Ex-Catalan premier barred from office for two years over independence vote
Artur Mas and two top aides also receive bans and fines in trial over unofficial plebiscite in 2014
Madrid: Scotland is not Catalonia and Northern Ireland is not Gibraltar
Spain stays firm on its position of “not encouraging secessionist movements” when UK leaves EU
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Ros cartoon, March 14, 2017
El Roto
El Roto cartoon, March 14, 2017
Alicante left reeling from the deluge of the century
Record downpour floods ground-floor premises and shuts down schools; no victims reported
Khaled’s two journeys to Spain
He was the first Syrian national to seek asylum at the Melilla border station. A bureaucratic glitch saw him flee the country to seek refuge elsewhere in Europe, but he was sent back to Spain. Now, Khaled is a happy Madrid resident who holds a job and dreams of opening his own restaurant one day