At least 180 members of Spain’s elite La Legión infantry regiment have voluntarily signed up to participate in the army’s unique weight loss program to battle obesity.
TEHRAN, January 3 - Spain's maritime rescue service said it has rescued 55 migrants from a boat in which they were trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea.
TEHRAN, December 27 - Spain began to pull the police reinforcements it had sent to Catalonia ahead of a contested independence referendum in the region on October 1, the government said.
TEHRAN, December 22 - Separatists looked set on Friday to regain power in Catalonia after voters rejected Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy's attempt to neuter the independence movement to defuse Spain's biggest political crisis in decades.
TEHRAN, December 20 - Catalonia votes on Thursday for a new administration in an election many hope will resolve Spain’s worst crisis in decades after the region declared independence leading Madrid to sack local leaders.
TEHRAN, December 5 - Spain has withdrawn a European arrest warrant for Catalonia's sacked leader Carles Puigdemont and four of his deputies, who fled to Belgium after the regional parliament declared unilateral independence, the Supreme Court said Tuesday.
TEHRAN, November 19 - Catalonia's secessionist push is nothing short of a "disaster" that the European Union will work to impede in support of a unified Spain, the European Commission's president said in comments published Sunday.
TEHRAN, November 11 - A protest is expected in Barcelona Saturday calling for the release of jailed separatist leaders, the day after pro-independence Catalan parliamentarian Carme Forcadell was freed on bail.
TEHRAN, November 10-The Spanish Supreme Court sentenced the Speaker of the Catalan Parliament Carme Forcadell to prison after a €150,000 (US $174,700) bail was not submitted by her lawyer in Madrid, Thursday (9 Nov. 2017).
TEHRAN, November 8 - Spain's Constitutional Court officially annulled the Catalan parliament's Oct. 27 unilateral declaration of independence on Wednesday, a widely expected ruling after the move was suspended by the court.
TEHRAN, November 2- A Spanish prosecutor has asked a National Court judge to issue an international arrest warrant for Catalonia's ousted regional president and four of his ex-ministers.
TEHRAN, October 31 - Spain's top court has summoned the speaker of the regional parliament in Catalonia to file charges against the secessionist leader.
TEHRAN, October 29 - Hundreds of thousands of supporters of a unified Spain filled Barcelona's streets on Sunday in one of the biggest shows of force yet by the so-called silent majority that has watched as regional political leaders push for Catalan independence.
TEHRAN, October 28 - Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont, who was sacked by the Spanish government over the region’s declaration of independence, has called for “democratic opposition” to Madrid.
TEHRAN, October 27 -Catalonia’s regional leader Carles Puigdemont has refused to call snap elections to break a deadlock between Madrid and the semi-autonomous region.