Train Disaster Is a Blow to Spain’s Leader, Already an Election Underdog
Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez wanted to campaign on inequality and housing, but the second major rail accident this year has put his government’s compe...
Traffic Control Errors Caused Spain’s Deadly Train Crash, Official Says
The transport minister said a judge would investigate controllers’ actions, including authorizing a train to proceed at high speed though another was ...
Spain’s trust in high-speed rail ‘broken’ after second deadly crash this year, says PM
Pedro Sánchez says government’s task is to investigate causes of Wednesday’s crash that killed 69 people, but also to try to restore trustEurope live ...
Battle lines redrawn in Spain’s snap election after latest train disaster
Next month’s poll no longer the contest it was, as Pedro Sánchez finds himself forced to defend government’s safety recordOne of the most dependable c...
‘It all happened in a split-second’: survivors recount details of Spain’s second deadly train crash in 10 months
Passengers describe carriages full of seriously injured people after crash that has claimed at least 68 livesJosimar Medina woke a little before 9am o...
Watch: 'Chaotic scenes' at site of Spain's deadly train crash
People have been killed after a Spanish high-speed train collided with another train south of the capital Madrid, making this the country's worst disa...
Second fatal train collision this year casts doubt over Spain’s high-speed rail network
Questions were raised before Toledo crash over rail safety in a country where train travel has surged by 40%Deadly Spanish rail collision – latest upd...
‘It’s part of our history’: can the menú del día survive Spain’s changing eating habits?
Established under the Franco dictatorship, the lunchtime ritual is in decline but all is not lostA little before lunchtime each working day across Spa...
Spain’s Protesters See ‘Madness’ of Rising Rent and a ‘Martyr’ in Maricarmen
Thousands of protesters marched in Madrid on Thursday, a day after the death of María del Carmen Abascal, an 87-year-old whose eviction became a symbo...
María del Carmen Abascal, symbol of Spain’s housing protests, dies aged 87
Maricarmen’s eviction from Madrid apartment after over seven decades set off wave of protests against housing crisis‘Now is the moment’: housing activ...
‘Now is the moment’: housing activists at Madrid encampment pin wary hopes on Spain’s early election
Campaigners set up in more than 1,200 tents in Puerto del Sol square say challenge now is to translate a groundswell of public support into concrete c...
Spain’s Pedro Sánchez, main critic of Trump in Europe, calls snap elections
A defeat for Sánchez and his socialist party could bring down a long-serving European leader whose star power has risen among the global left for stan...
Spain's prime minister calls early elections as pressure mounts over housing crisis
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez announced early elections Monday after his government suffered a bruising legislative defeat last week on emergen...
Spain’s PM Pedro Sánchez calls snap election after housing legislation fails to pass
Election called after rightwing parties voted down emergency legislation aimed at tackling housing crisisSpain’s socialist prime minister, Pedro Sánch...
