Catalan independence vote
Spanish PM faces crisis after violent secession vote in Catalonia
World
October 2, 2017
Spanish PM faces crisis after violent secession vote in Catalonia
Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy faces Spain’s biggest constitutional crisis in decades after Sunday’s violence-marred independence referendum in Catalonia opened the…
Thirty-eight injured in police charges in Catalonia, say emergency services
World
October 1, 2017
Thirty-eight injured in police charges in Catalonia, say emergency services
Emergency services have attended to 38 people injured in police charges as officers stormed voting stations to stop a banned…
Spain riot police smash way into Catalan voting center
World
October 1, 2017
Spain riot police smash way into Catalan voting center
Spanish riot police have forcefully removed a few hundred would-be voters from a polling station at a school in Barcelona.…
Catalonia, Madrid ramp up rhetoric ahead of contested independence referendum
World
September 30, 2017
Catalonia, Madrid ramp up rhetoric ahead of contested independence referendum
Independence supporters have started occupying designated polling places ahead of Sunday’s vote. Spain’s government, which has sent thousands of police…