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The mounting tensions between Catalan nationalism and the Spanish state are like an encounter between an unstoppable force and an immovable object. The impending crash has been temporarily averted by ...

Spain’s deepening political crisis came to a head Friday when the central government moved to dismiss the top leaders in Catalonia and dissolve the regional Parliament, an action taken not long after ...

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 ...

A Spanish court has ordered Google to remove a voting location app from its Play Store, saying that it was helping Catalan separatists to organize in advance of Sunday’s disputed independence ...

On a sunny, crisp October morning in 1941, Jordi Pujol, 11, set out on a trek with his uncle, Narcis Pujol, and a friend. The two men, who had braved the front lines of the Spanish Civil War and made ...

The news from Catalonia is alarming and confusing. How did things come to this, in a European Union member state, in 2017? After all, Catalan nationalism and the Spanish state are not new. Catalonia ...

A referendum on independence for the Spanish autonomous community of Catalonia (Catalunya in Catalan, Cataluña in Castellano) turned violent on Oct. 1, when Spanish police injured hundreds of people ...

Spain will start suspending Catalonia's autonomy on Saturday, the prime minister's office has said. Cabinet ministers are expected to meet Saturday to put in place Article 155 of the country's ...

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