Zelenskyy visits Picasso's 'Guernica' painting after drawing parallel to Ukraine's bombing
Read full article: Zelenskyy visits Picasso's 'Guernica' painting after drawing parallel to Ukraine's bombingUkraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited Spain Tuesday, stopping to see Pablo Picasso's “Guernica” in Madrid.
Spain identifies 212 German, Austrian and Dutch fighters who went missing during Spanish Civil War
Read full article: Spain identifies 212 German, Austrian and Dutch fighters who went missing during Spanish Civil WarSpain’s government researchers say they've identified hundreds of foreign fighters who disappeared in the region during the Spanish Civil War.
Work begins in Spain to exhume bodies of 128 Franco victims buried anonymously at mausoleum
Read full article: Work begins in Spain to exhume bodies of 128 Franco victims buried anonymously at mausoleumInitial forensic work has begun to try to exhume the bodies of 128 victims of late dictator Francisco Franco’s forces who are among tens of thousands of people buried anonymously in the Valle de Cuelgamuros mausoleum, formerly known as the Valle de los Caídos, or Valley of the Fallen.
Spain fires captain whose soldiers knelt at Franco memorial
Read full article: Spain fires captain whose soldiers knelt at Franco memorialSpain’s armed forces have fired an army captain after a video was posted on social media showing some 30 soldiers kneeling in front of the Valley of the Fallen mausoleum, the most potent existing symbol of the dictatorship of the late Gen. Francisco Franco.
Spain faces its past in mass graves bill. Will it be enough?
Read full article: Spain faces its past in mass graves bill. Will it be enough?For decades, family members of the tens of thousands victims of Francisco Franco's brutal regime in Spain have had little help from central authorities to recover their loved ones from the country's hundreds of mass graves.
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Spain: govt bill targets supporters of Franco’s dictatorship
Read full article: Spain: govt bill targets supporters of Franco’s dictatorshipSpain’s government wants to outlaw expressions of support for Gen. Francisco Franco’s 20th-century dictatorship and ban bodies which extol that period’s policies and leaders.
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Nevada delegation wants statue of late senator replaced
Read full article: Nevada delegation wants statue of late senator replacedThe delegation members' letters also voiced support for local efforts to rename Las Vegas' McCarran International Airport. Two of the letter-signers were among delegation members who asked state lawmakers in 2017 to remove the McCarran statue from the Capitol. To replace the statue in the U.S. Capitol, the state Legislature must pass a resolution identifying the statue to be replaced along with the name of a replacement, and several other requirements. Each state is invited to place two statues in the National Statuary Hall Collection. Nevada added its second honoree in 2005 with a statue of 19th century Northern Paiute author and educator Sarah Winnemucca.