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At least 60 people are injured when a passenger train collides with a locomotive in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2024-05-10

Argentine state news agency Télam is closed after 80 years and police surround its offices in Buenos Aires a week after president Javier Milei threatened to close the agency.
2024-03-4

A federal court in Buenos Aires, Argentina, sentences an ex-military officer to life in prison for homicides, kidnappings, tortures, and rape during the military dictatorship that ruled the country between 1976 and 1983.
2022-07-6

Five people are killed and 25 others injured by a fire at an apartment building in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2022-06-23

The Spanish attorney general, José Manuel Maza, requests a lawsuit against (former) Catalan government members, seeking charges of sedition, rebellion and embezzlement. The Catalan parliament is formally dissolved.
2017-10-30

A Spanish government source says that Carles Puigdemont and part of his cabinet has fled to Belgium to escape prosecution. International media agree the situation in Catalonia—under direct Spanish rule—is quiet.
2017-10-30

A Belgian federal government source says Puigdemont and about five ministers would attend a "private reception" in Brussels by the N-VA party. Prime Minister Charles Michel (MR) has no comment. Interior Minister Jan Jambon (N-VA) says he "knows nothing". N-VA replies that it "did not invite [them]".
2017-10-30

In the mark of the 2017 Catalan independence referendum, two independentist leaders, Jordi Sànchez i Picanyol (President of ANC) and Jordi Cuixart i Navarro (President of Òmnium Cultural), are in pre-trial detention during the sedition trial. These events outraged the population of the State and the Government of Catalonia, causing a new escalation of tension between both governments.
2017-10-16