The crisis in Catalonia began on 1 October after the Catalan parliament held a referendum on independence which the Madrid government had already declared illegal. The Civil Guard, Spain’s ...

MADRID — What a difference a half decade can make — at least in Catalonia. On October 1, 2017, the region’s nationalists staged a referendum on secession, their boldest move since the return to ...

Catalan separatist leader Carles Puigdemont made a dramatic return to Spain on Thursday morning Police in Barcelona are hunting for the separatist former leader of Catalonia, Carles Puigdemont, who ...

The movement is "starting to retake positions,” a separatist told ABC News. LONDON -- When an independence referendum was held in Catalonia on Oct. 1, 2017, some citizens in Spain saw an illegal ...

BARCELONA, Spain — Here in the principal city of Catalonia, the native language, Catalan, is heard just about everywhere except in the movies. But that may be about to change because the local ...

Former Catalan separatist leader Carles Puigdemont defied an arrest warrant to appear at a rally in Barcelona on Thursday after seven years of self-imposed exile, before reportedly fleeing the scene ...

Teams compete to form the tallest human towers, called castells—a centuries-old activity that creates quite the spectacle in Catalan public spaces. Pere Toda/Ajuntamet de Valls Despite more than a ...

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Police launched a manhunt in Barcelona on Thursday for ex-Catalonia leader and fugitive Carles Puigdemont, a celebrated campaigner for Catalan independence who made a ...