Fiona Ortiz

O'Hare International Airport's control tower looms in the background with general runway and gate scenes on Feb. 27, 2014 in Chicago.

Chicago-area man charged in attempt to join Islamic State in Syria

January 12, 2020 at 6:47 a.m.

A Chicago-area man was charged on Monday with attempting to support a foreign terrorist organization after he was arrested on Saturday at O'Hare International Airport allegedly on his way to...

El resurgimiento del catalán aviva las reacciones en contra en España

August 25, 2021 at 6:28 a.m.

CORNELLÁ DE LLOBREGAT Barcelona (Reuters) - Francesca Muñoz, la directora del colegio de primaria Sant Miquel cerca de Barcelona, está luchando en una cruzada lingüística que ha avivado una destacable...

Book Talk: Oregon writer finds beauty, redemption on death row

August 25, 2021 at 5:23 a.m.

By Fiona Ortiz (Reuters) - Non-fiction writer Rene Denfeld draws on her work as a death penalty investigator in her first novel, "The Enchanted", the story of a prisoner who...

Spain’s Socialist leader quits after party’s worst-ever election

August 25, 2021 at 5:17 a.m.

MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's Socialist opposition leader Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba said on Monday he was stepping down after the party had its worst-ever election result on Sunday with an upstart...

Crimean annexation does Europe’s separatists no favors

August 25, 2021 at 3:40 a.m.

MADRID/PARIS (Reuters) - Russia's annexation of Crimea after a snap referendum staged under military occupation has whetted some appetites in the Balkans, but has done no favors to the Scots,...

Exclusive: In diplomatic shift, Europe seeks improved ties with Cuba

August 25, 2021 at 12:57 a.m.

BRUSSELS/MADRID (Reuters) - The European Union will agree next month to deepen relations with Cuba in its most significant overture to the communist nation since diplomatic sanctions were lifted in...

Spain's Infanta Cristina and her husband Inaki Urdangarin in 2007. A Spanish judge charged Princess Cristina - younger daughter of King Juan Carlos - with tax fraud and money laundering on Jan. 7, possibly paving the way to an unprecedented trial of a member of the royal family.

Spain’s Princess Cristina charged with tax fraud, money-laundering

November 4, 2021 at 12:52 a.m.

MADRID (Reuters) - Princess Cristina, the younger daughter of Spain's King Juan Carlos, has been charged with tax fraud and money-laundering, piling further scandal on the once-beloved but increasingly unpopular...

Spain’s Princess Cristina charged with tax fraud, money-laundering

December 23, 2018 at 9:12 p.m.

Catalan public TV shuns Spanish king’s Christmas speech

August 24, 2021 at 11:29 p.m.

MADRID (Reuters) - The Spanish king's traditional Christmas Eve address did not air on Catalonia's public television on Tuesday for the first time in the broadcaster's 30-year history, highlighting growing...

Spanish fishermen gather in their fishing boats during a protest where an artificial reef was built by Gibraltar using concrete blocks, in Algeciras Bay.

Booming Gibraltar fears new era of sour relations with Spain

November 3, 2021 at 11:45 p.m.

GIBRALTAR (Reuters) - The people of tiny Gibraltar - a wealthy British enclave perched on a rocky outcrop near Spain's southern tip - have a tradition of griping about their...

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