Spain jails leaders of Catalan secession bid for sedition
By Isla Binnie and Emma Pinedo MADRID, Oct 14 (Reuters) – Spain’s Supreme Court on Monday sentenced nine separatist leaders from Catalonia to between nine...
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Catalan separatists seethe at Spanish cabinet visit (Update 2)
Police dragged Catalan separatists off roads and arrested 11 during protests on Friday as Spain‘s government brought a cabinet meeting to regional capital Barcelona in both...
Police, protesters clash for Catalan referendum anniversary
Riot police charged in to break up a demonstration in front of Catalonia’s regional parliament on Monday, after thousands marched in Barcelona to mark the...
Catalonia crisis could flare again, with political and economic fall-out
Monday will mark one year since a banned referendum in Catalonia on whether to separate from the rest of Spain. At the height of the...
A group of Conservative lawmakers discuss ousting UK PM May
A group of about 50 lawmakers in British Prime Minister Theresa May’s government who oppose her proposals for a post-Brexit deal with the European Union...
Spain acts to maintain direct rule on Catalonia
Spain acted to maintain direct rule on Catalonia on Monday after the government objected to the choice of councillors by fervent separatist leader Quim Torra...
Former Catalan leader leaves German prison after paying bail
Catalonia’s former leader Carles Puigdemont walked out of a German prison on Friday after a court in the northern state of Schleswig-Holstein agreed to release...
German prosecutors file for extradition of ex-Catalan leader
German prosecutors filed a request to a regional court on Tuesday for the extradition of former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont to Spain, where he faces...
Spain’s top court to try 13 Catalan leaders for rebellion
A Spanish Supreme Court judge on Friday said he would try 13 Catalan leaders for rebellion, a crime punishable by up to 25 years in...
Catalonia parliament to vote next Monday on new regional chief
Catalonia‘s parliament will convene next Monday to vote on the region’s new leader, assembly speaker Roger Torrent said on Tuesday, though it is unclear whether...
Ex-Catalan MP to spurn Spain court summons in Switzerland
A former member of Catalonia’s parliament who has fled to Switzerland from Spain says she will not attend a Spanish court summons over her alleged...
Jailed Catalan independence leaders lodge case with UN
Three Catalan independence leaders being held in pre-trial detention have complained to a UN panel that their imprisonment breaks international law, their lawyer said on...
Catalonia postpones vote for new president, sticks with Puigdemont
Catalonia on Tuesday postponed the election of a new regional president until further notice after Spain’s highest court said the sole nominee, separatist leader Carles...
Spain govt asks court to block Puigdemont bid to lead Catalonia
Spain‘s government on Friday appealed to the Constitutional Court to block former leader Carles Puigdemont’s bid to lead Catalonia again, in an escalation of tensions...
Spain acts to block Puigdemont’s election as Catalonia head
Spain’s government has taken a first step towards preventing the election of ex-Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont as head of the Spanish region, the deputy prime minister said...
Spain on alert for any bid by exiled Catalan leader to return
Spanish authorities are monitoring borders to make sure that fugitive Catalan separatist leader Carles Puigdemont does not sneak back into Spain to take up the presidency of...
Catalan crisis rekindled as parliament proposes Puigdemont as leader
The Catalan parliament on Monday proposed Carles Puigdemont as candidate for president, dealing a blow to central government efforts to derail an independence movement that...
No reason why I can’t rule Catalonia remotely, former leader says
The sacked former leader of Catalonia said on Friday he was perfectly eligible to be re-elected as regional president and there was no reason why...
Puigdemont ‘seeks to vote by proxy for comeback bid’
Catalonia’s fugitive separatists on Thursday sought to get around a Spanish government ban on voting via webcast in a regional leadership election by seeking to...
Catalan parliament meets as uncertainty continues
Catalonia’s parliament met on Wednesday in a first step towards forming a new government dominated by the question of whether sacked former leader Carles Puigdemont...