MADRID (AP) — A small sport popular in Spain’s northern Basque Country has stirred up a political controversy that triggered court action and fanned the region's long-held feelings of nationalism.
MADRID – After a violent 60-year struggle that sought to create a Basque homeland in Spain through blood and bullets, the militant separatist group ETA says it has dismantled its organizational ...
Singing a long-forbidden song, a knot of youths surged into Pamplona’s Plaza Mayor one day last week and, with a lusty cheer, sent two homemade rockets sizzling into the sky. While police ...
But, on Saturday, it filled a stadium and the streets of Bilbao in a match against a Basque team keen to amplify its own ...
The origins of the Basque issue took shape after the Spanish Civil War. Following roughly three years of conflict between the ...
A quest to gratify a lifelong curiosity about Spain’s Basque Country led me to a wonderful week’s immersion into stylish elegance with great food, glorious scenery and exceptionally comfortable ...
MADRID, Spain -- A car bomb exploded Wednesday outside a regional TV station in northern Spain following a warning call from the armed separatist group ETA, police said. The blast caused significant ...
BILBAO, Spain — In a politically risky move aimed at ending Europe’s last armed conflict, Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero announced Thursday that he would open peace talks with ETA ...
A selection of Palestinian footballers has taken on a group of Spanish players from the Basque Country in a friendly match with political overtones relating to Israel’s military actions in Gaza.
BILBAO, Spain (Reuters) - As Spain and Catalonia head towards a constitutional collision over the region's claim to independence, lawmakers on both sides of the crisis are pointing to a way out: north ...
A woman shelters from the rain under an umbrella, while walking past a wall painted with portraits of prisoners of the Basque separatist armed group ETA, in the small village of Hernani, northern ...