News from El Punt Avui

Ramon Calabuch Bastida, known as “Moncho”, Catalonia’s most famous Bolero performer, has died, aged 78, in Mataró. He dedicated his life to the musical genre, only retiring when doctors told him...

The Open Arms arrived in Spain yesterday, at the Bay of Algeciras (Cadiz), with 311 refugees aboard, from nineteen countries, rescued a week ago in the Mediterranean. They have been interned at the temporary...

Macri’s 2015 victory in Argentina marked the beginning of a Latin American slide to the right. The triumph of the ultra-rightwing Bolsonaro in Brazil has completed the flip of a region which was a leftist...

The Supreme Court (SC) upheld its decision to keep hold of the 1-O trial, despite demands from defence teams to hold the trial in Barcelona. However, unpredictably, the court declined to try the six former...

When on the night of November 9th, 1989, Berliners hit the streets to bring down the wall that had divided their city for over 20 years, many saw this as a turning point, which should have been the first...

There were more arrests on Wednesday night, as running confrontations between protestors and police forces continued in Tunisia. These battles started when Abderrazak Rezgui, a 32 year old photo-journalist...

Further activity at the Anak Krakatoa volcano, which last Saturday caused a tsunami, killing 430 people and leaving over 150 missing, in the Strait of Sonda in Indonesia, has meant that the Volcanology...