The movement’s founder and secretary general of the new party — pony-tailed political science professor Pablo Iglesias, 37 — is already campaigning for the presidency. And having galvanized an active, ...

MADRID (AP) — Farmers, cattle-breeders, hunters and opposition supporters descended Sunday on the Spanish capital of Madrid to protest environmental and economic policies by Spain’s left-of-center ...

A government program in Spain is training African migrants as shepherds to tackle rural depopulation and job shortages.

SEVILLE, Spain, April 3 (Xinhua) -- Secretary General of the United Nations World Tourism Organization, Zurab Pololikashvili, told Xinhua on Wednesday that he believes that Spain has taken a lead in ...

"My grandmother used to say to me: 'You're living just at the right time'," says Rosa Arranz. She is standing by a barn on her pig farm on the plains of Segovia, in central Spain. “She meant that ...

Villagers attend a campaign meeting for the Spanish far-right party Vox at a bar in Brazatortas, on the edge of the Alcudia valley, central Spain, April 10, 2019 (AP photo by Bernat Armangue). Click ...

Rural depopulation has hit the Spanish region of Galicia hard. Now some of its thousands of abandoned villages are being marketed for sale. Rosy Costoya is a vet, an entrepreneur and, she says, a ...

The biggest fear for senior citizens taking refuge in Benavente, a town in a zone ravaged by vast wildfires in Spain, is that "everything they own could burn", its mayor Beatriz Asensio told AFP. She ...

ALLEPUZ, Spain: Ignacio Martinez never imagined becoming mayor, but when he saw the struggles of his mountain village in northeastern Spain, he and his friends decided to run for office in the 2015 ...

Much of the current debate in Europe over immigration focuses on how to limit numbers. But in parts of rural Spain, where many villages are in decline because of depopulation, attracting immigrants is ...

In Spain's rural areas, sheep farms are having a hard time finding employees willing to herd the animals. To fill that gap ...

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