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In this June 16, 2016, file photo, Spain coach Vicente del Bosque smiles during a training session at the Allianz Riviera stadium in Nice, France. Former Spain coach Vicente del Bosque will preside the Spanish government's commission overseeing the Spanish Football Federation after a corruption probe targeted the current and former federation presidents. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez, File)

Former Spain coach Del Bosque to head the commission overseeing beleaguered soccer federation

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EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, right, and Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez talk before the start of an EU summit in Madrid, Spain, Saturday, July 3, 2023. Commissioners of the European Union, headed by Ursula von der Leyen, arrive in Madrid to review the Spanish government's plans for its six-month Presidency of the EU Council. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

EU commissioners arrive in Madrid to discuss plans for Spain’s EU presidency

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In this photo released by Spain's Maritime Safety and Rescue Society on Tuesday Nov. 29, 2022, three men are photographed on an oil tanker anchored in the port of the Canary Islands, Spain. Spain’s Maritime Rescue Service says it has rescued three stowaways traveling on a ship’s rudder in the Canary Islands after the vessel sailed there from Nigeria. The men were found on the Alithini II oil tanker at the Las Palmas port. (Salvamento Maritimo via AP)

Nigerian stowaways found on ship’s rudder in Canary Islands

By Renata Brito - Associated Press

Delivery riders protest outside the Spanish parliament in Madrid, Wednesday March 3, 2021.The Spanish government announced on Thursday March 11, 2021, legislation that classifies food delivery riders as employees of the digital platforms they work for, not self-employed. Labor Minister Yolanda Díaz said Thursday the law is part of &quot;a modernization of the labor market&quot; in Spain, updating regulations in accordance with technological developments to ensure workers' rights are upheld.(AP Photo/Paul White)

Gig economy shifts: Spain makes delivery riders employees

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Smugglers lift onto a vehicle a fishing boat intended to be used to transport migrants to the Canary Islands, in a remote desert out of the town of Dakhla in Morocco-administered Western Sahara, Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2020. Migrant smugglers recently tried to retrieve a boat buried in the Sahara sand. It was a made-to-order vessel built to carry migrants from the North African coast to Spain's Canary Islands. That's a journey that the European Union calls &quot;the most dangerous migratory route in the world.&quot; The Associated Press witnessed the recent boat handover, a crucial but little-seen piece of the migrant smuggling business. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)

Boats emerge from Sahara sand to transport migrants to Spain

By MOSA'AB ELSHAMY - Associated Press

FILE - In this file photo dated Sunday, June 2, 2019, Spain's former King Juan Carlos waves at the bullring in Aranjuez, Spain. According to Spanish newspaper reports Monday Dec. 7, 2020, and citing unidentified sources, the Spanish government says Juan Carlos I deserves no special treatment by the legal system, amid reports the former monarch is preparing to admit alleged undeclared income. (AP Photo/Andrea Comas, FILE)

Spain: Ex-King Juan Carlos I won’t get special treatment

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Migrants sit in Arguineguin port after their rescue in Gran Canaria island, Spain on Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2020. Spanish rescue services said Wednesday at least seven people died after a migrant boat carrying more than 30 people hit rocks close to a small port on the Canary Island of Lanzarote. Many of the rescued were taken to the Arguineguín dock on the southwestern coast of Gran Canaria island, where several thousand people of different origin are being kept, some in tents. (AP Photo/Javier Fergo)

Tensions rise over housing of migrants on Spanish islands

By RENATA BRITO - Associated Press

FILE - In this Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2020 file photo, migrants from Morocco walk along the shore escorted by Spanish police after arriving at the coast of the Canary Island, crossing the Atlantic Ocean sailing on a wooden boat. Spain’s government is scrambling to manage the steady stream of migrants to its Canary Islands from West Africa by opening a second holding camp, officials said Wednesday Nov. 18, 2020, as political tensions rise in the Atlantic archipelago. (AP Photo/Javier Bauluz, File)

