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A banner in support of conservative leader Isabel Diaz Ayuso in a bar in Madrid, Spain, Monday, April 19, 2021. Residents in Madrid, one of Europe's worst-hit regions by the coronavirus pandemic, are hitting the polls on Tuesday to elect a new regional assembly in a vote resembling a plebiscite on lockdown measures. By keeping bars, restaurants, museums and concert halls opened, Diaz Ayuso has invigorated the conservative vote for her Popular Party. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Madrid’s champion of soft virus restrictions wins election

By ARITZ PARRA - Associated Press

Serigne Mbaye, who is running on a ticket with the anti-austerity United We Can party, in the Madrid regional assembly elections, talks with a potential voter during an election campaign event in Madrid, Spain, Friday, April 16, 2021. Mbaye, a Senegalese-born environmental refugee wants to defy a history of underrepresentation of the Black community and other people of color in Spanish politics. Serigne Mbaye's candidacy has been met with a racist response from an increasingly influential far-right political party. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Black candidate challenges political status quo in Spain

By ARITZ PARRA - Associated Press

Bullfighting back in Madrid as heated election campaign ends

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A soldier wounded in an attack lays in a bed in a military hospital in Burkina Faso's capital Ouagadougou Tuesday April 27, 2021. Three foreigners and one soldier are missing in Burkina Faso after being attacked in an ambush by gunmen during an anti-poaching patrol near a national park in the country's east near Pama town according to security and government officials. (AP Photo/Sam Mednick)

Two Spanish reporters, Irish activist killed in Burkina Faso

By SAM MEDNICK and ARITZ PARRA - Associated Press

The incumbent conservative Madrid president Isabel Diaz Ayuso speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Madrid, Spain, April 26, 2021. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Lockdown skeptic looks to eclipse far right in Madrid vote

By ARITZ PARRA - Associated Press

Members of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation, EZLN, shout a farewell to a delegation that will leave for Europe on May 3, in the community of Morelia, Chiapas state, Mexico, Monday, April 26, 2021. The rebels say they are planning to take canoes on a trip to ‘invade’ Spain in May and June, as Mexico marks the anniversary of the 1519-1521 Spanish Conquest of Mexico. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

Mexico’s Zapatistas to visit Spain 500 years after conquest

By EDUARDO VERDUGO - Associated Press

Pamplona blames jab rollout for another summer without bulls

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Morocco scolds Spain over virus help for independence leader

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This photo released by the United We Can Party, shows four bullets that arrived inside an envelope addressed to United We Can Party leader Pablo at the Interior Ministry's headquarters in Madrid on Friday, April, 23, 2021. Most political parties in Spain have condemned a series of death threats mailed to the country's interior minister, the director of the Civil Guard police force and the leader of a far-left political party. The threats were delivered in envelopes filled with bullets and accompanied by anonymous letters either demanding for the three officials to step down from their positions or plainly menacing the recipients and their relatives. The letter reads in Spanish &quot;you have let our parents and grandparents die, your wife, your parents and you are sentenced to death, your time is running out.&quot; (United We Can Party Office Via AP)

Spanish politics take nasty turn with mailed death threats

By ARITZ PARRA - Associated Press

In this image made from video, Brahim Ghali, leader of the pro-independence Polisario Front speaks to a crowd in Tindouf, Algeria, Feb. 27, 2021. The leader of the Polisario Front that leads the struggle for the self-declared Western Sahara republic has been brought to Spain to receive medical treatment, it was announced Thursday, April 22. Brahim Ghali, who is 73, leads the Algeria-backed pro-independence group representing the local Sahrawi population that has fought Moroccan forces for control of the territory in western Africa. Ghali was taken to Spain “for strictly humanitarian reasons,&quot; the foreign ministry said. (AP Photo)

Sahara’s Polisario Front chief gets COVID treatment in Spain

By ARITZ PARRA - Associated Press

The Official UEFA Champions League match balls are on display ahead of the Champions League quarter final second leg soccer match between Liverpool and Real Madrid at Anfield stadium in Liverpool, England, Wednesday, April 14, 2021. (AP Photo/Jon Super) **FILE**

Threats of expulsion rise as UEFA confronts Super League rebel 12

By Rob Harris and Graham Dunbar - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sunday, April 11, 2021 file photo Tottenham's Harry Kane, left, is challenged by Manchester United's Harry Maguire during the English Premier League soccer match between Tottenham Hotspur and Manchester United at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London. UEFA President Aleksander Ceferin says players at the 12 clubs setting up their own Super League could be banned from this year's European Championship and next year's World Cup. (Clive Rose/Pool via AP)

Players who could be banned from Euro 2020

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Barcelona's Lionel Messi fights for the ball against Athletic Bilbao's Raul Garcia during the Spanish Copa del Rey final 2021 between Athletic Bilbao and Barcelona at La Cartuja stadium in Seville, Spain, Saturday April 17, 2021. (AP Photo/Angel Fernandez)

Messi nets 2, Barcelona beats Bilbao 4-0 to win Copa del Rey

By JOSEPH WILSON - Associated Press

Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez talks during a press conference at the Moncloa Palace in Madrid, Spain, Tuesday, April 13, 2021. (Sergio Perez/Pool photo via AP)

Spain’s PM wants EU recovery funds to create greener nation

By JOSEPH WILSON - Associated Press

Migration activist says Spain, Morocco trying to silence her

By ARITZ PARRA and TARIK EL BARAKAH - Associated Press

FILE - In this Monday, Sept. 24, 2018 file photo, Javier Tebas, the president of the Spanish La Liga, speaks during the World Football summit in Madrid, Spain. The outspoken head of Spain’s league is set to join UEFA’s executive committee next week, it was announced Monday, April 12, 2021. Javier Tebas would work there alongside Spanish soccer federation president Luis Rubiales he has often clashed with. (AP Photo/Paul White, File)

Outspoken La Liga official Tebas set to get UEFA position

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Real Madrid's Karim Benzema celebrates after scoring the opening goal during the Spanish La Liga soccer match between Real Madrid and FC Barcelona at the Alfredo di Stefano stadium in Madrid, Spain, Saturday, April 10, 2021. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)

Impressive Madrid beats Barcelona 2-1 to go top in Spain

By TALES AZZONI - Associated Press

Senegal, Spain leaders seek to encourage legal migration

By BABACAR DIONE - Associated Press

Spain’s Sánchez tries to contain migration with Africa visit

By ARITZ PARRA and BARRY HATTON - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 3, 2021, file photo, a health worker prepares a dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine during a COVID-19 vaccination campaign in Pamplona, northern Spain. A patchwork of advice is emerging from governments across Europe and farther afield, a day after the European Union’s drug regulator said there was a “possible link” between the AstraZeneca vaccine and a rare clotting disorder. Regulators in the United Kingdom and the EU both stressed that the benefits of receiving the vaccine continue to outweigh the risks for most people. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos, File)

Governments give varying advice on AstraZeneca vaccine

By MIKE CORDER - Associated Press