Update (1323 EST): Alejo Vidal-Quadras Roca has told police he believes his would be assassins were linked to Iranian opposition forces. The motorcycle the shooter fled on has been found, destroyed in a fire.
Update (0948 EST):
https://twitter.com/sanchezcastejon/status/1722625511216857209?s=46&t=fwloThPnqgTH71QlDeR_hA
According to local media, the former Catalonia, Spain People’s Party Leader Alejo Vidal-Quadras Roca...
The U.S. Defense Security Cooperation Agency has just approved the sale of additional PATRIOT PAC 3 surface-to-air missile batteries to Spain. Spain currently operates three batteries of PATRIOT and as of June 2023, was mulling sending at least one battery to Ukraine.
The announcement from the State Department reads below:
"The...
Moments ago, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez announced the dissolution of the parliament after his coalition, which comprises the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) and Unidas Podemos suffered preliminary losses in regional elections today.
The opposition conservative People's Party (PP) and the far-right Vox, and the liberal Citizens (CS), were making...
At approximately 0700 EST, reports began to emerge of a crash during an air exhibition practice at Zaragoza Air Base in Spain. By 0800 EST, reports confirmed that a Spanish EF-18 had crashed and the pilot had safely ejected.
https://twitter.com/zgzdenuncia/status/1659871997696851968?s=46&t=fwloThPnqgTH71QlDeR_hA
By 0800 EST, the Spanish Air Force had also confirmed that...
The body of Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera was on Monday exhumed for the fourth time, and buried for the fifth time. Rivera was the founder of the Spanish Falange party, one of the primary fascist movements in Spain, and was executed by Republican forces in 1936, soon after...
On Wednesday night, Spanish police were investigating the death of a man who was attacked with a machete in a church in Algeciras. The man, who was a priest at the church of La Palma, was killed following an earlier attack in a different church in the city where...