Francisco Franco

Spanish princess called to testify in corruption probe

2013-04-03 10:18:00

MADRID -- A Spanish court Wednesday called the youngest daughter of King Juan Carlos to testify in a corruption case involving her husband, the first-ever legal summons for a direct descendant of the country's monarch. The 47-year-old princess, known as...

King of Spain's son-in-law questioned in corruption investigation

2013-02-23 10:20:00

MADRID -- Accused of embezzling millions of dollars in public funds, the king of Spain's son-in-law told a judge Saturday that the royal family had nothing to do with his financial dealings. Hundreds of protesters chanted "Down with the monarchy!" and...

Kinsley: The killing drones on

2013-01-10 00:00:00

The most famous painting of the 20th century, Picasso's "Guernica," commemorates the 1937 bombing of this small Spanish town by the German air force, in support of Gen. Francisco Franco's fascists in the Spanish Civil War. Hard to believe, but this was...

Latest threat to the Eurozone: Catalonia independence quest

2012-09-29 02:13:10

Eloy Gutierrez Menoyo dies at 77; Cuban rebel later opposed Castro

2012-10-28 00:00:00

Eloy Gutierrez Menoyo, a rebel leader in the Cuban revolution who went from fighting alongside Fidel Castro to spending 22 brutal years in prison after trying to overthrow him, has died. He was 77. Gutierrez Menoyo died Friday of a heart attack at a...

PASSINGS: Manuel Fraga Iribarne

2012-01-16 00:00:00

Manuel Fraga Iribarne, 89, a blunt-talking politician who founded Spain's ruling conservative party and was the last surviving minister from Gen. Francisco Franco's right-wing regime, died Sunday of heart failure at his Madrid home, according to the...

Spanish government approves sweeping labor reforms

2012-02-10 16:38:51

Spain unveils unprecedented austerity budget to avoid EU bailout

2012-03-30 16:38:59

Otto von Habsburg dies at 98; son of Austria-Hungary's last emperor

2011-07-06 00:00:00

Otto von Habsburg, the oldest son of Austria-Hungary's last emperor who saw the end of his family's centuries-long rule and emerged to become a champion of a Europe united by democracy, died Monday in his sleep at his home in Poecking, Germany, where he...

LAPD seizes 9 kilos of coke, 300 pot plants and weapons in raid

2011-08-04 21:36:01

Jorge Semprun dies at 87; writer chronicled his experiences in Buchenwald

2011-06-09 00:00:00

Jorge Semprun, a writer and politician who chronicled his experiences in the Nazis' Buchenwald death camp, struggled against dictatorship in his native Spain and later became that country's culture minister, has died. He was 87. Semprun died Tuesday in...

A golden triangle of art

2011-03-29 00:00:00

Madrid is slowly but surely claiming its rightful place alongside Paris, London, Florence, Amsterdam, St. Petersburg and New York as a paradise for art lovers. Its Golden Triangle of three museums in the Paseo del Prado area covers the full gamut of...

1936-39 civil war during a demonstration of support for Spanish Judge Baltasar Garzon held in front of the Spanish Supreme court in Madrid.

2012-02-08 00:00:00

An archaeologist studies the bones of fourteen bodies of women killed by the forces of Francisco Franco in 1937 during the Spanish Civil War at a mass grave in a cemetery in the southwestern Spanish town of Gerena.

2012-01-30 06:23:20

in 1937 during the Spanish Civil War at a mass grave in a cemetery in the southwestern Spanish town of Gerena.

2012-01-30 00:00:00