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Children put their mother's ballot into the ballot box during local elections in Barcelona, Spain, Sunday, May 28, 2023. Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez on Monday, May 29, 2023, called an early general election for July 23 in a surprise move after his Socialist party took a serious battering in local and regional elections. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti, File)

Spanish prime minister calls early general election after battering in regional vote

By Ciaran Giles and Jennifer O'Mahony - Associated Press

Electoral posters showing images of Barcelona's mayoral candidates for the next elections are photographed in Barcelona, Spain, Wednesday, May 24, 2023. Spain goes to the polls on Sunday for local and regional elections seen as a bellwether for a national vote in December, with the conservative Popular Party (PP) steadily gaining ground on the ruling Socialists in key regions. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Spanish Socialists under pressure in key regional elections

By Jennifer O'Mahony - Associated Press

Real Madrid's Vinicius Junior, left, confronts Valencia fans standing in front of Valencia's Jose Luis Gaya during a Spanish La Liga soccer match between Valencia and Real Madrid, at the Mestalla stadium in Valencia, Spain, Sunday, May 21, 2023. Repeated racist insults against Brazilian soccer star Vincius Junior have unleashed a heated debate in Spain about tolerance for racism in a society that is becoming rapidly more diverse on and off the field. (AP Photo/Alberto Saiz, File)

Spain takes action against racism after Vinicius case, but punishing fans remains a challenge

By Tales Azzoni - Associated Press

Real Madrid's Vinicius Junior, center, leaves the pitch after being shown a red card during a Spanish La Liga soccer match between Valencia and Real Madrid, at the Mestalla stadium in Valencia, Spain, Sunday, May 21, 2023. Repeated racist insults against Real Madrid's Brazilian soccer star Vincius Junior have unleashed a heated debate in Spain about tolerance for racism in a society that is becoming rapidly more diverse on and off the field. (AP Photo/Alberto Saiz, File)

Valencia slams ‘disproportionate’ punishment after racial abuse against Vinicius Junior

By Tales Azzoni - Associated Press

A view of the museum with the painting of "White Horse", created by artist Diego Velazquez, displayed at the Royal Collections Gallery in Madrid, Spain, Friday, May. 19, 2023. Spain is set to unveil what is touted as one of Europe’s cultural highlights of the year with the opening in Madrid of The Royal Collections Gallery next month. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)

New Madrid museum set to unveil five centuries of Spain’s royal collections

By Ciarán Giles - Associated Press

Serb national Ivana Zagorac, right and her twin sister Sladjana Zagorac kiss after Ivana won an amateur women's running race in Madrid, Spain, Sunday May 7, 2023. The organizers of a women's running race in Spain apologized on Monday,,May 8, 2023 after the winner was offered a food processor to take home, sparking accusations of sexism. (Carlos Lujan/Europa Press via AP) **FILE**

Spain women’s race apologizes for food processor gift

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People light candles on Jan. 26, 2023, next to a memorial site for a church sacristan who was killed on Jan. 25 in Algeciras, southern Spain. Far-right groups have used Twitter to spread hate directed at Muslims and Immigrants. Many of them reference the Reconquista, the period in the Middle Ages that saw Christians retake vast parts of the Iberian peninsula from its Muslim leaders. The term has also been used by the Vox Party, a far-right party that has been praised by ex-U.S. President Donald Trump. (AP Photo/Juan Carlos Toro)

Anti-Muslim Twitter feed in Spain: ‘A recipe for disaster’

By David Klepper - Associated Press

Spain's new Royal Family, King Juan Carlos I, Queen Sofia, Princess Christina, Princess Elena and Prince Felipe were pictured on the steps of Los Jeronimos church in Madrid on Nov. 27, 1975, after Te Deum Mass, attended by Spanish and foreign invited dignitaries. (AP Photo/Giulio Broglio)

Spain’s Juan Carlos I offers cautionary tale for Charles III

By Jennifer O'Mahony - Associated Press

Brazilian President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva, left and Spain's King Felipe speak during a meeting at the Royal Palace in Madrid, Spain, Wednesday April 26, 2023. Lula is on an official visit to Spain. (Chema Moya/Pool Photo via AP)

In Spain, Brazil’s Lula stands his ground on Ukraine war

By Jennifer O'Mahony - Associated Press

Carlos Alcaraz, of Spain, poses with the trophy after winning the final Godo tennis tournament against Stefanos Tsitsipas, of Greece, in Barcelona, Spain, Sunday, April 23, 2023. (AP Photo/Joan Monfort)

