Guardia Civil – working with Europol and Swedish and French intelligence teams – have arrested a man in Barcelona on suspicion of distributing jihadist content and as well as gathering explosives-making material.
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Footballer Dani Alves – who was convicted of sexual assault and sentenced to 4 and a half years earlier this year – has been granted bail pending appeal on a 1 million euros bond.
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Footballer Dani Alves has requested home detention while awaiting the outcome of his appeal on his four and a half year prison sentence for sexual assault.
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A Barcelona-based antiquities dealer is under investigation for allegedly selling a looted Egyptian statue of Pharaoh Taharqa to the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden for 100,000 euros.
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The Supreme Court has launched an investigation into former Catalan regional President Carles Puigdemont for alleged terrorism, connected to Tsunami Democràtic.
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Hundreds of farmers from Catalonia, armed with artichokes and tractors, converged upon Barcelona to express their distress over the ongoing severe drought affecting their livelihoods and agriculture.
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The Mobile World Congress – the world’s largest exhibition for the mobile tech industry – returns to Barcelona from today.
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Policia Nacional in Barcelona have arrested three individuals linked to the violent ‘Barrio 18’ gang, also known as ‘Calle 18’. The operation, which involved officers from Mossos d’Esquadra, as well as the FBI, is being hailed as a significant result in the fight against the presence of the gang in Spain and abroad. Firearms, ammunition and items related to gang activity were discovered in raids carried out in the suburbs of Nou Barris and L´Hospitalet de Llobregat. This crackdown follows a similar operation this February, signifying ongoing efforts to combat organized crime.
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Spain Sets New Tourism Record
In a remarkable rebound, Spain welcomed over eighty-five million international tourists last year, breaking the twenty nineteen record. Tourism revenue also surged, reaching approximately one hundred and eight billion euros. The United Kingdom, France, and Germany were the top contributors.
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In a medical milestone, the second baby after a uterus transplant in Spain has been born in Barcelona’s Hospital Clinic. Weighing a healthy two point nine kilos, both the mother and new-born are doing well. The uterus donor is the child’s grandmother, marking a remarkable familial contribution to medical science. The head of Gynaecology at Hospital Clinic – Francisco Carmona – noted the profound significance of the mother receiving the uterus in which she was once carried, signalling this event as both a medical and scientific landmark.
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The partner of a thirty-eight-year-old woman found dead in a residence in the Sant Martí district of Barcelona has been arrested on suspicion of causing her death.
Police said a thirty-one-year-old man was detained in connection to the death which was reported at the end of last month.
Mossos d’Esquadra launched an investigation and arrested the suspect a week later.
Last year fifty-six women were killed as a result of gender based violence.
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A seventeenth-century manuscript on the legend of the Virgin de Montserrat has been recovered by Mossos d’Esquadra.
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