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THE president of a Madrid-based football club has stepped down in disgrace after a video emerged of him chasing the side’s Muslim players with a leg of Spanish ham and urging them to ‘suck it’. Javi Poves, a fourth-tier CDC Moscardo employee, quit after the footage of his incident became viral on social media. Poves, in a short video, says, …

MORE than 50 women locked away for being ‘rebellious’ or spending too much time outside by Francisco Franco’s wife are set to receive an official pardon from the Spanish government. The women will be recognized at a Madrid ceremony on 20 March, where they will receive official documents from Ministry of Democratic Memory recognizing them as victims of Francoist Repression. …

THE Spanish Government has pledged to divulge all the secrets of one of most dramatic moments from the modern history. Prime minister Pedro Sanchez confirmed on Monday that his government will declassify all documents related to the failed coup d’état of February 1981 that threatened to hurl Spain back into the arms of dictatorship. In Spain, this incident is known …