Spain in diplomatic push over migrant flow to Canary Islands

By ARITZ PARRA - Associated Press

A resident walks with a dog on an empty street after curfew in Barcelona on Sunday, Oct. 25, 2020. Spain orders nationwide curfew to stem worsening outbreak. Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has declared a second nationwide state of emergency in hopes of stemming a resurgence in coronavirus infections. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Spain tries to reverse economic slump as unemployment rises

By ARITZ PARRA and CIARÁN GILES - Associated Press

A man looks at the Pazo de Meiras palace in the Galician region of Sada on Wednesday Sept. 2, 2020. A Spanish court has ordered the heirs of Gen. Francisco Franco to hand over to the state the ownership of a 19th-century palace used by the late dictator as a summer retreat.The Spanish government had filed a lawsuit against the dictator's descendants arguing that the Pazo de Meiras palace in the northwestern Galicia region was illegally acquired by the former dictator during the country's 1936-1939 Civil War. (M.Dylan/Europa Press via AP)

Spain: Judge strips late dictator’s heirs of summer retreat

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A group of women walk past beside a man seated while wearing face mask to prevent the coronavirus during the last day of the lockdown, in Pamplona, northern Spain, Saturday, June 20, 2020. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos)

Spain sets aside another $56 billion for ailing companies

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People wave Spanish flags during a drive-in protest organised by Spain's far-right party Vox against the Spanish government's handling of the nation's coronavirus outbreak in Madrid, Spain Saturday, May 23, 2020. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)

Spain’s far-right holds car protest against virus lockdown

By JOSEPH WILSON AND ALICIA LEÓN - Associated Press

FILE - This undated electron microscope image made available by the U.S. National Institutes of Health in February 2020 shows the virus that causes COVID-19. The sample was isolated from a patient in the U.S. Some political leaders are hailing a potential breakthrough in the fight against COVID-19: simple pin-prick blood tests or nasal swabs that can determine within minutes if someone has, or previously had, the virus. But some scientists have challenged their accuracy. (NIAID-RML via AP)

Virus test results in minutes? Scientists question accuracy

By ARITZ PARRA and CIARÁN GILES and JILL LAWLESS - Associated Press

Consent the key in Spain’s new sex crimes draft bill

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Spain launches $330 million plan after Thomas Cook collapse

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Vatican denies interference in debate over Franco exhumation

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Spain targets drug-smuggling hub with anti-crime measures

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A woman stops to look at the Franco family burial space adorned with flowers in the Almudena Crypt, a cavernous late-19th century Catholic temple under Madrid's Almudena cathedral, in central Madrid, Spain, Thursday Oct. 25, 2018. Hundreds of protesters in Madrid are urging government and Catholic church authorities to prevent the remains of the country’s 20th century dictator from ending in the city’s cathedral. Spain’s center-left government has promised to exhume this year Gen. Francisco Franco from a glorifying mausoleum, but the late dictator’s heirs have defied the plans by proposing for his remains to be relocated to a family crypt under the cathedral.(AP Photo/Paul White)

Franco heirs take upper hand in fight over dictator’s body

By ARITZ PARRA - Associated Press

The Franco family burial space is adorned with flowers in the Almudena Crypt, a cavernous late-19th century Catholic temple under Madrid's Almudena cathedral, in central Madrid, Spain, Thursday Oct. 25, 2018. Hundreds of protesters in Madrid are urging government and Catholic church authorities to prevent the remains of the country’s 20th century dictator from ending in the city’s cathedral. Spain’s center-left government has promised to exhume this year Gen. Francisco Franco from a glorifying mausoleum, but the late dictator’s heirs have defied the plans by proposing for his remains to be relocated to a family crypt under the cathedral. (AP Photo/Paul White)

Plan to put Franco remains in Madrid cathedral protested

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U.S. military granted permanent access to Moron Air Base; Kerry to sign deal in Madrid

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times