Alcaraz goes for Spanish double, No. 1 spot at Madrid Open

By Tales Azzoni - Associated Press

View of the Sau reservoir about 62 miles north of Barcelona. Spain, on March 20, 2023. Spain’s Agriculture Minister Luis Planas said Tuesday, April 25, 2023, he had requested emergency funds from the European Union to support farmers and ranchers amid extreme drought conditions in the country's agricultural heartlands. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Spain pleads for EU crisis funds as drought hits farmers

By Jennifer O'Mahony and Sergio Rodrigo - Associated Press

A friar walks in front of the Valle de los Caidos (Valley of the Fallen) mausoleum on the outskirts of Madrid, Spain, Oct. 13, 2019. The body of José Antonio Primo de Rivera, the founder of Spain's fascist Falange movement, will be exhumed from a Madrid mausoleum on Monday, April 24, 2023, and transferred to a city cemetery. The fascist political leader was executed by Spanish Republicans in November 1936, after Gen. Francisco Franco led an uprising of soldiers in July of that year to bring down Spain's democratically-elected government. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez) **FILE**

Spain exhumes fascist party founder from Madrid mausoleum

By Jennifer O'Mahony - Associated Press

A dock without water is photographed in the Sau reservoir, about 100 km (62 miles) north of Barcelona, Spain, Tuesday, April 18, 2023. Authorities in Spain's parched northeast warned Tuesday that Barcelona and a wide surrounding area home to some 6 million people could face even tighter restrictions of water use in the coming months. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Spain’s Barcelona faces drought ‘emergency’ in September

By Joseph Wilson - Associated Press

A young couple walk in front of housing blocks in Madrid, Spain, Tuesday, April 18, 2023. Spain's leftist coalition government has approved a plan to make available some 50,000 houses for rent at affordable prices as part of measures aimed at curbing soaring rents and house prices.The apartments will come from the state-controlled SAREB 'bad bank' that was set up in 2012 to relieve troubled banks of their most toxic assets during the international financial crisis. (AP Photo/Paul White)

Spain frees up ‘bad bank’ houses to ease housing crisis

By Ciarán Giles - Associated Press

Brazil's Dani Alves listens to a question during a press conference on the eve of the group G of World Cup soccer match between Brazil and Cameroon in Doha, Qatar, on Dec. 1, 2022. Alves was in court Monday April 17, 2023 to testify to a judge investigating a sexual assault accusation against him. (AP Photo/Andre Penner, File)

Alves tells judge he had consensual sex with alleged victim

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A beach is illuminated by a car's headlights at dusk near Nouadhibou, Mauritania, Thursday, Nov. 25, 2021. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

Adrift in the Atlantic, a boat of death and lost dreams

By Renata Brito and Felipe Dana - Associated Press

Spanish actress Ana Obregón poses on arrival for the Goya Awards in Madrid, Spain, Feb. 17, 2013. Spain’s ruling Socialist party says it will study toughening legislation covering surrogate pregnancies following the revelation that Obregón, a 68-year-old Spanish TV celebrity, used a surrogate mother in Miami to have a baby. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki, File)

Veteran actress’ surrogate baby stirs controversy in Spain

By Ciarán Giles - Associated Press

A tree is surrounded by solar panels in Los Arcos, Navarra Province, northern Spain, on Feb. 24, 2023. Renewable energy investors who lost subsidies promised by Spain are heading to a London court to try to claw back $125 million from the government — a decadelong dispute with ramifications for clean energy financing across the European Union. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos, File)

Spain clean energy case shakes confidence in EU investment

By Jennifer O'Mahony - Associated Press

FC Barcelona club President Joan Laporta pauses during a news conference in Barcelona, Spain, on Aug. 6, 2021. Spanish state prosecutors have formally accused Barcelona soccer club of corruption because of its payments of large sums of money for several years to the vice president of the refereeing committee. The decision has been made official on Friday, March 10, 2023. (AP Photo/Joan Monfort, File)

Prosecutors accuse Barcelona of corruption in ref payments

By Joseph Wilson - Associated Press

Real Madrid's Vinicius Junior gestures during a Spanish La Liga soccer match between Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium in Madrid, Spain, Saturday, Feb. 25, 2023. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)

Fan who insulted Vinicius set to be fined, banned from games

By Tales Azzoni - Associated Press