Catalunya

Photo Story – Catalans compete to build the biggest human towers in Spain

TARRAGONA (Reuters) - Spain's biggest human towers competition took place on Sunday, with some 11,000 spectators packing the bullring in the northeastern city of Tarragona to watch the daring Catalan…

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Catalan independence leaders targeted by spyware, rights group says

Catalonia's regional leader accused the Spanish government on Monday of spying on its citizens after a rights group said his phone and dozens more belonging to Catalan pro-independence figures had…

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Catalan separatist leader Puigdemont detained in Italy must face Spanish courts

MADRID/ROME, Sept 24 (Reuters) - Catalan separatist leader Carles Puigdemont, who was detained by Italian police in Sardinia, must face justice in Spain, the Spanish government said on Friday ahead…

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Thousands of Catalans rally for independence in Barcelona

BARCELONA (Reuters) - Thousands of Catalans chanted, sang and waved flags as they marched through Barcelona on Saturday, calling for the region's independence from Spain. The march, organised by the…

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Spain to pardon jailed Catalan separatist leaders on Tuesday

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said his government would pardon the nine jailed leaders of Catalonia's failed 2017 independence bid on Tuesday as a first step towards ending the political…

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Catalan’s regional parliament speaker’s cellphone targeted by spy programme used by governments

The cellphone used by the speaker in the Catalan regional parliament, Roger Torrent, was targeted with Pegasus, a spy program developed by an Israeli company named NSO, and which can…

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Significant increase in cases in Catalunya region leads to more restrictions

The government of Spain’s Catalonia region on Sunday ordered residents in and around the northeastern town of Lerida to go back into home confinement as cases of coronavirus spiked. “The…

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Photo Story : Protest in Catalunya

Thousands of people attend a protest at the Catalunya Square in Barcelona, Spain, 12 June 2019, after the last day of the so-called 'Proces' trial at the Supreme Court, in…

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Puigdemont complained he was barred from entering European Parliament

Former Catalan President Carles Puigdemont complained he was barred from entering the European Parliament in Brussels on Wednesday, following his election as an MEP last weekend. Puigdemont, who fled Spain in…

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