In 1936, civil war erupted in Spain between the elected Republican government and an insurrection calling themselves “Nationalists.” The Republicans were supported by the Soviet Union and Mexico while ...

The remains of 18 people executed by soldiers and buried in a mass grave during the years of repression that followed Spain's 1936-39 civil war ... the Second Spanish Republic that Franco overthrew.

Josefina Fortea, 92, was seven when her father Jose, a farm labourer, faced a firing squad sent by General Francisco Franco.

After the war, Franco died and democracy and the government came into being. If there had not been a Civil War, we would be worse off now, bankrupt. The latest historical memory law from 2022 ...

forcibly silenced for decades during Franco’s dictatorship, the network of 1,322 underground air-raid shelters still lives under the streets of Barcelona. The model of Catalan shelters, a new and ...

The practice of taking babies from their mothers is believed to have started as a tactic by Franco to get rid of those he thought had communist leanings - often those who'd fought against his fascist ...

Uttarakhand’s Uniform Civil Code passed by the State Assembly in February 2024, mandates the registration of live-in relationships both at their commencement and termination. This requirement ...

Uttarakhand's cabinet approved the Uniform Civil Code, set to be implemented within 10 days, making it India's first state to adopt such a code. The rules address issues like marriage, divorce ...

The Gujarat government on Tuesday appointed a five-member committee to prepare a draft Uniform Civil Code for the state, ANI reported. The panel will submit its report to the state government in ...

Uttarakhand becomes the first Indian state to implement the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) since Independence. On January 27, 2025, Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami officially rolled out the UCC ...

There were no fatalities, it added. The ski lift is 15 meters (more than 49 feet) high, the Spanish Civil Guard said in a post on X. Part of its structure collapsed after one of its pulleys became ...