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MADRID( Reuters)-European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said on Friday that Bulgaria should be more flexible on EU expansion to Western Balkans.... Bulgaria is against North Macedonia, already a NATO member, joining to EU because of a language dispute.... " I think Bulgaria should show more flexibility on this problem that is blocking the start of the negotiation," Borrell said at an event in Madrid. Earlier this week, the European Union's 27 leaders promised future membership to th

MADRID( Reuters)-The former head of Venezuela's military intelligence, Hugo Carvajal, who is wanted by the United States on drug trafficking charges, has left Spain under a High Court extradition order, a court source told Reuters on Wednesday. The source would not provide any further details.... The United States in 2020 accused Carvajal of drug trafficking, along with more than a dozen other high-ranking Venezuelan officials, including President Nicolas Maduro.... Carvajal has denied support

By Reuters Staff2 Min ReadMADRID( Reuters)-More than 200 migrants crossed into Spain’s North African enclave of Melilla early on Thursday, climbing the high fence that separates it from Morocco, local authorities said. More than 300 migrants attempted to scale the six-metre( 20-ft) fence using hooks, the authorities said in a statement.... The 238 who made it through were all men.... Three police officers were slightly injured, the statement added. Melilla and Ceuta-a second Spanish enclave al

By Reuters Staff2 Min ReadMADRID( Reuters)-Spanish police said on Wednesday they had arrested three suspected members of a jihadist cell in Barcelona and one in Madrid after one of them tried to buy an assault rifle for a potential attack.A fifth suspected cell member was already in prison serving an unspecified sentence. Officers found three machetes and ammunition in the house of the group’s leader, identified only as “ Sheikh ”, who had been previously arrested in Turkey in 2016 when trying t

MADRID( Reuters)-The Madrid prosecutor's office opened an investigation on Monday after a crowd of about 200 people sporting Nazi paraphernalia marched in the Spanish capital's gay-friendly neighbourhood of Chueca on Saturday shouting offensive anti-LGBT slogans.... The protesters shouted" Out of our neighbourhood" and" Get out of Madrid" prefaced by derogatory words for gay people, the prosecutor's office said in a statement. Protesters wore T-shirts and tattoos of fascist and Nazi symbols, an