MADRID (AP) — A small sport popular in Spain’s northern Basque Country has stirred up a political controversy that triggered court action and fanned the region's long-held feelings of nationalism.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A woman shelters from the rain under an umbrella, while walking past a wall painted with portraits of prisoners of the Basque ...

Mark Kurlansky is the author of "The Basque History of the World" (Penguin, 2001). Time passes; labels change. That great scourge of the 20th century, anti-communism, is now called anti-terrorism. It ...

For decades, most of the news out of Basque country was horrible. Since the late 1960s, this region in northern Spain has been infamous as home to the ETA separatist group, which killed more than 800 ...

The Basque government has announced an investigation into the conduct of the regional police force, following incidents at Bilbao Airport during the arrival of six activists from the Global Sumud ...

Singing a long-forbidden song, a knot of youths surged into Pamplona’s Plaza Mayor one day last week and, with a lusty cheer, sent two homemade rockets sizzling into the sky. While police ...

In Kyiv 14 years ago, Iker Casillas lifted the Henri Delaunay trophy. That night, Spain’s captain was one of four Real Madrid players in the starting XI against Italy. Five others were from Barcelona.

A glance at the armed Basque separatist group ETA and its conflict with Spain. HISTORY – ETA was formed in 1959 during the right-wing dictatorship of Gen. Francisco Franco. Its name is a ...

BILBAO, SpainBILBAO, Spain — Non-nationalists won more parliamentary seats than Basque nationalists in elections in Spain’s most turbulent region Sunday, in a result that could usher in the region’s ...

BEASAIN, Spain — The Spanish countryside is littered with unfinished condos, stillborn reminders of the country’s disastrous construction boom gone bust. But the verdant valleys and Atlantic cliffs of ...

Santiago Rivera is widely credited with creating the “burnt” cheesecake in the 1980s, though he doesn’t love the spinoffs it ...