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Venezuelan activist’s wife, daughter arrive in Spain

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FILE - In this file photo dated Thursday, July 28, 2011, Atletico de Madrid's Jose Antonio Reyes celebrates after scoring his second goal against Stromsgodset during a UEFA Europa League soccer match at the Vicente Calderon stadium in Madrid. Sevilla said in a statement Saturday June 1, 2019, that former Spain midfielder José Antonio Reyes, who won five Europa League titles and was part of Arsenal’s unbeaten “Invincibles” squad, has been killed in a traffic accident at the age of 35. (AP Photo/Arturo Rodriguez, FILE)

Former Spain midfielder Reyes dies in traffic accident at 35

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A banner reading in Catalan: &quot;Freedom political and exiled prisoners&quot; hangs from the balcony of the Palau Generalitat, in Sant Jaume square in Barcelona, Spain, Monday, May 27, 2019. The lower chamber of Spain's Parliament on Friday suspended Oriol Junqueras and three colleagues from their recently gained seats as national lawmakers because they are currently in jail during an ongoing trial at Spain's Supreme Court. They face up to 25 years in prison for rebellion charges that stem from a banned referendum and an independence declaration made by the separatist-controlled Catalan government in late 2017. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)

Spain decries UN working group’s opinion on jailed Catalans

By ARITZ PARRA and JOSEPH WILSON - Associated Press

European court rejects Catalan separatists’ suit

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A woman exits a voting cabin with curtains depicting the European Union in Baleni, Romania, Sunday, May 26, 2019. The ruling Social Democratic Party (PSD) suffered a major blow in the European Parliament elections according to the country's only exit poll. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)

The Latest: Merkel wants quick deal on head of EU Commission

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In this Saturday, May 4, 2019, file photo, Spain's emeritus King Juan Carlos, right, and emeritus Queen Sofia leave the Notre Dame cathedral after attending at the funeral of the Grand Duke Jean of Luxembourg, in Luxembourg. Spain's former monarch, Juan Carlos I, says he wants to completely retire from public life on June 2, 2019, five years after abdicating the throne. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco, file)

Juan Carlos I, Spanish ex-monarch, retires from public life

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Ballots are being prepared ahead of Sunday's European Elections, in Rozzano, near Milan, Italy, Saturday, May 25, 2019. Some 400 million Europeans from 28 countries head to the polls from Thursday to Sunday to choose their representatives at the European Parliament for the next five years. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)

The Latest: Salvini says populists will control 150 EU seats

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The leader of the Catalan ERC party and European Parliament candidate Oriol Junqueras speaks from Soto del Real prison in Madrid, Friday, May 24, 2019, during an interview via video conference with The Associated Press in Barcelona, Spain. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

AP Interview: Catalan separatist vows EU parliament fight

By JOSEPH WILSON and ARITZ PARRA - Associated Press

Adidas: Spain’s FA has no grounds for ending contract

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Villarreal's Santi Cazorla, centre, kicks the ball past Real Madrid's Dani Carvajal, right, during a Spanish La Liga soccer match between Real Madrid and Villarreal at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium in Madrid, Spain, Sunday, May 5, 2019. (AP Photo/Paul White)

Isco and Cazorla back with Spain; Luis Enrique still absent

By TALES AZZONI - Associated Press

In this May 11, 2019 photo, far-right Vox supporter Amanda Puiggros, 22, distributes flyers after a party meeting in Barcelona, Spain. Europe’s far-right parties are going after young voters by fielding strikingly young candidates. In Belgium, Spain, France and Denmark and elsewhere, candidates in their twenties are working to mainstream once-marginalized groups. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

Europe’s far-right parties hunt down the youth vote

By LORI HINNANT - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept.3, 2000 file photo, Jose Antonio Urruticoetxea Bengoetxea, known by the alias Josu Ternera, a leader of the Basque separatist group ETA, is pictured in Bayonne, southwestern France. Spain's Interior Ministry says that a longtime chief of the Basque separatist militant group ETA has been arrested in the French Alps. (AP Photo/Bob Edme, File)

Basque militant ETA chief arrested after 17 years on the run

By JAMEY KEATEN and ARITZ PARRA - Associated Press

In this photo taken in March 2006 and made available by the Ministerio de Defensa de Espana, sailors stand on board the Mendez Nunez Spanish frigate, in Ferrol, Spain. Spain has temporarily pulled out the frigate that was part of a United States-led combat fleet from waters near the Persian Gulf, where tension is mounting between the US and Iran. (Ministerio de Defensa de Espana, via AP)

Spain says frigate peeling off from US fleet is not a rebuke

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Spain says 52 migrants climb fence into its African enclave

By BARRY HATTON - Associated Press

FILE - In this Thursday, Feb. 7, 2019 file photo, UEFA President Aleksander Ceferin listens to reporter's questions during a press conference at the end of the 43rd UEFA congress in Rome. Ceferin told leaders from European leagues not to forget the importance of big clubs in generating cash during a private meeting in which plans were detailed for a closed-off Champions League favoring the elite. A recording and images obtained by The Associated Press from the meeting at the UEFA headquarters on Wednesday, May 8 highlights the schism between clubs and leagues over the ability to influence UEFA as it considers revamping its club competitions starting with the 2024-25 season. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, file)

Ceferin to AP: UEFA will explore CL revamp despite attacks

By ROB HARRIS - Associated Press

Spain nabs gang offering criminal money laundering services

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Spain rescues over 416 migrants at sea in 3 days

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Spanish court to rule if Puigdemont can run in EU election

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Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez smiles during a party meeting at Socialist party headquarters in Madrid, Spain, Monday, April 29, 2019. Spain's political future is no clearer after a third election since 2015, with experts saying Monday that it won't be anytime soon before the muddle is resolved. The incumbent prime minister, Pedro Sanchez, celebrated after his Socialist party won the most votes in Sunday's ballot. But Spanish politicians were doing the math on how Sanchez might survive the next four years without a parliamentary majority. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Spain’s Socialists are open to negotiating deals with rivals

By BARRY HATTON and ARITZ PARRA - Associated Press

LA judge rules Spanish museum can keep Nazi-looted painting

By JOHN ROGERS - Associated Press