Sewers were being searched by Spanish police yesterday after exiled separatist leader Carles Puigdemont pledged to sneak back into the country for a vote on a new regional president. A door linking ...

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Police launched a manhunt in Barcelona on Thursday for fugitive Carles Puigdemont, a celebrated campaigner for Catalan independence who made a sensational return to Spain and ...

Former Catalan separatist leader Carles Puigdemont defied an arrest warrant to appear at a rally in Spain’s Barcelona on Thursday after seven years of self-imposed exile and then vanished, sparking a ...

Former Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont is now 'back in Belgium' after he evaded arrest in Spain for the second time in seven years following a dramatic escape in a getaway car. Puigdemont, 61, made a ...

Former President of the Catalonia Government and Junts MEP Carles Puigdemont speaks during a press conference, in Mairie d'Elne "Elna Town Hall". Puigdemont has announced that he will be the Junts ...

ADDS SECOND SENTENCE. FILE - Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont speaks at a press conference in Alghero, Sardinia, Italy, Oct. 4, 2021. Puigdemont says that he will return to Spain for the first time ...

Fugitive separatist Carles Puigdemont has vowed to return to Spain seven years after fleeing the country, seeking to once again become the president of the Catalan region. Puigdemont faces possible ...

MADRID — The Spanish state may soon have its Catalan arch-enemy, Carles Puigdemont, in its clutches — but that doesn’t mean Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy can relax. The Catalan crisis, which has ...

Catalan separatist leader Carles Puigdemont on Thursday announced his candidacy to be president of Catalonia in the snap regional elections set to be held on May 12. “I have decided to run in the ...

BARCELONA, Spain --Fugitive former Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont is being held by German police on a Spanish arrest warrant after trying to cross into Germany from Denmark. Police in the northern ...

ROME (AP) — Catalan separatist leader Carles Puigdemont left a jail in Sardinia on Friday after a judge ruled that he could go free pending an Oct. 4 hearing on his extradition to Spain, where the ...

A lawyer whose firm represents two imprisoned former Catalan ministers says their situation was made worse by the self-imposed exile of deposed Catalan President Carles Puigdemont. Pau Molins told the ...