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Covid surge in Spain: Number of cases in Valencia is six times higher than a year ago

Spanish doctor extradited to Uruguay amid shocking allegations of torture

A Spanish doctor will be extradited over accusations he helped the military torture prisoners during a right-wing dictatorship movement in the 1970s. The country’s High

17 Jan, 2023 @ 20:15

Crime & Law·Lead·National News

Spain’s Government SEIZES former dictator General Franco’s €5 million summer palace over its ‘fraudulent’ sale

It comes as Pedro Sanchez’s PSOE administration has pushed on with a plan to exhume the remains of the Fascist dictator

12 Jul, 2019 @ 13:22

Crime & Law·Lead·National News

Spain’s Supreme Court blocks reburial of General Franco just days before body due to be dug up

The arguments of his family against removing him from the Valley of the Fallen rested on the ‘irreparable’ damage it would cause

5 Jun, 2019 @ 17:49

Lead·National News·Politics

Government officials and Franco family involved in row over ownership of sacred pilgrim statues in Spain

A Madrid court has given the Franco family until November 19 to prove their ownership

28 Oct, 2018 @ 15:41

La Cultura·Lead·National News

Eightieth anniversary of bloody battle during Spanish Civil War remembered in new book

La Batalla de Teruel: Guerra total en Espana, takes readers through the battle that claimed the lives of over 140,000 people

13 May, 2018 @ 16:38

La Cultura·Lead

Work begins in Spain to exhume bodies of victims from Spanish Civil War

Experts arrived on Monday at the Valley of the Fallen which holds the remains of over 30,000 people from both sides of the civil war

24 Apr, 2018 @ 16:02

Lead·National News

Spain marks 40 years since Franco’s death

At least 16 Catholic churches are to hold services

20 Nov, 2015 @ 10:23

Featured·La Cultura·National News

Spain’s former fascist leader General Franco officially a dictator

Official biography El Generalisimo is to be updated

8 Apr, 2015 @ 12:33

La Cultura·Lead·National News

Spain under pressure to arrest 20 alleged Franco-era war criminals

The ex-officials include two former Cabinet ministers

13 Nov, 2014 @ 17:13

National News

Spain’s former King Juan Carlos supported Argentine dictatorship

Spain's royal house exchanged medals and gifts for political favours with an Argentine dictatorship

22 Oct, 2014 @ 11:17

Lead·National News

Was Russian libelled over African president money laundering claims?

Court to hear whether Russian businessman bought property in Spain for Obiang

13 Jan, 2013 @ 19:37

National News

Human rights judge on trial at Supreme Court

Judge Baltasar Garzon has three separate cases against him

18 Jan, 2012 @ 15:07

National News