Ciaran Giles

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Sub-Saharan migrants climb over a metallic fence that divides Morocco and the Spanish enclave of Melilla on Friday March 28, 2014. Officials said several hundred African migrants tried to cross barbed-wire border fences to enter the Spanish enclave of Melilla from Morocco but most were turned back by security forces from both sides. An Interior Ministry spokesman in Melilla said the migrants attempted to scale the fences several times early Friday and a handful managed to get across. Thousands of migrants seeking a better life in Europe are living illegally in Morocco, hoping they can enter Melilla and Spain's other north African coastal enclave, Ceuta. (AP Photo/Santi Palacios)

Hundreds of migrants try to enter Spanish enclave

Ciaran Giles · March 28, 2014 10:55 am

Spain: migrants storm enclave border fence

Spain: migrants storm enclave border fence

Ciaran Giles · February 28, 2014 2:46 pm

FILE - In this July 12, 2001 file photo, Spanish guitarist Paco de Lucia performs during the 35th Montreux Jazz Festival in Montreux, Switzerland. Jose Ignacio Landaluce, mayor of de Lucia's native Spanish town of Algeciras said in a statement Wednesday Feb. 26, 2014 the world-renowned flamenco guitarist Paco de Lucia has died in Mexico, where he lived. He was 66. The cause of death was not immediately made known. (AP Photo/Keystone, Laurent Gillieron, File)

Spain: Flamenco guitarist Paco de Lucia dies at 66

Ciaran Giles · February 27, 2014 1:01 am

Spain's Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy speaks during a state of the nation debate at the Spanish Parliament in Madrid, Spain, Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2014. Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy has revised Spain's economy growth for 2014 upward to 1 percent and announced tax reduction reforms and job creation incentives to give the country a boost after punishing years of recession. Spain's economy began to crumble in 2008 with the collapse of its bloated real-estate sector. It emerged from a two-year recession late last year. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki)

Spain’s Rajoy offers job plans as growth improves

Ciaran Giles · February 25, 2014 3:51 pm

Spain: Migrants make violent border crossing bid

Spain: Migrants make violent border crossing bid

Ciaran Giles · February 24, 2014 1:29 pm

National Security

Report: US monitored 60 million calls in Spain

Ciaran Giles · October 28, 2013 4:00 am

Spain: Police find bodies of missing Dutch couple

Spain: Police find bodies of missing Dutch couple

Ciaran Giles · May 27, 2013 4:19 pm

Spain education sector hit by strike against cuts

Spain education sector hit by strike against cuts

Ciaran Giles · May 9, 2013 2:24 pm

Spain refuses to hand over ex-HSBC worker

Spain refuses to hand over ex-HSBC worker

Ciaran Giles · May 8, 2013 3:09 pm

Spain slashes forecasts and delays deficit targets

Spain slashes forecasts and delays deficit targets

Ciaran Giles · April 26, 2013 6:00 pm

FILE- Spain's Princess Cristina waves from inside a car beside her husband Inaki Urdangarin, in Madrid, Spain, in this file photo dated Wednesday Nov. 2, 2005. A Spanish court has named the king's daughter Princess Cristina Wednesday April 3, 2013, as a suspect in an alleged corruption case involving her husband, and the court has announced that it will call her for questioning. The Spanish royal palace refused to comment. (AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza, File)

Spain king’s daughter suspected in corruption case

Ciaran Giles · April 3, 2013 4:00 am

Spain frees 3 terror suspects for lack of evidence

Spain frees 3 terror suspects for lack of evidence

Ciaran Giles · March 26, 2013 3:43 pm