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Spanish rapper rejects imprisonment, draws focus to gag law

By HERNÁN MUÑOZ - Associated Press

A man working at a polling station set up in a market, is taken the temperature during the regional Catalan election in Barcelona, Spain, Sunday, Feb. 14, 2021. Over five million voters are called to the polls on Sunday in Spain's northeast Catalonia for an election that will measure the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the restive region's secessionist movement. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Separatists grow majority in Catalonia despite Socialist win

By JOSEPH WILSON - Associated Press

Victoria Martinez, 44, folds clothes at her home in Barcelona, Spain, Monday, Feb. 8, 2021. By May this year, barring any surprises, Martinez will complete a change of both gender and identity at a civil registry in Barcelona, finally closing a patience-wearing chapter that has been stretched during the pandemic. The process, in her own words, has also been “humiliating.” (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Gender identity bill divides Spain’s feminists, left-wing

By ARITZ PARRA - Associated Press

Pedestrians walk past electoral posters with portraits of candidates for the upcoming regional election, on Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2021 in Barcelona, Spain. Over five million voters will be called to the polls on Sunday in Spain's northeast Catalonia for an election that will measure the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the restive region's secessionist movement. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Spain: Catalan vote to test pandemic’s impact on separatism

By JOSEPH WILSON - Associated Press

People protest against the extradition of Venezuelan Ernesto Quintero in Madrid, Spain, Friday, Feb. 12, 2021. The extradition of 40-year-old Ernesto Quintero triggered protests Friday among the Venezuelan community in Spain and opposition groups of the Venezuela government of Nicolas Maduro. Spain's National Court has approved the extradition of a financial broker wanted in Venezuela on charges of fraud and embezzlement of funds. Banners reads in Spanish: &quot;In Venezuela human rights are violated&quot;, &quot;No to the extradition of an innocent&quot;. (Oscar Canas/Europa Press via AP)

Spanish court rules to extradite broker to Venezuela

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A Priest wearing a face mask as protection against coronavirus, blesses the food of a person outside St. Nicholas church, during Saint Blaise Day, in Pamplona, northern Spain, Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021. On Feb. 3 the religious festival of San Blaise, a saint that heals all illnesses of the throat, is celebrated. Starting early in the morning, a gourmet market is held where customers buy food and take it to the Church to have their purchase blessed to avoid diseases of the throat. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos)

Spain surpasses 60,000 confirmed coronavirus deaths

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A man wearing a protective mask walks by El Cano pub with a sign to encourage people to visit the pub and terrace in Madrid, Spain, Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2021. Spain's virus expert for the coronavirus pandemic says infections in the country are losing steam but that the contagion curve needs to be bent much further to safeguard the health system. (AP Photo/Paul White)

Pandemic pulverizes Spain’s tourism as arrivals plunge 77%

By CIARÁN GILES - Associated Press

Banned public sports facilities are taped off according to social distancing rules at a park in Goyang, South Korea, Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2021. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

The Latest: Mexico sees near-record daily coronavirus deaths

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Barcelona's Lionel Messi, center, plays the ball during the Spanish La Liga soccer match between FC Barcelona and Athletic Bilbao at the Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona, Spain, Sunday, Jan. 31, 2021. (AP Photo/Joan Monfort)

Messi contract highlights tax burden for players in Spain

By TALES AZZONI - Associated Press

With virus in rearview, campaign for Catalan vote kicks off

By ARITZ PARRA - Associated Press

A COVID-19 patient receives treatment in the ICU of the Hospital del Mar, in Barcelona, Spain, Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2021. The unrelenting increase in COVID-19 infections in Spain following the holiday season is again straining hospitals, threatening the mental health of doctors and nurses who have been at the forefront of the pandemic for nearly a year. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

Spain’s virus surge hits mental health of front-line workers

By RENATA BRITO - Associated Press

Healthcare workers protest against plans by Madrid's authorities to force staff to transfer to other hospitals at La Paz hospital in Madrid, Spain, Friday, Jan. 22, 2021. Virus infections have been increasing steeply following Christmas and New Year, putting pressure on Spain's public health system. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)

Spain’s jab rollout dogged by delays, elitist queue-jumpers

By Associated Press - Associated Press

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

Migrants scale border fences to enter Spanish enclave

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FILE - In this Jan. 4, 2021, file photo, people wearing face masks walk along the stalls of a weekly market in the Spanish city of La Linea. While most of Europe kicked off 2021 with earlier curfews or stay-at-home orders, authorities in Spain insist the new coronavirus variant wreaking havoc elsewhere is not to blame for a sharp resurgence of cases and that the country can avoid a full lockdown even as its hospitals fill up. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti, File)

Spain rejects virus confinement as most of Europe stays home

By ARITZ PARRA - Associated Press

A nurse administers the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to a resident at DomusVi nursing home in Leganes, Spain, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2021. Spain's rate of infection has shot up to 435 cases per 100,000 residents in the past two weeks, prompting new restrictions as authorities try to bring vaccination up to speed. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)

Spain: Judge orders incapacitated woman to get virus vaccine

By JOSEPH WILSON and MARIA CHENG - Associated Press

A protest with candles reading in Spanish: &quot;'You are extinguishing our lights&quot; in reference to cutting off the electricity at the Canada Real shanty town, outside Madrid, Spain, Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2021. As a record snowfall blanketed much of Spain this week and temperatures plunged below zero, few suffered the consequences as severely as the thousands of residents of the La Canada Real Galiana mega shantytown outside Madrid, long a major embarrassment for Spain. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)

Spain: Snow adds to misery in Madrid slum area without power

By CIARÁN GILES and MANU FERNÁNDEZ - Associated Press

Barcelona's goalkeeper Marc-Andre ter Stegen makes a save in a penalty shootout during Spanish Super Cup semi final soccer match between Barcelona and Real Sociedad at Nuevo Arcangel stadium in Cordoba, Spain, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2021. Barcelona will play the final after defeating Real Sociedad 3-2 in a penalty shootout after the game ended 1-1. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

Ter Stegen’s saves put Barça past Sociedad in Super Cup

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A 'Carreton' (bulls horns attached to a metal frame with wheels) is pictured as pupils practice at the Bullfighting School at Las Ventas bullring in Madrid, Spain, Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2020. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)

AP PHOTOS: Children learn Spain’s deadly art of bullfighting

By MANU FERNÁNDEZ - Associated Press

The Cibeles monument is covered with snow in downtown Madrid, Spain, Sunday, Jan. 10, 2021. A large part of central Spain including the capital of Madrid are slowly clearing snow after the country's worst snowstorm in recent memory. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)

Spain shovels out of snowdrifts left by Storm Filomena

By JOSEPH WILSON and MANU FERNANDEZ - Associated Press