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A man is detained by Catalan police officers as part of a trafficking and consuming drugs operation in Barcelona, Spain, Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2020. Police in Barcelona say that around one thousand officers are searching dozens of houses and city center establishments that are believed to be used in the trafficking and consumption of drugs. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Over 50 arrested in police bust against Barcelona drug dens

Associated Press

People wearing masks to prevent the spread of the coronavirus walk along a boulevard in Barcelona, Sunday, Oct.4, 2020. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Scientists to Spanish politicians: ‘You rule but don’t know’

By ARITZ PARRA - Associated Press

A police officer checks a driver's documents at a checkpoint on the outskirts of Madrid, Spain, Saturday, Oct. 3, 2020. Madrid is on a partial lockdown complying with an order from the Spanish government due to the high COVID-19 cases but determined to fight it in the courts. Measures that ban all nonessential trips in and out of the capital and nine of its suburbs, covering around 4.8 million people. (AP Photo/Paul White)

Madrid starts partial virus lockdown amid political dispute

By IAIN SULLIVAN and JOSEPH WILSON - Associated Press

People take part in a protest to demand more resources for public health system and against social inequality in the southern neighbourhood of Vallecas in Madrid, Spain, Thursday, Oct. 1, 2020. Residents in a lockdown district of Madrid protested outside the Madrid Regional Government that local health services needed to be reinforced during the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)

Madrid readies for partial lockdown, files legal challenge

By ARITZ PARRA and BARRY HATTON - Associated Press

Wolverhampton Wanderers' Adama Traore, right, battles for the ball with West Ham's Angelo Ogbonna during the English Premier League soccer match between West Ham and Wolverhampton Wanderers at London Stadium, London, England, Sunday, Sept. 27, 2020. (Andy Rain/Pool via AP)

Spain and Mali both want Wolves forward Adama Traore

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Madrid Emergency Service (SUMMA) health workers conduct rapid antigen tests for COVID-19 in the southern neighbourhood of Vallecas in Madrid, Spain, Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2020. Madrid has a rate of infection 2.5 times higher than the national average, which is already three times the European average, including the UK. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Political dispute deepens over anti-outbreak plan for Madrid

By ARITZ PARRA - Associated Press

Court weighs tribes’ aboriginal water claims for Jemez River

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN - Associated Press

Catalan regional President Quim Torra gestures as he leaves the Spanish Supreme Court in Madrid, Spain, Thursday, Sept. 17, 2020. Spain's Supreme Court is hearing closing arguments over whether to uphold or overturn the barring from public office of Catalonia's separatist-minded regional leader. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)

Spain’s top court rules to remove Catalan chief from office

By ARITZ PARRA - Associated Press

Families with their children play along the Paseo de la Castellana in Madrid, Spain, Saturday, May 30, 2020. Spanish authorities are reporting no setbacks in their gradual easing of restrictions on movement over this past month, as some regions prepare to further loosen limits from June 1. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)

Madrid wants military help, more doctors to fight virus wave

By ARITZ PARRA - Associated Press

A local police stops a vehicle at a checkpoint in Madrid, Spain, Monday, Sept. 21, 2020. Police in the Spanish capital and its surrounding towns are stopping people coming in and out of working-class neighborhoods that have been partially locked down to stem Europe's fastest coronavirus spread. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Madrid adopts virus restrictions exposing poor-rich divide

By ARITZ PARRA and IAIN SULLIVAN and RENATA BRITO - Associated Press

FILE - In this Saturday, May 24, 2014 file photo Real Madrid's Gareth Bale celebrates after scoring his side's second goal in the Champions League final soccer match against Atletico Madrid at the Luz Stadium in Lisbon, Portugal. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez, File)

Top talent or aloof golf lover? Bale’s mixed Madrid legacy

By JOSEPH WILSON - Associated Press

FILE, In this Friday July 17, 2020 file photo, a child looks at a man sleeping outside a CaixaBank brach office in Barcelona, Spain. Two of Spain's biggest banks are poised to merge and create the country's largest bank in terms of domestic operations, with assets of more than 600 billion euros (dollars 708 billion). The deal brings the prospect of more job losses amid difficult times for the financial sector. A tie-up between CaixaBank, the largest bank in the domestic market, and Bankia, Spain's biggest mortgage lender, could herald other moves toward consolidation in the financial sector. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Spanish banks merge in sign of hard economic times ahead

