Kingdom on Sept. 18. Opinion polls showing that may happen have prompted investors to sell off

Some polls now show a slim majority of Scotland voters intending to vote on September18th for independence from the United Kingdom after 300 years of political union.   Such an action would destroy the post-World War II doctrine of the inviolability

Bishop Cirilo Flores, shepherd for San Diego and Imperial Counties’ nearly one million Catholic faithful, passed away Saturday afternoon, Sept. 6, at the age of 66. Flores was born and raised in Corona, California, the third of six children of Armida, a high-school

Spain is considering a ban on burqas as part of a new security package. Speaking in a press conference, interior minister Jorje Fernández Diaz said that now would be a good time to obtain “a level of consensus” on the

The latest YouGov poll showing the Scottish Nationalists are within six points of winning the independence referendum has sent the Treasury into chaos, as they admit they have no plans to deal with the breakup of the United Kingdom. The

The parents of young brain tumour sufferer Ashya King could be at his bedside within the next few hours as prosecutors have now dropped extradition proceedings against the couple. The Spanish Court which was processing the case will need to

LONDON (AP) — U.K. prosecutors are withdrawing the arrest warrant in the case of a British couple who took their 5-year-old son out of the country in hopes of getting a new type of radiation therapy for his brain tumor.

Britain will lead a new cybercrime task-force that brings together the UK’s National Crime Agency, the FBI, Interpol, and Germany’s Federal Police to combat serious organised online crime, following the precedent set by previous successful cooperation in taking down the

LONDON (AP) — The parents say they want to give their 5 year-old-boy with a brain tumor the best chance to live with a revolutionary new treatment they learned about on the Internet. Their British hospital says the boy has

The Cuban government has implemented new laws Monday that strengthen the embargo between itself and the United States–not limiting tourism from the West into the country, but limiting the transport of necessary goods like underwear and soap from Cuban families

England and Spain have led a record breaking summer transfer market by Europe’s big five leagues worth well over $2 billion (1.5 billion euros, £1.2 billion), with more big deals looming before the window closes on Monday. Radamel Falcao and

It’s the crime no one wants to take responsibility for. The same statements are trotted out time after time. “Missed opportunities” and “lessons have been learned” are the stock phrases we’ve grown tired of hearing from council officers and police

Spain would veto any attempt by a newly-independent Scotland to join the European Union as it would encourage its own separatist movements, according to former senior EU official. Ruairi Quinn, an Irish politician who was head of the EU’s Economic

Spain’s Catalonia region may not hold its planned independence referendum in early November if the country’s top court vetoes the poll. A source inside Catalonia’s ruling Convergence and Union party (CiU) told Spain’s El País newspaper that the Catalan government

Actor Leonardo DiCaprio has declared war on Western industrial civilisation by funding and narrating a series of short eco documentaries urging us all to leave fossil fuels in the ground, cripple our economies with carbon taxes and embrace bird-frying, bat-chomping

The Spanish Government has been criticised for releasing “rape prevention advice” for women that included suggestions such as closing the curtains at night and carrying a whistle.  The Local reports that critics took to Twitter to label the Interior Ministry as

Battlefield success by the Islamic State, formerly the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), may be translating into a competition with al-Qaida for brand loyalty among jihadist recruits. These successes have intelligence experts worried. Al-Qaida and the Islamic State are now

As the Ebola virus continues to take a devastating toll on West Africa, the rest of the world has begun taking extra precautions to fight the disease should it appear on their soil. Reports from the Spanish Ministry of Health

LONDON, United Kingdom – Anti-ISIS protests in London this weekend saw hundreds of people march from the BBC’s Broadcasting House to the American Embassy then down to Marble Arch. The march followed the Gaza protests staged in London over recent

A Nigerian man showing symptoms of Ebola has been quarantined at a hospital in Alicante, Spain. The man had arrived in Spain only a few days previously. He is reported by Euronews to be in a stable condition. If confirmed,

The Austrian Federal Ministry of Health is taking precautionary measures in the Eastern municipality of Vomp in Tyrol after a British woman recently returned from Ebola-hotspot Nigeria died unexpectedly. The body of the 48-year old, who had also recently traveled

The European anti-fraud agency OLAF has recently announced that between 2009 and 2013 the European Union (EU) lost €700 million in taxes as smugglers cross into Spain to sell cigarettes at half the prices.  Two hundred Marlboro in Spain are

Chinese media is in a state of chaos after an Islamic State threat against China made its way into Phoenix Weekly, a Hong Kong-based publication, Foreign Policy reports. The Phoenix Weekly article translates a July 4 speech from Arabic to

With the World Health Organization announcing that the number of Ebola cases globally has neared the 2,000 mark AND the death toll nearing half of that, the government of Sierra Leone is implementing a centuries-old tactic to keep villages contaminated

Prominent Jewish group the Simon Wiesenthal Centre has sent a letter to France’s interior minister to demand that a tiny hamlet south of Paris called “La Mort aux Juifs”, or “Death to Jews”, be renamed. The group’s director of international

MADRID (AP) — A Spanish missionary priest being treated for Ebola died Tuesday in a Madrid hospital amid a worldwide debate over who should get experimental Ebola treatments. After a meeting with medical experts, the World Health Organization declared it

MADRID (Reuters) – Spanish priest Miguel Pajares, 75, the first European infected by a strain of Ebola that has killed more than 1,000 people in West Africa, has died in hospital in Madrid, a spokeswoman for the city’s health authorities

New figures sneaked out by the European Union show that May’s European Elections had the lowest turnout ever, according to EurActiv. The final turnout figure – which was buried on the European Parliament’s website – was 42.54 percent, below the 43.1

Dr. Sebastian Gorka reacted to President Obama’s do-nothing approach to the ongoing genocide of Christians and Yazidis in Iraq at the hands of Islamic State (formerly ISIS) by quoting Leon Trotsky: “You may not be interested in war, but war is definitely interested in