Activists blocked roads and rail lines in Catalonia on Thursday while tens of thousands took to the streets during a region-wide strike against the trial of separatist leaders for their role in a failed 2017 secession attempt.

Road blocks, strike in Catalonia against separatists' trial

Tens of thousands of people waving Spain's red-and-yellow flag demonstrated in Madrid on Sunday to oppose any concessions by the government to Catalan pro-independence parties and to call for early elections.

Madrid demonstrators reject government's Catalonia policy

A dozen Catalan separatists will go on trial on February 12 over their bid to make the region independent from Spain, the Supreme Court said Friday, naming former prime minister Mariano Rajoy among those called to testify.

Catalan separatists' trial set for February 12: Court

Spain's prime minister Pedro Sanchez whose minority government has struggled to pass a budget since taking office in June said in an interview published Sunday that he intends to stay in power until the current parliamentary term ends in 2020.

Spain PM Sanchez says he aims to see out parliamentary term

If a new leader is not named before the end of May, Catalonia will be forced to call another election

Demonstrators flood Barcelona in support of jailed separatist leaders

Puigdemont, who fled Spain five months ago for Belgium after his administration`s declaration of independence from Spain led to Madrid taking direct control of the regional government, was arrested last month on a Spanish-issued warrant as he entered Germany

Catalan ex-leader Puigdemont hopes to return to Belgium

Catalan police decked out in riot gear shoved and hit demonstrators with batons to keep the crowd from advancing on the office of the Spanish government`s representative in Barcelona, the capital of the wealthy northeastern region

Clashes in Catalonia after Puigdemont arrested in Germany

Puigdemont fled to Brussels after his regional government declared independence from Spain on October 27 following a referendum ruled illegal by Spanish authorities, who also sacked his cabinet

Spain to seek ex-Catalan leader's arrest if travels to Denmark

Three Catalan leaders imprisoned in Spain over their role in their region's independence crisis will take their case to the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, their lawyers in London said on Thursday

Three jailed Catalan leaders appeal to UN panel: lawyers

Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy on Friday rejected a call by ousted Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont to meet after separatists won a parliamentary majority in crucial regional polls

Spain PM rejects ousted Catalan leader's call to meet

Some 5.5 million people are registered to vote in Thursday's election

Catalans vote in bid to solve independence crisis

The deposed leader of Catalonia Carles Puigdemont said Monday that there could be solutions to Spain's political crisis other than independence for his region, insisting he was still open to "agreement" with Madrid.?

Catalan ex-leader says independence not only solution to crisis

WION Morning news brief, Nov 6, 2017

Parties will fall just short of majority needed to revive secession campaign, survey says

Pro-Catalonia independence parties seen winning most votes in election: Poll

A total of 19 people including Puigdemont, his deputy Oriol Junqueras and the speaker of the Catalan regional parliament had been summoned to be questioned on Thursday.

Spanish prosecutors seek EU arrest warrant for Puigdemont

Over the past month, social media networks have been flooded with memes poking fun at the main players in Spain's biggest political crisis since returning to democracy following the death of dictator General Francisco Franco in 1975

Spain finds humour in Catalan crisis

Puigdemont made a symbolic declaration of?independence?on Tuesday night, only to suspend it seconds later and call for negotiations with?Madrid

Catalan leader Puigdemont under pressure to declare full independence

'It would be good to start mending this fracture... through regional elections,' government spokesman Ignacio Mendez de Vigo told a news conference

Spain urges Catalan election to settle independence crisis

Carles Puigdemont said his government will 'act at the end of this week or the beginning of next' to declare independence

Catalan President vows region will declare independence within days

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