By BARRY HATTON - Associated Press

2 Spanish banks merge amid tough times for financial sector

By BARRY HATTON - Associated Press

Workers of a nursing home &quot;DomusVi Arturo Soria&quot; hold a minute of silence in support of the social and health sector and its workers in Madrid, Spain, Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2020. After ending a strict lockdown in June having brought under control the virus transmission, Spain is now the European country where a second wave of the contagion is being more noticed. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)

Doctors in hard-hit Madrid: ‘It’s like March in slow motion’

By ARITZ PARRA - Associated Press

FILE - This is a Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2016 file photo of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, right, welcomes pro-Brexit British politician Nigel Farage, to speak at a campaign rally in Jackson, Miss. Britain's vote to leave the European Union was a major shock to the global political system. But in a year of political earthquakes, it has just been trumped. Like Brexit, Donald Trump's victory over Hillary Clinton in the U.S. presidential election was driven by voters turning against established order and mainstream politicians. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)

Nigel Farage, Marine Le Pen counting on Trump win

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

A man wearing a face mask decorated with the independent flag looks on during the Catalan National Day in Barcelona, Spain, Friday, Sept. 11, 2020. Thousands of Catalans in favour of gaining independence from the rest of Spain are expected to rally Friday afternoon in commemoration of &quot;La Diada&quot;, Catalan for the region's &quot;national&quot; day. Dozens of distance-minded protests in different parts of the region are meant to create, according to organizers, the largest demonstration in Europe in times of COVID-19. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Catalan separatists rally amid coronavirus crisis in Spain

By JOSEPH WILSON - Associated Press

FILE - In this Friday, Sept. 4, 2020 file photo, a teacher demonstrates a robot that takes the temperature of children and displays it on a screen in a kindergarten in Madrid, Spain. Pupils under 3 years-old in the Spanish capital head to kindergartens on Friday, the first in-person school activity since the country imposed a strict lockdown in mid-March due to the Covid-19 pandemic. As cases continue to go up and fuel the debate over the return to schools in parents' group messaging chats, Spanish authorities last week issued revised guidelines for the reopening. They included making mandatory masks for students of age six or older, daily body temperature checks, hand-washing at least five times per day and frequent ventilation of classrooms. But many parents say that funding is insufficient to hire more teachers and that some schools just don't have additional space. (AP Photo/Paul White, File)

Fearing virus, parents in Spain rise against back to school

By SARA PUIG - Associated Press

Spain's Ansu Fati watches the ball during the UEFA Nations League soccer match between Spain and Ukraine at the Estadio Alfredo Di Stefano stadium in Madrid, Spain, Sunday, Sept. 6, 2020. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Fati becomes youngest Spain scorer in 4-0 win over Ukraine

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A teacher demonstrates a robot that takes the temperature of children and displays it on a screen in a kindergarten in Madrid, Spain, Friday, Sept. 4, 2020. Pupils under 3 years-old in the Spanish capital head to kindergartens on Friday, the first in-person school activity since the country imposed a strict lockdown in mid-March due to the Covid-19 pandemic. (AP Photo/Paul White)

Madrid struggles as center of pandemic’s 2nd wave in Europe

By ARITZ PARRA - Associated Press

A boy has his temperature taken as he arrives with others migrants at the Arguineguin port in Gran Canaria island, Spain, after being rescued in the Atlantic Ocean by emergency workers on Thursday, Aug. 20, 2020. Migrants and asylum seekers are increasingly crossing a treacherous part of the Atlantic Ocean to reach the Canary Islands, a Spanish archipelago near West Africa, in what has become one of the most dangerous migration routes to European territory. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Migrants trying to reach Europe pushed to deadly Atlantic

By RENATA BRITO - Associated Press