Rome fell, above all, because of internal corruption. The Chinese Empire collapsed from abuse of power. The Byzantine Empire disintegrated amid the sale of military and ecclesiastical offices. Nero ...

In Spain, 1.2 million administrative sanctions were imposed in 2023.

The Spanish government on Tuesday introduced a bill to automatically declassify all secret government files older than 45 years, including documents from Francisco Franco's dictatorship and the ...

MADRID - Spain’s government wants to outlaw expressions of support for Gen. Francisco Franco’s 20th-century dictatorship and ban bodies which praise that period’s policies and leaders.

A small Spanish town that owes its foundation to Francisco Franco will remove the former dictator from its name following a turnaround in local politics. Home to about 2,500 people in the west of ...

The only village in Andalucía bearing a name linked to Franco’s regime, “Villafranco del Guadalhorce”, has officially been ...

MADRID — Spain abolished 33 aristocratic titles handed out by dictator Francisco Franco and his successor to loyal lieutenants and family on Friday as a new “Democratic Memory” law took ...

More than 500,000 people were killed during the 1936-1939 Spanish civil war. Historians estimate more than 100,000 people remain missing, many in unmarked mass graves.

The Spanish government on Tuesday introduced a bill to automatically declassify all secret government files older than 45 years, including documents from Francisco Franco's dictatorship and the ...

MADRID - Spain’s government wants to outlaw expressions of support for Gen. Francisco Franco’s 20th-century dictatorship and ban bodies which praise that period’s policies and leaders. The ...